Too technical is incorrect sometimes, start with basic – B550-F (wifi) motherboard

After getting Asus B550-F wifi motherboard and coupled with AMD Ryzen 5700G, Fedora never run successful, only with nomodeset.

Specification:
4 x DIMM, Max. 128GB, DDR4 5000(O.C)

1 x DisplayPort 1.2 1 x HDMI 2.1

1 x PCIe 3.0 x16 (x4 mode) * 3 x PCIe 3.0 x1 1 x PCIe 4.0 x16 (x16 mode)
2x NVMe
2×2 Wi-Fi 6 (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax) support 1024QAM/OFDMA/MU-MIMO Intel® Wi-Fi 6 AX200

Intel® I225-V 2.5Gb Ethernet
lot of USB ports ncluding USB-C

There was AMD 5700G nomodeset post on Fedora community with issue with it.

Once after bios upgrade to 2432 (2021/08/26), issue become more serious once LAN port failed to hold connection with Linux. after upgrading linux-firmware or kernel, display or LAN issues were still there,
Next steps were following:

• Boot with Fedora/Ubuntu USB – I/O error with NVM,
• Tried Windows 10 and 11, so Windows has NVMe issue as failed to detected nvm during disk partition – NVMe was not detected
• Install on SSD with SATA, installation was successful, but LAN port appeared to off soon after reboot, after upgrading drivers from various google results for Intel LAN port issues.

Contact with Asus support and decided to send motherboard for repair (with one way courier charges), yesterday I got B550-F (wifi), which was replaced and revision 3 (so with fixed Intel LAN).
Assembled in same setup, LAN port failed to work with previous Sata SSD, nvme failed to detected, but so only troubleshooting part was CPU, PSU and RAM. RAM made no difference.

After changing PSU 450W bronze certified with 750W Gold certified, all problems were gone, Although minimum required power supply was 350W.

Windows booted, fresh installed on NVM without error or LAN issue.
Fedora installed without no I/O errors during boot and no graphics issue.

nomdeset removed successfully and Fedora 35 and rawhide is working successfully.

• GUI is working
• LAN connection stable
• No more NVMe errors during boot.

Solution: PSU replacement, so it was hardware issue, but not motherboard for me

No sound on in-built speaker after update on Fedora

• https://ask.fedoraproject.org/t/no-more-sound-since-last-update/19139
  
  
  
• updated alsa-lib-1.2.6-3.fc35.x86_64 (from updates-testing) and removed alsa-utils packages, which was causing SELinux alert every-time with alsa-utils (audit[9319]: AVC avc: denied { execute_no_trans } for pid=9319 comm="alsactl" path="/usr/bin/kmod" dev="dm-1)
  
  setroubleshoot[13386]: SELinux alsactl ਨੂੰ execute_no_trans ਫਾਇਲ ਉੱਪਰ /usr/bin/kmod ਪਹੁੰਚ ਤੋਂ ਰੋਕ ਰਿਹਾ ਹੈ।
•                                                         If you believe that alsactl should be allowed execute_no_trans access on the kmod file by default.
•                                                          # ausearch -c ‘alsactl’ –raw | audit2allow -M my-alsactl
•                                                          # semodule -X 300 -i my-alsactl.pp
  
• systemctl --user restart wireplumber.service as user and speaker started working without reboot

KDE Translation – fix SVN account

From last few weeks, I was not able to checkout files for Panjabi translation, I was waiting as there few changes were going on KDE infrastructure with gitlab.

Finally I tried to resolve this issue myself before submit sysadmin ticket.
I used KDE Subversion page to resolve issue (following method used):

$ssh svn@svn.kde.org
The SVN repository has moved to a new server. As part of that, we will
limit access only to people who need it, and use GitLab to manage the SSH keys.
To continue committing to SVN, you will need to add your SSH keys to KDE's GitLab,
and make sure your username is allowed.

