Re: monitor/display problem. [SOLVED]

2022-12-26 Thread home user
On 11/3/22 3:51 PM, home user wrote: This problem was solved by the "dnf upgrade" that I did on Dec. 14. Details can be viewed in the follow-up thread "need perm. fix for monitor/display problem.", launched on Dec. 14. My thanks to everyone who tried to help. (f36)

Re: need perm. fix for monitor/display problem.

2022-12-26 Thread home user
On 12/17/22 9:46 AM, home user wrote: On 12/17/22 12:54 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/16/22 10:33, home user wrote: I shut down nightly.  So I do notice the long time.  I hear at least 3 long surges of the cooling fans during shutdown.  But I don't know of a way of knowing what's really going o

Re: need perm. fix for monitor/display problem.

2022-12-18 Thread John Pilkington
On 17/12/2022 22:38, Barry wrote: On 17 Dec 2022, at 17:47, home user wrote: On 12/17/22 10:15 AM, John Pilkington wrote: I run it in a konsole (KDE terminal) tab and see a screenful of data refreshed every 10 seconds. Mainly the interest here is on jobs run by user akmods. For me it'

Re: need perm. fix for monitor/display problem.

2022-12-17 Thread Barry
> On 17 Dec 2022, at 17:47, home user wrote: > > On 12/17/22 10:15 AM, John Pilkington wrote: > >> I run it in a konsole (KDE terminal) tab and see a screenful of data >> refreshed every 10 seconds. Mainly the interest here is on jobs run by user >> akmods. For me it's just a guide showin

Re: need perm. fix for monitor/display problem.

2022-12-17 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/17/2022 01:03 PM, home user wrote: Sorry,  That should be "dnf upgrade", not "dnf update". Doesn't really matter as update is now just another name for upgrade. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email

Re: need perm. fix for monitor/display problem.

2022-12-17 Thread home user
On 12/17/22 11:03 AM, Bill C wrote: I'd there a difference in dnf upgrade and dnf distro-sync? There's a dnf update too. I usually erase a /var/cache/dnf to clean data. There are others in the Fedora users list much more knowledgeable about dnf than am I. I leave it to them to answer. On Sa

Re: need perm. fix for monitor/display problem.

2022-12-17 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/17/22 12:03, home user wrote: On 12/17/22 10:45 AM, home user wrote: On 12/17/22 10:15 AM, John Pilkington wrote: ... For some time now, I've seen another process/user "mandb" running at the same time as or after the akmod processes at the end of (sometimes after) "dnf update". Sorry,

Re: need perm. fix for monitor/display problem.

2022-12-17 Thread home user
On 12/17/22 10:45 AM, home user wrote: On 12/17/22 10:15 AM, John Pilkington wrote: ... For some time now, I've seen another process/user "mandb" running at the same time as or after the akmod processes at the end of (sometimes after) "dnf update". Sorry, That should be "dnf upgrade", not "

Re: need perm. fix for monitor/display problem.

2022-12-17 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2022-12-17 at 17:15 +, John Pilkington wrote: > > > See also htop, glances and several others. > > > > > > poc > > > > Is there something equivalent to atop that provides graphical > > output? > > The graphical system monitors that I have (e.g. ksysguard) produce > > nice > > displa

Re: need perm. fix for monitor/display problem.

2022-12-17 Thread Bill C
I'd there a difference in dnf upgrade and dnf distro-sync? There's a dnf update too. I usually erase a /var/cache/dnf to clean data. On Sat, Dec 17, 2022, 1:01 PM Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sat, 17 Dec 2022 10:45:38 -0700 > home user wrote: > > > For some time now, I've seen another process/user "m

Re: need perm. fix for monitor/display problem.

2022-12-17 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 17 Dec 2022 10:45:38 -0700 home user wrote: > For some time now, I've seen another process/user "mandb" running at the > same time as or after the akmod processes at the end of (sometimes > after) "dnf update". That's updating the man page database the "man" command uses. It only runs w

Re: need perm. fix for monitor/display problem.

