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Linux 6.8.6
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Oops, I noticed a bit too late to do it now (have to leave) but we've got a new kernel. There's some stuff in there (e.g. amdgpu) that should be had.

You can just write that in, the engine takes any arbitrary values. Unlike Quake engine, you don't have to unlock it with another setting (can't remember but it's -1) In UT2004.ini [WinDrv.WindowsClient] WindowedViewportX=640 WindowedViewportY=480 FullscreenViewportX=1920 FullscreenViewportY=1080 (On...

I had power outage all night and after about 6 hours, my Internet went out (They have some sort of switches in boxes around neighbourhoods that have backup batteries... seems to be getting weaker here. They will come and put portable generators on the street, but not in the middle of the night in 95...

I got around to getting my Trinity stuff working today. I had already copied it over (and the configs from grogan) but just had to set some environment variables and ldconfig paths (I have it in a non system location, /opt/trinity and /opt/tqt3 for its qt). It's one of those things where every time ...

Actually wrong, the audio does work in Arch. It must work just fine through alsa emulation. I transferred my ut2004 game directory (already self contained with libraries in its System directory) and /home/grogan/.ut2004 (which is of the utmost importance not so much because of any game data (the map...

I haven't copied that over, I'll bet it still works :lol: (audio might not work on Arch, I've never tried it there. My Bollux is a pure Alsa system, and that's where I'd play this game anyway) I still have the original directory from 2004, with icculus' patches with 64 bit build. I've dropped in com...

I don't think it would have been the mesa point release that helped. a/upower-1.90.4-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. Maybe that. It falls inline with constant polling causing problems. It's dbus machinery for polling power stats and battery sensors and something in your DE could be using the daemon. I actua...

They say you shouldn't say bad things about the dead, only good. Well, O.J. Simpson is dead. Good.

Rest in pieces... saturated with urine.

Don't try another card unless it's happening again, but that's almost current stable (24.0.5 is) It could also be an issue with your display compositor. Sync issues can have severe consequences with video. Most of the time it's not a fault for you, just the video playback freezes if I finally unders...

[ 0.000000] x86/split lock detection: #AC: crashing the kernel on kernel split_locks and warning on user-space split_locks Ohh fuck, that's just an informational message because split_lock_detect is enabled. You didn't actually show a split_lock_detect happening. It's simply informing you that it w...

OK, now... the reason your message is different (and possibly more hurty) than mine. Well, two reasons actually, but related here. Modern Intel CPUs issue a debug exception trap that assists this split_lock_detection. It's not using that for you, as it's using the #AC method rather than #DB. They ar...

Actually I'll refresh my fucking memory too, I just covered this a month ago (I forgot I made this thread). I knew it happened to me recently. It was Far Cry 6 that triggered it. Kernel split lock detection Huh... that "open link in new window" addon doesn't seem to treat the board's own U...

It has everything to do with it. Take a look at my kernel stanzas in my grub.cfg menuentry 'Arch Linux' { insmod gzio insmod part_gpt insmod fat search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 69A1-4857 linux /vmlinuz-6.8.5 root=/dev/nvme1n1p2 ro mitigations=off split_lock_detect=off loglevel=3 quiet } See ...

Bloody Hell... know what just occurred to me? With both kernels going to the same EFI "/boot" directory now, and me mounting it in Arch anyway, I don't need to build two separate kernels at all anymore, or even keep two trees. The only difference now between the two configs on the new rig ...

Yes, and the BIOS update evidently didn't fix that. efibootmgr still fails to write to NVRAM on this board. I don't care though, this will always work. There will be no more bios updates for me on this board though, MSI gives me the creeps and I doubt they are going to do anything with that now, if ...

Linux 6.8.5 https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ChangeLog-6.8.5 This one revolves around another CPU mitigation, BHI (Branch History Injection). Another one to make sure to disable :-) x86/bhi: Add support for clearing branch history at syscall entry commit 7390db8aea0d64e9deb28b8e1ce716f50...

So, to use the default/fallback it's just this (with it mounted at /boot but it wouldn't have to be that) grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot --removable That will generate EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI which a UEFI bios will just go for, bypassing EFI boot vars in NVRAM (the switch seems ...

Now, the real question is, did going through all that conversion process to UEFI so I could enable "ReSize Bar" (direct quote, including case, from my bios lol) actually help? I think it did, and I thought this might be a prime candidate to show it. After some long load screens (shader com...

Know why this works for me? Because it doesn't actually write to NVRAM. I wouldn't even need to run grub-install for this if I knew what I was doing (and I think I do now), I could manually copy the contents of the EFI partition and the bios would find EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI (case insensitive filesyst...

So, this changes how grub.cfg operates. I now have to stick my LFS kernel in the EFI partition (I'm using the EXTRAVERSION var in the Makefile to keep them separate) and now paths are relative to that because it's a mount, not a directory. Also, it's the UUID of the FAT32 EFI partition now, not the ...

I would have just torn it down again and blasted back the tarballs again if it didn't work. I was getting close to doing just that :evil: However, I finally have Arch booting with UEFI, no thanks to my BIOS. I had to go with the "default" EFI install again (like I did with ReFind) only wit...

So... giving this some more thought, the only explanation I can think of for the CSM and Resizable BAR incompatibility would be registers. When you enable the CSM compatibility module in order to boot from MBR code, you are probably using the same registers needed to initialize that Resizable BAR fe...

You could have had shit from Mate in autostart or something. For example, XFCE dumps a bunch of shit in there and it used to be a cat and mouse game of me deleting them, arch putting them back every time there's an XFCE update etc. (I don't even have xscreensaver though, so that does nothing) [groga...

So I'm fairly surprised at what I can enable here in this game. Not only Ultra everything (except no motion blur) and no scaling rubbish, DirectX raytraced shadows and reflections, adaptive sharpening (cleans up after antialiasing lol) and variable rate shading (VRS). That's actually just a performa...

I just got the "filesystem" package that made this change in /usr/lib/sysctl.d and I rebooted. I can verify that it's not fucking with any of my values with the output of: (or I could pipe the results through grep etc.) [grogan@nicetry ~]$ sysctl -a abi.vsyscall32 = 1 debug.exception-trace...

Imagine trying to install one of those high end monster 4 slot cards (I think they're all Nvidia) :) I saw a video with Jay with one of those, it was like that, a big monster with a liquid cooling block (this was the "Megaman" PC build with the steampunk custom tubing). It needed a suppor...

I think I understand what happened with the BIOS and CSM support. While the CSM module is just for backwards compatible booting (you still have a "UEFI BIOS") it conflicts with Resizable BAR support. I still don't understand what that has to do with booting from a master boot record, but i...

Arch has decided to change the default vm.max_map_count to 1048576 (which is far lower than my value lol) If you have already set one, make sure it overrides the default in /usr/lib/sysctl.d. One would think that simply putting files in /etc/sysctl.d would do that, since it's the one that's processe...

Well, somethings things do go right. I got away with putting the RX 570 back in the old computer without taking it off the desk or laying it down or disconnecting anything (power supply switch off and capacitance drained though) with no difficulty. Other than previously getting tools etc. I didn't e...

So the other night I played Odyssey because I couldn't play the games I'm currently most interested in. I found, oddly, that Odyssey ran shittier on this computer with the RX 570 card, vs. the old computer. I hadn't even changed any of the settings because I only briefly tested it on the new rig (I ...