Notebook problem
by Klár Tamás
Hi!
I'd like to ask if you know something about the ECS G320 notebook's VGA problem because it's now impossible to use it with linux. It's ok with win 'cause it's "Designed for Windows XP" but i'd like to use it with Linux.
The problem appears when the graphical mode starts, so the machine freezes or in some cases I get a funky pictures. !!! But if the driver modul of the integrated VGA doesn't work than I get a beautiful picture and everything is OK except for video playback for example...
If anyone could help me, I'd really appriciate that.
Thank's!
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Klár Tamás
Admin of kts.ath.cx
20 years
SMP program with Dell PowerEdge 2500
by Michael D. Setzer II
I've setup my classroom with dual-boot Windows/Fedora Core 1, but
this was done outside of the class due to the time it took to setup all
the machines. Today, I brought in a Dell PowerEdge 2500, and
swapped out the normal drives with a new 36GB drive. Installed
from the two CD's that came with a Book, since this machine didn't
have a DVD drive. Install went thru fine, but it would not boot with
the smp kernel. It booted fine with the non-smp one. Went ahead,
and installed all the upgrades, and downloaded the last 2188 kernel
in both regular and smp. Rebooted with the smp kernel, and again it
locked. It locked will it said loading local drives. So, I did and
Interactive boot with the SMP kernel, and just went enter for all the
prompts, and it came up fine. Tried rebooting, and it locked again
with a normal process. It is locks with the local drive message, and
mouse and everything is locked. Not even num locks. It has a PERC
3 controller, and I'm wondering if something is happening two fast
with a regularboot up, but the step by step puts in enough of a delay
to avoid this. I don't think it was using a special driver for the PERC,
since I only saw adaptec 7700 message.
Thanks.
P.S. It has dual Pentium III Xeon 1GHz Chips and 512MB of ECC
memory.
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20 years
1 of 2 CDROM freezes
by amar_for_linux
Hi,
I have got two CDROM drives on my PC (99 make, P2, 512MB, dualboot-
win2k/fedora core1). CDROM1 (read/write) gets recognized but CDROM (read
only) just hangs on being accessed.
ATAPI CD-ROM DRIVE 40X MAXIMUM (hangs!)
Samsung CD-R/RW SW-224B. (ok!)
One gets recognized as SCSI drive (samsung, about 2 years old) and is
operational.The other drive gets recignized as IDE (ATAPI, about 5 years
old). Anything I try simply does not work. The system just hangs and I need
to restart. Even saying "eject cdrom" hangs the system.
When I boot with GNOME, it just hangs in the startup screen (on the CDROM
icon). KDE allowed me to get in and check out the drives from the shell. I
am lost as to what needs to be done next. Any help would be great guys!
Thanks!
from dmesg:
hdb: ATAPI CD-ROM DRIVE 40X MAXIMUM, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
blk: queuec040cfc0, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0Xffffffff)
hdb: Disabling (U)DMA for ATAPI CD-ROM DRIVE.
from /etc/fstab:
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
from /etc/sysconfig/hwconf:
class: CDROM
bus: IDE
detached: 0
device: hdb
driver: ignore
desc: "ATAPI CD-ROM DRIVE 40X MAXIMUM"
-
class: CDROM
bus: SCSI
detached: 0
device: scd0
driver: ignore
desc: "Samsung CD-R/RW SW-224B"
host: 0
id: 0
channel: 0
lun: 0
generic: sg0
Thanks!
amar
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20 years
Initial Problems with FC1
by Dick Roth
Well I've dug a hole and can't seem to get out:
Can't update via up2date because it says I am not associated with any
channels. (When I first installed a few hours ago, I was associated with
two default channels, but they have disappeared.)
I tried downloading the latest up2date manually, but when running rpm it
came back with an error:
error: up2date-4.1.21-3.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID 4f2a6fd2
error: up2date-4.1.21-3.i386.rpm cannot be installed
I don't understand this at all! What key do I need and where do I get
it?
I'm stymied. I have lots of software to load and/or upgrade, but I know
there are a whole bunch of packages that need updates.
Can someone lend a few words of help to get me going?
Thanks for your patience,
Dick
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20 years
Re: Setting up demand-dialing for a dial-up ISP?
by Bob Shaffer
You don't have to use wvdial or any other dialer. You don't need to be
logged in as root to do anythig but set it up. Read the man page for
pppd, and maybe the PPP Howto on tldp. PPPD can dial and dial-on-demand
by itself. I think the option may be 'demand'. If you make pppd setuid
root you can also use 'pppd call your-isp' as anybody once you set it up.
It's all well documented in the man/info pages.
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Preston Crawford said:
> I'm trying to setup demand dialing for a dial-up ISP that we're
> switching to. Everything is working well using wvdial but I want my
machine to dial out automatically like when fetchmail grabs my email,
etc. Plus I don't think I want to work as root user to dial out. That
doesn't seem safe. Can anyone advice me on how to set this up under
Fedora. I've done it under SuSE, but it was better documented there and
I think the GUI handled some of it.
>
> Preston
>
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20 years
Sessions no longer being saved??
by VB
Hi,
Simple (hopefully) question: I have my Preferences
set to "Automatically save changes to session" but my
changes are saved sporadically. Specifically, if I
open some terminal windows and log out, the terminal
windows sometimes show up upon logging back in.
Anybody know why this would happen?
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20 years
Re: Win4Lin
by Jonathan B. Horen
John wrote:
> I know that various folks have got win4lin running under fedora. But
> apparently one has to "rebuild the kernel"! What the . . .??
>
> Can anyone help with this exercise, or point me to a "how to" that
> isn't in "nerd speak"?
