upgrading to fedora core 2
by Rafael Alexandre Schmitt
Hi all,
It will be possible to upgrade from fedora core 1 to core 2 trough apt
or yum?
20 years, 2 months
pb with police (ISO8859-15)
by Desquerre Yohann
Hi all,
I'am a french user....In french there are many accent on word !!!
When i send a mail with accent on word...my friends which are use
WINXXXX(No one is perfect) see strange symbol. Is there any way to solve
that ????
Thanks
20 years, 2 months
Non FOSS and Fedora
by Adam Kosmin
Greetings,
I couldn't help but notice Thomas Chung's tutorials up on fedoranews.org
which describe how to install Acrobat Reader, Helix, and Macromedia
Flash.
In light of The Fedora Project's #2 objective being "Build the operating
system exclusively from open source software.", I must pose this
question to the list:
Is it appropriate to encourage people to install non-FOSS software on
Fedora?
Best,
Adam Kosmin
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complaint to help the Court understand that IBM clearly did contribute a
lot of the Unix-related information into Linux. We just don't know what
it is."
-- Kevin McBride SCO vs. IBM 12/05/03
20 years, 2 months
ATI Radeon Pro, X11, system lockup
by Don Levey
I've checked the archives, and not found anything useful (just two hits
searching on "Radeon 9600 Pro"), so if this has been covered before I
apologise.
I have the above-mentioned card, and am having a devil of a time getting
it to work properly. When selecting the driver that comes with FC1 for
Radeon 9600 Pro, my system locks up hard during the login process.
Normally I'm able to enter username/password, but it freezes before
getting the desktop. If I try to specifically select a desktop
environment (Gnome, KDE), I get a lockup in that dialog itself.
As I had done a number of things immediately before this first happened,
I did not immediately realise that it was the video driver itself which
had done this. A fortunately-timed kudzu run somehow removed the Radeon
driver and reinstalled the generic VESA, at which point things worked
again.
The relevant portions of the /etc/X11/XF86Config file follow:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "vesa"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "VESA driver (generic)"
EndSection
#Section "Device"
# Identifier "Videocard0"
# Driver "radeon"
# VendorName "Videocard vendor"
# BoardName "ATI Radeon 9600 Pro"
#EndSection
As you can see, I commented out the offending portion but kept it in for
historical purposes.
The ATI website has a driver for this board, one for each of the
following versions of XFree86: 4.1, 4.2, 4.3. It appears I am using
4.3, so I downloaded the corresponding RPM. Attempting to install the
RPM, however, gives the following error:
rpm -Uvh fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-3.7.0.i386.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
file /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 from install of
fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-3.7.0 conflicts with file from package
XFree86-Mesa-libGL-4.3.0-42
I was not able to find anything on their website to address this issue.
I've heard somewhere that I shouldn't bother with the ATI-supplied
drivers in any event, so perhaps I'm not too heartbroken. However,
checking up on the above I don't understand the conflict; yum tells me
that my XFree86-Mesa-libGL is both installed and the latest version.
Any thoughts on how to resolve this, and/or pointers to where I might
look? I'd hate to think that I need to boot into Windows to get better
video playback, etc, not to mention the other features this card
supports.
Thanks for your time,
-Don
20 years, 2 months
webcam support
by Marlon Bastida
Hello!
Im using Fedora, and my webcam creative webcam pro ex doesn´ t work fine in this system because I tested in redhat 9 and don´t have a good driver and same occur in this system. You can find drivers that you can use for it but the leds doenst turn off, and stay turned on while Im in this distribution :((
I would like to know if have projects to works this webcam with distribution and programs for test (one for gnome didn´t detect and I didn´t see images)
Im from Brasil and a linux enthusiast.
Marlon
20 years, 2 months
Where's the beef!
by Terry Johnson
Hey I was on the #fedora channel all last week and even on there up
until yesterday. I go to join the channel today and it says I need to be
Identified. Is there something wrong here or am I banned otr something?
I cant think of anything I've done different or any reason for me to be
banned. I was just wondering if anyone else has or had the same problem.
I really like chatting with you guys??
Thanks
20 years, 2 months
email program on fedora
by Xiaohu
Hi,
Can anyone recommend an email program for fedora ? I would like to
have a stand-alone email client that can connect to multiple email
accounts including hotmail ?
