Re: FC4 does not work, "out of the box" for me; GUI/X11 fails
by David Abbott
I have to say.
Being new to Linux and trying to administer my own system I have had loads of trouble.
Initially with eth(0), which seems to have been fixed in newer kernels and now I am trying to work out how to compile my own kernel because the basic setup to install the Nvidia drivers doesn't work on my Dell Inspiron 9300.
The Go6800 is a pretty standard card. i wouldn't have imagined that it should be difficult.
I will persist, and continue my studies in how this all works.
I am sure it is only my ignorence holding me back.
>
>
>I can see that a good option would be for the initial installation to
>have two GRUB entries for the first kernel.
>
>1. Normal boot.
>2. Reduced level boot.
>
>It might make things easier the first time around.
>
>
>
For fresh installs where rebooting the system after install and before
firstboot, such an option being availble would be handy. At least grub
does make it easier to change runlevels or add parameters to the boot
command when problems arise
With the GCC4 problem that really took its toll on X for FC4 release, it
would have spared users from turning away from Fedora, as stated by some
who were detoured to other distros temporarily. A new set of FC4 ISOs
with all improvements to date should be released once FC3 becomes
unsupported. Sooner if developers or community provided an updated set
of ISOs to lessen the frustrations new installers of FC4 experienced.
FC5 should be a lot cleaner of a distro snapshot. (pure guess) - The
time period between the two snapshots and things learned from the FC3 to
FC4 snapshot which had the shorter time period to smooth out the
installation ISOs for FC4.
Let's hope for a better FC5 and if we help weed out the bugs through the
upcoming beta cycle.
Jim
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18 years, 7 months
RE: Abuse by Dod?
by Dan Thurman
Sorry, false alarm. I discovered what it was....
It was the Redhat Up2date applet that periodically
is checks for new updates. I guess the dnsstuff
IP reverse maps is a bit out of date and the IP
address appeared to come from the DOD. Ah well,
live and learn...
Dan
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Subject: Abuse by Dod?
Errg... I installed Firestarter on FC4 and was wondering
why my HD and network was thrashing around and checking the
active connection page revealed:
Source-----------------Destination-----------------Port------Service-----Program
207.132.177.100 [my FC4 IP address] 443 HTTPS python
I stopped this "attack" by disabling HTTPS protocol in the policy
tab and that stopped the attack. Geez, now what do I do to stop
whomeever is doing it so that my HTTPS is available?
I tracked the network owner and fired off an abuse complaint
to: abuse(a)nic.mil but like this is gonna work. Hmm.... maybe
the Homeland Security is gonna come after me... heh heh.
Does anyone care to know what is going on?
Dan
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18 years, 7 months
still struggling with ndiswrapper
by James Pifer
I've tried getting my builtin wireless card in my laptop working before
and was close, but could never get it working. I would REALLY like to
use my laptop without being tied to my desk. Previously I could load the
drivers, using ndiswrapper, and get all the way up to loading it, but I
could never get an ipaddress. So I figured I would try again but this
time remove wep and see if can connect.
lspci shows me this:
02:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g
Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)
When I try to modprobe ndiswrapper the machine locks up hard. After a
reboot I see this in /var/log/messages:
Oct 27 15:09:45 kernel: ndiswrapper version 1.4rc4 loaded
(preempt=no,smp=yes)
Oct 27 15:09:45 kernel: ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,10/20/2004,
3.70.22.0) loaded
Oct 27 15:09:45 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:02.0[A] -> GSI 18
(level, low) -> IRQ 193
Oct 27 15:09:45 kernel: ndiswrapper: using irq 193
I also tried reinstalling ndiswrapper but still get the same thing. If
it's an IRQ problem, any suggestions on how to handle it?
Any other suggestions?
Thanks,
James
18 years, 7 months
Why Fedora ?
by gaurav
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~ Sometimes I think I am wasting my time on fedora .
I got ubuntu on onmy laptop works flawlessly with 3 year support cycle
, 16,000 pakages (mutiunivese repo) and of course apt , sysnaptic ,
adept and rock solid :-) plus cutting pakages and six month release
schedule and with no strings attached
I some times feel fedora is like lab rat for RH ...
are we wasting time On fedora ?? Should we move 100% comunity based
project like ubuntu ?
pl ppl let me know your views :-)
Regards,
Gaurav
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18 years, 7 months
FC4: How to capture a window's screen snapshot?
by David Le
Hi,
Running FC4, I want to capture a screen snapshot of a
displayed window and save it into a word document. I
tried Ctrl-PrintScreen to copy and paste it to Writer
Word processor as I did with Windows XP, but it didn't
work. Please let me know how can I do that?
