u/IngwiePhoenix — reddlx

Gamepads for the Fold 10?

The title, basically. I just upgraded from the original Fold to the Fold 10 and I am thinking of getting a gamepad for it for some light games on the go - my train rides are bound to become longer soon... (Thanks, Deutsche Bahn x.x)

The only ones with a left-sided USB Type-C I could find are by GameSir - but, are there any others? I would like to avoid Bluetooth because I prefer wired and I don't have to remember another thing to charge.

Thank you :)

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u/IngwiePhoenix — 10 hours ago

▲ 0 r/LineageOS

Bumping kernel versions?

Because I am selling my Pixel (8) Fold to upgrade to the Pixel 10 Fold, I picked up my old reliable Razer Phone 2 ("aura") - my backup phone, on which I run LineageOS 22. And when I updated everything to current time, I noticed it was still on A15 - and after reading this blog post here, I now know why. https://lineageos.org/Changelog-30/

My kernel is on 4.9.x, which does not seem to have the mandatory eBPF changes backported - but on the other hand, hardware support for the chipset in the phone, should have, at one point or another, become mainstream. It's a really old SoC by comparison now (Qualcom SDM845) and thus I wonder if it would be possible to bump the kernel version, to thus allow it to get A16 support...

In the Wiki, and the source tree, I can spot the maintainer - but just bursting through the front door and screaming "update kernel!1!!!11" does not sound like the proper path :P

What can I do to test and then submit this change? I'd love to eek out a little more livespan from this phone! It's been a super reliable fallback and so I would want to do something to give back to the people that have made sure it can run this way.

My goal would be to test out a few 5.x LTS kernels and then 6.x to see which one sticks. If I could nail it on a 6.x LTS, that'd be pretty amazing.

So yeah... what else can I do than to download the source and build my own image, upload it to the phone, boot and see what happens? - And, since this a bit of a bigger project structure, how do I submit a "pull request"? On Github, it's for one repo in a tab - but Lineage, and Android stuff in general, is spread across a whole bunch of repos...

Thanks!

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u/IngwiePhoenix — 3 days ago

▲ 2 r/homelab

Need help finding a very specific CPU cooler (LGA 155x spec)

A few months ago, I bought three Radxa Orion O6 but due to my life doing life things, I didn't get to do much other than gather components. Aside the O6 I bought a short InterTech 1U case to put the O6 into - three of those. Installed the rails and cases and boards into the cases and am almost done. The problem is, that the stock cooler, does not fit into the case; the base-plate is far too thick.

As per Radxa's specification, the board has a 75x75mm hole spacing for the cooler - which appears to be Intel LGA155x compatible. And indeed, when I bought a Dynatron K2 and tried to mount it, that was indeed correct. I even bought a cheap ruler-with-a-screen (I think you call those "calipers"...? Could be wrong.) to ensure I wasn't entirely dumb.

The problem with the K2 is that it expects an IHS underneath itself, which makes sense, since this is ment for a socketed CPU an such. However, the Orion O6 is a MiniITX board...with an SoC pre-installed - which has no IHS and is thus stupidly flat. I could slide almost an entire USB Type A between the cooler base plate and the SoC - the distance is too far. And, the push-pin mount did not secure, no matter what I tried.

So, I am at a loss. I know exactly what kind of cooler I need (1U, blower, ~60W, LGA155x spec) but I have absolutely no more idea where to look or what to get. Also, the space between the InterTech case's bottom an the motherboard backplate is like 2-3mm - so, very very smol.

Do you have an idea for a cooler I could use here? Because I am, most definitively, out of ideas. ...And going to send the K2s back, no need in keeping those - they were ~40€ a piece too...

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u/IngwiePhoenix — 9 days ago

▲ 2 r/cachyos

What exactly broke?

My frontpage is flooded with DKMS build issues, backholding lld and people being bounced out of their install for one reason or another - most of them due to DKMS modules.

What the heck happened o.o?

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u/IngwiePhoenix — 13 days ago

▲ 3 r/opnsense

For quite a while now, probably a year and some, I was using the very same SFP GPON module from Deutsche Telekom - first on a Draytek AP and since a few months on my OPNSense. And, so far, it was fine.

Untill last week, when streets were repaired and suddenly, it just decided to ... stop. At first, I thought it was a cabling issue, but I just had a technician here and using the fiber-to-RJ45 box, everything works fine (tested by switching vlan0.7 to reference the proper RJ45 port instead of the SFP one).

