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Konsole/Dolphin in KDE Gear 21.12
by Axel Braun 03 Jan '22

03 Jan '22

Hi, since latestet KDE Update, when opening a Konsole from Dolphin with F4, it starts automatically in root mode. This is the same (new) behaviour as Konsole itself, which suddenly starts in root mode as well. While this could be fixed by changing Settings -> Profile - > Standard as default profile, this option seem not to exist for Konsole from Dolphin ~/.config/dolphinrc does not seem to have a corresponding entry either. Any ideas? Thanks Axel

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TW: Strange messages from Kernel.....
by Axel Braun 31 Dec '21

31 Dec '21

Hi, since some time I receive every now and then strange messages from teh kernel: Message from syslogd@X1E at Dec 21 08:09:04 ... kernel:[22896.715276][ C0] Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 20 on CPU 0. Message from syslogd@X1E at Dec 21 08:09:04 ... kernel:[22896.715282][ C0] Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled? Message from syslogd@X1E at Dec 21 08:09:04 ... kernel:[22896.715283][ C0] Dazed and confused, but trying to continue The Laptop - ThinkPad X1 Extreme running TW - was on low power last night, hibernated, and on shore power since 30 minutes. Power settings are 'standard'. However, my impression is, that on battery mode the Laptop consumes more power than usual. Was there a change in powermanagement recently? Expected: ~ 15W Actual: ~25W It takes 25W with Nvidia Card enabed, according to prime -select, nvidia card is turend off OK, these are already 2 questions, but from the same area. Cheers Axel

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pipewire not providing sound for me
by Patrick Shanahan 27 Dec '21

27 Dec '21

Tumbleweed 20211223 Just noticed when trying to play a youtube video on firefox that I no longer have any sound. I see that pulseaudio is now pipewire but that does not mean much to me. It does seem that sound have failed very recently, last several days. speaker-test -c2 -l5 -twav fails speaker-test -c8 -l5 -twav -D plug:surround71 provides "Front Left" and "Front Right" from my attached speakers speaker-test -c2 -l5 -twav -D hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1 provides "Front Left" and "Front Right" from my second display (TV). the system tray audio speaker button displays a diagonal red line indicating mute but mute is not selected. does this provide information which will help solve my provlem? tks, -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet oftc What sort of day was it? A day like all days, filled with those events that alter and illuminate our times...

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Sound Problem in Leap 15.3
by Robin Klitscher 26 Dec '21

26 Dec '21

This multi-boot machine runs three separate instances of openSUSE - Leap 15.3 (default); Leap 15.2 (deprecated); Tumbleweed (for fun) Each installation uses the KDE Plasma desktop Recently – I can’t say exactly when but in the last few days – I‘ve lost sound in the 15.3 default installation. 15.2 and Tumbleweed remain OK. In each of the three cases including 15.3, KDE’s Audio module in System Settings reports “built-in audio” (from the motherboard), with output analogue stereo. Oddly, perhaps, the Yast sound module shows the soundcard as “not configured” in all three.* What I don’t get is how sound can work without configuring the sound card through YAST in two of the installations but not the third. More particularly, I can’t see what might have changed in the 15.3 installation to stop it working, where it worked until recently. Any suggestions? Preferably in words of one syllable, since I’m a bear of very little brain. ……………….. *Any attempt to recover the situation by configuring the card through YAST in the 15.3 installation returns “An error occurred during the installation of Comet Lake PCH cAVS. The kernel module snd-sof-pci for sound support could not be loaded. This can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.” -- Robin K Wellington "Harbour City" New Zealand

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Plasma root dolphin alert colors
by Ben T. Fender 21 Dec '21

21 Dec '21

I don't know if this is a plasma or a suse issue... When user launches dolphin-su a little alert appears, which is a useful flag but I used to have an even better one that could not be just clicked OFF and forgotten. I used to set, as root, a background color of reddish orange so that when any user called dolphin-su that window would be in root's colours. UNFORTUNATELY this feature is now dead, dolphin-su shows up indistinguishably dressed in user colors :-(

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No network at first startup, but network if rebooted. Tumbleweed.
by Stakanov 21 Dec '21

21 Dec '21

I have following issue but I do not know were I can find useful logs to understand what is going on. My machine is a very standard Gigabyte Mainboard with integrated Ethernet. Only one NIC is present on the system. The issue started about 3 month ago, I always wanted to investigate but I am too annoyed now, so I really want to solve it. Take a typical start up: the machine is on a dlan Ethernet were a Devolo 1200 (with a small OpenWRT like OS running on it) is managing the Ethernet interface. When I start up, the system (with wicked as network setup, there is no WLAN on the machine) boots fine. But when arriving at the Plasma desktop you have no network. If you try to restart networking services (e.g. sudo rcnetwork restart) it does but you do not have network. I also tried to restart every wicked service in yast but no network and no error log. But if you simply reboot the machine all works as expected. Now I tried this also without a graphical user session, it is the same, so the issue is IMO not bound to Plasma. I thought it might be that this is a timeout with the dlan being in energy saving at the first bood and awaken at the second. But wouldn't wicked wait until the interface has an address? Wouldn't it complain logging clearly in journalctl? Anybody else in the past encountered such an issue? Thank you in advance.

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TLP 1.4 defaults changed lead to laptop sound and/or nvidia optimus problems [SOLUTION]
by Mykola Krachkovsky 20 Dec '21

20 Dec '21

Hi, This is not a question or bugreport, just information for some people that might be unaware or wondering. With TLP 1.4 (from snapshot 20211210 or later) there are some new defaults: SOUND_POWER_SAVE_ON_AC=1 (was 0) [1] and RUNTIME_PM_DRIVER_DENYLIST="mei_me nouveau radeon" (was "amdgpu mei_me nouveau nvidia pcieport radeon") [2] for my laptop with nvidia optimus and binary proprietary driver these changes lead to 2 problems: 1. Even though NVidia dGPU runtime_status was suspended and there was a 0% in powertop, in reality it was always powered on — hardware LED, temperature. And I couldn't switch it off (I'm using Linux PM, not bbswitch). Not sure why tlp broke all power management of NVidia GPU, maybe will check it later. 2. Before each audio usage there was cracking sound and snd_hda_intel power_save was 1 even when AC is on. Documentation [3] says "Power saving mode may cause slight clicks" but for me they aren't slight but **very** audible and unpleasant. So restoring those values to 1.3 defaults (/etc/tlp.conf or /etc/tlp.d/) fixed things for me. [1] https://github.com/linrunner/TLP/issues/495 [2] https://github.com/linrunner/TLP/issues/488 [3] https://linrunner.de/tlp/settings/audio.html -- Kind regards, Mykola Krachkovsky -- Найкращі побажання, Микола Крачковський

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Getty randomly disabled?
by Marco Calistri 19 Dec '21

19 Dec '21

Why is this happening? (¹) Is it a sort of new feature? How to correct since it never occurred before? To restart my keyboard I need to input: "pkill agetty" (¹)dic 16 16:40:09 localhost systemd[1]: getty(a)tty1.service: Deactivated successfully. Regards, -- Marco Calistri Build: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20211214 Kernel:5.15.7-1-default Desktop: XFCE (4.16.0)

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New computer challenges
by mark neidorff 19 Dec '21

19 Dec '21

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Which video package do I install?
by mark neidorff 17 Dec '21

17 Dec '21

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