Broken Discrete/Dedicated GPU support

2023-08-14 Thread Jan Drögehoff
Hey people, KDE recently merged in more support for discrete GPUs through swicheroo-control and I noticed that the logic both KDE and Gnome use does not probe if the GPU is actually discrete/dedicated or not, only if it was used at startup. On Desktop setups, it's not uncommon to see a

Re: glibc 2.36 and DT_HASH (preserving it for F37+)

2022-08-21 Thread Jan Drögehoff
On 8/21/22 12:44, Jakub Jelinek wrote: On Sun, Aug 21, 2022 at 12:05:11PM +0200, Jan Drögehoff wrote: It's Epic's fault. They must update their anti-cheat to use the modern API. More reports have come out claiming this also affects the game Shovel Knight[2] and the open source library

Re: glibc 2.36 and DT_HASH (preserving it for F37+)

2022-08-21 Thread Jan Drögehoff
On 8/21/22 10:59, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: On 20/08/2022 21:42, Neal Gompa wrote: It seems that upstream glibc disabled support for generating DT_HASH tables for its libraries and binaries, which breaks Linux games that use Epic Games' Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC). DT_HASH was deprecated for

Re: Is it okay to use /usr/bin/python again?

2022-01-04 Thread Jan Drögehoff
According to the guidelines its still required to change the shebang to python3 https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Python/#_shebangs Jan Jan 4, 2022 11:09:40 AM Florian Weimer : > Or is it still banned in Fedora? > > We have some scripts that are dual Python 2/Python 3,

Re: LLD compatibility package

2021-08-21 Thread Jan Drögehoff
> On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 7:55 PM Jan Drögehoff wrote: > > tstellar already answered in a different thread: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.o... I can understand if there is no compatibility package because there hasn't been a use for

LLD compatibility package

2021-08-21 Thread Jan Drögehoff
I've been wondering for a while but I haven't had time to ask this, why is there no lld compatibility package? clang and llvm have them and only lld seems to lack it. I'd understand it if lld was just a linker but it also provides many libraries and development files that can have brekaing

Re: Seemingly wrong FailsToInstall (unannounced soname bump: lld - liblldCore, liblldCommon etc.)

2021-08-18 Thread Jan Drögehoff
On 8/18/21 6:02 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2021-08-18 at 17:21 +0200, Jan Drögehoff wrote: I've received 2 automated bugzilla reports for F35[1] and F36[2] that my package FailsToInstall. I tried to replicate this with a Fedora 35 and Rawhide VM created from the last known good ISOs

Seemingly wrong FailsToInstall

2021-08-18 Thread Jan Drögehoff
I've received 2 automated bugzilla reports for F35[1] and F36[2] that my package FailsToInstall. I tried to replicate this with a Fedora 35 and Rawhide VM created from the last known good ISOs provided by the nightly compose finder and found everything to be working as expected. Is there

Re: discord fedora .rpm and repo

2021-06-11 Thread Jan Drögehoff
Made the mistake of hitting the wrong button and sending this just to Cătălin George Feștilă so I'm reposting this As its stand Discord cannot be put into the official fedora repositories due to it being proprietary software. But that hasn't stopped people from putting it in places you can

Re: F35 Change: Replace SDL 1.2 with sdl12-compat using SDL 2.0 (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2021-05-18 Thread Jan Drögehoff
On 5/18/21 9:17 PM, Jan Drögehoff wrote: It uses the exact same code as SDL 1.2 which has a version for i386 systems with inline assembly so that might need some eyes looking at it. Actually scratch that I had misinterpreted a contributors response to the issue and it has a completely fresh

Re: F35 Change: Replace SDL 1.2 with sdl12-compat using SDL 2.0 (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2021-05-18 Thread Jan Drögehoff
On 5/18/21 12:45 PM, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: Ben Cotton wrote: This Change proposes to replace SDL 1.2 with sdl12-compat, which uses SDL 2.0. FYI, it took me just a few minutes of casually browsing commits to spot a memory corruption bug in this code:

Re: F35 Change: Replace SDL 1.2 with sdl12-compat using SDL 2.0 (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2021-05-18 Thread Jan Drögehoff
On 5/17/21 9:53 PM, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: > On 17.05.2021 20:50, Jan Drögehoff wrote: >> the Steam runtime ships its own SDL 1.2 so I don't think anything >> will change on that front > > Steam was just an example. There are lots of other proprietary > applic

Re: F35 Change: Replace SDL 1.2 with sdl12-compat using SDL 2.0 (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2021-05-17 Thread Jan Drögehoff
On 5/17/21 7:29 PM, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: On 17.05.2021 16:19, Ben Cotton wrote: In order to help move SDL 1.2 games into the modern world, let's replace SDL 1.2 with sdl12-compat, which uses SDL 2.0. What about third-party **proprietary** games from Steam for example? the Steam