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AMDGPU With Linux 6.19 Will Support Analog Video Connectors For Old GCN 1.0 GPUs

Phoronix - Thu, 10/30/2025 - 05:48
Following last week's initial batch of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver changes intended for Linux 6.19, another round of new AMDGPU / Radeon / AMDKFD material was sent out today to DRM-Next. Notable with this pull is the Display Core "DC" work for analog video connectors as the initiative from one of Valve's contractors for improving the Radeon GCN 1.0 era GPU support with the AMDGPU driver...

Mesa 25.2.6 Released With Many Driver Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 10/30/2025 - 02:09
Eric Engestrom just released Mesa 25.2.6 as the newest bi-weekly stable update to this collection of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers widely used on Linux systems for 3D support...

Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS & COSMIC Desktop Aim For December Stable Release

Phoronix - Thu, 10/30/2025 - 00:00
Following last month's Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS beta and COSMIC desktop beta, System76 has now shared their stable release plans for this long-awaited LInux distribution release with their Rust-written custom desktop...

AMD RadeonSI Driver Now Defaults To Enabling ACO For Faster Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 10/29/2025 - 23:28
Prominent AMD Radeon Gallium3D driver developer Marek Olšák just changed the RadeonSI driver's default from the AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler back-end over to the ACO back-end initially developed by Valve. This should lead to better performance and quicker shader compilation and in turn faster game loads...

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