webcams and gspca
by Mark Fraser
I have managed to get my webcam - a Logitech model - working using the
gspca drivers from http://mxhaard.free.fr/ . However, everytime there is a
new kernel available I have to recompile it. Is it available on a repo like
Livna have done with the nVidia drivers and kmod-nvidia.
Secondly, even though I can view the output of the webcam in the
configuration window in Kopete, I can't get anyone else to see it and I
can't view anyone else's that are online.
I have read that I may need to change some settings in my router for port
forwarding. Does anyone know if this is true and if so what ports, bearing
in mind that I use MSN on two different computers.
17 years
Skype solution
by Matthew Saltzman
I remember a relatively recent thread in which folks complained about
having trouble getting their microphones to work in Skype with FC6, but I
don't recall a definitive solution being posted. It took me quite a bit
of fiddling, but I finally got it.
For the use of anyone who cares, here are the relevant mixer settings from
my GNOME volume control. I did this on a Thinkpad T41, with Intel
82801DB-ICH4 using the ALSA drivers. I'm using skype-1.3.0.53-fc5.
On the Playback tab, line in and mic are muted. Master and PCM are
unmuted--Master is up full and PCM is at about 75%.
On the Capture tab, both the speaker icon and the mic icon are unmuted.
They are linked, and they are set at about 40% gain. (Much higher and
you'll start to hear feedback.)
On the Switches tab, I have Mic Boost (+20dB) checked, and (inexplicably,
but it works--I don't know yet if other settings also work) Microphone
Capture and Line-in Capture are unchecked.
On the Options tab, Mic Select is Mic1.
When the Skype test call connects, if you have the Capture tab displayed,
you will see the gain boosted to about 70%. The test call works fine and
the playback is perfectly audible.
So the key seems to be to put Mic Boost on and adjust the gain for a
reasonable level with no feedback.
Hope that info helps somebody.
--
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
17 years
got the "Intel 82801G ICH7 Family" sound card to work.
by Todd Warner
I have a T60 widescreen laptop with this soundcard:
Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition
Audio Controller (rev 02)
That audio device, though supposedly supported, will not work out of
the box for many distributions I found out after smashing my head
against the wall for some time.
Well, I got it working and filed a bug because the hack shouldn't be necessary:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=222606
I thought I would share in case anyone else has had that problem, and
from the looks of it, a lot of folks are running into this. So... this
is what I did:
1. I ensured my box has the latest alsa
2. I added these two lines to /etc/rc.local:
modprobe -r snd_hda_intel
modprobe snd_hda_intel
Reboot and sound should work.
17 years
Linux for old laptop?
by Chu Jeang Tan
My friend has the following laptop:
CPU: Pentium 2 266MHz
Memory: 256MB
Hard drive: 4gb
How would you setup a usable Linux system on this? It should be able
to run web browser, open office suite, IM, play MP3, various video
formats.
Is Fedora a good choice for low powered system?
I'd think gnome may be too heavyweight WM and KDE might be a better option.
Note that this is for a novice and probably would prefer to configure
stuffs through UI rather than text editors.
--
Chu Jeang Tan
chujtan(a)gmail.com
17 years
Checking download stream speed
by Paul Smith
Dear All
How can I know whether my modem/router is synchronized at 8Mbps for
download stream?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
17 years
X with vesa at 1680x1050 possible?
by Patrick Lists
Hi all,
I have a laptop with an ATI X1300 chip and a 1680x1050 screen. Just
installed FC6 on it and was messing with X. The radeon driver does not
seem to work so I tried the vesa driver. But I can't seem to get it to
use 1680x1050 using the vesa driver. It insists on 1400x1050. Does
anyone know if the vesa driver can display 1680x1050? If so how would I
make it do that?
