XGI 1.5.0 Linux Driver Released

Posted by Michael Larabel on August 27, 2007

In time for the release of X.Org 7.3, Ian Romanick has pushed out the XGI X.Org 1.5.0 driver release. The xf86-video-xgi 1.5.0 driver uses the SiS DRM and contains a number of code fixes along with cleaning up the code. Romanick announced the availability of the XGI X.Org 1.5.0 driver on his blog while all of the details and git information is available at FreeDesktop.org.

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