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[arch-general] 2x 1440p displays not working on thunderbold dock anymore
by Ricardo Band 23 Sep '19

23 Sep '19

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Ahoi, I use Arch on a Thinkpad T480 with the Lenovo Thunderbold 3 dock. I've attached 2 1440p monitors to it and I was using them for a while now. For a few days or so I can't get them to work anymore. Usually I disable my Notebooks internal screen and enable the 2 1440p displays like this: ``` xrandr --output DP1-1 --mode 2560x1440 --refresh 144 xrandr --output eDP --off xrandr --output DP1-2 --mode 2560x1440 --refresh 144 --right-of DP1-1 ``` This used to work quite nicely. No idea if the refresh rate actually worked. I have no way to test that but the resolution sure did. Now when I do this I get this error: ``` xrandr: Configure crtc 0 failed ``` I can only drive both displays at 1920x1080. When I increase the resolution to 2560x1440 I get this error and the higher resolution can't be set. I don't know why this doesn't work anymore. Could it be a driver issue? I've got a nvidia GPU with the proprietary driver and the integrated intel with the open source driver and it wouldn't be the first time intel or nvidia fucked their drivers up. - -- Greetings Ricardo Band https:// www.ricardo.band mailto:// email(a)ricardo.band xmpp://jabber@ricardo.band -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIyBAEBCgAdFiEEhyzgFNiV8yZuI1T5Gp1lfQa1gg4FAl189YYACgkQGp1lfQa1 gg6BaQ/2MbyhaCtK5uP7GC1Zads8KZ93pXSzrm5udreO/+z2ODW7jQe6Fy+0sSNY rkT8rcvQkylNwPyXyol3CbjXNDzxN17E2u9dJrrScIuXs/LcnfxtIAvlPToKsui1 H4JJbJKnLjZaUs0shrll82PJA4PXSe3t/t0hzflGK+Np+G1rm6Nc8y3Ev+cYkBt4 clW1sjEidHJN7lIfVsOcN72oeIhPJ0hO1JSV8E3lkLZ+78LYMKTf5ZKXO1E/2S5D fd2GOXYuvEJUZ9HBl0yqQTy0B/VGO7w0ui5z0DpvwtBLY9leAbD2pTmzAi3UkZeD MIcO7ZImt9N7rufgEkuUaM1/Qx6YZTh16+dWcKbFMUjASuCbz35Z5yvIprO7h/sW 8dRB4aCuq3M37Z4X8R1w65jkHV8EfrLuhyOFRZ/2FKGBzmwDa4V4fFbMH3fAtahJ uPjdszWVblzFRCnFTvwWXIRAK1dAEIgWMRbSoBMDcnuQxcG1LNaB9QnG5J0YkJAJ os+04Tsf6nRcA+/58SJdpd7BfTarQNEFsAY+5VHxGHgFJh1MnzXXbuVs13JlzYkI QmHTCa3OJ2TexlJzhBDyye7zGKbD4PxxKFiu3DKcUs+R3Ye30SdMzEki7s3VXejB vIbPfrqftWJwmUJIqyzgNFdf0/IfC465ikWtaUMxC4NeqZK+Pg== =xHOd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[arch-general] High lag in graphical applications
by LuKaRo 22 Sep '19

