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Does anyone here know how I can get WiFi print to work on my Epson L6190 to work on the crappy and proprietary ( un-upgradable e-waste) that jiofiber calls a router and forces you to use (don’t quote me on that there may be a way to get my own router there without using jios crap I don’t know about yet) edit: mods I just realised I posted this in the wrong subforum, pls move it to the right one

I got a Dell Optiplex 775 from the school for free because they were getting rid of them, and I wanted one. I completely tore down the system including the power supply, CPU, RAM, and the Nvidia GT 8400 gs. I put it back together outside of the case, and upgraded to four sticks of 2GB DDR2 RAM, but the cooling solution was a hard drive mounted fan that blew through a heat spreader, but I couldn't use that method outside of the case. It totally works, and it is the system I am writing this from, but I just have the hard drive fan blowing onto the CPU full blast. I want a better cooling solution, but the mounting holes in the motherboard for a CPU cooler are way off from a standard LGA 775 socket, and I know this is something that dell does, but I want to know if there is a way I could get a better CPU cooler for it without getting a motherboard that costs similar to a modern one, and doesn't even have the four slots of DDR2 that I would need for the RAM. I am hoping to build another system this summer and not have to worry about this vacuum cleaner next to me, so its not that important to me, but it may help someone else.

http://fedoraproject.org "This site is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Fedora Project" Sources: Phoronix coverage: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-NV-GNOME-Soft-HDR Original blog post: https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2017/07/13/fedora-workstation-26-is-out/ Fedora "Forbidden Items" Nvidia Driver Permalink: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Forbidden_items?rd=ForbiddenItems#NVIDIA Negativo17 Nvidia Driver Repo: https://negativo17.org/nvidia-driver/ (Heads up, all references to free below are to do with software freedom, not to having a cost.) Broken up into a general overview from phoronix, more detail from Schaller's original blog post, Schaller's comments on Phoronix addressing the concerns over why this isn't being done for AMD Catalyst, and similar drivers, and then finally my comments. General Overview In an extremely odd move, it looks like RedHat and the community board for Fedora are looking to package and distribute the nvidia proprietary driver for the Fedora 27 release this October/November. As Michael outlines in his article So it looks like Fedora 27 will ship out of the box with nouveau but the Nvidia driver will be packaged *and* distributed by Fedora. If you're wondering who Christian Schaller/Uraeus2 is, he's a RedHat Senior Software Engineering Manager who's been working on GNOME and gstreamer, among other projects, for over 17 years, so he's more than qualified to be speaking about the future plans of the Fedora Distro. This is a bit of an add move since Fedora has an explicit rule forbidding their maintainers from distributing *ANY* nonfree products with their distro. Until a free codec for MP3 came out last year they didn't even distribute a way to listen to MP3s in their distro. In fact, this has been such a big deal in the past that they have a forbidden items list explaining why a lot of popular nonfree software isn't available in their Distro, which explicitly lists the Nvidia driver reading: More Detail In his blog post, Schaller goes into more detail, discussing what package they plan on using. The build will work a la Negativo17's build. This means they're going through and doing a proper packaging setup for the nvidia driver for the first time ever in any distribution. This includes work they've done with nvidia to remove all the messy file conflicts with mesa, and ensure that it functions properly alongside a mesa driver. This means it will work the same way it does with Negativo's build, just withoug having to add his repository. If looking for more details on how this is different from say the RPMFusion package, please see the Negativo17 package page. It talks about a lot of the work that was done to clean up all the different packages to make sure they function cleanly, and it covers not just Fedora but CentOS and RHEL changes too. Comments from Schaller in the Phoronix Forums In the comments post for the Phoronix Article, Schaller popped in and addressed some of the questions and concerns they had there. I'm going to quote him directly here because I don't want to misword things: My comments This is a big deal. It's a huge move for the Fedora community since it goes against some of the basic principles they've followed since the community distribution started. That being said it's an even bigger move for Fedora users who use Nvidia hardware. Having a distribution that, after install it's 1 click to get your graphics card working, instead of having to fight and hack with nvidia's installer, or search online for repositories with your driver prehacked and then fight with it if you ever need to not use it, is a big plus for nvidia users. I am concerned with the idea of packaging nonfree stuff with an OS all about freedom, they're also about bleeding edge performance and you just won't get that without the proprietary driver. This is also a *MASSIVE* deal for any gamers on Linux. This means it's going to be possible to get Fedora up and running using nvidia's proprietary driver even more easily than it is currently with Ubuntu and it's spinoffs. While Ubuntu includes a nonfree nvidia package for their Distro, it's still using all the mesa hackwork that the normal nvidia installer uses which can cause other issues. This work is also not specific to *just* Fedora, or RHEL, or CentOS, meaning we could see these reworked drivers make their way over to Ubuntu as well, improving quality of life with these drivers across the board. With all of the work on supporting Wayland on Nvidia cards, improvements to DRM for Nvidia cards, and the improved packaging and isolation of the Nvidia drivers, in the next year or two we could be seeing an Nvidia user experience on Linux that's actually on par with the AMD experience and the experience Nvidia has on Windows.

