<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>These are the main(?) errors I see in /var/log/messages<br>May 7 00:12:43 cali kernel: ACPI Error: Field [D128] at 1152 exceeds Buffer [NULL] size 160 (bits) (20160831/dsopcode-236)<br>May 7 00:12:43 cali kernel: ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\HWMC] (Node ffff9f7f060da2a8), AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT (20160831/psparse-543)<br><br>May 7 00:12:43 cali dbus-daemon[904]: [system] Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="error", sender=":1.43" (uid=1000 pid=1791 comm="/usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog " label="unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023") interface="(unset)" member="(unset)" error name="org.bluez.MediaEndpoint1.Error.NotImplemented" requested_reply="0" destination=":1.2" (uid=0 pid=898 comm="/usr/libexec/bluetooth/bluetoothd " label="system_u:system_r:bluetooth_t:s0")<br><br>May 7 00:51:36 cali kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: ERROR Transfer event TRB DMA ptr not part of current TD ep_index 5 comp_code 1May 7 00:51:36 cali kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: ERROR Transfer event TRB DMA ptr not part of current TD ep_index 5 comp_code 1<br><br></div>Thanks for the links I'll check things. Do you know how I find out if the omputer has optimus or not? I see that the nvidia card I have (GeForce 940MX) is listed by nvidia with optimus technolgies does that mean I should try following this<br><a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA_Optimus">https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA_Optimus</a><br></div>and hope that it works?<br></div>I'm getting used to working with the touchpad without buttons (and its also a touch screen and comes with the pen so I'm trying that as an interface). <br></div>Thanks<br></div>Oded<br><div><div><div><div><div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 7 May 2017 at 01:35, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nando@ccrma.stanford.edu" target="_blank">nando@ccrma.stanford.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 05/05/2017 12:54 PM, Oded Ben-Tal wrote:<br>
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So, I finally got my new computer on Wednesday and I can give some<br>
preliminary report in case you are interested.<br>
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Thanks!,<span class=""><br>
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I got a 15" HP spectre with SSD HD.<br>
Install Fedora was not a real problem (I made some mistakes along the<br>
way about partitioning but that is entirly my own fault. No damage just<br>
lost a few hours trying to sort the mess I created )<br>
I tried getting the nvidia card to work but I couldn't get the akmod<br>
kernel to compile.<br>
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Any errors you can see?<span class=""><br>
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I also see some acpi related errors, and yesterday it<br>
froze when I tried to shut it down. Many restarts were fine. I got the<br>
rt kernel installed and was able to get the sound interface (rme<br>
babyface as recommended here) working. It seems to be working better<br>
then on my older thinkpad. But only tested very briefly.<br>
So I'm using the integrated graphic for now, not nvidia.<br>
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What kind of graphics architecture does it have? Optimus? Or a true dual graphic card?<span class=""><br>
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The screen is<br>
large and very high resolution and I'm not sure the desktop environment<br>
(I've been using xfce, maybe I should have chose kde?) is designed for<br>
that. Still, after tweaking the settings, enlarging the fonts etc. I'm<br>
getting used to it.<br>
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I went through the same when I got the Lenovo a while back (W540 - not buying Lenovo again for many reasons). The display is 3K, 2880 x 1620. It is great and I would not go back to 1920x1080 :-) I also had to do a lot of tweaking to get things to render more or less right.<br>
<br>
I'm using the Cinnamon desktop and I kind of like it (old style and look - I added the Chrome theme and it looks pretty nice).<br>
<br>
Cinnamon detects the display density and tries to correct for that, it has a setting you can change but with a 3K display things are wither too small or a bit too big (I see you have a 4K display so maybe it will do the right thing for you). This is from notes that are old so things might have changed:<br>
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the current solution is to set "scaling-factor" to "1" in dconf-editor, org.cinnamon.desktop.interface<wbr>; then text-scaling-factor = 1.5 or 1.6. This fixes the font size, sort of. Window decorations are a bit too big, that apparently is a known problem. Then the panels are too small so change the size to a bigger one. Almost usable.<br>
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And:<br>
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- Firefox and DPI:<br>
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<a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Firefox_tweaks#Configure_the_DPI_value" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.archlinux.org/ind<wbr>ex.php/Firefox_tweaks#Configur<wbr>e_the_DPI_value</a><br>
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Configure the DPI value<br>
<br>
Modifying the following value can help improve the way fonts looks in Firefox if the system's DPI is below 96. Firefox, by default, uses 96 and only uses the system's DPI if it is a higher value. To force the system's DPI regardless of its value, type about:config into the address bar and set layout.css.dpi to 0.<br>
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Note that the above method only affects the Firefox user interface's DPI settings. Web page contents still use a DPI value of 96, which may look ugly or, in the case of high-resolution displays, may be rendered too small to read. A solution is to change layout.css.devPixelsPerPx to system's DPI divided by 96. For example, if your system's DPI is 144, then the value to add is 144/96 = 1.5. Changing layout.css.devPixelsPerPx to 1.5 makes web page contents use a DPI of 144, which looks much better.<br>
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layout.css.devPixelsPerPx = 1.7 seems to give a "normal" size to the pages<br>
<br>
layout.css.dpi = 0<br>
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For Thunderbird:<br>
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<a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HiDPI#Thunderbird" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.archlinux.org/ind<wbr>ex.php/HiDPI#Thunderbird</a><br>
<br>
Same as in Firefox:<br>
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layout.css.devPixelsPerPx = 1.7 seems to give a "normal" size to the pages<br>
layout.css.dpi = 0<br>
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In Ardour there is a text zoom factor you can use to get things to be readable. But, for example, Ambdec and other utilities look small - but I got used to them.<br>
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There is also an xrandr scaling option but I finally decided to not use it. The scaling is not that pretty and I like my very high resolution.<br>
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Hope this helps...<span class=""><br>
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On the plus side - it is very, very quiet which was one of the main<br>
reasons I opted for this one.<br>
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I really really like that! One of the things I hate in my w540 is the fan noise. Worse than the previous Thinkpads I had before. The touchpad was also atrocious. I finally replaced it with one that has three physical buttons. Still the buttons are on top of the touchpad but that is better than nothing. Will definitely look for a proper touchpad with physical buttons in the right place when I upgrade.<span class=""><br>
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One other thing, though, it onlyl has one usb port. Which may be a<br>
limiting factor I have not considered carefully enough.<br>
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Ouch. Only one? Hopefully enough...<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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-- Fernando<br>
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</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Oded Ben-Tal<br><a href="http://obental.wixsite.com/main" target="_blank">obental.wixsite.com/main</a><br><a href="http://soundcloud.com/odedbental" target="_blank">http://soundcloud.com/odedbental</a><br><div></div></div></div></div>
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