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Decades-old AMD Radeon graphics cards receive Linux fix for video playback glitches
An upcoming Linux release includes a fix for a long-standing hardware video decoding issue affecting ancient AMD Radeon graphics cards.
A newly accepted kernel patch slated for the upcoming Linux 7.5 release resolves a video decoding bug on the R600 architecture. The fix targets the Unified Video Decoder engine across silicon families making up the Radeon HD 2000 and HD 3000 series. Users running these legacy cards previously experienced visual corruption during hardware-accelerated video playback when the GPU handled active 3D or desktop drawing workloads simultaneously. The underlying cause was a memory placement issue where the driver failed to consistently keep input buffers pinned inside dedicated VRAM.
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