2022-12-17 Thread home user
On 12/17/22 10:15 AM, John Pilkington wrote: I run it in a konsole (KDE terminal) tab and see a screenful of data refreshed every 10 seconds.  Mainly the interest here is on jobs run by user akmods.  For me it's just a guide showing when the system should be able to boot without doing complex

Re: need perm. fix for monitor/display problem.

2022-12-17 Thread home user
On 12/17/22 10:14 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Is there something equivalent to atop that provides graphical output? The graphical system monitors that I have (e.g. ksysguard) produce nice displays, but don't offer all the parameters I'd like to see. atop has more parameters, but no graphical

Re: need perm. fix for monitor/display problem.

2022-12-17 Thread John Pilkington
On 17/12/2022 16:44, home user wrote: On 12/16/22 3:11 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: $ dnf info atop ... Description  : An advanced interactive monitor for Linux-systems to view the load on   : system-level and process-level.   : The command atop has some major advant

Re: need perm. fix for monitor/display problem.

2022-12-17 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2022-12-17 at 09:44 -0700, home user wrote: > On 12/16/22 3:11 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > $ dnf info atop > > ... > > Description  : An advanced interactive monitor for Linux-systems to > > view the load on > >   : system-level and process-level. > >   : T

Re: need perm. fix for monitor/display problem. [solved]

2022-12-17 Thread home user
On 12/14/22 8:45 PM, home user wrote: Last night, I ran "dnf upgrade" in a terminal as root. It did about 750 items. After the clean-up phase was done, it started the akmod processing (compiling). After a few minutes, still during the akmod work (based on the ksysguard display), still in th

Re: need perm. fix for monitor/display problem.

2022-12-17 Thread home user
On 12/17/22 12:54 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/16/22 10:33, home user wrote: I shut down nightly.  So I do notice the long time.  I hear at least 3 long surges of the cooling fans during shutdown.  But I don't know of a way of knowing what's really going on (the screens are blank). Since this

Re: need perm. fix for monitor/display problem.

2022-12-17 Thread home user
On 12/16/22 3:11 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: $ dnf info atop ... Description : An advanced interactive monitor for Linux-systems to view the load on : system-level and process-level. : The command atop has some major advantages compared to other : p

Re: need perm. fix for monitor/display problem.

2022-12-17 Thread home user
On 12/16/22 12:01 PM, Robert McBroom via users wrote: Current kernel is up to 6.0.12 going from 6.0.5 to current has tracked without a problem of the drivers with rpmfusion. The change from 5 to 6 is the major kernel change where driver delays typically but not exclusively occur. That gives

Re: need perm. fix for monitor/display problem.

2022-12-16 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/16/22 10:33, home user wrote: I shut down nightly.  So I do notice the long time.  I hear at least 3 long surges of the cooling fans during shutdown.  But I don't know of a way of knowing what's really going on (the screens are blank).  Since this is the first I've seen or heard anything

Re: need perm. fix for monitor/display problem.

2022-12-16 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/15/22 19:55, home user wrote: Question #1: When I do the fix, should I do it while booted in 5.19.16-200.fc36 or while booted in 6.0.5-200.fc36? Do it from the working kernel. That way there's no chance of it getting removed during the upgrade.

Re: need perm. fix for monitor/display problem.

2022-12-16 Thread Barry
> On 16 Dec 2022, at 16:26, Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 12/16/2022 02:10 AM, Barry wrote: > [snip] >> I always ask on the rpmfusion dev mailing list if the nvidia driver is an >> issue. >> It is where the person maintaining the packages will see a query. > > Is there a reason that you don't use t

Re: need perm. fix for monitor/display problem.

2022-12-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2022-12-16 at 11:33 -0700, home user wrote: > On 12/15/22 4:07 PM, John Pilkington wrote: > > > > > I have no way of knowing what idiosyncrasies your system may have. > > > > I said what works for me.   I use 'atop' to judge when the builds > > have > > completed, and yes, recent shutdo

Re: need perm. fix for monitor/display problem.