Thanks,
Patrick
17 years
emacs problem
by François Patte
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Bonjour,
I have a problem with Emacs and as I ask the question on usenet emacs
lists and as other people using other linux distro do not have this
problem, I ask my question here:
1- Clipboard: it seems that there is a specific clipboard for Emacs
under Fedora/Gnome; I am unable to copy something from any other
application and paste it in emacs. It is always the last thing
copied/cut *in* emacs which is pasted in emacs whatever you could have
selected and copied in other windows (say: terminal, acroread...)
2- The dead key circumflex/trema of my french keyboard is not working in
Emacs: the sequence ^a doesn't give â but a (same with ^e,^i,...).
Thanks for any suggestion.
- --
François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Université René Descartes
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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17 years
Glxgears on ATI rage Pro
by Howard Howell
Hi, everyone, the ongoing battle of the graphics cards. My "good" read
high speed full development system runs well. However I want to use an
older system with Croquet. Problem: the older system appears
misconficured somehow.
It has an ATI Rage Pro graphics chip set according to lspci, And the
graphics configuration for X sets it up as a Rage board OK. I have
attempted to down load the latest ATI driver for it, but unsuccessfully,
so I suspect I will have to attempt that late tonight when there is less
traffic. In the mean time, I am working to discover what I can about
the current setup that is bad. I went throght the configuration on
Finley's site, and it appeared to work OK, then when I rebooted, it
began to reconfigure the graphics on every reboot. And I still have low
performance, and moreover seem to have lost a bit of software from the
graphics interface. Here is the output from glxgears:
[lesh@localhost ~]$ glxgears
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
541 frames in 6.1 seconds = 89.342 FPS
452 frames in 5.6 seconds = 80.584 FPS
What is really weird is that when glxgears first starts up, the gears
rotate like all getout, then slow down and then the printout comes out.
Note the extension missing. I have tried "yum whatprovides XFree86-DRI"
with no results shown. I suspect that this is from the DRIES repo, but
don't want to load from there until I can get some more information.
Meanwhile, here is the lspci results:
-bash: export: `=': not a valid identifier
-bash: export: `1': not a valid identifier
[root@localhost ~]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host
bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP
bridge (rev 03)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev
01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev
01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Rockwell International Riptide PCI
Audio Controller
00:0b.1 Communication controller: Rockwell International Riptide HCF 56k
PCI Modem
00:0b.2 Input device controller: Rockwell International Riptide PCI Game
Controller
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro AGP
1X/2X (rev 5c)
I have enabled the SELinux stuff according to Finley's site, but no
difference.
This is from Xrg.0.log
(--) PCI:*(1:0:0) ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X rev 92, Mem
@ 0xf5000000/24, 0xf4100000/12, I/O @ 0x2000/8
Also:
(II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
(II) Loading extension XFree86-Misc
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA
and:
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI
(II) LoadModule: "ati"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ati_drv.so
(II) Module ati: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 6.6.3
Module class: X.Org Video Driver
ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.0
And:
(II) ATI: ATI driver (version 6.6.3) for chipsets: ati, ativga
(II) R128: Driver for ATI Rage 128 chipsets:
ATI Rage 128 Mobility M3 LE (PCI), ATI Rage 128 Mobility M3 LF (AGP),
ATI Rage 128 Mobility M4 MF (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Mobility M4 ML (AGP),
ATI Rage 128 Pro GL PA (PCI/AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro GL PB (PCI/AGP),
ATI Rage 128 Pro GL PC (PCI/AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro GL PD (PCI),
ATI Rage 128 Pro GL PE (PCI/AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro GL PF (AGP),
ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PG (PCI/AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PH (PCI/AGP),
ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PI (PCI/AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PJ (PCI/AGP),
ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PK (PCI/AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PL (PCI/AGP),
ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PM (PCI/AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PN (PCI/AGP),
ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PO (PCI/AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PP (PCI),
ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PQ (PCI/AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PR (PCI),
ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PS (PCI/AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PT (PCI/AGP),
ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PU (PCI/AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PV (PCI/AGP),
ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PW (PCI/AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PX (PCI/AGP),
ATI Rage 128 GL RE (PCI), ATI Rage 128 GL RF (AGP),
ATI Rage 128 RG (AGP), ATI Rage 128 VR RK (PCI),
ATI Rage 128 VR RL (AGP), ATI Rage 128 4X SE (PCI/AGP),
ATI Rage 128 4X SF (PCI/AGP), ATI Rage 128 4X SG (PCI/AGP),
ATI Rage 128 4X SH (PCI/AGP), ATI Rage 128 4X SK (PCI/AGP),
ATI Rage 128 4X SL (PCI/AGP), ATI Rage 128 4X SM (AGP),
ATI Rage 128 4X SN (PCI/AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro ULTRA TF (AGP),
ATI Rage 128 Pro ULTRA TL (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro ULTRA TR (AGP),
ATI Rage 128 Pro ULTRA TS (AGP?), ATI Rage 128 Pro ULTRA TT (AGP?),
ATI Rage 128 Pro ULTRA TU (AGP?)
