Re: OT: UEFI settings for DDR5 RAM

2024-08-23 Thread Neal Becker
On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 6:14 AM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2024-08-20 at 15:36 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > > On Mon, 2024-08-19 at 22:02 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > The overclocking options start at 5400, so I don't think that's it. > > > The > > > DRAM spec is 5200 and I

Re: Signal-Desktop & nodejs-electron GPG key problem

2024-08-08 Thread Neal Becker
On Wed, Aug 7, 2024 at 7:08 PM Max Pyziur wrote: > On Wed, 7 Aug 2024, Todd Zullinger wrote: > > > I wrote: > >> Max Pyziur wrote: > >>> > >>> Greetings, > >>> > >>> GPG Keys are configured as: > https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:/im:/signal/Fedora_40/repodata/repomd.xml.key > >

Re: google-chrome stopped working for me, just showing '+' cursor and will not allow me to click.

2024-08-02 Thread Neal Becker
On Thu, Aug 1, 2024 at 12:48 PM Jonathan Billings wrote: > > On Jul 30, 2024, at 15:32, Neal Becker wrote: > > But I don't think it worked, because I don't see these options in ps. > Also the original said: > > Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable --incognito

Re: google-chrome stopped working for me, just showing '+' cursor and will not allow me to click.

2024-07-30 Thread Neal Becker
On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 4:28 PM Will McDonald wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jul 2024 at 20:32, Neal Becker wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 10:44 AM Will McDonald >> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 30 Jul 2024 at 15:38, Will McDonald wrote: >>> >>>> The de

Re: google-chrome stopped working for me, just showing '+' cursor and will not allow me to click.

2024-07-30 Thread Neal Becker
On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 10:44 AM Will McDonald wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jul 2024 at 15:38, Will McDonald wrote: > >> The default behaviour for the desktop application invocation will be >> in /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop in the Exec definition if >> you don't mind hacking packaged fi

Re: trouble with kernel 6.9.9 + chrome

2024-07-22 Thread Neal Becker
On Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 9:45 AM Richard Shaw wrote: > On Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 6:34 AM Neal Becker wrote: > >> After installing this morning's large set of updates I rebooted into >> 6.9.9. Now chrome doesn't work, every process is crashing. After >> reboot

trouble with kernel 6.9.9 + chrome

2024-07-22 Thread Neal Becker
After installing this morning's large set of updates I rebooted into 6.9.9. Now chrome doesn't work, every process is crashing. After rebooting, restarting chrome the problem persists. Finally I rebooted into 6.9.8 and chrome is fine. -- ___ users mai

Re: Discover not showing updates recently?

2024-07-16 Thread Neal Becker
On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 8:39 PM Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Jul 15, 2024, at 07:35, Neal Becker wrote: > > > >  > > I've noticed that recently I'm not seeing Discover notifying me of > available updates. Is there some setting for this? > > > Does

Discover not showing updates recently?

2024-07-15 Thread Neal Becker
I've noticed that recently I'm not seeing Discover notifying me of available updates. Is there some setting for this? Thanks, Neal -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraprojec

Re: Using Signal-Desktop w Fedora 40

2024-06-27 Thread Neal Becker
On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 9:12 AM Ranjan Maitra via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > Neal, > > I am aware of the flatpak option, though I have used this alternative repo > for the past four years when I started using Signal, and found it to work > well. What is the benefit of using fl

Re: Using Signal-Desktop w Fedora 40

2024-06-26 Thread Neal Becker
signal is supported on Fedora with a flatpak, which I use. On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 7:27 PM Ranjan Maitra via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > Max, > > Yes indeed, try the following: > > sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo > https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:/im:/sig

My nvidia F40 update journey

2024-05-02 Thread Neal Becker
Not as bad perhaps as some of your experiences, because I'm using nvidia GPU for M/L on a remote server and not for desktop display. After update the nvidia driver is not loaded. Tried rebooting a couple of times since sometimes akmod seems to need this. Manually loading the driver modprobe nvid

pulseaudio misbehaviour on remote

2024-04-21 Thread Neal Becker
I'm running a connection to a remote server via x2go. The remote desktop is xfce. When I leave this unattended for some time, I come back to find that pulseaudio is sucking 64GB of VM. Needless to say, I don't really need PA running on it, but I haven't seen how to disable it. Also this seems li

If X11 login goes, what happens with x2go?

