[ANNOUNCE] udlfb 0.2.2 and xf86-driver-displaylink 0.2

Adam Jackson ajax at nwnk.net
Tue Jun 9 13:43:07 PDT 2009


On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 15:14 +0200, Roberto De Ioris wrote:
> Hi all, there is a new version of udlfb (displaylink linux framebuffer
> module) and of the related xorg driver.
> 
> Changes are:
> 
> - preliminary supports for double buffering (mainly intended for smooth
> video playing)
> - rle compression (thanks to Henrik Bjerregaard Pedersen)
> - real screen blanking
> - a bit of code refactoring to support 24bit in the next release
> - an optimization on the xorg driver to reduce flickering on multiple
> damaged regions.
> 
> The all-in-one package con be downloaded from:
> 
> http://projects.unbit.it/downloads/xf86-video-displaylink_and_udlfb.tar.gz

The static mode list is... what's the polite word here... unpleasant.

I'm also a bit confused that the setup data used for all the static
modes doesn't appear to be linearly related to the mode timings.  This
seems needlessly opaque.

- ajax
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