KMS Articles & Reviews |
GeForce GTX 750 Series: Nouveau vs. NVIDIA Linux Driver Performance | Display Drivers | 2015-05-04 |
The Tests Showing Ubuntu 11.04 On A Power Consumption Binge | Operating Systems | 2011-04-23 |
Test Driving The QEMU-KVM KMS Driver | Display Drivers | 2011-04-19 |
Further Testing Shows More Hope For ATI Gallium3D | Display Drivers | 2011-01-19 |
It's Becoming Very Easy To Run Wayland | Software | 2010-11-25 |
Nouveau With Mesa 7.9 Is Better, But Still Slow | Display Drivers | 2010-10-06 |
Talking About Kernel Mode-Setting | Display Drivers | 2010-06-16 |
NVIDIA Drops Their Open-Source Driver, Refers Users To VESA | Display Drivers | 2010-03-26 |
Intel KMS vs. UMS With Ubuntu 10.04 | Display Drivers | 2010-03-26 |
ATI Radeon KMS vs. UMS With Ubuntu 10.04 | Display Drivers | 2010-03-18 |
The Direction Of Intel Graphics With Fedora 13 Alpha | Software | 2010-03-10 |
An Update On The Boot & Power Performance In Ubuntu 10.04 | Software | 2010-02-25 |
The Cost Of ATI Kernel Mode-Setting On Fedora 12 | Display Drivers | 2009-11-25 |
The State of Kernel Mode-Setting | Display Drivers | 2008-10-01 |
KMS Linux & Open-Source News |
Linux 6.8 Dropping Support For Very Old Graphics Drivers | Linux Kernel | 2023-12-07 |
Linux 6.8 To Add Atomic Mode-Setting Mouse Hotspots, Atomic Async Page Flip | Linux Kernel | 2023-12-03 |
Atomic Async Page Flips Expected To Land For Linux 6.8 | Linux Kernel | 2023-11-24 |
Archinstall 2.7 Brings Unified Kernel Image Support To The Arch Linux Installer | Arch Linux | 2023-11-23 |
wlroots 0.17 Adds New Wayland Protocols, Continued Vulkan Renderer Work | Wayland | 2023-11-22 |
Linux 6.7 Staging Drops The QLGE Ethernet & rtl8192u WiFi Drivers | Linux Kernel | 2023-11-08 |
Intel Updates Its Packaged Arc Graphics Driver For Ubuntu | Intel | 2023-11-03 |
The VKMS Display Driver Continues Evolving Nicely For Headless Linux Systems | Linux Kernel | 2023-10-24 |
NVIDIA R545 Linux Beta Driver Brings HDMI Deep Color, Night Color & FB Consoles | NVIDIA | 2023-10-17 |
Intel La Jolla Cove Adapter "LJCA" Drivers Coming With Linux 6.7 | Intel | 2023-10-16 |
Red Hat Continues Hiring For Experienced Linux Graphics Driver Engineers | Red Hat | 2023-10-11 |
Linux 6.6 Graphics Drivers: NVK uAPI, New AMD GPUs, More Meteor Lake, CI Support | Linux Kernel | 2023-08-31 |
NVIDIA 535.104.05 Fixes An Issue Using The Open Kernel Driver With SLI | NVIDIA | 2023-08-22 |
GNOME Shell & Mutter 45 Betas Released | GNOME | 2023-08-08 |
GNOME 45's Mutter Implements A Dedicated KMS Thread | GNOME | 2023-08-07 |
Linux 6.6 DRM-Misc-Next Carries VirtIO Sync Objects, Other Improvements | Linux Kernel | 2023-08-03 |
Linux Display Driver Worked On For A Popular & Low-Cost RISC-V SoC | Linux Kernel | 2023-08-01 |
Many Intel & AMD Graphics Driver Updates For Linux 6.5: Intel VRR, More MTL, RDNA3 Overclocking | Linux Kernel | 2023-06-29 |
Red Hat's HDR Hackfest Sounds Like It Was A Success | Desktop | 2023-05-01 |
Improved AMD Color Management Being Worked On For The Steam Deck | Valve | 2023-04-24 |
Intel Updates Packaged Arc Graphics Driver For Ubuntu 22.04 LTS | Intel | 2023-04-21 |
