While the VGA_Switcheroo has long been part of the Linux kernel for laptops with hybrid (dual GPU) graphics for switching between the GPUs on platforms… Read More »NVIDIA Proposing New Linux API For Dynamic Mux Switching With Modern Dual-GPU Laptops
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Last month Red Hat engineer Hans de Goede warned that old and “weird” laptops could see broken backlight controls with the upcoming Linux 6.1 kernel.… Read More »Linux Laptop Backlight Fixes On The Way For v6.1, More Testing Encouraged
Following yesterday’s article about Google Chrome preparing to deprecate the JPEG-XL image format, a Google engineer has now provided their reasons for dropping this next-generation… Read More »Google Outlines Why They Are Removing JPEG-XL Support From Chrome
As a warning and call for testing, old and “weird” laptops may have broken backlight controls when moving to the Linux 6.1 kernel currently under… Read More »Old & Weird Laptops Risk Seeing Broken Backlight Controls With Linux 6.1
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HP’s commercial/business-focused laptops expose a Windows WMI interface that supports the web-based enterprise management of the BIOS configurations. The “HP-BIOSCFG” Linux driver is now being… Read More »HP-BIOSCFG Driver Being Worked On For HP Laptop BIOS Management Under Linux
The platform drivers x86 updates were merged a few days ago for the Linux 6.1 kernel. Most notable is the introduction of the AMD Platform… Read More »AMD Platform Management Framework Merged For Linux 6.1 With Many Laptop Improvements
The ACPI, power management, and thermal subsystem pull requests have been sent in for the in-development Linux 6.1 kernel. The power management changes this cycle… Read More »AMD P-State Fixes, Fixing s2idle For Some Rembrandt Laptops Lead ACPI/PM For Linux 6.1
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