Free drivers ed software for linux

Stoqdrivers package contains useful drivers for Stoq and retail systems.

This is a powerful collection of device drivers written in Python and totally focused on retail systems. Stoqdrivers also offers an unified API for devices like fiscal printers which makes it easy to embed in many applications.

Driver on demand is an attempt to ease driver installations in linux. Basically, what happens is that a user plugs any device into the computer, and if a driver isnt found, the client connects to a CGI server, to check if the device is known, and if its not in the database, then the driver lookup fails and the user is no worse off then they currently are.
However, if the device is found online, the driver information file (similar to .infs, just XML and more versatile) is analysed. If its built into newer versions of kernels, but theres a driver available, the driver is installed, but the system recommends strongly that the user upgrades their kernel, automatically, otherwise it just installs.
If the vendor chooses to, they can create their own driverinstall files, put it on their site, and put a reference on the Driver On Demand server, so the user will always have the newest files.. As opposed to having to wait for the admin to update their definitions.
To people who dont care about the specifics, all they need to care about is that if a device on their system needs a driver, this will find it on the internet, and install it for them automatically.
Main features:
- Uses HTTP/plaintext, so proxy compatible
- Allows the use of always up to date file.driverinstall files users can just click to install their latest hardware
- Takes the hassle of installing drivers away from the users
- XML based driver definitions, so extremely extendable, and is written in perl, so easy to edit and handle
- System handles licenses, allowing users to add them or remove licenses of drivers (promotes GPL drivers too, because that licence is accepted by default)
- Open source, GPL.. Which means u dont need to worry about licensing..
- Allows one click install of drivers (the first linux driver listing standard)
- Promotes Open source

The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture is composed of several parts. The first is a fully modularized sound driver which supports module autoloading, devfs, isapnp autoconfiguration, and gives complete access to analog audio, digital audio, control, mixer, synthesizer, DSP, MIDI, and timer components of audio hardware.
It also includes a fully-featured kernel-level sequencer, a full compatibility layer for OSS/Free applications, an object-oriented C library which covers and enhances the ALSA kernel driver functionality for applications (client/server, plugins, PCM sharing/multiplexing, PCM metering, etc.), an interactive configuration program for the driver, and some simple utilities for basic management.
Main features:
- Efficient support for all types of audio interfaces, from consumer soundcards to professional multichannel audio interfaces.
- Fully modularized sound drivers.
- SMP and thread-safe design.
- User space library (alsa-lib) to simplify application programming and provide higher level functionality.
- Support for the older OSS API, providing binary compatibility for most OSS programs.

New Driver and Tools is a SuperKaramba theme that displays the latest version of drivers and of some tools.

By clicking on the globe youll get on the homepage of the driver/tool.

(The wine homepage was not reachable at the time I took the screen)

Im looking forward for your feedback.

Emulex Linux Drivers package provides the sources for Emulexs LPFC (LightPulse Fibre Channel) family of HBAs. The source base is developed and tested specifically for the 2.6 Linux kernel.
This Emulex driver is derived from Emulexs currently shipping driver which supports several application and storage providers.
Intentions:
Emulex will be working with the open source community with the intention of achieving acceptance of this source into the upstream kernel.
Emulex will also continue to work with application and storage provider partners, many of whom are active members of the open source community, to evolve the code base to meet both upstream kernel and continuing business needs.
Enhancements:
- Miscellaneous Cleanups
- Correct some 8bit to 16bit field conversions/comparisons
- Fixes for short cable pulls
- Adjust use of scsi_block_requests and interaction w/ FC transport
- Remove locking wrappers around error handlers
- Fixes to error handlers
- Add support for more members of the Light Pulse 11xxx (4Gb) family
- Bring model descriptions in sync with Emulex standard generic names.
- Add polled-mode support to the driver:
- Added code to adjust lun queue depth to avoid target overloading.

WMMixer-alsa is a hack of WMMixer to use the ALSA sound drivers.

To compile and run this program, you will need to get alsa-driver and alsa-lib from
www.alsa-project.org !

To compile the program, just do a make, and then copy the wmmixer-alsa program to your favourite location.

X-pired is an action-puzzle game written in C using SDL, SDL_mixer, SDL_image and SDL_gfx libraries distributed under the terms of GNU GPL.
The goal of the game in each level is to reach the exit square, avoiding exploding barrels and other deadly stuff...
Enhancements:
- Some loading bugs fixed.
- Rare and strange cycling bug fixed(?).
- X-pir-Ed-It supports some command line opts, fullscreen mode (but it sucks under Win) and "save as" feature now.

Image::ParseGIF can parse a GIF image into its compenent parts.

SYNOPSIS

use Image::ParseGIF;

$gif = new Image::ParseGIF ("image.gif") or die "failed to parse: $@n";

# write out a deanimated version, showing only the first frame
$gif->deanimate(0);

# same again, manually printing each part
print $gif->header;
print $gif->part(0);
print $gif->trailer;
# or, without passing scalars around:
$gif->print_header;
$gif->print_part(0);
$gif->print_trailer;


# send an animated gif frame by frame
# - makes for a progress bar which really means something
$gif = new Image::ParseGIF ("progress.gif") or die "failed to parse: $@n";

$gif->print_header;

$gif->print_percent(0.00); # starting...
do_some_work_stage1();

$gif->print_percent(0.10); # 10% complete
do_some_work_stage2();

$gif->print_percent(0.25); # 25% complete
do_some_work_stage3();

$gif->print_percent(0.70); # 70% complete
do_some_work_stage4();

$gif->print_percent(1.00); # done!

$gif->print_trailer;

This module parses a Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) image into its component parts. A GIF is essentially made up of one or more images - multiple images typically are used for animated gifs.