Re: VIA releases open source Xorg driver

[brendon <brendontoogood gmail com>]

that is very good news especially for the open source community.

On Sat, 2008-08-30 at 08:10 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
> 
> http://lwn.net/Articles/296221/
> 
> Harald Welte reports in a blog post that VIA has released an open source 
> Xorg driver for their integrated graphics chips. "I am very happy to see 
> this! It's one more step that VIA has been working on to improve and 
> show their support for Free Software and Linux. Please notice that this 
> driver (as opposed to VIA's proprietary binary-only Xorg driver) has no 
> support for 3D, hardware video codec or TV encoder support. 
> Nevertheless, it is a big step ahead."
> 
> Rahul
>