unusual display problem
by fedora@eyal.emu.id.au
[the images will be posted as replies due to size limits]
For a while now I have the following problem. After boot and login things look OK,
however moving any window shows terrible artifacts.
Here is an example using xterm.
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I open a small xterm
Looks OK.
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I do a reverse search: ^Rls -l
At this point the whole line is filled with a repeated quote character. Doing other things will
repeat a substring of what the text holds. Hitting 'end' key will show the full text followed by the quotes.
Very difficult to work when parts of the text disappear or get mangled.
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Moving on, I grab the window and move it a bit. The whole window is filled with a pattern, here is is
just a color pattern.
If the window gets repainted it looks OK until I move it again. The only way I found so far to fix it is to restart X,
so logout then login, not nice.
I am on fc30, fully up-to-date, using the onboard graphics of a 'Gigabyte Z390 UD' with a "Core i7-9700".
TIA
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Eyal at Home (fedora(a)eyal.emu.id.au)
4 years
Cisco Webex Meetings Suite System on Fedora Linux
by Dario Lesca
Hi, there is some way to connect to Cisco Webex Meetings Suite on
Fedora Linux?
So far I have not found any way
Many thanks
--
Dario Lesca
(inviato dal mio Linux Fedora 31 Workstation)
4 years
Burning dual layer Bluray discs
by Richard Shaw
Well I just received the new LG burner because my ASUS was acting up (not
ejecting properly and other issues).
Also, I was NEVER able to burn dual layer Bluray discs with the ASUS even
though it was supposed to. I tried everything, including REAL cdrecord
(compiled myself), but the burn would always fail when switching layers.
Since the drive had an issue and I had to spend some $$$, it was time to
try again with the new LG WH14NS40.
I first tried backing up my pictures (~40GB), with xfburn because I wanted
to use libburn as the fork of the cdrecord apps are known to have issues.
Not sure what the problem was but after spinning up a bunch of times it
just crapped out with an unhelpful error.
Next I tried Brasero, which also failed miserably.
Finally I tried k3b which used mkisofs and it actually worked! Switched
layers fine, finished, and verified. For posterity I specified a UDF based
filesystem.
Googling I see so little useful information about burning dual layer Bluray
discs on Linux I figured I'd mention it here for anyone else interested.
Thanks,
Richard
4 years
Anyone have luck with Folding@Home and OpenCL on AMD RX580?
by Richard Shaw
I recently setup Folding@Home on my Fedora 31 box and have it running on
the CPU no problem but the package is not without issues...
It installs a SysV init script which SystemD generates a service file from
it, but fahclient runs as the fahclient user but AFAICT SystemD doesn't
know that, which I've read can cause problems with accessing the GPU.
So I went ahead and wrote a SystemD service file for fahclient, but no
luck. I've also added fahclient to the video group, nope...
I've installed the packages I think I need from AMD (which are really EL 8
packages) but they all install into /opt so my current theory is that FAH
isn't finding the libraries...
Current OpenCL error is:
OpenCL: Not Detected: clGetDeviceIDs() returned -1
Anyone successfully got this working?
4 years
PCManFM??
by Beartooth
Is PCManFM compatible with Fedora Mate & Compiz? A friend who runs
Ubuntu recommends it. (Fwiw, I tried hard to get used to Gnome3, a couple
times, and couldn't do it.)
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.
4 years
Rawhide related
by David
I am a happy user of Fedora, but I use Rawhide.
I mentioned here before, I am using Xfce.
Today's update is shown below:
annobin 9.19-1
dnf 4.2.21-1
firefox 74.0-14
fontconfig 2.13.92-10
glibc 2.13.9000-6
+6 glibc packages
grep 3.4-1
gsm 1.0.19-1
hwdata 0.334-1
kexec-tools 2.0.20-12
krb5-libs 1.18-10
libcomps 0.1.15-1
libdnf 0.47.0-1
libmodulemd 2.9.2-4
libnfsidmap 1:2.4.3-1rc1
librepo 1.11.3-1
mesa 20.0.3-1
+ 13 mesa packages
nfs-utils 1:2.4.3-1.rc1
python3- ( various packages )
rpm 4.14.90-0.git
+ 5 rpm packages
systemd 245.4-1
+ 5 rpm packages
yum 4.2.21-1
The point being, that I do not get all the gnome and kde stuff
that other Rawhide users get. I do not know which of those
packages listed would potentially break my system. glibc ?
certainly systemd. Right ? mesa, for sure. Right ?
Also, all the packages that I installed are flatpaks.
Anyways, for me that is about a typical weekly update, and I have
updated my computer and rebooted about 200 times. I think I have
reinstalled Rawhide now 2 or 3 times, but, I was tinkering around with
something above my IQ, which is 79.9, on my best day.
Firefox update or something related to firefox, required the system be
restarted.
I rebooted, checked htop, while watch Level1News on YouTube.
I hope somebody finds this info helpful.
David Locklear
4 years
Is an encrypted Fedora Live CD possible?
by Earl Terwilliger
Hi,
I've managed to use the kickstart files to create a Fedora 31 KDE live CD
without any problems.
Actually I have a simple python script which conglomerates all the KS
files together to make it easier to deal with. Then I customize it and
have it copy some files into the /var/www/html directory.
I am now trying to see what is necessary to have it encrypted (with Luks)
so it prompts for the password at boot time.
part /boot --size=512 --fstype=ext4
part / --encrypted --cipher=aes-xts-plain64 --size=8200 --fstype=ext4
Those commands don't seem to make it encrypted.. Is encryption ignored for
the livecd? Am I not doing something correctly, or is this not possible?
Thanks,
Earl
4 years