OpenChrome X.Org Driver Updated With Better Support For Old VIA Hardware

[phoronix]

Phoronix: OpenChrome X.Org Driver Updated With Better Support For Old VIA Hardware

Kevin Brace, the sole remaining main contributor to the OpenChrome project, has announced version 0.6 of the xf86-video-openchrome driver...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OpenChrome-0.6-DDX

[W.Irrkopf]

From the NEWS file of the 0.6 release:

+- KMS support
+ (Kernel Mode Setting; requires the use of still in
+ development KMS supporting OpenChrome DRM. See "Where to Obtain
+ OpenChrome Source Code" section for more details.)
...
+OpenChrome DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) module source code
+repository is located at.
+https://cgit.freedesktop.org/openchrome/drm-openchrome/

Which is seeing a slow but steady stream of changes (OK, maybe not so slow for a single hobbyist develeoper).

[Adarion]

It's actually a little sad that he's working alone in this field, but I'm glad someone still cares for the elderly but still useful hardware. It's better than having to use a VESA driver on these chips.
Well, even a certain libv showed up the last months on the openchrome-devel mailing list, but there wasn't really much contribution from that side as far as I can judge that.

[starshipeleven]

It's actually a little sad that he's working alone in this field, but I'm glad someone still cares for the elderly but still useful hardware.

Still useful?
To hell VIA and it's crap.