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Horrible problems trying to run Linux on my hardware
by xyzzy＠hotpop.com 03 Feb '04

03 Feb '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Greetings, Hardware: ASUS motherboard with 82801EB Intel chipset (865G video, 82562EZ LAN), Hyperthread support, Enhanced P-ATA/S-ATA, USB 2.0. 1 GB ram Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz 3 harddisks, first one is the boot disk using Windows XP Pro (with dual boot off of the third disk for Linux using XP boot manager) UDMA 2, the other two are UDMA 5, the last disk being for Linux with /, /boot, /var and swap partitions). LG DVD/CD-RW combo Adaptec SCSI 2930 PCI card This machine runs XP Pro just fine, absolutely no problems and at very acceptable speeds. I can't even boot, most of the time, off of the Redhat 9 CDs that I burned from ISO (and have been used to install on other machines, so the medium is fine), unless I cancel the Enhanced IDE and use Compatible mode in the BIOS. Also, with Redhat 9, I must keep this configuration in order to boot Linux at all, it hangs on the IDE enumeration. I managed to get an entire Redhat 9 system installed and up and running but SLOOOOOW, running X and trying to paste a very long command line into a terminal prompt using the center button took up to a minute to complete pasting, not to mention not being to use the cursor keys to navigate the line. Figuring that Fedora with the 2.4.22 kernel would be better with more support for S-ATA, enhanced IDE, and hyperthread, I upgraded my system with the Fedora Core 1 CDs burned from ISO. These booted just fine using the Enhanced IDE configuration but still very slow. I managed to upgrade the system using the Internet until everything was at "0 updates needed". It was still VERY slow and I had a few times where the system froze completely, necessitating a press of the reset button. So, I downloaded the Intel graphics and network drivers from the Intel site, figuring that the stock drivers were somehow bogging down because of my newer hardware. The network driver compiled and installed fine. When I installed the graphics driver according to Intel's instructions (changing the Device "Driver" field form i810 to i830), trying to restart the X server failed with a segmentation fault and a notice that the agpport module could not allocate memory; a patently ridiculous since I had over 924MB free according to /proc/meminfo. Trying restore the old settings fails and the X server refuses to start. Any help would be appreciated on what to do next to get X back up. I am about to give up on Linux on this box unless I can figure out why it is so slow, that is, assuming I can get around this frustrating X failure. Is it time for a complete OS re-install? I can still run text mode. What a drag. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFAH7PnrT0x/nxLkjwRA0JXAJ4/jLhLmsnZRmyq6zoshjcvd0lO5QCfaAuU QDVEI6GI3UdT56bMrfVKvcI= =oANa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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kdemultimedia
by Andrea 03 Feb '04

03 Feb '04

Hi, I've rpm dependencies problem with kdemultimedia: to install it I need kdebase but I got this .... rpm -Uvh kdebase-3.1.4-6.i386.rpm error: Failed dependencies: /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers is needed by kdebase-3.1.4-6 /etc/X11/xdm/Xwilling is needed by kdebase-3.1.4-6 libsensors.so.2 is needed by kdebase-3.1.4-6 lm_sensors is needed by kdebase-3.1.4-6 ..where do I find them ? Thanks Andrea

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RE: fedora-list digest, Vol 1 #947 - 29 msgs
by Wayne Spivak 03 Feb '04

03 Feb '04

Would this solve the SATA promise card issue? -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-admin(a)redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-admin@redhat.com] On Behalf Of fedora-list-request(a)redhat.com Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 3:21 PM To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com Subject: fedora-list digest, Vol 1 #947 - 29 msgs 25. Re: Red Hat Linux Install Failure with Promise FastTrak TX Onboard SATA150 RAID Chipset (Dean Mumby) --__--__-- Message: 25 Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 22:08:41 +0200 From: Dean Mumby <dean(a)mumby.co.za> To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com Subject: Re: Red Hat Linux Install Failure with Promise FastTrak TX Onboard SATA150 RAID Chipset Reply-To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com Matthew Walburn wrote: > Sorry for the delay! > >> Check the archives Matthew Walburn reported having built a driver >> disk for fc1 , I tried and ended up having to install redhat 9 and >> then upgrade to fc1 using yum , this worked fine but was messy. I >> have requested Matthew Walburn post his disk or instructions which >> would make future instalations and support possible by simply >> compiling the boot-modules for whatever kernel is used by the >> instalation. > > > I have made my boot disk which I successfully was able to install > Fedora with, available on my website at: > > http://www.railwave.com/fedora_fasttrack.img > > To write the image out to a disk: > > dd if=fedora_fasttrack.img of=/dev/fd0u1440 > > I wish I had better documented how I created it. I will try to reverse > engineer my own process and post it here and on the web as well. > > Good luck! > > -Matthew > > -- > Matthew Walburn, RHCE > Network Assistant - x. 3-4995 > MIT Department of Mathematics > > That would be great , as i stated i struggled with compliling the ft3xx module for the kernel-boot Regards Dean

