VIA FOSS Drivers?

[Lonni J Friedman]

Doesn't' change the fact that Via GPUs are crap, and their market
share is in the single digits as a result.

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 6:45 AM, Matthew Carpenter
<mcarpenter at intelguardians.com> wrote:
> +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
>  | VIA Releases 16K-Line FOSS Framebuffer Driver                      |
>  |   from the can-only-get-better-from-here dept.                     |
>  |   posted by kdawson on Sunday May 11, @16:41 (Graphics)            |
>  |   http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/11/1736250         |
>  +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
>
>  billybob2 writes "VIA has released [0]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 [1]provide
>  Open-Source drivers and documentation on its [2]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 â€" such as the
>  [3]gPC, [4]15.4" gBook, [5]CloudBook, and [6]Zonbu â€" 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."
>
>  Discuss this story at:
>     http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/05/11/1736250
>
>  Links:
>     0. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjQ2Nw
>     1. http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/08/202227&tid=185
>     2. http://linux.via.com.tw/support/downloadFiles.action
>     3. http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=8304655
>     4. http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=8224470
>     5. http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=8245470
>     6. http://www.zonbu.com/home/index.htm


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