2024-03-27 Thread Neal Becker
I totally depend on x2go for connection to my remote server. With f40, what happens? Is login to X11 desktop supported? I assume this is required for x2go to work. -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email

Re: Failed to start jobs message from today's F39 update

2024-03-13 Thread Neal Becker
On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 2:50 PM Joe Zeff wrote: > On 03/12/2024 12:33 PM, Neal Becker wrote: > > Failed to start jobs: Failed to enqueue some jobs, see logs for details: > > Invalid argument > > > > Should I worry? I don't even know what armadillo is. > &g

Failed to start jobs message from today's F39 update

2024-03-12 Thread Neal Becker
Running today's dnf update: ... Running scriptlet: grub2-common-1:2.06-118.fc39.noarch 32/32 Running scriptlet: armadillo-12.8.0-1.fc39.x86_64 32/32 Failed to start jobs: Failed to enqueue some

Re: google-chrome-stable update fails today on gpg keys

2024-02-14 Thread Neal Becker
On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 9:17 AM Tom Horsley wrote: > On Wed, 14 Feb 2024 09:06:44 -0500 > Neal Becker wrote: > > > running /etc/cron.daily/google-chrome gives: > > I just ignore any gibberish it prints and do the update again, > always seems to work for me. > -- >

Re: google-chrome-stable update fails today on gpg keys

2024-02-14 Thread Neal Becker
On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 8:58 AM Tom Horsley wrote: > On Wed, 14 Feb 2024 07:46:15 -0500 > Neal Becker wrote: > > > The GPG keys listed for the "google-chrome" repository are already > > installed but they are not correct for this package. > > After getting t

google-chrome-stable update fails today on gpg keys

2024-02-14 Thread Neal Becker
Today's dnf update fails with: The GPG keys listed for the "google-chrome" repository are already installed but they are not correct for this package. Check that the correct key URLs are configured for this repository.. Failing package is: google-chrome-stable-121.0.6167.184-1.x86_64 GPG Keys are

Re: 6.6.x kernels do not boot successfully

2023-12-08 Thread Neal Becker
> > At the boot menu, edit the grub command line and remove the "rghb quiet" > from the end before booting. Then see where it gets stuck. > Just to note, you don't need to edit command line, just hit esc while booting will show messages. -- ___ users mai

Re: printer only prints in flip mode

2023-12-03 Thread Neal Becker
I have a similar-sounding brother laserprinter. I hate to say it, but I found the available open-source driver didn't produce correct output with mine, I had to use the proprietary driver from brother: hll2395dwpdrv-4.0.0-1.i386.rpm On Sun, Dec 3, 2023 at 4:03 PM Michael Hennebry < henne...@web.c

Re: Modern Dual-Boot Setup Prcoedure (Dell XPS)

2023-12-03 Thread Neal Becker
On Sun, Dec 3, 2023 at 7:00 AM George N. White III wrote: > On Sat, Dec 2, 2023 at 4:48 PM Tim Evans wrote: > >> Brand New Dell XPS 15 coming tomorrow, to replace my venerable Lenovo >> T530. (Looking forward to something a little lighter to lug around.) >> >> It's been 10 years since I set the

Re: Python code error in F39, but not in F38

2023-11-19 Thread Neal Becker
Start gdb python. Set a breakpoint in the shared module. continue. On Sun, Nov 19, 2023 at 1:02 PM Ranjan Maitra via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On Sun Nov19'23 05:35:19PM, Barry wrote: > > From: Barry > > Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2023 17:35:19 + > > To: Community support for

upgrade f38->f39 via discover?

2023-11-18 Thread Neal Becker
I've always upgraded manually using dnf system-upgrade. I have a laptop running F38 belonging to my wife. She got a notification, I presume from "discover", saying F39 upgrade is available. I've never tried an upgrade this way. Just wondering if anyone has tried this upgrade route and what was t

Re: emacs is hopeless

2023-11-13 Thread Neal Becker
On Sun, Nov 12, 2023 at 12:17 PM Tom Horsley wrote: > I reported strange things with emacs earlier, but I thought it might be > something wrong with my partially configured system. > > Nope, it is just plain busted. I've added this bug report: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22493

Re: Is AnyDesk any good?

