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r8169 ethernet firmware failing to load module rtl8168h (beehaw.org)
 

I am troubleshooting slow boot times with KDE, and it seems that NetworkManager is taking a few seconds to boot. I found these warnings from kernelring buffer's journal:

Oct 06 22:08:59 archlinux kernel: r8169 0000:08:00.0: Direct firmware load for rtl_nic/rtl8168h-2.fw failed with error -2
Oct 06 22:08:59 archlinux kernel: r8169 0000:08:00.0: Unable to load firmware rtl_nic/rtl8168h-2.fw (-2)
Oct 06 22:08:59 archlinux kernel: Generic FE-GE Realtek PHY r8169-0-800:00: attached PHY driver (mii_bus:phy_addr=r8169-0-800:00, irq=MAC)
Oct 06 22:09:00 archlinux kernel: r8169 0000:08:00.0 enp8s0: Link is Down
Oct 06 22:09:03 archlinux kernel: r8169 0000:08:00.0 enp8s0: Link is Up - 1Gbps/Full - flow control rx/tx


lspci | grep Ethernet
08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15)

Ultimately the card works, but the kernel spends some seconds trying to get it working, and it my be delaying the boot. I've tried using the 8168 module and adding iommu=soft to kernel parameters, neither worked. Does anyone else here has had this problem ?

Is it possible to have new windows open either right or left in gnome? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

gtile might be what I was looking for, ty

Is it possible to have new windows open either right or left in gnome? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah I use workspaces too, it's just that each of them have 2 windows placed besides each other as if each were a "normal sized" display

What distro(s) do you use? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Arch

I find that bugs in linux programs (and they will happen regardless of distro) are more easily tweaked in systems that do minimal modifications to upstream programs and keep them updated regularly with what the developers release

Also AUR makes it easy to install pretty much anything without having to add ppas, new repo links, etc

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Is it possible to have new windows open either right or left in gnome? (beehaw.org)
 

Using newest GNOME

I want windows of newly opened programs to either go to to to the half left, or half right of the screen when opened, instead of opening in a random place/middle of the screen not maximized

is it possible ?

what would Reddit need to do to get you to go back in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

At this point, it's only going to get worse. It's a very large Venture Capital backed company, on track to IPO.

Large VC/public companies goals will follow more of what we see with "mainstream" sites and social media. It'd be against their goals and their business to have less ads, less agorithms showing what their partners want to see and not what the user wants to see, less bloat on their front end. Even if the CEO wanted to go that way, he'd quickly be replaced.

It's a self sustaining movement of capital now and users are annoyances that they have to deal to achieve their goals.

I'll be honest, I started using redding decade ago because most forums were very niche, specific, with weird to follow rules, very low on users, and reddit seemed to always have a community for each topic I had an interest on. It still does, but the end is approaching fast, and I don't want to search Discord servers, social media videos, or even ancient methods that are alternatives like IRC servers, mailing lists ; search results are useless in Google due to SEO and already affect other search engines

It all comes up to finding one or more sites that don't look ancient or too mobile focused, and if enough people are going to use it and stick to it. Otherwise it'll just be another corner of the web filled with a few crazy users