Video and Audio = Hangs
by Fernando Apesteguía
Hello people,
I had some hangs with my computer and after a bit of testings I was
able to reproduce it always.
If I'm playing music and I try to use the Video card extensively
(moving Page Up and Down in Evince - this makes my CPU go to 100%) the
system hangs. It doesn't matter if I'm in X11 or console (mplayer
playing music and pdftotext rendering also hangs)
Any ideas?
Any clues to perform more tests?
Thanks in advance
17 years, 1 month
FC6 not reading DVDs
by Jeff Mutonho
My FC6 machine is failing to read DVDs.I've tried all sorts ,
including originals , without luck.However CDs are working fine.
When I try to mount the drive with a DVD in it , I get the message
"unable to mount media. there is probably no media in the drive"
and yet , when i eject the DVD and insert a CD instead , all works
fine.This problem only started after the upgrade from FC5 to FC6
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17 years, 1 month
FF question...
by Gene Heskett
Greetings;
I note that smart is updateing FF to 1.5.0.10 as I type here. I did have
an install of FF-2.0 here at one point but it crashed about every 3rd
link I clicked on, so I blew it away. But now we are getting to the end
of FF-1.5, and I'm wondering if 2.x will ever making to be A: Stable, and
B: Available for FC-6?
--
Cheers, Gene
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soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
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message by Gene Heskett are:
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17 years, 1 month
fedora DVD
by ismail bushra
Hi all;
if I want to make one dvd from fedora instead from five cd what is the
best way
thanks
ismail bushra
17 years, 1 month
Upgrade from FC5 to FC6
by The Nice Spider
I see some posting about fc5 upgrade to fc6 using yum.
My question: Is it possible to use fc6 cd/dvd for
upgrading my fc5?
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17 years, 1 month
Slightly OT: bad rap for Fedora, and realistic effects
by Arthur Pemberton
Well I'm not sure how many of you all have seen this:
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/22/207231
And this may or may not be the correct -list for this, but here goes.
I think its fair to say that a lot of the louder voices on the
internet do not like Fedora for fair and unfair reasons. My question
is what does this do to Fedora, and RedHat by association. I can't
imagine that anything good is coming of this. All the developers here
are bound by the 24hr daily limit, ie. there is a finite amount of
work that any developer can accomplish, esp. those not being paid to
work on Fedora. Making the assumption that all these negative word of
mouth is bleeding Fedora of contributors, then what's the plan?
A few loyalist bound by the laws of Physics can only accomplish so
much, and I'm even more worried that the bad karma trickles down to
RedHat, who I believe is the Cinderella of the Linux community - one
day I hope to be in the position to purchase RHEL licenses, but I'm
becoming worried that it may not be around by time I get there.
Peace
--
Fedora Core 6 and proud
17 years, 1 month
loop-aes
by Jonas G
hi buddies,
i tried to install loop-aes with that documentation (german)
http://www.pl-berichte.de/t_system/loop-aes.html
but there comes an compiling error
[...]
llseek.c:34: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before
‘_llseek’
[...] and much more...
(maybe I have to compile it with gcc-3.4?)
anyone compiled loop-aes before? or is there an binary for FC6?
greetings from germany
jonas
17 years, 1 month
Customised Fedora DVD using new Kernel
by phil prentice
Hi
For a number of reasons we are trying to build our own customised
dvd (based on Fedora) using the latest kernel (2.6.20). Currently we
are running with
Fedora 3. I know this is very old, and it is our intention to upgrade to a
newer release in the near future. Unfortunately, for various reasons we
are
being forced to run with Fedora 3 a little longer. For future reference we
would very much like the ability to personalize our own Fedora distro to
take account
for example of the ever changing hardware requirements and special
software requirements.
We can successfully build and install the kernel rpm using the tar ball
from .org (linux-2.6.20.tar.bz2). Using the commands
tar xfvj linux-2.6.20.tar.bz2
Edited the Makefile for
EXTRAVERSION = -1
make mrproper
make defconfig
make rpm
This works fine; we have to edit the /etc/grub.conf and run mkinitrd after
the rpm has been installed.
