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      AMD Has A One-Liner To Help Speed Up Linux System Resume Time

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 May, 2023

    AMD engineers have been working out many quirks and oddities in system suspend/resume handling to make it more reliable on their hardware particularly around Ryzen laptops. In addition to suspend/resume reliability improvements and suspend-to-idle (s2idle) enhancements, one of their engineers also discovered an easy one-liner as a small step to speeding up system resume time...
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      Virtual ALSA Driver Posted To Help With Linux Testing/Fuzzing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 May, 2023

    Ivan Orlov this past week posted the patches for VALSA, the Virtual ALSA sound driver that aims to help Linux kernel developers in testing and fuzzing of the sound subsystem...
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      VKD3D-Proton 2.9 Released With Performance Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 May, 2023

    Hans-Kristian Arntzen of Valve's Linux team has just released VKD3D-Proton 2.9 as the latest major update to this Direct3D 12 on Vulkan API implementation that is used by Steam Play (Proton) for running modern Windows games on Linux...
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      CodeWeavers Now Controlled By An Employee Ownership Trust

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 May, 2023

    CodeWeavers, the company known for its CrossOver software for running Windows games/apps on Linux / macOS / Chrome OS and in turn being the main corporate backer to the Wine project, is now transitioned to being an employee ownership trust. This comes with Jeremy White deciding to leave the company after 27 years...
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      NVIDIA R530 vs. AMD Linux 6.3 + Mesa 23.2-dev Gaming Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 May, 2023

    Due to the constantly evolving state of the open-source Linux graphics drivers in particular, here is a fresh look at an assortment of AMD Radeon GPUs making use of the Mesa 23.2 development code for the newest RadeonSI and RADV drivers paired with the recently released Linux 6.3 kernel. These open-source Radeon Linux gaming benchmark results are going up against various NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30/40 series graphics cards using the NVIDIA 530.41.09 release as its latest Linux driver.
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      Mesa "Terakan" Driver Aims To Provide Vulkan Support For Old Radeon HD 6000 Series

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 May, 2023

    There's a new open-source Vulkan driver in development by an independent developer that is working on providing support for aging Radeon HD 6000 series "Northern Islands" graphics processors...
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      Fedora To Further Evaluate vm.max_map_count Tuning For Better Linux Gaming Experience

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 May, 2023

    There's been a Fedora 39 proposal under evaluation for boosting the kernel's vm.max_map_count to help with some Windows games on Steam Play. Though concerns were raised that bumping this kernel tunable too high may not be wise. As such, further testing is to happen for tuning Fedora's stock vm.max_map_count value...
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      Big Patch Series Prepares The Linux Audio Drivers For MIDI 2.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 May, 2023

    Nearly forty years after the MIDI digital music protocol was first introduced, in 2020 the MIDI 2.0 protocol was announced as a major overhaul for this widely used standard by musical devices. A big patch series sent out today prepares the Linux kernel sound drivers for MIDI 2.0...
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      Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Adds H.265 Video Decoding Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 May, 2023

    Intel's open-source Mesa Vulkan Video driver "ANV" has added support for H.265 (HEVC) video decoding...