Phoronix: NVIDIA 2012 Linux Graphics Driver Year-In-Review After yesterday publishing the 2012 AMD Catalyst Driver Year-In-Review, here is the recap of the NVIDIA Linux graphics driver progress made in 2012.
This year the NVIDIA Linux graphics driver made some significant performance improvements, continues to work very well for video acceleration with VDPAU, is still supporting new hardware on launch-day, and various new …
A complete but experimental implementation of “render nodes” for the open-source Linux graphics stack has been published. After being discussed in months prior for advancing the Linux graphics stack to take care of some …
Hybrid graphics support for Ubuntu and Linux in general still leaves a lot to be desired. There's some improvements on the horizon, fortunately. Notebooks with “hybrid graphics ” — two GPUs that come down to a low-power …
For those not yet familiar with GEM, the Graphics Execution Manager, that Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver uses for in-kernel memory management, here's a brief guide. While GEM has been in use by the Intel Linux …
Phoronix: Reading The Linux Graphics Driver How-To Book For those wondering about the outcome of the Linux graphics driver development book that was worked on back in September prior to XDC2012, the book …
For those wondering about the outcome of the Linux graphics driver development book that was worked on back in September prior to XDC2012, the book continues to be worked on a bit for those interested in reading it.
NVIDIA has released an updated proprietary Linux graphics driver. Before getting too excited though if you're a NVIDIA Linux customer, this latest 304 series driver release is mostly about bug-fixing. There's various fixes from ..
There's some security safeguards within the Linux graphics stack currently over X.Org, but much more could be done. However, greater enhancements to secure the graphics stack from potential attackers will likely not come ..
An anonymous reader writes “The NVIDIA Linux driver across multiple GeForce graphics cards can compete with Microsoft Windows 7 on Ubuntu, but only when using the KDE desktop and not the default Unity/Compiz.
