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
/etc/inittab went away && wlan has weird device name
by Julian C. Dunn
I just did a yum update, updating to initscripts 8.31.1-1 (among other
things like a new kernel). When I rebooted, init complained that inittab
was missing, so I rebooted into rescue mode and found that there was
an /etc/inittab.rpmsave but no /etc/inittab. Has anyone else had this
problem?
Also, I'm using a Thinkpad T42 (2378RAU) and the wireless card shows up
as a weird device after boot:
dev8569 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0E:35:FC:39:23
Does anyone know why?
- Julian
--
Julian C. Dunn, P.Eng.
Systems Administrator
e: julian.dunn(a)devlin.ca
p: 416-363-6316 x292
f: 416-363-6102
Devlin eBusiness Architects
185 Frederick St.
Toronto, ON
M5A 4L4
http://www.devlin.ca/
16 years, 7 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
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
16 years, 8 months
rawhide report: 20060629 changes
by Build System
Updated Packages:
anaconda-11.1.0.49-1
--------------------
* Wed Jun 28 2006 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 11.1.0.49-1
- Fix some memory leaks in the loader (pjones)
- Display fs labels next to rescue choices (clumens, #196345)
- Force graphical mode under vnc (clumens, #190099)
- Fix splitting trees with symlinks (pnasrat, #195240)
- Require system-config-date (clumens, #196452)
- Ensure network UI bits end up written out (clumens, #196756)
- Fix memory corruption in CD install (dcantrel)
- Fix double free with ksdevice=macaddr (dcantrel)
- Fix double free with HTTP/FTP installs (dcantrel, #195749)
- Ensure keyboard layout gets set (clumens, #196466)
- Fix text mode traceback for langs not supported in text
mode (clumens, #196615)
- Fix up for yum 2.9.2
bash-3.1-16
-----------
* Wed Jun 28 2006 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 3.1-16
- Removed 'unset USERNAME' from default .bash_profile (bug #196735).
device-mapper-multipath-0.4.7-2.0
---------------------------------
* Wed Jun 28 2006 Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins(a)redhat.com> 0.4.7-2.0
- Updated to latest upstream source, fixes kpartx udev rule issue
dhcp-12:3.0.4-17
----------------
* Wed Jun 28 2006 Peter Jones <pjones(a)redhat.com> - 12:3.0.4-17
- export timeout cancellation functions in libdhcp4client
* Wed Jun 28 2006 Florian La Roche <laroche(a)redhat.com> - 12:3.0.4-16
- add proper coreutils requires for the scripts
* Thu Jun 22 2006 Peter Jones <pjones(a)redhat.com> - 12:3.0.4-15
- Make timeout dispatch code not recurse while traversing a linked
list, so it doesn't try to free an entries that have been removed.
(bz #195723)
- Don't patch in a makefile, do it in the spec.
dhcpv6-0.10-29
--------------
* Wed Jun 28 2006 Peter Jones <pjones(a)redhat.com> - 0.10-29
- getnameinfo needs the size of the incoming data, not NS_MAXHOST
fedora-logos-1.1.43-5.fc6
-------------------------
* Wed Jun 28 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com> 1.1.43-5
- Test build using dist tag
filesystem-2.3.7-2
------------------
* Wed Jun 28 2006 Phil Knirsch <pknirsch(a)redhat.com> - 2.3.7-2
- Fixed games location according to FHS 2.1 (#165425)
- Added {_libdir}/sse2 to owned files (#192853)
- Added /dev to owned files (#192860)
- Added {_datadir}/icons to owned files (#195911)
- Dropped obsolete /etc/X11/starthere (#191163)
frysk-0.0.1.2006.06.28.rh1-0
----------------------------
* Tue Jun 27 2006 Stepan Kasal <skasal(a)redhat.com> - 0.0.1.2006.06.28.rh1
- Refresh the tarball.
- Remove the patches, they are all upstream now.
- BuildRequires: sharutils, instead of gmime.
- Do not remove the unwanted files, they should not be installed anymore.
- Do not hide the menu entry.
- Do not call ./bootstrap.sh.
gaim-2:2.0.0-0.4.beta3.fc6
--------------------------
* Wed Jun 28 2006 Warren Togami <wtogami(a)redhat.com> 2.0.0-0.4.beta3
- rebuild against libsilc-1.0.2
gstreamer-0.10.8-3
------------------
* Wed Jun 28 2006 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de> 0.10.8-3
- remove RPATH pointing to RPM_BUILD_ROOT (#196870)
hplip-1.6.6a-2
--------------
* Wed Jun 28 2006 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 1.6.6a-1
- 1.6.6a.
* Mon Jun 26 2006 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com>
- Patchlevel 1.
- Fixed libsane-hpaio %post scriptlet (bug #196663).
kernel-2.6.17-1.2328.fc6
------------------------
* Tue Jun 27 2006 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- 2.6.17-git12
- Disable the signed module patches for now, they need love.
libX11-1.0.2-1
--------------
* Wed Jun 28 2006 Mike A. Harris <mharris(a)redhat.com> 1.0.2-1
- Updated libX11 to version 1.0.2
- Bump BuildRequires and Requires to "xorg-x11-proto-devel >= 7.1-2" to meet
new "xproto >= 7.0.6" dependency.
