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NVIDIA Question
by David St.Clair 17 Jan '22

17 Jan '22

This may be a dumb question, but why can't Redhat distribute NVIDIA binary drivers? In NVIDIA's licence (http://www.nvidia.com/object/nv_swlicense.html) it says: "2.1.2 Linux Exception. Notwithstanding the foregoing terms of Section 2.1.1, SOFTWARE designed exclusively for use on the Linux operating system may be copied and redistributed, provided that the binary files thereof are not modified in any way (except for unzipping of compressed files)." So, what's keeping RedHat from putting the drivers in the distribution? If it's a GPL thing, would it be easy to just download it during installation or at least give the option to the user? Thanks, -- David St.Clair dstclair(a)cs.wcu.edu

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Mouse goes crazy
by Jonathan Villa 17 Jan '22

17 Jan '22

Ok, I have had Yarrow working well for a while now, but yesterday I started experiencing some odd issues with my mouse. All of a sudden it stops working correctly. The only thing that seems to fix is to kill X and run mouse-test, then restart. Any ideas? Also, I have FC 1 running on a desktop which is hooked up to a KVM switch. Whenever I go to another PC, and return, the same thing happens, the mouse goes crazy. ???

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Mouse Wheel gone
by Christian Menzel 22 Nov '15

22 Nov '15

Since the latest xorg-X11 upgrade I receive the already mentioned XKB error and the mouse wheel is not working anymore. Has anybody seen this behavior? Regards Chris

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Re: NFS failure
by Fulko.Hew＠sita.aero 22 Nov '15

22 Nov '15

Damian Menscher <menscher(a)uiuc.edu>@redhat.com on 04/07/2004 04:57:13 PM wrote: > On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Jeff Elkins wrote: > > > I'm getting failure messages on my nfs mounts i.e. : > > > > mount to NFS server 'music.elkins' failed: server is down. > > > > nsfd appears to be running and I didn't see anything suspicious in the logs. > > The servers are up and running and have other clients connected. > > You didn't mention what steps you took to debug it: > > Can you ping the server? > What is the output of rpcinfo -p servername? > Does the server have access restrictions (firewall, TCP Wrappers, etc)? I have the same symptoms... rpcinfo says that nfs et.al. are running. Something has changed in test 2, since the same PC running RH9 accesses that host just fine.

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autoconf breakage on x86_64.
by Sam Varshavchik 26 Sep '06

26 Sep '06

I don't know the right way to fix this, but something is definitely broken; and something needs to be fixed, one way or the other. The question is what exactly needs to be fixed. Consider something like this: LIBS="-lresolv $LIBS" AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC(res_query, AC_MSG_RESULT(yes), AC_MSG_RESULT(no)) Here's what happens on x86_64: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -Wall -I.. -I./.. conftest.c -lresolv >&5 /tmp/ccW7EeDX.o(.text+0x7): In function `main': /home/mrsam/src/courier/authlib/configure:5160: undefined reference to `res_query' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status configure:5147: $? = 1 configure: failed program was: [ blah blah blah ] | /* We use char because int might match the return type of a gcc2 | builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply. */ | char res_query (); | int | main () | { | res_query (); | ; | return 0; | } The same exact test on FC1 x86 will work. The reason appears to be that you have to #include <resolv.conf> on x86_64 in order to succesfully pull res_query() out of libresolv.so. You don't need to do this on x86, and the test program generated by AC_TRY_LINK_FUNC does not include any headers, but uses a manual prototype. So, what now?

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Desktop Development Specialization
by Joel Juliano 26 Nov '05

26 Nov '05

What if Fedora Core development was divided in two divisions, the GNOME division and the KDE division, the releases will be available to be GNOME-only or KDE-only releases on seperate iso's, the GNOME ISO will specializes only on GNOME softwares and applications. There will be a micro-managed bug fixing for GNOME-only related softwares, the effort will be concentrating on much more focused approach than the traditional (hybrid ISO's), same to the KDE ISO, wherein include a KDE-only related (or specialized) softwares and applications.