2022-12-16 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2022-12-16 at 10:21 +, John Pilkington wrote: > I prefer to let the akmods complete before rebooting, and have found in > the past that 'sudo systemctl reboot' was more reliable after nvidia > updates than the usual reboot from the GUI. Surely if you did it from the command line, the

Re: need perm. fix for monitor/display problem.

2022-12-16 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 12/15/22 16:03, home user wrote: On 12/15/22 9:09 AM, Robert McBroom via users wrote: On 12/14/22 22:45, home user wrote: [... snip ...]  set /etc/dnf.conf to retain the kernels of several updates to give rpmfusion time to catch up to new kernels in a new major grouping. Can take a couple

Re: need perm. fix for monitor/display problem.

2022-12-16 Thread home user
On 12/15/22 8:32 PM, Tim via users wrote: I up mine to about 5. That way if there's a flurry of kernel updates (which has happened in the past) and one or more of them cause me a problem, I'll still have an older one to rely on. I haven't run into that yet. As in the current situation, I fir

Re: need perm. fix for monitor/display problem.

2022-12-16 Thread home user
On 12/15/22 4:07 PM, John Pilkington wrote: I have no way of knowing what idiosyncrasies your system may have. I said what works for me.   I use 'atop' to judge when the builds have completed, and yes, recent shutdowns (but not today's) have also been affected by a delay timer. (Do you mea

Re: need perm. fix for monitor/display problem.

2022-12-16 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/16/2022 02:10 AM, Barry wrote: [snip] I always ask on the rpmfusion dev mailing list if the nvidia driver is an issue. It is where the person maintaining the packages will see a query. Is there a reason that you don't use the akmod and get it built automagically? [snip]

Re: need perm. fix for monitor/display problem.

2022-12-16 Thread John Pilkington
On 16/12/2022 03:55, home user wrote: On 12/14/22 8:45 PM, home user wrote: (see bottom if needed) essential background review: * the Nov. 03 "dnf upgrade" that caused the display problem also upgraded the kernel from 5.19.16-200 to 6.0.5-200.fc36. * I've been using the 5.19.16-200 exclusively

Re: need perm. fix for monitor/display problem.

2022-12-16 Thread Barry
> On 15 Dec 2022, at 23:09, John Pilkington wrote: > > On 15/12/2022 21:17, home user wrote: >>> On 12/15/22 2:56 AM, John Pilkington wrote: On 15/12/2022 03:45, home user wrote: >>> [... snip ...] >>> >>> I just did 'dnf upgrade' on a system with an old Dell monitor and an >>> Android

Re: need perm. fix for monitor/display problem.

2022-12-16 Thread Barry
> On 15 Dec 2022, at 21:19, home user wrote: > > On 12/15/22 2:56 AM, John Pilkington wrote: >> On 15/12/2022 03:45, home user wrote: > [... snip ...] >> I just did 'dnf upgrade' on a system with an old Dell monitor and an Android >> tv. Graphics card is GT 710 running X11 in KDE. The activ

Re: need perm. fix for monitor/display problem.

2022-12-15 Thread home user
On 12/14/22 8:45 PM, home user wrote: (see bottom if needed) essential background review: * the Nov. 03 "dnf upgrade" that caused the display problem also upgraded the kernel from 5.19.16-200 to 6.0.5-200.fc36. * I've been using the 5.19.16-200 exclusively since then. * I've done no further dnf

Re: need perm. fix for monitor/display problem.

2022-12-15 Thread Bill C
As far as updates, I always use distro-sync. I am not sure how that differs from dnf upgrade. On Thu, Dec 15, 2022, 10:27 PM home user wrote: > On 12/15/22 3:04 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > > home user composed on 2022-12-15 14:03 (UTC-0700): > > > >> ... > > installonly_limit= determines how many k

Re: need perm. fix for monitor/display problem.