GNOME Shell & Mutter 44 Release Candidates Bring Last Minute Changes | GNOME | 2023-03-07 |
xf86-video-modesetting TearFree Gets Fixed Up For A/V De-Synchronization Issue | X.Org | 2023-03-01 |
AMDGPU X.Org Driver 23.0 Released With Few Fixes | Radeon | 2023-02-22 |
GNOME Shell & Mutter 44 Beta Released With Many Changes | GNOME | 2023-02-14 |
Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS Delayed To End Of February Over Kernel & Signed Shim Woes | Ubuntu | 2023-01-19 |
Linux 6.3 To Remove Obsolete GPU Drivers: ATI Rage 128, 3Dfx, S3 Savage, i810 & More | Linux Kernel | 2023-01-19 |
Dynamic Triple Buffering Hopefully Will Land For GNOME 44 | GNOME | 2023-01-09 |
Red Hat Planning A Hackfest To Further Advance HDR Support On The Linux Desktop | Desktop | 2023-01-04 |
Linux 6.3 To Bring Analog TV Support Improvements | Linux Kernel | 2023-01-03 |
AMD Improving The Linux Experience When Running New GPUs Without Proper Driver Support | AMD | 2022-12-23 |
The Most Interesting New Features For Linux 6.1 | Linux Kernel | 2022-12-08 |
NVIDIA 525.60.11 Linux Driver Released With Many Fixes, Vulkan Improvements | NVIDIA | 2022-11-28 |
Intel's IPU6 Webcam Linux Driver Still A Mess, But Some Patches To Help | Intel | 2022-11-27 |
Intel's IWD 2.0 Released For Modern Linux Wireless Daemon | Linux Networking | 2022-11-20 |
Linux 6.2 Will No Longer Treat Intel Arc Graphics As Experimental | Intel | 2022-11-19 |
AMD Introduces New Hotplug Driver Option For The X.Org Server | X.Org | 2022-11-17 |
Mesa's Asahi/AGX Gallium3D Driver Makes Early Prep Changes For WIP Kernel Driver | Mesa | 2022-11-17 |
FBDEV Drivers Will Honor "nomodeset" With Linux 6.2 | Linux Kernel | 2022-11-17 |
NVIDIA 525.53 Linux Driver Brings Dynamic Boost For AMD Laptops, Installer Enhancements | NVIDIA | 2022-11-10 |
Linux 6.2 To Introduce Allwinner A100 & D1 Display Support | Linux Kernel | 2022-11-10 |
NVIDIA Proposing New Linux API For Dynamic Mux Switching With Modern Dual-GPU Laptops | NVIDIA | 2022-11-09 |
Linux 6.2 To Put The Raspberry Pi In Good Shape For 4K @ 60Hz Displays | Raspberry Pi | 2022-11-03 |
Intel Releases Packaged Arc Graphics Driver For Ubuntu 22.04 LTS | Intel | 2022-10-20 |
Open Firmware DRM Driver "OFDRM" Queuing For Linux 6.2 | Hardware | 2022-10-20 |
Linux 6.1-rc1 Released With Rust Now In The Kernel, MGLRU Added, New Hardware Support | Linux Kernel | 2022-10-16 |
NVIDIA 520.56.06 Linux Driver Released With OTA Updates For Proton/Wine NVIDIA NGX Build | NVIDIA | 2022-10-12 |
Kernel Memory Sanitizer Lands For Linux 6.1 | Linux Kernel | 2022-10-12 |
MGLRU & Maple Tree Submitted For Linux 6.1 | Linux Kernel | 2022-10-08 |
Open-Source VIA Linux Driver Still Wants To Be Merged, But Pursuing Acceleration First | X.Org | 2022-10-08 |
AMD Continues Working Toward HDR Display Support For The Linux Desktop | Wayland | 2022-10-06 |
Linux 6.1 Graphics Driver Work Includes Intel Arc Improvements, New AMD GPU IP Blocks | Linux Kernel | 2022-10-05 |
Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan "NVK" Driver Continues Progressing | NVIDIA | 2022-10-04 |
