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This week NVIDIA had to pull its latest WHQL-certified graphics drivers on Windows due to a bug that would cause the fan controller to not respond correctly to the current conditions of the GPU workload and in some cases would even turn the GPU’s fan off. This bug could potentially kill the NVIDIA graphics card [...] With the Linux 2.6.33 kernel having been released last week where the ATI kernel mode-setting (KMS) DRM code left the kernel’s staging area, we knew a new ATI X.Org driver release was imminent. Over the night a new stable DDX driver update has been pushed out for xf86-video-ati as well as a new pre-release for [...] Open-source software is one of the great success stories of the past few decades. The Apache HTTP Server is the world’s most popular Web server, Linux has more than held its own against Unix and other proprietary operating systems, and Mozilla’s Firefox browser has given Microsoft’s Internet Explorer strong competition over the years. After releasing Phoronix Test Suite 2.4 earlier this month and delivering the subsequent 2.4.1 update, we have now released PTS Desktop Live 2010.1 “Anzhofen” to the public. PTS Desktop Live 2010.1 makes it extremely easy to benchmark your computer on a completely standardized software stack from a Live DVD/USB environment. I have spent two days with my new laptop, the LC2210Si from LinuxCertified. Since the release of its previous version in May 2009, at least 30 additional flash chip families and half a dozen variants for each family are now being supported by Flashrom. New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. NVIDIA has been at work on the 195.xx driver series for some months already and has delivered beta releases to the public that offer VDPAU improvements and new features along with faster X Render performance. This evening they have published a new beta driver for the public, this time it’s 195.36.03. The NVIDIA 195.36.03 driver [...] AMD has done their monthly roundabout and released the ATI Catalyst 10.1 Linux driver. Found in the Catalyst 10.1 driver change-log is “Ubuntu 9.10 production support”, even though AMD seeded them with an unreleased Catalyst driver since September and the official Catalyst releases since October have worked just fine with Ubuntu 9.10… At the Gran Canaria Open Desktop Summit in July 2009, the Open-PC project was announced. The statement said the project aimed to “cooperatively design a Free Software based computer by and for the community”. Further this PC would use only hardware for which there are free software drivers available. This would be a PC with [...] Do u know which is the worlds smallest Linux computer? Its the picotux 100 !! As of yet,the picotux 100 is the world’s smallest Linux computer, only slightly larger (35mm×19mm×19mm) than an RJ45 connector. Ever since Fab of the Linux Outlaws podcast has been gushing over his recently acquired Lenovo ThinkPad laptop, and before that really, I’ve been at times on the hunt for used ThinkPad laptops, never seeming to be able to “win” them on eBay. On Tuesday, at the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, Google introduced its first own-brand smartphone, the Nexus One. Since information about the Nexus had repeatedly appeared in the IT media in December, probably not entirely without Google’s assistance, this didn’t come as a major surprise. The same also applies to many of the [...] AMD has released a new driver for ATI Radeon-chipsets, version 9.12. This driver is suitable for 32bit, or 64bit Linux versions. Support for New Linux Operating Systems RedFlag DT6.0 SP3 ATI Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition: Displays pages: user interface enhancements Another annual tradition of ours besides running a Linux Graphics Survey is to provide a “year in review” analysis of the ATI and NVIDIA Linux drivers with their respective graphics driver releases from the past year in terms of both feature improvements and how their quantitative performance has changed. We have been doing these annual [...] Only 11 code commits have been made to the xf86-video-nv driver (that only touch about 100 lines of code) since the 2.1.15 driver update back in September, but coming out this afternoon is xf86-video-nv 2.1.16. The xf86-video-nv 2.1.16 update now provides mode-setting support for the new NVIDIA graphics cards released over the past few months, [...] AMD has today pushed out their Catalyst 9.11 Linux driver. This release contains support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and initial support for OpenSuSE 11.2 along with a handful of minor bug-fixes. This release does also contain proper support for the Radeon HD 5750 and Radeon HD 5770 graphics cards so that users do not [...] Following a number of Windows Mobile 6.5 based phones, smartphone market newcomer Acer has now announced its first Android model. It’s based on a Snapdragon processor, likely clocked at 1 GHz, with 256 MB RAM. The Android 1.6 operating system (code named “Donut”) is housed on its internal 512 MB Flash drive and there [...] AMD has released the fourth beta of the ATI Stream SDK 2.0, which provides a complete OpenCL development platform with OpenCL ATI GPU support for the ATI Radeon HD 4000/5000 series. Besides running OpenCL on the GPU, this ATI SDK also supports running OpenCL on SSE3-capable, multi-core CPUs from both AMD and Intel too… Computer manufacturer ASUS has published the Linux source code for its Seashell line of netbooks. Previous to the companies Seashell line up, ASUS netbooks were often available with Linux as an option for the pre-installed operating system (OS), usually at a lower price. With the release of its current Seashell models, the 1008HA and the [...] | |||||
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