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
3 months, 4 weeks
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.
???
3 months, 4 weeks
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
6 years, 5 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.
6 years, 5 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?
15 years, 7 months
Please strip out the patch that brings up applications behind gnome-terminal
by Miles Lane
Hello,
I cannot understand why on earth xorg or Gnome
has been changed to render new application behind
gnome-terminal. Every time I run a program (surprise!)
I want to use it. I don't want to keep playing around
with gnome-terminal. So, can we please strip this
change out of Fedora Core?
Miles
15 years, 8 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
15 years, 11 months
intel-based macs
by shrek-m＠gmx.de
hi,
is fedora prepared for intel-based macs ?
<snip>
A message from the Apple Developer Connection:
It's time to ship your Universal Binary.
The Intel-based Macs are here.
(http://developer.apple.com/click/dtrc5.html)
Get your Intel-based Mac.
ADC Premier and Select Members can purchase an Intel-based Mac at a significant discount utilizing their ADC Hardware Purchase Program membership benefit. Not a Premier or Select Member yet? Upgrade your membership today to take advantage of this benefit and get your hands on a new Mac.
</snip>
--
shrek-m
16 years, 1 month
Anaconda failure during install of rawhide 2006-01-28
by G.Wolfe Woodbury
During an attempt to install rawhide of 2006-01-28 (today) anaconda runs
into a problem after examining the system for other FC installations to
play with. The error is something like ExamineUpperWindow and cannot be
dismissed or exited without terminating the install.
--
G.Wolfe Woodbury `- -'
RHCT U
The Line Eater is a boojum!
16 years, 1 month