22 Sep '19

Hello everyone, I've got some serious lag in using graphical applications since Sunday. I was able to narrow it down quite a bit, but I can't find a solution. I'm using a ThinkPad P50s with Intel HD 520 and NVIDIA Quadro M500M graphics (but, AFAIK, only the Intel Graphics are used) with X11 and i3. Since Sunday, when using applications like thunar, xfce-terminal, firefox, thunderbird, ... every interaction (starting, clicking a menu, a menu item, sometimes even hovering) caused the whole GUI to freeze from ~5 secs to up to 30 secs (thunar seemed to be the worst, with folders opening in no less than 30 secs). However, scrolling lists, webpages, typing text, using terminal applications... worked with no lag. I ran multiple system updates every day, ensuring that my system was up-to-date, nothing helped. I tried switching to KDE then, noticing that while the old applications still caused the same lag, all KDE-Applications (KDE file manager etc.) worked with no lag. When switching from X11 to Wayland with KDE (or replacing i3 with sway), even the old applications (thunar, xfce-terminal, firefox, thunderbird, ...) work with nearly no lag. However, sometimes GUI interactions in thunderbird or firefox still cause high lag. When using XFCE, though, I couldn't find any noticeable lag. I tried downgrading the following packages (in that order): * mesa-vdpau (19.1.6-2 -> 19.1.5-1), lib32-mesa (19.1.6-1 -> 19.1.5-1), libva-mesa-driver (19.1.6-2 -> 19.1.5-1) * gtk3 (1:3.24.11-1 -> 1:3.24.10-1) * qt5-base (5.13.1-2 -> 5.13.0-7), qt5-declarative (5.13.1-1 -> 5.13.0-1), qt5-graphicaleffects (5.13.1-1 -> 5.13.0-1), qt5-imageformats (5.13.1-1 -> 5.13.0-1), qt5-location (5.13.1-1 -> 5.13.0-1), qt5-multimedia (5.13.1-1 -> 5.13.0-1), qt5-quickcontrols2 (5.13.1-1 -> 5.13.0-1), qt5-quickcontrols (5.13.1-1 -> 5.13.0-1), qt5-script (5.13.1-1 -> 5.13.0-1), qt5-sensors (5.13.1-1 -> 5.13.0-1), qt5-speech (5.13.1-1 -> 5.13.0-1), qt5-svg (5.13.1-1 -> 5.13.0-1), qt5-tools (5.13.1-1 -> 5.13.0-1), qt5-webchannel (5.13.1-1 -> 5.13.0-1), qt5-webengine (5.13.1-2 -> 5.13.0-1), qt5-webkit (5.212.0alpha3-4 -> 5.212.0alpha3-3), qt5-x11extras (5.13.1-1 -> 5.13.0-1), qt5-xmlpatterns (5.13.1-1 -> 5.13.0-1) * nvidia-utils (435.21-1 -> 430.40-2), nvidia (435.21-4 -> 430.40-5) * linux-headers (5.2.14.arch2-1 -> 5.2.4.arch1-1), linux-hardened-headers (5.2.14.a-1 -> 5.2.8.a-1), linux-firmware (20190815.07b925b-1 -> 20190717.bf13a71-1), linux-hardened (5.2.14.a-1 -> 5.2.8.a-1), linux (5.2.14.arch2-1 -> 5.2.4.arch1-1) * linux-firmware (20190717.bf13a71-1 -> 20190628.70e4394-1), linux (5.2.4.arch1-1 -> 5.1.16.arch1-1), linux-hardened (5.2.8.a-1 -> 5.1.16.a-1), linux-hardened-headers (5.2.8.a-1 -> 5.1.16.a-1), linux-headers (5.2.4.arch1-1 -> 5.1.16.arch1-1) * mesa (19.1.6-2 -> 19.1.5-1) And did a reboot after each step. However, none of them changed anything. Any ideas? Why does switching from i3 to KDE or even XFCE resolve the issue (partially)? Why does switching from X11 to Wayland do so as well? I'd like to continue using i3 without lag. Thanks in advance, Lukas

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[arch-general] The font and themes used in terminal and editor
by CSO＠riseup.net 21 Sep '19

21 Sep '19

Hello, Does anyone know what kind of font and color themes used in this terminal and editor setting, https://s3.amazonaws.com/f.cl.ly/items/1e2F0A123h331c1G0L0R/SadBart.gif, ? Thanks Mark

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[arch-general] How to get the app folders in Gnome?
by Manuel Reimer 21 Sep '19

21 Sep '19

Hello, I've updated Gnome just now. 3.34 should have the new "app folders" feature by just dragging application icons onto each other. This doesn't work for me. Is there some build error on Arch? Why is this feature missing? Thanks in advance Manuel

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[arch-general] Linux 5.3 - Virtualbox 5.2.32 modules fail to build - upstream bug opened
by David C. Rankin 21 Sep '19

21 Sep '19

All, Note to anyone is still using Virtualbox 5.2.32 (that can't move to Ver. 6 due to headless behavior with Windows guests), on update to Linux 5.3, virtualbox models fail to build using dkms. Upstream bug filed: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/18949 (make.log attached to bug report) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Recent logwatch update may need a news item?
by Amish 20 Sep '19