2022-12-15 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2022-12-15 at 14:03 -0700, home user wrote: > /etc/dnf/dnf.conf?... > -- > -bash.10[~]: cat /etc/dnf/dnf.conf > # see `man dnf.conf` for defaults and possible options > > [main] > gpgcheck=True > installonly_limit=3 > clean_requirements_on_remove=True > best=False > skip_if_unavailable

Re: need perm. fix for monitor/display problem.

2022-12-15 Thread home user
On 12/15/22 3:39 PM, Felix Miata wrote: home user composed on 2022-12-15 14:17 (UTC-0700): No one has yet answered my question: Is what is currently in RPM Fusion non-free 36 updates everything I need to really fix the problem for f36? That should need only a yes or no answer. It may well be

Re: need perm. fix for monitor/display problem.

2022-12-15 Thread home user
On 12/15/22 3:04 PM, Felix Miata wrote: home user composed on 2022-12-15 14:03 (UTC-0700): ... installonly_limit= determines how many kernels dnf will keep installed when it is performing its excess installed kernels removal process. The idea is too allow a larger safety margin for your worki

Re: need perm. fix for monitor/display problem.

2022-12-15 Thread John Pilkington
On 15/12/2022 21:17, home user wrote: On 12/15/22 2:56 AM, John Pilkington wrote: On 15/12/2022 03:45, home user wrote: [... snip ...] I just did 'dnf upgrade' on a system with an old Dell monitor and an Android tv.  Graphics card is GT 710 running X11 in KDE.  The active screen switches du

Re: need perm. fix for monitor/display problem.

2022-12-15 Thread Felix Miata
home user composed on 2022-12-15 14:17 (UTC-0700): > No one has yet answered my question: > Is what is currently in RPM Fusion non-free 36 updates everything I need > to really fix the problem for f36? > That should need only a yes or no answer. It may well be that no reader here who might have

Re: need perm. fix for monitor/display problem.

2022-12-15 Thread Felix Miata
home user composed on 2022-12-15 14:03 (UTC-0700): > -bash.10[~]: cat /etc/dnf/dnf.conf > # see `man dnf.conf` for defaults and possible options > > [main] > gpgcheck=True > installonly_limit=3 > clean_requirements_on_remove=True > best=False > skip_if_unavailable=True > -bash.11[~]: > -- > I

Re: need perm. fix for monitor/display problem.

2022-12-15 Thread home user
On 12/15/22 2:56 AM, John Pilkington wrote: On 15/12/2022 03:45, home user wrote: [... snip ...] I just did 'dnf upgrade' on a system with an old Dell monitor and an Android tv.  Graphics card is GT 710 running X11 in KDE.  The active screen switches during boot, so it's best to have both sc

Re: need perm. fix for monitor/display problem.

2022-12-15 Thread home user
On 12/15/22 9:09 AM, Robert McBroom via users wrote: On 12/14/22 22:45, home user wrote: [... snip ...] set /etc/dnf.conf to retain the kernels of several updates to give rpmfusion time to catch up to new kernels in a new major grouping. Can take a couple of weeks. [main] gpgcheck=1 install

Re: need perm. fix for monitor/display problem.

2022-12-15 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 12/14/22 22:45, home user wrote: f36; workstation is 9 years old; dual boot (the other OS is the nearly useless windows-7); dual monitor; stand-alone (not a part of a LAN, WAN, etc.); I don't have other hardware to fall back on, not even a cell phone; nvidia geforce gtx 660 graphics card; dr

Re: need perm. fix for monitor/display problem.

2022-12-15 Thread John Pilkington
On 15/12/2022 03:45, home user wrote: f36; workstation is 9 years old; dual boot (the other OS is the nearly useless windows-7); dual monitor; stand-alone (not a part of a LAN, WAN, etc.); I don't have other hardware to fall back on, not even a cell phone; nvidia geforce gtx 660 graphics card;

need perm. fix for monitor/display problem.

2022-12-14 Thread home user
f36; workstation is 9 years old; dual boot (the other OS is the nearly useless windows-7); dual monitor; stand-alone (not a part of a LAN, WAN, etc.); I don't have other hardware to fall back on, not even a cell phone; nvidia geforce gtx 660 graphics card; driver is from RPM Fusion non-free.

