Bringing DRM Drivers Back To Older Linux Kernels

Various improvements to the major open-source Linux graphics drivers will be landing with the Linux 3.8 kernel in the months ahead...

Various improvements to the major open-source Linux graphics drivers will be landing with the Linux 3.8 kernel in the months ahead...   Read more at Phoronix

The Linux Foundation's Driver Backport Workgroup is working on automatically backporting the Linux kernel, which was discussed in some detail at The Linux Foundation's Collaboration Summit in April. As a result, a new collaboration is forming between this Workgroup and the compat-drivers project.

are there any open-source VGA drivers i seem to remember that back when i was using 10.10 or an older one that people where writing some opensource vga drivers for linux but i can't seem to find a webpage for that project?

Users of Linux distributions with the latest versions of the Linux kernel and X.org's X Server will only be able to use the 2000, 3000 and 4000 series of Radeon HD cards with open source drivers...

Users of Linux distributions with the latest versions of the Linux kernel and X.org's X Server will only be able to use the 2000, 3000 and 4000 series of Radeon HD cards with open source drivers Rea

Wireless chipset maker Broadcom joined the Linux Foundation, suggesting that it will release more open source drivers for Linux. Over the last month, Timesys, Protecode, and Mentor Graphics have also joined the nonprofit Linux advocacy organization....

The Linux Foundation has announced a number of one-year project milestones for the OpenMAMA project that include important new code contributions, a fully open source software stack and the first commercial offering to result from the project.

OpenMAMA is an open source Middleware Agnostic Messaging API that provides an interface for passing data between high volume, low latency messaging applica

But when i use Windows 7 it is so silent i barely hear any sound from fan. I'm using standard graphics card drivers released by Ati i'm not using additional video drivers which are open source. Windows 7 is so hardware efficient it is running so efficiently on 5 years old laptop & Linux is struggling to run efficiently on it.

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Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 On Linux In this review today at Phoronix we are testing out the Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 Vapor-X 1GB graphics card to see how this popular AMD Radeon graphics processor is performing under Linux.

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Yesterday we delivered benchmarks showing how the open-source ATI Radeon graphics driver stack in Ubuntu 10.04 is comparing to older releases of the proprietary ATI Catalyst Linux driver. Sadly, the latest open-source ATI driver still is no match even for a two or four-year-old proprietary driver from ATI/AMD, but that is with the classic Mesa DRI driver.