NVIDIA Question
by David St.Clair
This may be a dumb question, but why can't Redhat distribute NVIDIA binary
drivers?
In NVIDIA's licence (http://www.nvidia.com/object/nv_swlicense.html) it
says:
"2.1.2 Linux Exception. Notwithstanding the foregoing terms of Section
2.1.1, SOFTWARE designed exclusively for use on the Linux operating system
may be
copied and redistributed, provided that the binary files thereof are not
modified in any
way (except for unzipping of compressed files)."
So, what's keeping RedHat from putting the drivers in the distribution? If
it's a GPL
thing, would it be easy to just download it during installation or at
least give the option to the user?
Thanks,
--
David St.Clair
dstclair(a)cs.wcu.edu
1 year, 4 months
Mouse goes crazy
by Jonathan Villa
Ok, I have had Yarrow working well for a while now, but yesterday I
started experiencing some odd issues with my mouse. All of a sudden it
stops working correctly. The only thing that seems to fix is to kill X
and run mouse-test, then restart.
Any ideas?
Also, I have FC 1 running on a desktop which is hooked up to a KVM
switch. Whenever I go to another PC, and return, the same thing
happens, the mouse goes crazy.
???
1 year, 4 months
Mouse Wheel gone
by Christian Menzel
Since the latest xorg-X11 upgrade I receive the already mentioned XKB
error and the mouse wheel is not working anymore.
Has anybody seen this behavior?
Regards
Chris
7 years, 6 months
Re: NFS failure
by Fulko.Hew＠sita.aero
Damian Menscher <menscher(a)uiuc.edu>@redhat.com on 04/07/2004 04:57:13 PM
wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Jeff Elkins wrote:
>
> > I'm getting failure messages on my nfs mounts i.e. :
> >
> > mount to NFS server 'music.elkins' failed: server is down.
> >
> > nsfd appears to be running and I didn't see anything suspicious in the
logs.
> > The servers are up and running and have other clients connected.
>
> You didn't mention what steps you took to debug it:
>
> Can you ping the server?
> What is the output of rpcinfo -p servername?
> Does the server have access restrictions (firewall, TCP Wrappers, etc)?
I have the same symptoms...
rpcinfo says that nfs et.al. are running.
Something has changed in test 2, since the same PC running RH9
accesses that host just fine.
7 years, 6 months
autoconf breakage on x86_64.
by Sam Varshavchik
I don't know the right way to fix this, but something is definitely broken;
and something needs to be fixed, one way or the other. The question is what
exactly needs to be fixed.
Consider something like this:
LIBS="-lresolv $LIBS"
AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC(res_query, AC_MSG_RESULT(yes), AC_MSG_RESULT(no))
Here's what happens on x86_64:
gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -Wall -I.. -I./.. conftest.c -lresolv >&5
/tmp/ccW7EeDX.o(.text+0x7): In function `main':
/home/mrsam/src/courier/authlib/configure:5160: undefined reference to
`res_query'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:5147: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
[ blah blah blah ]
| /* We use char because int might match the return type of a gcc2
| builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply. */
| char res_query ();
| int
| main ()
| {
| res_query ();
| ;
| return 0;
| }
The same exact test on FC1 x86 will work.
The reason appears to be that you have to #include <resolv.conf> on x86_64
in order to succesfully pull res_query() out of libresolv.so. You don't
need to do this on x86, and the test program generated by AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC
does not include any headers, but uses a manual prototype.
So, what now?
16 years, 8 months
Desktop Development Specialization
by Joel Juliano
What if Fedora Core development was divided in two divisions, the
GNOME division and the KDE division, the releases will be available to
be GNOME-only or KDE-only releases on seperate iso's, the GNOME ISO
will specializes only on GNOME softwares and applications. There will
be a micro-managed bug fixing for GNOME-only related softwares, the
effort will be concentrating on much more focused approach than the
traditional (hybrid ISO's), same to the KDE ISO, wherein include a
KDE-only related (or specialized) softwares and applications.
17 years, 6 months
[ANNOUNCE] Aurora Build-1.92 (Code Name Tangerine)
by Tom Callaway
Hi folks,
We now have a full set of sparc packages that match up to Fedora Core 2,
and its name is Tangerine. Did you know that of the top ten hits for
Tangerine on Google, none of them have anything to do with the fruit?
You should eat more tangerines, they're quite tasty and good for you.
But I digress.
Like the previous release (1.91), its not an installable tree
so again this means no ISOs.
I'm going to repeat this one more time: THERE ARE NO ISOS FOR 1.92.
Why? Because anaconda is hard, and people didn't want to wait another 6
months for me to figure out what is broken. However, if anyone is willing
to try on their own to get this working, we're happily accepting patches.
But, unless someone else takes up the charge, this tree branch will stop
at 1.92. If someone fixes anaconda so that the installer actually works past
keyboard selection, I'll spin a new tree.
In the meantime, we're refocusing the effort on a new tree, which is
currently going to be based on Fedora Core 3. You can follow the daily
notes for this work here: http://auroralinux.org/journal.php
Now, I have yumified the tree, so if you're feeling really brave, you
can always point yum at it, and try to upgrade that way. A version of
yum for Aurora 1.0 is here:
http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/download/1.0/yum-1.0.3-1_73.noarch.rpm
If you're running 1.91, you should be able to use the yum in that tree.
Going from 1.91 to 1.92 is reportedly a fairly painless process.
If you're a listed mirror site, please sync the build-1.92 directory,
and chime in. The primary directory is currently at:
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/aurora/build-1.92/ (and)
ftp://auroralinux.org/pub/aurora/build-1.92/
Now, for the known bugs:
The "rpm" package in 1.92 is a little broken on sparc32 systems. Its my fault.
