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

« Last post by Hasturtium on April 22, 2025, 08:45:51 am »

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.

Honestly, that sounds fine. In days of yore (read: Slackware on x86) I'd just change the runlevel at boot; what's the approved methodology in systemd-land?

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

« Last post by ClassicHasClass 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 41 is out!

« Last post by Hasturtium on April 21, 2025, 11:30:31 am »

Now I’ve been bitten by the gdm Xorg snafu in F41. Managed to squirm into Gnome Classic, switched the display manager to lightdm, rebooted, and the system now only lets me into the onboard video via Gnome Classic and Wayland. What’s the solution here? I’m about this close to just switching to RHEL 10 when it lands.

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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAMES] Raptor Call of the Shadows

« Last post by mparnaudeau on April 20, 2025, 05:51:02 am »

This issue is fixed!
I am glad I was able to contribute 

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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAMES] Raptor Call of the Shadows

« Last post by tle on April 18, 2025, 08:53:42 am »

Thanks much for helping out. Wondering if you could see any log that might help the author with troubleshooting the no sound effect issue?

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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAMES] Raptor Call of the Shadows

« Last post by mparnaudeau on April 17, 2025, 05:08:48 pm »

 @tle Thank you for mentioning this game. I tried and have just answered that in the opened issue (https://github.com/skynettx/raptor/issues/15):

I've just checked the `dev` branch on my PowerMac G5 that run the latest Debian image (https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2025-03-31/), the first one that works for a long time.
The result is that it builds well and I played the first mission until the boss. The music seems to be good too but sound effects (shoots, explosions ...) are not played.

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

« Last post by ClassicHasClass 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

« Last post by Hasturtium on April 17, 2025, 01:59:02 pm »

I'll defer to ClassicHasClass's preview before leaping in, but F41 was rather nice. Even managed to enable the HEVC decode and encode for my Radeon W6600 where it hadn't worked on F40.

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

« Last post by tle on April 17, 2025, 06:03:44 am »

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

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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAMES] Raptor Call of the Shadows

« Last post by tle on April 16, 2025, 11:53:52 pm »

The author is asking for help from the POWER community.

If you are running PPC64BE Linux distro, could you please compile the dev git branch and let the author know if the game works?

Many thanks