Hunting the old Polaris bug

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There's some old, rare bug. It causes GPU crashes on Polaris and maybe other cards, too. Here some examples:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_b...

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A bit of a joke and a bit of a real questions: Shouldn't ACO be involved when you use Zink?...

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It might just work or need some Zink changes. Anyway, why would somebody do
Dx9 -> Gallium -> Zink -> Vulkan
when you can do
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Did you read what I linked? Cause it's written right there:

The client and client-rt module has a configuration template file located in /usr/share/pipewire/client.conf

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For UI remember all pa 5 tools are for pipewire, so for example PulseEffect5 ist pipewires default equalizer.
For documentation see my links above....

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https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipew...reamproperties
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipew...ulsedaemonconf...

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You might want to have a look at HGST drives. One of the PCBs is from Western Digital, one of IIRC Hitachi. Can't remember which one was from which manufacturer...

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Where? To my knowledge the only place where Linux gets uses is Munich but we're kicking back and forth probably eating a lot of taxes for this nonsense...

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F2FS is better suited on cheap FTLs. Also compression is opt-in....

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From the blog post:


So... Vulkan -> Metal via MoltenVK is not good but OpenGL -> Vulkan -> Metal via Zink and MoltenVK will...

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HWCAPS is only for loading the best library of a set of libraries on the hard drive. So in your example scenarios HWCAPS isn't needed at all (just like...

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Already done:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/direc...rs-to-directx/ - "using the Mesa 3D...

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The USB adapters are just registering as generic gamepads / HID devices to the OS and translate the N64 protocol to HID, so there are no special drivers...

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NTFS on Linux is a FUSE based filesystem, so it's painfull slow. You would be better using exFAT.


There are still people compiling...

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That's not true: On a window machine the survey popped up every time I opened Steam while on Linux I can reinstall the whole OS but no survey will pop...