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GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers
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AMD
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Valve's promised Linux VR fixes are in a beta, and its changelog misspells one of them
Both of the Linux fixes Valve said were coming to SteamVR have arrived, in a beta. SteamVR beta 2.18.3, posted on October 10 at 00:50 UTC, lists them together under Steam Link: "Fixed colors being greyer than they should be when using certain AMD GPUs" and "Removed requirement for VK_KHR_maintenence_9 on Linux to allow for compatibility with older graphics drivers".
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AMD says a Radeon crash fix is planned, and its own tables date it to July 20
AMD's security bulletin for a crash in its Linux graphics driver says a fix "is planned", and the same document lists the mitigation for 30 of its product rows as a driver with a release date of July 20, 2026. The bulletin is AMD-SB-6034, "Linux GPU Driver NULL Pointer Dereference", first published on September 8 and revised on October 6. It was read at 21:41 UTC on October 10.
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Distributions and Operating Systems
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BSD
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Dan Langille ☛ data04: DEGRADED – S7KGNU0Y912955D again
Two days ago, I was greeted with these message. There are two recent issues: data04: DEGRADED – 102 days ago data04: DEGRADED – oh and have I mentioned WatchGoose? – 30 days ago The first link mentions the problem device (S7KGNU0Y912955D) as seen below on the highlighted line 129. Fixing it This time, as in the previous two incidents, a power cycle failed to bring back the missing device.
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SUSE/OpenSUSE
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The Content Moderation Feature Is Out For Everyone
The Content Moderation feature is now available to every user in OBS to combat spam, abuse, and misconduct effectively. It provides a powerful toolset for both users and moderators to report, review, and act on problematic content across OBS.
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