Re: Monitors
On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 09:47:06AM +0200, Patrick Dupre wrote: Hello, I plan to install a KVM for 2 monitors. One machine has a VGA/DVI on the motherboard, and the other one has 2 DP. Both monitors are VGA/DVI/DP I have to replace the VGA out by a DP. What would be the best option: 1) Add a DP video card on the PCIExpress bus (and use the DVI of the motherboard) 2) Add a dual port DP/DP (or DP/DVI) video card on the PCIExpress (using none port of the motherboard) 3) Add a USB-C port on the PCIExpress and a USB-C -> DP converter (and use the DVI of the motherboard) 4) Add a dual USB-C (on the PCIExpress) and 1 USB-C -> DVI and 1 USB-C -> DP converter. The KVM2 could be DP/DP or DP/DVI. Might one of the several DVI to DP cables that Amazon sells work for you? https://www.amazon.com/dvi-dp/s?k=dvi+to+dp -- Jon H. LaBadie jo...@jgcomp.com ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
Re: 4k video playback on some videos makes entire system sluggish
HI, > Finally got a chance to reboot, and it definitely made a difference with > playing 4k videos. > > However, playing two 4k videos at the same time makes both of them slow. > Actually, playing any two videos together makes the whole system jerky. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
Re: battery life
On Mon, 2023-10-09 at 11:06 -0400, Matt Morgan wrote: > I really appreciate this. But when I run Powertop, almost everything > is marked as good. The few that were marked bad all had to do with > power to USB devices upon suspend, which sounds like it wouldn't be > relevant while the computer is running. In any case, I changed > everything I could, and still the battery runs down at about > 1%/minute, i.e. it lasts about 100 minutes. In any case, I learned > something from your replies, so even though it hasn't helped with the > computer, I'm glad I asked! With a lot of devices battery life is extended by the OS switching off things, or putting them into low power: Monitoring the WiFi signal use, and reducing transmission power if it's not needed to blast out at full power. Putting the sound system into standby if it's not doing anything. Throttling the CPU back when idle. Reducing the screen brightness when idle, or all the time. Putting drives into low power mode, etc. This all has consequences. It's judgement of how low it can turn the WiFi down may be wrong. You may miss the first second of everything going through the sound system (I have this, and it means system beeps and alerts aren't heard, and sound editing is messed up). Drives that keep going to sleep and waking up again every few seconds don't save power, and wear the drives out prematurely. Et cetera... Individually, these things don't use a great deal of power, so things like powertop mayn't paint the full picture. But collectively, and continually, it adds up. One of things that pained me when I got into Linux about 20 years ago was CUPS continually polling and logging something every few seconds. Certain services may do that, and some of them probably aren't needed on a laptop, particularly if you're not networking between things on a LAN. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.99.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Sep 13 14:19:20 UTC 2023 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
Re: 4k video playback on some videos makes entire system sluggish
Hi, On Fri, Oct 6, 2023 at 6:35 AM Roger Heflin wrote: > On Thu, Oct 5, 2023 at 9:01 PM Alex wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > >> You might try uninstalling mesa-va-drivers and replacing with this: > >> mesa-va-drivers-freeworld > >> > >> one of my 2 machines was ok and a 2nd one looked closer to what yours > >> looked like. > >> > >> And replacing with freeworld it now looks much better and has a lot > >> more accelerators. > > > > > > I've done that, and now it definitely appears to have more support, but > alas, it made no difference. > > > > $ vainfo The.Equalizer.mkv > > Trying display: wayland > > Trying display: x11 > > libva info: VA-API version 1.18.0 > > libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/radeonsi_drv_video.so > > libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_18 > > libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0 > > vainfo: VA-API version: 1.18 (libva 2.18.2) > > vainfo: Driver version: Mesa Gallium driver 23.1.8 for AMD Radeon RX 570 > Series (polaris10, LLVM 16.0.6, DRM 3.54, 6.5.5-200.fc38.x86_64) > > vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints > > VAProfileMPEG2Simple: VAEntrypointVLD > > VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD > > VAProfileVC1Simple : VAEntrypointVLD > > VAProfileVC1Main: VAEntrypointVLD > > VAProfileVC1Advanced: VAEntrypointVLD > > VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD > > VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSlice > > VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD > > VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice > > VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD > > VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointEncSlice > > VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointVLD > > VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointEncSlice > > VAProfileHEVCMain10 : VAEntrypointVLD > > VAProfileJPEGBaseline : VAEntrypointVLD > > VAProfileNone : VAEntrypointVideoProc > > > > I also just tried to play two regular 1080p videos at the same time > using vlc, and it also showed the same problem where the system becomes > effectively unusable. > > > > Did you reboot after that?The driver is loaded by vainfo (and > bypasses X11), but I also believe the original driver is also loaded > by X11/Wayland and is still in memory when used via X11/Wayland. > > I also found that some video tools (default mplayer) do not use vaapi. > > And there are also ffmpeg versions in fedora/updates and a different > one with more free but not quite free 3rd-party licensed in rpmfusion > (ffmpeg-free vs ffmpeg) > Finally got a chance to reboot, and it definitely made a difference with playing 4k videos. However, playing two 4k videos at the same time makes both of them slow. This is on my i7-12700k with 64GB and the Radeon with 4GB: 07:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590] (rev ef) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: ASRock Incorporation Device 5026 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 194 Memory at 40 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=4G] Memory at 41 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=2M] I/O ports at 3000 [size=256] Memory at 8200 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K] Expansion ROM at 8204 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: Kernel driver in use: amdgpu Kernel modules: amdgpu I'm pretty sure I recall playing multiple 4k videos at the same time with fc37 before this problem started. Do you have any other ideas what could be causing this jerkiness? Thanks, Alex > > ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
