On Wed, 2019-10-09 at 22:08 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > My C++ compiles are getting longer. It's time to get new hardware, > but I'm having some difficulty finding Fedora-friendly hardware, > that's slightly above average grade, such as dual CPU and spinning > rust (I haven't gotten quite aboard the SSD train, with its built-in > expiration date). You should probably tell people more of your requirements, if you're after recommendations. Such as do you need a sound card, graphics card, will on-board do? I bought a couple of AS Rock B250M Pro4 motherboards, last year. A bit middle of the road (mine's only i5 CPU), but they were replacing ancient equipment (so a vast improvement to me), and I don't play video games, so the on-board video is okay for my needs. I think I had to manually add this X conf file: ]$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-video.conf Section "Device" Identifier "Intel Graphics" Driver "intel" Option "AccelMethod" Option "TearFree" "true" EndSection That's (at least) to stop screen tearing of moving objects being split in the middle. Unfortunately, the setting doesn't stop tears from computers driving you nuts. If only there was a tear free general setting for managing computers... ]$ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 05) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 630 (rev 04) 00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 200 Series/Z370 Chipset Family USB 3.0 xHCI Controller 00:14.2 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH Thermal Subsystem 00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH CSME HECI #1 00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH SATA controller [AHCI mode] 00:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH PCI Express Root Port #9 (rev f0) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH LPC Controller (B250) 00:1f.2 Memory controller: Intel Corporation 200 Series/Z370 Chipset Family Power Management Controller 00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH HD Audio 00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation 200 Series/Z370 Chipset Family SMBus Controller 00:1f.6 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (2) I219-V -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1062.1.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Sep 30 14:19:46 UTC 2019 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