The Work-In-Progress Rust-Written Apple DRM Driver Manages To Start Wayland's Weston | Apple | 2022-09-28 |
The Smaller DRM Drivers See Last Minute Updates Ahead Of Linux 6.1 | Linux Kernel | 2022-09-23 |
Wayland's Weston 11.0 Released With HDR Display & Multi-GPU Preparations | Wayland | 2022-09-22 |
Renewed Talk Of User-Space Consoles, Accelerators In The DRM Subsystem | Linux Kernel | 2022-09-16 |
Ubuntu 22.10 Aiming To Support The $16+ Sipeed LicheeRV RISC-V Board | Ubuntu | 2022-09-16 |
Rust UEFI Firmware Targets Look For A Promotion To Tier-2 | Programming | 2022-09-12 |
Linux 6.1 To Drop Radeon DRM Driver's Legacy & Broken DP MST Code | Linux Kernel | 2022-09-09 |
More DRM-Misc-Next Driver Changes Queue Up For Linux 6.1 | Linux Kernel | 2022-09-06 |
Mir 2.9 Released With XDG-Shell For Wayland, Support For More Protocols | Ubuntu | 2022-08-26 |
Atomic Async Page Flips Proposed, Valve's Gamescope Compositor Has Support Pending | Valve | 2022-08-25 |
Imagination PowerVR Rogue DRM Linux Kernel Driver Out For Review | Linux Kernel | 2022-08-23 |
GNOME 43's Mutter Lands Max BPC Property Support To Deal With Monitor Issues | GNOME | 2022-08-22 |
SDL 2.24 Released With New APIs, D3D12 Renderer Work On Windows, New Linux Hints | Linux Gaming | 2022-08-19 |
Renewed Work Around GNOME 30-bit Deep Color Frame-Buffer Support | GNOME | 2022-08-09 |
FBDEV Updates For Linux 6.0 Bring Fixes For The Atari Graphics Chipset Driver | Linux Kernel | 2022-08-07 |
NVIDIA GA103 Support Posted For Open-Source Nouveau Linux Driver | Nouveau | 2022-08-03 |
Fedora 37 To Offer Official Support On Raspberry Pi 4 Devices | Raspberry Pi | 2022-08-02 |
Open-Source VIA DRM/KMS Driver "OpenChrome" Not Ready For Merging Into Linux 5.20 | Linux Kernel | 2022-07-31 |
Linux VKMS Driver Patches Making It Easier To Build Your Own Virtual Graphics Devices | X.Org | 2022-07-25 |
Adreno 619 Support Added To Mesa - Enables Fairphone 4 GPU Support | Mesa | 2022-07-23 |
Radeon Software for Linux 22.20 Released With Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Support | Radeon | 2022-07-15 |
Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Driver Sees Few Changes For Linux 5.20 | Nouveau | 2022-07-13 |
Atari Open-Source Linux DRM Graphics Driver Being Worked On In 2022 | Linux Kernel | 2022-07-09 |
KernelMemorySanitizer v4 Published While Already Having Found 300+ Kernel Bugs | Linux Kernel | 2022-07-04 |
Linux 5.20 Looks To Be Primed For Usable DG2/Alchemist Desktop Graphics & ATS-M Support | Intel | 2022-07-02 |
Apple M2 Enablement For Linux Begins With Good Progress | Apple | 2022-06-28 |
Open-Source VIA Graphics Driver Hopes To Be Mainlined For Linux 5.20 | Linux Kernel | 2022-06-25 |
GNOME's Mutter Working On "Max BPC" Handling To Deal With Monitor Issues | GNOME | 2022-06-13 |
Linux 5.19 Advances In Quest To Improve Explicit Synchronization For Graphics | Linux Kernel | 2022-06-10 |
GNOME's Mutter Variable Rate Refresh Support Closer To Being Merged | GNOME | 2022-06-07 |
Asahi Linux Celebrates First Triangle On The Apple M1 With Fully Open-Source Driver | Apple | 2022-06-05 |