Re: After F35->F38 install, video player, firefox not behaving well
On Sat, 7 Oct 2023, Michael Hennebry wrote: As noted in another thread, I recently installed F38, retaining my /home partition. Firefox is also unpleasantly interesting. Firefox was and is set to restore on startup. There were a lot of pages to restore. They all came up with a single blank tab. Do I need to start from scratch? After a dnf update, that tabs all came back. Do not know why. -- Michael henne...@mail.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "Occasionally irrational explanations are required" -- Luke Roman ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
Re: After F35->F38 install, video player, firefox not behaving well
On Sat, 7 Oct 2023, Joe Zeff wrote: On 10/07/2023 12:23 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: When I try to play a .avi file, Videos claims "Could not initialise OpenGL support". dnf was not a help. How do I get videos to work? Do you have rpmfusion installed? If not, you'll find instructions for installing/configuring both the free and non-free repos here: https://rpmfusion.org/Configuration I do now. Didn't help. Same error message. Still cannot find opengl. codec did not work either. -- Michael henne...@mail.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "Occasionally irrational explanations are required" -- Luke Roman ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
Re: Restarting pipewire
On Mon, 2023-10-09 at 06:38 -0700, stan via users wrote: > systemctl --user restart pipewire pipewire-pulse wireplumber Thanks. Didn't find wireplumber, but it worked without it. poc ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
Re: battery life
On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 5:23 PM old sixpack13 wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 10:56:42AM -0400, Matt Morgan wrote: > > > > IIRC powertop shows the current status of things. > > - start powertop as root > - use the TAB key/shift+TAB key to move to tab "Tunables" and/or "Wakeup" > - use the cursor and enter key to switch the settings > > [trimmed a bit] I really appreciate this. But when I run Powertop, almost everything is marked as good. The few that were marked bad all had to do with power to USB devices upon suspend, which sounds like it wouldn't be relevant while the computer is running. In any case, I changed everything I could, and still the battery runs down at about 1%/minute, i.e. it lasts about 100 minutes. In any case, I learned something from your replies, so even though it hasn't helped with the computer, I'm glad I asked! So I think this is something else. I'll contact HP and see if they're willing to help. Best, Matt ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
Re: Restarting pipewire
On Mon, 09 Oct 2023 14:12:41 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Can pipewire be properly restarted (after an update) without logging > out and in again? I'm using Plasma, if it matters. I use this to restart the sound systems after they are updated. It seems to work. You have to run it as the user that has sound, usually the first user to log in, not root. systemctl --user restart pipewire pipewire-pulse wireplumber ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
Restarting pipewire
Can pipewire be properly restarted (after an update) without logging out and in again? I'm using Plasma, if it matters. poc ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
Re: Anyone know of any cards or accessories that allow a desktop to make calls on a cellular network?
On Sun, Oct 8, 2023 at 9:37 AM George N. White III wrote: > > When I retired and moved to a different town I had to get a new landline > number. It gets a constant stream of debt collector calls, so clearly the > previous person assigned the number was a deadbeat.. Nah, the previous person was not necessarily a deadbeat. That's just the nature of the scam. Everybody gets the calls. When I was tracking them in detail, they were dominated by car warranties and fake debts. With the occasional Microsoft virus call. We usually get 6 to 9 of them a day. In fact, I wrote a program to monitor the modem with CallerId, and automatically file UCC, FCC and FTC complaints in response to an unsolicited call. It is like Nomorobo on steroids. > Some financial organizations > insist that you use a landline with an address they can verify. My mail goes > to a > PO Box -- possibly they are more careful when you don't have a street address > for mail. I used to use PO Boxes, but I found something better - General Delivery. I started using General Delivery when I realized that communicating with me was a privilege, not a right. Nothing requires us to share accurate information with others, accept their junk mailings, accept their junk phone calls, or accept their junk email. General Delivery sends mail to the Post Office. If you don't claim the mail within 30 days, it gets sent back. If you do claim the mail, then you need picture identification. It's a very strong form of authentication for mail, and avoids people intercepting your mail. If you start using General Delivery, then consider using a Post Office in the next city over so folks don't even get an accurate ZIP code for you. Jeff ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
Fedora 39 Virtualization Test Day 2023-10-09
Hey All, We are going to test all forms of virtualization possible in Fedora. The test day [0] will focus on testing Fedora or your favourite distro inside a bare-metal implementation of Fedora running Boxes, KVM, VirtualBox, and whatever you have. The general features of installing the OS and working with it are outlined in the test cases which you will find on the results page [1]. [0] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2023-10-09_Virtualization [1] https://testdays.fedoraproject.org/events/171 -- //sumantro Fedora QE TRIED AND PERSONALLY TESTED, ERGO TRUSTED ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
