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Applications and Porting / Re: GZDoom

« on: September 21, 2023, 06:31:36 am »

For Fedora users, you can find the RPM at https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/nalika/gzdoom/

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Applications and Porting / [GAMES] Quake 3 source port with Vulkan renderer (vkQuake3)

« on: September 21, 2023, 05:56:00 am »

This is yet another source port for Quake 3 and considered one of the best Vulkan renderer port out there.



I am happy that the author has finally accepted my Pull Request to make it compile for ppc64le

https://github.com/suijingfeng/vkQuake3/pull/18

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Operating Systems and Porting / [NEWS] Fedora 39 Beta

« on: September 19, 2023, 05:20:33 pm »

It’s that time of the year again.

https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-39-beta/

Fedora 39 is now Beta. Please have a go at it and report and any issue in Bugzilla

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General Discussion / Re: Samsung PRO 980 1TB NVMe is working flawlessly

« on: September 19, 2023, 08:51:41 am »

Just do a quick reading benchmark with Linux 6.5.3, it's around  3361.47 MB/sec which is a bit disappointing

```
$ uname -ar
Linux shrimp-paste 6.5.3-300.fc39.ppc64le #1 SMP Wed Sep 13 12:19:24 UTC 2023 ppc64le GNU/Linux

$ sudo hdparm -t /dev/nvme0n1
[sudo] password for tle:

/dev/nvme0n1:
 Timing buffered disk reads: 10086 MB in  3.00 seconds = 3361.47 MB/sec
```

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Talos II / Re: Unsatisfactory performance of SSD drives

« on: September 19, 2023, 06:18:01 am »

That’s intriguing. Can you tried the 6.5.0?

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Linux 6.5

« on: September 11, 2023, 06:15:09 pm »

I'm testing it, it seems to be fine on Debian 11.7... I temporarily went back to 11 because 12 no longer works for me, after the Kernel problems the file directory disappeared and it wasn't even updating anymore.

which file directory has gone missing?

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Applications and Porting / Re: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. / openXray

« on: September 10, 2023, 05:39:42 pm »

ppc64le support has been merged

https://github.com/OpenXRay/xray-16

YAY!

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] An attempt to package chromium for ppc64le in the official Fedora DNF repo

« on: September 10, 2023, 05:39:23 pm »

These days I am using GNOME Web simply because I loves its simplicity. However the WebkitGTK is pretty poor in performance.

I am too grateful for all the works the OpenPOWER community has done.

@ClassicHasClass is there anything I could assist with the firefox JIT?

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Applications and Porting / [DEV] An attempt to package chromium for ppc64le in the official Fedora DNF repo

« on: September 10, 2023, 09:07:01 am »

EDIT: Than Ngo of Red Hat has cherry-picked all ppc64le patches into the main trunk. Now we officially have chromium for Fedora 40 or newer!

URL https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/chromium/pull-request/37 *STILL WORK IN PROGRESS*

The last time I was successful at getting Chromium up and running in Fedora is 3 years ago. That was version 88. Now Chromium has reached version 117.

This weekend I've spent a bit of time to adapt Timothy Pearson's patchset from Debian deb package for the official chromium Fedora RPM. So far I could get the whole application compiled and running HOWEVER the browser get into SIGSEGV or SIGTRAP with web pages that has JavaScript. So I speculate this might be related to the V8 engine.

The error outputs in the console is not so much helpful:

Code: [Select]

[1961086:1961086:0910/235841.808221:ERROR:CONSOLE(1)] "Uncaught SyntaxError: Invalid regular expression: /([^\s]+?)\(([\s\S]*)\)/: Maximum call stack size exceeded", source: chrome://resources/polymer/v3_0/polymer/polymer_bundled.min.js (1)
[0910/235911.891648:ERROR:check.cc(298)] Check failed: false. NOTREACHED log messages are omitted in official builds. Sorry!
[0911/000357.201831:ERROR:check.cc(298)] Check failed: false. NOTREACHED log messages are omitted in official builds. Sorry!

I also attempt to gdb and could not find any useful backtrace (NOTE: I manually commented out all `strip` symbols in the build spec file).

The full log out when trying to open a webpage https://gist.github.com/runlevel5/3c85515c521ebcfb6ca65e4697b6b1d1

Any idea how to get more logs out of V8 in Chromium?

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General Hardware Discussion / A promo video from IBM boasting its new Power10-based E1080 server

« on: September 08, 2023, 06:08:44 am »

Everything, I mean every single component has redundancy. Plus it runs the super fast IBM Power10 CPU!

It's surely unaffordable for us pro-consumers but hey we all can dream one day Raptor come out with a Power10 workstation/

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZdsWebj9Jw

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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAMES] dosbox-staging -- one of the best choice for DOS gaming

« on: September 04, 2023, 06:38:59 pm »

Great thanks to ClassicHasClass for the Pull Request https://github.com/dosbox-staging/dosbox-staging/pull/2828

Now dosbox-staging can achieve 41 fps!

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 38 is finally out!

« on: September 03, 2023, 06:40:36 pm »

If you are using GDM, chances are you are likely impacted.

You can double check to see if Wayland is in use or not with command `echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE`

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 38 is finally out!

« on: September 03, 2023, 09:01:37 am »

Please note that Fedora 38 has defaulted to Wayland. HOWEVER due to unmet conditions in udev rules, it is actually reverted to x11

To fix this issue, please consult https://9to5linux.com/how-to-enable-wayland-for-hybrid-nvidia-graphics-on-fedora-linux-38-workstation

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: hibernate / resume / suspend-to-disk (STD) doesn't need hardware support?

« on: August 30, 2023, 08:52:53 am »

Code: [Select]

cat /sys/power/mem_sleep
[s2idle]

It is s2idle... better than nothing I guess

Btw, which kernel config you enabled? Keen to try that on Fedora 39 too

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: hibernate / resume / suspend-to-disk (STD) doesn't need hardware support?

« on: August 28, 2023, 05:39:34 am »

I too can confirm Suspend to Disk is missing with Fedora 39 (kernel 6.5.0). So I think this feature is not supported *yet*.

I also tried suspend to RAM on Fedora 39 and it works for me.