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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 got a new battery for my T480 from my work supplier. It is a Greencell LGC 11 Model: 01AV424 and I get a BIOS message before my bootloader:

The battery installed is not supported by this system and will not charge. Please replace the battery with the correct Lenovo battery for this system. Press the ESC key to continue.

Once I plugged it in and booted up the battery had 74% charge, and I let it discharge until 6% without the AC adaptor plugged in as per the instructions, so that I could then fully charge it (and repeat the process 3-5 times). However, once it reached 6% and I plugged it in it wasn't charging and ended up dropping to 1% where it remains even now. Below I'll include outputs from some commands.

Everything I read online mentions flashing the EC chip to whitelist the battery, or changing the BIOS to something like coreboot. I'd like to avoid flashing any chips unless absolutely the only option, in case something goes wrong and I brick my motherboard. I've tried also resetting the EC chip by pushing the button in the pinhole at the bottom of the laptop with a paper clip, but with no effect.

$ upower -e          
/org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/line_power_AC
/org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT1
/org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/line_power_ucsi_source_psy_USBC000o001
/org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/line_power_ucsi_source_psy_USBC000o002
/org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/DisplayDevice

$ upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT1            
  native-path:          BAT1
  vendor:               LGC 11
  model:                01AV424
  serial:               14050
  power supply:         yes
  updated:              Tue 11 Jun 2024 12:46:25 EEST (19 seconds ago)
  has history:          yes
  has statistics:       yes
  battery
    present:             yes
    rechargeable:        yes
    state:               pending-charge
    warning-level:       none
    energy:              0.41 Wh
    energy-empty:        0 Wh
    energy-full:         22.23 Wh
    energy-full-design:  22.23 Wh
    energy-rate:         0 W
    voltage:             10.296 V
    charge-cycles:       1
    percentage:          1%
    capacity:            100%
    technology:          lithium-ion
    icon-name:          'battery-caution-charging-symbolic'

As you can see the state it is stuck in is "pending-charge"

Any help would be appreciated. Also, if you need any additional info please let me know and I will provide it.

EDIT: Supplier will pick it up from my work in a couple days and try to solve the issue. Hopefully that works, otherwise I'll have to see about flashing the EC chip with the patched firmware to remove the whitelist.

Solution at the end of the post

Hello guys. I've recently started experiencing an odd issue with my bspwm setup where on a reboot or upon restarting bspwm in-place I either don't get the top polybar (fixed this by explicitly killing all polybar processes from my bspwm script if they exist and then on a separate line running my launch script), or the gap between the bottom of the windows on my top (secondary) monitor and the bottom edge of the monitor is far too wide. Here is a screenshot of what I mean:

Out of the 20 times give or take that I will restart bspwm either from the terminal or through the sxhkd keybind I set, only once will it actually size itself correctly with the proper gap. The next time I restart it will revert back to this large gap. Here is also my bspwmrc file

#! /bin/sh
# pgrep -x sxhkd > /dev/null || sxhkd -s &
# pgrep -io "sxhkd" || { killall sxhkd; sxhkd > /dev/null 2>&1 & }
pgrep -io "sxhkd" | xargs kill
sxhkd -s &
pgrep -x copyq > /dev/null || copyq &
pgrep -x xfce4-power-manager > /dev/null || xfce4-power-manager &
pgrep -x dunst > /dev/null || dunst &
pgrep -x nm-applet > /dev/null || nm-applet &
pgrep -x picom > /dev/null || picom -b
pgrep -x polybar > /dev/null || $HOME/.config/polybar/launch.sh
if [[ $(xrandr -q | grep "HDMI-A-1 connected") ]];
then
	xrandr --output HDMI-A-0 --primary --mode 1920x1080 --pos 0x0 --rotate normal
	xrandr --output HDMI-A-1 --mode 1920x1080 --rotate inverted --above HDMI-A-0
	bspc monitor HDMI-A-0 -d 1 2 3 4 5
	bspc monitor HDMI-A-1 -d 6 7 8 9 0
	
	# Fix gap appearing above windows on first monitor after restarting bspwm
	bspc config -m HDMI-A-0 top_padding 3
	bspc config -m HDMI-A-0 bottom_padding 40
	
