mode-setting Articles & Reviews |
| Radeon RX Vega Performance With Mesa 17.3-dev + LLVM 6 + drm-next-4.15-dc | Display Drivers | 2017-09-29 |
| Testing Nouveau's Open-Source NVIDIA Support On Linux 4.10 With NvBoost | Display Drivers | 2017-01-05 |
| Nouveau GeForce 400/500 Fermi On Linux 3.1 | Display Drivers | 2011-08-05 |
| Test Driving The QEMU-KVM KMS Driver | Display Drivers | 2011-04-19 |
| The Open-Source ATI Driver Is Becoming A Lot Faster | Display Drivers | 2011-01-13 |
| Talking About Kernel Mode-Setting | Display Drivers | 2010-06-16 |
| A Detailed Look At The ATI Linux Power Management | Display Drivers | 2010-05-11 |
| Catalyst vs. Mesa Performance With Ubuntu 10.04 | Display Drivers | 2010-03-29 |
| 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 |
| An Update On The Boot & Power Performance In Ubuntu 10.04 | Software | 2010-02-25 |
| Linux 2.6.32 Kernel Benchmarks | Software | 2009-11-27 |
| The Cost Of ATI Kernel Mode-Setting On Fedora 12 | Display Drivers | 2009-11-25 |
| Intel Linux Graphics Shine With Fedora 12 | Display Drivers | 2009-11-20 |
| ATI R600/700 3D Support In Fedora 12 | Display Drivers | 2009-10-26 |
| AMD R600/700 2D Performance: Open vs. Closed Drivers | Display Drivers | 2009-09-30 |
| Early Linux 2.6.31 Kernel Benchmarks | Software | 2009-07-08 |
| ATI Radeon Driver Re-Write Still Has Work Left | Display Drivers | 2009-06-12 |
| Testing Out ATI Kernel Mode-Setting On Ubuntu | Display Drivers | 2009-06-08 |
| The State Of The Wayland Display Server | Software | 2009-05-20 |
| Does A Greedy Intel Driver Improve Performance? | Display Drivers | 2009-04-15 |
| Ubuntu 9.04 Beta vs. Fedora 11 Beta | Operating Systems | 2009-03-31 |
| Moblin V2 vs. Ubuntu Netbook Remix vs. Ubuntu MID | Operating Systems | 2009-03-30 |
| Nouveau Companion 43 | Display Drivers | 2009-03-19 |
| Intel On Rebuilding The X.Org Linux Desktop | Display Drivers | 2009-02-09 |
| Nouveau Companion 42 | Display Drivers | 2009-01-20 |
| Intel Linux Graphics Performance Q4'08 | Display Drivers | 2008-12-23 |
| Nouveau Companion 41 | Display Drivers | 2008-12-11 |
| Wayland: A New X Server For Linux | Software | 2008-11-03 |
| Nouveau Companion 40 | Display Drivers | 2008-10-29 |
| A Closer Look At Red Hat's Plymouth | Software | 2008-10-28 |
| Fedora 10 Prepares For Development Freeze | Operating Systems | 2008-10-26 |
| Radeon HD 4550 Not Yet Open-Source Friendly | Display Drivers | 2008-10-20 |
| Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 Toxic Vapor-X | Graphics Cards | 2008-10-14 |
| The State of Kernel Mode-Setting | Display Drivers | 2008-10-01 |
| An Open-Source Radeon HD 4670? Sort Of. | Display Drivers | 2008-09-16 |
| Fedora 10 Alpha Preview | Operating Systems | 2008-08-05 |
| RV770 Support Added To RadeonHD Driver | Display Drivers | 2008-07-07 |
| A Preview Of Kernel-Based Mode-Setting | Display Drivers | 2008-04-19 |
| RadeonHD Driver Introduces Major Changes | Display Drivers | 2008-03-12 |
| Gallium3D Status Update Q1'08 | Display Drivers | 2008-02-24 |
| Your First Date With Vbespy | Display Drivers | 2007-08-12 |
mode-setting Linux & Open-Source News |
| Legacy NVIDIA xf86-video-nv Driver Sees First Release In Years | NVIDIA | 2026-04-26 |
| KMS Recovery Mechanism Being Worked On For Linux Display Drivers | Linux Kernel | 2026-02-07 |
| Valve Developer Improves Aging AMD APUs On Linux With VRR, DP/HDMI Audio, HDR & Atomic | Radeon | 2026-01-29 |
| KMSCON 9.3 Released With Mouse Support By Default, Other Improvements | Free Software | 2026-01-23 |
