Lee Thomas Stephen writes:
> I posted this message because the kernel, starting with RHEL 9.5,
> warns during boot that a future major release (RHEL 10?) will probably
> not support my CPU.
RHEL 10 is going to require you to have... a ten year old or younger
computer. If your computer is older
Ryan Bach via users writes:
>> What, exactly, are you waiting for that doesn't already exist?
> A risc-v gpu
Ah. I just plugged in a Radeon HD6870 card.
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Ryan Bach via users writes:
> I can't wait until this is real.
I've been running Fedora on RISC-V for years now. My current board is
one of these: https://www.crowdsupply.com/sifive/hifive-unmatched
What, exactly, are you waiting for that doesn't already exist?
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Lee Thomas Stephen writes:
> With Great Power comes great responsibility (Spiderman movie)
Wasn't the original quote "With great power there must also come great
responsibility" ?
The shorter version implies the responsibility is part of the power, but
the longer version creates an onus to provi
gin managers to run my weird
environment correctly.
> I am going to guess he is using straight-X windows with one of the
> ancient simple window managers (twm, mwm).
fvwm2 :-)
> DJ: are you the same DJ Delorie that did the work 30 years ago on
> djgcc for DOS? If so, that was som
"R. G. Newbury" writes:
> If you don't mind answering, was it a Rhode Island Red cockerel or a hen
> which you sacrificed to learn these arcane secrets? And, full-moon at
> midnight, or dark of the moon? Or did this take moving up to a goat?
It took a LOT of googling to find the one person who
Geoffrey Leach writes:
> Is there a 'Getting Started With pipewire' and/or wireplumber
> somewhere? Or should they 'just work' and I need to check my
> connections?
As a non-gnome (and non-display-manager) user, I share these .xsession
snippets:
# Required by pipewire, at least
export XDG_RUNTIM
"home user" writes:
>> guvcview has a "-z" option to bring it up in control-only mode,
>
> I did not see that option in the man page. How did you know (or find out)
> about it?
I ran "guvcview --help" and hoped it printed help :-)
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I use gtk-v4l to control the webcam during meetings
guvcview has a "-z" option to bring it up in control-only mode,
otherwise it grabs the video stream too.
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ToddAndMargo via users writes:
> So RHEL's "prioritization" is different from mine
Yes, which is why RHEL is not the best choice for you. I'm OK with
that, but there's no reason to take it so personally. "Doesn't do what
I want" is not the same as "RHEL is trash."
> It does not matter that bug
ToddAndMargo via users writes:
> The idea is that you can rely on things, including the locked in bugs,
As someone who has a full time job fixing bugs in RHEL, I can
emphatically state that this is not the case at all.
If you want a bug fixed in RHEL, contact your RHEL account manager or
file a
Geoffrey Leach writes:
> A package has been broken and needs to be re-installed. DNF sees the
> package as installed and won't take any action. DNF remove removes
> dependencies, so that's a solution, but requires considerable work and
> is frught with problems.
Use "dnf download" to get the RPM
"Robert P. J. Day" writes:
> what in the name of mutt is bash doing all that time? if there's no
> such command, why the long pause in giving me a new prompt?
It's probably trying to give you a clue on how to install the right
package to get that command.
Try removing PackageKit-command-not-fo
ToddAndMargo via users writes:
> Okay one last slam at RHEL:
As someone who works full-time on RHEL[*], please consider that your
understanding of what RHEL is and who it is for may color your
experience with it. You are not the ideal RHEL customer, so of course
it doesn't meet your strict need
Rick Stevens writes:
> Is the window for the app on the HDMI monitor?
No.
> It may simply be that the monitor is adapting to the size of the
> display desired.
I have four monitors configured as one desktop, they should never change
resolution.
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I have multiple monitors on my system, one of which is HDMI (the rest
are DP or DVI). It's not the main monitor. When I start some apps
(esp games), the HDMI monitor blanks for a few seconds until the app's
window comes up (not full screen).
Is this a normal thing? Can it be prevented?
Fedora
Just upgraded to F24 and there are a few things about Evolution I
don't like...
1. the left-hand calendar pane uses white-on-blue for the "shown"
days, as well as the weekday-name rows. How do I change the
colors?
2. The "Select Today" button scrolls the big month view window to the
st
"David A. De Graaf" writes:
> Only when the remote machine fails to respond is the nfs umount
> command blocked. It then waits for a response that will not and
> cannot come. That's what's dumb.
I've had this happen to me. I even waited about 20 minutes to see if it
would *ever* time out. It
Doug writes:
> Are you sure you really want such a large monitor?
Heh. I have four monitors, the biggest is a 40" Seiki 4k. Total width
is about six feet. For my purposes, more pixels is definitely better!
