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posted by n1 on Friday June 09 2017, @08:39PM   Printer-friendly
from the update-to-freedom dept.

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

The big SteamOS beta update that Valve shipped last month has now officially been released into the stable updates branch.

This is a very large update. It includes a new 4.11 Linux kernel, and updated drivers for AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA graphics hardware. This update also switches SteamOS from the proprietary AMDGPU-PRO driver to the open source mesa driver. Debian 8.8 and security updates are also included.

Source: GamingOnLinux


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  • (Score: 2) by jmorris on Saturday June 10 2017, @01:34AM

    by jmorris (4844) on Saturday June 10 2017, @01:34AM (#523347)

    Both are still used fairly interchangably, especially in Linux/Xorg.

    $ lspci

    01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Tobago PRO [Radeon R7 360 / R9 360 OEM] (rev 81)

    and /var/log/Xorg.0.log has these:

    (II) LoadModule: "ati"
    (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/ati_drv.so
    (II) LoadModule: "radeon"
    (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so
    (II) Module radeon: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
    (II) RADEON: Driver for ATI Radeon chipsets:
    Then a crapload of ATI parts and a few like "AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series" but the new stuff just has one word names.

    And about the time everyone finally adapts to the AMD name they will spin it back off again as ATI. Isn't that how it always seems to work?

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