| Redox OS Begins Developing Its Own Intel Graphics Driver | Operating Systems | 2026-01-06 |
| Kernel Graphics Driver Changes Already Begin Lining Up For Linux 6.20~7.0 | Linux Kernel | 2025-12-15 |
| Mesa 25.3 Released With Many Open-Source Vulkan Driver Improvements | Mesa | 2025-11-14 |
| Linux 6.18 Lands Electronic Privacy Screen Hotkey Handling For Some Dell Laptops | Hardware | 2025-11-06 |
| Mesa 25.3 Merges Vulkan WSI Support For Using Atomic Mode-Setting | Mesa | 2025-07-22 |
| Ubuntu Developers Discuss The Difficult Issue Of Splitting Up Firmware Packages | Ubuntu | 2025-06-04 |
| Wine 10.0 Released With Native Wayland Support, Better HiDPI | WINE | 2025-01-21 |
| Wine 10.0 Expected This Week For Improving Windows Software On Linux | WINE | 2025-01-20 |
| 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 |
| GNOME 47 Alpha Released With Accent Color Support & Wayland-Only Build Option | GNOME | 2024-07-13 |
| GNOME Shell & Mutter See "47.alpha" Releases With Many Big Changes | GNOME | 2024-06-30 |
| 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 |
| Rust Bindings Posted For KMS Drivers, VKMS Ported To Rust | Linux Kernel | 2024-03-23 |
| GNOME Mutter 46 Beta A Win For Gamers & VM Users, Other Last Minute Changes Too | GNOME | 2024-02-11 |
| Linux 6.8 To Introduce New Intel Xe & PowerVR Graphics Drivers, Prepare For New AMD & Intel CPUs | Linux Kernel | 2024-01-07 |
| 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 |
| Threadripper 7000 Series, Wayland, Linux 6.7 & Other November Highlights | Phoronix | 2023-12-01 |
| The Linux Kernel Preparing To Drop Infrastructure For Old & Obsolete Graphics Drivers | Linux Kernel | 2023-11-22 |
| The VKMS Display Driver Continues Evolving Nicely For Headless Linux Systems | Linux Kernel | 2023-10-24 |
| GNOME 45's Mutter Implements A Dedicated KMS Thread | GNOME | 2023-08-07 |
| Linux Display Driver Worked On For A Popular & Low-Cost RISC-V SoC | Linux Kernel | 2023-08-01 |
| Open-Source Graphics Driver Updates Begin Queuing For Linux 6.6 | Linux Kernel | 2023-07-13 |
| Improved AMD Color Management Being Worked On For The Steam Deck | Valve | 2023-04-24 |
| GNOME Shell & Mutter 44 Release Candidates Bring Last Minute Changes | GNOME | 2023-03-07 |
| X.Org Drivers Updated For Old Trident & S3 Graphics | X.Org | 2023-02-14 |
| KDE Plasma 5.27 Dubbed "The Best Plasma 5 Version Ever" | KDE | 2023-02-11 |
| Linux 6.3 Features Expected From AMD Auto IBRS To Pluton CRB TPM2 & Dropping Old Code | Linux Kernel | 2023-01-23 |
| Linux 6.3 To Remove Obsolete GPU Drivers: ATI Rage 128, 3Dfx, S3 Savage, i810 & More | Linux Kernel | 2023-01-19 |
| AMD Zen 4, Apple Silicon, Intel Arc Graphics & More Excited Linux Users This Year | Phoronix | 2022-12-30 |
| Linux 6.2 Graphics Changes: Intel Arc Graphics Stable, Initial NVIDIA RTX 30 Acceleration | Linux Kernel | 2022-12-13 |
| AMD EPYC Genoa, Linux 6.1 & Rust Efforts Excited Linux Users In November | Phoronix | 2022-12-01 |
| Open-Source DRM Driver Sent Out For The "Good Old" Atari ST/TT/Falcon Systems | Linux Kernel | 2022-11-26 |
| NVIDIA Proposing New Linux API For Dynamic Mux Switching With Modern Dual-GPU Laptops | NVIDIA | 2022-11-09 |
| Big Nouveau Driver Update For Linux 6.2 To Improve Open-Source NVIDIA Support | Nouveau | 2022-11-08 |
| The Linux Kernel Has Been Forcing Different Behavior For Processes Starting With "X" | Linux Kernel | 2022-11-07 |
