NVIDIA 580 graphics driver release - improved support for wayland
### Some highlights
- Improved Wayland Support: The driver introduces support for the fifo-v1 Wayland protocol on Vulkan, enhancing compatibility with Wayland environments. A bug that caused GTK 4 applications to crash when using the Vulkan backend on Wayland has also been fixed.
- Low-Latency Display Interrupts: A new feature reduces the time spent in the interrupt top half for low-latency display interrupts by deferring work. This feature is disabled by default but can be enabled with the parameter
- Reduced Stutter in VR: The RMIntrLockingMode feature is now enabled by default, which may help reduce stutter, particularly in virtual reality applications. Users can disable this feature using
- Updated GPU Clock Reporting: The driver updates GPU clock value reporting in the nvidia-settings panel, NVIDIA Management Library (NVML), and nvidia-smi to show clocks before thermal and idle slowdowns, aligning with functionality on Windows systems.
- OutputBitsPerComponent MetaMode: A new attribute allows control over the number of bits per color component transmitted via a display connector. If unspecified, the driver selects an optimal color format.
- Bug Fixes and Compatibility Improvements: The release addresses multiple bugs to enhance compatibility with Bigscreen Beyond head-mounted displays, HDMI displays, single-buffered GLX applications on Xwayland, pre-Turing GPUs, 32-bit x86 applications, and Vulkan applications.
All highlights etc.: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/252613/
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### Some highlights
- Improved Wayland Support: The driver introduces support for the fifo-v1 Wayland protocol on Vulkan, enhancing compatibility with Wayland environments. A bug that caused GTK 4 applications to crash when using the Vulkan backend on Wayland has also been fixed.
- Low-Latency Display Interrupts: A new feature reduces the time spent in the interrupt top half for low-latency display interrupts by deferring work. This feature is disabled by default but can be enabled with the parameter
NVreg_RegistryDwords=RmEnableAggressiveVblank=1.- Reduced Stutter in VR: The RMIntrLockingMode feature is now enabled by default, which may help reduce stutter, particularly in virtual reality applications. Users can disable this feature using
NVreg_RegistryDwords=RMIntrLockingMode=0.- Updated GPU Clock Reporting: The driver updates GPU clock value reporting in the nvidia-settings panel, NVIDIA Management Library (NVML), and nvidia-smi to show clocks before thermal and idle slowdowns, aligning with functionality on Windows systems.
- OutputBitsPerComponent MetaMode: A new attribute allows control over the number of bits per color component transmitted via a display connector. If unspecified, the driver selects an optimal color format.
- Bug Fixes and Compatibility Improvements: The release addresses multiple bugs to enhance compatibility with Bigscreen Beyond head-mounted displays, HDMI displays, single-buffered GLX applications on Xwayland, pre-Turing GPUs, 32-bit x86 applications, and Vulkan applications.
All highlights etc.: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/252613/
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Zorin OS is amazing!
My grandfather's old computer (a very old one that can't even be upgraded to Windows 10) has come back to life with Zorin OS. It runs as smoothly as if it were on the latest hardware. Zorin OS is so user-friendly that even my grandfather and grandmother, who are not very tech-savvy, can use it easily.
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My grandfather's old computer (a very old one that can't even be upgraded to Windows 10) has come back to life with Zorin OS. It runs as smoothly as if it were on the latest hardware. Zorin OS is so user-friendly that even my grandfather and grandmother, who are not very tech-savvy, can use it easily.
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FFmpeg 8.0 merges: OpenAI "Whisper Filter" for automatic speech recognition & Vulkan AV1 Encoding & VP9 Decoding
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FFmpeg 8.0 Merges Vulkan AV1 Encoding & VP9 Decoding - Phoronix
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FFmpeg 8.0 Merges Vulkan AV1 Encoding & VP9 Decoding - Phoronix
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FFmpeg 8.0 Merges OpenAI Whisper Filter For Automatic Speech Recognition
The upcoming FFmpeg 8.0 multimedia library release continues to get more exciting almost by the day
Hands-on: We ran full desktop Linux apps on an Android phone! -- "With some light setup, you too can run full desktop Linux apps like GIMP and LibreOffice on a Pixel phone"
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Want to run full desktop Linux apps on your Android phone? Now you can thanks to the Linux Terminal app. Here's how!
