Re: amdgpu firmware failure (was: kernel module won't load)

2022-10-26 Thread Felix Miata
stan via users composed on 2022-10-26 20:07 (UTC-0700): > On Wed, 26 Oct 2022 14:06:04 -0400 Felix Miata wrote: >> # diff -u kcfg51819.txt kcfg51917.txt >> --- kcfg51819.txt 2022-10-26 13:45:37.0 -0400 >> +++ kcfg51917.txt 2022-10-26 13:45:58.0 -0400 >> @@ -3,6 +3,7

Re: amdgpu kernel module won't load

2022-10-26 Thread stan via users
On Wed, 26 Oct 2022 14:06:04 -0400 Felix Miata wrote: > Sea Islands is GCN2 initially released 201309: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Core_Next#second Don't have it, but I had no idea I was so out of date. That is almost ten years ago. My card does everything I need, so I suppose I

Re: Firefox and WebAuthn?

2022-10-26 Thread Todd Zullinger
Chris Adams wrote: > I can use my Android phone with Google Chrome (connected with Bluetooth) > as a WebAuthn security device. When I try to register a WebAuthn device > with Firefox, I get a pop-up that says: > > wants to register an account with one of your security keys. >You can

Re: i915 Unstable

2022-10-26 Thread Felix Miata
Ken Smith via users composed on 2022-10-26 13:05 (UTC+0100): > This machine has a KabbyLake processor (Intel Core i5-7200U 2.50GHz), 8G > memory, an Intel i915 (HD Graphics 620) GPU and SSD storage. I've read > on various forums that this combination of CPU/GPU can be problematic > and some

Re: i915 Unstable

2022-10-26 Thread Ken Smith via users
Roger Heflin wrote: On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 7:06 AM Ken Smith via users wrote: Hi everyone, I have a Dell Latitude 5480 laptop with a Fedora 36 install. It crashes regularly, uptime can sometimes be less that 5 mins but sometimes it lasts several hours. There is no trace at all in journalctl

Re: Bugs in wine. Any alternatives?

2022-10-26 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 10/25/22 17:57, Tom Horsley wrote: On Tue, 25 Oct 2022 17:37:46 -0700 ToddAndMargo via users wrote: In the case of Wine, I really do need to have it working. UNLESS I can find a subsitute. You have any suggestions? I've have never once gotten anything at all to work under wine. That's

Re: Mailing lists and Discourse

2022-10-26 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 08:44:20PM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: I've been observing, from the sidelines, the devolution of mailing lists, Usenet, and IRC into web-based discussion forums of various flavors; getting the bar lowered to the level of Twooter, Spacebook, and TokTik, and more of the

Re: Mailing lists and Discourse

2022-10-26 Thread Bill C
Yes, I certainly see what you mean. It's a shame too. Usenet has been around for a very long time. I despise these Facebook type things. So much foolishness. On Wed, Oct 26, 2022, 1:46 PM Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 08:44:20PM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > > >I've

Re: amdgpu kernel module won't load

2022-10-26 Thread Felix Miata
stan via users composed on 2022-10-26 09:13 (UTC-0700): > On Wed, 26 Oct 2022 00:55:51 -0400 Felix Miata wrote: >> Using old kernel, all is good, while with newer kernels, nothing is >> possible except via remote login - no video, no keyboard. >> I reported similar trouble in Bugzilla month ago

Re: Mailing lists and Discourse

2022-10-26 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 08:44:20PM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: I've been observing, from the sidelines, the devolution of mailing lists, Usenet, and IRC into web-based discussion forums of various flavors; getting the bar lowered to the level of Twooter, Spacebook, and TokTik, and more of the

Re: i915 Unstable

2022-10-26 Thread Roger Heflin
Note, kdump will not work if the issue is a hardware reset. So if you do install kdump and test kdump and verify it works and then when it crashes you do not get a kdump then that points to a hardware issue. On one of my other systems, on reboot after a hw crash it detected that there were prior

Re: i915 Unstable

2022-10-26 Thread Roger Heflin
On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 7:06 AM Ken Smith via users wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I have a Dell Latitude 5480 laptop with a Fedora 36 install. It crashes > regularly, uptime can sometimes be less that 5 mins but sometimes it > lasts several hours. There is no trace at all in journalctl of its >

Firefox and WebAuthn?

2022-10-26 Thread Chris Adams
I can use my Android phone with Google Chrome (connected with Bluetooth) as a WebAuthn security device. When I try to register a WebAuthn device with Firefox, I get a pop-up that says: wants to register an account with one of your security keys. You can connect and authorized one now, or

Re: no sound

2022-10-26 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/26/2022 10:52 AM, Tim via users wrote: [tim@fluffy ~]$ aplay dmesg.text Playing raw data 'dmesg.text' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono It sounded like my old 33k modem trying to connect up. ;-) I'm going to keep that file around, now, if I ever want to prank someone. Note that you

Re: no sound

2022-10-26 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> On the chance that you don't have mp3 support, try an ogg or wav >> file.  stan: > It has to be one of the following formats, from  man aplay. > >  -t, --file-type TYPE >   File type (voc, wav, raw or au).  If this parameter is >  omitted the WAVE format is used. > > These

Re: i915 Unstable

2022-10-26 Thread Jamie Fargen
On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 9:06 AM Ken Smith via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have a Dell Latitude 5480 laptop with a Fedora 36 install. It crashes > regularly, uptime can sometimes be less that 5 mins but sometimes it > lasts several hours. There is no trace at

Re: i915 Unstable

2022-10-26 Thread stan via users
On Wed, 26 Oct 2022 13:05:53 +0100 Ken Smith via users wrote: [removed extensive problem description] > Is this hardware faulty, despite Win10 being stable? Does the Linux > install stress the hardware in a way Win10 doesent.  Should I hold on > for a later kernel release with a fix. > > Is

Re: amdgpu kernel module won't load

2022-10-26 Thread stan via users
On Wed, 26 Oct 2022 00:55:51 -0400 Felix Miata wrote: [remove problem exploration] > Using old kernel, all is good, while with newer kernels, nothing is > possible except via remote login - no video, no keyboard. > > I reported similar trouble in Bugzilla month ago with much older > Radeon:

Re: no sound

2022-10-26 Thread stan via users
On Wed, 26 Oct 2022 13:07:27 +1030 Tim via users wrote: > On Tue, 2022-10-25 at 21:18 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > From what I've read, aplay fred.mp3 should work. > > I get noise. > > On the chance that you don't have mp3 support, try an ogg or wav file. > It has to be one of the

Re: no sound

2022-10-26 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 25 Oct 2022 20:36:13 -0600 Joe Zeff wrote: > I'm not saying that you > should look at the hardware first, but don't ignore the possibility. The algorithm I always try to employ (though I often forget :-) is "check the dumb stuff first". Don't go downloading the source to try to find the

i915 Unstable

2022-10-26 Thread Ken Smith via users
Hi everyone, I have a Dell Latitude 5480 laptop with a Fedora 36 install. It crashes regularly, uptime can sometimes be less that 5 mins but sometimes it lasts several hours. There is no trace at all in journalctl of its demise. It behaves like a machine with a memory issue. I've moved the

Re: no sound

2022-10-26 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2022-10-25 at 20:36 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote: > Now, hardware is so reliable that most people never consider that > it's at fault and keep trying to find a software solution that can't > exist.  I'm not saying that you should look at the hardware first, > but don't ignore the possibility.