Re: [Trisquel-users] Nouveau graphics performance & free as in freedom.
I do hope so. It's a real shame i3/i5/i7s I feel are a no go as the Intel HD on my i7 worked perfectly and had some really good performance. The other thing I forgot to mention in my first post, is are there any additional freedom issues with using newer cards (except for the newest which I here there are issues with)?. My i7 has a GTX 580, which while I doubt would work well with a Core 2 Duo system and old DDR2 ram, seems to only require external proprietary firmware for video decoding like the 8400GS, and nothing more.
[Trisquel-users] Nouveau graphics performance & free as in freedom.
I'm trying to use an older desktop system I have with a Intel Core 2 Duo CPU & Nvidia GT 8400GS to escape Intel's management engine - I hope. I'm yet to confirm this cpu model doesn't have it, but still better than my previous, an i7. I'm trying to play some old ioquake3 derived games (the most awesome of which is https://www.unvanquished.net/) but I'm getting really terrible framerates. Searching around I found this post from 2012 which has similarly bad results for the 8400: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nouveau_christmas_2012&num=1 . So I'm wondering if this is all I can expect? I'd like to get a solid 60FPS on some of these games. The 8400 is the only GPU available on the ThinkPenguin website and they recommend games like Doom 3 which I don't think would run for crap for me. The only difference is my 8400 only has 512MB VRAM while the model offered on ThinkPenguin has 1GB. That might make a big difference, I don't know. Maybe I have not got nouveau set up correctly? But I thought it should just work on kernel ~3.13 which I think Trisquel 7.0 uses by default? The other thing is, according to this page https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix/ , the 8400 still requires externally loaded firmware for hardware decoding, isn't this usually a problem for FSF "endorsement"?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Let's make our forums safer
Isn't this a case of software as a service? I think you can get free browser plugins that do all the things that proxy does, and they are under your control rather than on some server. Some examples being HTTPS everywhere and noscript. Any others?
Re: [Trisquel-users] does it make the raspberry pi 3 a free software computer?
Thank you for posting this! I remember a while ago seeing something about broadcom releasing the source for a videocore chipset similar to that used in the Pi. The suggestion from the Pi devs being that it might be possible to get the Pi booting with only free software. Nice to see some progress. I don't really understand all the technical details in the readme, but it seems to imply one binary blob is still needed involving UART?
Re: [Trisquel-users] Browser Tells DuckDuckGo I'm using Trisquel?
@SuperTramp83 I don't have that extension. I have also tried this on a fresh install before I add any extensions to either browser, and the result is the same. @onpon4 I wouldn't even mind having it sent if it helped get some funding for Trisquel, I just wish these browsers told you & it was opt-in. @root_vegetable & CalmStorm I can't say I understand the appeal of searx over DDG. I appreciate and like that the software itself is free, but it's still being run on someone else's machines which I have no control over just like DDG. So long as I'm not looking into hosting a search engine myself, DDG offers me the same freedom. Some might put a higher priority on supporting services that run free software, which is respectable. I shall try and raise it with the developers (Abrowser is from Trisquel team ain't it?) soon.
[Trisquel-users] Browser Tells DuckDuckGo I'm using Trisquel?
When I search using the default DuckDuckGo search in both Abrowser & GNU IceCat, an HTML GET query is sent. This is what is added to the URL: "&t=trisquel". Has anyone else noticed this? I know many search engines do things like this to gather statistics on OS usage, but I didn't think DuckDuckGo would. And why on earth do these two privacy oriented browsers provide this? You can manually add the HTML DDG search engine and use that to avoid this being sent.
[Trisquel-users] 2 Issues after updating to linux-generic-lts-wily
Installing Trisquel 7.0 on my desktop, I was receiving regular freezes of the x display with the error "nouveau failed to idle channel". An issue I've had before with this graphics card on other distros. After updating my kernel with the package linux-generic-lts-utopic, and the problem still being present, I tried wily. It seems this fixed things, I've been using it for some time now with no freezes. However it has created two other even more annoying issues that don't occur when I boot with the older kernels from grub: I can't use my normal wireless USB keyboard on the boot screen where I enter my passphrase, another wireless USB keyboard works (it's a mini, so not good for normal use). All I can find, for the same issue on Ubuntu, is installing the initramfs-tools package. However doing this on Trisquel did not work. Network connectivity just stops working after a few minutes. I've still got an assigned IP using ifconfig, but I cannot access anything on my own network or the internet. It's not a DHCP issue as I've tried things on my local network which I usually access with an IP. Thanks for any help!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Proprietary BIOS backd00rs
Reminds me that many not so old encryption schemes, like WEP or old Cisco IOS password method, could be broken easily by reverse engineering the hash or encrypted password. Although these BIOS methods seem to be on purpose so the manufacturer can help law enforcement or customers who've lost their password? I wonder if UEFI has introduced any strict standard for passwords? I wouldn't trust it anyway. Best to encrypt your drives and use an external drive to boot from if you need it.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Forum synchronisation with mailing list *still* not working
I can see my mailing list posts in forum (takes several minutes), but not forum posts via email.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Forum synchronisation with mailing list *still* not working
I've only just signed up recently, and I only get a small number of posts in email. I assume(d) I wasn't get any of posts made through forum.
