Linux 7.0-rc6 Bringing A Lot Of Audio Quirks / Fixes
The Linux 7.0-rc6 kernel due for release tomorrow has a lot of audio fixes/quirks to correct a wide variety of different hardware issues, mostly different problematic laptops for their…
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RadeonSI Driver Lands Fixes For EDuke32 For Those Wanting To Enjoy Duke Nukem 3D In 2026
…It was discovered that the EDuke32 issue dealt with the engine allocating very large textures. Well known RadeonSI developer Marek Olšák of AMD in turn merged a change for using uint16 for…
Linux 7.2 Staging Still Working To Tame The Realtek RTL8723BS "Beast Of A Driver"
…Epic Games Announces Lore Open-Source Version Control System Steam Machine Launches, Priced $1049 To $1428 USD Claude AI Assists In Fixing Years Old AMD Radeon Linux Display Bug Affecting Numerous Laptops
RADV Driver Enables Host Image Copy By Default For RDNA2 & Newer
…Last year RADV landed experimental support for https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-Experimental-HIC but was disabled by default due to possible performance issues. Finally now though with updated AMD ADDRLIB…
Mesa 26.1 RADV Driver Merges Vulkan Descriptor Heap As Big Improvement For Steam Play
…This addresses issues uncovered with VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer and should provide more portable guarantees and more predictable performance characteristics. NVIDIA added descriptor heap support in their R595 Linux driver while now…
AMD Updates ROCDXG To Deliver Better ROCm Experience On WSL
…Early AMD GCN GPUs Seeing Improved GPU Recovery - Another Valve-Led Linux Improvement Claude AI Assists In Fixing Years Old AMD Radeon Linux Display Bug Affecting Numerous Laptops Mesa 26.2 Preps…
DXVK 3.0 Released With DXBC-SPIRV For Shader Compilation, Descriptor Heaps By Default
…Epic Games Announces Lore Open-Source Version Control System Steam Machine Launches, Priced $1049 To $1428 USD Claude AI Assists In Fixing Years Old AMD Radeon Linux Display Bug Affecting Numerous Laptops
Linux 7.2 Features Expected: Apple M3, Initial AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL, USB4STREAM, Cache Aware Scheduling
…Also coming for Linux 7.2 is Realtek RTL8159 10GbE USB Ethernet support . - Dropping ARCnet support for old ISA and PCMCIA hardware . - Other old hardware removal includes dropping an ISA speech synthesizer…
RADV & RadeonSI Drivers See New Fixes For AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs
…GPU Recovery - Another Valve-Led Linux Improvement Claude AI Assists In Fixing Years Old AMD Radeon Linux Display Bug Affecting Numerous Laptops Red Hat ARM Engineer Abandons ARM64 Linux Personal Desktop, Goes…
HDMI FRL Support Achieved With Open-Source Nouveau For NVIDIA GPUs
…to solve the ordering issues and align with NVIDIA programming sequences." These four patches get HDMI FRL going for the Nouveau kernel driver in allowing HDMI connected displays to be driven at…