main menu icon
by Quasar Jarosz
This is another not-really-testing question, but how do you change the
icon for the gnome main menu in FC2? i've tried the gconf instructions for
fc1, as well as simply moving the icon.. neither works. Is the Ugly Red
Hat now built right into gnome? :)
20 years, 1 month
bonobo-activation-server error
by Partha Bagchi
I get the following error whenever I boot up:
bonobo-activation-server (root-1844): iid OAFIID:BrokenNoType:20000808
has a NULL type
Apr 23 19:09:32 Centrino bonobo-activation-server (root-1844): invalid
character '#' in iid 'OAFIID:This#!!%$iid%^$%_|~!OAFIID_ContainsBadChars'
Has anyone seen this before? I am using FC2T2 with a generic 2.6.5
kernel since I need to have the ipw2100 wireless driver.
Any help appreciated. Thanks,
Partha
20 years, 1 month
First look at FC2T2
by Féliciano Matias
Sorry for my poor English.
My hardware :
$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333]
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333 AGP]
00:05.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Triones Technologies, Inc. HPT366/368/370/370A/372 (rev 03)
00:06.0 Multimedia controller: Sigma Designs, Inc. REALmagic Hollywood Plus DVD Decoder (rev 02)
00:07.0 ATM network controller: STMicroelectronics ST70137 [Unicorn] ADSL DMT Transceiver (rev 10)
00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 06)
00:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt848 Video Capture (rev 12)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 PCI to ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 10)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage IIC AGP (rev 7a)
My mouse is a "Generic - 3 Button Mouse (PS/2)" .
I do a fresh install of FC2T3. I have copied initrd.img and vmlinuz in
my hard drive and add :
title Fedora Core (install)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img ramdisk_size=8192 askmethod
initrd /initrd.img
in grub.conf
I use hard drive method to install FC2T3. The installation is done in
French. Profile workstation.
When anaconda start X11, if I move my mouse at the same time, X11 failed
with :
XIO : fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":1.0"
after 0 requests (0 know processed) with 0 events remaining.
Install exited abnormally.
Bug already filed :
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107231
In firstboot, the keyboard is qwerty. Known bug (reopen):
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=100686
NB : Component=rhgb Is this correct ?
Firstboot doesn't configure the display. Known bug :
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=121729
xorg-x11-truetype-fonts is not installed by default. Normal ?
Mouse not configured for gpm. Known issue :
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=114591
Product: RHEL
btw, why do we need /etc/sysconfig/gpm if gpm seams to not use it.
The sound is muted. Known bug :
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119866
mdmpd failed to startup. Known issue :
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=117498
rhnsd is start by default. Is this useful for Fedora ?
$ chkconfig --list rhnsd
rhnsd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
In /etc/X11/xorg.conf, i have :
Section "InputDevice"
[...]
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection
Why ? I have a "real" 3 buttons mouse.
Questions :
Where is ~/.xsession-errors ?
RFE :
Can Fedora load pcspkr module by default ?
I do this with /etc/rc.d/rc.local .
Please, add :
alias mv="mv -i"
alias cp="cp -i"
alias rm="rm -i"
in /etc/skel/.bashrc
Conclusion : Good job ! FC2T3 is far better than T2.
20 years, 1 month
FC2T3 on emachines 6805 laptop
by Kedar Patankar
Hi,
Just downloaded and installed FC2T3 x86_64 on my emachines 6805 laptop.
The install went through almost w/o a hitch. After the reboot, it tried
to start up the PCMCIA services and locked up. I then went into single
user mode and killed the S24pcmcia. Haven't had any time to figure out
why the PCMCIA locked up the machine.
Another problem is that it doesn't recognize the ATI mobility radeon
9600. X runs in VESA mode and can only do 1024x768. I haven't tried out
anything else yet. Any clues about how to make the X recognize radeon
9600 and atleast do 2D and 1280x800??