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(no subject)
by Jonathan Christison 03 Feb '04

03 Feb '04

Hello, I recently acquired another PC is it possible to cluster them but still use them as a desktop PC on fedora core 1 ? thanks for yore help - Jonny

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Re: Win4Lin Kernel
by Ed 03 Feb '04

03 Feb '04

> > Message: 16 > To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com > From: Shannon McMackin <mcmackin(a)shentel.net> > Subject: Re: Anyone using Win4Lin from Netraverse with Fedora > Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 14:42:21 -0500 > Reply-To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com > > Frank Lipski wrote: > > I have used Win4Lin for several years with various versions of Redhat > > including 9. I just installed Fedora and the online installer is saying > > no compatible kernel found. > > > > Netraverse shows via faq that is works with core release 1, but now > > details. > > > > This seems to be a very active list so I thought someone out there would > > be using Win4Lin with Fedora. > > > > Thanks, Frank > > I'm using win4lin, but my load happens to be running on a RH9 kernel > because of my need to use the Netlock client which doesn't function > properly with any of the FC1 kernels yet. I did install Win4Lin under > FC1, but against the RH9 kernel. > > I agree with Jay, try updating the installer and you should be fine. > > Shannon McMackin > mcmackin(a)shentel.net I am using Win4Lin with Fedora but not the latest kernel from Fedora. I am running 2.4.22-1.2129. If I install the latest kernel and then try to update Win4Lin I receive the message that you received. I would downgrade to this kernel if you can live with the security issues. I am not sure what Neotraverse's policy is on keeping up with kernel upgrades. I am hoping to be able to upgrade Win4lin once 2.6 is available in Fedora 2.

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conflicts in kde 3.2 upgrade
by Austin Isler 03 Feb '04

03 Feb '04

Im trying to upgrade KDE and I end up with conflicts. Like this: file /usr/share/mimelnk/application/x-kudesigner.desktop from install of kdelibs-3.2.0-0.1 conflicts with file from package koffice-1.2.1-15 any ideas? Austin

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Re: Info please
by Marius Andreiana 03 Feb '04

03 Feb '04

The message below was originally rejected by your Spam Filter, but was re-sent through webmail. It was blocked for: F5_Unwanted_To_Address: fedora-list(a)redhat.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 19:19, Chadley Wilson wrote: > Where do I get True Type fonts? http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ Note: please use a better subject for mail, like \"Where from do I get True Type fonts\"

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Konqueror 3.2 Fonts
by Paul Vandenberg 03 Feb '04

03 Feb '04

Hi, I've downloaded a beta and the release candidate of KDE 3.2 for Fedora. In both cases, I had strange behaviour with fonts in Konqueror. First, the fonts were too big. I changed the size settings and it affected some of the web pages, others were still huge. Does KDE 3.2 have some new way of working with fonts, or is there some incompatibility between vanilla KDE and Fedora with regards to fonts? Konqueror is not useable for me with the 3.2 versions I've used so far. Thanks....Paul

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Info please
by Chadley Wilson 03 Feb '04

03 Feb '04

Where do I get True Type fonts? Chad

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Anyone using Win4Lin from Netraverse with Fedora
by frank＠franklipski.com 03 Feb '04

03 Feb '04

I have used Win4Lin for several years with various versions of Redhat including 9. I just installed Fedora and the online installer is saying no compatible kernel found. Netraverse shows via faq that is works with core release 1, but now details. This seems to be a very active list so I thought someone out there would be using Win4Lin with Fedora. Thanks, Frank

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