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General Discussion / Re: Printers and management drivers

« on: February 08, 2020, 10:43:30 am »

I'm running Debian 10.2 and used the foomatic driver for my Epson Workforce printer.
The printer is wireless connected to my router and using the search function in the add printer setup just worked. 

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User Zone / Re: Black screen instead of petitboot menu with AST (no GPU installed)

« on: February 04, 2020, 07:40:24 am »

I have my wireless mouse & keyboard connected to the internal USB2 port on my Talos II with a USB extension cord to a powered hub. (The hub is not required.)

Just FYI, not suggested as a cure.

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User Zone / Re: Black screen instead of petitboot menu with AST (no GPU installed)

« on: February 03, 2020, 12:07:33 pm »

Have you removed the AST disable jumper?

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: System cleaning

« on: February 02, 2020, 05:11:32 pm »

I'm not sure....but, if you have 3 partitions, sdb1 - sdb2 and sdb3, if you have nothing on sdb2 you can use DISKS to delete that and swap then resize sdb1 and add back swap. Do you have anything on sdb2?

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: System cleaning

« on: February 02, 2020, 02:35:11 pm »

Not 'disk management'. Disks.
It might be in your Accessories > Disks.
Click the partition you want to expand, click the Additional Partition options icon (usually looks like little gears), then select Resize.
If you only have the '/' and 'swap' you may need to delete the swap first then resize '/' and then add a new swap, so leave at least 16GB for swap.
I'm not real familiar with Fedora.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: System cleaning

« on: February 02, 2020, 09:27:50 am »

@MauryG5
I am not familiar with "street sweeper" on Linux. There is "sweeper" which is part of KDE.

Each Distro of Linux and which desktop you are using have different ways and programs for doing the same thing. Please note which installed system you are using so people with knowledge of that system can help you best.

If you are using only one distro and desktop then simply add that to your forum signature, along with some hardware info.

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Blackbird / Re: Heatsink dual fan configuration

« on: January 23, 2020, 06:46:23 am »

On my 2U HS the CPU is running a little bit hot.

Could you please post a picture of your 2U heat sink setup?
Never seen one.

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User Zone / Re: Void Linux thread

« on: January 18, 2020, 10:47:17 am »

Yup! That did it. Thanks

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User Zone / Re: Void Linux thread

« on: January 18, 2020, 10:08:04 am »

I installed Void Linux as a base system only and added 'mc''links' and 'gpm'.
I'm not getting a mouse. How do I start it?

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General Discussion / Re: 2 boot work-around

« on: January 06, 2020, 03:04:31 pm »

CONFIG_LOCALVERSION= is a compilier command.
If you re-compile the kernel you can add something to the end of the version string.
If you are going to do that you really should talk with Fedora guys.

It sounds like the patches may be in the new kernels very soon and what you are worried about may not be a concern.

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General Discussion / Re: 2 boot work-around

« on: January 06, 2020, 02:12:22 pm »

@ MauryG5
Offiicel Fedora kernels are usually named 'vmlinux-5.5.0-.fc31.300-powerpc64le' or something like that.
Your custom kernel for the amdgpu fix should have a different complete name.
Please open a terminal and enter "uname -r" (without the quotes) and post it here for your fixed kernel(s).

The new kernels from Fedora should not overwrite your currently installed kernels, but they will add kernels to your GRUB selections for booting.

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General Discussion / Re: 2 boot work-around

« on: January 06, 2020, 12:04:29 pm »

What is the full name of your custom kernel right now?

You can do, uname -r, in a terminal to find out.

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General Discussion / Re: 2 boot work-around

« on: January 06, 2020, 07:32:12 am »

I'm not a Fedora expert.
Since Fedora will update a complete kernel and initramfs it should not delete a existing kernel but rather move it up the list in grub.
On Debian I rename my custom kernels so they always appear at the bottom of the grub list in petitboot. For example, I may rename them vmlinux-9x3, initramfs-9x3 and SystemMap-9x3.
The real name for these kernels is still within the kernel itself and the new name is only for grub.
I do not know if this works on fedora or not, and you would need to update grub which is different on Fedora then from Debian. Please consult the fans of Fedora for a proper way of doing this to keep your custom kernel as the first or default boot kernel.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Firefox Status

« on: January 04, 2020, 09:15:31 am »

Yeah, I ran into the same problem and reported it. Meanwhile I exported my bookmarks to a USB stick from another computer, moved that 'Boormarks.html' file to my Ubuntu 19.10 home folder and set firefox home to open that page. Not ideal, but it works.

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General Discussion / 2 boot work-around

« on: December 29, 2019, 02:21:25 pm »

I have a minimal Debian install that I use for kernel building. It does not have X.
After tinkering around for a bit I noticed I had warm rebooted more than 3 times. So just for grins I did four more warm reboots. No problems.

I then started Debian 10.2 (with X) and killed the display manager and was able to warm reboot that 4 times, that is all I tried. The same for Ubuntu 18.04

While in X open a terminal, log in as root or use sudo,

root@deb /etc/init.d/lightdm stop ---or whatever display manager is on your system like xdm, gdm3, etc..

Then CTRL+ALT+F2, login as root(or sudo) and type reboot.

It seems to take a bit of time for X to shutdown in Ubuntu.

Please let us know if this works for you more than 3 reboots.