Hey guys so I got a Dell Optiplex 3020 MT motherboard to upgrade my older pc. I have an aftermarket case that I want to use but I know Dell has some really weird proprietary cabling for their power button and front header. I was wondering if you guys can help me out figure out the pin out for those 2.

This community amongst most probably understands that there are several different ways around proprietary crap, whether that be a Lenovo, a Dell or an HP and so-on but there are ways around that ridiculous proprietary fan headers and I will damn well do as I please with what I own!........(RIGHT?) Unlike my hopes 3 yrs ago when this arose or came to my attention, the slow and steady seizure of property and our ability to do what we see fit with our own things is being stolen. I don't know if you have read it in the news or not but you don't own your car anymore even title in hand. It Ain't yours, you're just licensing it! Thank you GM and John Deere(everyone else is following), don't believe me here's a link "NOT YOURS" and there's much more to read as now nearly every major manufacturer aren't jumping ship but they are throwing down anchor. Please, one of you explain to me how this Digital Millennium Copyright act of 1998 , is not a huge mistake (I would even say New World Order type evil). Soon we will not be allowed to overclock our CPU..... or mix an EVGA PSU with an ASUS MoBo, and the socialist dream will be a reality!!! Meanwhile we will all be rocking a locked Core 2 Duo with Nvidia Vanta 16Mb Vga Out on a 19" LCD with a 3hr limit due to power restrictions(except Linus B/C he is Linus). Rant over but wake up, "You can not change your future for the better without positive action today!"... Chris Fruchey 2018

Not sure if this has been posted before. Apparently, Dolby intends to restrict 3rd party upmixing on audio.Which means that you would not be able to take Dolby audio codecs and run it with a DTS or Auro mixer, basically monopolizing audio formats Here's an excellent detailed article on it by audioholics along with a video discussion. https://www.audioholics.com/audio-technologies/dolby-non-native-upmixing-atmos This is taking away choices from the consumer while trying to sabotage the lesser known DTS and Auro formats. So if you have set up your home audio system for Auro3D (which requires a different layout from Dolby Atmos), you won't be able to experience a lot of content in 3D surround.

Hello everyone! I'm a long time LTT viewer, but this is the first time I've taken to the forums. I found a couple of SuperMicro X8DTT-HEF+ (rev. 2.00) for quite cheap on eBay, and I'm planning on fabricating my own case, which means that the unique form factor shouldn't be a problem for me. The main issue that I've run into is the proprietary power connector that this board uses, as it was originally intended as a hot-swappable tray in a blade server. I have found a couple of the backplanes it's compatible with online, but most are quite pricey or in an obscure location (compared to me). Here's what that backplane looks like: The motherboard plugs into the "L" shaped ports in the center and on the far right side of the motherboard, and this backplane is used for both power distribution and as an SAS backplane. The "L" shaped power/data port is identical on the motherboard iteself: And for a closer look at the bridge board that connects the motherboard and backplane: There are some models that have two ports, and some with one, but this just seems to be for different configurations (2U vs 1U) and shouldn't change much. My main questions are: Does anybody know of any other power distribution board that may be compatible with this socket? I believe that one of the ports on the power/data port is for power, and one is for data (for the SAS ports on the backplane). I personally am only looking for a solution to the power, I don't need the data transfer/access to any SAS ports. Can anybody confirm that this is a proprietary port? I haven't been able to find any other similar ports in my search, but I know SuperMicro isn't generally one to limit users with proprietary hardware. And this would obviously make my search for a solution a lot easier. Any suggestions for alternative/DIY ways to power this motherboard? This is a project I'm taking on for fun, and I am always actively looking for ways to re-purpose older hardware (especially server hardware) to match today's needs. As such, I'm ready to go to pretty ridiculous lengths to get around this power port issue, so any suggestions are appreciated! Thanks for taking the time to read my post, and I look forward to being part of the LTT Forums!

