Hey guys. I just got a Genesis Thor 300 TKL keyboard which doesnt work from my brother. I've got a Glorious GMMK v1 TKL keyboard. Is it possible to desolder the MX Blue switches from the broken Genesis keyboard and use them in the Glorious keyboard which at least to my knowledge is hotswappable?

Thanks in advance!

Hello guys! A few days ago my current phone fell flat on its screen and it cracked. It's still usable, but its already quite old, and I've been wanting to switch to Fairphone because I like what they are doing as a company, and I like that I can get a device with a degoogled OS directly from them.

However, currently only the 128GB/6GB storage/ram version of the /e/os Fairphone 5 is in stock.

I mainly use my device for media (youtube -> free alternative, stremio, ebooks, etc), calls/texts, and texting through internet messenger apps.

Finally, my question: do you guys think I should wait for the 256GB/8GB version to be back in stock, or just get the currently available one. I don't play mobile games so I dont need anything fancy in that regard.

It is worth it to note that my current device has 128GB storage but 8GB ram, which is more what I am wondering about whether it will be enough. I don't want it to be unusably laggy a few years down the line, I plan on having my next device for at least 8 years, more if possible.

Anyway, thanks for all the help in advance!

Edit: will wait for the 256GB/8GB version to be back in stock. Thanks for all the advice!

Hello everyone! I recently decided to reignite my passion for learning about kernel development, so I printed out the third edition of Linux Device Drivers by J. Corbet + others. In the book it is stated that they assume you have the 2.6.10 kernel. I decided to set up a virtual machine using virt-manager so that I can work through most of the book (I realise VMs dont allow for many things when developing drivers, where physical access to hardware is required, but its the best option for now until I can get a RPi or something else).

I decided to go with Ubuntu Dapper Drake, as it has a kernel version pretty close to what is used in the book, so I figured there wouldn't be much friction when trying to install the specific 2.6.10 version (Dapper Drake is on 2.6.15, at least the one I got). However, I am encountering an issue with my networking. I have set up the NAT bridge from my regular WIFI internet connection to my virtual machines, set my dapper drake installation to use that in the NIC settings, but it doesnt connect.

Here are some commands and their output from the guest OS:

$ ifconfig -a
lo
<loopback information yada yada>

sit0
<yada yada>

$ lspci | grep -i ethernet
0000:01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Unknown device 1af4:1041 (rev 01)

The second command's output leads me to believe that a device is detected but the OS doesnt know what to do with it because I dont have the virtio drivers for networking installed.

I've searched everywhere for a way to download them either as source or as a .deb package so I can transfer them to the guest OS using a disk drive I will create, but I cant find them anywhere. Everywhere I look, everyone says that for linux they are already included in the kernel (might not be true for the distribution I have as a guest).

So here is my question(s) finally: Where can I find virtio-tools either as a .deb package or as source with instruction to build on a distribution of around the age of dapper drake, or if there is another way and I am wrongly fixated on this, how can I set up networking by passing through my regular internet from the host to the guest, so that I can use stuff like github to write the driver code on my host and easily transfer it to the guest for compilation/testing?

Please be gentle. Dapper drake released around 2006 and it wasn't until 2016 when I first used linux in any form, so I am used to a little more quality of life in my distributions xD /j

As always, many thanks in advance to everyone taking time to answer :)

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/23382188

Hello everyone! I have this issue with my steam on arch linux where it takes about 5 minutes and sometimes more to start, then I keep getting connection errors when trying to sign in. Ive opened an issue on the github page you can read for more details (logs etc)

Basically now I'm wondering if I should just reinstall steam and see if that fixes it. Here is the situation though. I have a steam library in my /home partition, as well as on a separate hard drive which is always mounted. I have copied the steamapps directory from the home side of things to a temporary location, so I assume if I reinstall and copy it back I should have all my games and stuff set up exactly as they were before the issue? Also, do I need to backup the steamapps directory from the hard drive which is separate to /home?

The reason I'm so hesitant to just wipe everything and reinstall, is because I spent a good couple of weeks trying to get Silent Hunter 3 set up with steamtinkerlaunch, and even on release it was quite a finnicky game, let alone 20-something years later on linux running through proton, and now I have it at a point where it works.

Anyway, I would love some help, so thanks in advance!

