I am currently trying to package the latest driver to be bundled inside ThinClient hardware. The market share of VIA chipsets in this market segment is beyond 50-60% from what I see from customers hitting our forums and grumbling that the hardware is plain slow.
My current gripes are with crashes of the driver and sporadic behaviour with widescreen resolutions. VIA recently released an updated driver in the first week of Decemeber. With claimed support for 1440x900. I am still trying to today to get it to work with one of our sample widescreen monitors available at our labs. According to their documentation this mode should be supported. However, the driver fails miserably. I will not get into the specifics since this beyond the scope of this thread.
I believe the problem is more of lack of continued support of the Linux platform. Unfortunately, the world moved on since when they had released specifications and reference drivers for Linux. Since then, VIA released newer chips which are now only supported by their binary driver (which crashes) and there are newer monitors available which need to talk to this video card. I would just like to understand how VIA intends to proceed regarding their lack of continued support based on the outcome of this poll
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