(II) RADEON: Driver for ATI Radeon chipsets: ATI Radeon QD (AGP),
ATI Radeon QE (AGP), ATI Radeon QF (AGP), ATI Radeon QG (AGP),
ATI Radeon VE/7000 QY (AGP/PCI), ATI Radeon VE/7000 QZ (AGP/PCI),
ATI ES1000 515E (PCI), ATI ES1000 5969 (PCI),
ATI Radeon Mobility M7 LW (AGP),
ATI Mobility FireGL 7800 M7 LX (AGP),
ATI Radeon Mobility M6 LY (AGP), ATI Radeon Mobility M6 LZ (AGP),
ATI Radeon IGP320 (A3) 4136, ATI Radeon IGP320M (U1) 4336,
ATI Radeon IGP330/340/350 (A4) 4137,
ATI Radeon IGP330M/340M/350M (U2) 4337,
ATI Radeon 7000 IGP (A4+) 4237, ATI Radeon Mobility 7000 IGP 4437,
ATI FireGL 8700/8800 QH (AGP), ATI Radeon 8500 QL (AGP),
ATI Radeon 9100 QM (AGP), ATI Radeon 8500 AIW BB (AGP),
ATI Radeon 8500 AIW BC (AGP), ATI Radeon 7500 QW (AGP/PCI),
ATI Radeon 7500 QX (AGP/PCI), ATI Radeon 9000/PRO If (AGP/PCI),
ATI Radeon 9000 Ig (AGP/PCI), ATI FireGL Mobility 9000 (M9) Ld (AGP),
ATI Radeon Mobility 9000 (M9) Lf (AGP),
ATI Radeon Mobility 9000 (M9) Lg (AGP),
ATI Radeon 9100 IGP (A5) 5834,
ATI Radeon Mobility 9100 IGP (U3) 5835, ATI Radeon 9100 PRO IGP 7834,
ATI Radeon Mobility 9200 IGP 7835, ATI Radeon 9250 5960 (AGP),
ATI Radeon 9200 5961 (AGP), ATI Radeon 9200 5962 (AGP),
ATI Radeon 9200SE 5964 (AGP), ATI FireMV 2200 (PCI),
ATI Radeon Mobility 9200 (M9+) 5C61 (AGP),
ATI Radeon Mobility 9200 (M9+) 5C63 (AGP), ATI Radeon 9500 AD (AGP),
ATI Radeon 9500 AE (AGP), ATI Radeon 9600TX AF (AGP),
ATI FireGL Z1 AG (AGP), ATI Radeon 9700 Pro ND (AGP),
ATI Radeon 9700/9500Pro NE (AGP), ATI Radeon 9600TX NF (AGP),
ATI FireGL X1 NG (AGP), ATI Radeon 9600 AP (AGP),
ATI Radeon 9600SE AQ (AGP), ATI Radeon 9600XT AR (AGP),
ATI Radeon 9600 AS (AGP), ATI FireGL T2 AT (AGP),
ATI FireGL RV360 AV (AGP),
ATI Radeon Mobility 9600/9700 (M10/M11) NP (AGP),
ATI Radeon Mobility 9600 (M10) NQ (AGP),
ATI Radeon Mobility 9600 (M11) NR (AGP),
ATI Radeon Mobility 9600 (M10) NS (AGP),
ATI FireGL Mobility T2 (M10) NT (AGP),
ATI FireGL Mobility T2e (M11) NV (AGP), ATI Radeon 9650,
ATI Radeon 9800SE AH (AGP), ATI Radeon 9800 AI (AGP),
ATI Radeon 9800 AJ (AGP), ATI FireGL X2 AK (AGP),
ATI Radeon 9800PRO NH (AGP), ATI Radeon 9800 NI (AGP),
ATI FireGL X2 NK (AGP), ATI Radeon 9800XT NJ (AGP),
ATI Radeon X600 (RV380) 3E50 (PCIE),
ATI FireGL V3200 (RV380) 3E54 (PCIE),
ATI Radeon Mobility X600 (M24) 3150 (PCIE),
ATI Radeon Mobility X300 (M24) 3152 (PCIE),
ATI FireGL M24 GL 3154 (PCIE), ATI Radeon X300 (RV370) 5B60 (PCIE),
ATI Radeon X600 (RV370) 5B62 (PCIE),
