evince crashes the X server

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Wed Jul 30 16:41:01 UTC 2025


On 7/30/25 06:40, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
> I am not familiar with the modesetting driver. Nevertheless, after doing some 
> reading,
> I understand that it is a generic driver (maybe using a frame buffer?)

It uses the kernel modesetting (kms) driver for the specific hardware,
essentially moving the hardware-specific functionality into the kernel
driver and using a generic interface to it from user-space/Xorg.

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