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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Fedora 33 LTS 5.10.x kernel RPMs

« on: July 26, 2021, 08:42:42 am »

Yes, I'm not excited for a working version, I just wanted to share this discovery with you because apparently the behavior of these Kernels varies depending on the GPU used and so I thought I'd let you know that at the moment also on Navi 10, the Kernel official Fedora works in version 5.13.4 which in any case is a good thing because at least now we can also count on a recent Kernel that remains for the future. I'll try as they update to see what happens in the next versions. In any case I wanted to use the Kernel compiled by me but unfortunately that I wrote in the dedicated post, version 5.13 I can't compile it because it gives me an error and I don't understand the reason why those errors ...

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Fedora 33 LTS 5.10.x kernel RPMs

« on: July 23, 2021, 12:30:16 pm »

Guys, I inform you that to my great surprise, the official Fedora kernel, now in version 5.13.4, has begun to work regularly with Navi 10, although the page size continues to be 64K. Evidently they must have changed something in the drivers or some other changes made and now it has resumed working. Every now and then a good news! As I told TLE in a past post, it still didn't work for me in version 5.11.12. It started for him with the R9 but nothing for me with the 5700 XT. Now it seems that they have fixed the problem on the 5700 finally and it also does the automatic switching of the GPU, which before, when it started working on Navi 10, it did not do and you had to change video output from the monitor manually to switch from internal ST to external GPU.

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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: risks associated with Xorg / Wayland

« on: July 07, 2021, 02:49:19 pm »

Eh perhaps the problem for those without a graphics card is this friend chinicz, from what I'm seeing at least for now, one of the salient features of Wayland is that it needs a dedicated graphics card to work well. I remember that when I installed Debian and I still didn't have the updated kernel and all the rest of the various graphics libraries, I had to quit to get it started in Xorg otherwise it was unusable due to Wayland using 3d management for example for icons. So I think in any case if you want to use Wayland properly, you need to have a nice dedicated graphics card installed!

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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: risks associated with Xorg / Wayland

« on: July 05, 2021, 01:09:07 pm »

Guys, in the end, from what I'm seeing as time goes by, Wayland represents the near future and Xorg the past now. I have seen and read several articles about it and now the road is that and it is also right because Xorg has outdone him and is an old graphics server. It had been rumored for years that it should be replaced and now the time has come. For now it is obvious that there are the inconveniences of the passage and that everything is not working well yet, but they are all working to make the transaction completely so it is only a matter of time and we will all be on Wayland in a fixed and stable way and I believe that as soon as we will begin to exploit as it should, we will have a significant improvement on everything in my opinion ...

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Operating Systems and Porting / Compilation problems with new Kernel 5.13 on Fedora

« on: July 04, 2021, 12:52:42 pm »

Good evening everyone and happy 4th of July to all the american friends of the Open Power community and to all the Raptor staff of course, I know it's a holiday in your country so I take the opportunity to wish you a happy 4th of July. I'm trying to compile the new Kernel 5.13 but I don't know why it gives me some compilation errors that I can't understand because they don't lead me to anything that could be missing. I've installed all the new libraries that you asked me but unfortunately I always get compile error, do you have any idea of what is changed in this Kernel, that sends these compile errors on Fedora? On Ubuntu for example I had no problem and currently I'm successfully using the new Kernel 5.13 without problems. I'll show you the errors it gives me....

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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: News?

« on: July 02, 2021, 05:05:44 pm »

If I do not set the page size in 4K, Linux does not start with the Navi 10 GPU, we have already seen it some time ago with our friend Pocock, even the latest Kernel Fedora, which people like TLE, have made work with Nano GPU , it doesn't work for me with Navi 10, I have to set the page in 4K and from that moment in fact the Kernels compile them myself and they go great.

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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: News?

« on: July 02, 2021, 01:40:38 pm »

Yes, correct

I suppose you are doing this because if I remember correctly when Kernel 5.6 came out you started having audio problems via HDMI from the GPU. But haven't you tried with the latest versions and compiling a kernel with 4k pages in order to get the GPU working properly and see how the audio is now? It is a pity that for such a thing you have to remain anchored to an old kernel ... For example, I realized that up to version 5.6.19, the web cam through applications usable through browsers for example, did not work. As soon as I used newer Kernel versions like 5.10, the web cam started working fine, so they added or updated drivers to use this feature. And I think that, like this one, also others so it is a pity that we must remain tied to kernels that are now outdated in my opinion ...

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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: News?

« on: July 01, 2021, 03:55:05 pm »

You're right. As for audio, you could use a cheap USB sound device. I'm using my AMD graphic card with Kernel 5.4.

Hey MPC, but do you still use kernel 5.4 today?

