Re: Fedora F41 Hard Disk Performance

2024-11-17 Thread Tim via users
Tim: > > Because big numbers are a marketing ploy... Sure, there's *something* > > that the SATA port can do at that speed, but it's not continuously > > churn your data through in the way that you'd like. Stephen Morris: > Yes, I understand that but when the device specs specify that the > d

Adding a repo using dnf / signal-desktop

2024-11-17 Thread Max Pyziur
Greetings, With the recent upgrade from Fedora 40 to Fedora 41, I lost signal-desktop. The repo as listed for the F40 version is: Signal Messaging Devel Project (Fedora_40) Google says to install OpenSuse packages using commands: dnf config-manager --add-repo https://download.opensuse.org/re

Re: Strange loss of graphic display

2024-11-17 Thread George N. White III
On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 1:01 PM Robert McBroom via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > In XFCE found a setting I didn't see in LXDE that set suspend to never. > Working at this point > Today, running Gnome Software Update on 2 Fedora Workstation desktop systems got some message that

Re: might be off topic

2024-11-17 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 2024-11-17 15:51, Roger Heflin wrote: I would be surprised if any of the laptop vendors did that. There is no profit motive for them to prevent other chipsets from working and it takes extra code. There have been real cases of a laptop BIOS whitelisting certain wifi cards. It was documen

Re: might be off topic

2024-11-17 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Roger Heflin said: > I would be surprised if any of the laptop vendors did that. There is > no profit motive for them to prevent other chipsets from working and > it takes extra code. It's definitely something some have done, probably to "limit support costs" (or really, limit

Re: might be off topic

2024-11-17 Thread Roger Heflin
I would be surprised if any of the laptop vendors did that. There is no profit motive for them to prevent other chipsets from working and it takes extra code. Now it would be possible that some wifi pcie cards do not work with the laptop chipset/slot wiring so you might be best picking an older

Re: HTOP I/O Display

2024-11-17 Thread Stephen Morris
On 17/11/24 20:18, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2024-11-16 15:17, Stephen Morris wrote: On 16/11/24 10:12, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2024-11-15 14:59, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi, With the IO tab in HTOP, how do I determine which devices it is monitoring and how do I change it to look at multiple volu

Re: Fedora F41 Hard Disk Performance

2024-11-17 Thread Felix Miata
Stephen Morris composed on 2024-11-18 09:07 (UTC+1100): > For me on my hard disk its giving: > /dev/sdd: > Timing cached reads:   52114 MB in  1.99 seconds = 26165.57 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 492 MB in  3.01 seconds = 163.69 MB/sec > and on my SSD it is giving: > /dev/sdc: > Timing

Re: Fedora F41 Hard Disk Performance

2024-11-17 Thread Stephen Morris
On 17/11/24 16:02, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: I've always hdparm -Tt to test drives. hdparm -Tt /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 10716 MB in 1.99 seconds = 5377.96 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 700 MB in 3.00 seconds = 232.99 MB/sec For me on my hard disk its giving: /dev/

Re: Fedora F41 Hard Disk Performance

2024-11-17 Thread Stephen Morris
On 17/11/24 18:02, Tim wrote: Chris Adams: That's a misunderstanding of how things work. The SATA port speed is just an upper-bound on transfer, but has nothing to do with how fast a device can actually read data (similar to having a 1G network card and even Internet service doesn't mean sites

Re: Fedora F41 Hard Disk Performance

2024-11-17 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-11-17 14:52, Frank Bures wrote: On 2024-11-17 02:02, Tim via users wrote: And maybe you could get a RAID device which has SATA ports to the PC, so it can spread the load internally across several drives and keep up with a very high data speed.  I've never looked to see if anyone has ac

Re: Partial dnf-system-upgrade and broken dnf?

2024-11-17 Thread Francis . Montagnac
Hi. On Thu, 14 Nov 2024 16:15:47 -0500 Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Trying to run dnf results in similar to [1]: >Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/dnf", line 61, in >from dnf.cli import main >ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'dnf' > I'm trying to repair dn

Re: Fedora F41 Hard Disk Performance

2024-11-17 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-11-17 02:02, Tim via users wrote: And maybe you could get a RAID device which has SATA ports to the PC, so it can spread the load internally across several drives and keep up with a very high data speed. I've never looked to see if anyone has actually done that. Back in the early 00'

suspend/nibernate not working on F40

2024-11-17 Thread Greg Woods
Ever since I upgraded my Dell tower (with separate Nvidia graphics card) to F40, hibernate no longer works. If I try it, it starts to hibernate, but then comes back up immediately. If I immediately hibernate again, it writes the image (as shown by shutdown messages, the usual 10% ... 20% ... 30% et

Re: color profiles for screens/monitors

2024-11-17 Thread Barry
> On 17 Nov 2024, at 12:17, lejeczek via users > wrote: > > Both monitors are directly connected to the same one Radeon 6600 and both via > Display Ports. Only the more expensive dell monitors are colour calibrated. I buy such monitors and they come with the colour calibration test report. T

