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Mesa 22.3 Released With RDNA3 Vulkan, Rusticl OpenCL, Better Intel Arc Graphics

Phoronix - Thu, 12/01/2022 - 07:50
Mesa 22.3 is now officially available as the newest quarterly feature release for this set of open-source user-space graphics driver components...

xf86-video-modesetting X.Org Driver Sees Patch For "TearFree" Page Flipping

Phoronix - Thu, 12/01/2022 - 05:15
While several X.Org DDX drivers in the past have implemented a "TearFree" xorg.conf driver option to try to eliminate screen tearing when running an X.Org Server without a composited environment, the xf86-video-modesetting generic DDX that is widely used has lacked that option. That is until a developer finally stepped up and has pending support for the "TearFree" option...

AMD ROCm 5.4 Released With HIP Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 12/01/2022 - 04:15
Following several ROCm 5.3 point releases, AMD today shipped ROCm 5.4 as the newest version of their open-source Linux GPU compute stack...

Intel Linux Kernel Graphics Driver Patched For New Security Sensitive Bug

Phoronix - Thu, 12/01/2022 - 02:00
CVE-2022-4139 was made public today as an i915 kernel graphics driver security issue affecting all Gen12 graphics -- from integrated Tigerlake graphics up through the latest Raptor Lake graphics as well as the in-development Meteor Lake code plus the discrete GPUs of DG2/Alchemist and Arctic Sound...

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