Fixed packages are already available from:
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/aurora/updates/1.92/ (and)
ftp://auroralinux.org/pub/aurora/updates/1.92/
A temporary workaround is to run: export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5.
Build 1.92 uses SILO 1.4.8 which should work fine. It seems to occasionally
burp when you're trying to tab completion, but I can't reproduce this
consistently. If it breaks for you, let me know.
There is no SMP kernel for sparc32, upstream has marked this as broken.
Any other bugs that you find? Please either email me or file them in
bugzilla.auroralinux.org, under Corona.
Last but not least, we've setup a hardware support matrix Wiki to keep track
of what works and what doesn't. You can find it here:
http://auroralinux.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?HardwareCompatibility
Thanks for your continued patience and support,
~spot
---
Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat*com> LCA, RHCE
Red Hat Sales Engineer || Aurora SPARC Linux Project Leader
"If you are going through hell, keep going."
- Sir Winston Churchill
17 years, 6 months
No sound on FC2 to FC3T3 update... artsd going nuts
by Kim Lux
Sound doesn't work on my laptop with FC3T3. It did with FC2.
Here is the vital info:
On login I get this message:
Sound server informational message:
Error while initializing the sound driver:
device: default can't be opened for playback (Device or resource busy)
The sound server will continue, using the null output device.
Sometimes after login I get this message:
Sound server fatal error:
cpu overload, aborting
In hwbrowser I find:
Sound cards: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller
Manufacturer: Unknown
Driver: snd-intel8x0
If I run system-config-sound:
The following audio device was detected:
<blurb here, same as hwbrowser>
When I press "Play Test Sound" the application hangs.
If I run tops, I find that artsd hogs the cpu cycles like crazy.
In dmesg everything looks normal as far as errors go. There doesn't
appear to be a driver loaded for sound. Here is the only stuff I see
that might be related to sound:
ICH5: chipset revision 2
ICH5: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
codec_read 0: semaphore is not ready for register 0x2c
codec_read 0: semaphore is not ready for register 0x2c
codec_read 0: semaphore is not ready for register 0x2c
codec_write 0: semaphore is not ready for register 0x2
codec_write 0: semaphore is not ready for register 0x2
codec_write 0: semaphore is not ready for register 0x18
codec_write 0: semaphore is not ready for register 0x18
All other logs are clean.
In /etc, I have a asound.state and an alsa dir.
asound.state looks normal and only contains stuff about mixer.
asound.conf is not present.
in /etc/alsa, I have alsa.conf. There is nothing special in it.
/sbin/lsmod
Module Size Used by
parport_pc 24705 1
lp 11565 0
parport 41736 2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4 24005 0
i2c_dev 10433 0
i2c_core 22081 1 i2c_dev
ds 16965 2
sunrpc 160421 1
ipt_REJECT 6465 1
ipt_state 1857 1
ip_conntrack 40693 1 ipt_state
iptable_filter 2753 1
ip_tables 16193 3 ipt_REJECT,ipt_state,iptable_filter
microcode 6497 0
dm_mod 54741 0
button 6481 0
battery 8517 0
ac 4805 0
md5 4033 1
ipv6 232577 10
joydev 8705 0
ohci1394 35033 0
ieee1394 302869 1 ohci1394
yenta_socket 18753 0
pcmcia_core 59913 2 ds,yenta_socket
uhci_hcd 31449 0
ehci_hcd 31557 0
hw_random 5589 0
snd_intel8x0m 18185 0
snd_intel8x0 34829 3
snd_ac97_codec 64401 2 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss 47609 0
snd_mixer_oss 17217 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 97993 5 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 29765 1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 9673 3 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
gameport 4801 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_mpu401_uart 8769 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_rawmidi 26725 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 8137 1 snd_rawmidi
snd 54053 15 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_
oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uar
t,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore 9889 1 snd
ndiswrapper 114744 0
8139too 26305 0
mii 4673 1 8139too
ext3 116809 2
jbd 74969 1 ext3
I figured out how to turn off aRts: Start->Control Center -> Sound and
Multi.->Sound System-> General. Turn off the "Enable the Sound System"
option.
I also tried changing the audio device on the Hardware tab to alsa,
with no effect.
I've update to kernel 2.6.9-1.643 and I've updated alsa to 1.0.6-3.
Any advice ? How do I troubleshoot this ?
--
Kim Lux (Mr.) <lux(a)diesel-research.com>
18 years, 6 months
Fedora Core 2.92 Test 3 (86_64) on reiserfs
by dirk.nissen＠tiscali.be
I don't know if this is to be considered as a bug, an exotic configuration
or an manipulation error.
When I was trying to upgrade my Fedora to Fedora Core 2.92 Test 3 (86_64),
the program blocked.
My root directory is on a reiserfs filesystem. Other distributions are installed
on the same disk on other partitions. I removed them from fstab before upgrading.
When I selected updating (and after a few other replys, like language and
keyboard) a dialog box appeared "looking for packages" the mouse did move
and the mousecursor suggested waiting, and changed after a regular interval.
Only in the beginning there was some disk access, than nothing else happened.
When I did try to install without formatting or erasing the partition, I
had the same problem after selecting the packages etc.
Using a "linux reiserfs" commandline after the bootcd had started up didn't
change anything.
My old installation is still functional.
If I remember well their was no problem installing the old version, I just
had to add the parameter reiserfs in lilo.conf to get the root directory
mounted.
I hope this is useful
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18 years, 6 months