Hello. I have recently purchased the motherboard to a Dell 6NWYK Precision T1600, and oddly enough, the heatsink from my Dell Poweredge II T110 isn't compatible, despite being the same socket, from the same company, in the same CPU range (Xeon E3 range). So, I was wondering, what Dell heatsinks are compatible with the T1600, and/or is there a way to adapt it so I can use a more normal heatsink?

hi, so recently i was browsing craigslist for free computers mainly for their hardware and components and i came across this system http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/sop/5510095283.html its free and i was wondering if the chassis and the PSU are they some proprietary bullshit that dell made or is it possible to turn it into a full blown sleeper PC like in this video. like i had this concept a long time ago when i was planning to build my first PC out of a HP Workstation chassis. apparantly everything in that tower was proprietary except for the optical drive and hard drive. so now i see this ad for a free pc and i was wondering if anything in this pc is proprietary or not. if it isnt then id think that this would house a pretty decent sleeper PC. if it doesnt then oh well i guess ill still pull out some of the components to tinker with. so what do you guys think is this tower proprietary? and if it is then what chassis would you recommend for a sleeper build.

hi so i was going through my school's edump today and pulled out a very old 17.3in laptop and i managed to salvage the ram and this optical drive from the machine. so i was wondering if they even sell an enclosure for this dvd drive or is this some proprietary bullshit interface that the manufacture made to work with just that laptop. Since the interface is not SATA im assuming that its some IDE or proprietary drive. hopefully they do sell some sort of adapter or enclosure for it. can you guys help me out on this. ive never seen that sort of interface in my life ever. the computer technician at frys says that this is proprietary and there no such thing as an adapter or enclosure for it. but i dont believe him so i am asking you guys if this is true or not.

Hi, I'm looking to buy a 3D printer for personal use. I have some experience in using one, but zero experience in buying one. I'm currently looking at an Asterid 2000 from Plastic Scribbler for $500. It uses 1.75mm non-proprietary PLA filaments and has a build volume of 8x8x9.5 inch. Can anyone suggest a better 3D printer for a similar price? I would like to keep within this price range but would not mind a more expensive printer if additional features justify the cost. some criteria on the printer: must use non-proprietry filament preferably uses standard 1.75mm filaments preferably able to use more than one kind of filament decent build volume also please list any necessary additional software (besides a CAD program) with your printer recommendation. Thank you!!

Ah, the headphone jack, the slow death of which in consumer devices has generated a lot of discussion and debate. If you know me, you'd know that I am currently in the camp of "I don't like this" until a proper replacement standard has been certified and put into use (Bluetooth, while improved, still isn't there yet and while USB-C had potential, there's one thing which hampers it which I'll explain later). I've seen a lot of reasons why some people don't like having no headphone jack, ranging from being unable to change while plugging in headphones without a splitter to the risk of losing the included dongle amongst other things. While many of which are quite valid reasons, there's another problem. USB-C audio isn't quite universal. To quote myself on a YouTube video; The problem is that in its current state, USB-C audio has a dizzying array of different standards which utilize the same port. The U11's included earbuds won't work on most other USB-C devices that aren't HTC phones while the Motorola dongle along with some others don't work with other USB-C phones and even laptops. I'm not going to mention Apple because while they also use a proprietary standard (Lightning), at least if you buy Lightning accessories from a good named manufacturer, it is almost guaranteed to work. With USB-C, it's just a fragmented mess of different standards utilizing the same port. That's why I was very happy to hear that although Google killed the headphone jack on the Pixel 2s, they have used a proper universal standard that properly works on other USB-C phones and even laptops. This is what it should be. Not a crapton of proprietary standards on a universal connector that we have no idea whether it works on other devices until we plug it in. Just to clarify, I'm not "hating change". I just dislike change when there's no real reason to and when it is actually a downgrade in some ways. I recently purchased wireless headphones anyhow.