Can't load Nvidia driver on Fedora 9 x86_64
by Hugh Caley
New install on a machine with the following:
00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce
7050/nForce 610i (rev a2)
Kernel:
kernel-2.6.25.6-55.fc9.x86_64
Livna is available, the following have been installed:
kmod-nvidia-2.6.25.6-55.fc9.x86_64-173.14.09-1.lvn9.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-173.14.09-1.lvn9.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-173.14.09-1.lvn9.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173.14.09-1.lvn9.x86_64
However, the nvidia module cannot be loaded; it exists, but the error
says that it doesn't. Anyone else seeing this? At this point I'm using
the VESA driver ...
[root@willow ~]# modprobe nvidia
FATAL: Error inserting nvidia
(/lib/modules/2.6.25.6-55.fc9.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia.ko): No such device
Hugh
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15 years, 11 months
Standby (S3) problem since 2.6.24
by Markus Bonet
I recently upgraded from F8 to F9.
Problem occured first time on F8. Since kernel 2.6.24 is used (same for
2.6.25), there is a strange problem with standby.
When system is coldstarted (complete boot), it is no problem to set system
to standby (S3).
System will wake up withput problems and I can resume work normally as
expected.
The next time I set system to standby the computer will go down but will
wake up again immediately.
During this, the HDD and the fans shut down but system wakes up again after
that. I can work on as nothing has happened.
I have no clue about this.. so maybe I will try to use a 2.6.23 kernel
under F9, though I need to compile first.
Some short info about the computer:
- ASRock 939N68PV-GLAN
- X2 3800
- Nforce 630A/GeForce 7050 (onboard) - using livna nvidia driver
Any hint is highly appreciated
Markus
PS: Sorry for "crossposting" to the forum and to the mailing list - I hope
to reach someone who knows something about this strange behaviour.
15 years, 11 months
Install Perl on Fedora
by Wei, Alice J.
Hi, Fedora Users:
I am just starting out to use Fedora and learned about installations with the yum function.
I have installed Perl 5.10.0-26, and the message shows that it had been installed:
Updated: perl.i386 4:5.10.0-26.fc9 perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker.i386 0:6.36-26.fc9 perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS.i386 1:2.18-26.fc9 perl-Module-Pluggable.i386 1:3.60-26.fc9 perl-Pod-Escapes.i386 1:1.04-26.fc9 perl-Pod-Simple.i386 1:3.05-26.fc9 perl-Test-Harness.i386 0:2.64-26.fc9 perl-devel.i386 4:5.10.0-26.fc9 perl-libs.i386 4:5.10.0-26.fc9 perl-version.i386 3:0.74-26.fc9
Complete!
However, when I tried to execute a basic hello script in Perl, it tells me
bash: ./total.pl: /usr/local/bin/perl: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
It is true that I don't see Perl in this directory, but is it necessary that I have to move my Perl installation?
Thanks in advance.
Alice
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Alice Wei
MIS 2009
School of Library and Information Science
Indiana University Bloomington
ajwei(a)indiana.edu
15 years, 11 months
F8 -> F9 rpms
by Mark Haney
Most of you know I've had wireless card problems recently and decided to
upgrade that box from F8 to F9 to see if this fixed some of that. Well
it seems to have fixed /some/ but not all. At this stage I"m content
with it as is as far as the wireless goes, since it's up and I"m in the
middle of using it to test a new GigE circuit we're bringing up for my
office.
But, what bothers me now is the extraordinary number of F8 packages left
on the box after the upgrade. I don't use 3rd party repos, so that's
not really an issue. But what I don't get is, is that SOP for this
upgrade? To have lots of F8 packages left? I mean it doesn't even look
like there are F9 equivalents for various F8 packages I would call
'important' like fedora-usermgmt-shadow-utils. Part of the problem is
that yum update completely implodes with dependency problems because of
these legacy RPMs. I know some of them have F9 equivalents that were
installed, but not all. I'm still working on a way to grep for all the
packages that have both F8 and F9 on that system so I can remove the
older ones.
So, can someone explain to me why this is so? Or give me a way to find
the duplicate packages a little more painlessly and dumping the rpm db
into a file and manually looking for them?
