Fedora Workstation WG minutes, 2021-03-30
by Chris Murphy
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#fedora-meeting-2: Workstation WG (2021-03-30)
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Meeting started by cmurf at 05:07:15 UTC. The full logs are available at
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-2/2021-03-31/workstation...
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Meeting summary
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* Rollcall (cmurf, 05:07:35)
* present: Allan, Chris, Tomas, Michael, Jens, Neal, Kalev,
Matthias (cmurf, 05:07:36)
* regrets: Owen, Langdon, (cmurf, 05:07:38)
* present guests: (cmurf, 05:07:40)
* Approval of Mar 23 minutes (cmurf, 05:07:42)
* LINK:
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-2/2021-03-24/workstation...
(cmurf, 05:07:44)
* AGREED: no objections (cmurf, 05:07:46)
* Announcements, follow-ups, status reports (cmurf, 05:07:48)
* Consider limiting the journal in size (cmurf, 05:07:56)
* LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/213 (cmurf,
05:07:58)
* devel list thread (cmurf, 05:08:00)
* LINK:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.o...
(cmurf, 05:08:02)
* ACTION: : Chris will revive the devel discussion(s), revisit later
(cmurf, 05:08:18)
* Include Fedora Media Writer in the default install (cmurf, 05:08:20)
* ACTION: wait for improvements in F35, further discussion next week
(cmurf, 05:08:42)
* LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/214 (cmurf,
05:09:19)
Meeting ended at 05:09:38 UTC.
Action Items
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* : Chris will revive the devel discussion(s), revisit later
* wait for improvements in F35, further discussion next week
Action Items, by person
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* **UNASSIGNED**
* : Chris will revive the devel discussion(s), revisit later
* wait for improvements in F35, further discussion next week
People Present (lines said)
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* cmurf (40)
* zodbot (7)
* mcatanzaro (0)
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2 weeks
Fedora Workstation WG minutes, 2021-03-23
by Chris Murphy
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#fedora-meeting-2: Workstation WG (2021-03-23)
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Meeting started by cmurf at 02:15:11 UTC. The full logs are available at
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-2/2021-03-24/workstation...
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Meeting summary
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* Rollcall (cmurf, 02:15:28)
* present: Allan, Chris, Tomas, Michael, Jens, Neal, Kalev, Owen,
Langdon, Matthias (cmurf, 02:15:30)
* regrets: (cmurf, 02:15:32)
* present guests: (cmurf, 02:15:34)
* Approval of Mar 16 minutes (cmurf, 02:15:36)
* LINK:
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teams/workstation/workstation.2021-03-1...
(cmurf, 02:15:38)
* AGREED: no objections (cmurf, 02:15:40)
* Announcements, follow-ups, status reports (cmurf, 02:15:42)
* Linux App Summit (May 13) and GUADEC (July 21) CFP is opened!
(cmurf, 02:15:45)
* Fedora 34 Beta is going out today (cmurf, 02:15:46)
* GNOME 40.0 is in updates-testing, testing and karma welcomed
(cmurf, 02:15:49)
* LINK: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-b86f087d94
(cmurf, 02:15:51)
* GNOME 40 is scheduled to be released upstream tomorrow (cmurf,
02:15:52)
* Test Days last week - a success, some issues are not yet fixed
(Welcome Tour) (cmurf, 02:15:55)
* LINK:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2021-03-17_Fedora_34_GNOME_40
(cmurf, 02:15:56)
* LINK: https://testdays.fedoraproject.org/events/106 (cmurf,
02:15:58)
* The Workstation Working Group is a bottleneck (cmurf, 02:16:02)
* LINK: https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/218 (cmurf,
02:16:05)
* ACTION: kalev prepare the Fractal task (together with Neal) (cmurf,
02:16:44)
* We will come up with a list of next actions in the ticket. (cmurf,
02:16:52)
* OpenFloor (cmurf, 02:16:54)
Meeting ended at 02:17:05 UTC.
Action Items
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* kalev prepare the Fractal task (together with Neal)
Action Items, by person
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* **UNASSIGNED**
* kalev prepare the Fractal task (together with Neal)
People Present (lines said)
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* cmurf (48)
* zodbot (7)
* mcatanzaro (0)
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3 weeks
Re: We are not a laptop. Why are we a laptop? Can we not be a laptop?
by Hans de Goede
Hi,
On 3/18/21 7:54 AM, Beautex wrote:
> Long story short: We have one of those little $100 Chinese mini PCs running 18.04 LTS. ("Wintel Pro" / "Wintel Box") It thinks it has a battery, possibly because it thinks it is a laptop. The "battery" level notifications - that I have tried a million ways to kill - are driving me nuts because I'm trying to use this machine to run a looping slideshow while the workplace is open.
>
> Long story short: We have one of those little $100 Chinese mini PCs running 18.04 LTS. ("Wintel Pro" / "Wintel Box") It thinks it has a battery, possibly because it thinks it is a laptop. The "battery" level notifications - that I have tried a million ways to kill - are driving me nuts because I'm trying to use this machine to run a looping slideshow while the workplace is open.
>
> Thought I might have had this fixed but HAHAHA NOPE
>
> Related question: Why does Ubuntu power management set a battery as the default power supply on a desktop machine?
>
> This is where someone asked "What is the output of laptop-detect -v?"
>
> It is: We're a laptop (non device ACPI batteries found)
>
> But we are emphatically not a laptop, and we don't want to be a laptop. How can we not be a laptop?
> https://www.miscof.com/best-laptops-for-medical-schools-in-2020-top-reviews/
>
> CPU is Intel Atom x5-Z8350. Do let me know if additional information is required. The fault may have nothing to do with Ubuntu but I live in hope Ubuntu might have the tools to fix it.
Notice that you send this email to a Fedora mailinglist and Fedora is a different Linux
distribution.
With that said, this is a known issue with some of these Intel Atom x5-Z83xx based boxes,
they use an AXP288 PMIC and often the BIOS does not turn off the fuel-gauge (battery
monitoring) part of this chip.
The driver for the AXP288 fuel-gauge contains a list of devices like this:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/d...
So the fix will be to add your device to this list.
Please as a regular user in a terninal run:
grep . /sys/class/dmi/id/* 2> /dev/null
On the device and then copy and paste the output into your next email / reply.
That will give me the info which I need to add your device to the no-fuel-gauge list.
Regards,
Hans
3 weeks, 5 days