DisplayLink Releases LGPL USB Graphics Code 61
iso writes "USB graphics should be coming to Linux soon: DisplayLink has released an LGPL library that talks to one of its graphics chips over a USB connection. DisplayLink aren't one of the big guys in graphics, but it's always nice to see a hardware manufacturer go the open source route. Now, when can I get one of these touchscreen MIMOs on my Linux HTPC?"
"coming" (Score:5, Informative)
Are you forgetting about sisusb x.org driver ? How is this anything other than a slashvertisement?
Re:"coming" (Score:3, Informative)
The Displaylink driver accomidates a lot of USB display adapters and notebook docking stations made by a variety of manufacturers. HP, Samsung, EVGA, etc... have USB display devices that can use this driver. There's not much to bitch about here.
Re:"coming" (Score:3, Informative)
Re:max resolution? (Score:3, Informative)
Is it any more then a small display gimmick ?
I mean, feeding my monitor/tv through USB would be nice, but there must be some technical glitch like lack of bandwidth for higher resolutions and frame rates.
Of course it's not enough bandwidth for streaming video, but it's more than adequate for browsing the web (sans YouTube) or (gasp) working on an extra (up to 1600x1200) monitor...
More info can be found here [displaylink.com].
np: Casiotone For The Painfully Alone - Streets Of Philedelphia (Advance Base Battery Life)
Re:max resolution? (Score:3, Informative)
Nearly useless.. (Score:5, Informative)
..for several reasons:
- they left out the compression
- they have deliberately obfuscated the init sequences (haha, big deal, see below)
- and they didn't put in anything beyond the stuff which we already
reverse-engineered in January (see http://floe.butterbrot.org/displaylink/ [butterbrot.org] ).
Floe
Actually it's really useful ... (Score:1, Informative)
... and they already addresses all of those concerns on the first post to their mailing list [freedesktop.org].