Thanks,
Xiaohu
20 years, 2 months
A SCSI problem
by mjwestkamper
I have several old Intel servers with a dual-channel SCSI controller
(Adaptec AIC-7770). They have been running for six years without a hitch.
Although they have slow processors, P3-75's, they serve as our archive
perfectly. Each has 8 36 GB SCSI drives.
They have been running RedHat Linux 7.2. The Kernel is 2.4.7-10. I needed to
upgrade to a newer release for security and to get the most recent SAMBA
features. I tried to upgrade to RH9, no joy, the adapter is not recognized.
Now as part of another project I tried the Fedora distribution. No joy here
either. I rebuilt the kernel (.2149) turning on the EISA/VL probes for the
AIC-7770 and it still ignores the controller.
The SCSI is an embedded Adaptec AIC-7770 EISA (Adaptec AHA274x). During the
boot process that worked, the controller was recognized and the init
apparently downloaded some sequencer code.
A search of the RedHat site turned up my past attempts and a Google search
turned up some references, however I was unable to get any usable indication
of where to turn.
I would really appreciate a bit of help getting this system up to date.
Thanks in advance for any counsel you may offer.
20 years, 2 months
Red Hat Linux Install Failure with Promise FastTrak TX Onboard SATA150 RAID Chipset
by Ron Herardian
Problem title: Red Hat Linux Install Failure with Promise FastTrak TX Onboard SATA150 RAID Chipset
Problem reported: January 26, 2004
Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, Red Hat Fedora
Red Hat installer (anaconda) reports "no hard drives have been found." Problem occurs when installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Kernel 2.4.21) or Red Hat Fedora on machines using ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe (BIOS revision 1011) motherboards. The boards have Promise Technologies FastTrak TX 378/TX2plus SATA150 onboard RAID controllers (BIOS revision 1.00.0.37).
The RAID drivers are not loaded correctly by the Red Hat installer after following expert steps necessary to load disk drivers from a diskette prior to installation. After inserting the driver disk and selecting the appropriate driver, the Red Hat installer reports "no hard drives have been found" although the machine's hard drives have been properly installed and configured. RAID 1 configurations with 2 ATA/EIDE and also with 2 SATA150 drives have been tested.
The initial release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 3 and Fedora supported Intel ICH5 and Silicon Image SATA chipsets but did not support the Promise SATA chipset, although support has been planned for later releases. In the interim, both ASUS and Promise distributed drivers for Red Hat Linux 9 and later.
The drivers available from ASUS and Promise only work when compiled/installed/configured on a running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 or Fedora system. This is only applicable when the OS has already been installed onto a non-RAID/non-mirrored boot disk, i.e., the drivers only allow the user to add a SATA or IDE RAID array to a previously installed/configured machine.
To provide for mirrored (RAID 1) boot disks it is necessary to install the OS directly onto a (RAID 1) array, not after the OS has been installed. For new installations, where there is no OS on the machine, is not possible for the user to first compile the driver and then install the OS for the first time.
The following drivers from the ASUS and Promise web sites were tested:
1. [ASUS] FastTrak TX4000/376/S150 TX Series Linux Driver Version 1.00.0.13 SMP
2. [ASUS] FastTrak TX4000/376/S150 TX Series Linux Driver Version 1.00.0.13
3. [Promise] FastTrak TX4000/376/378/S150 TX Series Linux Driver Version 1.00.0.18
4. [Promise] FastTrak TX4000/376/378/S150 TX Series Linux Driver Version 1.00.0.19
5. [Promise] SATA150 Series Linux Driver Version 1.00.0.11 for Red Hat Linux 8.0/9
None of the drivers listed worked during installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 or Fedora.
The solution required for mirrored RAID 1 boot disks is a driver that correctly supports the Promise Technologies FastTrak TX 378/TX2plus SATA150 onboard RAID controller at install time so that the Red Hat installer can access the RAID array.
This issue has been reported to ASUS, Promise Technologies, and Red Hat.
20 years, 2 months
Nortel Netlock VPN client
by Ben Steeves
Hi,
Has anyone had any luck getting Nortel's Netlock VPN client working in
Fedora Core 1? The supplied RH8 SRPM builds & installs fine, but once
it's installed (not even running), my network is dead, and the start_cvc
command can't connect to http://127.0.0.1:9161 like it's supposed to.
Jim Drabb sent an e-mail to the list back in November asking this very
question and didn't get a response -- I tried e-mailing him directly but
the mail bounced... Jim, if you're out there, did you ever get this
working?
Ben
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