Hi all!

I've successfully managed to implement HDMI FRL in AMDGPU, enabling full HDMI 2.1 bandwidth on your AMD GPUs. Code is available here: https://github.com/mkopec/linux/tree/hdmi_frl_amd_staging

The current state:

- FRL training works

- Video and audio work

- HDR works, VRR does not (it's just a matter of setting infopackets, I'll fix it soon)

- Hotplug, DPMS work

- Dynamic selection of the required FRL rate for a given mode is implemented

Caveats:

- Only DCN 4.0.1 (9070 XT) has been tested. Other GPUs should work similarly, but these paths are completely untested. There may be some clock dependencies there that I've not implemented or figured out yet. Hence me looking for testers today :) But do prepare for the possibility that the kernel might not even boot.

- Untested DCN generations include DCN 3.1 - DCN 3.6. DCN 3.0 (RX 6000 series) has not been implemented yet, but I believe it should be pretty similar to the newer DCNs.

- There is still some weirdness with my TV (Samsung S95B), where it will sometimes reject training higher FRL rates unless i restart the TV. So if you get no picture, try a lower resolution / refresh rate, or try restarting your TV.

- Support for YCbCr 4:2:0 and DSC are not implemented.

Please attach a `dmesg` log and your GPU model if you test my patches and get no picture! It will help in tracing what goes wrong.

The patches are based mostly on:

- Diffing register states on Windows and Linux until they match

- Breakpointing the Windows driver to check what values it sends to the DMUB

- Publicly available AMD-Xilinx HDMI FRL training code

Special thanks to u/Lawstorant for providing help with regards to EDID parsing as well as of the emotional kind :D

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Relic Entertainment produced their own Advance Wars-like strategy game with Earth vs Mars from a smaller team, and now it is updated to be Steam Deck Verified.

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Go through exorcisms to collect souls and repeatedly click through a vast network of additional upgrades and abilities in SCOPECREEP.

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I’m considering moving there isn’t anything wrong with mint it’s very stable I just feel I want more cutting edge hardware support. ho s native app support I always avoid snaps and flatpaks if I can

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My specs are:

Ryzen 5 5600

32 GB ddr4 ram

2070 super gpu

Running Linux Mint 22.3 with the recommended nvidia drivers selected.

The first problem I am having happens when i sit in a game for like 5+ minutes without doing anything. Whether it be afk in minecraft or at the lobby screen for arc raiders. This has happened in minecraft, 7 days to die, arc raiders and sons of the forest. If I sit doing nothing for like 5+ minutes i will notice my frames drop to 30 and the screen starts flickering kinda strobe like. But right when I start clicking on things or moving my frames will jump back up. Last night I noticed that switching monitor inputs and switching back fixed it. I feel like I fixed this problem at one point but can't remember how I did it.

The second is specific to Sons of the Forest. I can play that game fine for like the first 1-2 hours but I will notice that my FPS gradually gets worse and worse and when i open my inventory/backpack my frames literally drop to 2-3 and it becomes unusable. But right when I close my inventory it gets like 60+ again. While playing last night I had my system monitor open and my ram usage kept creeping up and not dropping till i closed the game. I think I started at like 12 GB ram used and ended with like 17 GB ram used. It seemed like my cache kept getting larger and larger too. Not sure what that means.

Any help would be appreciated!

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it just keeps flipping between these 2 every few seconds, even when almost no power draw is active

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Good morning, right from the start, sorry for my bad English. I really need some help with that, i have super laggy windows when its fullscreen, when i switch to windowed its ok, also happends with a minimizing windows, some of them is like 20hz some of them like 100hz, i have no idea, it worked before 25.04 update, thanks in advance!

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Games For Everyone has returned for Episode 2, going over our thoughts on various Linux gaming related subjects.

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I sure do love 4x strategy games, but they really can take forever - which is where Astro Protocol is different with its tactical approach.

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I have ASUS TUF DASH F15 and fedora. Is there an option to easily turn off/on nvidia card without rebooting like in Armoury Crate on Windows? First of all, I would like Nvidia to turn off when running on battery power, because it significantly reduces battery life, but I would also like it to be possible to wake it up quickly, e.g. when I need to connect to a monitor for a moment to show something.

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With Evil Empire now in control of updates to Brotato as the original dev has moved on, a major Paws & Claws free upgrade has rolled out adding in pets.

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hello everyone,

With Windows 11 getting worse and worse I recently switched to cachyOS. I was wondering has anyone noticed a significant different between a 50 70 TI and a 9070 XT.

Would you all recommend switching to AMD for better compatibility?

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The KDE team have released KDE Plasma 6.6, the latest new feature update to the popular Linux desktop environment with lots of goodies.

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After a system update and a reboot yesterday my mouse and scrollwheel feel noticeably different. My mouse feels faster and has less acceleration or feels less "smooth". My scrollwheel now has much smaller steps , which is cool for webbrowsing because I can now smoothly scroll websites without steps, but sucks for gaming.When switching weapons in Counter Strike it scrolls through every weapon twice with just one down scroll.

I have a logitech G502X lighspeed. Could it maybe also be a change in Solaar?

CachyOS with KDE Plasma

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Hey

lately I witnessed some crazy low fps on my game. I cannot really tell since when but there were multiple updates for cs2 recently and with the last system update I saw new NVIDIA/nvidia-lts drivers installed.

I have now between 90(!)-140 fps where before and also on windows I was above 350 most of the time

It doesn’t really matter if I change the resolution etc gives maybe 30-50 fps more but still dips below my monitors hz which is 165

When I checked the cpus don’t go over ~35% capacity

What’s also strange is that when I play with bots I have 300 and when I play duels map from cyberchoke I have 450 fps but arms race, casual, deathmatch it’s 150 max again

I haven’t configured anything so far

Someone else experienced something similar? Any tips what to look out for?

Thank you in advance

Cachyos

3070ti

Intel 127k

32gb ram

SSD

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New version of Lutris is released.

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Hi everyone,

Campaign map on Ultra Settings, with minimal 60 FPS.

Now in Battle, with lowest settings, with max 6 FPS.

I'm facing some curious issues when trying to play Pharaoh Total War with my Fedora 43 Workstation set up.

When I'm on the campaign/strategic map of the game, I can run everything on Ultra, with no drop on FPS and no issues at all - however, when I try to go to a battle, I can't get past 15 FPS (in siege battle, tops is 6-10 FPS), even on the lowest graphic settings, which makes the game unplayable.

Which seems bizarre, as I can play most of my other games (Frostpunk 2, the Alters, Jurassic World Evolution 2) with no issues whatsoever, playing on very high/ultra settings.

This is happening on my Acer Nitro V15 laptop, with some relatively good specs: RTX 5060 gpu with an i5-13420h and 32gb RAM DDR4, running on Wayland protocol and Nvidia driver 580.119.02.

Any thougts on why this is happening?
Thanks!

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