Linux

I have a Logitech C920 and am looking to upgrade. Something suitable for streaming.

Some annoyances with the Logitech: sometimes autofocus fails and poor reproduction of blacks. Ex: Lack of detail when a black cat is on screen.

I already have a nice mic-- the webcam doesn't need one.

So a week ago I wiped my SSD and tried Kinoite and Bazzite. I switched mostly for a fresh Wayland experience with Plasma and also so that I don't spend too much time tinkering to solve some minor issues ( well it didn't go as expected).

I ended up settling with Aurora-dx because it's a good balance between Kinoite and Bazzite while still offering all the Ublue goodies.

Here are some things that I couldn't find fixes for even after I tried Reddit and the Ublue forums ->

1. Opening any Flatpak app or moving the cursor makes the display black out

I actually started experiencing this issue in other distros way before I switched to Kinoite / Ublue. After I've switched to AMD this was happening almost every time I turned on the computer.

(This is AMD specific) The issue can be fixed by setting a udev rule, like this :

sudo vim /etc/udev/rules.d/30-amdgpu-pm.rules

Then enter the following in the file :

KERNEL=="card0", SUBSYSTEM=="drm", DRIVERS=="amdgpu", ATTR{device/power_dpm_force_performance_level}="high"

Keep in mind that you may have "card1" instead of "card0" you can check it by doing an ls within

/sys/class/drm/

Alternatively if you just want your display to stop blacking out in your current session only then :

cat sys/class/drm/card1/device/power_dpm_force_performance_level >> high

2. Display turns off entirely in Fullscreen applications.

this is probably KDE specific, I do not know about Gnome

Display Configuration > Adaptive Sync > Never

This should fix it.

But when the computer wakes up after a sleep session, the issue could appear again. I don't think they have a fix for this yet.

3. Steam not able to add directories from any other location (including any folders in the same drive)

This is not a proper solution, It just happened to work for me so I thought I'd share.

Just symlink the Game directories you want to

.steam/steam/steamapps/common

like :

ln -s PATH_To_Game_Folder ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Game_Folder 

For the folks using flatpak steam the steam directory will be under .var/apps/

I personally use Bazzite-arch container for gaming and it has been working really well, although the game shortcuts don't work unless you start the container.

4. KDE plasma desktop and task manager panel frozen and crashes randomly.

This issue is likely related to any applets you have added to the panel or the desktop. For me this happened when I added the 'Network speed Indicator' and tried to resize the panel (strangely this never occurred to me in the past, but hey it's been a solid 5 years since I tried KDE or any DE for that matter)

The solution is to either delete or rename the following file to something else

~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc

Then restart the system. Plasma should create a new file which will essentially reset the panel and desktop settings to stock.

I hope that someone will find use in the contents of this post.

So a week ago I wiped my SSD and tried Kinoite and Bazzite. I switched mostly for a fresh Wayland experience with Plasma and also so that I don't spend too much time tinkering to solve some minor issues ( well it didn't go as expected).

I ended up settling with Aurora-dx because it's a good balance between Kinoite and Bazzite while still offering all the Ublue goodies.

Here are some things that I couldn't find fixes for even after I tried Reddit and the Ublue forums ->

1. Opening any Flatpak app or moving the cursor makes the display black out

I actually started experiencing this issue in other distros way before I switched to Kinoite / Ublue. After I've switched to AMD this was happening almost every time I turned on the computer.

(This is AMD specific) The issue can be fixed by setting a udev rule, like this :

sudo vim /etc/udev/rules.d/30-amdgpu-pm.rules

Then enter the following in the file :

KERNEL=="card0", SUBSYSTEM=="drm", DRIVERS=="amdgpu", ATTR{device/power_dpm_force_performance_level}="high"

Keep in mind that you may have "card1" instead of "card0" you can check it by doing an ls within

/sys/class/drm/

Alternatively if you just want your display to stop blacking out in your current session only then :

cat sys/class/drm/card1/device/power_dpm_force_performance_level >> high

2. Display turns off entirely in Fullscreen applications.

this is probably KDE specific, I do not know about Gnome

Display Configuration > Adaptive Sync > Never

This should fix it.

