KMS Articles & Reviews |
| Running The Bcachefs DKMS Modules On Ubuntu Linux | Software | 2025-09-23 |
| The Importance Of The TUXEDO Driver Package On Their Newer Ryzen Laptops | Computers | 2024-02-14 |
| 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 |
| GNOME 51 Retires Legacy NVIDIA Driver Support With Removing EGLStreams | NVIDIA | 2026-06-05 |
| KMSCON 10.0 Released With Natural Scrolling Option, Libseat VT Support | Free Software | 2026-05-21 |
| Linux 7.2 To Integrate The AMDGPU "Power Module" To Better Align With Windows | Radeon | 2026-05-06 |
| KDE Linux Now Using KMSCON For A Better VT Console Experience | KDE | 2026-05-02 |
| KMSCON Continues Improving For VT Terminal Emulator In User-Space | Free Software | 2026-04-22 |
| Arch Linux's Archinstall 4.2 Fixes Botched Disk Encryption Security | Arch Linux | 2026-04-15 |
| MediaTek MT7927 "Filogic 380" WiFi Support Coming Together For Linux | Linux Networking | 2026-03-31 |
| Fedora 45 Plan Approved For Web Frontend To Linux's "Blue Screen of Death" DRM Panic | Fedora | 2026-03-25 |
| Linux 7.1 Adding DRM Dedicated CRTC Background Color Property | Linux Kernel | 2026-03-20 |
| Imagination's Open-Source PowerVR Vulkan Driver Now Plays Nicely With Zink OpenGL | Mesa | 2026-03-16 |
| KDE Linux Adds Apple APFS File-System Support, Workaround For Frustrating AMDGPU Issue | KDE | 2026-03-15 |
| GNOME OS Switches To KMSCON Enabled By Default | GNOME | 2026-03-14 |
| CachyOS Handheld Edition Switches To Wayland, CachyOS Installer Drops Bcachefs | Arch Linux | 2026-03-08 |
| Using KMSCON As The Default VT Console Delayed To Fedora 45 | Fedora | 2026-03-03 |
| Linux 6.19 Features Include Many Benefits For Intel & AMD Users | Linux Kernel | 2026-02-07 |
| KMS Recovery Mechanism Being Worked On For Linux Display Drivers | Linux Kernel | 2026-02-07 |
| Patch Proposed To Allow Toggling Linux Kernel VT Support At Boot Time | Linux Kernel | 2026-01-26 |
| KMSCON 9.3 Released With Mouse Support By Default, Other Improvements | Free Software | 2026-01-23 |
| QEMU 11.0 Could Finish Removing 32-bit Host CPU Support | Virtualization | 2026-01-09 |
| SDL 3.4 Released With Many New APIs, Better Emscripten & Native PNG Support | Linux Gaming | 2026-01-01 |
| Fedora Continued At The Forefront Of Upstream Linux Innovations In 2025 | Fedora | 2025-12-28 |
| Arch Linux's Main NVIDIA Driver Packages Now Using The Open Kernel Modules | Arch Linux | 2025-12-20 |
| Intel Graphics Score A Big Win With Linux 6.19: Color Management & Xe VFIO Driver Merged | Intel | 2025-12-05 |
| Linux 6.19 GPU Driver Features: Color Pipeline API, Intel Xe3P, AMDGPU For GCN 1.0/1.1 | Linux Kernel | 2025-12-04 |
| Fedora 44 Cleared To Replace Kernel Console With User-Space KMSCON | Fedora | 2025-12-03 |
| CachyOS Improves Intel Video Acceleration Experience | Arch Linux | 2025-11-29 |
| Valve-Backed Color Pipeline API For Linux Is Finally Ready For Upstream | Hardware | 2025-11-27 |
| Debian 13.2 Released With Dozens Of Fixes | Debian | 2025-11-15 |
| The Headaches Supporting Content Protection With Linux GPU Drivers | Intel | 2025-11-14 |
| Fedora 44 Looking At Replacing FBCON With KMSCON As Default VT Console | Fedora | 2025-11-14 |
| Bcachefs Rolls Out Metadata Version Reconcile "rebalance_v2" Feature | Linux Storage | 2025-11-13 |
| AMD ROCm 7.1 Released: Many Instinct MI350 Series Improvements, Better Performance | AMD | 2025-10-30 |
| AMDGPU With Linux 6.19 Will Support Analog Video Connectors For Old GCN 1.0 GPUs | Radeon | 2025-10-29 |
| AMD Begins Sending In "New Stuff" For Their Graphics Driver In Linux 6.19 | Radeon | 2025-10-25 |