ATI Radeon X550 (RV370) 5B63 (PCIE),
ATI FireGL V3100 (RV370) 5B64 (PCIE),
ATI FireMV 2200 PCIE (RV370) 5B65 (PCIE),
ATI Radeon Mobility X300 (M22) 5460 (PCIE),
ATI Radeon Mobility X600 SE (M24C) 5462 (PCIE),
ATI FireGL M22 GL 5464 (PCIE), ATI Radeon XPRESS 200 5A41 (PCIE),
ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5A42 (PCIE),
ATI Radeon XPRESS 200 5A61 (PCIE),
ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5A62 (PCIE),
ATI Radeon XPRESS 200 5954 (PCIE),
ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE),
ATI Radeon XPRESS 200 5974 (PCIE),
ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5975 (PCIE), ATI FireGL V5000 (RV410) (PCIE),
ATI Mobility FireGL V5000 (M26) (PCIE),
ATI Mobility FireGL V5000 (M26) (PCIE),
ATI Mobility Radeon X700 XL (M26) (PCIE),
ATI Mobility Radeon X700 (M26) (PCIE),
ATI Mobility Radeon X700 (M26) (PCIE),
ATI Radeon X700 PRO (RV410) (PCIE),
ATI Radeon X700 XT (RV410) (PCIE), ATI Radeon X700 (RV410) (PCIE),
ATI Radeon X700 SE (RV410) (PCIE), ATI Radeon X700 SE (RV410) (PCIE),
ATI Radeon X800 (R420) JH (AGP), ATI Radeon X800PRO (R420) JI (AGP),
ATI Radeon X800SE (R420) JJ (AGP), ATI Radeon X800 (R420) JK (AGP),
ATI Radeon X800 (R420) JL (AGP), ATI FireGL X3 (R420) JM (AGP),
ATI Radeon Mobility 9800 (M18) JN (AGP),
ATI Radeon X800XT (R420) JP (AGP), ATI Radeon X800 SE (R420) (AGP),
ATI Radeon AIW X800 VE (R420) JT (AGP),
ATI Radeon X800 (R423) UH (PCIE),
ATI Radeon X800PRO (R423) UI (PCIE),
ATI Radeon X800LE (R423) UJ (PCIE),
ATI Radeon X800SE (R423) UK (PCIE),
ATI FireGL V5100 (R423) UQ (PCIE),
ATI FireGL unknown (R423) UR (PCIE),
ATI FireGL unknown (R423) UT (PCIE),
ATI Radeon X800XT (R423) 5D57 (PCIE), ATI FireGL V7100 (R423) (PCIE),
ATI Mobility FireGL V5100 (M28) (PCIE),
ATI Mobility Radeon X800 (M28) (PCIE),
ATI Mobility Radeon X800 XT (M28) (PCIE),
ATI Radeon X800 (R430) (PCIE), ATI Radeon X800 XL (R430) (PCIE),
ATI Radeon X800 SE (R430) (PCIE), ATI Radeon X800 XTP (R430) (PCIE),
ATI Radeon X850 5D4C (PCIE),
ATI unknown Radeon / FireGL (R480) 5D50 (PCIE),
ATI Radeon X850 SE (R480) (PCIE), ATI Radeon X850 PRO (R480) (PCIE),
ATI Radeon X850 XT (R480) (PCIE),
ATI Radeon X850 XT PE (R480) (PCIE),
ATI Radeon X850 PRO (R480) (AGP), ATI Radeon X850 SE (R480) (AGP),
ATI Radeon X850 XT (R480) (AGP), ATI Radeon X850 XT PE (R480) (AGP)
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0
(II) ATI: Candidate "Device" section "Videocard0".
