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DisplayLink Releases LGPL USB Graphics Code

Posted by timothy on from the more-car-computer-lust dept.

iso writes "USB graphics should be coming to Linux soon: DisplayLink has released an LGPL library that talks to one of its graphics chips over a USB connection. DisplayLink aren't one of the big guys in graphics, but it's always nice to see a hardware manufacturer go the open source route. Now, when can I get one of these touchscreen MIMOs on my Linux HTPC?"

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  1. "coming" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Are you forgetting about sisusb x.org driver ? How is this anything other than a slashvertisement?

    1. Re:"coming" by Molochi · · Score: 2, Informative

      The Displaylink driver accomidates a lot of USB display adapters and notebook docking stations made by a variety of manufacturers. HP, Samsung, EVGA, etc... have USB display devices that can use this driver. There's not much to bitch about here.

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    2. Re:"coming" by Kuciwalker · · Score: 2, Informative

      Have you ever read the code for that? It's impenetrable! (I've tried to port it to other OS's.)

  2. Re:max resolution? by Briareos · · Score: 2, Informative

    Is it any more then a small display gimmick ?

    I mean, feeding my monitor/tv through USB would be nice, but there must be some technical glitch like lack of bandwidth for higher resolutions and frame rates.

    Of course it's not enough bandwidth for streaming video, but it's more than adequate for browsing the web (sans YouTube) or (gasp) working on an extra (up to 1600x1200) monitor...

    More info can be found here.

    np: Casiotone For The Painfully Alone - Streets Of Philedelphia (Advance Base Battery Life)

    --

    "I'm not anti-anything, I'm anti-everything, it fits better." - Sole

  3. Re:max resolution? by N4EA · · Score: 3, Informative

    I use one of their units to drive a second 22" display from my Macbook Pro. It works wonderfully for everything EXCEPT watching videos. Terminal sessions, Eclipse coding environments, email etc are seamless on it. As another poster said though, it doesn't have the bandwidth to deal with video very well, but I knew that going in and that wasn't my reason for buying it.

  4. Nearly useless.. by dr.matrix · · Score: 5, Informative

    ..for several reasons:
    - they left out the compression
    - they have deliberately obfuscated the init sequences (haha, big deal, see below)
    - and they didn't put in anything beyond the stuff which we already
        reverse-engineered in January (see http://floe.butterbrot.org/displaylink/ ).

    Floe

  5. Actually it's really useful ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    ... and they already addresses all of those concerns on the first post to their mailing list.