Duplex Printer Problem
by Jonathan Ryshpan
Whenever I try to print from Okular, a box with this message appears:
There are conflicts in duplex settings. Do you want to fix them?
And printing is in fact funky: the options for double sided printing:
Okular->Print->Options
are strange. The option "Long Side Printing" is selected (though greyed
out); the option "Off" is selectable, but if selected, no other option
can be selected afterward. Firefox doesn't allow control of duplex
printing using its native print dialog, but duplex can be controlled
using the system dialog.
Does anyone know what's going on or how to fix it.
Printer:
HP Color Laserjet M255dw
Cups Version:
cups-2.4.2-4.fc36.x86_64
System Info:
Operating System: Fedora Linux 36
KDE Plasma Version: 5.25.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.97.0
Qt Version: 5.15.5
Kernel Version: 5.19.4-200.fc36.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz
Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 4600
Manufacturer: ASUS
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Sincerely Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh(a)pacbell.net>
Three percent exceeds 2 percent by 50 percent,
not by 1 percent.
--Edward Denison
1 year, 7 months
"Dummy output" instead of sound card options, was working, now gone.
by Ted Roche
Dell Precision M6800 worked fine for a year. Some recent change has
caused the sound cards to disappear.
Hitting the volume control buttons on my (Logitech K350 or laptop
built-in) keyboard or digging through the settings of my Gnome
desktop for Sound shows that "Dummy Output" is my only option. While
its opinion of me isn't wrong, I could use some help getting this
working. It had been working well for years, upgraded in place to
Fedora 35. It was working after the big dnf system-upgrade, but sound
disappeared after a later update.
Internal laptop speakers make no noise, plugging headset into the
headset jack shows no dialog for "you just plugged something in" nor
makes sound.
Basic troubleshooting pointers on what to search for would be appreciated.
Machine: Dell Precision M6800: i7, 16Gb RAM, dual 1TB 5400rpm hdds,
intel video and AMD FirePro M6100 graphics.
Current kernel:
Linux jupiter.in.tedroche.com 5.19.4-100.fc35.x86_64 #1 SMP
PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Aug 25 17:41:09 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64
GNU/Linux
lspci -v shows:
00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core
Processor HD Audio Controller (rev 06)
Subsystem: Dell Device 05cd
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 41
Memory at f7d34000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [60] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset
High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
Subsystem: Dell Device 05cd
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 42
Memory at f7d30000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [60] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel
1 year, 8 months
fstab: systemd still uses the old version
by Robert Nichols
I have added a line to /etc/fstab:
/dev/mapper/imgs /mnt/imgs ext4 noauto,noexec,nodev 0 0
I have run "systemctl daemon-reload"
After a reboot, the command "mount /mnt/imgs" still returns the message:
Mount: (hint) your fstab has been modified, but systemd still uses
the old version; use 'systemctl daemon-reload' to reload.
This is Fedora 36, fully updated. What am I missing?
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Do NOT delete it.
1 year, 8 months
StrongCryptoSettings3 Setting Test Day
by Sumantro Mukherjee
Hey All,
We have a bunch of test days coming up, we are currently running
StrongCryptoSettings3 test day. I will be keeping this open for
community members to come and test. It's fairly simple, just run the
commands you find in[0] and your output should correspond to [1]
This is an *unconventional* test day which means, two things
1. You must try out any exotic VPN, git work flow, chat apps and see
if they work
2. Anything which will use OpenSSL will be affected and any corner
case should be possibly tested!
The first set of quick command execution will be easy. The test day
matrix will be open for the time being and it will be great to have
this tested!
[0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2022-09-05_StrongCryptoSettings3#...
[1] https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/issue/707#comment-813926
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Fedora QE
TRIED AND PERSONALLY TESTED, ERGO TRUSTED
1 year, 8 months
Looking for a GPU that "just works" - Is RX550 a good choice?
by Ian Pilcher
I'm currently using an old ATI FirePro V4900 to run my 3 displays -
1x 2K and 2x 1920x1200. I've been seeing glitches in some Gtk
applications for a while now (running on Plasma X11), and I'm getting
pretty tired of them.[1] This card uses the old radeon driver, so I'm
thinking that it might be time to bite the bullet and move to something
a bit more modern.
I do not do any gaming. I simply want to be able to run my preferred
desktop (Plasma) with compositing and a few effects turned on.
