Mesa 25.0.4 bug-fix release out, plus the Mesa 25.1 feature update has a first release candidate https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/mesa-25-0-4-bug-fix-release-out-plus-the-mesa-25-1-feature-update-has-a-first-release-candidate/
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 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 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.
#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
"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
This week's review: K, as in Korean, fried chicken with no Colonel Sanders in sight in the Mesa Asian District.
https://phxrailfood.com/2025/03/13/tipsy-chicken/ #phoenix #mesa
#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
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/
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.
#Intel, déjate de mierdas y ponte las pilas con #ANV, anda. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Xe-SVM-For-Linux-6.15
PSA for #Fedora users with modern #AMD oder #Intel GPUs:
#RPMFusion since a week or two ships #Mesa #Vulkan driver packages for #Fedora >= 41 with support for patent encumbered video codecs such as H264, and H265, which is missing in Fedora's mesa package.
To switch to those drivers, run:
sudo dnf swap mesa-vulkan-drivers mesa-vulkan-drivers-freeworld
[Edit: dropped AV1 from the list of codecs this toot mentioned, as it seems to be supported by Fedora's standard vulkan drivers; sorry for the mishap!]
Developer Eric Engestrom announced the released of Mesa 25.0.1, the first bug-fix release for the Mesa 25.0 series.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/mesa-25-0-1-released-with-fixes-for-avowed-and-total-war-warhammer-iii/
Mesa 25.0.1 released with fixes for Avowed and Total War Warhammer III https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/mesa-25-0-1-released-with-fixes-for-avowed-and-total-war-warhammer-iii/
Mesa 25.0.0: إصدار جديد مع تحسينات كبيرة!
هل تستخدم Mesa كبرنامج رسوميات لنظام Linux؟
Mesa 25.0.0 يأتي بتحسينات كبيرة لدعم الرسوميات والأداء!
ما الجديد في Mesa 25.0.0؟
دعم أفضل لبطاقات الرسوميات.
تحسينات في الأداء.
ميزات جديدة لدعم بروتوكولات رسوميات حديثة.
لماذا الترقية إلى Mesa 25.0.0؟
تحسينات الأداء تجعل تجربة الرسوميات أكثر سلاسة.
دعم أفضل للبروتوكولات الحديثة يفتح الباب لتطبيقات جديدة.
اقرأ المزيد عن التحديثات هنا:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/blob/main/docs/relnotes/25.0.0.rst
قم بالترقية الآن واستمتع برسوميات أفضل مع Mesa 25.0.0!
#Gnutux #Mesa #Linux #برمجيات_حرة #OpenSource #رسوميات
From the latest Vulkan conference, about the development of Blender's Vulkan backend:
https://youtu.be/GPxa1nqYmO4?feature=shared
The work done on backward compatibility in #Blender is really something. There are 5+ years-old computers that are perfectly fine with their target of #Vulkan 1.2 (including mine, especially thanks to the enormous work in driver support in #Mesa!) and who will really benefit a lot from how much overhead is reduced compared to OpenGL!
