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, 10 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, 10 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
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
Error: No Package Matching glibc.i686
by Michael Schwendt
Is this a new feature or a bug? Shouldn't this update also glibc?
$ sudo yum update glibc-common
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package glibc-common.i386 0:2.5.90-21 set to be updated
Checking deps for glibc-common.i386 0-2.5.90-21 - u
Checking deps for glibc-common.i386 0-2.5.90-20 - None
--> Processing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.5.90-20 for package: glibc
Error: No Package Matching glibc.i686
On the contrary, yum update glibc and glibc.i686 work just fine:
$ sudo yum update glibc.i686
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package glibc.i686 0:2.5.90-21 set to be updated
Checking deps for glibc.i686 0-2.5.90-21 - u
Checking deps for glibc.i686 0-2.5.90-20 - None
--> Processing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.5.90-21 for package: glibc
--> Processing Dependency: glibc = 2.5.90-20 for package: glibc-headers
--> Processing Dependency: glibc = 2.5.90-20 for package: glibc-devel
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Running transaction check
---> Package glibc-common.i386 0:2.5.90-21 set to be updated
Checking deps for glibc-common.i386 0-2.5.90-21 - u
---> Package glibc-devel.i386 0:2.5.90-21 set to be updated
Checking deps for glibc-devel.i386 0-2.5.90-21 - u
Checking deps for glibc-common.i386 0-2.5.90-20 - None
---> Package glibc-headers.i386 0:2.5.90-21 set to be updated
Checking deps for glibc-headers.i386 0-2.5.90-21 - u
Checking deps for glibc-headers.i386 0-2.5.90-20 - None
Checking deps for glibc-devel.i386 0-2.5.90-20 - None
Dependencies Resolved
=============================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
=============================================================================
Updating:
glibc i686 2.5.90-21 development 5.3 M
Updating for dependencies:
glibc-common i386 2.5.90-21 development 17 M
glibc-devel i386 2.5.90-21 development 2.0 M
glibc-headers i386 2.5.90-21 development 609 k
Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install 0 Package(s)
Update 4 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)
Total download size: 25 M
Is this ok [y/N]: n
Exiting on user Command
Complete!
16 years, 2 months
gnomebaker problems
by Rick Marshall
After upgrading from FC6 to F7 gnomebaker stopped working.
After poking around again I found that the reason is that gnomebaker is
trying to open /dev/sr0 as the scsi recording device, but in my F7 that
doesn't exist.
However these do exist:
[root@rjm src]# ls -l /dev/*sr0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2007-06-30 10:44 /dev/cdrom-sr0 -> scd0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2007-06-30 10:44 /dev/cdrw-sr0 -> scd0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2007-06-30 10:44 /dev/cdwriter-sr0 -> scd0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2007-06-30 10:44 /dev/dvdrw-sr0 -> scd0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2007-06-30 10:44 /dev/dvd-sr0 -> scd0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2007-06-30 10:44 /dev/dvdwriter-sr0 -> scd0
So I added the line:
ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/sr0
to /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S99local and gnomebaker works.
Why does it get it wrong? Well...
[root@rjm src]# cat /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info
CD-ROM information, Id: cdrom.c 3.20 2003/12/17
drive name: sr0
drive speed: 24
drive # of slots: 1
Can close tray: 1
Can open tray: 1
Can lock tray: 1
Can change speed: 1
Can select disk: 0
Can read multisession: 1
Can read MCN: 1
Reports media changed: 1
Can play audio: 1
Can write CD-R: 1
Can write CD-RW: 1
Can read DVD: 1
Can write DVD-R: 1
Can write DVD-RAM: 1
Can read MRW: 1
Can write MRW: 1
Can write RAM: 1
so I guess gnomebaker assumes there is a node called /dev/sr0, but
obviously F7 is trying to be friendly by creating specific nodes based
on the capabilities of the device and then I assume an application can
open the appropriate device.
Should gnomebaker be changed? or would it be friendly for F7 to also
create the generic node /dev/sr0 at startup as well as the capability
specific nodes?
Thanks
Rick
16 years, 3 months
wireless was working on kernel 2.6.21-1.3207.fc8 but stopped after updates
by Amit Rana
Hi,
I had f7t4 installed and have been taking updates regularly and with
every update some or the other feature stops working (no i am not
complaining :) )
Wireless was working fine till 2.6.21-1.3189.fc7 but completely
stopped after that. I did not do any change. In the new kernel or
wireless tools network manager stopped showing wireless options.
This has happened with 2.6.21-1.319x.fc7, 2.6.21-1.3200.fc7 and
2.6.21-1.3207.fc8. I am not sure if this is kernel issue or network
manager update issue or wireless tools.
my laptop: http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/show?UUID=22c8710a-e702-4bcb-b002-448a3e53...
Can anyone please advice me what can I do to enable it again?
Thanks.
[amit@localhost ~]$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML
and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS,
943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS,
943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High
Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express
Port 1 (rev 01)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express
Port 4 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB
UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB
UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB
UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB
UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2
EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface
Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family)
SATA IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller
03:01.1 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822
SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)
03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0843 (rev 01)
03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host
Adapter (rev 0a)
03:01.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 05)
0b:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
Network Connection (rev 02)
16 years, 4 months
Wireless (again and again)?
by Knute Johnson
Below is the content of /var/log/messages after I connect my USB
Wireless adapter. I was told that this adapter was supposed to work
out of the box. Can anybody tell me what to do to make it work? I
need to have WPA working.
Thanks very much,
knute...
May 24 15:41:25 localhost kernel: usb 7-8: new high speed USB device
using ehci_hcd and address 6 May 24 15:41:25 localhost kernel: usb 7-
8:configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
May 24 15:41:26 localhost firmware_helper[2882]: Loading of
/lib/firmware/isl3887usb_bare for usb driver failed: No such file or
directory
May 24 15:41:26 localhost kernel:p54usb: cannot find firmware
(isl3887usb_bare)! May 24 15:41:26 localhost kernel: prism54usb:
probe of 7-8:1.0 failed with error -2
May 24 15:41:26 localhost kernel: usbcore: registered new interface
driver prism54usb
--
Knute Johnson
Molon Labe...
16 years, 5 months