| Linux 6.1 Graphics Driver Work Includes Intel Arc Improvements, New AMD GPU IP Blocks | Linux Kernel | 2022-10-05 |
| Renewed Talk Of User-Space Consoles, Accelerators In The DRM Subsystem | Linux Kernel | 2022-09-16 |
| Linux 6.1 To Drop Radeon DRM Driver's Legacy & Broken DP MST Code | Linux Kernel | 2022-09-09 |
| GNOME Shell & Mutter 43 Release Candidates Bring Last Minute Changes | GNOME | 2022-09-04 |
| Atomic Async Page Flips Proposed, Valve's Gamescope Compositor Has Support Pending | Valve | 2022-08-25 |
| NVIDIA Ampere GA103 Support For Nouveau Being Sent In For Linux 6.0 | Nouveau | 2022-08-16 |
| NVIDIA GA103 Support Posted For Open-Source Nouveau Linux Driver | Nouveau | 2022-08-03 |
| 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 |
| Open-Source VIA Graphics Driver Hopes To Be Mainlined For Linux 5.20 | Linux Kernel | 2022-06-25 |
| Nouveau Gallium3D Begins Landing RTX 30 "Ampere" GPU Driver Code | Nouveau | 2022-05-31 |
| NVIDIA Publishes Signed Ampere Firmware To Finally Allow Accelerated Open-Source Support | NVIDIA | 2022-04-11 |
| Steam Deck, Ryzen Servers, Apple M1 On Linux & Milan-X Excited Linux Users In Q1 | Phoronix | 2022-03-31 |
| More DRM Display/Graphics Driver Changes Readied For Linux 5.18 | Linux Kernel | 2022-02-24 |
| OpenChrome DRM Driver For Open-Source VIA Continues To See Some Activity In 2022 | Linux Kernel | 2022-02-22 |
| AMD Enabling FreeSync Video Mode By Default With Linux 5.18, Merging AMDKFD CRIU | Radeon | 2022-02-13 |
| Wayland's Weston 10.0 Compositor Released With DMA-BUF Feedback, Libseat Support | Wayland | 2022-02-01 |
| Numerous Linux/X11 Display Drivers Can No Longer Even Properly Build | X.Org | 2022-01-31 |
| Graphics Driver Changes Begin Lining Up For Linux 5.18 | Linux Kernel | 2022-01-27 |
| GNOME 42 Lands DRM Privacy Screen Support | GNOME | 2022-01-25 |
| Linux 5.17 Patch Can Help With Systemd-Less System Security, May Break Some Old Drivers | Linux Security | 2022-01-04 |
| Nouveau Lights Up The NVIDIA RTX 3060 GPU Open-Source Support | Nouveau | 2021-11-18 |
| AMD Publishes Initial Firmware For Yellow Carp APUs | Radeon | 2021-09-15 |
| AMD Prepares More Graphics Driver Code For Linux 5.15 | Radeon | 2021-08-07 |
| Debian Improves Docs To Inform Users Their Systems Might Not Work Without Non-Free Firmware | Debian | 2021-08-02 |
| AMD Leveraging VKMS Driver To Improve Its Virtual Display Support | Radeon | 2021-07-13 |
| Microsoft's Hyper-V DRM Display Driver Will Land For Linux 5.14 | Microsoft | 2021-06-09 |
| Mumblings Of A "Big New" Open-Source GPU Driver Coming... | Hardware | 2021-05-22 |
| Intel Working On TTM Integration For Discrete vRAM Management | Intel | 2021-05-18 |
| Linux 5.14 To Bring SimpleDRM Driver, VC4 HDR, Marks More AGP Code As Legacy | Linux Kernel | 2021-05-13 |
| openSUSE Tumbleweed Now Offering GNOME 40 | SUSE | 2021-04-16 |
| GNOME 40 Released With Many Improvements | GNOME | 2021-03-24 |
| GNOME 40 Beta Released With Many Improvements | GNOME | 2021-02-24 |
| GNOME Shell + Mutter 40 Beta Released With Wayland Improvements, Overview Redesign | GNOME | 2021-02-23 |
| 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 |
| Triple Buffering Likely Not Landing Until GNOME 42 | GNOME | 2021-02-01 |
| GNOME Shell Merges Its New Horizontal Workspaces | GNOME | 2021-01-30 |
| Open-Source NVIDIA Changes Sent In For Linux 5.12 | Nouveau | 2021-01-29 |
| GNOME 40's Mutter Adds Atomic Mode-Setting Support | GNOME | 2021-01-23 |
| Linux 5.11-rc4 Released With NVIDIA RTX 30 Mode-Setting, Haswell GT1 Graphics Restored | Linux Kernel | 2021-01-17 |