| KDE Plasma 6.5's Overlay Planes Support Yields Significant Power Savings | KDE | 2025-10-23 |
| Linux 6.18-rc2 Will Make Sure To Wipe Stale Information About AMD System Reboots | AMD | 2025-10-19 |
| Linux 6.19 Will Continue With More Rust Graphics Driver Preparations | Linux Kernel | 2025-10-14 |
| Microsoft Hyper-V Support Further Improved With Linux 6.18 | Microsoft | 2025-10-10 |
| Apple HFS/HFS+ File-System Drivers See More Fixes With Linux 6.18 | Apple | 2025-09-30 |
| Linus Torvalds Removes The Bcachefs Code From The Linux Kernel | Linux Storage | 2025-09-29 |
| Bcachefs Announces First-Tier Arch & NixOS Support, Post-Experimental Release EOY | Linux Storage | 2025-09-28 |
| DKMS Packages For Bcachefs Are Now Available On Debian & Ubuntu | Linux Storage | 2025-09-20 |
| Bcachefs Outlines Plans For Shipping As A DKMS Out-Of-Tree Kernel Module | Linux Storage | 2025-09-11 |
| Linux's Current & Future Rust Graphics Drivers Getting Their Own Development Tree | Linux Kernel | 2025-09-02 |
| Mir 2.22 Released With Tackling NVIDIA Support, Initial Rust Scaffolding | Ubuntu | 2025-08-26 |
| GNOME 49 Merges Late Mutter Change To Help Cursor Responsiveness With VRR | GNOME | 2025-08-18 |
| AMD Posts 11th Iteration Of Color Pipeline API For Advanced Color Management On Linux | AMD | 2025-08-15 |
| GNOME Mutter On Wayland Adds ICC Profile Support, Backlight Improvements | GNOME | 2025-08-09 |
| AMD ROCm 6.4.3 Released With A Few Fixes | AMD | 2025-08-08 |
| NetBSD 11.0 Preparing For Release With Improved Linux Emulation, Better RISC-V Support | BSD | 2025-08-04 |
| Mesa 25.3 Merges Vulkan WSI Support For Using Atomic Mode-Setting | Mesa | 2025-07-22 |
| Improved Debugging Support For AMDGPU Driver Expected For Linux 6.17 | Radeon | 2025-07-11 |
| Big Improvements For Qualcomm GPU Driver With Linux 6.17 - Especially For Snapdragon X | Linux Kernel | 2025-07-05 |
| Mesa 25.1.4 Delivers Latest Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2025-06-19 |
| Intel IPU7 Firmware Binaries Upstreamed For Lunar Lake Webcameras | Intel | 2025-05-30 |
| Linux 6.16 GPU Driver Changes Land: NVIDIA Blackwell, Asahi UAPI, Intel Xe Fan Speeds | Linux Kernel | 2025-05-28 |
| AMD Previews Mysterious Linux Runtime Stack For Ryzen AI NPUs | AMD | 2025-05-23 |
| Linux 6.16 Bringing A Fix For Old Intel Haswell Graphics | Intel | 2025-05-08 |
| GNOME 49 Will Enjoy Better Performance With More Fullscreen Apps | GNOME | 2025-04-28 |
| Graphics/Display Driver Changes Begin Queuing For Linux 6.16 This Summer | Linux Kernel | 2025-04-10 |
| Linux 6.15 exFAT Can Delete Files Much Faster: 4+ Minutes To 1.6 Second Optimization | Linux Storage | 2025-03-31 |
| Mir 2.20 Brings Focus Stealing Prevention, Workaround/Quirk Fixes | Ubuntu | 2025-03-10 |
| NVIDIA 570.124.04 Linux Driver Brings Additional Fixes | NVIDIA | 2025-02-27 |
| Linux 6.14 Landing Support For FPGA Support On AAEON UP Maker Boards | Hardware | 2025-01-21 |
| Fedora 42 Boot Splash Screen Looks To Workaround GPU Drivers Taking Too Long To Load | Fedora | 2025-01-17 |
| AMDXDNA Submitted For Linux 6.14 With Kernel Accelerator/Graphics Driver Updates | Linux Kernel | 2025-01-17 |
| GNOME Shell 48 Alpha Introduces Screen Time / Health Breaks, Mutter 48 Alpha Out Too | GNOME | 2025-01-13 |
| Rust Drama, Russian Kernel Maintainers & Other Top Linux Kernel Happenings Of 2024 | Linux Kernel | 2024-12-24 |
| UEFI 2.11 Released With PI 1.9 Bringing LoongArch & RNG Additions | Standards | 2024-12-18 |
