... it's enticing!

Hi,

I've built my own NAS recently and I'm trying to get the max use out of it. I seem to be unable to find any iOS music app that integrates with CarPlay except VLC.

VLC works "okay" for streaming files that are on my phones local storage but it's quite glitchy and sometimes tends to crash or becomes unresponsive. However the network shares are not accessible to navigate trough on the CarPlay dashboard and either I'm missing something but I can't add any network shared folders to the Albums which are accessible on the dashboard.

BONUS: If the app allows transcoding so I don't have to stream FLAC over mobile data, that would be a big time saver.

Speakers -> Worked via Line OUT for months

Take PC apart and change PSU, assemble PC back.

Speakers - Line OUT detected but can't test Left/Right audio channels, options missing. No AUDIO from speakers unless I select them as default in Pavucontrol or manually assign outputs via Helvum.

Fedora 43 GNOME

How do I get my GNOME audio settings to work again?

This is so random and funny at the same time... yet frustrating because it makes no god damn sense :D

After 2y on Linux I can say with full confidence that switching from GNOME to KDE (for me) is a bigger barrier than switching from Windows to Linux ever was.

I’ve tried a lot to like KDE but I just can’t. I usually see people discussing distros but I feel like picking the right DE makes much bigger impact. I’m yet to try Hyprland though.

Considering the fact that I’m itching to get Steam Frame and VR on GNOME will likely be broken indefinitely, idk what to do.

1.) Find a kit you want to buy

2.) Go buy it

3.) Change your mind and decide not to at the last moment

4.) You’ve just saved at least $500+ depending on the kit you were after

5.) Repeat until you save so much that money won’t be an issue anymore

6.) Now buy it with some of the money you’ve just saved

(bonus tip: works for real estate as well)

Despite this not being FOSS like GIMP, I think it's great that there is at least some very viable alternative that can run on Linux even with some workaround, for free (besides Photopea).

Hello,

I've bought a capture card and I want to capture my main PC with OBS on my laptop, however I've run into this weird issue where I can't mirror 1440p because mirror forces both outputs to the max supported refresh rate regardless if it supports that on a given resolution or not.

I use Fedora 43 GNOME.

Setup is as follows:

• DP from GPU to my main 1440p 240Hz monitor
• HDMI from GPU to the capture card to the laptops USB

I can set the capture card to be 1440p 60Hz in the "Joined" mode where it works as a 2nd monitor and it works fine as I can set it to 60Hz there but "Mirror" just forces it to 120Hz (on any resolution) and my main screen gets forced to 240Hz.

I was unable to change this with "xrandr"... I assume it's because of Wayland. It works enough to show me the display modes at least and I can also verify trough the OSD on my main monitor that it's running at 240Hz and also that it switches from whatever lower refresh rate I set to 240Hz whenever I use mirror.

Right now I have to use 1080p only... luckily it works at 120Hz despite the capture card claiming only 120Hz at 720p but still, I am stuck with 1080p on my main screen.

xrandr during Mirror

werecat@fedora:~$ xrandr --output DP-2 --mode 2560x1440 --rate 240.00 --output HDMI-1 --mode 2560x1440 --rate 60.00 werecat@fedora:~$ xrandr -q Screen 0: minimum 16 x 16, current 2560 x 1440, maximum 32767 x 32767 DP-2 connected primary 2560x1440+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 700mm x 390mm 2560x1440 239.88*+ 1920x1440 239.84 1600x1200 239.94 1440x1080 239.87 1400x1050 239.76 1280x1024 239.78 1280x960 239.80 1152x864 239.87 1024x768 239.74 800x600 239.81 640x480 239.72 320x240 238.24 1920x1200 239.94 1680x1050 239.73 1440x900 239.80 1280x800 239.70 1152x720 239.91 960x600 239.72 928x580 239.78 800x500 239.72 768x480 239.72 720x480 239.35 640x400 239.49 320x200 238.84 2048x1152 239.87 1920x1080 239.88 1600x900 239.72 1368x768 239.74 1280x720 239.79 1024x576 239.43 864x486 239.60 720x400 239.07 640x350 239.59 HDMI-1 connected 2560x1440+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 600mm x 340mm 2560x1440 119.86*+ 1920x1440 119.85 1600x1200 119.82 1440x1080 119.82 1400x1050 119.78 1280x1024 119.71 1280x960 119.86 1152x864 119.77 1024x768 119.59 800x600 119.49 640x480 119.52 320x240 117.34 1920x1200 119.85 1680x1050 119.80 1440x900 119.81 1280x800 119.68 1152x720 119.53 960x600 119.74 928x580 119.55 800x500 119.47 768x480 119.24 720x480 119.65 640x400 119.64 320x200 117.55 2048x1152 119.82 1920x1080 119.77 1600x900 119.83 1368x768 119.67 1280x720 119.67 1024x576 119.56 864x486 119.69 720x400 119.54 640x350 119.24