We have succesfully replicated the original distro DVD's by performing the
following commands:-
Step 1
export PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/anaconda
export PATH="$PATH:/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime"
export FCBASE=`pwd`
mkdir -p $FCBASE/fc3/i386
Step 2 (In this case I copied the original individual Fedora 3 CD's)
mount -o ro,loop ../FC3-i386-disc1.iso /mnt
cp -a /mnt/* $FCBASE/fc3/i386/
umount /mnt/
mount -o ro,loop ../FC3-i386-disc2.iso /mnt
cp -a /mnt/* $FCBASE/fc3/i386/
umount /mnt/
mount -o ro,loop ../FC3-i386-disc3.iso /mnt
cp -a /mnt/* $FCBASE/fc3/i386/
umount /mnt/
mount -o ro,loop ../FC3-i386-disc4.iso /mnt
cp -a /mnt/* $FCBASE/fc3/i386/
umount /mnt/
mount -o ro,loop ../FC3-i386-SRPMS-disc1.iso /mnt
cp -a /mnt/* $FCBASE/fc3/i386/
umount /mnt/
mount -o ro,loop ../FC3-i386-SRPMS-disc2.iso /mnt
cp -a /mnt/* $FCBASE/fc3/i386/
umount /mnt/
mount -o ro,loop ../FC3-i386-SRPMS-disc3.iso /mnt
cp -a /mnt/* $FCBASE/fc3/i386/
umount /mnt/
mount -o ro,loop ../FC3-i386-SRPMS-disc4.iso /mnt
cp -a /mnt/* $FCBASE/fc3/i386/
umount /mnt/
Step 3
find $FCBASE/fc3 -name TRANS.TBL -exec rm -f {} \;
find $FCBASE/fc3 -name boot.cat -exec rm -f {} \;
Step 4
genhdlist --productpath=Fedora $FCBASE/fc3/i386
pkgorder $FCBASE/fc3/i386 i386 Fedora | tee $FCBASE/fc3/pkgfile
buildinstall --pkgorder $FCBASE/fc3/pkgfile --version 3 --product
"Redora Core" --release "Fedora Core 3" --prodpath Fedora $FCBASE/fc3/i386
Step 5 I used a slightly modifed splittree.py script to handle the
generation of the dvd's.
./splittree.py --arch=i386 --total-discs=2 --bin-discs=1 --src-discs=1
--release-string="Fedora Core 3" --pkgorderfile=$FCBASE/fc3/pkgfile
--distdir=$FCBASE/fc3/i386 --srcdir=$FCBASE/fc3/i386/SRPMS
--productpath=Fedora
Step 6
rm -rf $FCBASE/fc3/i386-disc1/Fedora/base/hdlist
genhdlist --productpath=Fedora --withnumbers --fileorder
$FCBASE/fc3/pkgfile
$FCBASE/fc3/i386-disc1
Step 7
mkisofs -R -J -T -v -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -V
"Fedora Core 3" -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -x "lost+found"
-o FC3-i386-dvd1.iso i386-disc1
The above process works fine for the Fedora 3 kernel-2.6.9-1.667.src.rpm
The rpm has a version of 2.6.9 and a release of 1.667.
We added an EXTRAVERSION of -1 to the kernel Makefile, built the kernel
and ended up with an rpm called
kernel-2.6.201-1.i386.rpm(???strange name???). If this rpm is installed
we get a kernel (uname) 2.6.20-1 and a /lib/modules
directory of 2.6.20-1 (which is what we expected)
However if we put this new rpm in the RPMS area before step 4 above and
continue with the above build
process we get the message
$KERNELROOT/lib/modules/2.6.201-1 is not a valid modules directory.
(which we can see would be true).
This is because the rpm has been built with a VERSION of 2.6.21(???) and
a RELEASE of 1,
(See script mk-images(anaconda-runtime-10.1.0.2-1):-
rpm --nodigest --nosignature --qf '%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}' -qp
kernel-2.6.201-1.i386.rpm)
We have hacked a Makefiles and a script in the kernel rpm build area and
forced the above build to
complete....(did not install for other reasons we have yet to understand).
Our first concern here is why does the buildinstall script fall
over.....or more to the point
how do we stop the rpm from being built with the wrong VERSION number?
Does anybody know or have any ideas??
Thanks
17 years, 1 month
Setup Epson-R260
by Jim
Using the Epson piplite-cups driver on FC5 , Epson Stylus Photo R260.
Has anyone got this driver working yet.
I have tryed all the other drivers in Fedora-cups, gutenburg, but they
won't work.
Jim
17 years, 1 month
