timkenhan

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Did the magic smoke come out?

If so, you can try replacing the chip. Some basic SMD (de)soldering is required.

If not, you can try reseating your clip. Hopefully the chip is still good. It may have more tolerance than specified.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

While many comments here are correct that it would affect less than you'd expect, there are things that may not be covered.

For example:

  • there's no setting for hyperthreading
  • no way to disable SATA drives, in case you'd like to be selective
  • you'll need to reflash the BIOS if you want to change boot order permanently

Also, make sure you have the correct video BIOS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

How would the lack of passive CPU powersaving affect things on your end?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (22 children)

Serious question: you'd use that for your daily driver?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

This reminds me of that time I accidentally roasted my college instructor in front of the class.

It was some kind of logic class for computer science. We were going thru a topic of "statement", which is "something that has a truth value".

I asked, "what about sarcasm?"

He answered, "sarcasm also has truth value in it, so it's also a statement".

Then he told me to give an example, to which I instictively gave without much thought: "this class is great!"

Had the whole class laughing while he frowned.

It was the very first day of him teaching.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How would Flatpak know which driver to install?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago

Still better than no update.

 

Hopefully this is the right place to ask. Lemme know otherwise.

I got a Thinkpad W530 with Quadro K2000M GPU (Kepler). With coreboot, I was able to get around all the headaches related to Optimus only having the discrete GPU enabled.

The GPU itself is well-supported by nouveau driver, missing only a few features on the power management side of things.

Things are good when I run stuff natively. However, I have yet to figure out Flatpak. I know we use org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.* packages that are some kind of Mesa abstraction layer.

Things are much more straightforward with Intel and AMD GPU. It is actually quite easy with the proprietary NVidia driver, but it doesn't exactly come free.

The ultimate question is: Should I install one of those org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-<ver> packages with my nouveau? If so, which version?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago

how about...

1000020848

..some wheels

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

And with the land they just discovered, they'd expand their settlements.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago (13 children)

I guess the whole genocide thing is unintended, huh?

"Whooops, we accidentally wiped out the whole population of this land. Whadya know, nobody lives here now. Somebody should definitely claim it!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I have to ask: why so many European country specific feddit instances?

 

Hi everyone, I've neen having this issue when running KDE wayland with multiple screen on my Thinkpad W530. I'm using the nouveau driver.

The primary monitor is fine, but the secondary one is glitching.

This is tested on Gentoo as well as Debian. I know it's not hardware issue because it runs fine on X11.

Anyone have any idea about this issue?

Edit: I should probably mention that I was using DisplayPort in the photo, but I also tried VGA and it gave the same result.

Edit1: I was able to narrow down the problem somewhat. Switching the BIOS setting to "Discrete only" for the GPU (thanks coreboot!) seems to make the glitching go away! This means the Optimus would be to blame.

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