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Intel Xe Driver With Linux 6.16 Brings Controls For PCIe Link Downgrading On Battlemage

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 May

In addition to the Intel LOBF feature and some other last minute Intel fixes going into the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) tree ahead of Linux 6.16, a final batch of material for the newer Xe kernel graphics driver was also sent out this week...

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Hyprland 0.49 Wayland Compositor Working On Permission Management & New Protocols

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 May

Hyprland 0.49 released on Thursday as the newest version of this unique Wayland compositor project...

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Steam Deck Adds Battery Maximum Charge Limit Control In Newest Beta

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 May

After being speculated that such a feature would surface the past few months, today's updated Steam Deck Client Beta from Valve introduces a battery charge limit control to help preserve the longevity of your Steam Deck's battery...

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Intel Begins Posting Linux Patches For Wildcat Lake

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 May

While there have been many Linux kernel patches being worked on for months now for Intel's upcoming Panther Lake SoCs, only seeing the first Linux kernel patches today is their Wildcat Lake platform...

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Intel Link-Off Between Frames "LOBF" Submitted For Linux 6.16 Graphics Driver

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 May

A new Intel graphics/display driver feature being enabled for Linux 6.16 is LOBF: Link-Off Between Frames...

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Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux vs. AMD vs. Intel

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 May

June 2024 marked the launch of the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite to much initial fanfare for finally some compelling ARM laptop designs. While initially -- and still to this day with the likes of the TUXEDO X Elite laptop not materializing yet -- being focused on Windows 11 on ARM, there was hope among Linux users this would lead to a nice ARM Linux laptop experience, since after all Qualcomm and Linaro were working on enhancing the support for Linux. Now approaching the one year point, the overall state of the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite support and performance is rather disappointing. Here's a look at where things currently are and performance relative to AMD Ryzen and Intel Core Ultra when making use of the latest Ubuntu Linux support.

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Few Apple Silicon Device Tree Updates Submitted Ahead Of Linux 6.16

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 May

Sven Peter has mailed out the Device Tree "DT" updates for benefiting Apple Silicon hardware with the upcoming Linux 6.16 merge window...

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OpenRazer 3.10.3 Brings Linux Driver Support For Razer's Naga V2 Pro & Strider Chroma

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 May

OpenRazer 3.10.3 was released on Wednesday as the newest update to this set of open-source, community-maintained and out-of-tree drivers for Razer hardware on Linux...

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Linux 6.16 Bringing A Fix For Old Intel Haswell Graphics

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 May

With the Linux 6.15-rc6 kernel release due out on Sunday, we're hitting the transition point where the focus on DRM kernel graphics drivers for Linux 6.16 is shifting from feature work to bug-fixing ahead of this next merge window. As such sent out today were drm-misc-next and drm-intel-gt-next pull requests focused on preparing various kernel graphics/display driver fixes for the new code coming to Linux 6.16. The Intel pull request today even contains a fix for aging Intel Haswell graphics...