See this page for more information:
https://community.kde.org/Infrastructure/Subversion/2020_Changes
svn@svn.kde.org: Permission denied (publickey).

Above code suggested to open This Page with information and do following:

you will need to add your SSH keys on KDE’s GitLab at invent.kde.org (need to login)

• 2022 – I had issue with SVN again and need to enable 2FA Authentication under my account (Need to login)

Once I added key and 2FA enabled I was able to checkout successfully pa folder as below:

svn co svn+ssh://svn@svn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/l10n-kf5/pa .

svn commit -m "updated Panjabi translation"

Adobe DTP and Punjabi/Indic Rendering Fix

I have issue with Panjabi rendering issue with Adobe Desktop Publishing (DTP) apps since long time and always require help. But finally I was able to sort it myself as below:

I used Adobe InDesign Application to create PDF from Panjabi text.

1. Text addition with default setting (without any change)

Rendering issue

 

2. Selected Paragraph Box and opened Paragraph Style Options -> Justification -> Composer – Adobe Paragraph Composer

default setting

 

3. Change above setting to

elected Paragraph Box and opened Paragraph Style Options -> Justification -> Composer – Adobe world-Ready Paragraph Composer

 

Required setting

 

4. Rendering after make change.

Correct Rendering

 

5. Compare side by side

Left – Adobe Paragraph Composer (default)

Right – Adobe world-Ready Paragraph Composer (changed for Indian language)

Compare side by side

 

6. Following is addition setting, which is not going to change rendering, but good to have.

Addition Setting

 

7. Finally, created pdf file with Adobe indesign opened with Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Final PDF image.

Note:
If you have Adobe Illustrator, then need to make following setting to try Panjabi/Punjabi (or any Indian) language.

• Click on Edit > Preferences > Type
•  Select Show Indic Options.
• Select paragraph , Ctrl+T and select Middle Eastern & South Asian Every-line Composer

 

Detailed setting from Adobe: https://helpx.adobe.com/ca/illustrator/using/asian-scripts.html

 

 

 

 

 

Day with Cloud Testing….

Trying to help Cloud QA by testing.

Searched Failed QA Jobs at https://apps.fedoraproject.org/autocloud/jobs/

While checking output, test case showed Passed 2 at the end, but actual build was failed with error

—-

192.168.121.35 22 vagrant /run/tunir/.vagrant/machines/tunirserver/libvirt/private_key
[Errno 113] No route to host
----

during debug and running test locally, I was getting same error while 
running everything manually and one step every-time. 

 

Created Ticket for Build failed as this build is continuously failed

 

updating….

 

Channel: #fedora-cloud

Mozilla Awareness Event in Rural Area of Punjab

With the Help of Punjabi community, we organize a event dedicated to Mozilla and its variant available in Punjabi on 24th Jan, 2015 at rural area of Punjab, Takhtupura (Moga District).

Event was organized in Local High School of village, despite very bad weather outside. The young peoples (Mostly collage students) of Takhtupura came to attend this event.

Event was started at 12 Noon, there was no sun outside and weather was around 4 degree with chilled air. We started with the Welcome speech for audience and continue with the Mozilla mission and various other projects running by Mozilla.

Inder Punj started to tell them about Firefox, Firefox OS and Thunderbird, Peoples was too surprised to knew that Mozilla Firefox is available in Punjabi also, Inder gave them demo how they can use Punjabi version of Firefox on their desktop and how they can switch firefox in Punjabi on their mobile. Peoples were excited and tried the same on their mobiles and was happy to see their mobile browser running in Punjabi. Inder request peoples to use Punjabi version of Firefox on their android phones as well on their Desktop and tell your friends and family about it.

Later Pirthi introduced them with the FirefoxOS and told them about the cheapest smart phone available in the market. Peoples was numb to listen that there is cheap smart phone by Firefox available to use. Later we show them the Mozilla Firefox OS phones and tell them how it works in Punjabi and requested peoples to use this as much as they can and tell us in case any improvement/bug etc.

