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Lenovo is a JOKE (IBM too)
by lejeczek 05 Apr '21

05 Apr '21

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.

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Apostrophe changed to Acute-Accent
by Jorge Fábregas 05 Apr '21

05 Apr '21

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

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Lenovo USB 3.0 Dock drivers - Displaylink
by Frederic Muller 04 Apr '21

04 Apr '21

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

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Fwd: Abysmal VM performance even with btrfs+nodatacow
by Richard Shaw 04 Apr '21

04 Apr '21

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%20… Any tips? Or do I just need to buy a cheap SSD and format it EXT4 just for virtual machine images? Thanks, Richard

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Dual monitor issue.
by Erik P. Olsen 03 Apr '21

03 Apr '21

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

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mdadm -> BTRFS conversion
by Patrick O'Callaghan 03 Apr '21

03 Apr '21

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

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AMD Ryzen laptop does not resume from sleep at random
by lejeczek 02 Apr '21

02 Apr '21

Hi guys. I have a Lenovo E14 Gen2 which sports AMD Ryzen 4500U which has recently became very annoying. I do not shut the system off but, like many other I presume, put it to sleep, or system does it automatically. Resuming is the problem, sometimes. It's third sometimes Nth time, previous times it would wake up, where system instead of to wake up, freezes. When it freezes, screens stay blank/black, I have an external Dell monitor connected all the time as well as external USB ThinkPad keyboard (in case somebody sees the same problem in their config). Only power LED changes to state saying it's back on, not sleeping. I wonder if somebody might have any suggestions. My first thought was tweaking, adding some kernel parameters but will have to research that. many thanks, L

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Fedora 34 Works on a T500
by John Mellor 02 Apr '21

02 Apr '21

Kudos to the Fedora 34 and Gnome teams!!! My Lenovo Thinkpad T500 runs Linux very well. Its a beat-up, 12-year-old, well-equipped dual-core laptop with 8GB ram, a Core2 Duo cpu with an AMD Rv635 gpu. Its a good machine for meetings, as it is quite rugged and mostly survives being dropped, coffee spills, etc. Best of all, its highly secure with hardware that is not subject to the problems related to later-generation Intel processor design faults, etc. Fedora 24 through 32 just worked on this laptop. Updates were almost seamless, and all was good. Early Fedora 33 was a big disappointment, as it had serious font issues in the message dropdowns and other places that made it semi-unusable, and with later updates it would not even show a Gnome screen. I reinstalled it several times to confirm that the hardware was ok. I could never find any logs detailing why it didn't work, so I switched to installing Ubuntu 20.10 as working much more correctly on this hardware with the same version of Gnome. Last week I did a fresh install of Fedora 34 pre-beta, and it just worked. It continues to work with the hundreds of updates that are being pushed. Fedora is back. Thanks!

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RE: Fedora 34 Works on a T500
by J.Witvliet＠mindef.nl 01 Apr '21

01 Apr '21

See below -----Original Message----- From: John Mellor <john.mellor(a)gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, April 1, 2021 2:50 PM To: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Fedora 34 Works on a T500 Kudos to the Fedora 34 and Gnome teams!!! My Lenovo Thinkpad T500 runs Linux very well. Its a beat-up, 12-year-old, well-equipped dual-core laptop with 8GB ram, a Core2 Duo cpu with an AMD Rv635 gpu. Its a good machine for meetings, as it is quite rugged and mostly survives being dropped, coffee spills, etc. Best of all, its highly secure with hardware that is not subject to the problems related to later-generation Intel processor design faults, etc. Fedora 24 through 32 just worked on this laptop. Updates were almost seamless, and all was good. Early Fedora 33 was a big disappointment, as it had serious font issues in the message dropdowns and other places that made it semi-unusable, and with later updates it would not even show a Gnome screen. I reinstalled it several times to confirm that the hardware was ok. I could never find any logs detailing why it didn't work, so I switched to installing Ubuntu 20.10 as working much more correctly on this hardware with the same version of Gnome. Last week I did a fresh install of Fedora 34 pre-beta, and it just worked. It continues to work with the hundreds of updates that are being pushed. Fedora is back. Thanks! -----Original Message----- Hi, The ${SUBJECT} Surprised me. Long, long time ago, i was part of the team that did the porting of Linux onto the T500. However, that was abt 20 years ago, and the target was the HP T500 with a couple of PARISC CPU's. I hope your machine consumes less electricity :-) Dit bericht kan informatie bevatten die niet voor u is bestemd. Indien u niet de geadresseerde bent of dit bericht abusievelijk aan u is toegezonden, wordt u verzocht dat aan de afzender te melden en het bericht te verwijderen. De Staat aanvaardt geen aansprakelijkheid voor schade, van welke aard ook, die verband houdt met risico's verbonden aan het elektronisch verzenden van berichten. This message may contain information that is not intended for you. If you are not the addressee or if this message was sent to you by mistake, you are requested to inform the sender and delete the message. The State accepts no liability for damage of any kind resulting from the risks inherent in the electronic transmission of messages.

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Desktop crash during a `dnf upgrade`, will this be a problem now?
by Qiyu Yan 01 Apr '21

01 Apr '21

Hi! folks, Just now during a routine update using `dnf update` my desktop process gnome-shell crashed. Afterwards, I checked dnf history and /var/log/dnf.log to see if any inconsistency is present. dnf.log didn't report the last transaction as completed, but `dnf history info last` report the action was successful. luckily, I didn't see any inconsistency in my system. I just have to manually clean rpm files left in cache. Seems that dnf is killed just when transaction done, before it can write to dnf.log? While is it possible that dnf gets killed during transaction and breaks the system when desktop session dies? Do we have a approach to avoid this? Like telling dnf to ignore signals when doing important things (does dnf have this already?) -- Best regards, Qiyu Yan

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