| Mir 2.19 Released With Atomic KMS Platform Support, New Wayland Protocols | Ubuntu | 2024-12-02 |
| GNOME Mutter Switches To High Priority KMS Thread To Avoid Crashes | GNOME | 2024-11-15 |
| NVIDIA Is Helping To Improve Linux's Dynamic Display Mux Support For Laptops | NVIDIA | 2024-10-14 |
| Intel Gaudi 3 Linux Driver Support Expected Next Month | Intel | 2024-09-24 |
| AMD GPU Linux Driver Becoming "Really Really Big" That It's Starting To Cause Problems | Radeon | 2024-09-15 |
| Raspberry Pi Bugs Currently Make Up Half Of The Fedora 41 Blocker Bugs | Fedora | 2024-09-04 |
| Bochs DRM Linux Driver Being Modernized - Better Performance For QEMU Display | Virtualization | 2024-08-23 |
| NVIDIA 560.35.03 Linux Driver Released With More Wayland Fixes | NVIDIA | 2024-08-21 |
| Ubuntu Fixes Old NVIDIA Wayland Support For GNOME, Hiring More Desktop Engineers | Ubuntu | 2024-08-20 |
| GNOME Developers New Code Takes On Cursor Stutters | GNOME | 2024-08-12 |
| Linux's DRM Power Saving Policy Gets Reverted For Now | Hardware | 2024-08-09 |
| More HDR Preparations Merged In Time For GNOME 47 | GNOME | 2024-08-07 |
| NVIDIA 560 Linux Driver Beta Released - Defaults To Open GPU Kernel Modules | NVIDIA | 2024-07-23 |
| Linux 6.11 "MM" Patches Include Many Improvements, A 10x Speedup For One Optimization | Linux Kernel | 2024-07-22 |
| GNOME 47 Alpha Released With Accent Color Support & Wayland-Only Build Option | GNOME | 2024-07-13 |
| Linux BSOD, NVIDIA Linux Excitement, Intel Sierra Forest & Other June Highlights | Phoronix | 2024-07-01 |
| GNOME Shell & Mutter See "47.alpha" Releases With Many Big Changes | GNOME | 2024-06-30 |
| Linux's New DRM Panic "Blue Screen of Death" In Action | Linux Kernel | 2024-06-16 |
| NVIDIA Exploring Ways To Better Support An Upstream Kernel Driver | Nouveau | 2024-06-13 |
| Linux 6.10 Preps A Kernel Panic Screen - Sort Of A "Blue Screen of Death" | Linux Kernel | 2024-04-19 |
| Wayland Protocols 1.35 Introduces Alpha Modifier Protocol, Tablet-V2 As Stable | Wayland | 2024-04-17 |
| More Efficient VirtIO DRM Driver To Import Scanout Buffers From Other Devices | Virtualization | 2024-03-28 |
| Rust Bindings Posted For KMS Drivers, VKMS Ported To Rust | Linux Kernel | 2024-03-23 |
| Tiny Corp At "70%" Confidence For AMD To Open-Source Some Relevant GPU Firmware | Radeon | 2024-03-06 |
| CUDA On ROCm, Ryzen 8000G Series & Rust Activity Made For An Exciting February | Phoronix | 2024-03-01 |
| NetBSD 10.0 Should Be Released Soon - Likely Last RC Debuts | BSD | 2024-02-29 |
| Nouveau Driver Squeezes In Some Last Minute Minor Additions For Linux 6.8 | Linux Kernel | 2024-02-23 |
| GNOME 46 Beta Released - Mutter Supporting Direct Scanout For Cropped/Scaled Surfaces | GNOME | 2024-02-17 |
| Intel Posts Patches For Plane Color Pipeline Support On Linux - Jiving With AMD's Design | Intel | 2024-02-15 |
| GNOME Mutter 46 Beta A Win For Gamers & VM Users, Other Last Minute Changes Too | GNOME | 2024-02-11 |
| Variable Refresh Rate "VRR" Support Comes Down To The Wire For GNOME 46 | GNOME | 2024-02-10 |
| Mesa 24.0 Released With Faster Radeon RADV Ray-Tracing & Initial PowerVR Vulkan Driver | Mesa | 2024-01-31 |
| Ubuntu 24.04 LTS To Ship With Some Extra GNOME Performance Optimizations | Ubuntu | 2024-01-15 |
| Intel Framebuffer Driver Set To Be Retired For Old i8xx/i9xx Graphics | Intel | 2024-01-05 |
| Plymouth Boot Splash Screen Sees First Update In Nearly Two Years | Free Software | 2023-12-22 |
| GNOME's Dynamic Triple Buffering "Ready To Merge" | GNOME | 2023-12-08 |
| 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 |