NVIDIA Question
by David St.Clair
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
1 year
Mouse goes crazy
by Jonathan Villa
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.
???
1 year
F24 beta virt-install with kickstart fails
by Jos Vos
Hi,
Did anyone succeed in virt-install'ing F24 beta using kickstart
(on CentOS 6 host, if that matters)?
I see lots of warnings (dracut-initqueue), then the console goes
into a slowly filling bar at the bottom (plymouthd!?), then I see
lots of "No space left on device" errors, then a dracut emergency
shell is started.
The generated rdsosreport.txt contains 34284 lines...
FWIW, when *not* using kickstart I can install F24 beta on the
same system with virt-install fine.
Thx,
--
-- Jos Vos <jos(a)xos.nl>
-- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364
-- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204
4 years, 7 months
Shifting fedora QA from fedorahosted to pagure
by Kanika Murarka
Sumantro and me were working upon the possibility of shifting QA
tickets to some other platform like pagure. Thanks Justin(jflory7) for
guiding .
Following are the points:-
1. Shifting to Pagure will be easy and efficient.
2. Wiki -----> overview
2. In the Pagure repo, priorities can be set for tickets based on
ranking, e.g. 10=urgent,20=high,30=normal, etc.(we can have custom
priorities)
3. Milestones----> Pagure milestones(has been improved)
4. Roadmap
*All the ticket with the tag roadmap will show up on the roadmap page.
*For each milestones defined in the settings of the project, the
roadmap will group tickets with the corresponding tag.
*Tickets with the tag roadmap that are not associated with any of the
milestones defined in the settings are group in an unplanned section.
5. All of the fields in both ticket type and ticket component are
likely best implemented in tags for tickets. That would allow for the
categorization and grouping of the tickets based on their keywords.
6. The blocked by and blocking feature is available in Pagure as metadata.
7. All other things can be easily implemented using tags.
8. As discussed in the last meeting, https://pagure.io/pagure-importer
can be used to import tickets.
I am putting this as a mail because, I wont be able to attend the meeting today.
Thanks and Regards
Kanika (a2batic)
6 years, 1 month
[Fedora QA] #492: F25 Wayland Test Day
by fedora-badges
#492: F25 Wayland Test Day
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Reporter: adamwill | Owner:
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: Fedora 25
Component: Test Day | Version:
Keywords: | Blocked By:
Blocking: |
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We should have a Test Day for Wayland - mainly GNOME on Wayland, i.e. the
new Workstation default - for F25. I'm proposing we run it next Thursday,
2016-10-06. Is this OK for everyone, or would someone like to propose an
alternate date?
We can obviously include the regular desktop validation tests; beyond
that, it'd be good to have suggestions on what might need testing.
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Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/492>
Fedora QA <http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa>
Fedora Quality Assurance
6 years, 3 months
USB writing changes: wiki instructions, tests
by Adam Williamson
Hey folks! Wanted to send a heads-up that I've made some fairly
significant changes to the wiki regarding writing Fedora to USB.
I've done (yet another) revision of the main wiki instructions for
writing USB sticks:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB
since the Fedora Media Writer tool - the rewrite (of the rewrite?) of
LiveUSB Creator - now looks to be working well in testing, and is
available on all our target platforms, the page now heavily promotes it
as the best tool to use in almost all cases. Some other methods have
been entirely removed - FMW should be a better choice for Windows and
macOS than the tools that were listed before.
I retained sections for:
* livecd-iso-to-disk, as it's now the only tool that supports non-
destructive write and data persistence
* gnome-disk-utility, for non-Fedora *nix without Flatpak support
* dd, for non-Fedora *nix without Flatpak or GNOME and people who just
like dd
* unetbootin, because the section basically exists to explicitly state
that we don't support it (maybe we should add a similar section for
Rufus...)
Please do tell me about any problems you note, or if you think I
removed something wrongly, or anything. Note that as of right now the
best version of mediawriter for F23 and F24 is in updates-testing, so I
had the instructions to install it include `--enablerepo=updates-
testing`; I'm expecting the updates will go stable soon and we can
remove that.
For validation testing folks, I have also revised the USB validation
test cases. I really kinda hated the way the Installation matrix was
set up with test names that didn't match the test case page names for
no good reason, and also didn't think we really needed all the
different test cases, so I've consolidated them into three
consistently-named test cases with more result columns:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_USB_dd
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_USB_fmw
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_USB_litd
The effect is pretty much the same as before - except that we now
include the FMW test instead of the LiveUSB Creator test - we test all
three methods for both BIOS and UEFI and for both live and DVD images,
but it's just arranged a little differently (and, I hope, better). I
combined the separate 'live' and 'dvd' versions of the dd and litd test
cases (which were barely different at all) into single test cases, and
consolidated common wording between all the test cases using templates.