Linux at risk – recent Intel layoffs threaten key projects, experts warn
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What do you think in this schedule for a beginner who wants to learn linux
I'm a junior software engineer, and since we work in a 100% Windows environment, I’ve never really had the chance to work with Linux, apart from a few modules back in school, which was a long time ago. My Linux knowledge is pretty basic, but I believe every programmer should have a solid level in it. That’s why I decided to start learning. So, I asked my mentor ChatGPT 🤣, and it came up with this schedule to get started. What do you think? Any key improvements you’d suggest, guys?
Phase 1 – Core Foundations
Step 1 – Setup & Navigation
Install Linux (VM, WSL, or Docker container)
Learn the Linux directory structure: /, /home, /etc, /var, /usr, /bin, /tmp
Understand basic commands for navigation and file handling: pwd, ls, cd, touch, mkdir, cp, mv, rm
Viewing files: cat, less, head, tail
---
Step 2 – File Permissions & Searching
Reading ls -l output (permissions, owner, group, size, date)
Changing permissions with chmod
Changing ownership with chown
Creating links: ln (hard) and ln -s (symbolic)
Searching files with find and searching text inside files with grep
Using redirection and pipes: >, >>, <, |
---
Step 3 – Processes, Networking & Simple Scripting
Viewing processes: ps, top, htop
Killing processes: kill, pkill
Networking basics: ping, curl, wget, ss -tuln, netstat -tuln
Bash noscripting basics: shebang (#!/bin/bash), variables, reading input, outputting data
Making noscripts executable and running them
---
Phase 2 – Intermediate Skills
Step 4 – User & Group Management
Viewing user information: whoami, id
Adding/removing users: useradd, userdel
Adding/removing groups: groupadd, groupdel
Adding a user to a group: usermod -aG
Switching users: su, sudo
---
Step 5 – Package Management
Installing software packages
Updating software packages
Removing software packages
Searching for software packages
(Example for Debian/Ubuntu: apt install, apt update, apt upgrade, apt remove)
---
Step 6 – Disk & Storage Management
Checking disk usage: df -h, du -sh
Mounting and unmounting drives: mount, umount
Creating and extracting compressed archives: tar, gzip, gunzip
---
Step 7 – Advanced Bash Scripting
Using loops: for, while
Writing conditionals: if, else, elif
Using arguments in noscripts: $1, $2, $@
Creating and using functions in noscripts
Scheduling jobs with cron
---
Step 8 – Service Management & Logs
Managing services with systemctl (start, stop, restart, enable, disable)
Viewing logs with journalctl and in /var/log/
---
Step 9 – Advanced Networking
Viewing open ports with ss -tuln
Running a basic HTTP server with Python
Testing connections with telnet or nc
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I'm a junior software engineer, and since we work in a 100% Windows environment, I’ve never really had the chance to work with Linux, apart from a few modules back in school, which was a long time ago. My Linux knowledge is pretty basic, but I believe every programmer should have a solid level in it. That’s why I decided to start learning. So, I asked my mentor ChatGPT 🤣, and it came up with this schedule to get started. What do you think? Any key improvements you’d suggest, guys?
