Re: Volume/mute/brightness keys stopped working

2019-08-13 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 8/13/19 1:23 AM, Ian Pilcher wrote: I have a Dell Precision 5520 laptop (basically an XPS 15).  The volume, mute, and brightness "function" keys have always just worked on this laptop with no additional configuration required ... until now. Something has changed in the last week or two, and

Re: Nouveau crashes

2019-08-13 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 8/13/19 5:12 AM, Javier Perez wrote: My question is this. If I change to Radeon, how is the experience with those cards? Is the linux driver for these cards fine? I am not a heavy game player, mostly web browsing, and lately FreeCAD, Meshmixer though wine, PlayonLinux, user. Probably will

Re: Viewing videos in Chrome crashes gnome shell (solved?)

2019-08-13 Thread SternData
I turned off hardware acceleration in Chrome. So far, so good. On 8/12/19 11:06 AM, SternData wrote: > I'm totally unable to track this down and when I try to report the > gnome-shell crash, I get an error that ureport is unable to read the > crash file. > > Am I the only one with this error? >

Re: Volume/mute/brightness keys stopped working

2019-08-13 Thread Ted Roche
See if the Volume/Mute/Brightness works if you hold the "Fn" key simultaneously. There's an "Fn Lock" setting in the BIOS and/or software-accessible that gets toggled inadvertently. Just this week, I had customers complaining their Wifi keeps getting turned off, and their F8 is no longer working

Re: Nouveau crashes

2019-08-13 Thread stan via users
On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 07:12:01 -0500 Javier Perez wrote: > My question is this. If I change to Radeon, how is the experience with > those cards? Is the linux driver for these cards fine? > I am not a heavy game player, mostly web browsing, and lately FreeCAD, > Meshmixer though wine, PlayonLinux,

Re: Nouveau crashes

2019-08-13 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 07:12:01 -0500 Javier Perez wrote: > Is the linux driver for these cards fine? Not the last time I tried them. As near as I can tell the only reliable open source driver is intel, but you need a motherboard with built-in intel video that supports it. Simpler to switch back to

Nouveau crashes

2019-08-13 Thread Javier Perez
Hi. I have been a long life fan of Nvidia cards. A few years ago I decided to skip the nvidia drivers and go with the nouveau drivers. So far so good, but they tend to freeze the desktop every few days. Lately after upgrading to F30, the desktop freezes daily or more. It is more annoying than

Re: I need help understanding /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern

2019-08-13 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml fedora
On 2019-08-12 20:53, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 8/12/19 3:18 AM, Jeremy Nicoll - ml fedora wrote: Excuse my interruption, but why would that create a file named 'core'?   Why doesn't it just place 'core' in the named file? That's not a real file... Thank-you to both Sam and Samuel for

Re: Volume/mute/brightness keys stopped working

2019-08-13 Thread Jakub Jelen
On Tue, 2019-08-13 at 03:23 -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote: > I have a Dell Precision 5520 laptop (basically an XPS 15). The > volume, > mute, and brightness "function" keys have always just worked on this > laptop with no additional configuration required ... until now. > > Something has changed in

Volume/mute/brightness keys stopped working

2019-08-13 Thread Ian Pilcher
I have a Dell Precision 5520 laptop (basically an XPS 15). The volume, mute, and brightness "function" keys have always just worked on this laptop with no additional configuration required ... until now. Something has changed in the last week or two, and the keys no longer have any effect

Re: Ban a specific mirror in dnf

2019-08-13 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Samuel, and Tim, On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 4:57 AM Tim via users wrote: > > On Mon, 2019-08-12 at 16:35 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > You could add it to your /etc/hosts file like: > > 127.0.0.2 the.bad.domain > > This does seem like a roundabout solution to what has to be a common > problem

Re: Ban a specific mirror in dnf

2019-08-13 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Tony On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 11:07 PM Tony Nelson wrote: > > On 19-08-12 13:34:22, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I would like to ban a particularly slow mirror[1]. It's the closest > > mirror to my geographical location (one of only two mirrors in my > > country, India). Every time I