2023-11-09 Thread Neal Becker
On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 3:22 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 11/9/23 03:31, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > On 11/8/23 22:55, Samuel Sieb wrote: > >> On 11/8/23 22:44, Peter Boy wrote: > I use the open-source rustdesk now. I even use my own server for > it, but at this point, that requires

Re: Printer drivers and raw queues are deprecated

2023-10-31 Thread Neal Becker
On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 2:53 PM Ian Pilcher wrote: > On 10/31/23 11:10, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > The theory is that you shouldn't have to do anything except configure > > the printer (in CUPS) to use DNSSD. That in turn depends on Avahi > > working correctly. Try 'sudo avahi-browse -a -t' t

Re: Printer drivers and raw queues are deprecated

2023-10-30 Thread Neal Becker
On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 1:47 PM Michael Hennebry < henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: > CUPS wrote: > > Note:Printer drivers and raw queues are deprecated and will stop working > in a > future version of CUPS. > > Then what? > It wrote that after I installed a Brother HL-L2360DW > using the pr

Re: Google Chrome Update Question

2023-10-11 Thread Neal Becker
On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 7:46 PM Tim Evans wrote: > On 10/10/23 18:38, Tim Evans wrote: > > Usually, dnf updates take care of updating Google Chrome. Lately, for > > the past week or so, however, there's a big pink button in Chrome's > > status bar labeled "Update," but dnf insists I have the lat

distrobox not working?

2023-09-22 Thread Neal Becker
Just trying out distrobox on F38. I have 2 issues. One is it won't run a container without root. The other is I don't think it's actually working at all. distrobox enter ubuntu-20 Container ubuntu-20 is not running. Starting container ubuntu-20 run this command to follow along: podman logs -

Re: How to clean up Python in Fedora 38

2023-09-06 Thread Neal Becker
On Tue, Sep 5, 2023 at 8:09 PM George N. White III wrote: > On Tue, Sep 5, 2023 at 5:55 AM Michael Hannon > wrote: > >> I think that the suggestions offered so far (environments, etc.) are all >> very good, but another approach is to use the Anaconda distribution of >> Python: >> >> https://www.

Re: GNU Emacs 29.1 in the repos?

2023-08-22 Thread Neal Becker
On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 7:35 PM Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Aug 21, 2023, at 11:44, Gábor Papp wrote: > > Good morning/afternoon/evening/night! > > I was just wondering when will Emacs 29.1 be available in the Fedora 38 > repos? > > > Looks like it has only been built for Fedora 39 at this poi

Re: window sharing broken with current F38+kde+wayland

2023-08-18 Thread Neal Becker
On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 11:13 AM Neal Becker wrote: > For online meetings I have always used share window (as opposed to sharing > a chrome tab or entire screen). Recently this has been broken. > > Using current F38+kde+wayland. > Tested on teams and on google meet (same interfac

window sharing broken with current F38+kde+wayland

2023-08-18 Thread Neal Becker
For online meetings I have always used share window (as opposed to sharing a chrome tab or entire screen). Recently this has been broken. Using current F38+kde+wayland. Tested on teams and on google meet (same interface, must be part of KDE I think). If I select a window to share the tab for that

Re: Screen casting - help wanted

2023-08-18 Thread Neal Becker
On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 3:56 AM Peter Boy wrote: > We have a new Quick Docs article about comparison of various screen > casting tools in Fedora: > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/screencast-apps-comparison/ > > Everybody who used such a tool more or less recently, please habe a

Re: shrinking Windows C: drive to make room for Linux

2023-08-04 Thread Neal Becker
On Thu, Aug 3, 2023 at 11:52 PM Tim via users wrote: > On Thu, 2023-08-03 at 18:32 -0400, Neal Becker wrote: > > I just went through this to install Fedora on my wife's laptop. I > > tried the windows shrink, but it would only free up 128MB of the 60GB > > that shou

Re: Help needed: disabling system wide the Caps lock key in GNOME/Xwayland

2023-08-04 Thread Neal Becker
On Fri, Aug 4, 2023 at 4:28 AM wwp wrote: > Hello Tom, > > > On Wed, 2 Aug 2023 09:35:29 -0400 Tom Horsley > wrote: > > > On Wed, 02 Aug 2023 13:11:07 +0930 > > Tim via users wrote: > > > > > Aren't there options for that in the keyboard preferences any more? Is > > > gnome tweaks still around,

