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, 8 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, 8 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, 10 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, 10 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?
17 years
who provides /etc/sysconfig/selinux?
by Brian Millett
I do not have the file /etc/sysconfig/selinux, nor can I find it using
yum:
shaka: sudo yum provides "/etc/sysconfig/selinux"
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Test Linux 2.6-test prerelease kernels for RHL9/rawhide
Server: Fedora Core 1.91 - i386 - Base
Server: Fedora Core RawHide
Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
Server: Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (testing)
Server: macromedia.mplug.org - Flash Plugin
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Looking in available packages for a providing package
No packages found
Looking in installed packages for a providing package
No packages found
So, other than the release notes which talk about it, where is it? What
package provides it?
thanks.
--
Brian Millett - Technologist Rex
"What a pleasure it is to deal with someone reasonable. Negotiations
are so much more enjoyable when certain individuals are not here to
interfere."
-- Londo, "A Voice in the Wilderness I"
19 years, 3 months
enforcing=-1 causes fire
by Will H. Backman
Yikes! For kicks, I appended "enforcing=-1" at grub prompt with latest
kernel. Things seemed normal until init started and hard drive spun like
crazy. I pulled the power when I smelled that cooking dust smell. I'm
writing this from a windows machine (web mail) until I have some time to
let my test system cool down.
AF
19 years, 4 months
VMware error with kernel-2.6.5-1.326
by Phil Schaffner
Not strictly a general FC2 problem, but I've been testing under VMware
with reasonably good success. The latest arjanv kernel-2.6.5-1.326
(with the reiserfs fix) generates the following error on boot:
*** VMware Workstation internal monitor error ***
NOT_IMPLEMENTED at 602 (7568)
Code:
00000602-00001d90-e3bfafe0-afff81e7-f1cba686-bfd69288-82c2a5cb-e0fb
Have filed it with VMware.
Phil
19 years, 4 months
kernel-2.6.5-1.332
by Alex Kiernan
Is it just me, or is kernel-2.6.5-1.332 bust? On an SMP i686 box it
hangs as init starts, on x86_64 it goes into an oops loop at initrd
load time.
--
Alex Kiernan, Principal Engineer, Development, THUS plc
19 years, 4 months
