Intel Posts Latest Patches For DRM Sharpness Property To Enjoy With Lunar Lake & Beyond For over a year now Intel has been working on a new DRM sharpness property for making use of Lunar Lake's new adaptive sharpening filter capabilities built into its display engine. This new sharpening filter with Lunar Lake and future SoCs can hep with sharpening blurred or upscaled content and over the past year has gone through several rounds of c… image
Logitech G13 Linux Support Patch Proposed 16 Years After Hardware Release With the increased popularity of Linux gaming these days, a patch has been proposed to improve the hardware support for the Logitech G13 gameboard under Linux. The only problem is the hardware is now 16 years old and since been discontinued... image
GNOME Shell 49 Beta Finally Brings Media Controls To The Lock Screen In preparing for the GNOME 49 beta release, GNOME Shell this weekend released 49.beta.1 with a few changes worth highlighting... image
Vulkan 1.4.325 Released With Untyped Pointers Extension Vulkan 1.4.325 was released on Friday with one new extension in tow: VK_KHR_shader_untyped_pointers for untyped pointers... image
GNOME Mutter On Wayland Adds ICC Profile Support, Backlight Improvements There were a lot of interesting changes that landed in GNOME's Mutter compositor codebase to end out the weekend and ahead of next month's big GNOME 49 release... image
KDE Plasma 6.5 Continues Seeing More Features Added & Polishing Like clockwork KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly recap of all the interesting Plasma changes for the week. There continues to be a lot of feature work and polishing that is building up for the Plasma 6.5 desktop release... image
Additional Intel Linux Drivers Left Orphaned & Maintainers Let Go Well, it's an unpleasant afternoon in Linux land with more signs of the ongoing impact from Intel's corporate-wide restructuring. Just after writing about Intel's CPU temperature monitoring driver now left unmaintained/orphaned, more patches hit the public Linux kernel mailing list to mark additional Intel drivers as orphaned and removing maintainer entries for Linux d… image
Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs There is yet more apparent fallout from Intel's recent layoffs/restructurings as it impacts the Linux kernel... The coretemp driver that provides CPU core temperature monitoring support for all Intel processors going back many years is now set to an orphaned state with the former driver maintainer no longer at Intel and no one immediately available to serve as … image
RADV Implements Triangle Pair Compression For AMD RDNA4 GPUs The latest Radeon RADV driver ray-tracing optimization being merged to Mesa 25.3 is support for triangle pair compression with RDNA4 (GFX12) graphics processors... image
FFmpeg 8.0 Merges Vulkan AV1 Encoding & VP9 Decoding Ahead of the upcoming FFmpeg 8.0 release for this widely-used, open-source multimedia library some more last minute features continue to land. Hitting FFmpeg Git today are some Vulkan Video additions... image