Re: shrinking Windows C: drive to make room for Linux

2023-08-03 Thread Neal Becker
On Thu, Aug 3, 2023 at 10:26 AM Bill Cunningham wrote: > > On 8/3/2023 6:14 AM, George N. White III wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 3, 2023 at 12:37 AM Michael Hennebry < > henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: > >> None of the hits I got from search made explicit that one >> could shrink the C: partitio

Re: Help needed: disabling system wide the Caps lock key in GNOME/Xwayland

2023-08-02 Thread Neal Becker
#!/bin/sh setxkbmap -option caps:ctrl_modifier On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 4:16 PM Ron Flory via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On 8/2/2023 10:42 AM, Thomas wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I had that issue recently, the way I sorted it was with gsettings/dconf: > > > > gsettings set org.gno

Re: Since F38 Upgrade, Thunderbird Opens as Tiny, Postage Stamp

2023-07-30 Thread Neal Becker
On Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 9:56 AM Tim Evans wrote: > Should have asked about this sooner, as it's something I've seen since > the very first F38 upgrade. Not sure if this is Fedora or Thunderbird > issue. > > When Thunderbird opens, it does so postage-stamp size, way up in upper > left hand corner

slow startup chrome

2023-07-21 Thread Neal Becker
I'm sure it hasn't always been this way. I'm using kde desktop. After I login, 1st thing I usually do is start chrome. But recently when I do this, chrome window doesn't appear for a long time. Eventually, a dialog box pops up asking me to unlock my wallet, or something like that. As soon as I

Re: Disable btrfs memory swap file

2023-06-27 Thread Neal Becker
On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 5:20 AM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2023-06-26 at 23:48 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > I've got a Fedora 38 install (upgrade from F37). The install happened > > with Anaconda. Anaconda created the compressed memory swap file. I > > resized the disk and added a p

avoid nouveau with kernel 6.3?

2023-06-15 Thread Neal Becker
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Avoid-Nouveau-Linux-6.3 -- *Those who don't understand recursion are doomed to repeat it* ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Co

Re: Cannot install skypeforlinux

2023-05-17 Thread Neal Becker
Are you sure you even need to install an app? https://www.skype.com/en/features/skype-web/ ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fe

Re: Chrome showing no text

2023-05-10 Thread Neal Becker
On Fri, May 5, 2023 at 5:40 PM Neal Becker wrote: > > On Fri, May 5, 2023 at 2:17 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > >> On Fri, May 5, 2023 at 1:13 PM steven stern wrote: >> > >> > Something in one of the updates I installed today (but not Chrome) has >> >

Re: nvidia problem F37->F38 update

2023-05-06 Thread Neal Becker
On Sat, May 6, 2023 at 4:04 AM Barry wrote: > > > > On 5 May 2023, at 21:48, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > On Fri, May 5, 2023 at 4:04 PM Tim via users > > wrote: > >> > >> Tim: > Are you falling foul of the recent Gnome change that puts a machine > to sleep if it considers that it's

Re: Chrome showing no text

2023-05-05 Thread Neal Becker
On Fri, May 5, 2023 at 2:17 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Fri, May 5, 2023 at 1:13 PM steven stern wrote: > > > > Something in one of the updates I installed today (but not Chrome) has > > broken chrome. It's now showing any text. Ideas? > > https://i.imgur.com/5DsPMMe.png > > Someone reported

F38 update, chrome display problem

2023-05-04 Thread Neal Becker
After updating f37->f38, now chrome-stable is unusable. This is intel graphics. The displays of all web pages are unreadable. I tried installing google-chrome-beta, and this seems to be working fine. Any thoughts? Thanks, Neal ___ users mailing list -

Re: nvidia problem F37->F38 update

2023-05-04 Thread Neal Becker
On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 6:13 PM Neal Becker wrote: > > > On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 5:50 PM Todd Zullinger wrote: > >> Tim via users wrote: >> > On Thu, 2023-05-04 at 16:20 -0400, Neal Becker wrote: >> > >> >> I may have another problem but t

Re: nvidia problem F37->F38 update

2023-05-04 Thread Neal Becker
On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 5:50 PM Todd Zullinger wrote: > Tim via users wrote: > > On Thu, 2023-05-04 at 16:20 -0400, Neal Becker wrote: > > > >> I may have another problem but time will tell (running on the newer > >> kernel connecting via ssh several ti