(F20 with a GTX980, proprietary blob, multi-purpose)
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Dave Shaw writes:
> So am I out of luck here, or is there some kind of recovery possible?
Reminds me of how often I get to test my backups... because the only
times I've needed my full backups is right after a failed install.
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Digimer writes:
> What would be a good (as in, relatively painless) video card for
> driving as many 1080p monitors as possible? I'm not concerned about 3D
> performance at all... It will be to display terminals/rarely-changing
> web pages only.
>
> I know Matrox sort of specializes in multi-moni
Joe Wulf writes:
> By chance, do you use two of these... side-by-side?
Er, I have four monitors, side-by-side, which combined are that
resolution. The largest single monitor is 2560x1600.
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$ xdpyinfo | grep dimensions
dimensions:6880x1600 pixels (1818x423 millimeters)
That's four monitors on an ATI Radeon HD 6870 card, with proprietary
drivers.
Note: my solution to the widescreen monitor problem is to rotate them,
making them tallscreen monitors instead.
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The only "solution" I've found for this (other than hacking that feature
out of X ;) is to put this in my .xsession:
xkbset sl 1
This doesn't disable slow keys, but sets slow keys at the fastest
possible timeout so that the keyboard acts the same when slowkeys is
enabled.
(xkbset is in xkbset-*
Paul Johnson writes:
> I am nearly certain this is accidental triggering of SLOW KEYS,
That was EXACTLY it for me. Hey developers! "hold shift key for 10
seconds" is common in many video games (esp Minecraft). You can't just
change the user's keyboard without warning!
https://bugzilla.redhat
You could also try an F16 or F18 Live CD and see if the problem is
F17-specific...
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I've had PS/2 keyboard problems in F17. Two things to try:
1. Hold down a key and see if it starts auto-repeating. In my case, the
first keypress is lost, but auto-repeat keypresses get through.
2. Ctrl-Alt-2 to a text terminal and see if the keyboard works outside
of X. In my case, it
Hmmm... switching to tty2 == keyboard works normally, switching BACK to
X == keyboard broken again.
So, it's a bug in X's PS2 keyboard driver. Is there any way to 'reset'
X's driver?
/me goes hunting for a PS2-to-usb adapter... I really would rather use
my Model M than the cheesy USB keyboard.
Heinz Diehl writes:
> On 26.08.2012, DJ Delorie wrote:
>
>> Message from syslogd@envy at Aug 26 05:20:39 ...
>> kernel:[647218.583886] do_IRQ: 3.191 No irq handler for vector (irq -1)
>
> What happens when you boot with "pci=nomsi,noaer"?
The "no irq&qu
Heinz Diehl writes:
> What happens when you boot with "pci=nomsi,noaer"?
I thought I tried that before, but I'll try it again... grub2 seems to
have started ignoring my preferences :-(
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I've been getting a ton of these. They seem to persist across kernel
updates ever since I first put F17 on. Once they start happening,
usually within a few hours of a reboot, they PS2 keyboard stops
working right (first keypress is lost, autorepeat keypresses come
through) although restarting X
This is all IMHO...
Linux is the kernel.
GNU is a project to create a Free operating system, which has created
such components as glibc, gcc, emacs, gdb, etc.
GNU/Linux is a combination of the two - any Linux-based operating system
that uses the GNU components.
There are other GNU-based operat
Call me old-school if you like, but I still use xpostit. I have a dozen
or so xpost-it's on my desktop at any given time.
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>> Please do
mpletely seems to me like a step in the
suit-and-tie direction and I would hate to see our project go that
path.
DJ Delorie
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Rudolf Kastl writes:
> the 12.6 beta drivers work just fine.
+1. I'm running 12.6 with an HD 6870 and four monitors, works fine
(except for the known youtube-fullscreen-hang bug, and XVideo cropping)
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> Spherical Cow is really an idiom, and arguably not a normal adjective-noun
> pair.
Justify it all you want, it still sounds like "Copying Ubuntu" to me.
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> Spherical Cow
Can we add a rule for F19 that the name shall not be an adjective-noun
form? Those sound too much like Ubuntu's naming scheme.
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Thomas Cameron writes:
> I do not, DJ, but that's exactly what I want. Any recommendations as far
> as video card setup? I was thinking two identical 1X PCI Express cards
> with two outputs each and the proprietary NVidia driver. Thoughts?
This is my xorg.conf, specific to my monitor layout of
Pete Travis writes:
> I have three or four displays attached to two different nvidia GPUs.
> I have noticed that a nouveau driven setup handles window management
> much more sanely, and provides adequate 3D support for my purposes.