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15 years, 11 months
ACPI boot problem: Invalid block length...
by linux guy
My F9 kernels don't boot reliably.
Linux kernels have thrown an "ACPI: Invalid PBLK length[0]" error on my
HP ZD7280 laptop for as long as I can remember.
What changed with the F9 kernels is that the boot process will now hang
9 out of 10 times. 1 or 2 times out of 10 my laptop will boot.
What this means is that I must power up my laptop over and over to get
it to boot.
2.6.25-14 is more prone to boot. 1.6.15.3-18 can be very hard to get
to boot. It seems to help if I boot -14 first and then boot 3-18.
How can I fix this ?
Thanks
15 years, 11 months
Removing LUKS encrypted swap from initrd nash script
by Deron Meranda
Using Fedora 9, I had initially installed with my swap in an LVM
logical volume using LUKS encryption. I've since changed that so
it just uses dmcrypt directly without LUKS (using /dev/random as
the key in the /etc/crypttab; and this is a desktop so I'm not worried
about the hibernate issues)
But still at boot time, it is prompting for the LUKS passphrase,
which will obviously fail because the logical volume is no longer
managed with LUKS. I've even completely overwritten the entire
logical volume thinking that the "cryptsetup isLuks" might still
be confused when it probes the logical volume.
The /etc/rc.sysinit script handles this fine though. It re-creates and
maps the swap using plain dmcrypt with a random key, without
me ever seeing a prompt. I also checked the /etc/blkid/blkid.tab
to make sure it wasn't cached there.
I've finally traced this back to being an embedded cryptsetup
command in the initrd's nash script "init" (which runs before
rc.sysinit)...
echo Setting up disk encryption: /dev/mapper/vg0-lv01
cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/mapper/vg0-lv01 luks-vg0-lv01
resume /dev/mapper/luks-vg0-lv01
What is the recommended way to rebuild the initrd to remove
this now-unnecessary luksOpen from the initrd? I'm also not
sure what the "resume" command is supposed to be doing,
but it obviously can't stay either.
Also, more for curiosity, why was that even in the initrd to
begin with? I didn't think swap was ever used or enabled
until after the rc.sysinit got control. So why would initrd
need that logical volume luksOpen'ed?
Thanks
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Deron Meranda
15 years, 11 months
problem using tix library in Fedora 9
by potat0
While trying to use the tix library to create a scrolledHList as follows i get an error.
test.py
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from Tkinter import *
import Tix
root = Tix.Tk()
win = Frame()
win.pack()
shl = Tix.ScrolledHList(win)
Error
--------
python test.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test.py", line 8, in
shl = Tix.ScrolledHList(win)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-tk/Tix.py", line 1306, in __init__
cnf, kw)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-tk/Tix.py", line 307, in __init__
self.tk.call(widgetName, self._w, *extra)
_tkinter.TclError: unknown color name "{#c3c3c3}"
I get the same error on using the tix library with a tcl program. Further, the same code (both python and tcl programs) work on Fedora core 8.
I have the following versions of packages intstalled.
tix-8.4.2-5.fc9.i386
tkinter-2.5.1-25.fc9.i386
tk-8.5.1-4.fc9.i386
I would greatly appreciate help in resolving this problem.
Thanks
Aravind
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15 years, 11 months
Ethtool and Xen
by Dan Track
Hi
I'm running ethtool eth0 on my xen host (Dom0) but all I get is the
following output:
Settings for eth0:
Link detected: yes
How can I find out more information specifically I want find out at
what speed they are operating, and is there a reason why output is
limited?
Thanks
Dan
15 years, 11 months
Sound and Video issues with Fedora 9 and Acer Aspire 4720
by Rohan Kulkarni
Hello everyone,
I did a fresh installation of Fedora 9 on my Acer Aspire 4720 laptop.
However, there are several sound and video issues. Whenever I start
any video the monitor becomes dim and also the sound starts after
sometime. The sound works only if I connect an external
speaker/headphone to the system.I removed pulseaudio and also created
a new file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base with a line options snd-hda-intel
model="acer" but still it does not work.I have installed KDE 4.0.Here
the sound settings in System Settings shows that my sound card driver
is disabled or not installed.How do I get my sound and video working?
Thank you
15 years, 11 months
