NVIDIA Is Helping To Improve Linux's Dynamic Display Mux Support For Laptops

In addition to NVIDIA engineers being at XDC 2024 in Montreal last week for talking about their Wayland driver plans, there was also a presentation by NVIDIA's Daniel Dadap around current Linux challenges in supporting dynamic display mux hardware on modern laptops with iGPU/dGPU combinations and their hopes for improving the support...
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AMD EPYC 9755 DDR5-4800 vs. DDR5-6000 Memory Performance

With the newly-launched AMD EPYC 9005 series processors continuing to use Socket SP5, there is drop-in upgrade compatibility for existing EPYC 9004 series motherboards/servers. That's assuming, of course, the vendor provides a BIOS update for enabling the EPYC 9005 series "Turin" support and there may be limitations on the maximum CPU/TDP supported given power/thermal constraints. But in…
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CodeWeavers Working On Better Input Device Support For Proton Gaming

The Wine developers at CodeWeavers who also collaborate with Valve on Steam Play's Proton have been working to enhance input device support for Proton/Wine gaming. In particular, for various gaming input devices that were never designed with Linux support in mind and various nuances around properly supporting them under Linux with different limitations from (X)Wayl…
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Corsair Void Headset Driver Expected For Linux 6.13

For those that happen to have a Corsair Void headset or are looking for a new gaming headset this upcoming holiday season, the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel cycle is expected to merge a new driver for these wired and wireless PC gaming headsets...
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Llamafile 0.8.14 Introduces New CLI Chatbot Interface

Llamafile is the open-source project from Mozilla that allows distributing large language models as a single file that can work across operating systems, run on CPUs or GPUs, and all-around makes it much easier to distribute and run LLMs. This Mozilla Builders project ended out the weekend with a new feature release...
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AVX-512 Performance With 256-bit vs. 512-bit Data Path For AMD EPYC 9005 CPUs lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Qualcomm QCS6490-based Rubik Pi AI SBC supports Android, Linux, and “LU” operating systems lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Comedy 2.5D puzzle-platformer Ari Buktu and the Anytime Elevator gets a demo and new trailer lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…