Thanks Stewart and Hugh. I'll have a look at Stewart's recommendations for pdf manipulation. Interestingly I forgot I had previously used ImageMagic's "convert" to combine pages, perhaps I can also use it to apply the page numbers as watermarks. I think I gave up on that the last time, which was a couple of years ago, because I found pdftk worked for this.
On 7/26/15, D. Hugh Redelmeier <[email protected]> wrote: > | From: Russell Reiter <[email protected]> > <snip previous> > Just to be clear, fglrx isn't open source. So it cannot be in Fedora. Sorry I should have said fglrx _as_ open source. > > The normal way to add AMD Catalyst proprietary drivers is to through > the <http://rpmfusion.org/> repos. There are many guides to this on > the web. I never do this because the open source drivers for AMD are > good enough for things I do. I try to convince the people I assist that repository based systems are the way to go. For this effort I had added rpmfusion and used the recommended ATI install script but alas no joy. > > | In > | fact KDE Plasma doesn't work at all. > > I'm surprised. That ought to be fixable. Perhaps it requires > experts. This might also be due to the fact that I switched to lightDM in an effort, rightly or wrongly, to control the heating issue. I'll switch back and give it a go after I improve the cooling. > > | In the Gnome desktop however, any intensive video apps such as VLC etc > | overheat the CPU and crash the unit. > > That's a hardware problem. No software you run on a PC should be able > to "overheat the CPU and crash the unit". > > That hardware problem is likely to afflict you with a bunch of > different workloads. > > | It looks like I'd have to > | backport X in order to install the proprietary Catalyst drivers for > | this particular GPU. > > What do you mean by "backport X"? What X is newer than Fedora's? Why > do you think that it would solve your problems? Sorry - my poor semantics. I meant downgrade, apparently while there is supposed support for these older GPU's in X 1.17 stepping down to 1.16 has apparently worked for some people as noted here. https://bluehatrecord.wordpress.com/2015/06/05/installing-the-proprietary-amd-catalyst-15-5-fglrx-15-101-driver-on-fedora-22-with-linux-kernel-4-04/ > > | HTML 5 videos on the net do work, but eventually > | the unit overheats and dies. I switched to lightDM and that's a little > | better but still not up to speed. > > Overheating ought to be fixed. In hardware. > > Consider cleaning out dust as a first step. Among other things, look > at heat sinks and fans. Clean as a whistle, from a dust perspective. I have added one case cooling fan to the back of the unit and I'll add another to the front to increase throughput. :-) Right now I'm directing the output of my Air Conditioner to the rear of the unit. I get almost an hour of VLC video before the crash this time. > > Consider updating firmware (in case thermal throttling has changed). > I don't actually know if this is meaningful, but dmidecode on my > machine reports > BIOS Revision: 8.14 > The Asus site has M3A78-EM BIOS 2701 released 2010/11/12. > I'm pretty sure that that is what I'm running. Thanks dmidecode shows this BIOS info for me. Vendor: American Megatrends Inc. Version: 0508 Release Date: 08/14/2008 It looks like a bios upgrade is added to the TODO's > > If brave, see if one of the heat sinks no longer connects properly. This was my "hail mary" option. > Finding out can be destructive, so I don't recommend this unless you > are daring and experienced. And have thermal paste to replace the > existing solution. (AMD CPUs came with a disk of stuff instead of > paste and it is supposed to be single-use: detaching and re-attaching > a heat sink is not intended to work.) Thermal grease is on the list. God I hate that stuff, just a dab too much and you defeat your whole purpose. > > | It seems that yum has been dandified for this release > > "Dandified"??? "Gone" is the more accurate word. Or is this word > play: DaNdiFied? Yup, dnf = dandified yum. > > | but when I tried > | the new dnf update it failed to connect to the repositories. However, > | yum-deprecated did update the kernel and after that update dnf was > | able to function as intended. > > That's odd. And interesting. Hard to say what actually was going on > now that the phenomenon is gone. It's good that the problem is > eliminated. > > Good luck. Thanks I note that system rescue cd www.sysresccd.org/Download gives me finer grained control over the display manager when running off the cd, ie. more display resolution options and screen rotation. There is an option for a disk install of system rescue cd as kind of a kludge, or perhaps I'll try out Gentoo proper itself. I just used system rescue's tool kit to shrink the partition in preparation for a backup os. First a bios upgrade tho. Cheers Russell > --- > Talk Mailing List > [email protected] > http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
