Major highlights of the Mesa 22.2 graphics stack series include the ARB_robust_buffer_access_behavior extension for the D3D12 Gallium driver, GL_EXT_memory_object_win32 and GL_EXT_semaphore_win32 support for the D3D12 and Zink drivers, variablePointers…
New features in the Mesa 22.1 series include support for Intel’s Alchemist DG2 platform. Learn more about the release here.
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This week was a bit slow in Linux news and releases, but we got a few major ones like the Mozilla Firefox 98 web browser with new optimized download flow, a new VLC Media Player release with a bunch of goodies, as well as the Mesa 22 graphics stack for better gaming. On top of […]
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The Mesa 22.0 graphics stack is here to introduce KHR_dynamic_rendering for Lavapipe and many other features. Learn more here.
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In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install or upgrade Mesa Drivers on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with two PPA options.
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The Google Stadia fiasco seemed to have left the way clear for Windows to be the server technology that would dominate video game services via streaming, especially seeing NVIDIA GeForce Now, Amazon Moon, and obviously, Game Pass bet on Microsoft technology. However, it seems that Amazon Moon could take a turn in the future, as […]
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The past week has been a slow on Linux news, but exciting because we got a new Ubuntu Touch release on our Linux smartphones, a new Steam Client release with some goodies for Linux gamers (like me), and a new major Mesa graphics stack release that also brings good vibes for Linux gaming. On top […]
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Mesa 21.3 is here three and a half months after Mesa 21.2 to further improve Linux’s number one graphics stack. It brings many great improvements, starting with official OpenGL ES 3.1 compliance for Collabora’s Panfrost driver, threaded shader compilation for the Iris driver, OpenGL ES 3.2 support for the Zink driver, and support for AV1 […]
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The biggest new feature of the Firefox 94 release is the enablement of the EGL (OpenGL) API for handling graphics context management on X11 for Intel/AMD users using recent Mesa graphics stacks. This feature replaces the old GLX implementation and promises to offer a performance boost on Intel/AMD hybrid machines. After upgrading to Firefox 94, […]
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NVIDIA 495.44 is a new feature branch version and introduces support for the GBM API, which implements a GBM backend driver that can be used with the GBM loader from the Mesa 21.2 or later. This is good news, especially for KDE Plasma users as the late…
Red Hat’s Karol Herbst—who is involved in the development of the Nouveau driver Mesa and the OpenCL open stack—has published rusticl , an experimental software implementation of OpenCL (OpenCL frontend) for Mesa written in Rust. Rusticl acts as an analogue of the frontend already present in Mesa OpenCL Clover and is also developed using the […]
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