Later Pirthi and Inder Punj interact 1:1 with the peoples and answer their all queries. Peoples was curious to ask question about Mozilla mission and products. Some of the young collage students requested us to organize such event in their collages so that more people can benefited from these free softwares in Punjabi.

At end refreshment had been given to the peoples. Served them snacks and soft drinks. Pirthi and Inder say thanks to the peoples for make this event a success and requested them to continue to support Punjabi community and Mozilla.

At end group photo was at school courtyard with promise from peoples that they will use and promote Punjabi community and Mozilla efforts as much as possible.

Punjabi community would like to Thanks Jeff Beaty and Mozilla to help us to organize this event.

Press release on on the leading Punjabi news paper – http://beta.ajitjalandhar.com/news/20150126/20/822512.cms#822512

PUNJABI (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ) FIREFOX ANDROID (FENNEC) LAUNCH Event

On 14th Sept,2014 at 7PM I attended Mozilla Firefox for Android Event hosted by Mozilla (Punjabi Community) at Ludhiana, Park Plaza and around 20 participants attended it. During event I collected some point for event report. This event was sponsored by Mozilla. Main attraction was that all the guests and contributors communicate with each other in Punjabi (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ).

Event started with welcoming participants and speakers behalf of Mozilla community. Then each participant gave little bit introduction about their day job and what they want to seek from this meetup.

Inder Punj started with to introduce about Mozilla Firefox for Android. Motive of Mozilla behind this free software. OS Required for this browser and hardware support etc. Inder had discussion with participant about why we should use this in Punjabi language and how we can scale it, what are different products are available in Mozilla which can used for different purposes. Firefox Marketplace introduction provided, which is available with Firefox Browser.

Pirthi Dhaliwal started with why we need performance for Mozilla products and without it what are different challenges we face, like wrong design, hardware crashes, hardware limit and deployment technology. Pirthi introduce guests about different projects and how Punjabi community participating in them.

We discussed what different challenges we faced while testing/l10n etc and how we resolved them. We introduced peoples about bugzilla and show them sample bugs that was opened and reported closed after fix.

Peoples start to show interests in this browsers while most of the guests was already using Firefox in Punjabi in their personal laptops and office computers and was excited to download Firefox on their android phones and was very happy to see browser running in their native language. Inder and Pirthi helped peoples to download Firefox Desktop and helped them to run Mozilla in Punjabi.

Peoples started their Q/A session with Inder and Pirthi and we both started to answer their queries. Some of the peoples was interested to start localization and curious to know the process, we explain them online/offline translation and introduce them various tools that we are currently using in Translation.

 

After that introduce Peoples about Firefox OS. Peoples was curious to know its cost and was surprisingly asking that it was the same phone which is out of stock always when they search for some good cheap smartphone who support Punjabi. We tell them about the phone in brief and its different models and their cost available in the market. Pirthi and me replied their many Questions related to phone. More interesting thing was this ever “Waiters” show interest in this phone and take interest in what we were discussing. and later approach us for their queries.

 

After replying their Q/A we invites guest for cake cutting ceremony. Peoples joined us for this and enjoyed delicious care after that.

 

After this interested peoples gather around us started their session with us for the issues they currently faced to install Mozilla on their laptop and mobiles. Me and Pirthi gave them detailed answer to their queries and helped them to sort out the issues they are facing. And promise us that they will encourage peoples in their offices to use Punjabi while they all are using mozilla already but in English 🙂

 

At end, before dinner we thanked peoples for come and for their time to attend this event. Indeed at end peoples was happy and promised us to use  and promote Mozilla in Punjabi. At end group photo has been taken for the press release.

 

We would like to thank Mozilla, Jeff Beatty for helping to make this event happen.

