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Applications and Porting / Re: Chromium and Ungoogled Chromium DNF Repository

« on: January 31, 2022, 01:05:48 am »

Thank you Classic for your always valuable information.  Meanwhile, I have good news on the Chromium front, Raptor gave me this link ...
https://quickbuild.io/~raptor-engineering-public/+archive/ubuntu/chromium/+packages…

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Applications and Porting / Re: Chromium and Ungoogled Chromium DNF Repository

« on: January 29, 2022, 05:12:48 pm »

Ok but these people you say use the Power version? Because from what I understand, the problem occurs on Power not on X86 ... I wrote in that forum because my friend Amock told me that there was a report made to that site and that they had already tried to solve it but without success. If I knew who is using Firefox on Ubuntu I could ask directly if something should be enabled but I think it is our version of Power that suffers from these annoying bugs ...

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Applications and Porting / Re: Chromium and Ungoogled Chromium DNF Repository

« on: January 29, 2022, 12:32:44 pm »

With my friend Amock, we talked about these reports, he also uses Ubuntu and gave me a link where to report the problem related to the bookmark that has always plagued the Ubuntu version. In the meantime he told me that he too makes his source and he explained how to do it and he also told me that if you do it from the source, then these problems are not encountered. I tried to do it myself as a source but I couldn't. You Classic can you try to give me the exact procedure to be able to build it myself from source and see if I can do it with yours? Maybe there is something in your procedure that doesn't work and I can't build it myself ... Regarding the bug report we wrote on this site but we haven't received any new answers yet, unfortunately ...

 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1591164

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Applications and Porting / Re: Chromium and Ungoogled Chromium DNF Repository

« on: January 29, 2022, 04:45:12 am »

No guys, apparently the problem lies specifically in the Ubuntu version of Firefox. It seems that the problem of the inability to save the history and save the sites in the bookmark is not the only defect of Firefox on Ubuntu. The absurd thing that I don't understand is why only on Ubuntu, Firefox should be the same for everyone but obviously they use some damn type of software that conflicts with some parts of Firefox and nobody notices it because it is not used a lot. For example, the www.philips.it site is also lacking. Enter the home page but if you try to go to the audio video section for example, a # symbol appears in front of the address and it does nothing, it does not go to that page. Everything then retried with Firefox ESR on Debian and everything works fine.

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Applications and Porting / Re: Chromium and Ungoogled Chromium DNF Repository

« on: January 27, 2022, 01:05:41 am »

ok I'll try version 96 too, thanks.  For other examples I have to make a local mind and review because being that I always use it very little I do not remember all the sites where I had problems ... In the meantime I try with the 96 version if it goes to me too.  Thank you

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Applications and Porting / Re: Chromium and Ungoogled Chromium DNF Repository

« on: January 25, 2022, 12:54:30 am »

An example that I can give you quick, tried a few days ago, I tried to enter the Motorola site, I simply did www.motorola.com, did it more than once and none of the times Firefox managed to enter ... Now I don't have tried with the latest version ...

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Applications and Porting / Re: Chromium and Ungoogled Chromium DNF Repository

« on: January 23, 2022, 04:36:42 pm »

No Classic, I was talking about Firefox in general, I was not talking about Firefox on Ubuntu specifically, attention. The problem Firefox has on Ubuntu is that it has a probable conflict with Ubuntu security software and consequently doesn't make Firefox bookmark work but I'm not talking about that. I am talking about the current limitations that Firefox has on some sites where either it does not go at all or is struggling and I am not referring to the Ubuntu version of the Firefox on Power in general. For the bookmarks problem we have reopened the problem with the friend amock who also uses Ubuntu, we wrote that this problem still exists and if they can solve it but I am referring to the navigation problems in general of Firefox not to bookmarks ... Firefox on Power, unfortunately it still reveals less performing and with some limitations compared to Chromium and this creates a big problem since Chromium has remained stationary and or sooner or later if it will no longer be updated, the time will come that we will no longer be able to use it and if Firefox continue with these limitations, we will be out of navigation on a global level ... I also encountered the same problems when I was using Fedora. I haven't used Fedora for a short time, but until recently when I was using it, the problem was still the same on Firefox.

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Applications and Porting / Re: Chromium and Ungoogled Chromium DNF Repository

« on: January 22, 2022, 03:53:15 am »

I was talking about Firefox not working on some sites, not Chromium ... Firefox is not working on some sites today.