Is there anything I can do about this? Video link in thumbnail. Thanks!

EDIT:

This works for the main monitor but does not for the output to capture card during mirror... it works in "Join" mode though

werecat@fedora:~$ displayconfig-mutter set --resolution 2560x1440 --refresh-rate 120 --connector DP-2

werecat@fedora:~$ displayconfig-mutter set --resolution 2560x1440 --refresh-rate 60 --connector HDMI-1 Error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs: Invalid mode '[email protected]' specified

I was trying out FSR4 on my RX 6800 XT, Fedora 42. Works really well and it easily beats FSR3 in visuals even on Performance. It does have a significant performance hit vs FSR3 though but it still works out to be a bit faster than a native rendering on Quality.

This happened for the 3rd time and at this point I don't know if I should sue or leave it be. It's not like I can afford moving out from the basement.

Hi, hopefully this isn't breaking any rules. I just wanted to show my experience with APC RMA process as UPS tends to be quite niche topic and this is also my first UPS so I had no prior experience with any other companies.

I've bought APC Back-UPS Pro 1500 in 10th of July 2022 and recently (early this July) it stopped switching to battery, it showed F02 error instead and immediately shut off the moment a power cut off.

1.) Getting hold of support, very difficult. Most of the links on the website were broken with error "under maintenance" took me around 1 week of trying to be able to contact anybody (I finally managed to get a phone number).

2.) Contacting support - the guy on phone told me where to e-mail my issue.

3.) E-mail - responded within 3 days. Told me the battery is likely bad and sent me a new battery free of charge which arrived another 3 or 4 days later. Also provided link with guide on how to properly reset the UPS (link was broken).

Unfortunately, battery wasn't the issue. I've e-mailed back ASAP after I've tried the new battery. They responded within a day and sent me a whole new UPS replacement (with battery) which just arrived (works).

They will come to pickup the new battery and old broken UPS in the next 2 days. (Free of charge shipping both ways).

Hi, so I will try to hopefully explain as best as I can.

These are my devices:

• Windows PC -> Cable Headphone1 output
• Linux Laptop -> BT Headphone2 output
• Android Phone -> Phone speaker output

What I want to achieve:

Have audio from all devices output from Headphone1 on my PC without having to use physical or software mixer.

What I managed to get working but sux due to audio stutter or delay:

Have audio from all devices output from Headphone2

How?

• Phone paired via BT to Windows PC, using app on Windows PC called Bluetooth Audio Receiver gives me the ability to listen to my phone audio via Headphone1 (does not work for Laptop)
• Linux Laptop paired to my Windows PC as an audio device allows me to set the Laptop as a output audio device for the PC so I can listen to PC and thus to the Phone via Headphone2

BUT, this causes phone audio to stutter via Headphone2 and audio from PC has at least 500ms delay.

Wish there was a way to forward audio from Linux Laptop to Windows PC the same way as from Android Phone to PC.

Any clues?

Hi, on fresh install (multiple) of Fedora 42 GNOME the KDE Connect app after install wont open.

Either it will stay running in processes but nothing will display or it will immediately crash with an error.

GSconnect doesn't even show up after install.

