Installing dual-boot
by Patrick O'Callaghan
I have a laptop as a secondary machine, using F35. I've reluctantly had
to install Windows 10 on another partition, and of course Windows has
stamped all over the boot block in its usual arrogant way so I can no
longer access my Fedora installation (though it's still there).
What's the quickest way to get Grub back, with the Windows boot as an
option? Can this be done from within Windows or do I need to boot a
rescue drive? Both systems use UEFI.
poc
2 years, 3 months
More memory
by Robert Moskowitz
The specs for my Lenovo x140e is 8GB, which I have and it seems to be
not enough.
$ free
total used free shared buff/cache
available
Mem: 7380668 6930852 262676 1492 187140 221144
Swap: 24157176 12044096 12113080
Firefox seems to be a bit part of the problem. I quit it and see:
$ free
total used free shared buff/cache
available
Mem: 7380668 5146100 1776840 1364 457728 1948864
Swap: 24157176 5270956 18886220
I am running a VM at 2Gb and a couple of Thunderbird sessions. Closing
these TB and waiting a while I drop down to
$ free
total used free shared buff/cache
available
Mem: 7380668 3751784 1148396 16228 2480488 3272716
Swap: 24157176 2422956 21734220
but really the bottom line is I need more memory for the tasks at hand.
Firefox has all these weird processes running eating up lots of memory
and swapping like crazy. Probably bad for my SSD drive.
So how to get to 16GB memory?
What follows the x140e in the 12" format? I can't figure this out from
basic Lenovo sales stuff. Probably going to have to find a Lenovo forum
to get the info.
But CompuRAM in UK says they can support up to 32GB on the x140e using
"newer SO-DIMM chips". Crucial only sells 4GB for the x140e.
Anyone have any knowledge on this? Other than booting and getting into
settings, how do I figure out my bios version? And to see if Lenovo has
a newer one that probably CompuRAM is counting on?
Any US memory sources that will support more memory for the x140e? I
really don't want to deal with overseas shipping and support.
And back to the "newer" hardware question on 140 followon.
thanks for any input. All this swapping is taking time when I really
have to wait for the system to bring in what is needed and things to
start working.
2 years, 3 months
Script for making a KVM VM from a kickstart
by Chris Adams
I have been building up a script to quickly and easily make CentOS/RHEL
and Fedora VMs from kickstart files for a long time, and thought I'd see
if anyone else was interested. It's especially useful IMHO if you are
working on building kickstarts, because you can fairly rapidly iterate
and test.
I've got it built as an RPM, so if others think this is useful, I might
submit it to Fedora and EPEL.
Let me know what you think!
https://github.com/cmadamsgit/ks-install
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Chris Adams <linux(a)cmadams.net>
2 years, 3 months
firefox+discord keep pipewire active until firefox quits
by Eyal Lebedinsky
Not knowing where the issue lies, here is what I know so far.
Starting firefox, opening discord, then closing the tab and clearing all data. I see in 'top' that pipewire processes
stay active (this is an i7-9700):
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
100766 eyal 9 -11 317308 41856 6704 S 4.7 0.1 113:55.84 pipewire-pulse
64810 eyal 9 -11 344036 19832 8004 S 2.3 0.1 55:30.94 pipewire
The two stay at the same level of %CPU, and they were barely noticeable before visit discord.
When I close firefox the activity stops, but not earlier. Disabling all add-ons has no effect.
Using sound in other ways (firefox+youtube, vlc, etc.) does not lead to such activity.
What is keeping this activity going, and how do I stop it?
TIA
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Eyal Lebedinsky (fedora(a)eyal.emu.id.au)
2 years, 3 months
compat-gcc-34-g77
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
I had to remove compat-gcc-34-g77 for (compat-gcc-34-g77-3.4.6-46) to be able to
update the last update.
How can I replace it?
Thanks
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2 years, 3 months
Wayland and Xfce
by Robert Moskowitz
OK, this talk about this thing called Wayland had me doing some
research. Like is this something that will be of concern at some point???
Well a bit of an eye-opener. Bye, bye, miss American X11.... (Recently
saw some fun utubes on McLean :) ).
So where is Xfce, that I have run now for a lot of years (maybe around 10?)?
I found one discussion back in Mar '21 about plans for Xfce 4.18 and
supporting Wayland. F35 uses 4.16.
Does anyone know current efforts on Wayland (that seems to be where
Linux desktops have to go or die) for Xfce?
One cute comment I saw that Xfce will have to be called 'E', as it is no
longer 'fc' and once it jettisons X, well...
Thanks
2 years, 3 months
/var/tmp/dracut
by Frank Elsner
Hi Experts,
how much space should you reserve for /var/tmp/dracut when upgrading Fedora?
Background:
My upgrade from Fedora 34 to Fedora 35 failed due to insufficent space on /var
in the way that reboot failed due to missing initramfs-*.
I could recover but at first I was shocked.
Stay healthy,
Frank Elsner
2 years, 3 months
Radeon 7750 as a successor to R7 240/340
by Sam Varshavchik
I had to put aside sourcing a build for a new server, last year. I just
picked this up again. I originally sized up a system with a Radeon R7
240/340 chipset, but it's not widely available any more. I see just one hit
on Amazon, but it's not listed on pcpartpicker, which I use to check for
compatibility.
Does anyone have any experience with a video card based on a Radeon HD 7750
chipset under X? It's a shame about the R7 chipset, that chipset had VGA,
DVI, and HDMI ports, while the 7750 has two HDMI ports. I'll just have to
get a dongle for my VGA and DVI monitors, no big deal.
2 years, 3 months