| Linus Torvalds Decides To Land NVIDIA RTX 30 "Ampere" Support In Linux 5.11 | Linux Kernel | 2021-01-15 |
| Open-Source "Nouveau" Driver Now Supports NVIDIA Ampere - But Without 3D Acceleration | Nouveau | 2021-01-14 |
| Intel Sends In Another Batch Of Graphics Work For Linux 5.12 - More Display Fixes | Intel | 2021-01-13 |
| Open-Source NVIDIA Support For Recent GPUs Is Poor But Now You Can Fake It For Testing | Nouveau | 2021-01-12 |
| Raspberry Pi "VC4" DRM Driver Sees 10/12 BPC Color Depth With Linux 5.12 | Raspberry Pi | 2021-01-06 |
| Intel Submits Initial Batch Of Graphics Driver Updates Slated For Linux 5.12 | Intel | 2021-01-04 |
| Radeon FreeSync Video Mode Optimization Updated For The AMDGPU Linux Driver | Radeon | 2021-01-04 |
| TTM Multihop + Intel Keem Bay Display Support Queued For Linux 5.11 | Linux Kernel | 2020-11-12 |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series Linux Driver/Support Expectations | NVIDIA | 2020-09-15 |
| Intel Lands Adaptive-Sync/VRR Into Modesetting X.Org Driver | Intel | 2020-09-08 |
| Linux 5.10 To Bring Support For Matrox G200 Desktop Graphics Cards | Hardware | 2020-08-26 |
| Intel Unveils New "KMB" DRM Driver For Their New SoC With An ARM CPU + Movidius VPU | Intel | 2020-06-30 |
| Linux 5.8 Bringing Soft Recovery Support For GFX10/Navi | Radeon | 2020-05-13 |
| X.Org Server 1.20.8 Released With No Sign Of GLAMOR/XWayland-Improved X.Org Server 1.21 | X.Org | 2020-03-30 |
| GNOME 3.36 Beta 2 Released With Initial Setup Parental Controls, Lock-Screen USB Disable | GNOME | 2020-02-18 |
| NVIDIA Format Modifiers Coming To Nouveau In Linux 5.7 | Nouveau | 2020-02-10 |
| Linux 5.6 Flipping On GPU Reset Support For AMD Renoir + Radeon Navi | Linux Kernel | 2020-02-07 |
| Red Hat Recommends Disabling The Intel Linux Graphics Driver Over Hardware Flaw | Red Hat | 2020-01-16 |
| NVIDIA Sent Out Some Fresh Nouveau Patches Just Before Christmas | Nouveau | 2020-01-06 |
| DragonFlyBSD Updates Its Intel Graphics Driver From Linux 4.8.17 | BSD | 2019-12-27 |
| From Botched Releases To Exciting New Features, Fedora Saw A Lot Of Changes During The 2010s | Fedora | 2019-12-24 |
| The Biggest Open-Source / Linux Radeon News Of The 2010s | Radeon | 2019-12-18 |
| DMA-BUF HEAPS Coming To Linux 5.6, Poulsbo Pops Back Up To Get Page-Flipping | Linux Kernel | 2019-12-17 |
| Before Ending 2019, Vintage SiS X.Org Driver Sees A New Release | X.Org | 2019-12-04 |
| The Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Will End Out 2019 In Poor Shape Still For Newer GPUs | Nouveau | 2019-11-24 |
| DragonFlyBSD Pulls In AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Code From Linux 4.9 | BSD | 2019-11-17 |
| Virtual KMS Driver To Work On Virtual Refresh Rate Support (FreeSync) | X.Org | 2019-11-10 |
| ASpeed DRM Driver Ported To Atomic Mode-Setting | Hardware | 2019-10-29 |
| OpenChrome Still Aspiring For Open-Source VIA Graphics, But Not Going Mainline This Year | X.Org | 2019-10-23 |
| Fedora Workstation 31 Should Be Another Fantastic Release For Desktop Linux | Fedora | 2019-09-23 |
| X.Org's Modesetting Driver Flips Off Atomic By Default | X.Org | 2019-09-04 |
| VKMS Getting PRIME Import Support For Helping To Test Linux's PRIME Functionality | X.Org | 2019-08-26 |
| Valve's ACO Compiler, Zink, FreeSync & Other Topics To Be Talked About At XDC 2019 | X.Org | 2019-08-06 |
| The Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Driver Gets A Batch Of Fixes For Linux 5.3 | Nouveau | 2019-07-19 |
