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Firefox 116 Should Have Experimental PipeWire Camera Support

Phoronix - Sat, 06/17/2023 - 03:58
Mozilla's Firefox 116 web-browser should have experimental PipeWire camera capturing support available for Linux users...

The Nasty Linux 6.3 Nouveau Driver Bug Appears To Have Been Figured Out

Phoronix - Sat, 06/17/2023 - 03:45
As a follow-up to the potentially nasty open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" driver bug in Linux 6.3, the issue is believed to have been figured out and a patch is pending that appears to address the issue...

GNOME Wayland vs. X.Org Performance For Radeon & NVIDIA Gaming On Ubuntu 23.04

Phoronix - Fri, 06/16/2023 - 23:06
Similar to prior Wayland vs. X.Org desktop comparison impact on Linux gaming, here is a fresh round of tests looking at the (X)Wayland vs. X.Org GNOME session performance with Ubuntu 23.04 and the latest NVIDIA proprietary and AMD open-source graphics drivers on Linux.

Vulkan 1.3.254 Published With Another Extension Drafted By Valve

Phoronix - Fri, 06/16/2023 - 22:58
The Vulkan API v1.3.254 specification update was published today with just a few fixes/clarifications to the documentation but also two new extensions...

AMDVLK 2023.Q2.3 Released With RX 7600 Support, Counter-Strike 2 Optimizations

Phoronix - Fri, 06/16/2023 - 21:41
AMDVLK 2023.Q2.3 is out today as the newest snapshot of AMD's official open-source Vulkan driver...

AMD Prepares Linux Driver For New Feature: FreeSync Panel Replay

Phoronix - Fri, 06/16/2023 - 19:10
FreeSync Panel Replay is a new feature for AMD Ryzen laptops with the DCN v3.1.4 display block or newer for helping to reduce power usage when the screen contents are unchanged...

Arm Ethos-U Linux Driver Posted For Machine Learning Processor

Phoronix - Fri, 06/16/2023 - 18:43
Arm and NXP engineers have posted the initial open-source Linux driver patches for an Ethos-U driver for their machine learning processor to enable Linux to dispatch AI inference jobs to the hardware. It's yet another inference/accelerator driver working its way toward the mainline kernel but is off to a rocky start with many code issues being raised...

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