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VA-API's Libva 2.18 Released With Windows WSL D3D12 Support, Optional Disabling DRI3

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · 15:30

Version 2.18 of the VA-API library, libva, has been released today for this Linux Video Acceleration API library that is used by the various driver implementations...

Turtle Beach REACT-R & Recon Xbox Controllers To Be Supported In Linux 6.4

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · 12:12

Turtle Beach gaming controllers will see support by the widely-used XPad driver with the upcoming Linux 6.4 kernel...

QNX Support Restored For SDL3

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · 10:50

When SDL3 development kicked off last November for this open-source library that is widely used by cross-platform games and other software, QNX support was removed alongside other old targets. Just months later, the QNX platform support is being revived...

Vulkan 1.3.245 Brings New NVIDIA Vendor Extension To Help Optimize Ray-Tracing

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · 10:28

The Vulkan 1.3.245 extension is a small update to this industry-standard graphics/compute API with just a handful of issues resolved but it does introduce one new extension, which is a NVIDIA vendor extension aiming to further enhance Vulkan ray-tracing...

Intel Releases GPGMM v0.1 GPU Memory Management Library

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · 10:06

Intel has published v0.1 of its GPGMM software, the open-source General-Purpose GPU Memory Management Library. This library is intended to be used by modern software employing the Vulkan or D3D12 APIs for helping application developers deal with low-level video memory management...

OpenBLAS 0.3.22 Introduces EmScripten JavaScript, Fixes AMD Zen 4 Handling

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · 09:52

A new release of OpenBLAS is now available, the open-source BLAS and LAPACK implementation known for its wide variety of processor optimizations...

AMD Continues Linux Driver Enablement For Additional "Aldebaran" Instinct GPU

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Yesterday - 22:00

Over the weekend I wrote about AMD beginning to post new graphics driver patches for a new GPU. As pointed out in that earlier article, it looks to be a new AMD Instinct MI300 / "Aldebaran" GPU model and today more patches were posted that further confirm this target...

Pending RADV Driver Change Leads To Much Lower System RAM Use For Some Games

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Yesterday - 18:00

A pending change to the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is leading to much lower system RAM use for some games that make use of many Vulkan Graphics Pipeline Libraries (GPL). The game causing this issue to be investigated was Valve's Dota 2 on RADV and is now seeing an 85% reduction in system RAM use by this open-source Radeon Linux driver...

Ubuntu Touch OTA-1 Focal Released For Ubuntu 20.04 LTS On Smartphones

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Yesterday - 16:50

Ubuntu Touch as the community maintained version of Ubuntu Linux for smartphones and tablets has for years been frustratingly limited to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS as its base operating system for when Canonical had abandoned their smartphone ambitions. Today though that has finally changed with Ubuntu Touch OTA-1 Focal having been released that moves things forward to an Ubuntu 20.04 LTS base...