4k video playback on some videos makes entire system sluggish
by Alex
Hi,
I have a fedora38 desktop and having a problem playing 4k videos. When
playing some videos, my entire system becomes sluggish and slow to respond,
like the system is under extreme load or all resources are consumed by
graphics rendering.
This is the lspci info for my video card:
07:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590] (rev ef)
CPU utilization doesn't appear to be a problem, so really have no idea why
this is happening. Perhaps a missing codec? How do I control hardware
rendering?
What other information can I provide to help troubleshoot this?
7 months
Restarting pipewire
by Patrick O'Callaghan
Can pipewire be properly restarted (after an update) without logging
out and in again? I'm using Plasma, if it matters.
poc
7 months
battery life
by Matt Morgan
I have a new HP Victus laptop with Fedora 38 and Windows 11 installed.
In Windows, the battery lasts all day--8+ hours. In Linux, it lasts about
2.5-3 hours.
I installed TLP, which I remember from way back, although I don't know if
that's what people do these days. In any case, it didn't help.
What else can I do to get Fedora not to eat up the battery life so fast?
Thanks,
Matt
7 months
Monitors
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
I plan to install a KVM for 2 monitors.
One machine has a VGA/DVI on the motherboard, and the other one has 2 DP.
Both monitors are VGA/DVI/DP
I have to replace the VGA out by a DP.
What would be the best option:
1) Add a DP video card on the PCIExpress bus (and use the DVI of the motherboard)
2) Add a dual port DP/DP (or DP/DVI) video card on the PCIExpress (using none port of the motherboard)
3) Add a USB-C port on the PCIExpress and a USB-C -> DP converter (and use the DVI of the motherboard)
4) Add a dual USB-C (on the PCIExpress) and 1 USB-C -> DVI and 1 USB-C -> DP converter.
The KVM2 could be DP/DP or DP/DVI.
I guess that fedora could manage the dual monitors correctly.
Thanks
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Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com
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7 months
Anyone know of any cards or accessories that allow a desktop to
make calls on a cellular network?
by stan
When I searched for this, I came up empty. I was thinking that there
would be a USB plugin device or a pcie card that allowed a desktop to
communicate with a cellular network. Put a sim in it, and bingo, can
call using the desktop instead of the smartphone. I think it would be
useful for troubleshooting things like having trouble with a website
over the phone with support. Could do both on the desktop instead of
having a phone and desktop, and switching. Maybe it is so niche, or
has such a small market, it just doesn't exist.
7 months
F38 installer claims it cannot find a hard disk
by Michael Hennebry
I burned the F38 workstation installer onto a DVD.
On booting it can find my home directory on the only hard disk.
When I tell the installer to install,
it claims it cannot find a hard drive. Grrr.
The first time I got the message, I just rebooted.
On the second boot, I looked for my home directory and found it.
I even looked at some images, so I know it was atually reading files.
When I told it to install, no go.
Suggestions?
Requests for more data?
--
Michael hennebry(a)mail.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"Occasionally irrational explanations are required" -- Luke Roman
7 months
Firefox crashes when started from the panel
by Jonathan Ryshpan
After the latest upgrade to Fedora, when Firefox is started from the
panel, the screen goes dark, and then refreshes itself; Firefox does not
start. Firefox appears to start perfectly when run from the console or
from the application launcher. I have attached a fragment of the system
log showing activity immediately before and after Firefox was started
(Journal.txt)
Any ideas how to investigate.
Application info:
firefox-118.0.1-4.fc38.x86_64
System info:
Operating System: Fedora Linux 38
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.8
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.110.0
Qt Version: 5.15.10
Kernel Version: 6.5.5-200.fc38.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz
Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 4600
Manufacturer: ASUS
--
Sincerely Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh(a)pacbell.net>
Those who have put out the eyes of the people
reproach them for their blindness. -- Milton
7 months
Fedora 38 wayland login user NO, root Yes
by richard emberson
Back in 10/04/2023 I got "Pri Master Hard Disk SMART status BAD"
# smartctl -a /dev/sda | more
Western Digital VelociRaptor
WDC WD3000GLFS-01F8U0
SATA 2.5 3.0 Gb/s
10000 rpm
...
health test result: FAILED!
failure less than 24 hours SAVE ALL DATA
...
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes..
ID NAME ... WHEN_FAILED RAW_VLAUE
...
5 Reallocated_Secor_Ct FAILING NOW 548
So, I got a new hard disk and installed from KDE Live.
(
Fedora XFCE Live 38 could not be installed.
Lots of: Timed out for waiting the udev queue being empty
)
I then "dnf update"
This is my first attempt at using Wayland ... always
been an X.org guy.
Installed xterm, started xterm, system crashed.
Now, I get the login GUI screen, but I can not login
as a user; the screen goes blank and then returns to the
login screen.
But, I can login as 'root' (Super User).
Also, I can ssh in as the user and from root login in a terminal
I can su to the user.
Running lspci I see:
VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] (rev a2)
Any help would be appreciated
Richard
7 months