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NVIDIA releases open source Linux GPU kernel modules, Beta Driver 515.43.04 out
11 May 2022 at 9:36 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: RichardYaoProbably only for Turing and Ampere since this driver does not support older GPUs.
At least if they keep it up for everything upcoming too, it's good. Persoanlly I wouldn't worry about older GPUs much, let alone about Nvidia in general until they upstream things proper. It's a step in the right direction, but just the first one.

And it might help Nouveau figure out how to reclock for older GPUs too if some ideas can be shared.

NVIDIA releases open source Linux GPU kernel modules, Beta Driver 515.43.04 out
11 May 2022 at 8:15 pm UTC Likes: 18

Wow, that's a big deal. Nouveau will get reclocking, after forever being stuck without it!

Congrats to all Linux users!

AMD releases the Radeon RX 6950 XT, RX 6750 XT and RX 6650 XT
10 May 2022 at 9:30 pm UTC

Good news is that RDNA2 cards are finally easily available and prices are getting close to normal:

https://www.newegg.com/sapphire-radeon-rx-6800-xt-11304-03-20g/p/N82E16814202405 [External Link]
https://www.newegg.com/sapphire-radeon-rx-6700-xt-11306-05-20g/p/N82E16814202408 [External Link]

RDNA3 cards are also coming later in the year.

ScummVM adds support for the 1995 shooter Wetlands from Hypnotix
9 May 2022 at 1:25 pm UTC Likes: 1

Never heard of it, but it looks cool - reminds Cyberia games.

Dune: Spice Wars is out in Early Access, works on Linux and Steam Deck
28 Apr 2022 at 4:19 am UTC

That's pretty cool that they are using an open source engine for a high profile game. But I wonder why that one specifically. Is it better than let's say Godot?

By the way, animation sequences in the game trailer look pretty good! Surely not small budget.

Dune: Spice Wars is out in Early Access, works on Linux and Steam Deck
27 Apr 2022 at 6:53 am UTC Likes: 1

Oh, a new Dune game? That's very cool! I hope DRM-free release is planned.

See what's eating up drive space on the Steam Deck with Filelight
25 Apr 2022 at 6:57 am UTC Likes: 2

Yeah, may be propose for SteamOS to simply include it by default.

See what's eating up drive space on the Steam Deck with Filelight
24 Apr 2022 at 7:39 pm UTC

Doesn't Deck come with KDE? So you can probably pull it from the repo if your set up in not in immutable mode. Unless SteamOS repos don't have such packages?

Wine 7.7 is out with more PE conversion work and theme additions
24 Apr 2022 at 9:40 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: LNX
Quoting: Shmerl...is working again with this release with latest Mesa...
Debian + latest Mesa? Really? Is there easy way for my MX linux to get fresh Mesa 22 up&running?
I don't use packaged Mesa for gaming, but build Mesa main and run games with it.

See here:

https://gist.github.com/shmerl/f4e5f76871239158cf083e37c5da56f4 [External Link]

See also here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/wiki/Building_Mesa_from_source

Wiki article is outdated in the sense of building, but it gives an idea how to run things with such build.

Wine 7.7 is out with more PE conversion work and theme additions
24 Apr 2022 at 3:17 am UTC Likes: 1

Cyberpunk 2077 is working again with this release with latest Mesa main (it was crashing before due to insufficient stack size).