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[ANNOUNCE] Aurora Build-1.92 (Code Name Tangerine)
by Tom Callaway 17 Nov '05

17 Nov '05

Hi folks, We now have a full set of sparc packages that match up to Fedora Core 2, and its name is Tangerine. Did you know that of the top ten hits for Tangerine on Google, none of them have anything to do with the fruit? You should eat more tangerines, they're quite tasty and good for you. But I digress. Like the previous release (1.91), its not an installable tree so again this means no ISOs. I'm going to repeat this one more time: THERE ARE NO ISOS FOR 1.92. Why? Because anaconda is hard, and people didn't want to wait another 6 months for me to figure out what is broken. However, if anyone is willing to try on their own to get this working, we're happily accepting patches. But, unless someone else takes up the charge, this tree branch will stop at 1.92. If someone fixes anaconda so that the installer actually works past keyboard selection, I'll spin a new tree. In the meantime, we're refocusing the effort on a new tree, which is currently going to be based on Fedora Core 3. You can follow the daily notes for this work here: http://auroralinux.org/journal.php Now, I have yumified the tree, so if you're feeling really brave, you can always point yum at it, and try to upgrade that way. A version of yum for Aurora 1.0 is here: http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/download/1.0/yum-1.0.3-1_73.noarch.rpm If you're running 1.91, you should be able to use the yum in that tree. Going from 1.91 to 1.92 is reportedly a fairly painless process. If you're a listed mirror site, please sync the build-1.92 directory, and chime in. The primary directory is currently at: ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/aurora/build-1.92/ (and) ftp://auroralinux.org/pub/aurora/build-1.92/ Now, for the known bugs: The "rpm" package in 1.92 is a little broken on sparc32 systems. Its my fault. Fixed packages are already available from: ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/aurora/updates/1.92/ (and) ftp://auroralinux.org/pub/aurora/updates/1.92/ A temporary workaround is to run: export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5. Build 1.92 uses SILO 1.4.8 which should work fine. It seems to occasionally burp when you're trying to tab completion, but I can't reproduce this consistently. If it breaks for you, let me know. There is no SMP kernel for sparc32, upstream has marked this as broken. Any other bugs that you find? Please either email me or file them in bugzilla.auroralinux.org, under Corona. Last but not least, we've setup a hardware support matrix Wiki to keep track of what works and what doesn't. You can find it here: http://auroralinux.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?HardwareCompatibility Thanks for your continued patience and support, ~spot --- Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat*com> LCA, RHCE Red Hat Sales Engineer || Aurora SPARC Linux Project Leader "If you are going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill

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FC3 can no longer successfully burn CDs]
by Fulko Hew 19 Jan '05

19 Jan '05

For me, and a few of my friends, FC3 has two different kinds of problems regarding CDs: 1/ it no longer burns CDs correctly. ie. they are un-usable. 2/ you can't use dd or md5sum to accurately read or check CDs. I used the following commands to erase/record (as Xcdroast invoked them)... cdrecord dev= /dev/cdrom gracetime=2 -v -eject speed=4 blank=fast cdrecord dev= /dev/cdrom gracetime=2 fs=4096k driveropts=burnfree -v -useinfo speed=4 -dao -eject -pad -data /root/KNOPPIX_V3.7-2004-12-08-EN.iso ================================================== Here is a summary of my investigations: - I boot with the older kernel (2.6.9-1.677) and I can burn a CD and read it with dd and I get the correct MD5 - Burning with the later kernel, and the CD's are bad. - 2.6.8.-1.681_FC3 causes problems read with (exact sector count) 2.6.9-1.677 2.6.8.-1.681_FC3 burned with =========== ================ =========== 2.6.9-1.677 OK OK 2.6.8.-1.681_FC3 bad bad using a 2.6.9-1.677 burn... read with (no sector count) 2.6.9-1.677 2.6.8.-1.681_FC3 =========== ================ sectors read: 326441 326441 It should have read 326426 2Kbyte sectors) ================================================== Does anyone care to comment? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list(a)redhat.com To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

