[Openchrome-users] VIA Releases new display driver

[Jon Nettleton]

On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 01:59 +0000, Ivor Hewitt wrote:
> == so _all_ the source is available now from via?
> 
> No, as I mentioned in my follo up mail, there is no ddmpeg code included... It just looks that way... I was browsing the tarfile on my phone and didn't check properly.
> 

*bows down* to Ivor browsing the tarfile on his phone :-)

> == if so, any reason why openchrome shouldn't just use some of via's code?
> (are there features in the openchrome driver that are not in via's driver?)
> 
> Sure. There are features implemented in the via driver that aren't in the open drivers. It just needs someone to paw through the code and pull out the useful tidbits.
> 

This is basically what I did for hacking together dual monitor support.
I was close to pushing it for testing, but ran into some excessive work,
and then health problems.  I haven't looked at the new tarball yet to
see if any of the code I was using has changed.

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