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      SDL Library Adds Support For The New Steam Controller Without Depending On Steam

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:32

    Valve's new Steam Controller, which began shipping earlier this month for $99 USD, is a great piece of hardware. This high-end gaming controller is great hardware wise but what some may not enjoy about it currently is the tight integration with the Steam controller and no native OS drivers currently for use outside of Steam. As a big win today, the widely-used SDL3 gaming software/hardware abstraction library has added support for the new Steam Controller that works outside the confines of Steam...
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      New AMD Dynamic EPP Feature Causing Some Problems With Linux 7.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 hours ago

    Dynamic EPP is one of the new AMD P-State features in Linux 7.1, but, unfortunately is causing some fallout in early usage of this power-savings related functionality...
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      Plasma Big Screen Working Out Quite Well With Plasma 6.7 Beta

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 hours ago

    With today's KDE Plasma 6.7 beta release there has been a surprising amount of interest in the new revival of Plasma Big Screen as the TV-sized UI for Plasma. I've been trying it out today and it has worked out rather well, a very smooth experience, and in good shape for making its debut in next month's Plasma 6.7 release...
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      MSI Claw Configuration Driver For Linux Coming Together With The Assistance Of AI

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    One of the latest Linux gaming handheld drivers being worked on is the MSI Claw Configuration Driver for controller configuration...
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      ROCm 7.0.0 vs. ROCm 7.2.3 Performance On The AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 hours ago

    With the new System76 Thelio Major workstation review unit having arrived equipped with an AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 graphics card, I took the opportunity of having the extra RDNA4 workstation GPU to satisfy a curiosity over whether there has been any meaningful performance gains from ROCm 7.0.0 released last year to now with the latest ROCm 7.2.3 stable release. Here are those benchmarks results if you are curious about the impact of just updating the user-space ROCm components from the end of last summer to the latest ROCm 7.2.3 milestone.
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      AMD Preps More AIE4 NPU Hardware Enablement For AMDXDNA Driver In Linux 7.2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    Since March we have been seeing patches from AMD software engineers beginning to enable their next-generation "AIE4" NPU platform under Linux. We still don't know for sure when this AIE4 NPU will premiere for sure in new Ryzen AI products, but the Linux enablement continues coming along nicely for the AMDXDNA accelerator driver...
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      Intel's Cache Aware Scheduling Inches Closer To Being Merged For Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 hours ago

    I have been writing about the Cache Aware Scheduling work led by Intel engineers on the Linux kernel for more than a year. I've also tested out Cache Aware Scheduling on both Intel and AMD CPUs with the patched Linux kernel to great success. And thus very happy to see the Cache Aware Scheduling patches inching closer to the mainline Linux kernel...
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      KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta Released With Plasma Big Screen, Union Modules

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    In working toward the stable Plasma 6.7 desktop release in mid-June, out today is the first beta of KDE Plasma 6.7...
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      New AMDGPU Driver Pull Request For Linux 7.2 Preps For HDML 2.1 FRL

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 hours ago

    Sent out on Wednesday was the latest AMDGPU/AMDKFD driver pull request of new feature code ready for DRM-Next as the staging area ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel. This doesn't yet land the HDMI 2.1 enablement work that's finally been taking place but it is preparing for that with the FRL register headers now in place as part of this merge...