Nouveau Begins Shifting Around Code For Use By New Driver - Vulkan And/Or New Driver | Nouveau | 2022-05-31 |
Mesa 22.1 Released With Many Vulkan Improvements, Kopper For Zink, Imagination Driver | Mesa | 2022-05-18 |
Apple M1 Mesa Code Begins To Run glmark2 | Apple | 2022-05-09 |
ASpeed AST2600 BMC Support For DisplayPort Landing In Linux 5.19 | Hardware | 2022-05-06 |
Qualcomm MSM DRM/KMS Driver To See Display Improvements With Linux 5.19 | Linux Kernel | 2022-05-04 |
Intel Preps Some Big Graphics Driver Improvements For Linux 5.19 | Intel | 2022-04-27 |
KMSAN Patches For The Linux Kernel Updated For Catching Uninitialized Memory Problems | Linux Kernel | 2022-04-26 |
GNOME 42 Mutter Lands Fix For Using The Old "Radeon" Graphics Driver | Radeon | 2022-04-17 |
Mesa 22.1-rc1 Brings Radeon Vulkan Enhancements, Imagination Driver & Microsoft Dozen | Mesa | 2022-04-14 |
NVIDIA Publishes Signed Ampere Firmware To Finally Allow Accelerated Open-Source Support | NVIDIA | 2022-04-11 |
New NVIDIA Open-Source Linux Kernel Graphics Driver Appears | NVIDIA | 2022-04-08 |
NVIDIA Working On Support For Valve's Gamescope Wayland Compositor | Valve | 2022-03-24 |
Imagination PowerVR Rogue GPU Vulkan Driver Merged Into Mesa 22.1 | Mesa | 2022-03-23 |
FBDEV Drivers See More Fixes With Linux 5.18 | Free Software | 2022-03-23 |
Linux 5.18 Will Speed Up Some FBDEV Operations By 6x, ASpeed AST2600 DRM Code Added | Linux Kernel | 2022-03-03 |
OpenChrome DRM Driver For Open-Source VIA Continues To See Some Activity In 2022 | Linux Kernel | 2022-02-22 |
GNOME Dynamic Triple Buffering Can 2x The Desktop Performance For Intel Graphics, Raspberry Pi | GNOME | 2022-02-13 |
Wayland's Weston 10.0 Compositor Released With DMA-BUF Feedback, Libseat Support | Wayland | 2022-02-01 |
Graphics Driver Changes Begin Lining Up For Linux 5.18 | Linux Kernel | 2022-01-27 |
DirectFB2 Aims To Resurrect DirectFB For Embedded Systems | Free Software | 2022-01-27 |
Initial Bits Land In Mesa 22.0 For Intel Raptor Lake | Intel | 2022-01-25 |
GNOME 42 Lands DRM Privacy Screen Support | GNOME | 2022-01-25 |
GhostBSD 22.01.12 Released With Automatic Detection For Old AMD GPUs | BSD | 2022-01-17 |
Developer Steps Up Wanting To Maintain Linux's FBDEV Subsystem | Hardware | 2022-01-16 |
Linux 5.17 Patch Can Help With Systemd-Less System Security, May Break Some Old Drivers | Linux Security | 2022-01-04 |
Hypocrite Commits, Rust RFC & FUTEX2 Were Among Popular Kernel Topics In 2021 | Linux Kernel | 2022-01-01 |
Happy New Year & A Wrap On 2021 | Phoronix | 2021-12-31 |
Open-Source Qualcomm "Turnip" Driver Achieves Vulkan 1.1 Conformance, Fixes For DXVK Use | Mesa | 2021-12-03 |
Alpine Linux 3.15 Released - Builds Off Linux 5.15, Drops MIPS64, SimpleDRM For FB | Operating Systems | 2021-11-24 |
ASpeed Preparing AST2600 DisplayPort Support | Hardware | 2021-11-22 |
Freedreno Gallium3D Lands Basic Support For "Clover" OpenCL | Mesa | 2021-11-16 |
Raspberry Pi OS Updated For Debian 11 Bullseye, Desktop Transitions To GTK3+Mutter | Raspberry Pi | 2021-11-08 |
