Supporting Old Hardware In X Gets Brought Up Again

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Dec 2, 2010 3:52 PM EDT
Phoronix; By Michael Larabel
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It's long been a topic of what parts of X.Org should be killed with fire. There's plenty of dated and obscure X.Org and Mesa drivers around for hardware that hasn't even been manufactured in years and are rarely used. At XDS Toulose and on other occasions it's been decided not to do a massive purge of all these legacy graphics drivers for Linux. Old hardware support by the X Server has once again been brought up, but this time it's about monitors.

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Older Hardware klhrevolution 3 690 Dec 3, 2010 12:04 PM

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