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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."

18 of 159 comments (clear)

  1. 16434! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hey, that's 46 lines too much! Quick, someone delete 46 empty / comment lines!

    1. Re:16434! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Erm, I mean, 50 lines. Apparently I'm incapable of calculating a simple substraction in head. I blame... canadians!

    2. Re:16434! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Canadians are the leading cause of substraction [sic] deficiencies worldwide.

    3. Re:16434! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      I'm not your buddy, friend!

    4. Re:16434! by goodster · · Score: 2, Funny

      Q: How can you tell the difference between an American tourist and a Canadian Tourist?
      A: The Canadian tourist only has *one* Canadian flag on his backpack. :)

    5. Re:16434! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I'm not your friend, guy!

  2. Re:Lots of code? by j-pimp · · Score: 5, Funny

    I remember IBM used to (around about the same time they wouldn't hire guys with beards in the 80's)

    IBM didn't hire guys with beards? Well that completely explains AIX.

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  3. Re:Zombu? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, all I think of is BRAAAAINS!!! And how I wish to eat them.

    I don't think that's an unreasonable request. It's not like I'm going to eat your eyes.

  4. Re:Zombu? by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Am I the only one that read Zombu as Zombo?

    Well, remember, anything is possible...

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  5. Re:Zombu? by 19thNervousBreakdown · · Score: 5, Funny

    Welcome to Slashdot.

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  6. Re:More like giving up by Vegeta99 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Plan9?

    For some reason, that just makes me think of someone driving down the road in a Hydrogen-powered Fiat to work at a Texas oil field.

  7. Re:we are geeks here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    That's sixteen thousand libraries of Congress!

  8. Re:mod abuse? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dear /., I'm concerned that giving moderation access to most everyone is counterproductive. This didn't require any moderation at all. Flamebait? No. Redundant maybe, but not to the point that it's annoying. This should not have been moderated at all. The point of moderation is to find and highlight gems not bitch slap people at random. Thanks, Anon. DAMN RIGHT
  9. Re:Slashdot == press release wire by ikeleib · · Score: 2, Funny

    Based on your account number, your obviously not new around here

    Back in my day, when trolls were trolls and karma was numeric, slashdot was too obscure for companies to astroturf. It was fanboi vs fanboi for glowing praise and the comment threads were full of flame. How I miss the days of ole'. It just makes me want to pour hot grits down my pants.

  10. I must have hit an extra key... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I meant to type slashdot.org, not slashdot.org/b/

  11. Re:Lots of code? by Atriqus · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey, this is Slashdot; if they're a hardware manufacturer, they're doing something wrong.

    Now grab your pitchfork and stop trying to be rational!

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  12. Re:mod abuse? by LaskoVortex · · Score: 3, Funny

    The point of moderation is to find and highlight gems not bitch slap people at random.

    You must be new here, so I'll explain. Slashdot is a scientific community. We concern ourselves with inviolable scientific principles like Newton's First Law, Microscopic Reversibility, and Le Grande Balance Du Modpoints (the French did a lot of work in this area), which says "plus modpoints must equal minus modpoints". Random bitch slapping is essential to achieve this balance, especially given the well known dearth of trolls here.

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  13. Re:Does "framebuffer" mean no HW acceleration? by Mike1024 · · Score: 3, Funny

    16,000 libraries of congress? That *is* a lot of data.

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