- Disable libX11-0.99.3-datadir-locale-dir-fix.patch as it is now included
upstream.
- Remove autoconf dependency as we no longer need it.
libXaw-1.0.2-7
--------------
* Wed Jun 28 2006 Adam Jackson <ajackson(a)redhat.com> 1.0.2-7
- Rebuild for libXt pkgconfig fixes.
libXmu-1.0.2-3
--------------
* Wed Jun 28 2006 Adam Jackson <ajackson(a)redhat.com> 1.0.2-3
- Rebuild for libXt pkgconfig fixes.
libXt-1.0.2-2
-------------
* Wed Jun 28 2006 Adam Jackson <ajackson(a)redhat.com> 1.0.2-2
- Added libXt-1.0.2-libsm-fix.patch to remove libSM from the Requires: line
in the installed pkgconfig file. Apps should link against libSM if they
need it, but we shouldn't force them to link against it if they don't.
* Wed Jun 21 2006 Mike A. Harris <mharris(a)redhat.com> 1.0.2-1
- Updated libXt to version 1.0.2 from X11R7.1
libsilc-0:1.0.2-1.fc6
---------------------
* Wed Jun 28 2006 Warren Togami <wtogami(a)redhat.com> 1.0.2-1
- remove .a and .la files
* Wed Dec 21 2005 Stu Tomlinson <stu(a)nosnilmot.com> 1.0.2-0
- Update to 1.0.2
* Sat Apr 09 2005 Stu Tomlinson <stu(a)nosnilmot.com> 0.9.12-11
- use RPM_OPT_FLAGS (#153261)
pirut-1.1.5-1
-------------
* Wed Jun 28 2006 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 1.1.5-1
- mark reboot later for translation (#196358)
- add nl translations (#196557)
- updates for yum 2.9.2
- catch error if downloaded file gets deleted (#197167)
qt-1:3.3.6-9
------------
* Wed Jun 28 2006 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 1:3.3.6-9
- fix #183302, IM preedit issue in kbabel
* Mon Jun 26 2006 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 1:3.3.6-8
- rebuilt
rpm-4.4.2-26
------------
* Wed Jun 28 2006 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat(a)redhat.com> - 4.4.2-26
- Force CHANGELOGTIME to be a list in rpm-python
* Wed Jun 28 2006 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat(a)redhat.com> - 4.4.2-25
- Remove SELinux context verification (#193488)
tix-1:8.4.0-10
--------------
* Wed Jun 28 2006 David Cantrell <dcantrell(a)redhat.com> - 1:8.4.0-10
- Added missing BuildRequires for autoconf (#197117)
tn5250-0.17.3-4
---------------
* Wed Jun 28 2006 Karsten Hopp <karsten(a)redhat.de> 0.17.3-4
- add buildrequires automake, libtool
xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.6.1-4
------------------------
* Wed Jun 28 2006 Mike A. Harris <mharris@(a)redhat.com> 6.6.1-4
- Added "BuildRequires: xorg-x11-server-sdk >= 1.1.0-12" to fix the same
problem at build time as were added in 6.6.1-2 to fix it at runtime.
* Tue Jun 27 2006 Kristian Høgsberg <krh(a)redhat.com> 6.6.1-3
- Bump release for FC5 aiglx build.
xorg-x11-drv-magictouch-1.0.0.5-2
---------------------------------
* Wed Jun 28 2006 Mike A. Harris <mharris(a)redhat.com> 1.0.0.5-2
- Remove system owned directories from file manifest.
* Fri Feb 10 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com> 1.0.0.5-1.2
- bump again for double-long bug on ppc(64)
* Tue Feb 07 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com> 1.0.0.5-1.1
- rebuilt for new gcc4.1 snapshot and glibc changes
xorg-x11-drv-sisusb-0.8.1-3
---------------------------
* Wed Jun 28 2006 Mike A. Harris <mharris(a)redhat.com> 0.8.1-3
- Remove system owned directories from file manifest.
xorg-x11-drv-void-1.1.0-3
-------------------------
* Wed Jun 28 2006 Mike A. Harris <mharris(a)redhat.com> 1.1.0-3
- Remove system owned directories from file manifest.
xorg-x11-xdm-1:1.0.5-1
----------------------
* Wed Jun 28 2006 Mike A. Harris <mharris(a)redhat.com> 1:1.0.5-1
- Updated xdm to version 1.0.5.