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

« on: June 28, 2021, 03:14:32 am »

Hi TLE, you had to stop with the development of Chromium apparently, there are no more new versions since I'm seeing and I don't know where to get the sources after 87 to be able to compile it myself unfortunately ...

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Ubuntu anomalies on Power

« on: June 28, 2021, 03:12:04 am »

Hi friend Classic, I also think that he is not very used and therefore I understand that there is not much talk about him but I insisted on Ubuntu because it was worth it. I noticed that as a distro, it works even better than Fedora and Debian in the sense that it moves everything in a more fluid and animated way. Furthermore Ubuntu has on its side a greater quantity of software available, see for example MAME that I have been looking for for some time and last but not least has more pre-installed repositories than for example Fedora. If you need to install VLC, you don't need to download and install dependencies here, just do sudo apt install vlc and download and install VLC. Same with MAME or other software. These things in my opinion are not nonsense but they make a difference. Today I am a happy user of Ubuntu as I am of Fedora which, however, with the 34 is badly fenced and I am happy to have this excellent alternative working well on Power.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Ubuntu anomalies on Power

« on: June 27, 2021, 09:50:44 am »

Greetings to the whole Power community, for now I see little activity on the forum so I try to write myself every now and then at least when I have some little good news. I finally managed to fix Ubuntu's age-old network connection problem on Power. I spoke directly in the Ubuntu community, where questions of all kinds are asked, the site can be found by writing "askubuntu" on Google and from there they finally gave me the solution. The problem was fortunately not a bug as it appeared to me up to that moment but it was simply a conflict between the 2 software that manage the network on Ubuntu. I had read something about it but it was not clear enough in the places where I had read it and various information was missing. Explaining the problem in detail, the Ubuntu guys replied immediately asking me for output from Netplan and Network Manager and from there I began to understand that there was some possible conflict. The problem arises on Ubuntu simply because Ubuntu, unlike Fedora or Debian, for the server version, for some years now has decided to use Netplan, while it has left Network Manager unchanged on the Desktop version. It follows that if you can choose to install server or desktop, everything is fine because he installs the manager based on the version, if instead like us at Power, you are forced to install the server version, when you manually add the part desktop, the system does not know that it must deactivate 1 for the other obviously and installing Network Manager as well, it sends both into conflict and the result is the defect of the network I had. They immediately made me make the change with commands that deactivated Netplan and left all the network management to Network Manager and from that moment everything went fine.

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Applications and Porting / Re: MAME for Power

« on: June 14, 2021, 02:52:12 pm »

Guys, I finally found Mame in the games section of the Ubuntu software store. This is version 0.220, quite recent therefore considering that they have arrived at version 0.232. It works quite well, certainly lacks optimization as well, games like Street Fighter 3 for example, run badly, the same game on Mac with X86 from 2012, runs perfect. In any case it is quite good and above all it is available directly and without having to download additional repositories or anything else.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Firefox Status

« on: June 06, 2021, 09:24:53 am »

Unfortunately, the Ubuntu Firefox bookmark problem still persists today. I read that they had reported it but unfortunately there have been no corrections to date ... I am currently using 20.04 with KDE-PLASMA, I have not installed Firefox and on this graphical environment there is no default but in any case if I put Gnome as a graphical environment, Firefox has the same problem, even if you use 20.10. Now I don't know 21.04 but I don't think anything has changed even in that ...

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Ubuntu anomalies on Power

« on: May 18, 2021, 03:37:07 pm »

Guys, I see that there are few who use Ubuntu on Power, nobody intervenes and so I suppose we are not many unfortunately ... In any case, regarding the anomalies found, that of the network connection has a bit of the incredible I would say. I mean, in the installation he sees the usual network port and loads that like every Linux distro does. Upon checking the connected network when you are inside Ubuntu in desktop mode, you notice that it does not see the network connection. The great thing is that if you open a browser it regularly browses and goes to the sites but when you see the connection, it tells you that that port is not connected and it does not even come out in the list of network ports. The first 2 of the Blackbird come out, which as we know are not connected and the one that is regularly connected does not come out ... All this is quite absurd I would dare to say because the network connection is regularly present and he saw it at the time of installation of the operating system ... Even if you give the command on the terminal he lets you exit all 3 ports and tells you the connected one, but in fact he does not see it ... I would define this as paradoxical ...

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 34 is out!

« on: May 18, 2021, 03:30:00 pm »

Hi guys, I wanted to report a nice bug in Fedora 34, I already wrote it in the comments of the review that the friend ClassicHas did on his Talospace. With Gnome 40, the audio volume when you are on a dedicated sound card as I am, that is with the RME, is at 0 and if you try to raise it back to 0 ... If you put internal audio on the motherboard then it works but if put the dedicated sound card no longer works. I also noticed that in the XFCE environment all this does not happen and works smoothly, so the problem is always Gnome 40, unfortunately it has many critical issues that need to be fixed ...