NVIDIA is out, because of the "just works" requirement, so I'm looking
at AMD options. Is the RX550 a good choice for my use case?
Thanks!
[1] The glitch takes the form of the contents of new windows not being
shown, only the frame. It only seems to happen with Gtk apps,
primarily Thunderbird. I've tried futzing around with the Xorg
acceleration settings, and I've been able to reduce but not
eliminate the problem.
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1 year, 8 months
following thunderbird upgrade to 102, it takes over 1h of 100% CPU to
start
by Eyal Lebedinsky
f36, just updated and received thunderbird-librnp-rnp-102.2.0-1.fc36.x86_64
from thunderbird-91.12.0-1.fc36.x86_64
tb brings up the expected display but no input is accepted. The process is shown as running with 100% CPU
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
72149 eyal 20 0 4075036 772700 223612 R 100.3 2.4 5:26.57 thunderbird
It will not refresh(*) the panel and will start responding after about 1h.
[later] I see the panel was refreshed after 50m
but input was still not accepted and the display will not refresh. It resolved after 70m.
After this is seems to be OK, I can read mail etc.
To be sure, I made a copy of the profile where I deleted all the .msf files and observed the same thing.
I tried this a few times.
It is not just a one-off post-upgrade process. After it recovers and works, if I shut tb down and launch it
then it repeats the problem.
There are not too many emails here, maybe a few tens of thousand totaling just over 1GB (a few mailing lists).
My main mail client is on another machine, still running tb 91, and not showing this problem.
Searching the 'net I did not find a relevant report, where should I look?
BTW, after reading the release notes, seeing the structural changes, I wonder if it is at all possible
to downgrade to v91?
TIA
(*) "not refreshed" means the panel is not painted after minimize/restore, showing only a border.
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Eyal Lebedinsky (fedora(a)eyal.emu.id.au)
1 year, 8 months
Help building custom kernel RPM.
by Sharpened Blade
I want to build a custom kernel with some modules and patches added, and package this as an rpm to install. I have tried adding it like building the kernel from the git source, but it doesnt have the modules. I think it might have to do with the .spec file. I added the patches to the rpm, and I modified the source tarball so it has the modules added. I ran
```
dnf install -y fedora-packager git curl pesign ncurses-devel libkcapi libkcapi-devel libkcapi-static libkcapi-tools libbpf fedpkg rpmdevtools dwarves
rpmdev-setuptree
cd ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES
koji download-build --arch=src kernel-${FEDORA_KERNEL_VERSION}
rpm -Uvh kernel-${FEDORA_KERNEL_VERSION}.src.rpm
cd /root/rpmbuild/SPECS
dnf -y builddep kernel.spec
cp /path/to/driver /path/to/kernel source tarbal from spec/drivers/staging
tar -cJf ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/kernel-version.tar.xz /path/to/kernel/src
rpmbuild -bb --with baseonly --without debug --without debuginfo --target=x86_64 kernel.spec
```
I know that I install some extra useless dependencies. When I do the same process to the kernel sources, but instead use make to build the vanilla kernel git, the modules are built. I noticed this https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelStagingPolicy, but I dont know if it is related. The necessary drivers are in drivers/staging, and I added the sources to the spec file. Can someone please help me make this modifications into a kernel rpm.
1 year, 8 months
I am trying to build a custom kernel rpm and need help.
by Sharpened Blade
I have a few custom (out-of-tree) drivers and patches, and I want to add them to a rpm package for the kernel, how can I do that. The drivers have to go in the staging folder, but they dont seem to get built by the spec file.
1 year, 8 months
/etc/grub2.cfg Flagged a Potenially missing
by Stephen Morris
Hi,
/etc/extlinux.conf is flagged as missing, the file is displayed in
red and the link is shown in white text on a red background. As
mentioned in another thread on this list that file actually is missing.
/etc/grub2.cfg and /etc/grub2-efi.cfg both of which point to the
same file also display the same way as /etc/extlinux.conf, but in this
case the file pointed to actually does exist, and is linking to
/boot/grub2/grub.cfg, which I regularly write to with sudo and
grub2-mkconfig, but I have also found that I need to use sudo to browse
/boot/grub2. Is it normal for links to be flagged as missing when sudo
is required to list the contents of the directory and why is sudo
required to list the contents of /boot/grub2 when I don't need sudo to
list the contents of /boot? /boot/efi seems to be in the same situation.
regards,
Steve
1 year, 8 months