Phase 1 – Core Foundations
Step 1 – Setup & Navigation
Install Linux (VM, WSL, or Docker container)
Learn the Linux directory structure: /, /home, /etc, /var, /usr, /bin, /tmp
Understand basic commands for navigation and file handling: pwd, ls, cd, touch, mkdir, cp, mv, rm
Viewing files: cat, less, head, tail
---
Step 2 – File Permissions & Searching
Reading ls -l output (permissions, owner, group, size, date)
Changing permissions with chmod
Changing ownership with chown
Creating links: ln (hard) and ln -s (symbolic)
Searching files with find and searching text inside files with grep
Using redirection and pipes: >, >>, <, |
---
Step 3 – Processes, Networking & Simple Scripting
Viewing processes: ps, top, htop
Killing processes: kill, pkill
Networking basics: ping, curl, wget, ss -tuln, netstat -tuln
Bash noscripting basics: shebang (#!/bin/bash), variables, reading input, outputting data
Making noscripts executable and running them
---
Phase 2 – Intermediate Skills
Step 4 – User & Group Management
Viewing user information: whoami, id
Adding/removing users: useradd, userdel
Adding/removing groups: groupadd, groupdel
Adding a user to a group: usermod -aG
Switching users: su, sudo
---
Step 5 – Package Management
Installing software packages
Updating software packages
Removing software packages
Searching for software packages
(Example for Debian/Ubuntu: apt install, apt update, apt upgrade, apt remove)
---
Step 6 – Disk & Storage Management
Checking disk usage: df -h, du -sh
Mounting and unmounting drives: mount, umount
Creating and extracting compressed archives: tar, gzip, gunzip
---
Step 7 – Advanced Bash Scripting
Using loops: for, while
Writing conditionals: if, else, elif
Using arguments in noscripts: $1, $2, $@
Creating and using functions in noscripts
Scheduling jobs with cron
---
Step 8 – Service Management & Logs
Managing services with systemctl (start, stop, restart, enable, disable)
Viewing logs with journalctl and in /var/log/
---
Step 9 – Advanced Networking
Viewing open ports with ss -tuln
Running a basic HTTP server with Python
Testing connections with telnet or nc
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I'm interested in reading this book, but this book was written for a much older kernel. How much of it has changed since 2010?
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DE appreciation post
I am fairly new linux user and I started with KDE because with my fast tests I preferred the customization possibilities over Cinnamon and Gnome. After I managed to destroy my Fedora KDE setup few times on my own fault, I thought it is a good time to change and give a fair try to another style of distro and DE. So after a little research and Debian 13 coming out I decided to try slower release distro with Gnome. After 5 days I am starting to get used to the way Gnome works and even though I liked how much I was able to customize KDE I can really appreciate the great job Gnome team has done with their DE. It is hard to decide on which I will stay after I have tested this or if I need some testing periods for other DEs too. So far I think I just have many good choices after Windows slowness and annoying bloat.
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I am fairly new linux user and I started with KDE because with my fast tests I preferred the customization possibilities over Cinnamon and Gnome. After I managed to destroy my Fedora KDE setup few times on my own fault, I thought it is a good time to change and give a fair try to another style of distro and DE. So after a little research and Debian 13 coming out I decided to try slower release distro with Gnome. After 5 days I am starting to get used to the way Gnome works and even though I liked how much I was able to customize KDE I can really appreciate the great job Gnome team has done with their DE. It is hard to decide on which I will stay after I have tested this or if I need some testing periods for other DEs too. So far I think I just have many good choices after Windows slowness and annoying bloat.
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Switched from Windows to Ubuntu (Non-Dev, Just Curious) – Thoughts on My Setup?
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How hard is to develop a solution for a missing driver?
I have a thinkpad L14 gen1 that lacks a driver for it's fingerprint scanner, which is a goodix 55b4.
I have done some searching and found one only dead and not working solution on a public repo about this particular fpscanner, I mean, idk if this is driver related or smth like that, I'm a web dev with 0 exp on this kind of programming.
My question is, I really want to learn Rust, how realistic is to learn by forking this repo and trying to solve the problem to make the fpscanner to work on my machine? Is this that hard (newbie question, sorry about that)?
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I have a thinkpad L14 gen1 that lacks a driver for it's fingerprint scanner, which is a goodix 55b4.
I have done some searching and found one only dead and not working solution on a public repo about this particular fpscanner, I mean, idk if this is driver related or smth like that, I'm a web dev with 0 exp on this kind of programming.
My question is, I really want to learn Rust, how realistic is to learn by forking this repo and trying to solve the problem to make the fpscanner to work on my machine? Is this that hard (newbie question, sorry about that)?
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