VIA releases open source Xorg driver
brendon
brendontoogood at gmail.com
Sat Aug 30 03:03:09 UTC 2008
that is very good news especially for the open source community.
On Sat, 2008-08-30 at 08:10 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
>
> http://lwn.net/Articles/296221/
>
> Harald Welte reports in a blog post that VIA has released an open source
> Xorg driver for their integrated graphics chips. "I am very happy to see
> this! It's one more step that VIA has been working on to improve and
> show their support for Free Software and Linux. Please notice that this
> driver (as opposed to VIA's proprietary binary-only Xorg driver) has no
> support for 3D, hardware video codec or TV encoder support.
> Nevertheless, it is a big step ahead."
>
> Rahul
>
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