| GNOME's Mutter Begins Landing Transactional KMS Support | GNOME | 2019-06-20 |
| Nouveau Driver Picking Up NVIDIA TU116 GPU Support For Linux 5.3 | Nouveau | 2019-06-19 |
| AMD Is Aiming For Radeon RX 5700 "Navi" Support In Linux 5.3 + Mesa 19.2 | Radeon | 2019-05-31 |
| DRM Fixes Head Into Linux 5.2 While Letting Nouveau Turing TU117 Support Slip In | Nouveau | 2019-05-17 |
| Nouveau Gets Initial Support For NVIDIA TU117 (GeForce GTX 1650) | Nouveau | 2019-05-10 |
| Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Driver Sees Few Changes For Linux 5.2 | Nouveau | 2019-05-01 |
| Fedora Looking At Using VESA-Based FBDEV Driver, Knocking Off Old VESA & OpenChrome | Fedora | 2019-04-26 |
| Stadia, Web Browsers, GNOME 3.32 & Jetson Nano Dominated Linux Interest In March | Phoronix | 2019-04-01 |
| OpenChrome DRM Driver Still Inching Along, Now Connected To New TTM Code | Linux Kernel | 2019-03-24 |
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Launches - Linux Benchmarks Coming | NVIDIA | 2019-03-14 |
| A DRM-Based Linux Oops Viewer Is Being Proposed Again - Similar To Blue Screen of Death | Linux Kernel | 2019-03-10 |
| GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Launch Today - Supported By The NVIDIA Linux Driver, No Nouveau Yet | NVIDIA | 2019-02-22 |
| The Most Interesting Highlights To The Linux 5.0 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2019-02-22 |
| Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" DRM Changes Begin Queuing Ahead Of Linux 5.1 | Nouveau | 2019-02-13 |
| IGT Is Helping Keep Intel's Display Driver & Other DRM/KMS Drivers In Good Shape | Intel | 2019-02-08 |
| AMDGPU DC Seeing Work On "Seamless Boot" Functionality | Radeon | 2019-02-07 |
| Intel's Linux 5.1 Graphics Driver Will Have Fastboot By Default, More Icelake Bits | Intel | 2019-02-02 |
| Mesa To See Better Infrastructure For Supporting Render-Only GPUs | Mesa | 2019-01-27 |
| Intel Could Finally Be Ready To Enable Fastboot By Default For Skylake & Newer | Intel | 2019-01-25 |
| Linux 5.0-rc3 Kernel Released With Plenty Of Fixes Plus Nouveau RTX 2080 Ti Support | Linux Kernel | 2019-01-20 |
| Nouveau Open-Source Driver Will Now Work With NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti On Linux 5.0 | Nouveau | 2019-01-18 |
| Even In 2019, A Long Road Still For Getting The VIA OpenChrome Driver In Linux | Linux Kernel | 2019-01-09 |
| Is It Worth Releasing X.Org Server Updates For Old Branches To Help Vintage Hardware? | X.Org | 2019-01-03 |
| The Most Popular AMD/Radeon Linux News Of 2018 | AMD | 2018-12-26 |
| Nouveau Lands Initial Open-Source NVIDIA Turing Support - But No GPU Acceleration | Nouveau | 2018-12-11 |
| A Final Batch Of DRM-Misc-Next Updates Before Linux 4.21 | Hardware | 2018-12-07 |
| The Intel Linux Discrete GPU Driver Updated -- For Their Two Decade Old i740 | Intel | 2018-12-06 |
| A Radeon RX 590 Workaround For Linux But With Abysmal Performance | Radeon | 2018-11-29 |
| Google's Pixel 3 Is Using The MSM DRM Driver, More Android Phones Moving To DRM/KMS Code | Google | 2018-11-17 |
| NVIDIA 410.78 Linux Driver Fixes Vulkan Corruption, Adds Quadro RTX 4000 Support | NVIDIA | 2018-11-15 |
| A Big Batch Of DRM Feature Updates Line Up Ahead Of Linux 4.21 | Linux Kernel | 2018-11-07 |
| The Big Staging Pull Request Submitted With 44k Lines Of New Code, 16k Deletions | Linux Kernel | 2018-10-29 |
| A 2018 Autumn Linux Driver Update For The ATI RAGE 128 Series | Radeon | 2018-10-23 |
