Re: USB SSD disk speed question

2021-03-02 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/1/21 11:34 PM, Frederic Muller wrote: On 3/2/21 2:15 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 3/1/21 10:37 PM, Frederic Muller wrote: I bought a rather cheap but not so cheap 1TB SSD drive advertised at rw speeds of 450MB/s. I have 2 thinkpads, one X1 3rd gen and one X1 6th gen. Now here is what happene

skype

2021-03-02 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, When I try to update skype to version 8.69.0.77-1.x86_64.rpm I get: Error: Problem: conflicting requests - nothing provides libatomic1 needed by skypeforlinux-8.69.0.77-1.x86_64 (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages) dnf install libatomic1 Last metadata expiration

Re: skype

2021-03-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/03/2021 16:37, Patrick Dupre wrote: When I try to update skype to version 8.69.0.77-1.x86_64.rpm I get: Error: Problem: conflicting requests - nothing provides libatomic1 needed by skypeforlinux-8.69.0.77-1.x86_64 (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages) dnf instal

Re: skype

2021-03-02 Thread Patrick Dupre
flatpak search skype No matches found > On 02/03/2021 16:37, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > When I try to update skype to version 8.69.0.77-1.x86_64.rpm > > I get: > > Error: > > Problem: conflicting requests > >- nothing provides libatomic1 needed by skypeforlinux-8.69.0.77-1.x86_64 > > (try to

Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

2021-03-02 Thread Francisco Tissera
Dear Ed, I'll paste below the output that the command you suggested gave me, there's something disturbing indeed in that command, that I didn't try till you suggested it. systemctl status brltty ● brltty.service - Braille display driver for Linux/Unix Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/

Re: skype

2021-03-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/03/2021 16:48, Patrick Dupre wrote: flatpak search skype No matches found What do you have for flatpak remotes ? -- People who believe they don't make mistakes have already made one. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: skype

2021-03-02 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/2/21 12:37 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: When I try to update skype to version 8.69.0.77-1.x86_64.rpm I get: Error: Problem: conflicting requests - nothing provides libatomic1 needed by skypeforlinux-8.69.0.77-1.x86_64 It's a packaging bug. Someone said that Microsoft will fix it "soon".

Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

2021-03-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/03/2021 17:10, Francisco Tissera wrote: I'll paste below the output that the command you suggested gave me, there's something disturbing indeed in that command, that I didn't try till you  suggested it. systemctl status brltty ● brltty.service - Braille display driver for Linux/Unix   

Re: USB SSD disk speed question

2021-03-02 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 3/2/21 8:34 AM, Frederic Muller wrote: Anyway since I am somehow back to initial lousy speeds and saw it way faster on the same machines, is there a "reliable" way to go back to more decent speed then? Before putting filesystems in the middle: hdparm -t /dev/xxx to test sequential rea

Re: skype

2021-03-02 Thread Patrick Dupre
Name Options fedora system,oci > > On 02/03/2021 16:48, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > flatpak search skype > > > > No matches found > > What do you have for > > flatpak remotes > > ? > > -- > People who believe they don't make mistakes have already made one. > ___

Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

2021-03-02 Thread Francisco Tissera
Dear ed, How do I add the brlapi entry to /etc/group? i opened it in Nano, but i don't understand the sintacs. Thanks again. Best regards. Francisco. On 3/2/21 10:20 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 02/03/2021 17:10, Francisco Tissera wrote: I'll paste below the output that the command you sugg

Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

2021-03-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/03/2021 17:29, Francisco Tissera wrote: How do I add the brlapi entry to /etc/group? i opened it in Nano, but i don't understand the sintacs. Well You can add the line brlapi:x:975: to the file. But, just make sure that 975 is unique. Or, you can use the "groupadd" command.

Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

2021-03-02 Thread Francisco Tissera
Dear Ed, I inserted the line brlapi:x:1010:francisco to the end of the file /etc/group with Nano as sudoer, and when i type groups, I apparently am in the brlapi group, but i still get this error for some odd reason. Did i do something wrong? Best regards. Francisco. On 3/2/21 10:40 AM,

Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

2021-03-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/03/2021 17:54, Francisco Tissera wrote: I inserted the line brlapi:x:1010:francisco to the end of the file /etc/group with Nano as sudoer, and when i type groups, I apparently am in the brlapi group, but i still get this error for some odd reason. Did i do something wrong? By this

Re: skype

2021-03-02 Thread Ed Greshko
Resending  Sent off-list by mistake... On 02/03/2021 17:26, Patrick Dupre wrote: Name Options fedora system,oci You don't have [egreshko@meimei ~]$ flatpak remotes Name    Options fedora  system,oci flathub system You need to add the flathub remote. Sadly, I don't recall how to

