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Ubuntu now has a community-built PPA for stable versions of Mesa
8 December 2016 at 8:47 pm UTC

Quoting: paasistiIt seems I got burned (Cinnamon complains that it's running without video hardware acceleration with this ppa) so I tried this. After the first phase it lists out as WILL BE REMOVED nearly every component there is and prompts for "Yes, I know what I'm doing". I did this once, and it wrecked my system. If I type anything else, it takes me to another list with still plenty of stuff being removed (including libs from vlc, skype, steam..). What should I do here? I don't want to reinstall my system like I had to do last time..

Strange, I didn't remember ppa-purge do this with me. What distro are you using and what PPA are you trying to remove?

Ubuntu now has a community-built PPA for stable versions of Mesa
8 December 2016 at 2:33 pm UTC Likes: 4

For the people who are new to this PPA thing, in the case something go wrong, to switch between PPAs or if you just want to go back to the stock packages, you can uninstall a PPA installing the package "ppa-purge":

sudo apt install ppa-purge

Then, you can uninstall a PPA with:

sudo ppa-purge nameofppa

Saints Row IV gets Steam Workshop support for Windows, they are hoping to update the Linux version too
23 November 2016 at 10:35 am UTC

I was about to buy the game since it is on sale, but a LOT of people are having trouble with saves. I once lost 45 hours in Batman AC because of a such bug, so I'm not touching this until the fix this problem.

A quick video on SC Controller's new gestures feature, the standalone UI and driver for the Steam Controller
18 November 2016 at 1:32 pm UTC

It show this:

Quoteclesio@HAL9000:~$ sc-controller
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/sc-controller", line 26, in <module>
from scc.gui.app import App
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scc/gui/app.py", line 11, in <module>
from scc.gui.controller_widget import TRIGGERS, PADS, STICKS, GYROS, BUTTONS
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scc/gui/controller_widget.py", line 14, in <module>
from scc.constants import SCButtons, STICK, GYRO, LEFT, RIGHT
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scc/constants.py", line 26, in <module>
from scc.uinput import Axes, Keys
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scc/uinput.py", line 55, in <module>
Keys.KEY_ESC: 0x70029,
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scc/lib/enum.py", line 422, in __getattr__
raise AttributeError(name)
AttributeError: KEY_ESC

A quick video on SC Controller's new gestures feature, the standalone UI and driver for the Steam Controller
18 November 2016 at 12:25 pm UTC

It is broken for me. Installed it from their repo and nothing. Complains about errors in some files. Tried download the source and run it as told by their page, same thing. Dependencies are installed, obviously.

Just a heads up 'Firewatch' is currently rather broken on Linux
17 November 2016 at 7:15 pm UTC

I cannot even pass the start screen, the game freezes. Using the radeonsi driver in a RX 470.

Silence from Daedalic Entertainment is an absolutely beautiful story-rich adventure game, my thoughts on it
15 November 2016 at 1:54 pm UTC

Witch engine are they using? Looks like it lacks advanced lighting effects.

The latest Steam Client Beta should fix downloads and updates on Linux
4 November 2016 at 11:01 am UTC

For some time now I'm having a problem with Big Picture overlay when playing a game. After pressing the Steam button on a Steam Controller, the overlay only covers 2/3 of the screen. Anybody having the same issue? I'm using the radeonsi driver.

Marek has sent in another Mesa commit to help improve OpenGL performance, using threading
30 October 2016 at 11:08 pm UTC

Quoting: tuxintuxedoUbuntu LTS versions offer kernel and Mesa updates a few months after a new distribution. For 16.04 this means kernel 4.8 and Mesa 12 early next year. You can also use ppa-s, like oibaf's one, which have more bleeding edge Mesa versions.

It is about 4 months after a new release. So Ubuntu 16.04 will get 16.10 graphics stack in February.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack

Quoting: veccherjust a noob question: how to update mesa drivers? i need to recompile kernel or something like this or it's kinda automatic in updates like the ones from ubuntu update center.

If you want bleeding edge stuff, install Padoka's PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~paulo-miguel-dias/+archive/ubuntu/mesa

He updates once or twice a week, and you get all the packages needed. Oibaf updates daily (I find annoying) and he didn't updates Ubuntu LLVM stuff, witch is important, performance wise, to AMD cards.

If a update screw up things, you can roll back using "sudo ppa-purge ppa:paulo-miguel-dias/mesa"