From: philo@privacy.net   
      
   Malcolm wrote:   
   > On Fri, 5 Jul 2024 23:08:42 +0000   
   > philo@novabbs.com (philo) wrote:   
   >   
   >> I already did a fresh install.   
   >>   
   >> Still. What I wanted to know is how to reconfigure video from the   
   >> command line.   
   >>   
   >> I'm always changing hardware on my test machines and needed a good way   
   >> to reconfigure.   
   >>   
   >> Each OS has its own way of doing things.   
   >>   
   >> Viz: Ubuntu and Mint are very similar but if I change a video   
   >> card...Ubuntu will automatically reconfigure but Mint (usually) will   
   >> not.   
   >>   
   >> The other OS I'm evaluating is Fedora.   
   >> So far that one looks pretty good.   
   >>   
   >> Though SUSE will not be my OS of choice , it runs incredibly well on   
   >> the low end machine I'm using for evaluation.   
   >>   
   >> There were two other drawbacks however.   
   >>   
   >> When the machine logs me out, when I attempt to log back in, I'm   
   >> presented with a black screen.   
   >>   
   >> For me the real kicker was the inability to detect my network printer.   
   >>   
   >> Every one of the OSes I run, did so automatically...or at least   
   >> easily.   
   > Hi   
   > It depends on the graphics card, depends on the Desktop environment   
   > running and also if the desktop environment is running Xorg or Wayland.   
   >   
   > Intel and Nvidia should run fine, depending on the AMD gpu and it's GCN   
   > version you may need some grub options for either radeon or amdgpu.   
   > Likewise if you indicate the gpu in use via `inxi -GSaz` would help.   
   >   
   > For the printer, temporarily stop the firewall and test, but I would   
   > suspect you need  to make sure that “mdns” (Avahi discovery) and   
   > “ipp-client” (for IPP printers) is allowed in the applicable zone for   
   > the LAN interface.   
   >   
      
      
   I've never seen a firewall block a printer by default so I just went   
   ahead and installed it manually. Worked fine   
      
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