Re: nvidia problem F37->F38 update

2023-05-04 Thread Neal Becker
On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 3:09 PM Tim Evans wrote: > On 5/4/23 14:37, Neal Becker wrote: > > Just updated my server F37->F38. The display doesn't start (black > > screen after boot). > > > > journalctl shows many messages like: > > > > May 04 14:3

nvidia problem F37->F38 update

2023-05-04 Thread Neal Becker
Just updated my server F37->F38. The display doesn't start (black screen after boot). journalctl shows many messages like: May 04 14:32:00 nbecker8 kernel: nouveau :01:00.0: bus: MMIO read of FAULT at 616330 [ PRIVRING ] nouveau? This was running nvidia driver before the update (f

Re: Aaugh! F38 mplayer, ffmpeg, etc. install errors

2023-04-25 Thread Neal Becker
OK, thanks. Guess I'll just wait for it to resolve itself. On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 5:42 PM Andre Robatino wrote: > BTW, this isn't a new problem. It happens at least once every few months, > it's just by chance that it happened shortly after F38 was released. > _

Re: Aaugh! F38 mplayer, ffmpeg, etc. install errors

2023-04-25 Thread Neal Becker
Lucky you, I'm stuck for last week at Problem: cannot install the best update candidate for package qt5-qtbase-5.15.9-1.fc37.x86_64 - cannot install both qt5-qtbase-5.15.9-1.fc38.x86_64 and qt5-qtbase-5.15.8-10.fc38.x86_64 - package libksysguard-5.27.4-1.fc38.x86_64 requires libQt5WebEngineWid

tmpfiles.d/ update with today's update

2023-03-08 Thread Neal Becker
Running todays dnf update I saw: usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/sddm.conf:6: Line references path below legacy directory /var/run/, updating /var/run/sddm → /run/sddm; please update the tmpfiles.d/ drop-in file accordingly. Any ideas what this is about? Thanks, Neal _

Re: Taking better advantage of BTRFS

2023-02-25 Thread Neal Becker
snapper (I believe this is suse's tool) can be installed on Fedora. Unfortunately it takes a little extra work to setup the subvolumes correctly. I found an article (on reddit?) and mine are setup as: sudo btrfs subvolume list / ID 256 gen 149284 top level 5 path root ID 257 gen 149284 top level

Re: power profiles

2023-01-25 Thread Neal Becker
On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 7:14 AM Frederic Muller wrote: > On 25/01/2023 17:34, Stephen Morris wrote: > > On 25/1/23 21:25, Frederic Muller wrote: > > On 25/01/2023 17:01, Barry Scott wrote: > > > On 25/01/2023 06:30, Frederic Muller wrote: > > Hi! > > It seems i can only stay in Power Saver mode,

Re: texlive

2023-01-11 Thread Neal Becker
On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 5:51 AM Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > texlive 2021 is considered as too old now by latex developers > texlive 2022 will come with fc38 if I understand. > Is there any option to be able to run texlive 2022 with fc36? > Is pdflatex or one of the more modern variants an o

Re: FYI - Issues with kernel-6.0.17-200.fc36.x86_64 and KDE

2023-01-09 Thread Neal Becker
On Mon, Jan 9, 2023 at 3:07 PM Go Canes wrote: > I had issues after updating to kernel-6.0.17-200.fc36.x86_64 this past > Sunday. Two dissimilar systems (a Dell XPS 15 laptop and a > scratch-built media PC) both locked-up hard when booting - never got > as far as the login screen. I thought I h

snapper on fedora

2022-12-24 Thread Neal Becker
For several years I've been jealous of Suse for snapper. There's been a snapper package for Fedora for some time, but I don't think it set up the subvolumes correctly. I tried following this guide (warning: chrome doesn't seem to like this page) https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/tv7wg5/co

Re: fwupd broke my wifi on new laptop

2022-12-22 Thread Neal Becker
> > > After some more investigation I'm suspecting that this may have been unrelated to the fw update. I've seen 2 times since where my phone has failed trying to connect to the 5G until I rebooted the router. I did not think the boot delay and message was caused by this because I did not think the

Re: fwupd broke my wifi on new laptop

2022-12-21 Thread Neal Becker
On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 12:25 PM Richard Hughes wrote: > On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 at 15:27, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > fwupdmgr is not well documented. The man pages suck > > Remember to be awesome. This is an open source project and the number > of people writing documentation is less than one. > > R

