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Fake Sparse Support Merged For Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver To Make More Games Playable

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 August, 2023

Preventing some modern Windows games from running on Intel Arc Graphics under Linux with Valve's Steam Play has been held up by lack of sparse support within Intel's ANV Vulkan driver. Those limitations will hopefully be overcome with the Intel Xe kernel mode driver when that is mainlined in hopefully the coming months, but for now it's a bit of a sore spot for Intel Linux gamers. A partial workaround though has now been merged for Mesa 23.3 with fake sparse support...

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With Linux 6.6, Intel Restoring Panel Self Refresh For Aging Haswell/Broadwell Laptops

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 August, 2023

It's been ten years since Intel launched the Haswell processors that were great for the time followed by Broadwell. On the laptop side for Haswell and Broadwell the Panel Self Refresh (PSR) power-savings support has been rather notorious at least on the Linux side. Finally for the Linux 6.6 kernel due out in late 2023, the developers are re-enabling PSR support for these aging laptops...

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Linux Patches Updated To Fix Latest Suspend/Resume Issues For Some AMD Laptops

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 August, 2023

An updated patch-set was sent out on Wednesday to address fixing wake-up problems for some AMD client platforms when going through a suspend/resume cycle...

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Linux 6.6 DRM-Misc-Next Carries VirtIO Sync Objects, Other Improvements

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 August, 2023

Another weekly batch of drm-misc-next changes were sent out today to DRM-Next for staging ahead of the Linux 6.6 merge window opening in a few weeks...

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AMD Radeon PRO W7500/W7600 Deliver Great Open-Source Linux Performance At Launch

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 August, 2023

The just-announced AMD Radeon PRO W7500 and W7600 are working quite well under a fully open-source and upstream graphics driver stack. AMD is making available a new Radeon Software for Linux packaged driver release for those on enterprise Linux distributions, but those living more on the leading-edge and preferring the open-source upstream Linux/Mesa driver experience, I've been testing these new RDNA3 professional offerings and the support is already in place and working out rather well. In this article are some initial tests of the Radeon PRO W7500 and W7600 as well as showing how the performance of the new packaged driver compares to that of using all open-source and upstream GPU driver components.

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AMD Launches The Radeon PRO W7500/W7800 RDNA3 GPUs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 August, 2023

Earlier this year AMD introduced the RDNA3-based Radeon PRO W7800/W7900 series while today the company is introduced the Radeon PRO W7500 and W7600 series at the lower-end of the professional graphics spectrum...

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Intel Begins Working On "Xe2" Linux Graphics Driver Support For Lunar Lake

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 August, 2023

Intel open-source driver engineers have begun starting work on preparing the Linux graphics driver stack to ultimately handle Lunar Lake integrated graphics that is the generation following Arrow Lake...

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Microsoft's CBL-Mariner 2.0 Linux Distribution Adds Clippy

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 August, 2023

Microsoft has released an updated version of its CBL-Mariner 2.0 in-house Linux distribuiton that includes various security patches, new packages being added to the OS, and a variety of other updates...

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LibreOffice 7.6 RC2 Available For Last Minute Testing Of This Open-Source Office Suite

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 August, 2023

LibreOffice 7.6 as the next major update to this open-source office suite is due out in mud-August while today's RC2 release serves as a last chance for testing out this updated free software alternative to Microsoft Office...