I've put this change live on the current Installation validation page -
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_25_Branched_20160930.n...
again, please let me know of any problems you see with this change :)
Thanks everyone!
--
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net
http://www.happyassassin.net
6 years, 4 months
Testing request: mediawriter for F23 and F24
by Adam Williamson
Hi folks! If people have a bit of spare time, it'd be awesome if we
could get some testing on the current mediawriter updates:
F24 - https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-0a46358cb7
F23 - https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-72e7690cef
mediawriter - Fedora Media Writer - is the new USB writing tool that
replaces liveusb-creator . We've recently had a test day for it and I
think it's definitely at the point where we should be promoting it as
the main tool for writing Fedora USB media, so it'd be great to get the
current version into the stable repositories. It has already gone
stable for F25, but needs testing on F23 and F24.
Test case: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_USB_fmw
Thanks folks!
--
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net
http://www.happyassassin.net
6 years, 4 months
Fedora on usb connected media
by Joerg Lechner
Hi,
I am using Fedora since a very long time privately, I have started with Redhat, when Fedora came up I switched to Fedora. I use always two systems Windows and Fedora quasi paralell. This means if in a function Windows is better Windows, if Fedora is better Fedora. Partly I had 2 disks in the system one for Windows, one for Fedora. But since I work with laptops I use Fedora on USB connected media, currently Fedora on a 64GB usb 3.0 connected flash medium. Fedora is in this configuration -as I feel- quite quick, as it would be on the internal disk. As mass storage I use the laptop internal Windows disk. I saw that data transfering from the Laptop internal disk to an external disk and vice versa is much more quicker, when it's controlled from Fedora on usb flash medium, then it is, when controlled from the laptop internal disk, there are many examples where fedora is comparable ( or better) as the Apps of Windows.
Since development of F24 I have problems with testing in my small corner "Fedora paralell to Windows on usb connected media". In F24 there was no dual boot Windows - Fedora possible - requirement for Final, this had worked always in the previous "editions" of Fedora. Now in F25 it is not possible to install F25 Alpha on an usb connected medium - not on an usb flash medium, not on an external disk. I filed a bug against dracut - dracut showed the error, possibly I should have filed against Anaconda - nearly no reaction on this bug - was not worth the invested work.
It might be, that Fedora is mainly used on bigger systems, and not so important for smaller systems, but also on smaller systems there are people, who could learn to love Fedora, if there is more promotion for this part of the computer community. Especially Windows oriented users.
Kind regards
6 years, 4 months
[Fedora Rawhide Test]Cannot Remap my keyboard layout
by Bowen Wang
Hi everyone,
I just got my rawhide installed last night. This is pretty good. But there
are some issues that I cannot solve myself:
1. I cannot remap my keyboard layout using xmodmap. My xmodmap script is as
below:
xmodmap -e "remove Lock = Caps_Lock"
xmodmap -e "keycode 66 = BackSpace BackSpace BackSpace BackSpace"
xmodmap -e "keycode 22 = Tab ISO_Left_Tab Tab ISO_Left_Tab"
xmodmap -e "keycode 23 = Escape NoSymbol Escape"
xmodmap -e "keycode 9 = Caps_Lock"
xmodmap -e "clear control"
xmodmap -e "clear mod1"
xmodmap -e "remove mod4 = Super_L Super_R"
xmodmap -e "keycode 133 = Alt_L Meta_L Alt_L Meta_L"
xmodmap -e "keycode 134 = Alt_R Meta_R Alt_R Meta_R"
xmodmap -e "keycode 37 = Super_L NoSymbol Super_L"
xmodmap -e "keycode 64 = Control_L NoSymbol Control_L"
xmodmap -e "keycode 105 = Super_R NoSymbol Super_R"
xmodmap -e "keycode 108 = Control_R NoSymbol Control_R"
xmodmap -e "add Control = Control_L Control_R"
xmodmap -e "add mod1 = Alt_L Meta_L Alt_R Meta_R"
xmodmap -e "add mod4 = Super_L Super_R"
xmodmap -e "add Lock = Caps_Lock"
I can use this script on all other linux machines. When I put this in
fedora rawhide, it didn't work. Some of the keymap can work outside the
terminal, for example, some of the remap can work in Firefox, buy not in
terminal.
I have tried to put this script file in several place:
~/.bashrc
~/.bashrc_profile
a file named rc.local in /etc or /usr, sorry I cannot remember
~/.xsession
~/.xmodmap
~/.Xmodmap
They all didn't work.
I use the Programmer Dvorak Keyboard Layout.
Can anyone help me this out? Thanks.
Sincerely,
Bowen Wang
6 years, 4 months
