SavvyBeardedFish

SavvyBeardedFish, 1 month ago

Feel like most people still do the scripting in Bash for portability reasons, and then just run Fish as the interactive shell

SavvyBeardedFish, 1 month ago

Archlinux’s XZ was compromised as well.

News post

Git change for not using tarballs from source

SavvyBeardedFish, 2 months ago

Start with the basics, do you see your Nvidia GPU pop up when using vulkaninfo --summary?

If it doesn’t pop up, verify that you have the correct vulkan ICD files in: $ ls /usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/

There you should have nvidia_icd.json, nvidia_layers.json. If that’s missing, you’re missing the nvidia-utils part of the driver.

If they are there, but it still don’t show in your vulkaninfo sumary, you could try to load the nvidia driver manually; modprobe nvidia, also check the kernel logs journalctl -k or dmesg and search for nvidia to see whether the driver got loaded correctly?

SavvyBeardedFish, 2 months ago

Nice, then you should be able to run vkcube to verify whether your GPU is activated properly.

You can do several “iterations” here as well.

1. Install Mangohud so you can visibly see if your GPU is activated correctly
2. Run mangohud vkcube-wayland - Does it use your Nvidia GPU?
3. Run mangohud vkcube - Does it use your Nvidia GPU?

If Step 2 nor 3 shows your Nvidia GPU you can try and force it with: mangohud vkcube-wayland --gpu_number 0

SavvyBeardedFish, 2 months ago

Breaking Linux every week or every other week? That’s almost impressive!

SavvyBeardedFish, 4 months ago

They support meetings in Firefox so it’s a bit weird why they would block calls… They’re effectively the same thing

Additionally, if you change your userAgent to be Chrome things are working pretty good in Firefox as far as I’ve tried it (not too extensively)

SavvyBeardedFish, 4 months ago

I’ve used: User Agent Switcher

Successfully using;

1. Whitelist mode
2. Domain = teams.microsoft.com
3. UserAgentString = Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

SavvyBeardedFish, 8 months ago

I’ve tried running steam with the dedicated GPU option

What exactly are you running to choose the dedicated vs integrated GPU?

I also get the freezing issue without running with the dedicated GPU when I launch steam but found that launching directly to the steam settings window from the menu reduces the chances of freezing.

Hmmm, whenever this happens, it might be worth looking at the kernel logs, see if something crashes. You can check them with either

journalctl -k -xef or dmesg

Kernel: 5.15.0-82-generic

In general it’s recommended to stay on newer kernels/mesa when using the open source GPU drivers, could be worthwhile trying to update that (think there’s a PPA you can pull from)

SavvyBeardedFish, 8 months ago

From: This thread

Seems like you can try and debug the execution by running switcherooctl launch *application*, which should (manually) do the same as when you right click and click Launch with dedicated GPU, because I think Mint is using switcheroo, same as Gnome is.

But would then hopefully log some debug information for you in the terminal itself