- Remove xdm-1.0.4-setuid.diff as it is integrated in 1.0.5
xpdf-1:3.01-14
--------------
* Wed Jun 28 2006 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 1:3.01-14
- fix #197090, BR: autoconf
yum-2.9.2-1
-----------
* Wed Jun 28 2006 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 2.9.2-1
- update to 2.9.2
Broken deps for ia64
----------------------------------------------------------
gnome-volume-manager - 1.5.15-3.ia64 requires kernel >= 0:2.6
pcmciautils - 014-3.ia64 requires kernel >= 0:2.6.12-1.1411_FC5
systemtap - 0.5.8-2.ia64 requires kernel >= 0:2.6.9-11
xorg-x11-drivers - 7.1-1.ia64 requires xorg-x11-drv-sisusb
Broken deps for ppc64
----------------------------------------------------------
avalon-logkit - 1.2-3jpp_3fc.noarch requires servletapi5
bsf - 2.3.0-6jpp_4fc.noarch requires servletapi5
bsf - 2.3.0-6jpp_4fc.noarch requires tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api
geronimo-specs - 1.0-0.M2.2jpp_7fc.ppc64 requires servletapi5
gnuplot-emacs - 4.0.0-11.ppc64 requires emacs
jakarta-commons-fileupload - 1:1.0-3jpp_5fc.noarch requires servletapi5
velocity - 1.4-3jpp_4fc.noarch requires servletapi5
xalan-j2-demo - 2.6.0-3jpp_9fc.ppc64 requires servletapi5
Broken deps for ppc
----------------------------------------------------------
xorg-x11-drivers - 7.1-1.ppc requires xorg-x11-drv-sisusb
Broken deps for s390
----------------------------------------------------------
avalon-logkit - 1.2-3jpp_3fc.noarch requires servletapi5
bsf - 2.3.0-6jpp_4fc.noarch requires servletapi5
bsf - 2.3.0-6jpp_4fc.noarch requires tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api
geronimo-specs - 1.0-0.M2.2jpp_7fc.s390 requires servletapi5
jakarta-commons-fileupload - 1:1.0-3jpp_5fc.noarch requires servletapi5
openCryptoki - 2.2.4-1.s390 requires libica.so
tomboy - 0.3.5-5.s390 requires mono(System.Xml) = 0:1.0.5000.0
tomboy - 0.3.5-5.s390 requires mono(dbus-sharp) = 0:0.60.0.0
tomboy - 0.3.5-5.s390 requires mono(mscorlib) = 0:1.0.5000.0
tomboy - 0.3.5-5.s390 requires mono(Mono.Posix) = 0:1.0.5000.0
tomboy - 0.3.5-5.s390 requires mono(gnome-sharp) = 0:1.0.0.0
tomboy - 0.3.5-5.s390 requires mono(glib-sharp) = 0:1.0.0.0
tomboy - 0.3.5-5.s390 requires mono(gmime-sharp) = 0:2.2.0.0
tomboy - 0.3.5-5.s390 requires mono(glib-sharp) = 0:2.8.0.0
tomboy - 0.3.5-5.s390 requires mono(gtk-sharp) = 0:1.0.0.0
tomboy - 0.3.5-5.s390 requires mono(gconf-sharp-peditors) = 0:1.0.0.0
tomboy - 0.3.5-5.s390 requires mono(System) = 0:1.0.5000.0
tomboy - 0.3.5-5.s390 requires mono(gdk-sharp) = 0:1.0.0.0
tomboy - 0.3.5-5.s390 requires mono(gconf-sharp) = 0:1.0.0.0
tomboy - 0.3.5-5.s390 requires mono(pango-sharp) = 0:1.0.0.0
velocity - 1.4-3jpp_4fc.noarch requires servletapi5
xalan-j2-demo - 2.6.0-3jpp_9fc.s390 requires servletapi5
yelp - 2.15.2-1.s390 requires libbeagle.so.0
Broken deps for s390x
----------------------------------------------------------
avalon-logkit - 1.2-3jpp_3fc.noarch requires servletapi5
bsf - 2.3.0-6jpp_4fc.noarch requires servletapi5
bsf - 2.3.0-6jpp_4fc.noarch requires tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api
geronimo-specs - 1.0-0.M2.2jpp_7fc.s390x requires servletapi5
jakarta-commons-fileupload - 1:1.0-3jpp_5fc.noarch requires servletapi5
openCryptoki - 2.2.4-1.s390x requires PKCS11_ICA.so
openCryptoki - 2.2.4-1.s390x requires PKCS11_API.so
openCryptoki - 2.2.4-1.s390x requires libica.so()(64bit)
velocity - 1.4-3jpp_4fc.noarch requires servletapi5
xalan-j2-demo - 2.6.0-3jpp_9fc.s390x requires servletapi5
yelp - 2.15.2-1.s390x requires libbeagle.so.0()(64bit)
16 years, 10 months
Sun Java plugin won't work with SELinux enforcing in FC6 test 1
by Stanton Finley
In FC5 with SELinux enforcing I am able to get the Sun Java plugin to
work with a "setsebool -P allow_execstack=1" and a "setsebool -P
allow_execmod=1". With FC6 I have to disable SELinux altogether (do a
"setenforce 0" or add "selinux=0" on the kernel line
in /boot/grub/grub.conf and reboot) in order for the Sun Java plugin to
work in Firefox. Also I notice that in Gnome "System" > "Administration"
> "Security Level and Firewall" on the "SELinux" tab under "Modify
SELinux Policy" > "Compatibility" the option "Allow the use of shared
libraries with Text Relocation" is no longer available (which I believe
would also solve the Java plugin issue and other issues). Any ideas?
--
Stanton Finley
http://stanton-finley.net/
16 years, 10 months