Fedora 38 Features Approved For Unified Kernel, mdadm BIOS RAID, Xfce 4.18

[Vistaus]

RPM Fusion https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/Multimedia

Wish there was a method for openSUSE too since they also disabled it…

[Vermilion]

how did you notice?

You press 'i' while playing a video or launch mpv from the terminal and it'll tell you if it's using hardware acceleration. There's also radeontop tool to check GPU activity.

[Britoid]

RPM Fusion https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/Multimedia

Or use Flathub

[horizonbrave]

thx for the info. i use fedora daily but wondered why the mpv video acceleration failed with my amd card... now i know

how did you notice?

[lethalwp]

How people circumnavigate this issue https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Disable-Bad-VA-API ?

thx for the info. i use fedora daily but wondered why the mpv video acceleration failed with my amd card... now i know

[horizonbrave]

How people circumnavigate this issue https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Disable-Bad-VA-API ?

[Anvil]

Dnf5 will be on 39 pog. I'm just happy it's planned at all

dont be surprised if it gets knocked back, afaict its still to Buggy

[mirmirmir]

Dnf5 will be on 39 pog. I'm just happy it's planned at all

[johncall]

Thank you for summarizing what was voted on. I use Fedora as my daily driver and appreciate this type of news.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Fedora 38 Features Approved For Unified Kernel, mdadm BIOS RAID, Xfce 4.18

At today's Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) more features were approved for the Fedora 38 release coming up in April...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-38-Early-Jan-Features