Re: Fedora F41 Hard Disk Performance

2024-11-17 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Stephen Morris said: > If that is the case why does the specs for that device under > performance say it will support speeds of 1Gb/s, 3Gb/s and 6Gb/s. Because that is the speed of the link between the drive and the controller/motherboard. It's possible for an individual sector

Re: might be off topic

2024-11-17 Thread bruce
ps. In some of my research/youtube, HP (others??) might have a blacklist, preventing other 3rd party wifi chipsets to run. Some of the information appears to be a few years old. Is this still a potential issue? On Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 9:07 AM Roger Heflin wrote: > > Years ago the only ones I fo

Re: might be off topic

2024-11-17 Thread Roger Heflin
Years ago the only ones I found with drivers in linux were N300 (even slot at the time) usb devices. You would have to check the state of usb wireless now and guess if they are reliable or not. Overall replacing the card takes 10-15 minutes. There is one screw, the card in the slot and up to 2 t

Re: might be off topic

2024-11-17 Thread bruce
Hi Roger! It occurred to me that years ago, I had to experiment with getting centos+wireless to work on some Dell servers. Had to get a bunch of Usb wifi modules to work. I'm wondering if these modules would still work? thoughts? thanks On Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 8:37 AM Roger Heflin wrote: > > T

Re: might be off topic

2024-11-17 Thread Roger Heflin
The usb wifi adaptors typically have worse driver and reliability issues that the original crappy internal ones. On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 9:48 PM bruce wrote: > > hmmm.. I would have thought most parts would have been soldered.. on the > mobo!!! > > I'll check with hp tech support. > > or at t

Re: might be off topic

2024-11-17 Thread Roger Heflin
The Wifi adaptor is almost always an m2 adaptor (M2 PCIe slot) inside the laptop and is replaceable. Will's referenced laptop is I think a corporate laptop and the expensive corporate models typically come with the intel wifi adaptor. It it replaceable similar to ram, you might have to take off t

Re: color profiles for screens/monitors

2024-11-17 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2024-11-17 at 13:16 +0100, lejeczek via users wrote: > Color's "Preset Modes" was where I started - none of them matched. > The closest match is - one with cooler whites: standard, the one with > warmer whites: Cool - but still visibly different. > Both monitors are directly connected to th

Re: color profiles for screens/monitors

2024-11-17 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2024-11-17 at 12:09 +0100, lejeczek via users wrote: > Now I have two "identical" Dell monitors - P2418D - and colors are > different, one has whites cooler whereas the second's whites (thus > other colors) are warmer. That was the bane of anyone involved in video production since colour T

Re: color profiles for screens/monitors

2024-11-17 Thread lejeczek via users
On 17/11/2024 12:48, Will McDonald wrote: On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 at 11:10, lejeczek via users wrote: It's been a while and I've changed my hardware setup - which now makes it even more puzzling. Now I have two "identical" Dell monitors - P2418D - and colors are different, one h

Re: color profiles for screens/monitors

2024-11-17 Thread Will McDonald
On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 at 11:10, lejeczek via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > It's been a while and I've changed my hardware setup - which now makes it > even more puzzling. > Now I have two "identical" Dell monitors - P2418D - and colors are > different, one has whites cooler whereas

Re: color profiles for screens/monitors

2024-11-17 Thread lejeczek via users
On 07/01/2024 15:01, George N. White III wrote: On Fri, Jan 5, 2024 at 12:19 PM lejeczek via users wrote: Hi guys How do we load & tweak color profiles in Fedora (without using external sensor-devices) ? My Lenovo Thinkbook built-in screen has different (and not adjusta

Re: Fedora F41 Hard Disk Performance

2024-11-17 Thread Barry
> On 17 Nov 2024, at 04:45, Stephen Morris wrote: > > If that is the case why does the specs for that device under performance say > it will support speeds of 1Gb/s, 3Gb/s and 6Gb/s. Because that is the spec of the connectors on the motherboard. It provides an upper bound on transfer speed, b

Re: HTOP I/O Display

2024-11-17 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 2024-11-16 15:17, Stephen Morris wrote: On 16/11/24 10:12, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 2024-11-15 14:59, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi, With the IO tab in HTOP, how do I determine which devices it is monitoring and how do I change it to look at multiple volumes? While KDE is still thrashing

Re: might be off topic

2024-11-17 Thread bruce
Hi Roger. If I understand your reply. You're saying you purchased a wifi adapter and I guess got a USB wifi adapter?? Am I missing something? I'm looking at the HP 17t-cn300 17.3" 370$ Are you familiar with it? Oh, and where can I find information on a wifi adapter? thanks! On Sat, Nov 16

Re: Fedora F41 Hard Disk Performance

2024-11-17 Thread Tim via users
Chris Adams: > > That's a misunderstanding of how things work. The SATA port speed is > > just an upper-bound on transfer, but has nothing to do with how fast a > > device can actually read data (similar to having a 1G network card and > > even Internet service doesn't mean sites will serve data t