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
2 years, 2 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.
???
2 years, 2 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
8 years, 3 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.
8 years, 3 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, 5 months
Mplayer and Kaffeine install error
by Clovis Tristao
Hi,
I am trying to install the Mplayer and Kaffeine, using command "yum
install", but it appears the message below:
# yum install mplayer
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
development 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
livna 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
extras-development 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
--> Processing Dependency: libdirectfb-0.9.so.22 for package: mplayer
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: libdirectfb-0.9.so.22 is needed by package
mplayer
# yum install kaffeine
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
development 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
livna 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
extras-development 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: libMagick.so.6 is needed by package xine-lib
Error: Missing Dependency: libdirectfb-0.9.so.22 is needed by package
xine-lib
Error: Missing Dependency: libgs.so.7 is needed by package xine-lib
Error: Missing Dependency: libfusion-0.9.so.22 is needed by package
xine-lib
Error: Missing Dependency: libdirect-0.9.so.22 is needed by package
xine-lib
Error: Missing Dependency: libWand.so.6 is needed by package xine-lib
What it can be happening? I am using Fedora Core with kernel
2.6.14-1.1651_FC5
Clóvis
--
Clovis Tristao - UNICAMP/Faculdade de Engenharia Agricola
Administrador de Redes - Secao de Informatica (SINFO)
E-mail: mailto:clovis@agr.unicamp.br http://www.agr.unicamp.br
Fone(0xx19) 37881031-37881038 ou FAX(55xx19) 37881005/37881010
17 years, 9 months
Today's nit picks
by Don Springall
If you send a file to the trash with Konqueror it end up on my system in
/home/don/.local/share/Trash/files.
If you send something to the trash with Nautilus it end up in
/home/don/.Trash
When you are running a gnome desktop the trash icon point to
/home/don/.Trash so you never see the files Konqueror sent to its trash can.
When you switch from a gnome session to a kde session (gnome being your
default) you are then prompted with a dialog asking if you want to make kde
your default manager or just use it for this session only. If you choose
this session only kde still ends up being the default.
If you try opening a file with kwrite from Konqueror (in super user mode
using "kdesu kfmclient openProfile webbrowsing") you get "KDEInit could not
launch 'kwrite'".
18 years, 1 month
AW: Re: ext3 Filessyten in FC5-Test incompatible with other FC or RHEL versions
by Günter Schmidt
>If I recall, there was a change in the ext2 utilities from FC3 to FC4
>which fsils with earlier distro created partitions.
>
>I believe you need to disable filechecking with the entries in your
>fstab file. That is, change the last two digits in your older distros
>to zero.
>Alternatively, you could mount the other OS partitions whenever you need
>to access the files on the common partitions..
>
>Are you talking about a common /home partition?
Yes, and therefore, I can't use my privous installations anymore.
And I have no idea, how to convert the ext3 back.
I have read already bug #174618, but they assume a kernel patch for
FC4. But as I want to use Centos4 and don't believe RedHat will corporate
such a patch into their Kernels.
18 years, 2 months
Fedora Core 4 Test Update: NetworkManager-0.5.1-1.FC4.1
by Christopher Aillon
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Fedora Test Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-1004
2005-10-20
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Product : Fedora Core 4
Name : NetworkManager
Version : 0.5.1
Release : 1.FC4.1
Summary : Network link manager and user applications
Description :
NetworkManager attempts to keep an active network connection available at all
times. It is intended only for the desktop use-case, and is not intended for
usage on servers. The point of NetworkManager is to make networking
configuration and setup as painless and automatic as possible. If using DHCP,
NetworkManager is _intended_ to replace default routes, obtain IP addresses
from a DHCP server, and change nameservers whenever it sees fit.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
* Wed Oct 19 2005 Christopher Aillon <caillon(a)redhat.com> - 0.5.1-1.FC4.1
- Update to NetworkManager 0.5.1
* Wed Oct 19 2005 Christopher Aillon <caillon(a)redhat.com> - 0.5.0-1.FC4.2
- Requires dhcdbd
* Tue Oct 18 2005 Christopher Aillon <caillon(a)redhat.com> - 0.5.0-1.FC4.1
- Update to NetworkManager 0.5.0
---------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be downloaded from:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/4/
db894029702d5d215183f68f084e6e54 SRPMS/NetworkManager-0.5.1-1.FC4.1.src.rpm
1f7eb735362b3c4c45fe059f8c8068c9 ppc/NetworkManager-0.5.1-1.FC4.1.ppc.rpm
dcbccbf14baebb1502d1d88347c84a03 ppc/NetworkManager-gnome-0.5.1-1.FC4.1.ppc.rpm
f4a21112da9dc690f4c3352c23925120 ppc/NetworkManager-devel-0.5.1-1.FC4.1.ppc.rpm
753bcdfc80d5bdb9fce3ae0b03e4768c ppc/NetworkManager-glib-0.5.1-1.FC4.1.ppc.rpm
7f7365e9337ad4ec593166c648a34f3c ppc/debug/NetworkManager-debuginfo-0.5.1-1.FC4.1.ppc.rpm
c2de140db1531e06bf1a54ea4e22e906 x86_64/NetworkManager-0.5.1-1.FC4.1.x86_64.rpm
56bec14e5a6254a403cdafffb8ccd117 x86_64/NetworkManager-gnome-0.5.1-1.FC4.1.x86_64.rpm
3a3f0c6873b3922da4bff81c6760657f x86_64/NetworkManager-devel-0.5.1-1.FC4.1.x86_64.rpm
70edd19eb76e7d39ba6ff409486744c5 x86_64/NetworkManager-glib-0.5.1-1.FC4.1.x86_64.rpm
68d72f460849d17b209b3049e2dc3f25 x86_64/debug/NetworkManager-debuginfo-0.5.1-1.FC4.1.x86_64.rpm
42af9a34dac320f199e8977df1d89bbe i386/NetworkManager-0.5.1-1.FC4.1.i386.rpm
918e63cac84d79fe4b8ad2981c29110a i386/NetworkManager-gnome-0.5.1-1.FC4.1.i386.rpm
e7efac816a1ec83cf703ff89404fb377 i386/NetworkManager-devel-0.5.1-1.FC4.1.i386.rpm
c39d7b016047d50a96f9f489365cacf5 i386/NetworkManager-glib-0.5.1-1.FC4.1.i386.rpm
1193e9a00a79555fa7e0897a08e40027 i386/debug/NetworkManager-debuginfo-0.5.1-1.FC4.1.i386.rpm
This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command. You may
need to edit your up2date channels configuration. Within
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources enable the following line:
yum updates-testing http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/4...
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18 years, 2 months