(--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
(--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device
(II) ATI: Shared PCI/AGP Mach64 in slot 1:0:0 detected.
(II) ATI: Shared PCI/AGP Mach64 in slot 1:0:0 assigned to active
"Device" section "Videocard0".
(II) resource ranges after xf86ClaimFixedResources() call:
[0] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B)
[1] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B]
[2] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B]
[3] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B]
[4] -1 0 0xf4010000 - 0xf4010fff (0x1000) MX[B]
[5] -1 0 0xf4000000 - 0xf400ffff (0x10000) MX[B]
[6] -1 0 0xf4011000 - 0xf40110ff (0x100) MX[B]
[7] -1 0 0xf8000000 - 0xf7ffffff (0x0) MX[B]O
[8] -1 0 0xf4100000 - 0xf4100fff (0x1000) MX[B](B)
[9] -1 0 0xf5000000 - 0xf5ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B)
[10] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B]
[11] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B]
[12] -1 0 0x00001080 - 0x000010bf (0x40) IX[B]
[13] -1 0 0x00001400 - 0x000014ff (0x100) IX[B]
[14] -1 0 0x00001060 - 0x0000107f (0x20) IX[B]
[15] -1 0 0x00001050 - 0x0000105f (0x10) IX[B]
[16] -1 0 0x00002000 - 0x000020ff (0x100) IX[B](B)
(II) Loading sub module "atimisc"
(II) LoadModule: "atimisc"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/atimisc_drv.so
(II) Module atimisc: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 6.6.3
Module class: X.Org Video Driver
ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.0
(II) resource ranges after probing:
[0] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B)
[1] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B]
[2] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B]
[3] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B]
[4] -1 0 0xf4010000 - 0xf4010fff (0x1000) MX[B]
[5] -1 0 0xf4000000 - 0xf400ffff (0x10000) MX[B]
[6] -1 0 0xf4011000 - 0xf40110ff (0x100) MX[B]
[7] -1 0 0xf8000000 - 0xf7ffffff (0x0) MX[B]O
[8] -1 0 0xf4100000 - 0xf4100fff (0x1000) MX[B](B)
[9] -1 0 0xf5000000 - 0xf5ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B)
[10] 0 0 0x000a0000 - 0x000affff (0x10000) MS[B]
[11] 0 0 0x000b0000 - 0x000b7fff (0x8000) MS[B]
[12] 0 0 0x000b8000 - 0x000bffff (0x8000) MS[B]
[13] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B]
[14] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B]
[15] -1 0 0x00001080 - 0x000010bf (0x40) IX[B]
[16] -1 0 0x00001400 - 0x000014ff (0x100) IX[B]
[17] -1 0 0x00001060 - 0x0000107f (0x20) IX[B]
[18] -1 0 0x00001050 - 0x0000105f (0x10) IX[B]
[19] -1 0 0x00002000 - 0x000020ff (0x100) IX[B](B)
[20] 0 0 0x000003b0 - 0x000003bb (0xc) IS[B]
[21] 0 0 0x000003c0 - 0x000003df (0x20) IS[B]
(II) Setting vga for screen 0.