20 Sep '19

Hello, Recently logwatch package was updated. The cron file (from cron.daily) was removed and replaced with systemd.timer. But logwatch.timer is not activated automatically, which means the users who use logwatch will stop getting daily "auditing" emails and may not realize this for some days that emails from logwatch have stopped coming. This requires manual intervention to activate logwatch.timer. Since keeping an eye on logs is very important thing to do, this should be put as NEWS item. (in my opinion). Additionally, current logwatch.service calls "/usr/sbin/logwatch" alone. Which means by default it sends output to systemd journal. (whereas cron based timer used to send an email to root which could be an alias to real email address) To preserve the existing behaviour, the ExecStart line should be changed to ExecStart=/usr/bin/logwatch --output mail" Even if this is not made a news item, this email is also sent to alert those users who use logwatch that they need to take following actions: 1) pacman -Syu 2) cat /usr/lib/systemd/system/logwatch.service.d/local.conf [Service] ExecStart= ExecStart=/usr/bin/logwatch --output mail 3) systemctl daemon-reload 4) systemctl --now enable logwatch.timer Regards, Amish.

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[arch-general] Fwd: High lag in graphical applications
by Yurii Kolesnykov 19 Sep '19

19 Sep '19

For some GPU stress-tests you may use furmark, it's provided by `gputest` in AUR. чт, 19 вер. 2019, 19:23 користувач L. Rose <lists(a)lrose.de> пише: > > > On 19 September 2019 17:29:05 CEST, hw <hw(a)adminart.net> wrote: > > > >At least NVIDIA graphics cards can go bad in that they can cause > >temporary > >hangs, accompanied by log messages, indicating that the GPU is damaged. > > Where would I find such logs? I couldn't find anything in dmesg so far. > > >So perhaps if you were to stress-test the graphics card, or if you were > >to use > >the other card instead, you might be able to see some interesting > >results. > > What kind of stress test comes to your mind? >

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[arch-general] New install second drive issue
by pete 16 Sep '19

16 Sep '19

Morning folks I have just done a complete new install on a new drive , That is all working now fine . My problem comes when trying to include another drive on the system , it just refuses to boot fully , I get a message unable to mount sda2 now sda2 mounts , /dev/sda2 on / type xfs (rw,relatime,attr2,inode64,noquota) when just the one drive is in the system but as soon as i connect it refuses to to boot fully and drops out to an emergency shell that is locked up solid i. I have set the working drive in the bios this is an older motherboard with an AMD Phenome quad core CPU . $ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 1.8T 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 300M 0 part /boot ├─sda2 8:2 0 40G 0 part / ├─sda3 8:3 0 4G 0 part [SWAP] └─sda4 8:4 0 1.8T 0 part /home sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom the drive order in the bios is set correctly not that it makes much difference these days . I am stuck right now i need to be able to include the old drive to recover data from it . Any ideas folks .. Pete .

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[arch-general] Time and date in 24 hour time can this be fixed?
by matthew dyer 16 Sep '19

16 Sep '19

Hi all, I am using arch linux with orca and mate desktop and have a strange problem or bug or something and was wondering if there was a way to fix it or work around it. I am using the America/New_York time zone so my time shows correctly at least according to orca. Orca gives me the time in 12 Hour format which is what I want, but when I look at an email such as in thunderbird, the time and date are given 24 hour format for example, 2019/14/09 11:00 rather than the u.s format I am used to. I read through the arch wiki and could not find anything on how to change the time format on the clock. Any ideas on how to change this? HW clock is set to UTC if that has anything to do with it. I tried to set it to locale time, but that messed up the system clock so had to switch it back. Thanks all. BTW, if this is sooted better for the orca list please let me know/. Thanks again all. Matthew

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[arch-general] NFS server question
by Genes Lists 13 Sep '19

13 Sep '19

All: For client tracking and recovery on reboots NFS provides some mechanisms. My understanding is that nfsdcld is considered replaced by nfsdcltrack. However, while there is a system service unit for nfsdcld there is nothing for nfsdcltrack. The binary for both is available. Only the systemd service file is missing. Further nfs-server service file hardcodes nfsdcld with no option to use nfsdcltrack instead. What is the modern preferred way for the server to do client tracking? Thanks, gene

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