Is the Linux Graphics Stack Backwards?

It would seem that you would have a low level graphics API, then, on
top of that, have a window rendering API but under Linux it seems
backwards. It seems like that graphics drivers on Linux are intimately
related to X-Server.

The acid test would be, you should be able to write a daemon of your
own that grabs the graphics card at start up and then doles it out to
things like X or even, GASP, a Windows emulation layer. But
everything is bound up with X Windows - from what I understand, even
nVidia's drivers require X Windows to actually run....

Is this accurate? And, if so, is there any plans or projects to fix
this?

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