how to keep firmware loaded
by lee
Hi,
how do I make it so that the firmware for a particular device doesn't
get unloaded when the device is no longer in use?
Apparently the firmware is unloaded when the device becomes unused. At
least it is loaded again when the device is used again; messages in
dmesg show that the firmware is loaded again. There are no messages
about unloading the firmware, so I don't know whether it is actually
unloaded or not.
Loading the firmware again (or unloading it) seems to cause problems
with the device. So I would like to load the firmware once and keep it
loaded, without any more attempts to load it once it has been loaded.
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Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug)
9 years, 10 months
Install Problem with Fedora 20 (No Local Standard Disks)
by Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone,
I purchased a used (refurbished) Dell Optiplex 755 that came with
Windows 7 installed. I am trying to install Fedora 20, but when I get
to the "Installation Destination" screen the fedora installer is not
finding any "Local Standard Discs", which means I have been unable to
start any installation.
The system boots to Windows without any problem. I was planning on
overwriting the disc and getting rid of the windows product entirely. I
have checked sum the installation disc, and have even created a second
Fedora 20 installation disc and have the same problem.
Sure would appreciate some guidance from someone on the list that has
solved a similar or same problem.
Thanks,
Greg Ennis
9 years, 10 months
f20 - audio problem
by Mike Wright
Hi all,
Exploring f20 and have a self inflicted wound.
While trying to get flash to play on vlc I found a conflict between
libvpx and some other libraries so the resident genius yum removed it,
and all of the other packages dependent upon it, thinking they'd be easy
to reinstall.
Not the best idea. Now I've got all sorts of video but not a peep of audio.
I yum installed alsa* and pulseaudio*. The ALSA mixer I have now looks
nothing like the one here before. Pulseaudio volume control->Playback
says "ALSA plug-in [plugin-container (deleted)]: ALSA Playback" but yum
list reports alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-x86_64 as an installed package.
I couldn't find an Audio Group. Does anybody know how to reinstall the
standard f20 audio packages or where I can find a list of packages
installed into a fresh f20 system (from the live xfce spin)?
Thanks,
Mike Wright
9 years, 10 months
Burning Blu-Ray media on fedora20
by Alex
Hi,
Does anyone know what happened to the Shilling cdrecord? I've tried to
download it from several locations, and the domain appears to no longer
exist.
How are people burning BD-R media these days?
These links no longer exists:
ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/
http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/cdrecord.html
Any ideas greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Alex
9 years, 10 months
Fedora Lounge
by Robert Moskowitz
A bit OT.
In a taxi in Chicago going down Clark st and there was:
Fedora Lounge
Sounds like the place where this crowd might like to gather for an evening.
Of course I was heading for Union Station for my train home at the
time............
9 years, 10 months
Netcat anomaly
by CLOSE Dave
I have a Fedora 20 machine which is receiving UDP broadcast packets at
regular intervals on a strange high port. No program is presently
listening for these packets. If I run, "tcpdump -i eth0 port 29531", I
see each of the packets arriving just as I expect. Note, the packets are
not empty and contain mostly ASCII characters.
But if I then run, "nc -lu 29531", I don't see anything! Why not? What
obvious thing am I missing?
This same operation works better (but still not as I expect) on Fedora
14. NC shows one packet arriving but then doesn't show any more.
Running NC under strace on both machines, I see F14 NC seems to use
poll(2). It outputs one packet then hangs on poll. F20 NC seems to use
select(2). It hangs on the first call.
SELinux and the firewall are disabled on both machines.
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Dave Close
9 years, 10 months
Installing fedora on an arm chromebook (the old one)
by Rafael Espíndola
I had in the past followed the instructions in
https://www.berrange.com/posts/2013/03/31/automated-install-of-fedora-18-...
But I wanted to try to install fedora 20 and have a a simpler
partition layout. In the process I found out a bit on how the system
works.
I first upgraded chrome os to get a new kernel (3.8.11) and copied the
kernel partition, /lib/modules and /lib/firmware.
I then got a f19 ssd image and booted from that.
The usb boot being enable flag is stored in the internal flash. The
flags listed in vboot_reference/firmware/lib/vboot_nvstorage.c are
storred in the first 16 bytes of the disk. To clear chromeos and keep
the machine booting from USB I did
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mmcblk0
Create a nvram.txt file with
7000000001000000000000000000003f
The 1 in the middle is the usb boot flag.
$ xxd -r -p nvram.txt nvram
$ dd if=nvram of=/dev/mmcblk0
I then created 2 partitions, one for the kernel and one for the root.
To get the kernel to boot, I checked
firmware/lib/cgptlib/include/cgptlib_internal.h
and noticed that what was needed was:
Correct type: sgdisk -t1:7f00 /dev/mmcblk0
Setting attribute bits 48 and 56: sgdisk -A1:set:48 /dev/mmcblk0;
sgdisk -A1:set:56 /dev/mmcblk0
Repack the kernel with vbutil_kernel and point it to the new root
partition. I then got the fedora20 root image, extracted the files for
/ and replaced /lib/modules and /lib/firmware.
I tried to get X running with both the armsoc and fbdev drivers, but
so far no success, which is fine for me since I use the machine as an
arm devboard.
