Article 4DYAV Fedora Looking At Using VESA-Based FBDEV Driver, Knocking Off Old VESA & OpenChrome

Fedora Looking At Using VESA-Based FBDEV Driver, Knocking Off Old VESA & OpenChrome

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Red Hat's lead X.Org developer Adam Jackson is looking at reworking the VESA display code path for Fedora moving forward. The plan would entail removing some old "sketchy code" from the X.Org Server and moving to UVESAFB as the VESA-based FBDEV driver but would mean dropping support for the OpenChrome driver among other changes...
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