Three displays is easy. One desktop on three displays is harder
Thomas Cameron writes:
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_quadro_nvs_450_us.html
>
> Support for 4 monitors from one card. Pricey, though. :-(
Note: this card has two GPUs. This probably means two X drivers, which
means Xinerama.
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Thomas Cameron writes:
> I'd *really* love to do triple head - the monitor in front of me for my
> main work, and the two side screens for supporting stuff.
I have four monitors with Fedora. There are two options...
1. Use 2 or more standard nvidia cards (or any card, really) and use
Xinera
Alan Cox writes:
> The great thing about Fedora is it supports and packages many
> desktops.
Does it support Gnome 2 ? That seems to be what everyone who complains
about Gnome 3 actually wants...
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g writes:
>> It would be nice to be able to *rotate* the ball, or push it in
>> various directions, etc. But only if there's a sane mapping to X
>> events.
>
> *roll* would be a better description than 'rotate'.
Not at all, since I'm talking about spaceballs, not trackballs.
A spaceball can s
Rick Stevens writes:
> As I said, try it and see.
They're too expensive to "just try it", hence wanting to see if someone
else has already tried it and had some info on how well X interacted
with the hardware, and if there was a standard way to talk to it from
software.
> You might want to try
Rick Stevens writes:
> I'd bring up xevent or whatever and push/pull/poke/twist, take note of
> what events it generates and do your own thing.
At this point, I'm still wondering if ANYTHING would show up in xevent
:-)
I know XInput can handle a larger numbers of buttons. Can it handle
more th
Is there a standard for how multi-axis trackballs (spaceballs)
interact with X? Are they common enough to "just work" now or is it
the usual proprietary-hardware-nightmare still?
The common trackball seems to have the ball, some scrollwheel
replacement and a bunch of buttons. It would be nice t
JD writes:
> What do you think of this hauppague gizmo?
>
> http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4146200
I have the HD-PVR and use it on Fedora 14 with VLC (high-def TV in a
window! Watching AMCHD at the moment :). Capturing streaming video to
disk is as s
I have a quad-monitor setup. I originally had two nVidia 9800GT cards
(dual DVI each) but in order to get more than one GPU to act like one
desktop, you had to use Xinerama, which slowed down Cairo a *lot*
(although 3D was still pretty fast). I ended up replacing those two
cards with one Matrox
Anyone else have raid metadata that "dmraid -rE" can't keep away? I
can remove the metadata, it's gone from the drive, but after the next
reboot it's back. This is a drive on a highpoint RocketRaid 1820a
card, although I only use it in JBOD mode. This is happening on one
of seven otherwise iden
I have a setup with two GeForce 9800 GT cards, each with two monitors.
I've tried F13, F14alpha, and now F14beta and I've never gotten my
four-monitor setup to work right.
I want all four monitors in a cluster as a single desktop.
I currently use F12 with the nvidia driver and Xinerama, but rend
I tried F14 alpha today, yum updated it, wanted to get all four
monitors on two Nvidia GeForce 9800 cards working as a single desktop.
Had partial success.
The default no-conf setup activated the first two monitors (first card
only), put them next to each other.
With many hours of fiddling, I g
On 08/23/2010 02:37 PM, Mahmoud Abdul Jawad wrote:
> before two weeks, a discussion started in ambassadors mailing-list about
> a work around to deliver the important notifications to the fedora
> desktop (whatever the desktop is).
What a horrible idea. Please PLEASE don't make it the default, an
Is it possible to force the kernel to assign a USB driver to a given
vendor/product, if it has a custom product? In my case, I have a
board with a CP2102 usb chip on it, which linux supports, but the
CP2102 has a custom iProduct number so the driver just ignores it.
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On 07/05/2010 01:13 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> Fact: the most difficult a process is to follow, the less people would follow
> it
Fact: if it were too easy, spam would overwhelm everything else, and the
list would be useless.
> Fact: a community benefits from all kinds of contribution, even
> Out of curiosity, why exactly you can't use xrandr? What does it say
> when you run it?
It doesn't work with two video cards. According to the web, I need
Xrandr 1.3, but only 1.2 is available to me.
OTOH I'd really like to be proven wrong about this :-)
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On 03/01/2010 02:08 AM, Dan Irwin wrote:
> I'm not sure what setup you have, but I can use tools inside gnome to
Four monitors on two nvidia GPUs set up as a single desktop running
fvwm2. Like I said, I can't use Xrandr.
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In case anyone else can benefit from this... I just spent 2-3 days
hacking on the X server to get a screen to the left of the main screen
working with Xinerama (no, I can't use Xrandr). Here's the patch
(yes, I'll mail it to xorg too).
--- xorg-server-1.7.5/dix/events.c 2010-02-28 20:41:58.
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