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X.org X11 6.8.2rc1 (xorg-x11-6.8.1.901) release candidate 1 now in Fedora Development for testing
by Mike A. Harris 15 Jan '05

15 Jan '05

X.Org X11 6.8.2rc1 a.k.a 6.8.1.901 is now in Fedora Development (rawhide) for testing. This new X11 test release is from the stable bugfix-only 6.8-branch of X.Org X11 CVS. The new release fixes a large number of bugs in 6.8.1 which have been reported since it was released, including fixes to the X server, radeon and other drivers, and addition of PCI IDs of some newer hardware. This is strictly a bug fix only release, and contains no new major features. If you experienced a bug in X.Org 6.8.1 or earlier which is still present in the currently shipping Fedora Core xorg-x11 update, you may want to install this release candidate to see if your bug may have been fixed. For a complete list of the specific issues that have been fixed in the new release, I refer you to the X.org CVS changelog (xc/ChangeLog) in the X.Org source code, and the Red Hat rpm spec file changelog. This is the only location the changes are documented in, so read these 2 places if you want to know the details, as this is the only locations the changes are documented. After upgrading to test the new release, if you experience any new bugs or regressions, please be sure to file them in X.Org's official bugzilla, which is located at: http://bugs.freedesktop.org in the "xorg" component. Be sure to indicate in your bug report the version of Fedora Core you are using, and the specific xorg-x11 rpm version-release from rawhide, which can be obtained by running "rpm -q xorg-x11". Also, make sure you attach your X server log and config file to the bug report as single uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment interface. If your problem is lockup/crash related, or DRI/AGP related, also attach your complete /var/log/messages from the time of boot onward, so there is sufficient information present in the bug report for an initial analysis. If you experience any problems that are related specifically to the rpm packaging of xorg-x11, and not the software itself, please file them in Red Hat bugzilla instead, in the "xorg-x11" component. SPECIAL NOTES: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1) Someone has reported a bug already, in which after upgrading to the new X.Org, their config file was renamed from xorg.conf to xorg.conf.backup. If this happens for you, just rename it back to xorg.conf and it should work as before. Don't report this bug in bugzilla again, as we already know about it and will be investigating it shortly. 2) Compatibility with 3rd party and proprietary video drivers: This release of X.Org is believed to be 100% ABI compatible with 6.8.1. As such, proprietary and other 3rd party drivers should function with this test release if they worked with 6.8.1. One important thing to note however, is that various 3rd party driver installation mechanisms such as Nvidia's proprietary driver installer, improperly overwrite X.Org supplied files which are managed by RPM in Fedora Core. When you upgrade X.Org via rpm, some of the 3rd party driver files (most noteably libGL and libglx.a for Nvidia) will probably be overwritten by the new X.Org supplied files in rpm format. The simplest solution to this problem, is to obtain your Nvidia or ATI proprietary drivers in RPM format from: http://www.livna.org. Alternatively, you can redownload the driver again from wherever you got it the first time, and reinstall it. If you experience any problems with unsupported 3rd party drivers, report them directly to the vendor who supplied the drivers, not to Red Hat. In the extremely unlikely event the X server module ABI has changed unexpectedly, if you experience proprietary driver problems with the new X server which you believe may be due to accidental regression in the X server, report it to X.Org in the http://bugs.freedesktop.org bugzilla, so the issue can be investigated before the 6.8.2 release finalizes. 3) If you experience ANY problems that you are planning on filing in any bugzilla, make sure you query that bugzilla's both open and closed bugs to see if the issue has already been reported. Quite often people don't do this critical step and an issue ends up being reported a large number of times, which wastes developers time closing duplicates that they could be spending fixing bugs. On behalf of Red Hat, as well as X.Org, I would like to thank all of the brave beta testers out there in advance for testing this new X.Org stable release candidate. Enjoy.

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FC 3 and Kernel Lock or Hang
by Tom Browder 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

I have continued to be plagued by a kernel hang or lockup since FC 2 on AMD dual cpus with ATI radeon 7500. I am currently running FC 3 with the latset released kernel (681). Is there any hope for the problem by using one of the test kernels? Thanks. Tom Browder

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