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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Ubuntu 24.04

« Last post by MauryG5 on June 30, 2025, 03:41:37 pm »

Hi, I'm also using Ubuntu a bit but in the LTS version so the latest LTS version. I had version 20 and I updated to the latest LTS version and just after updating I saw that Firefox had removed it. They do it because they push you to use Snap packages but I still preferred to use the .deb version and so I installed that. I saw with my surprise that they finally solved the Firefox problems on Ubuntu, related to saving favorites and similar things that have plagued it for I don't know how many years. I have to say that it works quite well, no problem for my Radeon 5700XT as it is older and more stable. The only thing that I really regret is that it is missing is a version of Chromium to be truly complete. Too bad because I tried to install it and it doesn't let you install it, I tried to do it from the wiki guide but nothing, that guide is no longer good and among other things I also tried to ask on GitHub but even there I didn't get any answer unfortunately... A real shame because if it could be installed it would be perfect...

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

« Last post by MauryG5 on June 29, 2025, 08:12:42 am »

guys there is a problem after the last Chromium update, after it opens the main window, it crashes, exits and closes everything. I use it on Debian 12 so the problem is precisely the last update. I think the same will happen if you update to the latest version of Fedora. So be careful and I hope that Raptor is already aware of the problem to fix the bug.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Ubuntu 24.04

« Last post by Hasturtium on June 16, 2025, 07:39:02 am »

Ahoy! Finally had time to sit down and move off of Fedora, and the experience was mostly painless. Ubuntu Server installed without much fuss, but after installing Xorg and Xfce’s dependencies and rebooting the kernel barfed a bunch of error messages about failing to initialize my Radeon W6600. This was remedied by pulling down a newer kernel - some branch of 6.11 IIRC - and then manually pointing X11 to the Radeon instead of the AST2500. Once that was done I found the default web browser crashes at startup with a pointedly unspecific I/O error, so I grabbed a second machine to look up the Firefox PPA, where the latest ESR could be added. This appears to be built without ClassicHasClass’s baseline JIT; if somebody out there has a repo I can use to that end I’d be grateful. There’s still some tire kicking to do - I haven’t installed OpenCL yet and may need to manually compile Deadbeef, but overall I’m pleased.

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

« Last post by ClassicHasClass 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

« Last post by DKnoto on May 29, 2025, 02:18:51 pm »

Fedora 42 drives me to despair

Yesterday I noticed that I can't print anything. The driver for my Epson L850 printer disappeared. It does not compile... Fortunately, it's in an older version and in FreeBSD too.

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

« Last post by ClassicHasClass 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

« Last post by Hasturtium on May 11, 2025, 09:24:35 am »

It seems like a lot of my problems have been coming from Mesa-freeworld this time around. Replacing with Fedora’s stock Mesa seems to have alleviated my most immediate problems; still have yet to see Xfce via X11 work so far.

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

« Last post by ClassicHasClass 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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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 42

« Last post by Hasturtium on May 06, 2025, 05:00:15 pm »

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

I ran into an issue where Xfce only wants to start in X11 mode on the AST2500, which I’m 99% I can work around by creating /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/21-gpu-driver.conf and populating it anew. In Wayland it appears to be pretty rudimentary, but hopefully it’ll work in the future.

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General Discussion / Re: Immages in C

« Last post by MauryG5 on May 06, 2025, 03:51:11 pm »

I rewrote all that example code and entered the width and height in the required parameters, those of a photo that I'm trying to run.

Now I managed to get it to start, I made a mistake in the startup file after compiling and then I didn't understand where to put my file. I managed to get the image to start, everything is,
thank you very much Classic!