Re: fwupd broke my wifi on new laptop

2022-12-20 Thread Neal Becker
Well I performed 2 downgrades. On the 2nd one it totally hung, saying 100% done and will reboot. It won't. Even holding the power button does nothing. On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 10:27 AM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 10:18 AM Neal Becker wrote: > > > >

fwupd broke my wifi on new laptop

2022-12-20 Thread Neal Becker
Brand new lenovo x1 carbon. Today the "discover" sw update app suggest fw updates. I went ahead with them. Now wifi isn't working properly. At boot, I get a hang on Job NetworkManager-wait-online.service/start running Then it will finish boot after some time, but only 2.4G wifi works. It won'

Re: Adding file swap on btrfs

2022-12-19 Thread Neal Becker
On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 2:58 PM Neal Becker wrote: > I've just installed f37 on a new lenovo x1 carbon. > One thing, the installation didn't setup any swap (other than zswap). > > After a bit of reading I found > sudo btrfs filesystem mkswapfile -s 32G /swapfile

Adding file swap on btrfs

2022-12-19 Thread Neal Becker
I've just installed f37 on a new lenovo x1 carbon. One thing, the installation didn't setup any swap (other than zswap). After a bit of reading I found sudo btrfs filesystem mkswapfile -s 32G /swapfile But: sudo swapon -v /swapfile swapon: /swapfile: found signature [pagesize=4096, signature=swap

Re: [OT] Xorg, X11, Wayland

2022-10-30 Thread Neal Becker
On Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 11:38 AM Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Oct 30, 2022, at 07:42, Neal Becker wrote: > > I have been watching Wayland with interest since it's beginning. There is > still one thing which prevents me from switching. I need to attend remote > meeting

Re: [OT] Xorg, X11, Wayland

2022-10-30 Thread Neal Becker
I have been watching Wayland with interest since it's beginning. There is still one thing which prevents me from switching. I need to attend remote meetings, using teams, zoom, etc. I always prefer to use the web interfaces for those, through chrome (firefox won't work on teams). If I use wayla

Re: Mailing lists and Discourse

2022-10-25 Thread Neal Becker
On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 5:35 AM Tim via users wrote: > On Mon, 2022-10-24 at 20:44 -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 th

Re: Sound distorted (new, F36)

2022-10-24 Thread Neal Becker
On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 9:32 AM Neal Becker wrote: > I've got a lenovo laptop x1 carbon 2017 which has been working fine for > years on the latest fedora versions. The sound survived to update to F36. > But something in an update in the past several weeks has broken it. W

Sound distorted (new, F36)

2022-10-24 Thread Neal Becker
I've got a lenovo laptop x1 carbon 2017 which has been working fine for years on the latest fedora versions. The sound survived to update to F36. But something in an update in the past several weeks has broken it. When I try to conference with other users, they report my sound is distorted, even

Re: opinions: backups

2022-08-16 Thread Neal Becker
I use borg and am very happy with it. As Chris, I only backup /home, everything else is replaceable. Oh, I occasionally make a backup of /etc also. On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 6:05 AM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sun, 2022-08-14 at 21:04 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 14, 2022 at 7:

Re: WebEx client no longer works on Fedora 36

2022-07-29 Thread Neal Becker
On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 1:24 PM Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Neal, > > Not recently, but why should I try WebEx through the browser, and > potentially give them all the information that they can vacuum up from the > browser? I just wonder why the video for the linux client stopped working. > > There is

Re: WebEx client no longer works on Fedora 36

2022-07-29 Thread Neal Becker
My usual advice, have you tried the web client? On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 11:29 AM Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Dear friends, > > Does anyone still have the official Cisco WebEx linux client work with > Fedora 36? It used to work fine a month or so ago, but has not worked for > me for the last two wee

akmods issue

2022-07-06 Thread Neal Becker
Speaking of nvidia and akmods, I just had an issue this morning. On my server I'm using nvidia proprietary driver from rpmfusion. Apparently it was updated (automatically) last night and when I tried to run experiments on the gpu this morning I got the dreaded version mismatch between the kernel

Re: Installing cuda on Fedora 36

2022-06-27 Thread Neal Becker
x27;t tried F36. On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 12:30 PM Steve Underwood wrote: > On 27/06/2022 15:26, Neal Becker wrote: > > I *did not *install driver from nvidia, I am using rpmfusion driver > > nvidia's version of drivers conflict with rpmfusions versions > > I did that, but

