this post was submitted on 14 Nov 2024
25 points (93.1% liked)

Linux Gaming

15300 readers
13 users here now

Discussions and news about gaming on the GNU/Linux family of operating systems (including the Steam Deck). Potentially a $HOME away from home for disgruntled /r/linux_gaming denizens of the redditarian demesne.

This page can be subscribed to via RSS.

Original /r/linux_gaming pengwing by uoou.

Resources

WWW:

Discord:

IRC:

Matrix:

Telegram:

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

This is a big release, adding several new major features:

  • Nvidia support! LACT now works with Nvidia GPUs for all of the core functionality (monitoring, clocks configuration, power limits and fan control). It uses the NVML library, so unlike the Nvidia control panel it doesn't rely on X11 extensions and works under Wayland.
  • Multiple profiles for configuration. Currently it is not possible to switch them automatically, but they are configurable through the UI or the unix socket.
  • Clocks configuration now works on AMD IGPUs (at least RDNA2). Previously it was not parsed properly due to lack of VRAM settings.
  • Zero RPM mode settings on RDNA3. Currently this needs a linux-next to be used, and the functionality is expected to land in kernel 6.13. But this resolves a long-standing issue with RDNA3 that made the fan always disabled below a certain temperature, even if using a custom curve.

There are many other improvements as well, such as better looking and more efficient plots rendering in the historical charts window (thanks to @In-line ) and a Fedora COPR repository providing LACT packages (currently in testing).

Nvidia showcase:

image image

Full list of changes:

🚀 Features

  • Add support for multiple settings profiles (#327)
  • Show dialog when attempting to reconnect to daemon
  • Include device info and stats responses in debug snapshot
  • Improve plot rendering, use supersampling and do it in a background thread
  • [breaking] Add initial Nvidia support (#388)
  • Implement clocks control on Nvidia (#398)
  • Add special case for invalid throttle mask
  • Add snapshot command to CLI
  • Add RDNA3 zero RPM setting (#393)

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Getting pci info in snapshot
  • Retry reading p-states if the value is nonsensical
  • Increase retry intervals when evaluating GPUs at start
  • Make throttling flags ellipsized to avoid massively oversized window (#402)
  • Deduplicate throttle status bits
  • Update amdgpu-sysfs with iGPU fixes, add steam deck quirk (#407)
  • Fedora spec non-default builds (#410)

🚜 Refactor

  • Make info page a relm component (#404)
  • Drop redundant ClockSettings structure in the ui

📚 Documentation

  • Update issue template to mention common RDNA3 problems
  • Fix issue template yaml
  • Move description to label in issue template

⚙️ Miscellaneous Tasks

  • Bump version
  • Update docs, enforce minimum rust version
  • Set codegen-units=1 to decrease binary size in release (#390)
  • Include service log in debug snapshot
  • Drop old bench feature
  • Bump dependencies
  • Bump version
  • Remove unused Cargo features (#405)

Developer

  • Automatically create release on tag push
  • Trigger workflow on tag push
  • Bump workflow rust version
  • Add debug builds to makefile
  • Skip building signed packages if signing secret is not found
  • Don't run rust checks on master pushes, only PRs

Packaging

  • Add libdrm to debian dependencies
  • Add fedora 41 package (#399)
  • Generate Spec Files for COPR on Release Publish (#406)
  • Drop invalid copr trigger check
top 3 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

This looks nice, especially cool that it supports multiple vendors.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Wow, congrats on the milestone!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago

This tool looked interesting to me until I noticed that its external dependency count is in the hundreds, each of which increases exposure to vulnerabilities and supply chain attacks.

I hope that Rust will some day have a rich enough standard library that the "trust everything" software development model falls out of favour amongst the developers who use it.