Ubuntu 14.04 LTS To Land Mesa 10.0 Next Week

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS To Land Mesa 10.0 Next Week

Mesa 10.0 with its many exciting features and improved performance should be available from the Ubuntu 14.04 archive next week. A call-for-testing using a special PPA is available right now...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTUzNDg

[AJenbo]

I really hope we will also see UVD enabled for Radeon in 14.04.

[verde]

My GPU has problems with audio now with the latest kernels and I really hope AMD will release a Legacy Catalyst for Ubuntu 14.04.

If not I can't use Linux with this hardware anymore!

[leonmaxx]

If not I can't use Linux with this hardware anymore!

Why not use 12.04 LTS or Mint 13 with backports ?

[dh04000]

Why not use 12.04 LTS or Mint 13 with backports ?

He could use ppa's to get all the up to date software he needs. Nothing wrong with using a LTS, that's what its made for. Ubuntu has made it really easy to have both security and up to date software on the same system.

[gQuigs]

Looks good

http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1...SO-NEWATI97008

[dh04000]

http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1...SO-NEWATI97008

Did I miss understand these results, or does older games take a plumet in performance while newer ones get very nice improvements according to your results?

[gQuigs]

Did I miss understand these results, or does older games take a plumet in performance while newer ones get very nice improvements according to your results?

I had them compared to the propiatary driver from 12.04. For mesa 10 vs mesa 9.2, mesa 10 is better in all games I compared.

[Zapp!]

I really hope we will also see UVD enabled for Radeon in 14.04.

UVD itself isn't the problem - with the correct firmware installed it works out of the box on recent kernels.
It's more important to provide the VDPAU libraries on Ubuntu. Last time I checked, they wanted to wait for Debian to handle this first.

See
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mesa/+bug/1002224 and
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=656719
for details.