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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. Zombu? by niteice · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Am I the only one that read Zombu as Zombo?

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    1. Re:Zombu? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      A few years ago, while browsing around the library downtown, I had to take a piss. As I entered the john, a big beautiful all-American football hero type, about twenty five, came out of one of the booths. I stood at the urinal looking at him out of the corner of my eye as he washed his hands. He didn't once look at me. He was "straight" and married -- and in any case I was sure I wouldn't have a chance with him.

      As soon as he left, I darted into the booth he'd vacated, hoping there might be a lingering smell of shit and even a seat still warm from his sturdy young ass. I found not only the smell but the shit itself. He'd forgotten to flush. And what a treasure he had left behind. Three or four beautiful specimens floated in the bowl. It apparently had been a fairly dry, constipated shit, for all were fat, stiff, and ruggedly textured. The real prize was a great feast of turd -- a nine inch gastrointestinal triumph as thick as a man's wrist. I knelt before the bowl, inhaling the rich brown fragrance and wondered if I should obey the impulse building up inside me. I'd always been a heavy rimmer and had lapped up more than one little clump of shit, but that had been just an inevitable part of eating ass and not an end in itself.

      Of course I'd had jerkoff fantasies of devouring great loads of it (what rimmer hasn't?), but I had never done it. Now, here I was, confronted with the most beautiful five-pound turd I'd ever feasted my eyes on, a sausage fit to star in any fantasy and one I knew to have been hatched from the asshole of the world's handsomest young stud.

      Why not? I plucked it from the bowl, holding it with both hands to keep it from breaking.

      I lifted it to my nose. It smelled like rich, ripe limburger (horrid, but thrilling), yet had the consistency of cheddar. What is cheese anyway but milk turning to shit without the benefit of a digestive tract? I gave it a lick and found that it tasted better then it smelled. I've found since then that shit nearly almost does. I hesitated no longer. I shoved the fucking thing as far into my mouth as I could get it and sucked on it like a big brown cock, beating my meat like a madman. I wanted to completely engulf it and bit off a large chunk, flooding my mouth with the intense, bittersweet flavor. To my delight I found that while the water in the bowl had chilled the outside of the turd, it was still warm inside. As I chewed I discovered that it was filled with hard little bits of something I soon identified as peanuts. He hadn't chewed them carefully and they'd passed through his body virtually unchanged. I ate it greedily, sending lump after peanutty lump sliding scratchily down my throat. My only regret was the donor of this feast wasn't there to wash it down with his piss. I soon reached a terrific climax. I caught my cum in the cupped palm of my hand and drank it down. Believe me, there is no more delightful combination of flavors than the hot sweetness of cum with the rich bitterness of shit. Afterwards I was sorry that I hadn't made it last longer. But then I realized that I still had a lot of fun in store for me. There was still a clutch of virile turds left in the bowl. I tenderly fished them out, rolled them into my hankercheif, and stashed them in my briefcase.

      In the week to come I found all kinds of ways to eat the shit without bolting it right down. Once eaten it's gone forever unless you want to filch it third hand out of your own asshole -- not an unreasonable recourse in moments of desperation or simple boredom.

      I stored the turds in the refrigerator when I was not using them but within a week they were all gone.

      The last one I held in my mouth without chewing, letting it slowly dissolve. I had liquid shit trickling down my throat for nearly four hours. I must have had six orgasms in the process. I often think of that lovely young guy dropping solid gold out of his sweet, pink asshole every day, never knowing what joy it could, and at least once did,bring to a grateful shiteater.

    2. Re:Zombu? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      What the fuck??

  2. Patents and driver signing requirements by tepples · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So long as the community supports the driver well enough, why should we care? Two reasons. For one thing, H.264 is patented. So VIA needs to support the decoder, even if only by acting as a patent sublicensor to the community. In addition, Windows Vista 64-bit requires that all drivers that include a kernel-mode component be published by an established company, or the operating system will display unhideable "Test mode" banners in the four corners of the screen.
    1. Re:Patents and driver signing requirements by Darkness404 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      In addition, Windows Vista 64-bit requires that all drivers that include a kernel-mode component be published by an established company, or the operating system will display unhideable "Test mode" banners in the four corners of the screen.

      So in other words it is a MS problem? It would have nothing to do with VIA supporting or not supporting the graphics card, it is a Windows problem and MS could fix it (though, given how broken most other parts of their OS is, I doubt that they would).

      As for the patents, they don't apply to some parts of the world so distros such as Ubuntu would include the drivers anyways, though it would be a pain it would be do-able.

      Now it would be nice for VIA to support the drivers, but if not, its not the end of the world.
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    2. Re:Patents and driver signing requirements by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      way to selectively quote irrelevant stuff. try this one instead

      Via just don't want to develop their Linux drivers any more. Watch as support disappears now they don't have to.
      now what does windows have to do with these open source linux drivers again
  3. Re:More like giving up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    > Now, the fact they're binary sucks, but they're binary on windows too.

    Wow, that was difficult to read...I first thought you mean "their" instead of "they're", which would make the first part was commenting on the quality of their binary.

    ...but then the second part of the sentence didn't make sense.

    Then I figured you really did mean "they're", and you're commenting that there's no source, on either Linux or Windows.

    If that's so, it would be helpful to have a "that", ie "the fact *that* they're binary sucks" - that makes it more readable for me, at least. YMMV.