Regards/Kedar.
20 years, 1 month
FYI: Script I wrote- Fedorasync.sh
by Chris Kloiber
For those who don't know rsync or mkisofs well, but want to make daily
dvd isos of rawhide, and as a side benefit have a local yum repo, I
wrote a script for you.
ftp://people.redhat.com/ckloiber/FedoraSync.sh
Usage: FedoraSync.sh <options> <arch> <source_repo> <local_directory>
Options:
-live No changes are made to the local copy without this.
-del Passes --delete to rsync, files not existing at the
source are removed in the local tree.
-paranoid 'touch' all local files, makes rsync verify them
and avoids corruption. Takes a little longer, but
I highly recommend it.
-iso After rsync is complete, create a dvd iso from the
local tree.
*Note: -iso enables -live, -del, and -paranoid
-ssh Passes -e ssh to rsync, so you can use rsync over
ssh connections.
arch is one of: i386, x86_64, or ppc (ppc untested)
Options can now be given in any order, or ommitted to use
built-in defaults.
I recommend you start by copying your latest CD's or DVD to
/var/ftp/pub/rawhide/$ARCH, (as that is the default local directory my
script uses) then run the script to update that copy to save on
bandwidth a bit.
Enjoy, but please use an rsync mirror near you. As configured it will
use rsync://mirror.linux.duke.edu/fedora-linux-core-development but we
don't want to overload that mirror. Other rsync mirrors can be found at:
http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html
You may have to hunt a bit for the right path at first. When you get it
right, running it with just -del will show which old files will be
deleted, and which will be created. You should not see the arch in the
path of any output. You will see Fedora, isolinux, headers, etc at the
beginning of the test output. Running with -live (or -live -del
-paranoid) will update the local tree, but not make an iso. Using -iso
will enable -live -del and -paranoid automatically, and build an iso
suitable for booting (Yes, it works for me on both i386 and x86_64).
Speaking of x86_64 you can override the arch of the system running the
script to download and burn an x86_64 iso. You might be able to make an
iso for ppc, however I doubt it will boot unless isolinux is supported
there as well. (I have not tested ppc at all as I don't have one. If you
make it work, send patches!)
As a side benefit to all this, the yum headers get downloaded and placed
in your anonymous ftp tree, as well as on the DVD iso. You can then use
either as a local yum repository, further saving bandwidth if you have
many machines to update.
Have fun, I am. :)
--
Chris Kloiber
20 years, 1 month
Re: Replacing Broadcom miniPCI with Atheros
by Brian Stretch
HP's position on WiFi under Linux is to try the Linuxant wrapper and
if that doesn't work, go buy a PCMCIA card. They seem largely clueless
as to the existence of 64-bit Linux, or the fact that the Athlon 64 is a "real"
64-bit chip. Mind you, this is from the high-level American techs, not the
Indian newbies, and they've stopped returning my calls, likely because
they don't have the power to do anything about the problems I've
spent considerable time documenting for them. I get the impression that
the techs really want to help but management is just not backing them up.
Not that any of the other big OEMs would be any better, but it's scary
how much HP doesn't know.
Their excuse as to why I can't swap in the Atheros card: incompatible
I/O range. Yeah, right, that's why the error message explicitly says
"wireless network device"? They don't know anything about a BIOS
whitelist and vaguely deny that it exists.
I tried emailing Compal (who builds this notebook) and didn't get
anything useful out of them, unsurprisingly.
Now, once you give this notebook SODIMMs that it likes (Micron PC2700
or better preferably) and just give up on getting a miniPCI wireless card
to work it's very Linux friendly, what with a nVidia graphics chip and all
(though a very obsolete one). They've added a 1920x1200 res screen
option, something I've not seen in an AMD based notebook before.
