I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
I ve reviewed and updated the steam package to be noarch and no longer i686. As some of you are aware, since a few releases, the client is fully 64 bit, including supporting libraries, and it just ships some libraries and components for the integration on the 32 bit games (Steam overlay, etc.). This does not [ ]
New 595.45.04 driver There s a new 595.45.04 driver in the repositories, with a few interesting updates: NVIDIA gaming technologies in Proton Configuring all the NVIDIA specific gaming technologies in Proton definitely has a steep learning curve, so as part of the ongoing work for driver 595; I ve added a Proton / DLSS / Reflex / [ ]
Soon we will get a release of drivers in the 590 branch. So branch 580 will be the last driver branch to support Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta based GPUs. There is now a long term support for the 580 branch of NVIDIA drivers along with the main one. This repository contains only the 580 driver [ ]
My recent experience with Nvidia proprietary drivers and Wayland has been great. With the latest updates of EGL Wayland (1.1.16+), the performance of the Wayland session it s on par with the X session and it s free from visual artifacts and strange behaviours. Games running on Proton on Xwayland run smoothly and I can t tell the [ ]
The GPG key used to sign the packages have been replaced. I originally wanted to do that just after the EOL of EL7, but I obviously forgot to do that. The new key and the old ones are all listed here now: https://github.com/negativo17/gpg-keys
Plex Desktop and HTPC clients are available again. Now Plex ships a precompiled QT 6 libraries with the private API enabled that allows for an easy packaging. The packages are available for EL9+ and Fedora on the x86_64 architecture only. Just install the one you need via DNF. For the desktop application: # dnf -y [ ]
I ve seen around tons of confusion about Optimus laptops, Prime and systems with multiple GPUs (like a desktop with an Nvidia dedicated GPU and an embedded AMD GPU) and how to configure them. People get mad with variables, scripts and extra tools. The truth is, there s not much to configure and since a few years, [ ]
When running the CUDA stack on a recent Fedora distribution, you re very likely to hit the compatibility issue with the current GCC release not being yet supported by NVCC. This is quite easy to address, but not many people seem to know it. At the moment of writing, CUDA 12.4 has GCC 13.x support, while [ ]
Due to some failure, the old server went offline and needed to be recovered. Easy fix, but required console access for repairing. Unfortunately, the NOT awesome support of the housing provider locked me out of the management console for 4 days straight before they fixed some issues and granted me access again. According to them, [ ]
With the latest bunch of updates to the Nvidia and Multimedia repositories, I ve added the ability to switch to the two implementations of the kernel modules currently available in the Nvidia driver for Linux. Since almost a year, the Nvidia driver ships with two different implementations of the kernel modules, one proprietary and one open [ ]