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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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Re: rawhide report: 20050419 changes
by Ray Strode 22 Nov '15

22 Nov '15

Hi, > Will yelp in FC4 be able to search and display man/info pages Yea, man and info pages work for me. --Ray

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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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Mplayer and Kaffeine install error
by Clovis Tristao 23 Jun '06

23 Jun '06

Hi, I am trying to install the Mplayer and Kaffeine, using command "yum install", but it appears the message below: # yum install mplayer Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories development 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 livna 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 extras-development 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files --> Processing Dependency: libdirectfb-0.9.so.22 for package: mplayer --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: libdirectfb-0.9.so.22 is needed by package mplayer # yum install kaffeine Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories development 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 livna 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 extras-development 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: libMagick.so.6 is needed by package xine-lib Error: Missing Dependency: libdirectfb-0.9.so.22 is needed by package xine-lib Error: Missing Dependency: libgs.so.7 is needed by package xine-lib Error: Missing Dependency: libfusion-0.9.so.22 is needed by package xine-lib Error: Missing Dependency: libdirect-0.9.so.22 is needed by package xine-lib Error: Missing Dependency: libWand.so.6 is needed by package xine-lib What it can be happening? I am using Fedora Core with kernel 2.6.14-1.1651_FC5 Clóvis -- Clovis Tristao - UNICAMP/Faculdade de Engenharia Agricola Administrador de Redes - Secao de Informatica (SINFO) E-mail: mailto:clovis@agr.unicamp.br http://www.agr.unicamp.br Fone(0xx19) 37881031-37881038 ou FAX(55xx19) 37881005/37881010

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Fedora Core 4 Test Update: NetworkManager-0.5.1-1.FC4.1
by Christopher Aillon 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Test Update Notification FEDORA-2005-1004 2005-10-20 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Product : Fedora Core 4 Name : NetworkManager Version : 0.5.1 Release : 1.FC4.1 Summary : Network link manager and user applications Description : NetworkManager attempts to keep an active network connection available at all times. It is intended only for the desktop use-case, and is not intended for usage on servers. The point of NetworkManager is to make networking configuration and setup as painless and automatic as possible. If using DHCP, NetworkManager is _intended_ to replace default routes, obtain IP addresses from a DHCP server, and change nameservers whenever it sees fit. --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Wed Oct 19 2005 Christopher Aillon <caillon(a)redhat.com> - 0.5.1-1.FC4.1 - Update to NetworkManager 0.5.1 * Wed Oct 19 2005 Christopher Aillon <caillon(a)redhat.com> - 0.5.0-1.FC4.2 - Requires dhcdbd * Tue Oct 18 2005 Christopher Aillon <caillon(a)redhat.com> - 0.5.0-1.FC4.1 - Update to NetworkManager 0.5.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/4/ db894029702d5d215183f68f084e6e54 SRPMS/NetworkManager-0.5.1-1.FC4.1.src.rpm 1f7eb735362b3c4c45fe059f8c8068c9 ppc/NetworkManager-0.5.1-1.FC4.1.ppc.rpm dcbccbf14baebb1502d1d88347c84a03 ppc/NetworkManager-gnome-0.5.1-1.FC4.1.ppc.rpm f4a21112da9dc690f4c3352c23925120 ppc/NetworkManager-devel-0.5.1-1.FC4.1.ppc.rpm 753bcdfc80d5bdb9fce3ae0b03e4768c ppc/NetworkManager-glib-0.5.1-1.FC4.1.ppc.rpm 7f7365e9337ad4ec593166c648a34f3c ppc/debug/NetworkManager-debuginfo-0.5.1-1.FC4.1.ppc.rpm c2de140db1531e06bf1a54ea4e22e906 x86_64/NetworkManager-0.5.1-1.FC4.1.x86_64.rpm 56bec14e5a6254a403cdafffb8ccd117 x86_64/NetworkManager-gnome-0.5.1-1.FC4.1.x86_64.rpm 3a3f0c6873b3922da4bff81c6760657f x86_64/NetworkManager-devel-0.5.1-1.FC4.1.x86_64.rpm 70edd19eb76e7d39ba6ff409486744c5 x86_64/NetworkManager-glib-0.5.1-1.FC4.1.x86_64.rpm 68d72f460849d17b209b3049e2dc3f25 x86_64/debug/NetworkManager-debuginfo-0.5.1-1.FC4.1.x86_64.rpm 42af9a34dac320f199e8977df1d89bbe i386/NetworkManager-0.5.1-1.FC4.1.i386.rpm 918e63cac84d79fe4b8ad2981c29110a i386/NetworkManager-gnome-0.5.1-1.FC4.1.i386.rpm e7efac816a1ec83cf703ff89404fb377 i386/NetworkManager-devel-0.5.1-1.FC4.1.i386.rpm c39d7b016047d50a96f9f489365cacf5 i386/NetworkManager-glib-0.5.1-1.FC4.1.i386.rpm 1193e9a00a79555fa7e0897a08e40027 i386/debug/NetworkManager-debuginfo-0.5.1-1.FC4.1.i386.rpm This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command. You may need to edit your up2date channels configuration. Within /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources enable the following line: yum updates-testing http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/4/$… ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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[announce] Fedora community SCIM input survey
by Jens-Ulrik Petersen 28 Dec '05