But when the computer wakes up after a sleep session, the issue could appear again. I don't think they have a fix for this yet.

3. Steam not able to add directories from any other location (including any folders in the same drive)

This is not a proper solution, It just happened to work for me so I thought I'd share.

Just symlink the Game directories you want to

.steam/steam/steamapps/common

like :

ln -s PATH_To_Game_Folder ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Game_Folder 

For the folks using flatpak steam the steam directory will be under .var/apps/

I personally use Bazzite-arch container for gaming and it has been working really well, although the game shortcuts don't work unless you start the container.

I hope this post helps someone out.

Edit: Solved, while changing EDID make sure to remove the old module first and reinstall it with the new EDID

I have a faulty DP to HDMI adapter, that unfortunately never seems to parse the EDID data, so while connecting to a TV I used this guide and a 1920x1080.bin file from the internet and it worked, but unfortunately I was unable to use the TV speakers(I guessed the EDID file didn't specify that the device had audio out)

Using a separate pc I extracted my TVs EDID.bin file and repeated the steps but unfortunately, it just doesn't work, its stuck on the old 1920x1080.bin(I can tell because it shows up as 'Linux Foundation 23'') The issue persists even after I delete the old .bin file from /usr/lib/firmware/edid

I am using wayland

System info:

OS: Fedora Linux 40 (Workstation Editi 
Host: TECRA R940 PT439V-03U02WAR 
Kernel: 6.8.11-300.fc40.x86_64 
Uptime: 29 mins 
Packages: 2209 (rpm), 32 (flatpak) 
Shell: bash 5.2.26 
Resolution: 1920x1080 
DE: GNOME 46.2 
WM: Mutter 
WM Theme: Adwaita 
Theme: Adwaita [GTK2/3] 
Icons: Adwaita [GTK2/3] 
Terminal: gnome-terminal 
CPU: Intel i7-3540M (4) @ 3.700GHz 
GPU: AMD ATI Radeon HD 7550M/7570M/765 
Memory: 1998MiB / 7879MiB 

Dmesg -H

[Jun20 22:26] Linux version 6.8.11-300.fc40.x86_64 (mockbuild@f09cc32e12c24ed6a1a66c2a2e9f1728) (gcc (GCC) 14.1.1 20240522 (Red Hat 14.1.1-4), GNU ld version 2.41-37.fc40) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon May 27 14:53:33 UTC 2024
[  +0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=(hd0,gpt2)/vmlinuz-6.8.11-300.fc40.x86_64 root=UUID=XXXXX ro rootflags=subvol=root rhgb quiet drm.edid_firmware=DP-2:edid/sony.bin

Any help is appreciated

Hey everyone,

I'm facing an issue with KDE Plasma 5 on Debian 12. Whenever I skip a song on Spotify, the notification sound plays. I've come across suggestions in other forums to simply mute notifications, but I still want to receive notifications. Therefore, muting notifications is not an option for me.

I have disabled all Spotify notifications in the notification manager, yet I'm unsure how the sound still persists. I don't want to disable notification sounds in the Plasma Workspace, as mentioned earlier.

Any insights or solutions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Edit: Specs might help:

OS: Debian 12 bookworm Kernel: x86_64 Linux 6.1.0-21-amd64 DE: KDE 5.103.0 / Plasma 5.27.5 CPU: Intel Core i7-4790 @ 8x 4GHz GPU: GeForce GTX 745 GPU Driver: nouveau RAM: 8GB

im on a dinit based system and want to start syncthing as a regular user service. currently, its running as root (which bugs me a lot, as it's playing on the network) using the syncthing-dinit service located at /etc/dinit.d/syncthing. i know i can run it with a custom syncthing dinit service file. but, i just want to know how to make use of the existing syncthing-dinit service file

thanks in advance

Edit: SOLVED thanks to r00ty !

Hello, I have this weird issue that my Debian 11 will tell me the root folder is full, while I can only find files for half of the accounted space.

df -h reports 56G while the disk analyser (sudo baobab) only finds 28G.

