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[bridgman]

Turn off all the RGB ...

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I don't think so - AFAIK it's more of a cross-licensing (aka we don't sue you, you don't sue us) relationship.

I don't know all the details...

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According to Wikipedia article about Dirk Meyer:



Following the link to Athlon article:



There is...

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Only very vaguely - are you saying there is a setting today that can work around the issue, or just that it would be good if we had something like that...

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I always thought the reason for those really small laptops was so you could take two of them with you when travelling, one for Linux and one for Wind...

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My (low quality) understanding is that HDMI "anything" can't be made available in open source drivers without explicit permission from the HDMI...

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My understanding of patrol scrubbing is that it cycles through every memory location, reads and checks against ECC bits, and writes back in the event...

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I thought Wayland developers were still part of X.org, and there is no separate "Wayland.org".

The X.org group covers a lot more...

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No argument about "6+ cores not being unusual", what I'm saying is that all exactly 6 cores plus all very low clocks plus all Chinese speaking...

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There are still some pretty odd things going on with the Steam HW survey, eg the overview graphs aren't matching the underlying details (try "click...

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I would expect a slight latency increase for the first read in a cache line on an L3 miss, however (a) there are typically more subsequent reads to the...

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In our case the Mesa driver is quite a bit faster than the proprietary driver (and on a par with NVidia's proprietary driver) while in Intel's case I...

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You beat me to it

There are three major PC graphics vendors, and two of the three use Mesa as their primary vendor driver. Two of the...

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There's a lot of wierdness in the December numbers - if you look at Windows CPU brand there's a 7% shift from AMD to Intel, vs less than 1% changes in...

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AFAIK the primary sources of OS usage info have been the same for a while, to the point where citing them on every post gets tedious. One of the challenges...

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Yes, if you are running a stock distro you probably have RADV as your default Vulkan driver.

if you have vkinfo available you can run that...

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Have you looked at perf/watt numbers for RDNA2 ? In Michael's tests as well as Windows tests the latest generation is at or near the top in terms of power/perf:...

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If I remember correctly the GameCube chip was designed by ARTx before they joined ATI.

While confirming the above statement I was surprised...

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Interesting... when I try to edit my own posts I now get the following:

Error

Error information: " 403 error Forbidden

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[bridgman]

The register header files don't take up any space once compiled, except to the extent that entries are actually used.

Put differently, if...