P.s. Updating system didn't solve issue

Just checked, and I have all the dependencies listed on the package page satisfied in some form. Now, whether some version is slightly outdated, I don't know how to check

Reinstalling steam doesn't seem to fix the issue.

pacman -R steam-native-runtime steam
pacman -S steam

When launching from the terminal again I get the same output. The 2 lines that stand out are the following:

src/clientdll/steamengine.cpp (2773) : Assertion Failed: CSteamEngine::BMainLoop appears to have stalled > 15 seconds without event signalled
src/clientdll/steamengine.cpp (2773) : Assertion Failed: CSteamEngine::BMainLoop appears to have stalled > 15 seconds without event signalled

Any ideas how I can troubleshoot this?

[SOLUTION] I had to run

pacman -Syu steam

which seems to have also installed a package called lsb-release

Im not sure why running a full system upgrade and also uninstalling and reinstalling steam didn't also grab this package when I did those, but there you go. I do a full system update by simply running yay as to my understanding that is the same as running yay -Syu but it first runs pacman -Syu. If anyone could provide some insight into why that might be I would appreciate that so I can learn from this experience. Thanks again everyone who tried to help!

[SOLUTION AT END OF POST]

Hello again. A few days ago I made the post in the link above which is about getting Silent Hunter 3 working with the LSH3 megamod, and I got a great answer in there to use steamtinkerlaunch to run separate executables just once (e.g. to install JSGME mod manager and to install the actual megamod LSH3).

After playing for a bit I decided I want a little more control over what mods are installed, and decided to switch to the GWX megamod, so I completely uninstalled SH3 and its folder in the steamapps/common folder, and reinstalled it cleanly. Then using wine I ran the 4GB patch so that the game would use 4GB instead of 2GB memory which is required for running many mods. The memory usage can get quite high. After that I loaded all my desired mods with JSGME.

The game starts fine, and I can do all the training missions and the single missions, but I cant start a campaign. After the loading bar for entering a campaign patrol fills up, there is a delay of a couple minutes (normal for GWX as during that stage it is loading all its mods and any other mods you have enabled), and then crashes to desktop. This clearly means that it is running out of memory while loading mods. However after running the patcher to increase the memory limit of the executable I get a new sh3.exe file and my original gets renamed to sh3.exe.Backup, which seems to show that the patch has been applied correctly.

Could anyone help me diagnose this issue please?

Thanks in advance!

Edit 1 (SOLUTION): So what ended up working for me was simply making the game run using proton 6.3-8. I did try version 4.3 as well, but that didnt seem to be working that well with the widegui mod I have. Thanks to all who gave suggestions!

Edit 2: Editing to add 2 more things to the solution. Because of frequent crashes while in the career patrol, I ended up lowering the Particle Density to 90 and also do not create any saves while out on patrol. Not sure which of the two actually stopped the crashing, but so far I've played for about 20 hours with no crash.

Hello guys! Recently re watched Das Boot (amazing film btw for those who haven't seen it, highly recommend) and that inspired me to install my SH3 from steam. The thing is its the first time I'm going to be playing on Linux, and I'm a bit stumped on how I can install the LSH3 supermod. The instructions for the 2022 version of LSH3 state that you simply run the provided .exe (due to this being steam proton I placed it in the game directory but this doesn't seem to be required) and run it. However I can't seem to figure out how I can use an existing proton environment to run an executable which is not the actual steam game for that environment. Can anybody help with this?

As a bonus question, because this game is quite old there are quite a few mods available for it, and the best way to activate them after downloading (on windows at least) is through JSGME. However I also cant figure out how to install that in the game directory. I have downloaded its installer but dont know how to actually run it.

I have included the link to the LSH3 2022 install manual as well as a screenshot of my game directory with files related to this post circled.

Any insight would be amazing!

Hello everybody! My brother plays Insurgency Sandstorm a lot and I wanted us to be able to play together, so I got it and after some messing about got it working on my system. One of the things I read in forum posts to do to get it to work on an Arch based system is to install glibc-eac-bin which has some patches to make certain games work (I hope I understood that correctly).

Today when I try to update my system I get the following message and it will not allow me to continue:

:: Starting full system upgrade...

resolving dependencies...

looking for conflicting packages...

:: glibc-2.40+r16+gaa533d58ff-1 and glibc-eac-bin-2.40-1 are in conflict. Remove glibc-eac-bin? [y/N]

I dont want to remove glibc, but i want the message to go away and to be able to proceed with my updates. Any suggestions on what I should do?

Thanks in advance

Hello everyone! I just wanted to ask if its possible to make mods for Hogwarts Legacy entirely on a Linux machine, and if it is if anyone can point me to any resources to get started with setting it up on Linux (guides specific to making actual mods I can probably find easily and I guess will be relevant regardless of if the guide is made on a Windows machine).

That's all, and thanks in advance!