Re: Installing cuda on Fedora 36

2022-06-27 Thread Neal Becker
Did you add https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/fedora35/x86_64? I have a working install, which has [nbecker@nbecker8 multicarrier-predistortion]$ rpm -qa *cuda* cuda-toolkit-config-common-11.6.55-1.noarch cuda-toolkit-11-config-common-11.6.55-1.noarch cuda-toolkit-11-6-confi

Re: What package do I need to install for my Nvidia card

2022-06-17 Thread Neal Becker
On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 8:00 AM Anil F Duggirala wrote: > Hello, > > I have read part of the https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA guide to > know how to install proprietary drivers for my Nvidia card. My laptop > comes with a regular Intel Graphics card alongside an Nvidia Geforce > GTX 960M card.

openvpn vs F36

2022-05-17 Thread Neal Becker
After updating F35->F36 my openvpn client is no longer connecting. I did look at https://ask.fedoraproject.org/t/openssl-error-when-connecting-to-vpn-via-networkmanager-fedora-36/21123 And followed the last response https://ask.fedoraproject.org/t/openssl-error-when-connecting-to-vpn-via-networkm

Re: attempt system-upgrade f35-f36 fails on mutter

2022-05-07 Thread Neal Becker
On Sat, May 7, 2022 at 6:37 AM Neal Becker wrote: > sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=36 --skip-broken --best > Before you continue ensure that your system is fully upgraded by running > "dnf --refresh upgrade". Do you want to continue [y/N]: y > [...] >

attempt system-upgrade f35-f36 fails on mutter

2022-05-07 Thread Neal Becker
sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=36 --skip-broken --best Before you continue ensure that your system is fully upgraded by running "dnf --refresh upgrade". Do you want to continue [y/N]: y [...] Error: Problem: package mutter3.38-libs-3.38.6-1.fc35.x86_64 requires libwacom.so.2()(64bit

setup for M/L (nvidia)

2022-04-01 Thread Neal Becker
Trying to setup for machine learning. Here's what I tried. Actually, we can just view dnf history. In reverse chronological order: 1. install the nvidia device driver from rpmfusion: sudo dnf install 61 | install /var/cudnn-local-repo-rhel7-8.3.2.44/libcudn | 2022-03-31 18:38 | Install

yubikey?

2022-03-26 Thread Neal Becker
I'm curious about getting a yubikey to use for 2fa, and wondering if it will just work on Fedora 35+. I've seen an article on setting up yubikey for auth on fedora, but I'm not interested in using it to authenticate for login on my laptop. I'm interested in having it work for 2fa on chrome and fi

Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management

2022-03-12 Thread Neal Becker
You can (and I do) make my own filters in gmail for e.g., this maillist, which moves it into a folder and is reflected in IMAP as a folder. In addition, gmail has an orthogonal system they call categories that auto-categorizes mail: inbox, social, updates, formus, promotions. This is not reflecte

Re: Kinda OT: Email clients and Email Management

2022-03-08 Thread Neal Becker
I've tried to move away from gmail, but it's not easy. I've been a kde fan for years, and back in the day used kmail. Triggered by this discussion, I tried again to use kmail with gmail/imap. But after waiting some hours for mail to sync gave up. I've never used evolution, but decided to try it

Re: ssd keeps dying (OT)

2022-02-25 Thread Neal Becker
Endgame: So now the system is running from the sata ssd drive, but the nvme ssd is plugged into the M.2->pcie adapter with the failed ssd now working again. So I ask, what's the difference in speed between the nvme ssd plugged into the pcie and the sata? I run bonnie++ on the nvme and then: Feb 2

Re: ssd keeps dying (OT)

2022-02-24 Thread Neal Becker
Well the fact that the failed ssd is working again tells me it wasn't zapped by static or power transients. The comment about taking a long time for the ssd to reorganize itself is interesting, but here it failed 1 day, and I went to fix it the next day, where it still was not detected by F35 live

Re: ssd keeps dying (OT)

2022-02-23 Thread Neal Becker
OK, status update. 1. The workstation is located in a offices of a large satellite ISP. Clean power is probably not an issue. 2. Attempt to reboot machine. BIOS boot options does not show the M.2 SSD existing. 3. Boot F35 from USB live. Go to install to disk. SSD is not shown as an option fo

Re: ssd keeps dying (OT)

