Re: strange file query

2022-01-21 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, January 21, 2022 10:46 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 17 ian 22, 17:00:48, ghe2001 wrote: > > > (I grew up, computer-wise, in the days of the 7" floppy disk -- a > > megaByte still feels like a lo

Re: strange file query

2022-01-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 17 ian 22, 17:00:48, ghe2001 wrote: > > (I grew up, computer-wise, in the days of the 7" floppy disk -- a > megaByte still feels like a lot of disk space.) You generated more data than that with your first post sent to the 3000+ d-u subscribers, not counting replies ;) Kind regards, And

Re: strange file query

2022-01-17 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 17/01/2022 17:00, ghe2001 wrote: ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, January 17, 2022 5:06 AM, piorunz wrote: Indeed it is. Mesa is a hero of Linux world. Thanks to it, we have effortless GPU acceleration available everywhere, thousands of games are working flawlessly on Linux, e

Re: strange file query

2022-01-17 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, January 17, 2022 5:06 AM, piorunz wrote: > Indeed it is. Mesa is a hero of Linux world. Thanks to it, we have > effortless GPU acceleration available everywhere, thousands of games are > working flawle

Re: strange file query

2022-01-17 Thread piorunz
On 17/01/2022 06:21, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: I'd check dependencies first. Some of the mesa libraries are pretty basic infrastructure for many a program making use of your GPU for rendering. This is possibly one of those unsung heros working down there in the boiler room where's hot and while no

Re: strange file query

2022-01-16 Thread tomas
On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 10:40:43PM +, ghe2001 wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > > > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > On Sunday, January 16, 2022 2:13 PM, piorunz wrote: > > > If you delete this directory, probably it will get recreated. > > Check what mesa pa

Re: strange file query

2022-01-16 Thread tomas
On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 09:07:13PM +, ghe2001 wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > > > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > On Sunday, January 16, 2022 1:51 PM, wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 08:25:25PM +, ghe2001 wrote: > > > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MES

Re: strange file query

2022-01-16 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Sunday, January 16, 2022 2:13 PM, piorunz wrote: > If you delete this directory, probably it will get recreated. > Check what mesa packages you have installed: > dpkg -l | grep mesa | awk {'print $2'} OK. dpkg

Re: strange file query

2022-01-16 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 17/01/2022 10:07, ghe2001 wrote: Looking at your link to Wikipedia, it does indeed seem to have something to do with Mesa (there's a paragraph in there about 'shader'). But I've never heard of Mesa, and I certainly didn't install it. This sounds like one vote for deletion. Or maybe .8 vote

Re: strange file query

2022-01-16 Thread piorunz
On 16/01/2022 21:07, ghe2001 wrote: Looking at your link to Wikipedia, it does indeed seem to have something to do with Mesa (there's a paragraph in there about 'shader'). But I've never heard of Mesa, and I certainly didn't install it. This sounds like one vote for deletion. Or maybe .8 vot

Re: strange file query

2022-01-16 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Sunday, January 16, 2022 1:51 PM, wrote: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 08:25:25PM +, ghe2001 wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA256 > > In my home dir, there's a dir called .cache/mesa

Re: strange file query

2022-01-16 Thread tomas
On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 08:25:25PM +, ghe2001 wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > In my home dir, there's a dir called .cache/mesa_shader_cache. This looks like some cache data for the Mesa [1] 3D graphics rendering library. Cheers [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wik

strange file query

2022-01-16 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 In my home dir, there's a dir called .cache/mesa_shader_cache. It contains a file called 'index.' man knows nothing about the dir. The web seems to say it has something to do with AppArmor; in another place it says "the distro is dead." The fi