Solus Updates for Week 49, 2024

WetGeek

Harvey Brace for rant.

Thanks for that summary of the ACPI issue. I guess it's just something we need to put up with, if we want to use sleep states. The last time I fixed everything, it lasted for quite a while, so that's just a decision I need to make. The alternative for me is just to lock my screen at night and unlock in the morning, which is not so terrible. I just hate leaving the computer running for that many hours when I'm not using it.

My computers are all DELLs, so all Intel inside. I imagine things could be worse. Now it's time to forget all about this for now, and watch the Abu Dhabi grand prix - the last one of the F1 season. And the last one for Louis Hamilton to be driving a Mercedes.

Harvey

WetGeek

To be clear there is a chance we are missing a patch, doing something wrong / a future update will resolve it. But as you may be able to infer from my rant, I've had a long history of issues with sleep states across OSes and highly doubt we can solve it. I just wished to express my own frustration with the underlying issues you have been experiencing.

Enjoy your F1 🏁

Lucien_Lachance

is this something new in plasma? middle clicking a file in dolphin to open it in the 2nd choice app? - for example images open in gwenview by default, and in gimp via middle click?

edit: which is a good thing i discovered because twice now today the system has crashed HARD when dragging a pic from dolphin into gimp. cant even switch tty, keyboard/mouse not responding to anything

Harvey

Lucien_Lachance middle clicking a file in dolphin to open it in the 2nd choice app?

Can't say its new because I've never tried this before but just confirming the behaviour. Middle click .mkv file for me is mkvtoolnix gui and for .avi it is mediainfo

Lucien_Lachance

Harvey you can configure the order in system settings >default apps> file associations
in case you didnt know

Lucien_Lachance

Harvey can you also confirm crashes when dragging image from dolphin into gimp?

Harvey

Lucien_Lachance

Negative. I tried drag & dropping into gimp for png, jpg, webp, and gif (it worked fine).

Lucien_Lachance

Harvey okay
i guess it doesent happen all the time, first time i think i did it several times without issue first, 2nd time it happened right away

Harvey

Patrice

Cherry-picked protonmail-bridge 3.15.0 to fix compatibility with Qt 6.8

penny-farthing

Harvey

I can confirm that this problem has indeed been solved, thank you for stepping in.

minh

It's not directly relate to this update, but my issue is fixed from the hint about Nvidia beta driver. I got 4060 recently and run into "known issue" with black screen after wake up. I tried different versions of this driver. The beta helped, it shows login screen, then just black screen with cursor after logged in (I use Xfce). Then I tried nvidia-developer-driver-current and it works 🥳. At least I could hold this until they release the fix. Thanks for the hint @EbonJaeger

ReillyBrogan

minh so nvidia-developer-driver-current is not the "beta" driver, it's actually a driver specifically for game developers and other developers working with opengl/vulkan directly that exposes more debug information to help them develop effectively. You want nvidia-beta-driver-current to be on the beta driver specifically.

minh

ReillyBrogan It's not fully working with nvidia-beta-driver-current, I know I'm on the edge when install developer version but no other choice to avoid this black screen.

minh The beta helped, it shows login screen, then just black screen with cursor after logged in (I use Xfce)

Staudey

minh Did you try the beta driver before or after this round of updates?

ReillyBrogan

minh hmmm that's probably because the developer driver is based on an older driver branch (the 550 driver) and not the newer 565 branch.

brent

Harvey fascinating context for the sleep state governor (acpi). I wonder if Torvalds or Stallman ever envisioned a foss solution to this? It can't though, I suppose, because acpi is industry standard...
...Gates, man, what a quote, I've never seen a man so committed to his own bottom line (hence this is why he's a trillionaire)..cold..I can just hearing him saying after the patent part "Embrace, extend, extinguish."

Harvey

brent

Kinda off topic for this thread so I won't comment further than this post, but ACPI is an open standard it is just a shit one and getting people to create/follow a new one is difficult so we are kinda stuck with it.

If you want to gain a deeper understanding of why its so broken you can read this: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/torvalds/linux/7503345ac5f5e82fd9a36d6e6b447c016376403a/Documentation/firmware-guide/acpi/osi.rst

minh

Staudey no, I didn't think about this option before. I could test with any specific version on my pc if it helps. Please let me know.

minh

Ok, now it made it works with nvidia-beta-driver-current. By created this file /etc/X11/xorg.conf use "NVIDIA X Server Settings" app -> X Server Display Configuration -> Save to X Configuration File. I don't know how long it will last 🤞

banger

I had a problem this week with opening Easy Effects on Plasma Wayland. Window opened but was all garbled and no close button was displayed. A log out and log in seemed to have solved it. Maybe a one off?

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