So now I need to diagnose what exactly is wrong. I already checked and all hardware acceleration is disabled and dmesg isn't showing the interface coming up.

Here's the interface's details:

# sysctl -a | grep "igb8"
[1] igb8: &lt;Intel(R) I350 (Fiber)&gt; port 0x8020-0x803f mem 0xf7420000-0xf743ffff,0xf7444000-0xf7447fff irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci9
[1] igb8: EEPROM V1.63-0 eTrack 0x80000a00
[1] igb8: Using 1024 TX descriptors and 1024 RX descriptors
[1] igb8: Using 4 RX queues 4 TX queues
[1] igb8: Using MSI-X interrupts with 5 vectors
&lt;6&gt;[1] igb8: Ethernet address: 00:1a:8c:60:54:02
&lt;6&gt;[1] igb8: netmap queues/slots: TX 4/1024, RX 4/1024
[1] igb8: &lt;Intel(R) I350 (Fiber)&gt; port 0x8020-0x803f mem 0xf7420000-0xf743ffff,0xf7444000-0xf7447fff irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci9
[1] igb8: EEPROM V1.63-0 eTrack 0x80000a00
[1] igb8: Using 1024 TX descriptors and 1024 RX descriptors
[1] igb8: Using 4 RX queues 4 TX queues
[1] igb8: Using MSI-X interrupts with 5 vectors
&lt;6&gt;[1] igb8: Ethernet address: 00:1a:8c:60:54:02
&lt;6&gt;[1] igb8: netmap queues/slots: TX 4/1024, RX 4/1024
irq74: igb8:rxq0:151 @cpu0(domain0): 0
irq75: igb8:rxq1:153 @cpu1(domain0): 0
irq76: igb8:rxq2:155 @cpu2(domain0): 0
irq77: igb8:rxq3:157 @cpu3(domain0): 0
irq78: igb8:aq:159 @cpu0(domain0): 1

How does one debug SFP connectivity under OPNSense, and what could possibly be the issue here? Ever experienced this before perhaps?

The hardware itself is a Sophos SG330 that I put OPNSense on and so far, it held up very nicely - well, untill it didn't... x)

I want to take this opportunity to learn how to debug such odd things under OPNSense since my work is starting to consider it as well - best be prepared to troubbleshoot more oddballs like this.

Thank you!

Update: I tested all SFP ports - built-in and on a SFP+ card on the SG330. None of them responded to the SFP GPON at all. I also enabled hw.ix.unsupported_sfp. However, I did come across articles that FreeBSD 14.3 may have had certain regressions? In that case, is there a way I can safely downgrade to an earlier version? Since this broke last week tuesday, I could just go to whatever was the up-to-date on Monday and see what happens.

Update 2: While poking around, I thought I might as well re-find the guide I used to get the IP config right to attempt to access the device's Web UI: https://github.com/xvzf/zyxel-gpon-sfp?tab=readme-ov-file#enable-25g

I adapted this accordingly to my OPNSense back then. Also, I tried to plug the GPON into all kinds of ports. So, just to make sure my hardware isn't at fault, I am getting a SFP to USB Type C adapter - since this is just a 1G module that I have, this should do the trick. Worst case, I can now wire my laptop into a fiber network if need be with a proper module lol x). Either way... this is so weird and seemingly hard to debug, it's driving me nuts. xD

u/IngwiePhoenix — 18 days ago

▲ 2 r/cachyos

I tried to squish everything into the title...so let me elaborate a little.

On my Razer Blade 14 I am running CachyOS (and it's been awesome, worked through all issues to the point I am making my own KDE color scheme now lol - yay ricing) but I will be traveling a lot soon. So much so that I am considering to look into disk encryption.

As far as I know, there is LUKS1 and LUKS2. GRUB can do LUKS, but I picked systemd-boot because, I can not explain why, GRUB loves to implode on me xD. Well, apparently, from what I can google, systemd-boot does seem to support LUKS2.

That said, my system is now considerably "stable" - so what I would like to achieve is to convert from my current "plain" BTRFS (the standard config) to a LUKS2 enabled one.

Secure Boot is currently not enrolled but TPM2 module is enabled - it became available as of a recent BIOS update (...okay, recent as in, when I updated recently).

What would be the safest way to proceed?

Thank you!

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u/IngwiePhoenix — 20 days ago

▲ 408 r/LinusTechTips

Really waiting for the day they get their just-desserts...

(I saw other people flagging interesting news here, so I wanted to contribute. Kinda wish there was a flair for that...)

u/IngwiePhoenix — 22 days ago