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DRM leasing Linux & Open-Source News

GNOME Merges Wayland DRM Lease Protocol For Better VR Handling   GNOME   2024-06-20
Fedora Making Strides On Enabling Greater AI Use, Easier AMD ROCm PyTorch Acceleration   Fedora   2024-06-16
XWayland 24.1 RC2 Brings Fixes For Explicit Sync & DRM Leasing   Wayland   2024-05-02
Niri 0.1.5 Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Adds New Animations   Wayland   2024-04-20
NVIDIA 550 Linux Beta Driver Released With Many Fixes, VR Displays & Better (X)Wayland   NVIDIA   2024-01-24
NVIDIA 545.29.02 Linux Driver Released With Much Better Wayland Support   NVIDIA   2023-10-31
NVIDIA R545 Linux Beta Driver Brings HDMI Deep Color, Night Color & FB Consoles   NVIDIA   2023-10-17
KWinFT 5.24 Released - Continues To Advance Its Wayland Support, Expand On Wlroots   KDE   2022-02-09
KDE Plasma 5.24 Released With Wayland Support In Increasingly Great Shape   KDE   2022-02-08
Sway 1.7 Released With VR Headset DRM Leasing, Renames "--my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia"   Wayland   2022-01-23
XWayland 22.1 RC1 Released With DRM Leasing, Other Improvements   X.Org   2022-01-19
KDE Plasma 5.24 Beta Released With Better Wayland Support   KDE   2022-01-13
Sway 1.7 Nears Release With Less Abrasive NVIDIA Option, Zero-Copy Direct Scanout   Wayland   2022-01-09
Sway 1.7-rc1 Has Better Zero-Copy Direct Scanout, Drops "--my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia"   Wayland   2021-12-23
XWayland Lands DRM Leasing Support To Handle VR Headsets   X.Org   2021-12-07
KDE Plasma 5.24 On Wayland To Support DRM Leasing For VR Headsets   KDE   2021-09-25
Wayland Protocols 1.22 Released With DRM Object Leasing Support For VR HMDs   Wayland   2021-09-01
DRM Lease Protocol Support Merged For Wayland For VR Headsets   Wayland   2021-08-07
Stepping Towards Better VR Headset Support On Wayland   Wayland   2019-08-12
A Big Batch Of DRM Feature Updates Line Up Ahead Of Linux 4.21   Linux Kernel   2018-11-07
XRGEARS: Infamous "Gears" Now On VR Headsets With OpenHMD, Vulkan   Vulkan   2018-10-20
Vulkan Display Extensions To Be Used By SteamVR Merged Into Mesa RADV/ANV   Mesa   2018-06-19
DRM Leasing / Display Patches Updated For Mesa's Vulkan Drivers   Mesa   2018-06-12
RandR CRTC/Output Leases Lands In X.Org Server   X.Org   2018-02-27
Keith Packard Plumbs Direct Display Extensions Into RADV & ANV   Valve   2018-02-10
RadeonSI Semaphore Begins Hitting Mesa Git, Needed By SteamVR On Linux   Valve   2018-01-30
The State Of VR HMDs On Linux With DRM Leasing, Etc   Hardware   2018-01-26
XWayland Gets XDG-Output Support For Potential Fractional Scaling   X.Org   2018-01-24
Libdrm 2.4.89 Released With Leasing & Synchronization Object APIs   Mesa   2017-12-18
X.Org Server Patches Updated For Non-Desktop & Leases To Better VR HMD Support   X.Org   2017-12-08
Linux 4.15 Will Treat The HTC Vive VR Headset As "Non-Desktop"   Hardware   2017-11-23
DRM Updates Land For Linux 4.15; Torvalds: "There's Something Odd About DRM People"   Linux Kernel   2017-11-16
"NonDesktop" Proposed For RandR: Useful For VR & Apple Touch Bar Like Devices   X.Org   2017-10-19
DRM Leasing Support To Land For Linux 4.15   X.Org   2017-10-19
X.Org Server 1.20 Expected Around January With New Features   X.Org   2017-09-23
Keith Packard's Work On Better Supporting VR HMDs Under Linux With X.Org/DRM   Valve   2017-09-23
Keith Packard Making Progress With DRM Leases, Adding Vulkan Support   Hardware   2017-05-30
RandR 1.6 Proposal Around The Work On Linux VR HMDs Support   X.Org   2017-04-06