Fedora Core 2 Test 3 now gracefully handles the K8 Errata #93 that HP
has neglected to patch in their BIOS. The laptop is VERY stable, I haven't
been able to overheat it like I've been able to do with previous laptops
I've owned. But HP could *own* the Linux laptop market with a few
minor tweaks and they're too stunningly clueless to care. It's
extremely frustrating.
Maybe ASUS's upcoming Athlon 64 notebook will be better, if they
actually sell them on this side of the pond. At least it's got a proper
video chip (GeForceFX 5650), and I doubt they'd put in a wireless card
whitelist in their BIOS.
Anyone want to buy my Atheros 802.11g miniPCI card? I'll throw in
a DVD of FC2T3 (32-bit or 64-bit or both).
-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Cox <alan(a)redhat.com>
Sent: Apr 21, 2004 12:59 PM
To: Brian Stretch <bstretch(a)mindspring.com>,
For testers of Fedora Core development releases <fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Replacing Broadcom miniPCI with Atheros
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 12:42:27PM -0400, Brian Stretch wrote:
> I have a new HP zv5000z Athlon 64 notebook. It came with one
> of the hated Linux-hostile Broadcom wireless cards. I tried swapping
> in an Atheros wireless card, which fits... but the BIOS says:
>
> "104-Unsupported wireless network device detect"
>
> and I have to shut down and remove the card to get any futher. It
> sure looks like HP is deliberately disabling non-HP wireless cards,
> given that explicit message.
It isnt about non HP products. The mini-pci slot has the antenna
seperate from the slot. When approvals are done for wireless they have
to be done including card and antenna, as a result vendors using this
setup have to lock to 'approved' products.
Now its certainly true some of them make good business use of the lockin too
Ask HP what the Linux supported and approved card option is.
20 years, 1 month
Re: centrino wifi support
by tim+redhat.com＠coote.org
On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 08:21:45AM -0400, Robert Williams wrote:
> The Linuxant "driverloader" works well
> on my Sony TR1A Centrino system,
> faster than the free drivers for my
> DLink DWL-650+ pcmcia card.
>
that's a great relief. I now know that the open source project *can*
make 4k stacks work.
tc
20 years, 1 month
gnome main-menu icon
by Marcos Pinto
i'm running fedora core 2 test 3 and i've been trying for two days to
change the default main-menu icon from redhat's red hat to a custom one
that i've been using for years. i tried changing it using gconftools-2,
as i've done in the past, but it didnt work for me this time. a google
search took me to http://www.ic.sunysb.edu/Stu/aaranya/redhat_gnome.html
where i followed every instruction, tried every different method, and
still didnt get it to work. what gives? the point of open source is to
be able to customize the entire system. why would redhat deviate from
the standard in this? anyone know how i can change this, the 'fedora
way'?
thanks for your help
-marcos
20 years, 1 month
Re: Differences between installer kernel and installed kernel
by David Chisnall
I've tried that, and it seems to make no difference at all. I've tried
every combination of VirtualPC settings I can think of, and I still get
the same result.
On 30 Apr 2004, at 15:31, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 14:39, David Chisnall wrote:
>> As with Test 2, the install CD boots fine in VirtualPC 6 and installs.
>> Once it has installed, it gets as far as saying Ok, booting the kernel
>> before crashing. Can anyone suggest what might be different between
>> the kernel used by the installer, and the one that is installed that
>> might cause this (and ideally how to disable whatever it is)?
>
> The installer kernel should be the same as the non-smp 586 kernel.
> Does it work if you boot the installed kernel with the option
> "noreplacement" ?
>
> Dave
>
20 years, 1 month
Raid 1+0 (Raid 10), Anaconda
by Ken Snider
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Is it possible to do a raid 1+0 install using anaconda?
This would involve setting up two raid 0's, then doing a raid1 of the md
devices, as outlined in the mdtab manpage. I can't find a way to do this via
disk druid.
If not, how about via kickstart? Or is there a way to set this up prior to
install so that it's properly loaded in by Anaconda during install?
- --
Ken Snider
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