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Aloone_Jonez:

--- Quote from: noob ---microsoft are lame when it comes to stability. if a driver is written badly, let the driver crash, not the whole system.
--- End quote ---

Duh bad Linux drivers can crash Linux to you know. Drivers run in ring 0 so a bad driver on any OS can bring down the entire system whether it be Linux Windows, BeOS or even BSD.

piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---Duh bad Linux drivers can crash Linux to you know. Drivers run in ring 0 so a bad driver on any OS can bring down the entire system whether it be Linux Windows, BeOS or even BSD.
--- End quote ---
Not on the Hurd :p

EDIT: and with userspace drivers (which are getting more popular on GNU/Linux and I think there's some out there for FreeBSD and friends too).

Aloone_Jonez:
How come the whole system crashed when my X driver fucked up then?

I suppose it does depend on the driver, I have a feeling that even Windows printer drivers run in user space as my system has never crashed due to a dodgy printer driver, it's just refused to print or printed garbled.

piratePenguin:
But your X driver wasn't in ring 0, was it? (I don't quite understand this ring stuff (I have an idea, but that's basically it))

Kintaro:

--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---How come the whole system crashed when my X driver fucked up then?

I suppose it does depend on the driver, I have a feeling that even Windows printer drivers run in user space as my system has never crashed due to a dodgy printer driver, it's just refused to print or printed garbled.
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The whole system could have fucked up if it was related to AGPGART. It depends what and how it fucked up, its not all black boxes. What was the actual error?

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