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DisplayLink Gets Better In Linux 2.6.34 Kernel

Monday, 15 March 2010 00:00 Phoronix

Bernie Thompson, one of the developers working on the DisplayLink Linux support, has written in this weekend to inform us of pending improvements to the DisplayLink frame-buffer driver (udlfb) that will be present in the Linux 2.6.34 kernel. It was nearly a year ago that DisplayLink began supportin...

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New Open-Source ATI Driver Releases

Wednesday, 03 March 2010 00:00 Phoronix

With the Linux 2.6.33 kernel having been released last week where the ATI kernel mode-setting (KMS) DRM code left the kernel's staging area, we knew a new ATI X.Org driver release was imminent. Over the night a new stable DDX driver update has been pushed out for xf86-video-ati as well as a new pre...

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Cleaning Up The Linux Graphics Driver Stack

Saturday, 06 February 2010 20:52 Phoronix

Yesterday Luc Verhaegen gave a talk at FOSDEM on reverse engineering a motherboard BIOS, but today we finally have X@FOSDEM for the last time. Luc has just begun his talk on unifying and simplifying the free software desktop's graphics driver stack. Here are his slides and we will be back with more...

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Kernel Log: Coming in 2.6.33 (Part 3) - Graphics

Friday, 05 February 2010 00:00 The H

The next version of Linux is not only the first to offer the Nouveau KMS graphics driver for NVIDIA graphics hardware, it also comes with a multitude of improvements for the two AMD/ATI and Intel graphics drivers which support Kernel-based Mode Setting (KMS)...

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Kernel Log: Open Source Drivers for New Radeon Graphics Chips

Wednesday, 03 February 2010 00:00 The H

The open source developers are working on drivers to support the DirectX 11 graphics cards in AMD's Radeon HD 5000 series. While the proprietary AMD drivers have been supported for some time, not even the latest, recently released version co-operates with X Server 1.7, which has been available for...

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