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GNOME 43's Mutter Lands Max BPC Property Support To Deal With Monitor Issues

Phoronix - Tue, 08/23/2022 - 00:30
Earlier this summer was the patch series for GNOME's Mutter to make use of the Linux DRM/KMS "max BPC" property for the drivers exposing the maximum bits per color supported. That code has now been merged in time for next month's GNOME 43 release and in turn will help deal with some scenarios where users may encounter screen flickering, brief blackouts, and other problems related to available monitor bandwidth...

Asahi Linux May Have OpenGL 2.1 For Apple M1/M2 By Year's End

Phoronix - Mon, 08/22/2022 - 22:30
Alyssa Rosenzweig who is known for her work on the Panfrost open-source, reverse-engineered Arm Mali driver and has been spending nearly two years now involved with the Asahi Linux crew working on reverse-engineered Apple M1/M2 graphics support has shared a new status update...

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