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Root Moose
@Root Moose

Monkeying with computers since 1984, Linux user since 1994.

Free/Libre Open Source Software, data sovereignty & privacy advocate.

I've seen some things; is there such a thing as computer related PTSD?

Transitioning to "just a user".

Distros I'm "into" lately:

* Alpine Linux: https://alpinelinux.org
* FreeBSD: https://freebsd.org
* Debian Linux: https://debian.org
* Chimera Linux: https://chimeralinux.org

My automotive half can be found at https://weird.autos/@fxworks

Boosts / Shares ≠ Endorsement.

#nobot #noindex #noai

Website: https://moose.ca
Car Stuff: https://fxworks.ca

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Thinking about a new domain+project...

Anyone have the TL;DR; on self hosted fediverse software?

Mastodon vs Snac vs Pleroma vs ?

I'm looking for something that is super low maintenance and lightweight / easy on resources but as full featured as practical within those constraints.

Something easy to tune re: post lengths and media types would be cool too. A "text first" platform is desired.

I've run Mastodon in the past and it's like fishing with nukes for this use case.

What's out there?

#Fediverse #Mastodon #snac #web #selfHosting #SelfHosted
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Root Moose · 1w
Ok, I think I've got this display card under control - or so it seems. It hasn't crashed since Wednesday. I guess this is a combo AMD RDNA3 Navi23 and KDE Plasma (+ Wayland?) bug... I backed out all...
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Hard crash to a green screen on the DP connected screen, black screen on the HDMI screen. Was playing video out of Jellyfin fullscreen on the DP screen. Now it's looping the last 1-2 seconds of audio in the video. Can't login remotely, totally hung otherwise.

<sigh />

<grr />

<ffs />
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Root Moose · 4d
Ok, I give up. After some more tweaking and three or four crashes in a similar number of hours I've reverted this machine back to the RX 6000 GPU. I'll try again when I hear about more AMD RDNA 3 GPU kernel changes.
GrégòrCSB 🖤💛🇵🇱🇪🇺 · 6d
Exactly! 😁
Root Moose · 1w
Nice mouse cursor ya got there... be a shame if something happ.... shazbot! #Linux #AMD #amdgpu #rdna3 https://media.bsd.cafe/bsdmmedia01/media_attachments/files/116/965/677/130/864/298/original/3f8...
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Ok, I think I've got this display card under control - or so it seems. It hasn't crashed since Wednesday.

I guess this is a combo AMD RDNA3 Navi23 and KDE Plasma (+ Wayland?) bug...

I backed out all my Linux kernel command line switches for AMD GPUs and it crashed to green screen in less than a half hour. So, re-adding them stopped that from happening.

... amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x410 amdgpu.tmz=0 amdgpu.gpu_recovery=1 amdgpu.sg_display=0 ...

And then the cursor thing is fixed <?!> by adding

KWIN_FORCE_SW_CURSOR=1

Currently this is what is set:

`cat /proc/$(pidof kwin_wayland)/environ | tr '\0' '\n' | grep KWIN` :

KWIN_DRM_NO_AMS=1
KWIN_DRM_NO_DIRECT_SCANOUT=1
KWIN_FORCE_SW_CURSOR=1

From a user experience point of view I don't see any difference with that software cursor setting.

There's another wrinkle to this that might be a factor but I can't really test around it currently. This is a multi-head machine and one screen is connected via HDMI and one is DP.

Perhaps this wouldn't be a problem if both screens were connected via the same type of connector.

Both screens are set to the same refresh frequency. But, in the display control app one reads back at 60.00 Hz while the other is 60.000 Hz. Minor thing right? But in trying to make this work I've seen references to AMD GPU weirdness in multi-head configurations where the refresh rates were different between screens. Red herring perhaps.

Anyway, don't know if there are (or will be) any people trying to make a RX 5800 XT GPU behave under Linux but this seems to be what worked for me and my dual head setup. I'll update if anything changes.

#Linux #AMD #AMDGPU #KDE #KDEPlasma #Plasma #AlpineLinux #kwin #Wayland
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Root Moose · 5d
Hard crash to a green screen on the DP connected screen, black screen on the HDMI screen. Was playing video out of Jellyfin fullscreen on the DP screen. Now it's looping the last 1-2 seconds of audio in the video. Can't login remotely, totally hung otherwise. <sigh /> <grr /> <ffs />
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I'm continually surprised at the stuff that exists in the Alpine Linux repos.

Tonight it's SavvyCAN.

Now to figure out how I can replay some old captures in csv format into something that can be dumped into a live CANBus (or reasonable facsimile) for further playing.

#Linux #AlpineLinux #canbus
Root Moose · 1w
Ok, I think I've got this display card under control - or so it seems. It hasn't crashed since Wednesday. I guess this is a combo AMD RDNA3 Navi23 and KDE Plasma (+ Wayland?) bug... I backed out all my Linux kernel command line switches for AMD GPUs and it crashed to green screen in less than a ha...