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Mesh/Task Shader Queries Land For RADV With RDNA2, RDNA3 Support On The Way

Phoronix - Mon, 11/27/2023 - 19:55
Thanks to prolific RADV driver developer Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's Linux graphics team, mesh/task shader queries have landed for GFX10.3 (RDNA2) with the in-development Mesa 24.0 while support for GFX11 (RDNA3) graphics cards is on the way...

Qt 6.6.1 Fixes More Than 400 Bugs

Phoronix - Mon, 11/27/2023 - 19:40
Back in October Qt 6.6 released with Qt Graphs being introduced, more robust Wayland support, various render enhancements, and more. Out today is Qt 6.6.1 with more than four hundred bugs resolved...

FreeRDP 3.0 Adding Relative Mouse Movement & Other Improvements

Phoronix - Mon, 11/27/2023 - 19:27
FreeRDP 3.0-rc0 was released this morning as the latest stepping stone toward FreeRDP 3.0 for this open-source implementation of the Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)...

AMDVLK 2023.Q4.2 Vulkan Driver Brings Ray-Tracing & SPIR-V Improvements

Phoronix - Mon, 11/27/2023 - 18:56
It's been just over one month since AMDVLK 2023.Q4.1 and this morning it's been succeeded by a new AMD open-source Vulkan Linux driver release...

Linux 6.7-rc3 Released Following A Light Holiday Week

Phoronix - Mon, 11/27/2023 - 16:50
Linus Torvalds released the third weekly release candidate of the forthcoming Linux 6.7 kernel on Sunday night...

PCSX2 Emulator Disables Wayland Support By Default

Phoronix - Mon, 11/27/2023 - 07:49
While more applications continue enabling Wayland support and getting into a shape by default, the PCSX2 open-source PlayStation 2 emulator recently moved in the opposite direction: disabling Wayland support for their distributed builds...

Intel Begins Readying Kernel Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 6.8

Phoronix - Sun, 11/26/2023 - 22:30
Intel Linux kernel graphics driver developers this week sent out their first batch of drm-intel-next i915 DRM driver changes to DRM-Next of new material to be introduced in the upcoming Linux 6.8 cycle...

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