	# Fix top/bottom margins for secondary monitor
	bspc config -m HDMI-A-1 bottom_padding 3
	bspc config -m HDMI-A-1 top_padding 40
	bspc wm -O HDMI-A-0 HDMI-A-1
else
	# bspc monitor -d I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X
	bspc monitor HDMI-A-0 -d 1 2 3 4
fi
$HOME/.fehbg &
setxkbmap us
$HOME/.bin/remap-caps-esc
bspc config border_width         2
bspc config window_gap           10
# bspc config 
bspc config split_ratio          0.52
bspc config borderless_monocle   true
bspc config gapless_monocle      true
# Dracula theme
bspc config normal_border_color "#44475a"
bspc config active_border_color "#6272a4"
bspc config focused_border_color "#8be9fd"
bspc config presel_feedback_color "#6272a4"
# Make sure theme cursor is shown when mouse is not over a window, instead of the standard default one
xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr
bspc rule -a Gimp desktop='^8' state=floating follow=on
bspc rule -a Chromium desktop='^2'
bspc rule -a mplayer2 state=floating
bspc rule -a Kupfer.py focus=on
bspc rule -a Screenkey manage=off
bspc rule -a Zathura state=tiled
bspc rule -a Passy state=tiled

bspc rule -a scpad sticky=on state=floating rectangle=1896x400+10+50

betterlockscreen -u $HOME/Pictures/wallpapers/ --fx dim --dim 50

The lines where I set bottom_padding for the secondary monitor and top padding for the primary monitor I just commented out but they did not have any effect.

I would really appreciate any help for this. Thanks in advance!

Solution for polybar not launching both bars is to change the single polybar line that checks for any existing instances and runs the launch script if none are found, to 2 lines that will explicitly kill all polybar processes and then run the launch script. I also moved this a bit further down in the file.

pgrep -x polybar > /dev/null | xargs kill
$HOME/.config/polybar/launch.sh

The solution for the gap on the bottom of the second monitor was to move the if check further down in the file, hopefully giving bspwm enough time to set its defaults and then have my values set. It now looks like this:

#! /bin/sh

# pgrep -x sxhkd > /dev/null || sxhkd -s &
# pgrep -io "sxhkd" || { killall sxhkd; sxhkd > /dev/null 2>&1 & }
pgrep -io "sxhkd" | xargs kill
sxhkd -s &

pgrep -x copyq > /dev/null || copyq &
pgrep -x xfce4-power-manager > /dev/null || xfce4-power-manager &
pgrep -x dunst > /dev/null || dunst &
pgrep -x nm-applet > /dev/null || nm-applet &

pgrep -x picom > /dev/null | xargs kill
picom -b

# THESE ARE THE 2 POLYBAR LINES WHERE THE FIRST KILLS ANY EXISTING PROCESSES AND THE SECOND RUNS THE LAUNCH SCRIPT
pgrep -x polybar > /dev/null | xargs kill
$HOME/.config/polybar/launch.sh

$HOME/.fehbg &

setxkbmap us
$HOME/.bin/remap-caps-esc

bspc config border_width         2
bspc config window_gap           10
# bspc config 

bspc config split_ratio          0.52
bspc config borderless_monocle   true
bspc config gapless_monocle      true

# Dracula theme
bspc config normal_border_color "#44475a"
bspc config active_border_color "#6272a4"
bspc config focused_border_color "#8be9fd"
bspc config presel_feedback_color "#6272a4"


# THIS IS THE CHECK FOR WHETHER THERE ARE 2 MONITORS CONNECTED WHICH I MOVED DOWN IN THE FILE
if [[ $(xrandr -q | grep "HDMI-A-1 connected") ]];
then
	xrandr --output HDMI-A-0 --primary --mode 1920x1080 --pos 0x0 --rotate normal
	xrandr --output HDMI-A-1 --mode 1920x1080 --rotate inverted --above HDMI-A-0
	bspc monitor HDMI-A-0 -d 1 2 3 4 5
	bspc monitor HDMI-A-1 -d 6 7 8 9 0
	
	# pgrep -x polybar > /dev/null || $HOME/.config/polybar/launch.sh

	# Fix gap appearing above windows on first monitor after restarting bspwm
	bspc config -m HDMI-A-0 top_padding 3
	bspc config -m HDMI-A-0 bottom_padding 40
	
	# Fix top/bottom margins for secondary monitor
	bspc config -m HDMI-A-1 bottom_padding 3
	bspc config -m HDMI-A-1 top_padding 40

	bspc wm -O HDMI-A-0 HDMI-A-1
else
	# bspc monitor -d I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X
	bspc monitor HDMI-A-0 -d 1 2 3 4
	# pgrep -x polybar > /dev/null || $HOME/.config/polybar/launch.sh
fi

# Make sure theme cursor is shown when mouse is not over a window, instead of the standard default one
xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr

bspc rule -a Gimp desktop='^8' state=floating follow=on
bspc rule -a Chromium desktop='^2'
bspc rule -a mplayer2 state=floating
bspc rule -a Kupfer.py focus=on
bspc rule -a Screenkey manage=off
bspc rule -a Zathura state=tiled
bspc rule -a Passy state=tiled

bspc rule -a scpad sticky=on state=floating rectangle=1896x400+10+50

betterlockscreen -u $HOME/Pictures/wallpapers/ --fx dim --dim 50

Note: On booting into the WM the secondary monitor polybar doesn't launch, but it appears after restarting bspwm.

Im not entirely sure if my way of thinking is correct with regards to how bspwm handles the timing of setting default values and then reading its configuration file, but it seems to at least half work now.

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!