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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 42

« on: May 30, 2025, 09:12:12 pm »

Well, there's some good news. I finally bit the bullet and upgraded the Talos II, expecting I'd just have to deal with Wayland. To my surprise X11 started right up and I'm in Plasma 6.3 with just about everything intact.

But kwin-x11 crashes incessantly on the Blackbird, even with plasma-workspace-x11 installed. I'm pondering if some old residual package is making it work. I would be surprised if the fact the Talos has a GPU is the difference, especially since Wayland does work on the Blackbird with ASPEED graphics.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 42

« on: May 26, 2025, 01:00:27 pm »

The recent GNOME X11 session updates don't fix the problem and I think there's a deeper issue (journalctl flags gnome-shell crashing in libsensors.so ?!). It's borrowed time anyway.

I was able to get Wayland off the ground from the command line on the Blackbird and the fans aren't being driven as hard. It does seem some performance improvements were made in this release, at least for KDE Plasma.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 42

« on: May 06, 2025, 05:04:20 pm »

I'm still experimenting with it on the Blackbird, but the Talos I'm keeping on F41 for right now, though it would run Wayland fine with the WX7100.

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General Discussion / Re: Immages in C

« on: May 05, 2025, 08:51:39 pm »

Something like this would give you a starting point: https://github.com/bitristan/libjpeg-sample/tree/master

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General Discussion / Re: Immages in C

« on: May 04, 2025, 09:23:52 pm »

Yes, with libjpeg. Works pretty much anywhere.

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

« on: May 04, 2025, 09:23:09 pm »

Which checkouts did you run into this on?

Unfortunately, since I'm pretty much a permanent remote worker for the foreseeable future, I'm only on my desktop a few days a month now, so I've been concentrating on what I can do at distance and maintaining a browser isn't one of those things. I will be keeping the patches up for the next ESR but Wasm still doesn't work and it really needs someone else's eyes on it to see what I can't. I'm considering starting from scratch but again it's a time issue.

Chromium's Wasm support does seem OK now, if you can stomach that for the sites you need to use it on.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 42

« on: May 03, 2025, 10:45:37 pm »

Yeah, looks like X11 is pretty dead for KDE and GNOME. Neither of them will start. Other X11 wms will work fine.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 41 is out!

« on: April 23, 2025, 12:04:51 pm »

Point the symlink /etc/systemd/system/default.target to /lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target and reboot, and it should come up with a text console login. Log in, do a startx (assuming your .xinitrc is configured) and away you go.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 41 is out!

« on: April 21, 2025, 04:13:15 pm »

I realize this sounds like a non-solution, but the solution for me is to textboot and bring up X11 (or, if I'm feeling masochistic, Wayland) manually -- no display manager at all.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 42

« on: April 17, 2025, 02:55:04 pm »

Is it still possible to fire up an X11 session? Are the packages gone and it can't be done anymore?

Well GDM has disabled X11 Session. Users are forced to go with Wayland moving forward. To me it makes no difference because X11 apps can function fine with XWayland

Yet another reason not to use gdm for session management ...

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 42

« on: April 16, 2025, 08:49:49 pm »

Is it still possible to fire up an X11 session? Are the packages gone and it can't be done anymore?

At least for 41, there was https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/kdesig/plasma6-x11-unsupported/ . GNOME worked in X11 still, and I think that remains the case in 42.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 42

« on: April 15, 2025, 11:08:58 am »

I'll do my normal once over in a week or two when the packages have settled. Good you haven't had any major issues.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 42 Beta

« on: March 19, 2025, 09:08:19 pm »

Wayland is fine if you have a GPU. If you don't, it runs everything through llvmpipe. On my 4-core Blackbird with AST graphics it worked fine but the fans never quit running (but when I switched to X11 they throttled back down again).

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

« on: March 19, 2025, 09:07:07 pm »

Ugh. That's not encouraging.

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] Using Java's Vector API on PPC64LE

« on: March 16, 2025, 03:01:21 pm »

Very nicely done.