Mesa 25.1 will make Indiana Jones: The Great Circle playable on older AMD GPUs https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/mesa-25-1-will-make-indiana-jones-the-great-circle-playable-on-older-amd-gpus/

Mesa 25.0.3 Grafiktreiber veröffentlicht, mit zahlreichen Bug-fixes.

Was ist ein Mesa Treiber auf Linux?

Mesa ist eine Open-Source-Grafikbibliothek, die auf Linux-Systemen verwendet wird, um Hardwarebeschleunigung für Grafikkarten (GPUs) zu unterstützen. Sie bietet Implementierungen für verschiedene Grafik-APIs wie OpenGL, Vulkan und OpenCL. Mesa ermöglicht es Anwendungen, 3D-Grafiken effizient zu rendern, indem sie direkt mit der Hardware kommuniziert. Die Mesa-Treiber sind besonders wichtig für die Unterstützung von Grafikhardware, insbesondere für GPUs von Herstellern wie AMD und Intel. Sie bieten nicht nur grundlegende Grafikfunktionen, sondern auch erweiterte Features, die für moderne Spiele und grafikintensive Anwendungen erforderlich sind.

https://docs.mesa3d.org/relnotes/25.0.3.html

Mesa 25.0.3 graphics drivers released with numerous bug fixes https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/mesa-25-0-3-graphics-drivers-released-with-numerous-bug-fixes/

March #Tumbleweed #snapshots were packed with #opensource goodness! #GNOME 48, #KDE Plasma 6.3.3, #Mesa 25.0.1 & parallel #zypper downloads. Dive into the updates! #openSUSE #Linux https://news.opensuse.org/2025/04/01/tw-monthly-update-march/

After years of persistence, multi-planar YUV support has finally landed in etnaviv! Initially faced pushback, but now it's merged - bringing significant improvements to video playback performance. A big win for smoother multimedia experiences!

Merged MR: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/3418

After GNOME 48's dynamic double/triple buffering, what I'm really looking forward to see, eventually, is #Mutter being able to recover from GPU state resets: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/3305

On Linux, the open source AMDGPU graphics drivers in #Mesa are infamous for making everything lock up in your face like that.

I'm just crossing my fingers and hoping this will happen by the time distros collectively ditch X11 in favor of #Wayland.

#AerynOS 2025.03 Is Out with #GNOME 48, #Mesa 25, and #Linux Kernel 6.13.8 https://9to5linux.com/aerynos-2025-03-released-with-gnome-48-mesa-25-and-linux-kernel-6-13-8

@AerynOS #OpenSource

#EndeavourOS Mercury Neo Is Out Now with #KDE Plasma 6.3, #NVIDIA 570, and #Mesa 25.0.1 https://9to5linux.com/endeavouros-mercury-neo-launches-with-kde-plasma-6-3-nvidia-570-and-mesa-25

@EndeavourOS #Linux #OpenSource #ArchLinux

"Gloss Mountains View From the Trail" by Debra Martz

A conflict that continues today is, "What REALLY is the name of this Oklahoma landmark; Gloss or Glass Mountains?"
In 1873, the name Glass Mountains appeared on a map issued by the Federal General Land Office. Two years later, the same office issued another map calling them the Gloss Mountains. Perhaps the 2nd draftsman misread an A for an O?
https://debra-martz.pixels.com/featured/gloss-mountains-view-from-the-trail-debra-martz.html

#Linux Weekly Roundup for March 16th, 2025: #Debian 12.10, #KDE Plasma 6.3.3, #Garuda #COSMIC preview, #DXVK 2.6, #Ubuntu to adopt #Rust-based GNU Coreutils, #GStreamer 1.26, KDE Frameworks 6.12, #ChimeraLinux drops #RISCV support, #Audacity 3.7.2, #digiKam 8.6, #LXQt 2.2 features, #Mesa 25.1 defaulting to NVK, #Bodhi Linux 8 to ship with new theme, and more https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-march-16th-2025

Some strange issue cropped up with my latest #arch upgrade of #mesa and vulkan-radeon, where #wgpu no longer is able to find it.

Thankfully installing the #amdvlk package fixed it, because I don't have time to go down the rabbit hole of what exactly is wrong in mesa 25+ and whether it's wgpu's fault or what

#Mesa 25.1 #Linux Graphics Stack Will Replace thr Old Nouveau Driver with Collabora's Zink/NVK by Default for #NVIDIA GPU Users https://9to5linux.com/mesa-25-1-to-replace-nouveau-driver-with-zink-nvk-by-default-for-nvidia-gpus

@collabora #OpenSource

Mesa 25.1 will default to Zink+NVK instead of the old Nouveau OpenGL driver for NVIDIA on Linux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/mesa-25-1-will-default-to-zink-nvk-instead-of-the-old-nouveau-opengl-driver-for-nvidia-on-linux/

Mesa 25.1 will default to Zink+NVK instead of the old Nouveau OpenGL driver for NVIDIA on Linux #Linux #NVIDIA #Mesa #OpenSource #Vulkan #OpenGL

Mesa 25.1 will default to Zink...

I just found out that the NVIDIA driver on Linux simply cannot utilise the system RAM when your GPU is running out of VRAM. Allocations will simply fail.

That fucking sucks.

Windows is apparently remarkably good at managing video memory, so many games simply rely on that and don't take into account how much VRAM is used or available.

Seems like AMD's drivers (Mesa) can deal with this, but I'm not sure.

Anybody experiencing hangs of the user interface in GNOME 48 RC2 on Debian trixie testing/unstable sid unstable?
Most of the time some Ctrl-Alt-F1 Ctr-Alt-F2 switching fixes it, but I just had a complete unrecoverable hang (at least not without ssh-ing into the machine), even though Shift Lock was still working, so it does not appear like the kernel had crashed. AMD Ryzen integraded Radeon GPU, Mesa 24.3.4, Linux kernel 6.13.

#Intel, déjate de mierdas y ponte las pilas con #ANV, anda. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Xe-SVM-For-Linux-6.15