Re: monitor/display problem.

2022-12-08 Thread home user
On 11/3/22 3:51 PM, home user wrote: This had to be tabled for a while, until the RPM Fusion fixed nvidia driver was released. Your memory of this can be refreshed using the fedora HYPERKITTY archive of the thread here: "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.

Re: monitor/display problem.

2022-11-06 Thread John Pilkington
On 06/11/2022 04:57, Robert McBroom via users wrote: On 11/5/22 14:30, stan via users wrote: On Fri, 4 Nov 2022 12:27:21 -0600 home user wrote: Am I correct in assuming that I should not do weekly patches until the proper updated NVidia 470 drivers reach rpmfusion-nonfree-updates? Since the n

Re: monitor/display problem.

2022-11-05 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 11/5/22 14:30, stan via users wrote: On Fri, 4 Nov 2022 12:27:21 -0600 home user wrote: Am I correct in assuming that I should not do weekly patches until the proper updated NVidia 470 drivers reach rpmfusion-nonfree-updates? Since the next update of the nvidia 470 drivers will probably

Re: monitor/display problem.

2022-11-05 Thread stan via users
On Fri, 4 Nov 2022 12:27:21 -0600 home user wrote: > Am I correct in assuming that I should not do weekly patches until > the proper updated NVidia 470 drivers reach rpmfusion-nonfree-updates? Since the next update of the nvidia 470 drivers will probably be to fix this issue, it should be okay

Re: monitor/display problem.

2022-11-04 Thread home user
On 11/3/22 10:05 PM, Felix Miata wrote: home user composed on 2022-11-03 21:42 (UTC-0600): ... initramfs-5.19.16-100.fc35.x86_64.img was either installed or updated when you did your customary periodic updates to F35. initramfs-5.19.16-200.fc36.x86_64.img was created later when you did your

Re: monitor/display problem.

2022-11-03 Thread Felix Miata
home user composed on 2022-11-03 21:42 (UTC-0600): > What I have is > -rw---. 1 root root 33824169 Oct 20 09:47 > initramfs-5.19.16-100.fc35.x86_64.img > -rw---. 1 root root 35051075 Oct 20 11:19 > initramfs-5.19.16-200.fc36.x86_64.img > -rw---. 1 root root 35452743 Nov 3 13:02 >

Re: monitor/display problem.

2022-11-03 Thread home user
On 11/3/22 8:48 PM, Felix Miata wrote: home user composed on 2022-11-03 20:29 (UTC-0600): Felix Miata wrote: home user composed on 2022-11-03 19:02 (UTC-0600): ... 1-Backup the initrd for 5.19. According to the man page for initrd, it should be in "/dev" and/or "/". But using "ls -a"

Re: monitor/display problem.

2022-11-03 Thread Felix Miata
home user composed on 2022-11-03 20:29 (UTC-0600): > Felix Miata wrote: >> home user composed on 2022-11-03 19:02 (UTC-0600): > ... >> 1-Backup the initrd for 5.19. > According to the man page for initrd, it should be in "/dev" and/or "/". > But using "ls -a", I don't see initrd in either pla

Re: monitor/display problem.

2022-11-03 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/03/2022 04:59 PM, home user wrote: How do I determine which kernel I'm using now? uname -r ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https

Re: monitor/display problem.

2022-11-03 Thread home user
On 11/3/22 7:20 PM, Felix Miata wrote: home user composed on 2022-11-03 19:02 (UTC-0600): ... 1-Backup the initrd for 5.19. According to the man page for initrd, it should be in "/dev" and/or "/". But using "ls -a", I don't see initrd in either place. The "whereis" command only find a co

Re: monitor/display problem.

