Thanks Stewart and Hugh. I'll have a look at Stewart's recommendations for pdf manipulation. Interestingly I forgot I had previously used ImageMagic's "convert" to combine pages, perhaps I can also use it to apply the page numbers as watermarks. I think I gave up on that the last time, which was a couple of years ago, because I found pdftk worked for this. On 7/26/15, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh@mimosa.com> wrote:
| From: Russell Reiter <rreiter91@gmail.com>
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Just to be clear, fglrx isn't open source. So it cannot be in Fedora.
Sorry I should have said fglrx _as_ open source.
The normal way to add AMD Catalyst proprietary drivers is to through the <http://rpmfusion.org/> repos. There are many guides to this on the web. I never do this because the open source drivers for AMD are good enough for things I do.
I try to convince the people I assist that repository based systems are the way to go. For this effort I had added rpmfusion and used the recommended ATI install script but alas no joy.
| In | fact KDE Plasma doesn't work at all.
I'm surprised. That ought to be fixable. Perhaps it requires experts.
This might also be due to the fact that I switched to lightDM in an effort, rightly or wrongly, to control the heating issue. I'll switch back and give it a go after I improve the cooling.
| In the Gnome desktop however, any intensive video apps such as VLC etc | overheat the CPU and crash the unit.
That's a hardware problem. No software you run on a PC should be able to "overheat the CPU and crash the unit".
That hardware problem is likely to afflict you with a bunch of different workloads.
| It looks like I'd have to | backport X in order to install the proprietary Catalyst drivers for | this particular GPU.
What do you mean by "backport X"? What X is newer than Fedora's? Why do you think that it would solve your problems?
Sorry - my poor semantics. I meant downgrade, apparently while there is supposed support for these older GPU's in X 1.17 stepping down to 1.16 has apparently worked for some people as noted here. https://bluehatrecord.wordpress.com/2015/06/05/installing-the-proprietary-am...
| HTML 5 videos on the net do work, but eventually | the unit overheats and dies. I switched to lightDM and that's a little | better but still not up to speed.
Overheating ought to be fixed. In hardware.
Consider cleaning out dust as a first step. Among other things, look at heat sinks and fans.
Clean as a whistle, from a dust perspective. I have added one case cooling fan to the back of the unit and I'll add another to the front to increase throughput. :-) Right now I'm directing the output of my Air Conditioner to the rear of the unit. I get almost an hour of VLC video before the crash this time.
Consider updating firmware (in case thermal throttling has changed). I don't actually know if this is meaningful, but dmidecode on my machine reports BIOS Revision: 8.14 The Asus site has M3A78-EM BIOS 2701 released 2010/11/12. I'm pretty sure that that is what I'm running.
Thanks dmidecode shows this BIOS info for me. Vendor: American Megatrends Inc. Version: 0508 Release Date: 08/14/2008 It looks like a bios upgrade is added to the TODO's
If brave, see if one of the heat sinks no longer connects properly.
This was my "hail mary" option.
Finding out can be destructive, so I don't recommend this unless you are daring and experienced. And have thermal paste to replace the existing solution. (AMD CPUs came with a disk of stuff instead of paste and it is supposed to be single-use: detaching and re-attaching a heat sink is not intended to work.)
Thermal grease is on the list. God I hate that stuff, just a dab too much and you defeat your whole purpose.
| It seems that yum has been dandified for this release
"Dandified"??? "Gone" is the more accurate word. Or is this word play: DaNdiFied?
Yup, dnf = dandified yum.
| but when I tried | the new dnf update it failed to connect to the repositories. However, | yum-deprecated did update the kernel and after that update dnf was | able to function as intended.
That's odd. And interesting. Hard to say what actually was going on now that the phenomenon is gone. It's good that the problem is eliminated.
Good luck.
Thanks I note that system rescue cd www.sysresccd.org/Download gives me finer grained control over the display manager when running off the cd, ie. more display resolution options and screen rotation. There is an option for a disk install of system rescue cd as kind of a kludge, or perhaps I'll try out Gentoo proper itself. I just used system rescue's tool kit to shrink the partition in preparation for a backup os. First a bios upgrade tho. Cheers Russell
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