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AMD RDNA3/RDNA4 Go Down Hard On Linux 6.19, But Here's How The Older AMD GPUs End Out 2025
3+ hour, 27+ min ago (180+ words) This article offers a look at various AMD GCN 1.0 and newer graphics cards freshly tested on the Linux 6.19 kernel paired with the Mesa 26.0-devel RADV / RadeonSI / Rusticl drivers. There were OpenGL and Vulkan graphics tests conducted as well as Vulkan…...
Open-Source Linux Driver Christmas Surprise For 20~23 Year Old Radeon GPUs
3+ day, 32+ min ago (172+ words) If Linux 6.19 switching from the Radeon legacy to AMDGPU kernel drivers for the GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs for those ~13 year old GPUs isn't nostalgic enough for you, here's something a bit more nostalgic this holiday season: fresh open-source driver commits to the…...
PowerVR Open-Source Vulkan Driver Preparing For New GPU Support
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (126+ words) The open-source Mesa PowerVR "PVR" Vulkan driver has merged multi-architecture support as part of preparing to add support for newer Imagination GPUs... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals PowerVR Open-Source…...
Meta Is Using The Linux Scheduler Designed For Valve's Steam Deck On Its Servers
3+ day, 9+ hour ago (156+ words) An interesting anecdote from this month's Linux Plumbers Conference in Tokyo is that Meta (Facebook) is using the Linux scheduler originally designed for the needs of Valve's Steam Deck... On Meta Servers. Meta has found that the scheduler can actually…...
RADV Adds Support For New Performance Counters To Help Game Developers
4+ day, 21+ min ago (135+ words) Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's open-source Linux graphics team has landed improvements for the Mesa 260 RADV driver to support new performance counters in conjunction with AMD's Radeon GPU Profiler 2.6 release... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors…...
Linux 6.19's Significant ~30% Performance Boost For Old AMD Radeon GPUs
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (551+ words) For those still using old AMD GCN 1.0 "Southern Islands" or GCN 1.1 "Sea Islands" graphics cards, the upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel is a wonderful holiday gift. With Linux 6.19, the GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs are now defaulting to the modern AMDGPU kernel driver in place…...
Weston 15.0 Alpha Released With New Protocols, Experimental Vulkan Renderer
4+ day, 9+ hour ago (134+ words) After being delayed by three months to allow additional time for new features to land, Weston 15.0 Alpha 1 is out today as a big feature release for this reference Wayland compositor... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards…...
MPV 0.41 Released With Wayland Improvements, Vulkan Hardware Decoding Preferred
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (248+ words) MPV 0.41 is out today as the newest feature release for this MPlayer/mplayer2-derived open-source video player. With MPV 0.41 there is a big focus on improving Wayland support as well as now preferring Vulkan Video acceleration over alternative video decode APIs......
Linux 6.19-rc2 Adding Support For CRKD Guitar Controllers
5+ day, 9+ hour ago (239+ words) Most notable with the input subsystem updates sent out today ahead of the Linux 6.19-rc2 release is some new hardware support. New this week is adding support for CRKD Guitars for those into musical gaming/apps... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics…...
Arch Linux's Main NVIDIA Driver Packages Now Using The Open Kernel Modules
6+ day, 1+ hour ago (186+ words) With the Arch Linux packages for the NVIDIA official graphics driver moving to the now-stable NVIDIA 590 driver series that drops the GeForce GTX 900 and GTX 1000 series GPU support, Arch Linux users with those old Maxwell and Pascal graphics cards will…...