A few weeks ago, a bunch of display driver and compositor developers met once again for the third iteration of the Display Next Hackfest. The tradition was started by Red Hat, followed by Igalia (thanks Melissa), and now AMD (thanks Harry). We met in the AMD offices in Markham, Ontario, Canada; and online, to discuss issues, present things we worked on, figure out future steps on a bunch of topics related to displays, GPUs, and compositors.| swick's blog
One of the things I’m working on at Red Hat is HDR support. HDR is inherently linked to luminance (brightness, but ignoring human perception) which makes it an important parameter for us that we would like to be in control of. One reason is rather stupid. Most external HDR displays refuse to let the user control the luminance in their on-screen-display (OSD) if the display is in HDR mode. Why? Good question. Read my previous blog post.| swick's blog
The latest alpha of the upcoming Blender 5.0 release comes with High Dynamic Range (HDR) support for Linux on Wayland which will, if everything works out, make it into the final Blender 5.0 release on October 1, 2025. The post on the developer forum comes with instructions on how to enable the experimental support and how to test it. If you are using Fedora Workstation 42, which ships GNOME version 48, everything is already included to run Blender with HDR. All that is required is an HDR comp...| swick's blog
If you are looking for LUTs, you’re in luck. There is a website for sharing your FreshLUTs. Even though they are fresh, they are probably not as exciting as one might think.| Obsolete Thor