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Former Nouveau driver lead joins NVIDIA and sent a massive patch set

By nwildner, 18 Apr 2024

Ben Skeggs, former Nouveau lead developer and former Red Hat employee has joined NVIDIA and appears to still be working on the open source drivers.

KDE's Xaver Hugl on why Wayland explicit sync is such a big deal

By Liam Dawe, 8 Apr 2024

You may have seen news recently about explicit sync for Wayland, but you might not know why it's actually important for the future of Linux on Wayland.

The HDMI Forum rejected AMD's open source HDMI 2.1 implementation

By Liam Dawe, 29 Feb 2024

If you were hoping at some point to see HDMI 2.1+ on Linux with AMD + Mesa, you're out of luck right now as it's simply not going to be happening.

Open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware in Mesa, NVK, is now ready for prime time

By Liam Dawe, 29 Feb 2024

The future of NVIDIA hardware on Linux is here with the open source Vulkan driver NVK in Mesa, as there's now a Merge Request to have it shipped by default.

NVIDIA open source driver to use NVK + Zink for OpenGL on newer GPUs

By nwildner, 23 Feb 2024

A recent merge request on the Mesa Git repository added the initial support for allowing drivers to chose Zink as the translation layer for handling OpenGL.

Mesa 23.3 is out now with the NVK Vulkan driver for NVIDIA

By Liam Dawe, 30 Nov 2023

Developer Eric Engestrom announced yesterday the fresh release of the Mesa 23.3 open source graphics drivers.

Intel Vulkan drivers on Linux should run more games with Mesa 24.0

By Liam Dawe, 21 Nov 2023

While work is ongoing to provide brand new Intel Xe Vulkan drivers on Linux with their newer driver, work is still happening to improve the current driver.

Open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver NVK hits Vulkan 1.0 conformance

By Liam Dawe, 21 Nov 2023

A big step for the in-development open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver NVK, as Collabora have announced how it's hit Vulkan 1.0 conformance.

Mesa 23.2.1 drivers out now

By Liam Dawe, 1 Oct 2023

After a longer period of waiting than usual, the Mesa 23.2.1 driver release is out now as the first in the Mesa 23.2 series.

Mesa 23.2 aims for release this week, with a point release next week

By Liam Dawe, 25 Sep 2023

It's been quite a while overdue but Mesa 23.2 is getting set to finally released, with a fourth Release Candidate now available for testing.

Mesa getting Vulkan performance upgrades for submission merging

By Liam Dawe, 24 Sep 2023

Developer Mike Blumenkrantz, who is one of many under contract by Valve, has released another blog post highlighting another fun optimization from their ongoing Mesa driver work.

AMD RADV Ray Tracing to potentially get much faster on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 14 Aug 2023

With some work currently pending to be pulled into Mesa, the open source AMD RADV driver could be about to get much faster with Ray Tracing which is exciting to see.

AMD GPUs to get Ray Tracing turned on for Mesa 23.2

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jun 2023

The RADV driver in Mesa for AMD GPUs on Linux and Steam Deck is set to get Ray Tracing turned on by default for the upcoming Mesa 23.2 release.

Mesa graphics drivers 23.1.0 out now with RADV GPL enabled

By Liam Dawe, 11 May 2023

Another fresh release of Mesa is now available, the set of open source graphics drivers for Linux and Steam Deck with v23.1.0 out now.

Valve improving Mesa graphics drivers on Linux for a "secret" game (update: Jedi Survivor)

By Liam Dawe, 21 Apr 2023

Here's something interesting for you. Valve developers seem to be improving the Mesa graphics drivers right now towards a secret game. Update: It was for Jedi Survivor.

AMD RADV driver will soon stop eating RAM with some games

By Liam Dawe, 28 Mar 2023

Developer Mike Blumenkrantz has continued blogging about Linux graphics driver improvements, with a fix from developer Samuel Pitoiset landing to stop the AMD RADV (Vulkan) driver eating up RAM.

Steam Deck OS 3.4.6 Beta adds DOOM Eternal Ray Tracing, Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty fixes

By Liam Dawe, 3 Mar 2023

Valve has updated the Steam Deck Preview update branch to bring with it Steam Deck OS 3.4.6 Beta and it's quite an exciting one.

Mesa 23.0 out now improving open source graphics drivers

By Liam Dawe, 23 Feb 2023

Mesa 23.0.0 has been released today upgrading open source graphics drivers for Linux. As usual you should wait for the first point release for stability.