If I install Fedora 42 KDE it works fine. But I don't like KDE. Any idea what's up with this?

EDIT: Thanks for help, anyhow. In the end I found that I will just use KDE Connect for clipboard between my laptop, PC and phone but the desired functionality I wanted when connected to my phone is available with scrcpy and it's quite something. Can't believe it has such a stupid name as I never heard of it. It's so freaking good!

Hello, I've spent maybe 5h+ trying to troubleshoot Remote Play from my Linux (Fedora 42 GNOME) PC host to my Steam Deck OLED client and I keep finding outdated or contradicting information regarding HEVC.

1.) Main crux of my issues with remote play seems to be fixed after solving some WiFi congestion issues and I'm able to get perfectly smooth 60FPS 50Mbps stream without HW-encoding&decoding with the h.264 codec.

2.) The HEVC codec is a major visual improvement for the Remote Play however the frametimes are all over the place when streaming HEVC and I'm at a loss on how to solve this.

It does not matter if I have HW encoding&decoding enabled/disabled, the HEVC streaming experience is just bad. Is it just a limitation within the Steam Deck or is that some SW issue? Any way to try to fix this?

Note: issue is not related to bandwidth for streaming and even for x264 stutters starts to happen the moment I enable HW-decoding

My main PC runs 5800X3D with RX 6800 XT 16GB and 64GB RAM

Note2: For client - If I use HW decoding or if I use just HEVC without HW-decoding I can use the Steam Deck HW overlay just fine but if I just use h.264 with no HW-decoding then I can't access the Steam menu or the "..." menu until I quit the game... what's up with that?

EDIT: This has worked, thanks for help: LD_PRELOAD="" VK_LOADER_LAYERS_ENABLE=VK_LAYER_MANGOHUD_overlay_x86_64 %command% --skip-launcher --vulkan

Hi, so I've been using Fedora 41 GNOME since release with no issues at all and I've decided to do a new fresh install of Fedora 42 yesterday.

Everything seemed to run well but I've encountered this issue in games that after around 30min I get this weird stutter. Until then everything runs smoothly.

As you can see in the video the stutter only occurs during mouse movement or during camera movement with keyboard. Once the camera moves on it's own and just tracks the character the frametimes are perfectly flat so it does not seem like the fault is on the game but somethings off with the system compositor?

This happens with or without VSync, I've tried with and without VRR, I've tried chaning game settings and also different Proton versions... only thing that helps is to restart the game but then I'll have to do it once again in about 30min.

My suspicion is on the new triple buffering in new GNOME 48 but I have no idea how to turn it off to test.

Any suggestions?

Hello,

I'm adjusting pp_table settings to get most out of my GPU (RX 6800 XT) and it works but every time I restart PC the changes revert back to default. Any idea how I could make them persist?

For me pp_table is located in /sys/class/drm/card1/device/pp_table

I have to use chmod to be able to make changes:

sudo chmod o+w /sys/class/drm/card1/device/pp_table

Then I'm able to write in changes with upp:

upp -p /sys/class/drm/card1/device/pp_table set --write smc_pptable/SocketPowerLimitAc/0=312 smc_pptable/SocketPowerLimitDc/0=293 smc_pptable/TdcLimit/0=300 smc_pptable/FreqTableSocclk/1=1350 smc_pptable/FreqTableFclk/1=2000 smc_pptable/FclkBoostFreq=2000

And just in case you're wondering if the effort even makes sene, yes it does:

Max OC with LACT with max default limits (left) vs max OC with edited pp_table (right) in the picture.

For context:

I'm copying the same files to the same USB drive for comparison from Windows and from my Fedora 41 Workstation.

Around 10k photos.

Windows PC: Dual Core AMD Athlon from 2009, 4GB RAM, old HDD, takes around 40min to copy the files to USB

Linux PC: 5800X3D, 64GB RAM, NVMe SSD, takes around 3h to copy the same files to the same USB stick

I've tried chagning from NTFS to exFAT but the same result. What can I do to improve this? It's really annoying.