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Updated NVIDIA Turing Firmware Published For Open-Source Nouveau Driver

Phoronix - Tue, 04/04/2023 - 20:33
NVIDIA has published updated NVIDIA TU10x /TU11x "Turing" GPU firmware to support newer RTX 20 hardware revisions and fix outstanding issues affecting the open-source Nouveau driver...

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Initial Support For AMD's Next-Gen, Multi-XCC CDNA Accelerator Starting With Linux 6.4

Phoronix - Tue, 04/04/2023 - 19:00
As I pointed out at the end of March, AMD has begun bringing up a new CDNA GPU in their Linux kernel driver code, past the currently known Instinct MI300 "GFX940" series. This "GFX943" part is some new CDNA multi-XCC accelerator and the open-source AMD engineers have begun posting many patches for this new GPU target. The initial bits of that support will appear in the upcoming Linux 6.4 cycle...

RADV Sees Experimental Fragment Shader Interlock - Important For Emulators, D3D12

Phoronix - Tue, 04/04/2023 - 18:42
A currently-testing implementation of VK_EXT_fragment_shader_interlock has been published for Mesa's Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver. This Vulkan fragment shader interlock support is used by some game emulators as well as being useful in running Direct3D 12 atop Vulkan and similar purposes...

xf86-input-libinput 1.3 Brings Custom Pointer Acceleration Profile Support

Phoronix - Tue, 04/04/2023 - 18:22
Peter Hutterer, Red Hat's leading Linux input expert, today released xf86-input-libinput 1.3 as the newest version of this X.Org Server driver for making use of libinput in an X.Org Server world...

Wayland 1.22 Released With New Preferred Buffer Scale & Transform Protocol

Phoronix - Tue, 04/04/2023 - 17:47
Wayland 1.22 is now available as the newest feature update to this core set of Wayland protocol and helper code...

8 Useful Commands to Monitor Swap Space Usage in Linux

Tecmint - Tue, 04/04/2023 - 15:35
The post 8 Useful Commands to Monitor Swap Space Usage in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Linux memory management is an essential aspect of every System Administrator to improve the performance of a Linux system. It is always a good practice to monitor swap space usage in Linux to ensure

The post 8 Useful Commands to Monitor Swap Space Usage in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

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