Anyone ever encountered this? I don't have anything mounted twice.... (Not sure what udev is). Also it does not add up to 100%, it should say 7.2G left not 4.1G

df -h /dev/sda* Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 16G 0 16G 0% /dev /dev/sda1 511M 22M 490M 5% /boot/efi /dev/sda2 63G 56G 4.1G 94% / /dev/sda4 852G 386G 423G 48% /home

Edit: my mtab

Edit 2: what Gparted shows

hardware is a nuked MacBook Pro, Intel Core i5-4278U @ 2.60GHz, model A1502 (EMC 2875), Retina Mid-2014 13"

I tried to install debian 12.5 from a live usb on this computer. On the network page of debian's installation GUI I get this message:

No Ethernet card was detected. If you know the name of the driver needed by your Ethernet card, you can select it from the list.

so I logged in to recovery mode and executed

sudo lspci -vnnk -s 03:00.0

that returns

network controller [0200]: broadcom inc. and subsidiaries BCM4360 802.11ac wireless network manager adapter [14e4:43a0] (rev 03)

there is more information that I wanted to save to a lspci.txt file on the live usb (sdc1) to share with you, but I failed the syntax.

Why I want to do this: installing debian, on the GUI's networking page there is a candidate with this exact specification (broadcom 802.11ac wireless network manager), but I cannot install it because I don't have wifi or an ethernet cable, so I'd have to download this package from this computer I'm using now and copy it to the live usb to install alongside debian 12.5. I just wanted to print the whole command just in case it's helpful.

ETA: how do I install rpm fusion repos on debian? I only found instructions for fedora and rhel https://rpmfusion.org/Configuration

thanks

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Today, I wanted to have another go with nix. Previously I just read about it and didn't do anything for a couple of months. Now, I installed nix package manager with very few lines of code and two more to install many packages as described in his post. Installation was very fast on my banana laptop. Until now I used distrobox but I always wondered which distro/ package manager to use. What's your experience with it? For now, I'll test it. It's super easy to use. It may not be straight forward to a linux newcomer but if you know what you want, e.g. ffmpeg you can just add it with home-manager edit and install it with home-manager switch. So far, I love it!

Interesting times ahead! I am really looking forward to the Leap Micro release and hope it advances the state of the art. :-)

What's up with homebrew that you'd have it installed by default on linux?

I don't understand the appeal of it, can someone help me?

While Plasma 6.0 was all about getting the migration to the underlying Qt 6 frameworks correct (and what a massive job that was), 6.1 is where developers start implementing the features that will take you desktop to a new level.

In this release, you will find features that go far beyond subtle changes to themes and tweaks to animations (although there is plenty of those too), as you delve into interacting with desktops on remote machines, become more productive with usability and accessibility enhancements galore, and discover customizations that will even affect the hardware of your computer.

These features and more are being built directly into Plasma's Wayland version natively, avoiding the need for third party software and hacky extensions required by similar solutions implemented in X.

Things will only get more interesting from here. But meanwhile enjoy what will land on your desktop with your next update.

Some of the new features:

• Improved remote desktop support with a new built-in server
• Overhauled desktop edit mode
• Restoration of open applications from the previous session on Wayland
• Synchronization of keyboard LED colors with the desktop accent color
• Making mouse cursor bigger and easier to find by shaking it
• Edge barriers (a sticky area for mouse cursor near the edge between screens)
• Explicit support eliminates flickering and glitches for NVidia graphics card users on Wayland
• Triple Buffering support for smoother animations and screen rendering

I have been planning to install Kinoite on my laptop, dual booting with Windows.

However depending on what I read online, it is either not possible, not recommended, tricky to setup or it is just a matter of setting partitions up before installing Kinoite. Broad range of opinions and no good "tutorial" how to do it.

Anyone having direct experience with that?

Hello all,

I have a cool little project I'm doing for myself, I bought a ThinkPad T60 and I'm going to install Libreboot on it. I want it to be themed and look as close as possible to Windows XP. I plan on installing Trisquel and building Cinammon DE from source (they don't have it in the repositories), and then theming it from there. I'm wondering, can I change the bootsplash to the animated Windows XP loading screen?