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Graphics: NVIDIA VA-API Driver 0.0.17 and AMD Fixes Linux HDMI 2.1 DSC Limitation
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Ubuntu Handbook ☛ NVIDIA VA-API Driver 0.0.17 Added JPEG Decoding & DGX Spark Support
NVIDIA VA-API driver, the VA-API hardware acceleration implemention using NVIDIA GPU, released new 0.0.17 version a few days ago. The new version of this free open-source library fixed only two but important bugs for JPEG decoding and NVIDIA DGX Spark memory systems.
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Hot Hardware ☛ AMD Fixes Linux HDMI 2.1 DSC Limitation; 4K 240Hz Steam Machines Within Reach
A well-known gap in AMD's GPU drive support on Linux was the absence of HDMI 2.1 and Display Stream Compression (DSC), but fortunately AMD open source software engineer Harry Wentland and the team have finally remedied the situation. Per an email publicly released on Freedesktop.org, AMD's Linux display drivers have finally added support for these features and "passed a representative subset of HDMI compliance" with a full compliance run "in the works."