2022-11-03 Thread Felix Miata
home user composed on 2022-11-03 19:02 (UTC-0600): > What specifically do I need to install? > "dnf install [what?]" and re-boot. > Is there anything else I need to do? It still boots the 5.19 kernel OK, right? 1-Backup the initrd for 5.19. 2-Boot only the 5.19 kernel until such time as updated

Re: monitor/display problem.

2022-11-03 Thread home user
On 11/3/22 3:51 PM, home user wrote: (f36) ... A few have asked about kernel and driver versions. I've been trying to grope through logs to get answers. The logs are being split in strange ways, ways not matching the dates on which the dnf commands were run, making this both difficult and

Re: monitor/display problem.

2022-11-03 Thread home user
On 11/3/22 4:58 PM, Jerry James wrote: On Thu, Nov 3, 2022 at 4:45 PM home user wrote: I do not see any such logs in the gnome "logview" tool (which is where I see the boot and dnf logs). Where are the akmod logs? /var/cache/akmods/nvidia Nothing there... - bash.3[nvidia]: ls -a . ..

Re: monitor/display problem.

2022-11-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/3/22 15:59, home user wrote: On 11/3/22 4:25 PM, Felix Miata wrote: home user composed on 2022-11-03 15:51 (UTC-0600): ... Were you previously using a 5.19 kernel and the new kernel is a 6.0? The problem is NVidia's proprietary driver isn't working, and the fallback driver is too crude

Re: monitor/display problem.

2022-11-03 Thread John Pilkington
On 03/11/2022 21:51, home user wrote: (f36) Good afternoon, A short while ago, I did my weekly patches (dnf upgrade), and then re-booted.  Just before that, the workstation display (dual monitor) was fine.  After the reboot, only one display works. If I switch the monitor cables, I still get

Re: monitor/display problem.

2022-11-03 Thread home user
On 11/3/22 4:25 PM, Felix Miata wrote: home user composed on 2022-11-03 15:51 (UTC-0600): ... Were you previously using a 5.19 kernel and the new kernel is a 6.0? The problem is NVidia's proprietary driver isn't working, and the fallback driver is too crude to support more than one display or m

Re: monitor/display problem.

2022-11-03 Thread Jerry James
On Thu, Nov 3, 2022 at 4:45 PM home user wrote: > I do not see any such logs in the gnome "logview" tool (which is where I > see the boot and dnf logs). Where are the akmod logs? /var/cache/akmods/nvidia -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ ___ use

Re: monitor/display problem.

2022-11-03 Thread home user
On 11/3/22 3:59 PM, Barry wrote: On 3 Nov 2022, at 21:53, home user wrote: [... snip ...] [ *** ] (3 of 3) Job akmods.service/start running (1min 18s / no limit) M [ *** ] (3 of 3) Job akmods.service/start running (1m

Re: monitor/display problem.

2022-11-03 Thread Felix Miata
home user composed on 2022-11-03 15:51 (UTC-0600): ... > This leads me to think that the problem is not with the monitors.  The > display in the one monitor looks a little fuzzy and stretched out > horizontally.  I also notice at the end of the boot log the following lines: ... > What is the prob

Re: monitor/display problem.

2022-11-03 Thread Felix Miata
Barry composed on 2022-11-03 21:59 (UTC): > Seems that you want to use the nvidia driver but it is not compiled and so > the fallback nouveau is used. > Guess nouveau does not support 2 monitors. Nouveau supports 2 monitors, but not when NVidia drivers interfere by blacklisting nouveau, which

Re: monitor/display problem.

2022-11-03 Thread Barry
> On 3 Nov 2022, at 21:53, home user wrote: > > (f36) > > Good afternoon, > > A short while ago, I did my weekly patches (dnf upgrade), and then re-booted. > Just before that, the workstation display (dual monitor) was fine. After > the reboot, only one display works. If I switch the mon

monitor/display problem.

2022-11-03 Thread home user
(f36) Good afternoon, A short while ago, I did my weekly patches (dnf upgrade), and then re-booted.  Just before that, the workstation display (dual monitor) was fine.  After the reboot, only one display works. If I switch the monitor cables, I still get a one-monitor display, but on the othe