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VIA Releases 16K-Line FOSS Framebuffer Driver

Posted by kdawson on from the can-only-get-better-from-here dept.

billybob2 writes "VIA has released 16,434 Lines Of Free & Open Source code that enables Linux natively to use the framebuffer on VIA's graphics chipsets. This comes a month after VIA announced that it will provide Open-Source drivers and documentation on its Web site so that its hardware will work out of the box with Linux distributions. This gives VIA-powered systems that come pre-installed with Linux — such as the gPC, 15.4" gBook, CloudBook, and Zonbu — the ability to output graphics through digital connections such as HDMI, and probably makes them the best-supported framebuffers Linux has ever had. Look forward to documentation and X.org drivers from VIA as well in the near future."

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  1. I have an idea by aztektum · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Now that the code is available

    1) Who cares?

    2) Stop posting on /. and see what you can to trim it down.

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    1. Re:I have an idea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      2) Stop posting on /. and see what you can to trim it down.


      Or better yet, see what you can do to trim it down. Try getting off your lazy ass and proofreading before you presume to tell anyone else what they should do, you fucking douchebag. Speaking of trimming something down, I bet that lazy ass of yours is also a big blubbery fatass too.

  2. Re:Lots of code? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    do you think, that if you need thousands of lines for page flipping, that you are doing the right thing?

    i am more in opengl than in directx, but this seems to be completely moronic to me