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ATI Kernel Power Management Moves A Bit More

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On Sunday we reported that ATI in-kernel power management was moving along after AMD's Alex Deucher spent some time in recent days building upon Rafał Miłecki's initial power management support. Alex's patches added GUI idle IRQ support, support for changing the GPU clocks when the engine is idle...

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ATI Radeon KMS vs. UMS With Ubuntu 10.04

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Earlier this week we published comparative benchmarks of Mandriva, PCLinuxOS, Ubuntu, and openSUSE. In the discussion that followed, a number of people requested a set of tests that compare the performance of the ATI Radeon Linux graphics driver stack with kernel mode-setting (KMS) vs. user-space m...

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NVIDIA Pre-Releases Its 195.xx Linux Driver

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While NVIDIA has been working on the 195.xx Linux driver since before last November, they have yet to officially release a stable driver in this series as of yet. Betas have been available and they even had to recall their recent drivers over a fan speed issue that could damage the system, but now...

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ATCA Blade Cranks It Up With Six-Core Xeon

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GE Intelligent Platforms announced a Linux-ready AdvancedTCA single board computer with an option for Intel's new Xeon 5600 processors. The dual-Xeon A10200 offers up to six cores clocked to 2GHz, plus 12MB of L3 cache per CPU, and offers dual 10GbE interfaces and four 1GbE interfaces, says the com...

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IBM, Dell, HP Adopt Intel 6-Core Chip for IT, Games

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Both server and game box suppliers are deploying Intel's 6-core processor.

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Revived PC Market to Enjoy Double-Digit Growth

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Following a recovery in the second half of 2009, PC shipments are expected to see huge gains this year and on into 2014, says new IDC report.

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Samsung Slate PC Coming Later This Year

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The Q1 UMPC failed, but Samsung is giving a slate-like PC another try.

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More ATI Radeon KMS Power Management Fun

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Power management support within the Linux kernel for the ATI Radeon DRM driver has been in development for months and gone through several revisions, but with the forthcoming Linux 2.6.34 kernel there is initial ATI KMS power management support. For making the power management situation even better...

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DisplayLink Gets Better In Linux 2.6.34 Kernel

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Bernie Thompson, one of the developers working on the DisplayLink Linux support, has written in this weekend to inform us of pending improvements to the DisplayLink frame-buffer driver (udlfb) that will be present in the Linux 2.6.34 kernel. It was nearly a year ago that DisplayLink began supportin...

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Luc Modularizes Mesa, DRI Drivers

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Last month at the X@FOSDEM meeting in Belgium, Luc Verhaegen gave a talk on cleaning up the Linux graphics driver stack. This talk was met by some that agreed with his views and, well, others that didn't exactly see eye-to-eye with him. He shared with everyone his views on changes that should be ma...

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Proof Of Concept: Open-Source Multi-GPU Rendering!

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Now that David Airlie's vga_switcheroo has went upstream in the Linux 2.6.34 kernel that provides hybrid graphics support and delayed GPU switching, David went on to look for something new to work on in his downtime when not busy with tasks at Red Hat. This new work is on GPU offloading / multi-GPU...

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Intel Debuts Six-Core Gaming Chip

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Chipmaker introduces its first desktop chip packing that many processing cores for gaming boxes.

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Acer's PC Market Numbers Add Up

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Across all of 2009, Dell managed to stay ahead of Acer by a hair's-breadth, but the year-end trend wasn't going Dell's way.

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Cisco Unveils Blazing Fast CRS-3 Router

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Networking kingpin Cisco has taken the wraps off of the highly anticipated upgrade to its CRS-1 core router, debuting the CRS-3, which promises capacity of 322 terabits per second.

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DIN-Rail PC Runs Linux on 150MHz SoC

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Advantech has announced a box PC intended for DIN-rail mounting that uses the company's x86-compatible EVA-X4150 SoC (system-on-chip). The Linux-ready UNO-1140 has CompactFlash storage, two USB 2.0 ports, two 10/100 Ethernet ports, a VGA output, and either four or eight serial ports, the company sa...

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