SteamOS 1/8/2014 alchemist update

Fixed Steam controller firmware upgrade process



Updated AMD Catalyst driver to preview release 13.11 Beta 9.9



Fixed crashes on Intel graphics by merging Keith Packard's dri2-xlib branch



Fixed an fbcon kernel panic with Intel graphics



Fixed a problem where SteamOS session screenshots taken by the Valve bug reporter would be incorrect



Enabled full repaints in the GNOME compositor for reliable tear-free rendering



Removed startup and shutdown hooks from the pulseaudio package, fixing the transition to system-wide mode on upgrade



Updated firmware packages to match the Debian Jessie kernel



Updated Intel graphics stack to Mesa 10.0.1



Applied an Intel kernel fix to re-enable KMS support



Fixed a problem where Trine 2 could cause audio to stop working by restricting direct audio access to the sound server



Enabled audio from the desktop session; the default audio device is still hardcoded to discrete graphics HDMI audio for now



Enabled 3D passthrough in the VMWare driver



Fixed Steam controller firmware upgrade by adding USB auto-mounting



Added NTP time support



Added XDG directory helpers



Added text feedback when building kernel drivers during first boot

We have just updated the alchemist release with the alchemist_beta contents. All the changes which were only in alchemist_beta are now released to everyone. Existing SteamOS installs should update themselves automatically.Notably, Intel and AMD graphics are now supported. (Optimus solutions are still unsupported however)Refreshed installation images are also available.