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Intel's Open-Source OpenGL Driver Adds Support For "Protected Content"

Phoronix - Fri, 10/28/2022 - 00:15
Merged this morning into Mesa 22.3 for the Intel "Iris" Gallium3D driver is "protected content" support in conjunction with the EGL_EXT_protected_content extension...

VKD3D-Proton 2.7 Released With Eight Months Worth Of Changes

Phoronix - Thu, 10/27/2022 - 23:17
VKD3D-Proton 2.7 has finally been released as the first tagged release of this Direct3D 12 atop Vulkan API implementation used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for enjoying an increasing number of D3D12 Windows games on Linux...

Old & Weird Laptops Risk Seeing Broken Backlight Controls With Linux 6.1

Phoronix - Thu, 10/27/2022 - 21:00
As a warning and call for testing, old and "weird" laptops may broken backlight controls when moving to the Linux 6.1 kernel currently under development. Thus if invested in using an old laptop with a modern kernel version, it may be useful trying out a Linux 6.1 release candidate to help spot any regressions early...

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