28 Dec '05

The Fedora I18N Team invites you kindly to participate in a survey to provide feedback on the SCIM (Simple Common Input Method [1]) platform for Asian language input. Packages are available in Fedora Core Development and Fedora Extras, and also for RHEL 4. The survey is available now at https://www.keysurvey.com/survey/80474/2da7/ [2] where more details can be found including package installation instructions. The survey has been translated into the following languages: Bengali, Chinese, Gujarati, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, and Punjabi. The goal of the survey is to find out what users see as the main strengths and weaknesses of SCIM to help provide focus on the most important improvements needed from the point of view of users. The survey will run until the end of Friday 25th November, UTC. We hope to receive lots of responses from a wide part of the community. A summary of the results will be made available publicly later. Thank you for your time. And special thanks to the SCIM developers and community for creating SCIM. Jens Petersen on behalf of the Fedora I18N and Translation Teams [1] http://www.scim-im.org/ [2] http://tinyurl.com/9n4qb

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Up2date replacement
by Don Springall 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

Since the Up2date icon has disappeared off the desktop I assume Fedora is going with some other standard way of doing updates. I currently find that updating in fedora is a hit and miss proposition and I do not trust any of them. I ran yumex this morning and it reports nothing to update. The same with pup. I run up2date and it finds updates. Obliviously yumex and pup decided to use some not uptodate mirror. I am starting to believe that YUMEX uses some random number generator to pick which mirror it uses. At least with Up2date it tells you what channel it is starting with. Does pup and YUMEX use --obsoletes by default ? Who knows ! Up2date lets you decide to install the updates or not after everything is downloaded so you can do that later if you have run out of time. I believe RPM used to have a rollback option but that seems to have been dropped from the latest documentation. What I am getting at is that the current list of alternatives to up2date while greatly improved in some areas still needs improvement and has regressed in some ways. Compared to the old up2date it is easier to add mirrors to alternate sites like LVN in YUM, Yum tries another mirror if the current one fails and Yum makes resolving dependencies a lot easier. In Microsoft land the system keeps a list of patches so you can delete them if they fail, has a rollback facility for service packs, has a rollback facility for device drivers in device manager if your new driver sucks, never seems to have broken dependencies and has one central site so you don't have to worry that the mirror is up to date or not. Microsoft updates do break you box sometimes but not more often than "rawhide" updates. This is one area that I think REDHAT should spend a lot more development dollars on. It would also help if there were more groups for "group update" ie one for Gnome, KDE, Openoffice and Eclipse etc if yum and yumex are the direction things are going. Please take PUP out back and beat it to death with a big stick. BAD DOG !

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