X.Org Server 21.1 Released With Variable Rate Refresh In Modesetting Driver, Other Work | X.Org | 2021-10-27 |
NVIDIA 470.74 Linux Driver Released With Several Fixes | NVIDIA | 2021-09-20 |
Google Is Successfully Using The Open-Source Qualcomm GL/VLK Drivers On Chromebooks | Mesa | 2021-09-16 |
Reverse Engineering, Open-Source Driver Writing Continues For Apple's M1 GPU | X.Org | 2021-09-15 |
Linux 5.15 Is A Very Exciting Kernel For AMD | AMD | 2021-09-12 |
Privacy-Screen DRM API With Intel Support Ready Now That GNOME Is Prepared To Use It | Hardware | 2021-09-10 |
AMD Prepares More Graphics Driver Code For Linux 5.15 | Radeon | 2021-08-07 |
xf86-video-amdgpu 21.0.0 Released For Radeon Linux Users Still On X.Org | Radeon | 2021-07-30 |
AMD Leveraging VKMS Driver To Improve Its Virtual Display Support | Radeon | 2021-07-13 |
The Most Popular Intel Linux/Open-Source News From H1'2021 | Intel | 2021-07-08 |
AMD's Linux Strides In H1'21 From FreeSync HDMI To PyTorch ROCm | AMD | 2021-07-04 |
Microsoft's Hyper-V DRM Display Driver Will Land For Linux 5.14 | Microsoft | 2021-06-09 |
Canonical's Mir 2.4 Brings Numerous X11 + Wayland Enhancements | Ubuntu | 2021-06-08 |
Linux 5.14 To Bring SimpleDRM Driver, VC4 HDR, Marks More AGP Code As Legacy | Linux Kernel | 2021-05-13 |
Apple Magic Mouse 2, Microsoft SAM Support Added For Linux 5.13 | Hardware | 2021-04-29 |
X.Org Server 1.20.11 Released Due To New Security Advisory | X.Org | 2021-04-13 |
The Most Popular AMD Linux/Open-Source News For Q1'2021 | AMD | 2021-03-31 |
Linux 5.13 To Enable The Keyboard/Touchpad Of Newer Microsoft Surface Laptops | Microsoft | 2021-03-30 |
X.Org Foundation Bows Out For Google Summer of Code 2021 | X.Org | 2021-03-07 |
helloSystem, System76 Keyboard + Linux 5.11/5.12 Captivated Users In February | Phoronix | 2021-03-01 |
Linux 5.11 Released With Intel Integer Scaling, AMD Performance Boost, RTX 30 KMS | Linux Kernel | 2021-02-14 |
There Are Big Changes On The Horizon With Linux 5.12 | Linux Kernel | 2021-02-14 |
The 11 Most Interesting Features For Linux 5.11 - Lots For AMD + Intel This Cycle | Linux Kernel | 2021-02-12 |
Nouveau With Linux 5.12 Has ~5k L.O.C. Change In Preparing For Ampere | Nouveau | 2021-02-12 |
Linux 5.11, Pyston, Wayland & Other January Excitement | Phoronix | 2021-02-01 |
Open-Source NVIDIA Changes Sent In For Linux 5.12 | Nouveau | 2021-01-29 |
Nouveau X.Org Driver Sees First Release In Two Years | NVIDIA | 2021-01-23 |
GNOME 40's Mutter Adds Atomic Mode-Setting Support | GNOME | 2021-01-23 |
Apple M1 Open-Source GPU Bring-Up Sees An Early Triangle | Apple | 2021-01-22 |
Linux 5.11-rc4 Released With NVIDIA RTX 30 Mode-Setting, Haswell GT1 Graphics Restored | Linux Kernel | 2021-01-17 |
Raspberry Pi "VC4" DRM Driver Sees 10/12 BPC Color Depth With Linux 5.12 | Raspberry Pi | 2021-01-06 |
The 10 Most Interesting Features Of Linux 5.10 | Linux Kernel | 2020-12-08 |
Arcan 0.6 Display Server Adds Network Transparency, XWayland Client Isolation | Free Software | 2020-11-26 |
Mir 2.2 Released With Display Wall Capabilities, Composite Bypass On GBM-KMS | Ubuntu | 2020-11-19 |