screen won't un-blank under specific timing

2022-06-01 Thread Fulko Hew
I just had it again, it's very rare. And it's happened over the last number of Fedora versions (-1 to -n) If I come back to use my computer and hit a key at exactly the same time as the screen decides to blank (I don't use screensavers) then the screen does blank, but no key or mouse activity (I'v

trip report: upgrading to Fedora 36 (fwd)

2022-06-01 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
[I wrote this for the Greater Toronto Area Linux Users Group but it might be of interest to this list.] I just upgraded several systems to from Fedora 34 or 35 to Fedora 36 over the last week. This process is mostly uneventful. Here are some notes. There are two ways to upgrade: - use the GNO

Re: Fedora 36 update vs broadcom-wl

2022-06-01 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 9:04 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > But WiFi didn't work. The desktop didn't even see the device. I needed > to issue the command > > sudo depmod > > I've had to do this in previous upgrades too. > > This is pretty easy to do but not at all obvious (I leave notes