[WAY WAY OT] Ubuntu 10.04 and Nvidia driver
by John Wendel
I just tried the live-CD of Ubuntu 10.04 and generally found it to be
very nicely done. But there was a big problem with the Nvidia driver
that I thought we could all learn something from my experience (like
"don't be stupid"), and maybe have a chuckle or two.
After starting, a "helpful" pop-up told me that I needed the Nvidia
driver if I wanted 3D acceleration and certain other (unspecified)
enhancements. It offered to install the driver (after explaining why it
was BAD from a free software perspective), so I said OK. I was then
offered a choice from the 3 driver versions, without any explanation of
which one I needed (I needed the 173 version), and the "recommended"
version was the latest (195 version). STRIKE 1! I selected the 173
version and clicked the "activate" button. After some
downloading/installing, I was told that I needed to restart the system
to use the new driver. IT'S A LIVE CD FOLKS! Restarting of course wiped
out the new driver download. STRIKE2! So, I did the download again and
this time instead of restarting the system, I just restarted X. Luckily,
I know how to kill and restart X because there is no newbie friendly
menu selection to do this. Of course, it didn't work because the Nouveau
driver got loaded first and kept the Nvidia driver from loading. STRIKE
3! I'm out.
Of course, with an installed version of Ubuntu, this process would
probably have worked fine. I really wish the best for Ubuntu, but I
think I'll stick with Fedora.
Sorry for the noise.
Regards,
John
14 years, 1 month
Anti Virus
by Henry Wyatt
Running f12 on hp laptop no windows. Do I need to install an antivirus
program or is it not necessary. I used web based gmail for email and
thunderbird
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14 years, 1 month
whre is X11/Wc ???
by Reg Clemens
I have an old program that I am trying to resurrect, and it appears to
use the athena widgets.
It is looking for include files
X11/Wc/*
Im looking at the list of rpms available thru yum, and
I dont see any obvious rpm that includes these,- where should I
be looking???
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14 years, 1 month
error loading fedora........
by Pranjal Gupta
i have been experiencing an error, trying to boot fedora 12 from my pendrive
which says,
invalid boot.ini file
booting from c:\windows
as i am new to experiencing fedora, i could not really make out what it
means or to what it indicates, but nevertheless i guess the error may be the
result of the following constraints ::
1. motherboard make or other related isues. - I have the ASrock
motherboard P4i45GL with Intel 845 chipset
2. low space in hard disk {i have around 1.5 GB in my c:\ drive - but
its irrelevent}
i humbly request you to help me figure out the cause so that i could use the
Fedora. Awaiting your reply over the matter.
Had too much of Windows xp, so it seems a new opportunity to get along a new
movement and OS, altogether.
i am ready to give any relevent information abt my PC , but please ensure me
that i would get Fedora on my system !!!
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> Pranjal Gupta
14 years, 1 month
Libdvdcss
by Darr
On Sun 02 May 2010 @ 15:31:35 zulu Andre Robatino scribed:
> Henry Wyatt <hewjr1000 at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Were can I get libdvdcss for f12 x86_64
>
> The Livna repository at http://rpm.livna.org basically exists
> just for that one package - install the livna-release package,
> then libdvdcss will be available.
There is not a separate 64-bit package.
You can't install the 32-bit debuginfo package for it from there,
because the SHA1 value for it in the database files is not correct...
and you can't just correct it in those metadata files...
doing that makes THEIR hashes not match in repomd.xml...
I reported that a couple months ago in the rpmfusion users
list, but nobody ever fixed it. If you have crashes and can't get
a trace file without the debug packages, you can manually DL
the file from the livna repo to e.g. /var/cache/yum/ and then run
# yum -C install /var/cache/yum/libdvdcss-debuginfo-1.2.10-1.i386.rpm
It might throw an RPMDB warning, but it should install anyway.
(You can tell yum to ignore GPG keys, but not a hash mismatch.)
It would be sweeter if someone would just fix the repo and mirrors, tho.
:-|
14 years, 1 month
Re: Libdvdcss
by Darr
On Mon 03 May 2010 @ 04:15:04 zulu, Andre Robatino scribed:
>
> Not sure what you mean - I had no trouble installing libdvdcss.x86_64
> from the repo when F12 came out, and just now erased and reinstalled
> it to be sure. It's in
>
> http://rpm.livna.org/repo/12/x86_64/
Good catch; I was wrong about that.
My apologies for the misinformation about the 64-bit availability.
Its debuginfo file appears to have the same SHA1 mismatch problem as the
32-bit, though...
e.g.
64-bit debuginfo's hash - fbcaeabd0cdf57bb16ae7517da590ad3c7c3dd0c
checksum in primary.xml - 54ce96cdce5409d509ef6b99d7f3261ff0876fe2
14 years, 1 month
Re: Nvidia upgrade issue - choppy sound and video
by Gary Waters
On 05/01/2010 07:33 PM, Patrick Rafferty wrote:
> You should be using the 195.36.15. series driver. If your not I would
> recommend
> the prebuild driver from the rpmfusion repo.
>
> ... Pat ...
>
>
>
>
>
> On 05/01/2010 05:11 PM, Gary Waters wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am using Fedora 12. I just upgraded from an nvidia geforce 6200LE
>> 512MB to an nvidia geforce 8400GS 512MB ( PCI-X ). All video and sound
>> "jumps" and is quite choppy. When I switch back to the 6200LE everything
>> falls back into place. I decided to update to the latest nvidia driver
>> and have the same issue. The 6200LE works fine, whereas the 8400GS has
>> the sound and video issues. The card works fine in windows 7. It also
>> seems to play youtube videos well in firefox ( Linux ). Any
>> suggestions/solutions would be appreciated.
>>
>> Gary
>>
>
>
Hi Pat,
I downloaded and installed NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-195.36.24-pkg2.run. This
hasn't solved the issue.
Gary
14 years, 1 month
OLE2 ??
by Jim
Fedora 12/ KDE
How do you open a Windows OLE2 file in Fedora ?
14 years, 1 month
DVD Authoring
by Joseph L. Casale
Anyone know of an authoring suite that takes care of all the transcoding
needed if attempting to author from a source file such as an mkv?
Thanks!
jlc
14 years, 1 month
