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Applications and Porting / Firefox WebAssembly (WASM) on ppc64le? Jitsi Meet, Zoom, etc not working

« on: June 16, 2021, 11:04:02 am »

Does anybody know about support for Firefox WebAssembly (WASM) on ppc64le?

Some web sites like Zoom don't work without it.

Since March, it looks like Jitsi Meet may require WebAssembly too

Is WASM available in any recent version of Firefox?  Can it be enabled if I rebuild Firefox from source?

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Applications and Porting / Re: Eclipse 4.19 crashing at startup on Debian buster

« on: April 15, 2021, 03:11:35 am »

The download here is working for me, this is a newer version in beta:

https://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/S-4.20M1-202104071800/

I'm using it with the autotools and C++ plugins.

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Applications and Porting / Re: Eclipse 4.19 crashing at startup on Debian buster

« on: April 15, 2021, 02:52:04 am »

Even on VoidLinux the package is listed as unavailable. So I guess, it's a bigger issue.

You can still download it directly from the Eclipse site using the link I provided above.

It does not work for me too.

Which Linux and Java version?

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Applications and Porting / Eclipse 4.19 crashing at startup on Debian buster

« on: April 14, 2021, 01:03:45 pm »

I took the download of Eclipse for ppc64el and tried it on my system.

It crashes at startup, I opened a bug report with full details, download link, stack trace
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=572837

Does it work for anybody else?

To test it:

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mkdir ~/eclipse-test
cd ~/eclipse-test
wget 'https://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/R-4.19-202103031800/download.php?dropFile=eclipse-SDK-4.19-linux-gtk-ppc64le.tar.gz'
tar xzf eclipse-SDK-4.19-linux-gtk-ppc64le.tar.gz
eclipse/eclipse



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General Discussion / Re: AMD RX 6900 XT from Sapphire NITRO [WIP]

« on: March 15, 2021, 04:12:38 am »

Are you using Xorg or Wayland?

It is a good idea to try with both

Have you contacted the amdgpu developers to make a bug report?

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General Discussion / Re: AMD RX 6900 XT from Sapphire NITRO [WIP]

« on: March 09, 2021, 07:51:38 am »

As you are using the latest Fedora I suspect you have the latest dependencies, nonetheless, can you confirm you checked the version of:


amd firmware (maybe take directly from Git and copy into your system /lib directory)
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git

mesa

Xorg or Wayland?  Try both


Maybe we need to develop a small reporting script that people can use to build a comprehensive report of each GPU test, all dependency versions, checksums, logs, key config values, kernel config, etc

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / AMD Radeon RX 6800 / 6900 (Big Navi) sales strategy

« on: March 06, 2021, 11:40:54 am »

It looks like retailers are building combined Ryzen + RX 6800 XT systems with OEM parts and you have to buy the whole system instead of buying the GPU alone.

Has anybody else noticed this trend or been able to get the GPU standalone for a POWER9 system?

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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: News?

« on: March 06, 2021, 11:21:40 am »

When the new Blackbird is available I'll be happy to update my blog about it

I suspect each user has different priorities:

- for some users the GPU width is the biggest issue

- for other users the CPU core limit is the biggest issue

I suspect fewer people will be worried about the 2 memory channel issue but as part of the overall picture, it swayed me towards the bigger boards.

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Applications and Porting / Re: Zoom - errors about audio, video not supported

« on: February 22, 2021, 10:15:41 am »

There is at least one support request open with Zoom about this.

Can anybody else confirm either you have the problem too, or it works fine on your system?

Please also share the Firefox build (e.g. Debian, Fedora, version number, ...)

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Fedora 35 (was F-34): going to 4k page size? Help needed

« on: February 20, 2021, 02:48:53 pm »

I think it is good to have both options too, I'm not anti-64k by any means

On the other hand, the reality is that most developers in the Linux world, developers of device drivers and GPU manufacturers are only testing their products on systems with a 4k page size.  If the developers at AMD and NVIDIA include some ppc64le hardware in their test routines before a release then they are unlikely to release code that completely fails, as is the case right now.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Fedora 35 (was F-34): going to 4k page size? Help needed

« on: February 19, 2021, 01:47:27 pm »

In some cases, I think the build script (e.g. a configure script or Makefile) might call a function like "getconf(PAGESIZE)" and it saves the result

This is not good behavior but I think there are some packages like this but not very many

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Fedora 35 (was F-34): going to 4k page size? Help needed

« on: February 19, 2021, 01:44:57 am »

There are a small number of packages that are sensitive like this

Some comments in this thread:

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AAXJFZNIRXK2WRHZVYD3RUGQGZEYUH74/

and here

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775788#15

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Applications and Porting / Re: Zoom - errors about audio, video not supported

« on: February 18, 2021, 09:31:02 am »

Thanks, even if you can offer hints for other people to debug it would be very welcome

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Fedora 35 (was F-34): going to 4k page size? Help needed

« on: February 18, 2021, 09:30:37 am »

Personally, I'm curious about the possibilities with 64k but I think the platform will get more momentum with 4k over the next 2-3 years.  Any way to offer both would be good.

Notice that:

a) 4k kernel needs to be in the installer ISO image, if you build a kernel with Copr, you need to build an installer image too

b) all packages need to be recompiled using the 4k kernel, although I suspect less than 1% of packages will be sensitive to page size, doing a full rebuild is the only way to be sure

If anybody can add details to the thread in Fedora devel that is the best place to discuss it now

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Applications and Porting / Zoom - errors about audio, video not supported

« on: February 16, 2021, 04:21:51 pm »

Zoom has test site at https://zoom.us/test

It always gives an error "Your browser does not support using the computer's audio device"

Looking at the JavaScript web console, there are some messages like this

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Uncaught TypeError: i.a.sendSocket is not a function
    O https://st1.zoom.us/web_client/6sh2md/js/webclient.min.js:1
    h https://st1.zoom.us/web_client/6sh2md/js/webclient.min.js:1
    Lodash 3

One person suggested bugs with slow download of resources but I'm on gigabit fibre.  An x86 laptop on the same fibre connection does not give the problem.  This issue could be a red herring.

Both laptop and Talos II are running Firefox 78.7 ESR

One difference I notice: the Talos II always shows the captcha, the laptop always bypasses the captcha

Does anybody have any insights into this or workarounds?

Will a newer Firefox build fix it?