Touchpad multi-touch not working in Fedora 34
by super cow
Hello, I have an HP TouchSmart tx2 Notebook PC. I'm running Fedora 34, with
Gnome running Wayland, and I can't get the gestures to work.
Well, not just the gestures, but the multi-touch feature itself on my
touchpad. It could be a hardware limitation, but I don't think that it is.
Any feedback would be helpful.
Here are some terminal outputs:
$ dmesg | grep -i touchpad
[ 3.757914] psmouse serio1: synaptics: Touchpad model: 1, fw: 6.3, id:
0x180b1, caps: 0xa04711/0xa00000/0x0/0x0, board id: 0, fw id: 436772
[ 3.826925] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as
/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input6
$ sudo libinput list-devices
Device: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad
Kernel: /dev/input/event7
Group: 9
Seat: seat0, default
Size: 51x23mm
Capabilities: pointer
Tap-to-click: disabled
Tap-and-drag: enabled
Tap drag lock: disabled
Left-handed: disabled
Nat.scrolling: disabled
Middle emulation: n/a
Calibration: n/a
Scroll methods: *edge
Click methods: none
Disable-w-typing: enabled
Accel profiles: flat *adaptive
Rotation: n/a
2 years, 11 months
Identifying what is accessing a USB device.
by Patrick O'Callaghan
I have an external USB-3 2-disk docking station, and a script which can
power up and down the drives as needed.
I have a systemd automount unit that correctly powers up the dock when
accessed, then mounts the drives (thanks Ed).
After an idle time, automount unmounts the drives. A script detects
when this happens and powers them down ... *at which point they
immediately power up again, and remain up until I intervene manually,
even though they are unmounted*.
This never happens if I run the script directly from the command line
(i.e. the drives power down and stay down).
Clearly the docking unit isn't just doing this flakily on its own.
Something is making it happen, and I've no idea how to discover what it
is except that it seems to be correlated with systemd in some way.
All of the above is 100% reproducible.
I'm open to suggestions if anyone has any ideas.
poc
2 years, 11 months
Blue Griffon
by ToddAndMargo
Hi All,
Any sign of RPM's for Blue Griffon?
If not, how about a good substitute?
Many thanks,
-T
2 years, 11 months
Lenovo is a JOKE (IBM too)
by lejeczek
Hi guys,
Just wanted to share what a friend of mine has just
experienced, which just adds & matches my experience - you
can take it as warning in a way, if you too jumped on that
bandwagon of (fake) Lenovo euphoria towards support, in
generic terms, for Linux by the company - which is BAD
across the board.
I'm experiencing sleep/resume issue with my Lenovo two
laptops, same problem my friend sees, only he did file a
support request to Lenovo.
So if you still have any hopes, then have no doubts, here is
Lenovo/IBM's replay:
"..Linux operating systems are out of our scope, as we
support only Windows.
Please contact Ubuntu support to resolve the problem.."
In that reply you will find an insult added to the injury if
you read closely - IBM who does (some)support for Lenovo
who, not that very but still recently purchased RedHat.
My next laptop purchase I'll make extra effort to find some
of those smaller manufacturer who hopefully are genuine
Linux supporters, might as well give them a chance.
best wishes, L.
2 years, 11 months
Apostrophe changed to Acute-Accent
by Jorge Fábregas
Hi everyone,
After updating F33 this afternoon my "apostrophe" (U+0027) has been
changed to "acute-accent" (U+00B4). This is in the "US, Intl, with
dead-keys" keyboard layout which I've used all my life (first time I see
this behavior).
I've identified the gtk3- 3.24.28-1.fc33 update as the root of the
problem. If I revert to the previous version all fine. I'm opening a bug
but wondered if anyone knew about this?
Thanks,
Jorge
2 years, 11 months
Lenovo USB 3.0 Dock drivers - Displaylink
by Frederic Muller
Hi!
I bought without researching a (cheap) Lenovo USB 3.0 Dock hoping to
connect one extra monitor to my laptop. It turns out that video through
USB is not part of the standards and thus proprietary. There is luckily
a package available here:
https://github.com/displaylink-rpm/displaylink-rpm
Still it doesn't work. I'm getting this:
systemctl status displaylink.service
displaylink.service - DisplayLink Manager Service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/displaylink.service; static)
Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Fri
2021-04-02>
Process: 3954 ExecStartPre=/sbin/modprobe evdi (code=exited,
status=1/FAILU>
CPU: 4m
and this:
sbin/modprobe evdi
modprobe: FATAL: Module evdi not found in directory
/lib/modules/5.11.10-200.fc33.x86_64
Has anyone any experience on the topic or should I just ask on their
github project?
Thank you.
Fred
2 years, 11 months
Fwd: Abysmal VM performance even with btrfs+nodatacow
by Richard Shaw
I just setup a Windows 10 to do some debugging of a mingw project. Gnome
Boxes made the process very simple but the performance is horrendous.
Even after the following I still wouldn't consider it usable.
# chattr +C ~/.local/share/gnome-boxes/images
# cd ~/.local/share/gnome-boxes/images
# mv win10 ../
# cat ../win10 win10
$ lsattr
---------------C---- ./win10
Here's a screenshot showing windows process manager with < 1MB transfer
rates but 100% disk busy while installing MinGW w64 in windows, which is
not a huge amount of data...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2m0p3lptbqwd7lp/Screenshot%20from%202021-04-03%...
Any tips? Or do I just need to buy a cheap SSD and format it EXT4 just for
virtual machine images?
Thanks,
Richard
2 years, 11 months
Dual monitor issue.
by Erik P. Olsen
I have an old 20" monitor model Flatron L2000CP that I want to connect to my T580 laptop.
The monitor came with both VGA and DVI cables and the T580 "only" has HDMI. I therefore
bought an HDMI to VGA adaptor and have established an HDMI to VGA connection to the
monitor.
The connection works and I can switch to all four connection types but one tiny but
decisive problem makes the dual monitor unuseable: the display on the Flatron screen is
not positioned correctly. It is shifted ½ an inch off the screen on the left side and on
the right side there is likewise ½ an inch of unused area.
Any advise on how I can overcome this issue is highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
--
Erik P. Olsen - Copenhagen, Denmark
Fedora 33/64 bit xfce Claws-Mail POP3 Gramps 5.1.3 Bacula 9.6.5
2 years, 12 months
mdadm -> BTRFS conversion
by Patrick O'Callaghan
I currently have a pair of external drives configured as ext4 with
RAID1 using mdadm, and mainly used for backup. My / and /home
filesystems are now BTRFS so I'm looking at converting the external
drives to BTRFS with RAID1. My main reason is to take advantage of
BTRFS checksumming as a guard against bitrot, but I'd also like the
flexibility of setting up subvolumes with different properties (the
disks are currently 90% empty).
Any thoughts on this? What would be the simplest conversion strategy if
I go ahead?
poc
2 years, 12 months