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
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.
???
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
6 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.
6 years, 6 months
Some things to focus testing on for F9Beta
by Will Woods
Fedora 9 will have a lot of new and exciting things. Naturally, we want
those things to be stable and well-polished for the final release.
With that in mind, here's a list of things that deserve especially close
attention.
1) PackageKit
This *replaces* pup and pirut, by default, on all new installs. If
you're following rawhide, *please* disable or remove pup and pirut and
test this. It's very important that you file bugs about *any* problems
with PackageKit.
Use the "gnome-packagekit" component in bugzilla for bugs about
confusing (or missing) UI pieces, and "PackageKit" for bugs about
backend errors, missing capabilities, or other (non-UI) problems.
2) NetworkManager
At long last, NetworkManager is installed and enabled by default for all
new installs. It is *supposed* to play nice with the system
configuration set up by Anaconda and the old system-config-network tool.
I'd recommend that all testers install and enable NetworkManager if
possible. File bugs about network configuration problems (not honoring
static IP configurations, for instance) against "NetworkManager".
3) Upstart
Upstart has replaced sysvinit. Everything should be working as it did in
F8, but if you have problems with serial consoles, boot-time arguments,
changing runlevels (using telinit or similar), or the like, make sure
bugs get filed.
The runlevels are now controlled by the Upstart event scripts
in /etc/event.d. If you have problems changing runlevels file bugs
against "event-compat-sysv". Other upstart bugs should probably be filed
under "upstart".
4) evdev
Xorg is now using the new "evdev" generic input driver. This driver is
intended to automatically handle all input devices recognized by the
kernel - keyboards, mice, joysticks, whatever.
Unfortunately its handling of keyboards is still a bit messy and
probably won't be ready for F9. Therefore, ajax modified it to let the
old, working driver claim your keyboard.
So as of F9Beta, keyboards *should* work just like they did in F8. If
you have *new* problems with your keyboard layout (and you're not having
lingering evdev problems from older rawhide[1]), check Xorg.0.log to see
if evdev has claimed your keyboard. If so, file a bug against
"xorg-x11-drv-evdev". Otherwise, use "xorg-x11-drv-keyboard".
If there's any other things that people think need closer attention..
now would be a good time to mention them.
Happy testing!
-w
[1]
https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2008-March/msg00710.html
13 years, 11 months
"too many timeout resolving $DOMAIN, disabling EDNS"?
by David Hagood
Over the past couple of weeks I've been getting lots of messages like
this in my logs:
unexpected RCODE (SERVFAIL) resolving 'example.com/A/IN': 64.71.97.21#53
Aug 5 17:54:49 Deathwish named[1870]: too many timeouts resolving
'www.example.com/A' (in 'example.com'?): disabling EDNS
(where I have replaced the actual domain with "example.com")
This happens on MANY domains, not just a few, and on domains that I
would think would NOT be likely to have stupid problems (like Google and
Slashdot).
Has something changed in BIND that could cause this?
14 years, 1 month
nemiver i386 not listed in repo
by Andrew Farris
Has anyone else seen a problem with nemiver i386 package not being available?
There is an update in x86_64, and the matching version is actually present on
the mirror for i386, but its not being shown as available through yum. This was
causing updates to fail even with skip-broken, so I had to --exclude it.
Both packages are there:
http://limestone.uoregon.edu/ftp/fedora/development/x86_64/os/Packages/ne...
http://limestone.uoregon.edu/ftp/fedora/development/i386/os/Packages/nemi...
But only x86_64 tries to update.
10:05:03 |lordmorgul.durthangnix:0| |17 files:11M@~| |0 jobs|
- yum list nemiver.x86_64 nemiver.i386
Loaded plugins: basearchonly, fastestmirror, fedorakmod, priorities, security,
: versionlock
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* livna-development: mirrors.tummy.com
* livna-development-debuginfo: mirrors.tummy.com
* rawhide: limestone.uoregon.edu
* upstart-debuginfo: notting.fedorapeople.org
* upstart: notting.fedorapeople.org
Reading version lock configuration
Installed Packages
nemiver.x86_64 0.4.0-3.fc9 installed
nemiver.i386 0.4.0-3.fc9 installed
Available Packages
nemiver.x86_64 0.5.1-1.fc9 rawhide
10:05:22 |lordmorgul.durthangnix:0| |17 files:11M@~| |0 jobs|
- yum list updates
Loaded plugins: basearchonly, fastestmirror, fedorakmod, priorities, security,
: versionlock
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* livna-development: mirrors.tummy.com
* livna-development-debuginfo: mirrors.tummy.com
* rawhide: limestone.uoregon.edu
* upstart-debuginfo: notting.fedorapeople.org
* upstart: notting.fedorapeople.org
Skipping security plugin, no data
Reading version lock configuration
Updated Packages
evince.x86_64 2.22.0-3.fc9 rawhide
inkscape.x86_64 0.46-0.3.pre3.fc9 rawhide
kpathsea.x86_64 2007-28.fc9 rawhide
nemiver.x86_64 0.5.1-1.fc9 rawhide
poppler.x86_64 0.7.3-1.fc9 rawhide
poppler-glib.x86_64 0.7.3-1.fc9 rawhide
poppler-qt.x86_64 0.7.3-1.fc9 rawhide
poppler-qt4.x86_64 0.7.3-1.fc9 rawhide
texlive.x86_64 2007-28.fc9 rawhide
texlive-dvips.x86_64 2007-28.fc9 rawhide
texlive-latex.x86_64 2007-28.fc9 rawhide
texlive-utils.x86_64 2007-28.fc9 rawhide
10:07:39 |lordmorgul.durthangnix:0| |17 files:11M@~| |0 jobs|
- rpm -q nemiver.x86_64 nemiver.i386
nemiver-0.4.0-3.fc9.x86_64
nemiver-0.4.0-3.fc9.i386
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14 years, 1 month
Fedora 9 beta no fonts on intel x3100 laptop
by Klaasjan Brand
Hi,
I've downloaded the Fedora 9 beta and created a bootable usb stick to test
it out on some systems.
It works fine on my desktop with radeon graphics so I assume the usb stick
is ok.
However, on a laptop with Intel x3100 graphics, X doesn't display fonts and
icons (it draws rough outlines of where the windows are supposed to be and I
can log in by clicking the right places). This is the same in rhgb, gdm and
on the desktop. Fedora 8 works fine on this laptop.
Is anyone able to confirm if this is an issue with all x3100 systems?
Klaasjan
14 years, 1 month