Cheers,
Rafael
9 years, 10 months
5tFTw: NetworkManager Feature Explosion, Waartaa Video Chat, Fedora Board on Fedora.next Products, Flock Planning, and Writing for the Magazine (2014-06-24)
by Matthew Miller
Reposted from <http://fedoramagazine.org/5tftw-2014-06-24/>.
Fedora is a big project, and it’s hard to follow it all. This series
highlights interesting happenings in five different areas every week.
It isn’t comprehensive news coverage — just quick summaries with links
to each. Here are the five things for June 24th, 2014:
New NetworkManager Release Full of Features
-------------------------------------------
NetworkManager, familiar to many of us as “that thing that has a
taskbar icon for getting WiFi”, has always aimed to be much more than
that. With the 0.9.10 release (which will hit Fedora’s “Rawhide”
development tree later this week and be include in Fedora 21 this
fall), there’s a whole host of features to support those broader aims,
including server and cloud-focused improvements. Read more on developer
Dan Williams’ blog.
* http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2014/06/20/well-build-a-dream-house-of-net/
Waartaa gets Video Chat
-----------------------
Waartaa is an open source, web-based chat system — it describes itself
as “IRC as a service”. Since Fedora uses IRC (Internet Relay Chat) as
our chief means of real-time collaboration in Fedora, including for our
various team meetings, this might be something we could use to make our
communications more open and friendly. There is a session about Waartaa
and Fedora at our big Flock conference this fall (August 6-9, in
Prague).
I was interested to learn that there’s a Google Summer of Code project
supporting Fedora contributor Lalit Khattar in improving Waartaa, and
right now he’s working on adding video chat support. This is a long way
from ready, but maybe in the not-too-distant future it will provide us
with a viable alternative to proprietary video chat for high-bandwidth
collaboration.
* https://www.waartaa.com/
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_use_IRC
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting_channel
* http://flock2014.sched.org/event/ed91d63174a0b3bdd744491beb9824de
* http://flocktofedora.org/
* https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2014
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Dne0
* http://lalitkhattar.wordpress.com/2014/06/11/p2p-video-chat-gsoc-week-3/
Fedora Project Board Discusses Fedora.next Products
---------------------------------------------------
On Monday, the Fedora Project Board held a public IRC meeting. There
were two main topics: first, guidelines for third-party press releases
(which were approved); and second, general criteria for Fedora Products
— a continuation of a previous meeting on the topic. The criteria we
passed are:
- Addresses a new, relevant, and broad use case or user base
that a Fedora Product is not currently serving
- The use case should be something the Board sees as being a
long term investment
- The Product should be coherent with all of Fedora’s foundations
We also talked briefly about the Fedora Plasma Product proposal in
light of these criteria, but did not quite get to a conclusion.
Generally, there is broad Board support for better positioning and
promotion of non-product desktop spins. More discussion will happen on
the public board-discuss mailing list before a future meeting.
View the meeting minutes or, if you like full meeting logs.
* https://fedorahosted.org/board/ticket/3#comment:3
* https://fedorahosted.org/board/ticket/4
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Plasma_Product
* https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/board-discuss
* https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/meetingminutes/2014-June/001266...
* http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2014-06-23/board.2014-06-...
Flock Planning Meetings
-----------------------
Speaking of meetings and of Flock, the Flock planning team is holding
regular IRC meetings (on Tuesdays at 14:00 UTC in `#fedora-meeting` on
Freenode.) This week’s meeting was very short, but last week’s had a
lot of activity. (One interesting tidbit: we’ll reuse the open source
Android / Jolla / BlackBerry mobile app from Red Hat’s DevConf.cz
conference.) Anyway, if you’re interested in helping, stop by next
week.
* http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2014-06-24/flock_planning...
* http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2014-06-17/flock_planning...
* http://www.devconf.cz/
* https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.devconf
* https://openrepos.net/content/xmlich02/devconfcz
* http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/47010890/?countrycode=NL&...
Contribute to Fedora Magazine!
------------------------------
If you’re reading this on the Fedora Magazine site, you’ll notice a new
“submit an article idea” link in the right column. If you’re not, go to
<http://fedoramagazine.org/submit-an-idea-or-tip/> to send in
suggestions — either for full articles or for 5tFTW tips.
Fedora Magazine has had a very successful last few months and we’re
looking to build it up even more. Writing articles is an easy way to
help. It doesn’t need to be a big production — just a little bit on
something you find interesting in Fedora, or something exciting you’re
working on or thinking about. Join the Fedora Marketing Team‘s email
list or jump into the `#fedora-mktg` Freenode channel to get access and
any help you might need.
* http://fedoramagazine.org/
* http://fedoramagazine.org/submit-an-idea-or-tip/
* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing
* https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
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Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader
9 years, 10 months
miracast support
by Robert Moskowitz
I am at the WiFi Alliance meeting and all the room projectors have
miracast as the perfered projecting method.
So I go looking for miracast and fedora via google and got a few hits,
mostly looking for support!
one project saying that Fedora 20 is 'too old'.
So is there any work for miracast support?
9 years, 10 months