(==) ATI(0): Chipset: "ati".
(**) ATI(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
(==) ATI(0): Using XAA acceleration architecture
(II) Loading sub module "int10"
(II) LoadModule: "int10"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libint10.so
(II) Module int10: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 7.1.1, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.0
(II) ATI(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000
And then there is a bunch of stuff about modeline setups and so forth.
Does anyone have any idea of what I should try next? Or where I could
look for debugging this program?
Regards,
Les H
17 years
Announcing Fedora 7 Test 3 (6.92)
by Jeremy Katz
Welcome to Fedora 7 Test 3.
I am please to announce the third of four test releases for Fedora 7.
Downloads
========
DVD and network installation are available.
http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
The recommended method of download is via BitTorrent from this site.
http://fedora.redhat.com/Download/mirrors.html
HTTP, FTP, and RSYNC downloads are available from Fedora Project mirrors
listed above. Note that not all mirrors may be synced at this time.
New in Fedora 7 Test 3
========
This test release includes significant new versions of many key components and
technologies. The following sections provide a brief overview of major
changes from the last release of Fedora.
Merger of Core and Extras
========
* The Fedora Core and Extras software repositories are being merged,
resulting in a shared infrastructure and a single repository of packages to
which everyone is invited to contribute.
* Fedora 7 Test 3 is packaged initially as a Desktop/Development
Workstation/Server implementation, called "Prime". This spin is delivered in
DVD iso format only as a trial, see
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-February/msg00993....
for the discussion on this.
* Many more packages are available in the development repositories.
Live CD
========
* This test release includes an i386 ISO for a Desktop Live CD. This Live
CD features the ability to install to a hard disk using the same graphical
Anaconda installer as the non-live CD variant.
* This test release also includes an x86_64 ISO for a Desktop Live
image. Due to size, this will require a DVD. As with the i386 Live
image, the ability to install to a hard disk is available.
* This test release features a new i386 ISO for a KDE Live CD. Note
that as of this writing, this ISO is only available via bittorrent. It
should be available via the mirrors in the near future.
Desktop
========
* This test release features GNOME 2.18
* A brand new Echo icon theme is included as the default in this release.
This icon theme is incomplete, but with appropriate feedback and progress,
may become the default in the general release.
* Fast User Switching is now available via the fast-user-switch-applet.
See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureFastUserSwitching for more
details.
Performance
========
* System performance is generally slower in the test releases as compared
to the general release since we enable several options that help with
debugging.
System Administration
========
* System administration tools may be modified under the testing process.
System Level Changes
========
* Fedora 7 Test 3 features a 2.6.21rc5 based kernel. Current release
information is being tracked on the kernel release notes source page.
(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/Kernel)
Amanda
Users who upgrade from older releases need to read the amanda.conf and
amanda-client.conf man pages to learn about the the new syntax for calling
amandad, as well as edit the /etc/xinetd.d/amanda configuration file to
follow the new syntax.
Road Map And Release Schedule
========
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/7/
Intended Audience for Test Releases
========
Test 1 is targeted for developers, who use it "at their own risk", and
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17 years
Beryl crashes with segfault in FC6
by Alan
I am using beryl from the Extras repository.
It was working up until the 0.2 betas with my current drivers and xconfig.
Now it just segfaults on launch. (After displaying a bunch of tests that
all pass.)
I am using the commercial NVIDIA driver version 9631. (The last one
supporting my chipset.)
Any ideas? Since it is a laptop, I cannot just "replace the card" and the
nv open source driver will not run Beryl at all.
Is this a known problem? Is there a fix?
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17 years
