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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?"

3 of 61 comments (clear)

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

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

  2. 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.

  3. 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