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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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Kernel Crash with FC3 [glibc?]
by Stephen John Smoogen 14 Apr '05

14 Apr '05

My home router machine was upgraded in late December to FC3. The machine began experiencing times when it would start having a load average of 1.00 all the time but using top would show no processes using any CPU. The CPU indicator said that it was at 100% in user space. No process was listed as being in device wait either. I took the machine down and did a chkrootkit 0.44 and some other items to make sure it was not compromised. I then rebooted the box and watched the wire to see if anything strange was coming up to it. Nothing. I then went and turned off various processes that were turned on for small network usage. When I did a 'service nscd off' the box went into a kernel crash that went on for quite some time (looked like an infinite loop). Turning off nscd has dropped the load average to a standard 0.00 again so I am guessing that there is something it is doing that is causing issues: nscd-2.3.4-2.fc3 kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 kernel-2.6.9-1.724_FC3 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82810 DC-100 GMCH [Graphics Memory Controller Hub] (rev 03) 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82810 DC-100 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] (rev 03) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801AA PCI Bridge (rev 02) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801AA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801AA IDE (rev 02) 00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801AA USB (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801AA SMBus (rev 02) 01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 01:0c.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78) I am having problems getting serial console to work so I do not have a kernel oops at the moment :(. -- Stephen J Smoogen. CSIRT/Linux System Administrator

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System clock wrong on resume from ACPI suspend in recent FC3 update
by Eric Benson 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

On a Thinkpad T41p running Fedora Core 3 kept up-to-date since November. Recently, in the past two or three weeks, the clock has been incorrect every time I resume from ACPI suspend. Before that it was always correct when it woke up. Now the clock is always fast when it wakes up. It appears to be proportional to how long it has been sleeping, as if the clock were running consistently extremely fast while asleep, but I haven't run any tests to see if it is reproducible. I've been fixing it by restarting ntpd. I'm currently running kernel 2.6.10-1.741, but I've had all of the kernel updates since FC3 came out. I can't say for sure that the problem started with a kernel update, but it may have coincided with the first 2.6.10 kernel. Is this a known problem? Is there a fix?

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openoffice
by Joshua Andrews 13 Feb '05

13 Feb '05

openoffice really needs to lose some weight! I think openoffice.org-i18n needs to be broken up or a script included to remove unwanted languages.

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