Re: USB SSD disk speed question

2021-03-02 Thread Frederic Muller
On 3/2/21 4:23 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: On 3/2/21 8:34 AM, Frederic Muller wrote: Anyway since I am somehow back to initial lousy speeds and saw it way faster on the same machines, is there a "reliable" way to go back to more decent speed then? Before putting filesystems in the middle: hdpa

Re: USB SSD disk speed question

2021-03-02 Thread Roger Heflin
One complication. You said you aren't using a HUB, that is probably not exactly true. Almost all of the USB ports on a laptop or a desktop are using a HUB, very few of the ports are dedicated. Typically a laptop or desktop has at most 3 actual real underlying ports, and some do not even have that

Re: skype

2021-03-02 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2021-03-02 at 01:19 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > Someone said that Microsoft will fix it "soon". It's 2021, they still never got Win98 working properly... -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.15.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Feb 3 15:06:38 UTC 2021 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to m

RE: skype

2021-03-02 Thread J.Witvliet--- via users
Sorry, you'll have to wait till 2098 -Original Message- From: Tim via users Sent: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 1:22 PM To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Cc: Tim Subject: Re: skype On Tue, 2021-03-02 at 01:19 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > Someone said that Microsoft will fix it "soon". It's 202

Re: USB SSD disk speed question

2021-03-02 Thread Frederic Muller
On 3/2/21 7:20 PM, Roger Heflin wrote: One complication. You said you aren't using a HUB, that is probably not exactly true. Almost all of the USB ports on a laptop or a desktop are using a HUB, very few of the ports are dedicated. Typically a laptop or desktop has at most 3 actual real underly

Re: USB SSD disk speed question

2021-03-02 Thread John Mellor
On 2021-03-02 1:37 a.m., Frederic Muller wrote: So I was wondering if there was any logical explanations and things I could do to ensure I use the disk at its maximum speed. You are using Fedora, so you have an already-installed graphical utility to run a quick benchmark test on the disk.  Y

Re: USB SSD disk speed question

2021-03-02 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 3/2/21 12:47 PM, Frederic Muller wrote: On 3/2/21 4:23 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: On 3/2/21 8:34 AM, Frederic Muller wrote: Anyway since I am somehow back to initial lousy speeds and saw it way faster on the same machines, is there a "reliable" way to go back to more decent speed then? Bef

Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

2021-03-02 Thread George N. White III
On Tue, 2 Mar 2021 at 05:30, Francisco Tissera wrote: > Dear ed, > > > How do I add the brlapi entry to /etc/group? i opened it in Nano, but i > don't understand the sintacs. > The Changelog for version 6.3 -- Fedora 33 provides 6.1 (January 28, 2021) -- has: Systemd changes: The brlapi group

Re: USB SSD disk speed question

2021-03-02 Thread Frederic Muller
On 3/2/21 9:58 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: On 3/2/21 12:47 PM, Frederic Muller wrote: On 3/2/21 4:23 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: On 3/2/21 8:34 AM, Frederic Muller wrote: Anyway since I am somehow back to initial lousy speeds and saw it way faster on the same machines, is there a "reliable" way t

RE: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

2021-03-02 Thread Francisco Tissera
Dear George, Thanks for the changelog, I’ll download and install 6.3 then.Would I just download the rpm and install it, or would I have to download the source rpm as well? Brltty.com lists both, and so I don’t know how to go about it the right way.I’m sorry for so many questions that might seem dum

[Test Day] Fedora 34 Audio 2021-03-03

2021-03-02 Thread Sumantro Mukherjee
Hey All, PulseAudio deamon has been a default in Fedora for a really long time. As a part of the Fedora 34 changeset, PipeWire has been set to default[0] which will route all audio from PulseAudio and JACK to the PipeWire Audio daemon by default. This is a very crucial change and will require sign

Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

2021-03-02 Thread Matthew Miller
I see that Fedora Linux 34 will contain the 6.3 release, by the way. In the meantime, I suggest to use sudo groupadd brlapi to create a new group rather than editing with nano, and sudo gpasswd brlapi -a $USER to add yourself to that group. You will then need to log out and in again fo

RE: [Test Day] Fedora 34 Audio 2021-03-03

2021-03-02 Thread Francisco Tissera
Dear all, Now this, is something interesting for an actual screen reader user such as myself and every blind person who uses Fedora.I’ve heard both good and bad things about pipewire, and I’m really tempted to upgrade to Rawhide and test if the transition from Pulse to Pipewire works with Orca.For

Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

2021-03-02 Thread George N. White III
On Tue, 2 Mar 2021 at 12:25, Francisco Tissera wrote: > Dear George, > > > > Thanks for the changelog, I’ll download and install 6.3 then. > > Would I just download the rpm and install it, or would I have to download > the source rpm as well? Brltty.com lists both, and so I don’t know how to > go

Re: USB SSD disk speed question

2021-03-02 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/2/21 3:47 AM, Frederic Muller wrote: So now how can configure Fedora 33 to get the optimum speed is the question. Are there BIOS or system settings that make it happen? The X1 3rd gen now has a new bios, not the 6th gen. The 6th gen went from 400MB/s down to 40MB/s switching from F32 to F3

Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

2021-03-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/03/2021 03:29, George N. White III wrote: On Tue, 2 Mar 2021 at 12:25, Francisco Tissera mailto:audiogamer2...@gmail.com>> wrote: Dear George, Thanks for the changelog, I’ll download and install 6.3 then. Would I just download the rpm and install it, or would I have to downlo

Re: skype

2021-03-02 Thread Ed Greshko
Putting this back on the Fedora List On 03/03/2021 00:12, Patrick Dupre wrote: Finally, I have Name    Options fedora  system,oci flathub system flatpak search skype Name Description  Application ID Version   Branch Remotes Sky… Call and message skype users, w… com.skype.

Weird boot problems.

2021-03-02 Thread GianPiero Puccioni
Hi, I have a problem with an old rack unit I use in a cluster. We had a problem with the HD and had to change it and reinstall. It was done by someone new to the job (I am locked and doing everything remotely) and he had a problem with the configuration as it seems that this unit HD HAS to be co

Re: Weird boot problems.

2021-03-02 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 3/2/21 5:04 PM, GianPiero Puccioni wrote: > so it is there and seen but why the block device is not created? > Copying the content of (sda1)boot into /boot and reinstalling grub could > probably work but how? Hi GianPiero, This is strange. I don't know why there's no device file for the first

Re: Weird boot problems.

2021-03-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/03/2021 05:04, GianPiero Puccioni wrote: Hi, I have a problem with an old rack unit I use in a cluster. We had a problem with the HD and had to change it and reinstall. It was done by someone  new to the job (I am locked and doing everything remotely) and he had a problem with the configur

Re: Weird boot problems.

2021-03-02 Thread Roger Heflin
if you are running multipath then here is what happened, multipath started up and attempted to manage sda and so it deleted sda1, then once it gets to sda2 it figures out the vg is live and online and it figures out it cannot manage it, so stops. No code exists apparently to go back and put back s

Re: A little introduction, and some curiosities/questions

2021-03-02 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/03/2021 17:54, Francisco Tissera wrote: Did i do something wrong? Also, there is a mailing list devoted to brltty here https://brltty.app/mailman/listinfo/brltty They may have greater knowledge in this area. -- People who believe they don't make mistakes have already made one. ___

Re: USB SSD disk speed question

2021-03-02 Thread Frederic Muller
On 3/2/21 9:58 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: You just want the result and it is not sure what you are measuring and in which conditions. That's why you should try things in order: - lsusb -t (guess you may be falling back from USB3 to USB2 for some reason, since 40-50MB/s is typical of USB2) - hdp

Re: USB SSD disk speed question

2021-03-02 Thread Frederic Muller
On 3/3/21 2:03 PM, Frederic Muller wrote: On 3/2/21 9:58 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: You just want the result and it is not sure what you are measuring and in which conditions. That's why you should try things in order: - lsusb -t (guess you may be falling back from USB3 to USB2 for some reason

Re: USB SSD disk speed question

2021-03-02 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/2/21 11:27 PM, Frederic Muller wrote: Going through the graphical benchmark I can actually see "why": the read speed is making a straight line at about 450MB/s in NTFS  ( https://imagebin.ca/v/5td8fZkQCGY9 ) while  it's zigzagging with ext4 ( https://imagebin.ca/v/5td8voL3uiqj ) Any idea

Re: USB SSD disk speed question

2021-03-02 Thread Frederic Muller
On 3/3/21 2:43 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 3/2/21 11:27 PM, Frederic Muller wrote: Going through the graphical benchmark I can actually see "why": the read speed is making a straight line at about 450MB/s in NTFS  ( https://imagebin.ca/v/5td8fZkQCGY9 ) while  it's zigzagging with ext4 ( https://