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, 8 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, 8 months
Re: digikam and kipi-plugins?
by Rex Dieter
Per Bothner wrote:
> The Rawhide version of digikam is the very latest (0.10.0-rc1),
> but it fails to find any of the "Kipi plugins", even though I've
> installed the kipi-plugins package. This might be an upstream
> issue, since 0.10.0 is pretty bleeding edge and the kipi-plugins
> may even more bleeding-edge. Gwenview does seem to be see the
> plugins, so I'm wondering if there is there might be a
> Fedora-specific problem before I complain upstream ...
The f10 builds seem to work fine for me (finding the plugins), so perhaps
this is rawhide-specific?
To be clear, digikam's Settings -> configure digikam -> Kipi Plugins is
empty?
-- Rex
7 years, 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
7 years, 10 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, 10 months
Heads up - Anaconda 22.17 will enforce 'good' passwords
by Brian C. Lane
This Friday's build of Anaconda will no longer allow you to use weak
passwords and click done twice. In order to promote more secureish
default systems I have increased the password length required to 8
characters and removed allowing weak (as defined by libpwquality)
passwords.
I *know* this is going to be a bit of a pain to get used to. But the
increased security is worth it. Super simple passwords will no longer be
allowed, but it is still easy to come up with one that passes the
checks. pwgen has lots of suggestions.
And on the bright side, you don't have to click done twice anymore :)
--
Brian C. Lane | Anaconda Team | IRC: bcl #anaconda | Port Orchard, WA (PST8PDT)
8 years, 7 months
OS X dual boot criterion problems
by Adam Williamson
Hi, folks. Talking to cmurf, our resident OS X dual boot expert, on
#fedora-qa, it's become clear that when we adopted the OS X dual boot
criterion a few weeks back, we didn't have a good understanding of the
current state of that code and particularly upstream grub's support for
booting OS X via UEFI. Basically it seems that booting OS X from grub
didn't work then and doesn't work now and we can't realistically fix it,
so we shouldn't have put that criterion in place because it's not
something we can actually viably achieve.
cmurf, roshi, kparal and I voted +1 to removing the criterion on that
basis. I'm hoping cmurf will be kind enough to look at the issue again
for the F22 cycle, in consultation with pjones if necessary, so we can
put a realistic requirement in place before we get into F22 Alphas.
If no-one has any objections, we'll make the removal formal ahead of
tomorrow's Go/No-Go meeting for 21. Thanks folks!
--
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net
http://www.happyassassin.net
8 years, 7 months
Does anyone reuse /boot or /var partitions ?
by Adam Williamson
There's a proposed anaconda patch ATM which would disallow mounting an
existing partition as /boot or /var (or any subdirectory of those
except /var/www ) without reformatting it. i.e., you can't reuse an
existing partition with those mountpoints.
I'm curious to know if anyone / many people do this, and if so, if
there's a particularly good use case for it; if so, we might want to
provide that feedback to the anaconda folks.
There are a few references to using shared /boot on Google, but not
that many, and mostly for crazy multiboot configurations that we
really don't want to be stuck dealing with. Does anyone know of a
really sensible use case for this?
For the record, this is actually re-hooking up code that was used in
oldUI - that is, F17 and earlier - but in oldUI it just produced a
warning you had to click through; the current patch flat disallows it.
The main driving force for this is
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1074358 , as it
keeps turning out to be annoyingly tricky to make sure that only newly-
installed kernels have their initramfs regenerated when installing to a
shared /boot partition.
--
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net
http://www.happyassassin.net
8 years, 7 months
Unexpected qadevel outage
by Tim Flink
I'm not sure what happened but the machine hosting qadevel became
unresponsive sometime in the last 12 hours and is not recoverable.
I'm going to be rebuilding the host today but until I'm done,
phabricator and the other services on qadevel will not be available.
I'll update this thread as I make progress towards getting everything
working again.
Tim
8 years, 8 months