Re: [Trisquel-users] HID device not working in Trisquel
The freezing came back. Turning off graphics acceleration in the BIOS (which essentially means disabling the discrete NVidia graphics card I think) fixed the issue.
Re: [Trisquel-users] HID device not working in Trisquel
I "downgraded" using the command: sudo apt-get install --install-recommends linux-generic xserver-xorg \ libgl1-mesa-glx libegl1-mesa-drivers All the issues seem to be gone, and my mouse still works. Very strange, hopefully it holds up. I suppose the xserver & gl driver packages were not even necessary, as I wouldn't think they have anything to do with HID support?
Re: [Trisquel-users] HID device not working in Trisquel
I should warn that using the first command from https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/update-linux-libre-kernel has screwed a few things up for me such as graphics for a 3D game (Unvanquished), uninstalled some programs (eg Wine) & Trisquel now hangs/freezes on poweroff. The last issue also occurred for Debian Jessie, both times I've had it on this laptop. I'll create a new thread if I can't figure these things out myself.
Re: [Trisquel-users] HID device not working in Trisquel
Thanks for the link! Upgrading the stack/kernel to 3.16 in the first half of that page, and then rebooting made the mouse work. It also added a GUI to enter my crypt passphrase on boot, which is nice.
[Trisquel-users] HID device not working in Trisquel
This is my first time using a mailing list, so please let me know if I'm doing anything wrong. I've got an 'Aimon XB Elite' which while primarily for xbox 360, functions as a HID mouse & keyboard. It doesn't work on Trisquel (doesn't even get to stage of showing in lsusb), here is the dmesg output: [ 3776.652445] usb 3-10: new full-speed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd [ 3781.667520] usb 3-10: device descriptor read/8, error -110 [ 3781.780167] usb 3-10: device descriptor read/8, error -71 [ 3782.033850] usb 3-10: new full-speed USB device number 10 using xhci_hcd [ 3782.034053] usb 3-10: Device not responding to set address. [ 3782.235166] usb 3-10: Device not responding to set address. [ 3782.436113] usb 3-10: device not accepting address 10, error -71 [ 3782.589235] usb 3-10: new full-speed USB device number 11 using xhci_hcd [ 3782.589435] usb 3-10: Device not responding to set address. [ 3782.790614] usb 3-10: Device not responding to set address. [ 3782.991556] usb 3-10: device not accepting address 11, error -71 [ 3783.144683] usb 3-10: new full-speed USB device number 12 using xhci_hcd [ 3783.144897] usb 3-10: Device not responding to set address. [ 3783.346072] usb 3-10: Device not responding to set address. [ 3783.547010] usb 3-10: device not accepting address 12, error -71 [ 3783.547113] hub 3-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 10 However it works perfectly fine on Ubuntu and librepup (which uses the linux libre kernel, correct?). So my issue seems specific to Trisquel 7.0. Here is the successful dmesg output from librepup-6.0.2.2: usb 3-10: USB disconnect, device number 5 usb 3-10: new full-speed USB device number 6 using xhci_hcd usb 3-10: ep 0x81 - rounding interval to 64 microframes, ep desc says 80 microframes input: HID 0866:0001 as /devices/pci:00/:00:14.0/usb3/3-10/3-10:1.0/0003:0866:0001.0006/input/input16 hid-generic 0003:0866:0001.0006: input,hidraw3: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [HID 0866:0001] on usb-:00:14.0-10/input0 input: HID 0866:0001 as /devices/pci:00/:00:14.0/usb3/3-10/3-10:1.1/0003:0866:0001.0007/input/input17 hid-generic 0003:0866:0001.0007: input,hiddev0,hidraw4: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [HID 0866:0001] on usb-:00:14.0-10/input1 Any ideas? If I ever get it functioning, I'd like to have a go at creating a free driver for it -- it's proprietary driver on Windows allows you to change what keys are sent from the HID keyboard interface for the various custom buttons, among other things.