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Applications and Porting / Re: Chromium and Ungoogled Chromium DNF Repository

« on: January 21, 2022, 10:08:03 am »

Guys, I inform you that given the stalemate that has arisen on Chromium, I wrote directly to Raptor to point out what is becoming a problem for our Power systems or the lack of a well-functioning browser for our architecture.  Unfortunately Firefox, you all know that despite the efforts to be praised by his friend Classic Has, he still cannot browse all sites, there are sites he cannot even enter.  So it is clear that something needs to be done to solve this problem otherwise we will be out of global navigation which in 2022 is unthinkable for a modern computer.  Evidently TLE is no longer able to develop versions after 87 and we have been stuck for some time now.  Raptor is meeting to decide what to do and I hope they find a solution soon.  If anyone needs Chromium continuity support let me know I'm happy to help.

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: GPU options as of December 2021

« on: January 19, 2022, 06:28:43 am »

I have a W5500 which will probably have similar compatibility issues with a W5700.

Firmware is "amdgpu/navi14*.bin". When I started out I had some issues with some firmware releases being incompatible but every firmware revision since ~~ October 2021 has worked.

Linux kernel 5.15 does not work but 5.10 (compiled with 4k pages) does.

Navi 14 goes hand in hand with Navi 10 so yes, when there are problems, they are common to both.  In any case I use 5.15 kernel regularly, since I made some fixes for how Classic Has and MPC7500 told me to do, Kernel 5.15 with 5700 works fine.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: New Kernel 5.16 and new problem

« on: January 17, 2022, 01:17:39 pm »

I have not tried it yet, still waiting for official build from Fedora team.

However I do not think 5.16 is that much different to 5.14 because there aren't major change that benefits PPC.

The AMDGPU is still very unreliable so system freeze is expected. What pagesize do you compile the kernel with?

I personally Fedora I unmounted it from the computer and put it aside, I don't use it anymore. Too bad since he switched to Gnome 40 and they don't improve anything from that point of view so I gave up. Much better Ubuntu that better manages the Gnome in all its forms, it also updates a lot and among other things with the 22.04 it will have an optimization for Power 9 and currently it seems to me that it is the only distro that has it in the pipeline. You have some problems like the unresolved bug in the Firefox history, or the audio CDs that it does not read, but these are things that cannot be overcome because the distro itself works perfectly unlike Fedora or Debian ... In any case, the problem is always for AMD GPU management, something they have changed and now you have to understand what it takes to get it started, for sure other people will notice the problem and will start investigating ...

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: New Kernel 5.16 and new problem

« on: January 17, 2022, 01:00:30 am »

Ever since Daniel Pocock showed me the difference, I always use 4K pages and since then the Kernel on Navi 10 has always worked.  Now I don't know why something is missing, it seems that with 5.16 they have made some modification that requires what it writes in the start screen you see ... I don't know ...

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Operating Systems and Porting / New Kernel 5.16 and new problem

« on: January 15, 2022, 10:32:42 am »

Dear guys you Power, as you know the new Kernel 5.16 has just come out and I like to do it as usual, I wanted to try it immediately, compiling my version.  Obviously now from 5.14 onwards you have to set the AMD GPU parameter to 0 otherwise it won't start.  Well after having done everything and started this beautiful news appeared to me, which you can see in the picture and at that point everything freezes and eventually it does not work and you have to do a reset and restart ... I say it is possible never that every time there must be a new problem in these Kernels !!!!  I can not understand!

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Legacy POWER Hardware / Re: Old stuff survey

« on: January 07, 2022, 12:54:58 am »

Ah I understand, I thought there was talk of that laptop in the works.  In any case, in my opinion this laptop is to be followed, I think it may be interesting for us ... We'll see.

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Legacy POWER Hardware / Re: Old stuff survey

« on: January 06, 2022, 01:03:14 pm »

I have seen something of this Power-based machine from Freescale / NXP. It should be a laptop that apparently features a Power CPU with Freescale's e6500 cores, 1.8 GHZ clock. Of course this CPU is already several years old, it is not recent but it is still interesting to follow and I hope to see something concrete soon. From what they say it should also be able to run Amiga OS 4, bringing in fact the Amiga operating system in lap top ... We'll see ...