Thanks,
--david le.
18 years, 7 months
RE: gcc not compiling
by Brian D. McGrew
You've got a space in your include statement:
#include <stdio.h>
int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
Printf("\nHello World!\n");
return(0);
}
Never protoctype main as a void function or else you can't get a return
value back to the operating system.
-brian
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Subject: gcc not compiling
I'm just getting started in programming C. My first attempt:
#include < stdio.h>
void main () {
printf("\nHello World!\n");
}
Threw this error:
[dotancohen@localhost ~]$ gcc hello.c
hello.c:1:20: error: stdio.h: No such file or directory
hello.c: In function 'main':
hello.c:3: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in
function 'printf'
hello.c:2: warning: return type of 'main' is not 'int'
hello.c:4:2: warning: no newline at end of file
So I googled for "1:20: error: stdio.h: No such file or directory"
and found a post that suggests that the answer to the problem is found
in the gcc manual. So I started reading it, but it is long and I'm not
finding anything!
I think that I'm missing a library stdio.h but I don't know where to
find it, and where to put it once I do find it. Or am I completly
wrong? The error message is pretty clear.
Dotan Cohen
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18 years, 7 months
the yum errors latly are increasing, yum now wont work at all anymore
by Danny.Terweij
[FC3]
Hi
As many ppl have read or expirenced, yum updates are suddenly turned into a
nightmare.
For 3 days now i cant update the system (and cPanel uses it too and hangs
also with updates).
###################
# yum clean all (i hated this because it deleted 200+ packages that i wanted
to save for future boxes to update with to save bandwidth)
Cleaning up Everything
0 headers removed
0 packages removed
0 metadata files removed
0 cache files removed
# yum update
Setting up Update Process
Setting up Repos
core 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
dries 100% |=========================| 0 B 00:00
//var/cache/yum/dries/repomd.xml:1: parser error : Document is empty
^
//var/cache/yum/dries/repomd.xml:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<'
not found
^
Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: dries
Error importing repomd.xml from dries: Error: could not parse file
//var/cache/yum/dries/repomd.xml
#######
At the moment is stalls on "dries" but also happens on the others.
This are the repo's i use:
########
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 129 Sep 21 19:04 dag.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 163 Sep 21 19:04 dries.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 255 Sep 21 19:04 extras.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 233 Sep 21 19:04 fedora-devel.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 244 Sep 21 19:04 fedora.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 280 Sep 21 19:04 fedora-updates.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 282 Sep 21 19:04 fedora-updates-testing.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 477 Sep 21 19:04 freshrpms.repo
#########
and disabled the -testing -devel repo's.
I was in need to install a package but i went to the orginal site and
downloaded a source and compiled it. I realy want to see this fixed.
Because i am not the only user and i was not the first reporter of this.
I hope the FC team / yum team will take a close look on this.
18 years, 7 months
[TIP] core web font installer
by Michael A. Peters
Hi guys -
I wrote a small script for the purpose of fetching and installing the Microsoft Core Web fonts.
There's a sourceforge project for it too, but I think my way is better. It's certainly easier.
It either creates an rpm for you on the fly (if you have a multi-user system and want the fonts available for all users), or you can have it just dump the fonts into your ~/.fonts directory.
It also asks you want fonts you want installed - four of them I don't want because I have substitutes that are better, for example - and I want fontconfig to make those substitutes (which it won't do if the real font is installed)
The script does not need to be run as root.
If you choose the rpm option, the resulting rpm will of course need to be installed as root.
It uses zenity (part of gnome) and it needs cabextract installed (in extras - yum install cabextract)
to grab it and use it -
wget http://homepage.mac.com/mpeters/misc/coreweb_font_installer.sh.gz
gunzip coreweb_font_installer.sh.gz
sh coreweb_font_installer.sh
18 years, 7 months
OT - where to buy linux HW
by Kevin Kempter
Hi List;
Anyone know of any good retail or online outlets to but Linux
desktops/servers. I would like to acquire another low cost dev box and I
refuse to give the M$ chronies any of my money.
Thanks for your advice...
18 years, 8 months