2022-02-22 Thread Neal Becker
te III wrote: > On Tue, 22 Feb 2022 at 10:04, Neal Becker wrote: > >> Thanks Richard. Yes, I talked with Titan; they suggested trying the >> pcie-m.2 adapter. I will try them again. >> I have not checked for bios updates. Not sure how to go about that (last >> time

Re: ssd keeps dying (OT)

2022-02-22 Thread Neal Becker
t. I will try Titan again later today, but just looking for ideas. Thanks, Neal On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 8:44 AM Richard Shaw wrote: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 7:34 AM Neal Becker wrote: > >> I know this is a bit OT, but you guys are great at answering all >> questions. &

ssd keeps dying (OT)

2022-02-22 Thread Neal Becker
I know this is a bit OT, but you guys are great at answering all questions. I bought a workstation from Titan computers around 1/2020 (dual EPYC cpu). After about 1 year it stopped working. I could ssh to it, and almost any command would return Input/Output error. Unfortunately journalctl gave i

Re: Interactive task scheduling (system) ? How do I run a list of tasks consecutively on a server ?

2022-02-04 Thread Neal Becker
is very simple and doesn't know about free memory) On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 10:24 AM John Mellor wrote: > On 2022-02-04 09:04, Neal Becker wrote: > > After this discussion, I needed a simple batch scheduling system. I tried > installing and starting condor on F35. Never saw so man

Re: Interactive task scheduling (system) ? How do I run a list of tasks consecutively on a server ?

2022-02-04 Thread Neal Becker
ps you too that's be great. On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 2:04 PM Fred Erickson wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jan 2022 12:59:23 -0500 > Neal Becker wrote: > > > I've needed this over the years but all the ones I've seen appeared > > much too complex for my simple use case.

Re: pixel buds: either mono or no microphone, take your pick

2022-02-02 Thread Neal Becker
In case I wasn't clear, what I want is to have a microphone input AND stereo sound. On Wed, Feb 2, 2022 at 7:51 AM Neal Becker wrote: > I'm trying to use my pixel bud headphones with my laptop (lenovo X1 carbon > gen 4). I'm using kde and blueman-applet. > > Basica

pixel buds: either mono or no microphone, take your pick

2022-02-02 Thread Neal Becker
I'm trying to use my pixel bud headphones with my laptop (lenovo X1 carbon gen 4). I'm using kde and blueman-applet. Basically I can choose 2 profiles: High Fidelity Playback (A2DP sink) or Headset Head Unit (HSP/HFP) There are also variations on these with different codec choices, but that does

Re: Picking a new laptop

2022-02-01 Thread Neal Becker
My 'Ctrl-A' and 'Ctrl-E' work just fine (ctrl mapped to capslock where the unix gods intended).. Alt is meta. What do you mean by "I wish there were a Linux desktop that did that and used the Command key the right way also."? On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 9:21 AM James Szinger wrote: > I have had goo

Re: Picking a new laptop

2022-02-01 Thread Neal Becker
I believe both lenovo and dell ship laptops with linux installed. On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 6:37 PM Geoffrey Leach wrote: > H ... well how's about a company that designs *for* Linux? > Star Labs https://starlabs.systems/ is a UK company that sells direct. > I have their Starlite laptops and ha

Re: Interactive task scheduling (system) ? How do I run a list of tasks consecutively on a server ?

2022-01-26 Thread Neal Becker
I've needed this over the years but all the ones I've seen appeared much too complex for my simple use case. I ended up writing my own using pyxmlrpc. Unfortunately haven't used it for years and don't know if I could find it again (was uploaded to pypi at one time). Are any of these batch system

Re: ssd keeps dying??

2022-01-16 Thread Neal Becker
Well I guess I can try reseating it, good idea. Unfortunately this server is remote from me, so might as well collect ideas before driving over. On Sun, Jan 16, 2022, 3:00 PM Joe Zeff wrote: > On 1/16/22 11:44 AM, Neal Becker wrote: > > Now it's dead again. I can ssh to the machi

ssd keeps dying??

2022-01-16 Thread Neal Becker
I've had a workstation (dual amd rome) for about 2 years. The M2 ssd died after about 1 year. I replaced it with a samsung 980 pro, which then lasted almost 1 more year. Then I replaced it with a 1TB samsung 980 pro, this time with heat sink. This lasted a few weeks. I had been looking at smar

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