Open Source Video Driver for i810

[Alan Hourihane]

On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 16:47 +0530, Deepak Bhatia wrote:
> Dear All,
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> We have found the following in the open source linux under i810
> directory
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> \linux-2.6.23\drivers\video\i810
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> These are also the open source drivers. 
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> What is the difference in the drivers available with X Windows and
> video driver for i810 under free distribution under GPL with Linux ?

Those are kernel console drivers which allows different text modes.

Additionally it provides an interface called fbdev, which is an
alternative mechanism to setup video modes. If you google for fbdev
you'll find lots of information.

Alan.