Graphics: Wayland and More
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Evdev Driver Updated, Libinput 1.11 Prepares For Rollout With Record & Replay Support
Peter Hutterer at Red Hat remains quite busy near single-handedly improving the Linux desktop input stack.
There aren't nearly as many people working on Linux input as there is output/graphics, but Peter continues pushing the situation ahead. Last week Peter rolled out the first Libinput 1.11 release candidate for this input handling library relied upon on both X.Org and Wayland systems. Most prominent to 1.11 is new record/replay features for recording and replaying back of input events, which is valuable for testing and debugging purposes. There are also many other improvements coming in libinput 1.11.
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What’s new with the Wayland platform plugin in Qt 5.11?
Wayland is a display server protocol used on modern Linux systems, the Qt Wayland platform plugin lets Qt applications run on Wayland display servers (compositors).
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The Many Wayland Improvements In Qt 5.11
Released one week ago was the big Qt 5.11 tool-kit update. While there is a lot of new and improved functionality, not receiving much attention until now are all of the Wayland platform support improvements in this latest half-year Qt5 update.
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One Of Imagination's Only Mesa Developers Has Jumped Ship To Intel
The only developer from Imagination Technologies that was active in contributing to Mesa has left the company and is now working for Intel's open-source graphics team.
For those holding out hope to one day see a complete open-source PowerVR Linux graphics driver, those days look incredibly less likely now with their main Mesa contributor no longer at the company. If you forgot, back around 2015 is when there was actually some hope of seeing an official open-source PowerVR Linux driver backed by Imagination Tech. Alexandru Voica who worked in marketing at the company though is no longer working for them had alluded to open-source driver work as well as their struggles in finding open-source graphics driver developers.
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The Virtual KMS Module Has Begun Progressing As Part Of GSoC 2018
In addition to the Vulkan Virgl project another one of the interesting projects for Google Summer of Code 2018 is the development of VKMS, a Virtual KMS DRM driver.
The focus of this VKMS module is to allow for setting a mode in order to run a display on X/Wayland with a headless machine, such as for testing and other purposes when not actually backed by a physical display. But this VKMS module would still allow the virtual output to be backed by a physical GPU. This GSoC 2018 project under the X.Org umbrella is being pursued by student Rodrigo Siqueira.
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It's Still Going To Be Tough Getting The OpenChrome VIA KMS Driver In The Linux Kernel
The many year effort on the open-source VIA "OpenChrome" DRM/KMS driver might culminate with getting into the mainline Linux kernel within the next few kernel cycles, but there is still a lot of work for that to happen.
Kevin Brace who is largely the only (independent) contributor left working on the OpenChrome project for providing open-source Linux graphics driver support for aging VIA x86 graphics hardware is hoping to see it through soon for getting this driver mainlined.
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