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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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F10 and nVidia ==> Big Problems
by Christopher A Williams 26 Jan '09

26 Jan '09

This was also a problem on F9, but it is now worse on F10 beta. Video simply fails to load on my system using the F10 live CD. This happens on both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. I've reproduced this on other similar computers as well. Video attempts to load at bootup but eventually fails and drops to a text mode login prompt. My system is a self-built machine. Here's the specific video oriented info: EVGA e-7100/630i Motherboard - Onboard nVidia GeForce 7100 GPU - nVidia nForce 630i chip set I have 4GB RAM and a Intel Quad-Core processor. When I loaded F9, I worked around the problem by: 1) Waiting for the live system to fail back to text mode 2) Logging in as root at the text prompt 3) Run system-config-display and accepting the detected defaults 4) Run startx to start the gui 5) Run the installer as normal Post-install, the OpenSource nv driver would load and provide a reasonable display resolution until I could install the Livna nVidia drivers. On F10, system-config-display is no longer there! So instead I have to: 1) Wait for the live system to fail back to text mode 2) Log in as root at the text prompt 3) Install system-config-display (yum -y install system-config-display) 4) Run system-config-display and accept the detected defaults (nothing else works) 5) Run startx to start the gui 6) Run the installer as normal However, on F10, startx only provides 800x600 resolution, despite that my display is capable of 1920x1200. Can we get this fixed in F10 please? I'm happy to Bugzilla this if it isn't there already. Cheers, Chris -- ========================================= "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is." --Yogi Berra

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XO: SDHCI: Card didn't power up after 1 second
by Jan Pazdziora 20 Dec '08

20 Dec '08

Hello, I have my 4GB SanDisk with the Fedora live, I've copied the developer key to /security/develop.sig. Upon booting the XO, I get Type the Esc key to interrupt automatic startup SDHCI: Card didn't power up after 1 second Boot device: /sd/disk:\boot\olpc.fth Arguments: Boot device: /sd/disk:\syslinux\vmlinuz0 Arguments: root=UUID=6462-3436 riitfstype=vfat rw liveimg overlay=UUID=6462-3436 quiet rhgb persistenthome=mtd0 reset_overlay SDHCI: Card didn't power up after 1 second <buffer@ffb676d0>:33: Can't open boot device Then I do dir sd:\boot on the ok prompt, the first attempts returns SDHCI: Card didn't power up after 1 second Can't open directory but when I rerun the dir command, I get the /boot listing (showing OLPC.FTH there). So the XO seems to be able to talk to the SD card, at least somehow. When I try boot sd:\boot\olpc.fth I get Boot device: /sd/disk:\boot\olpc.fth Arguments: root=UUID=6462-3436 riitfstype=vfat rw liveimg overlay=UUID=6462-3436 quiet rhgb persistenthome=mtd0 reset_overlay SDHCI: Card didn't power up after 1 second Can't open boot device and when I do it again I get Boot device: /sd/disk:\boot\olpc.fth Arguments: root=UUID=6462-3436 riitfstype=vfat rw liveimg overlay=UUID=6462-3436 quiet rhgb persistenthome=mtd0 reset_overlay <buffer@ffb651d8>:2: Can't find word to replace but when I do just boot Fedora starts to boot. Is the SDHCI: Card didn't power up after 1 second message an expected thing? -- Jan Pazdziora Satellite Engineering, Red Hat

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Root Privelages
by potat0 06 Dec '08

06 Dec '08

Is there any way to gain root access in GNOME to do things that require root authenication (moving files for example to the /usr/ folder, without: su - sudo su - Doing that gets annoying, since I have to do that, go to something that prompts for the root password, type the root password AGAIN, and to boot, I can't choose when I want the authentication to expire, it just goes away, making copying a large number of files very difficult. In Fedora 9 you could log on as root (which I understand why they took it away, but you could choose to keep root authentication), is there a way to anymore? -- This is an email sent via The Fedora Community Portal https://fcp.surfsite.org https://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=304692&topic_i… If you think, this is spam, please report this to webmaster(a)fcp.surfsite.org and/or blame stevenschroeder.sschroeder(a)gmail.com.

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Is Gnome windown manager switching broken again?
by Michal Jaegermann 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

Trying on a rawhide installation 'man gnome-wm', which is supplied by gnome-session-2.24.1-3.fc10, you can read the following: NAME gnome-wm - Launches the user selected window manager for the GNOME session The catch is none what is described down this page seems to be true. If you will look at /usr/bin/gnome-wm script then you can find in it the following: # NOTE: DON'T USE THIS. Please have your window manager install # a desktop file and change the gconf key # /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager That gconf key used to be /apps/gnome-session/rh/window_manager and that worked, even if 'man gnome-wm' was telling fairy tales. With /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager the best I could achieve was a session with no window manager at all. I tried some interpretations of an "install a desktop file" remark but this got me nowhere. There are hacks to get another window manager running. For example, you can put early enough in $PATH a link, named 'metacity', to a desired window manager binaries. In case some option mapping would be required then this link should be replaced by an appropriate shell script but you get the drift. So you can have any windown manager you want as long as it is _called_ "metacity". Is this un-documented somewhere and I missed it or this is a straight bugzilla material? A Google search brought me only numerous tales of woe from people attempting switch window managers for Gnome and miserably failing. Michal p.s. For "again" part check https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449048

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PulseAudio info needed
by Anne Wilson 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

There is a lot of FUD and general mistrust of PA. It seems to me that it would help a great deal if someone would write a short statement about what PA is and how it should work. If there is known readable references, they would help too, as would noting any known work-arounds for problem. It would be a great help to those of us who try to give user support. I'd even put it on my own web space and direct folk to it, if that would help. Anne

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