Hi.
How is Bazzite doing with driver / Mesa updates? Namely, when can we expect support for the new Radeon cards?
I love Bazzite and would love to continue using it with my 9070 XT. 
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I’m also waiting on support for my 9070 XT!
I believe we’re waiting on two things to update on the Bazzite side - Mesa 25, and the February release of linux-firmware.git
I believe Mesa 25.0.1 is considered a Stable release (rather than 25.0 being a Development release), so hopefully it’s just a matter of time. The linux-firmware shipped by Bazzite is a couple of versions old (December 2024).
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Hey,
This Phoronix article should shed a light about AMD Radeon RX 9070 + RX 9070 XT Linux Performance
I installed Powercolor 9070 XT Hellhound. But after that I cant start games in Heroic or in Steam. I guess (hope) it is older driver problem since I tried it in Garuda, Opensuse Tumbleweed, CachyOS and Nobara also. The games in steam wouldnt start and in Heroic I got on error message saying that “.exe encountered a serious problem and needs to close…”. Otherwise the 9070 works fine in Linux . Nobara was the only one that had Mesa 25.0. the rest 24.x.x.
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Same here. So far, Nobara seems to be the only OS that has Mesa 25 and support for the 9070 XT.
I don’t mind Nobara at all, but Bazzite seems a tad more user-friendly to me, with a lot more options included (Wine, Discover, etc.) so I’d like to stay if possible. I hope we get an update soon.
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Thanks AusWolf for confirming this, I thought I was alone
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I’ve not had a chance to rebase and test properly yet, but Mesa 25 is in the Testing branch now.
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So you have to rebase to testing?
For now, yes.
Things are definitely better with Mesa 25. Gaming Mode starts up properly and I’m getting broadly the performance I’d expect from a 9070XT.
I’ve had a few crashes, but these are still fairly immature drivers, so kind of to be expected I think.
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Linux-firmware 20250311 got an official release yesterday, hoping that will work its way into Bazzite/Fedora soonish. (hopefully before Fedora42)
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Great news!
Any info on when Mesa 25 will make it into the stable channel by any chance?
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-7f56eb37a0
Seems to be on its way to stable fedora repos just now
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Just got the update to Mesa 25. Almost everything seems to be fine.
Portal with RTX doesn’t seem to work properly. Other than that, I’m happy.
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Bazzite already contains the GPU firmware for 9070. It was added on top when Mesa 25 made it to stable. The addition will be dropped when linux-firmware updates.