Press Release — 1. http://epaper.punjabijagran.com/339835/Ludhiana/Ludhiana-Punjabi-jagran-News-17th-September-2014#page/15/2

2. http://tinyurl.com/FennecLaunch

Test Google Fonts for Gurmukhi Script (Punjabi) – Prepare

Testing Google (not limited to) fonts with Linux. UTRRS is tool, which I am going to use to compare feature and verify shapes.

Google Noto Fonts: http://www.google.com/get/noto

Gurmukhi Fonts: http://www.google.com/get/noto/#/family/noto-sans-guru

Download from here: http://www.google.com/get/noto/pkgs/NotoSansGurmukhi-hinted.zip

Which font to selected – Note for Developer:

Use unhinted fonts for Android and Mac (Android and Mac ignore hinting information embedded in fonts).
Use hinted fonts for other platforms.

1. Unzip file

2. install

$  sudo cp NotoSansGurmukhi* /usr/share/fonts/google-noto/
$ fc-cache /usr/share/fonts/google-noto/

3. Confirm if it is working for your Script

$ fc-list |grep Gurmukhi
/usr/share/fonts/google-noto/NotoSansGurmukhi-Bold.ttf: Noto Sans Gurmukhi:style=Bold
/usr/share/fonts/google-noto/NotoSansGurmukhiUI-Bold.ttf: Noto Sans Gurmukhi UI:style=Bold
/usr/share/fonts/google-noto/NotoSansGurmukhiUI-Regular.ttf: Noto Sans Gurmukhi UI:style=Regular
/usr/share/fonts/google-noto/NotoSansGurmukhi-Regular.ttf: Noto Sans Gurmukhi:style=Regular

4. Open UTRRS: http://utrrs-testing.rhcloud.com/

5. Select Language from Left

6. Add font name in “Please enter font family name” (same as Bold text in Step 3)

 

Now you are ready to do Testing for Fonts with UTRRS.

Reference is Image data

Character/Text is data with Selected fonts (Noto Sans Gurmukhi)

Compare Reference with Character (for Code Ponits, GSUB, GPOS)

with Next post try to put information regarding Gurmukhi Fonts and some comparsion with Lohit on Fedora 20/21

CLDR – help to fix your Locale/Language Data

CLDR is Common Locale Data Repository.

Why is it important to me?

Are you using  any of MS Windows, Apple Mac, Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat, Debian) Operating system for Desktop/Laptop in you native Langauge?

Are you using iPhone, iPad, iPod, Android, Windows Phones?

Are you using any Google Services?

 

then this is Locale Repo, from where you Language Data is coming, which includes Date, Time format/name (like Mon, Tuesday or May 28, 2014 or 28 May, 2014). Here you can decide how it will look like.

Even if you don’t want to provide new entry, you can choose and Vote.

 

 

Fedora 19 i18n and Translation Test day

Fedora 19 Alpha released and it is best time to test translation and i18n feature, so that bugs can be timely fixed before release.

FLTG  team providing support for Translation Test Day and I18N Test Day by add, review test cases, search features and communicate between various groups.

for Translation Test Day, we add few more gnome applications (like gnome-initial setup) and remove features those are no more available or default in Fedora 19 (like ibus, which is not part of gnome desktop). Translation Test Matrix is improved, while Report Page and Feedback page is created. Anaconda, have major in-complete translation for almost in all language, while gnome-initial-setup, gnome-clock etc application those are new in gnome-3.8 are also have English interface.

Fedora i18n Test Day (May 02, 2013) is upcoming, where tester can get time to review feature for gnome-ibus integration, new shortcuts to Enable/Disable input (check i18n Meeting log for detail).

Major Rendering issue for Indic locales detected (Hindi, Punjabi confirmed and bug already filed) during pre-test activity. Actually this issue already reported for Anaconda (lorax) here, but but with gnu-free-fonts have bugs for Indic locales and set default for Monospace instead of Lohit fonts (as lohit is no monospace), now gnome desktop effecting by this. During i18n Meeting it was found that Either disable gnu-free-fonts for Indic language (those are effected), which is easy way or disable monospace for Indic