Sure. You have two choices:
1. Download a NeTraverse pre-compiled kernel for your cpu architecture from
http://www.netraverse.com/member/downloads/kernel_precompiled_yes.php
or
2. Download the Fedora and Win4Lin SRPMs for the kernel you want and patch.
If you choose "Door #1", here are the steps:
a. install the kernel RPM
rpm -iUvh <kernel_RPM>
b. make any changes to your LILO or GRUB configuration files
c. reboot!
If you choose "Door #2", here are the steps:
a. Download a Fedora generic kernel-source package for your cpu
architecture from
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/<arch>
or download a generic kernel tarfile from
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.x
b. Download the Win4Lin SRPM for the kernel you downloaded in Step "a" from
http://www.netraverse.com/member/downloads/kernel_precompiled_yes.php
Note: make sure to download the appropriate Kernel-Win4Lin*.src.rpm
file, and
not the Kernel-Win4Lin*.rpm!
or download a generic kernel patch and mki-adapter patch from
http://www.netraverse.com/member/downloads/kernel_patch.php
c. If you downloaded a Fedora kernel-source RPM in Step "a"
1) install the kernel-source RPM
rpm -iUvh <kernel-source RPM>
2) unpack the Win4Lin kernel and mki-adapter patches
rpm2cpio Kernel-Win4Lin3*src.rpm | cpio -idmuv '*.patch'
3) copy the kernel and mki-adapter patches to /usr/src
4) apply the kernel patch first, followed by the mki-adapter patch
patch -p1 -d /usr/src/linux-2.4 < Kernel-Win4Lin*.patch
patch -p1 -d /usr/src/linux-2.4 < mki-adapter*.patch
5) chdir to /usr/src/linux-2.4 and configure the kernel sources for
compilation
make (menu)(x)config
Make sure to select "Windows Application Support" and say "Y" to
"Include NeTraverse Win4Lin Support"!!
6) compile your kernel
make dep bzImage modules install modules_install
7) add an entry for the new kernel to your LILO or GRUB configuration
file
8) reboot!
d. If you downloaded a generic kernel tarfile in Step "a"
1) move the tarfile to /usr/src and unpack it
tar xzf <tarfile>.gz or bunzip2 <tarfile>.bz2
2) create a symlink from the full kernel-source dir to a "nickname"
ln -s linux-2.x.y linux-2.4
3) copy the kernel and mki-adapter patches to /usr/src
4) apply the kernel patch first, followed by the mki-adapter patch
patch -p1 -d /usr/src/linux-2.4 < Kernel-Win4Lin*.patch
patch -p1 -d /usr/src/linux-2.4 < mki-adapter*.patch
5) chdir to /usr/src/linux-2.4 and configure the kernel sources for
compilation
make (menu)(x)config
Make sure to select "Windows Application Support" and say "Y" to
"Include NeTraverse Win4Lin Support"!!
6) compile your kernel
make dep bzImage modules install modules_install
7) add an entry for the new kernel to your LILO or GRUB configuration
file
8) reboot!
20 years
Setting up demand-dialing for a dial-up ISP?
by Preston Crawford
I'm trying to setup demand dialing for a dial-up ISP that we're
switching to. Everything is working well using wvdial but I want my
machine to dial out automatically like when fetchmail grabs my email,
etc. Plus I don't think I want to work as root user to dial out. That
doesn't seem safe. Can anyone advice me on how to set this up under
Fedora. I've done it under SuSE, but it was better documented there and
I think the GUI handled some of it.
Preston
20 years
Re: Config ADSL
by Fedora List
Hi Alexander (and anyone that has some insight into this problem),
Thanks for your help so far.
The files:
/etc/hosts
and
/etc/resolv.conf
are configured correctly.
The connection still fails, so I have included my routing table for you to see, if it helps:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
165.165.128.1__0.0.0.0________255.255.255.255__UH__0__0__0__ppp0
192.168.1.0____192.168.1.10___255.255.255.0____UG__0__0__0__eth0
192.168.1.0____0.0.0.0________255.255.255.0____U___0__0__0__eth0
169.254.0.0____0.0.0.0________255.255.0.0______U___0__0__0__eth0
127.0.0.0______0.0.0.0________255.0.0.0________U___0__0__0__lo
0.0.0.0________192.168.1.254__0.0.0.0__________UG__0__0__0__eth0
(underscores for legibility purposes ;-P )
The ADSL's IP is 192.168.1.254, host machine eth0 static IP is 192.168.1.10.
I've also set ppp0 as a trusted device in firewall setup if that changes anything.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Stuart
On Sat, 01 May 2004 19:52:57 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
>Am Sa, den 01.05.2004 schrieb fedora-list um 19:17:
>
>> Hi Fedorans.
>>=20
>> Hmmm... I need some insight to solve this one.
>>=20
>> I've set up a FC1 box to access the web through an ADSL device on a UTP n=
>etwork (ie not USB config).
>>=20
>> I can ping DHCP-assigned IP 165.165.144.130 say.
>> I can ping P-t-P addr 165.165.128.1 (gateway?) with mask 255.255.255.255
>
>So the device setup and the routes seem to fit.
>
>> I can't ping DNS 196.25.1.11 say, Ctrl-C shows packet loss.
>
>That has not to say much. ping is not the almighty tool much people take
>it for.
>
>$ ping 196.25.1.11
>PING 196.25.1.11 (196.25.1.11) 56(84) bytes of data.
>=46rom 196.43.11.41 icmp_seq=3D4 Packet filtered
>=46rom 196.43.11.41 icmp_seq=3D5 Packet filtered
>
>You easily see, the filter ICMP.
>
>> I can't ping canonical names www.cnn.com say, Ctrl-C doesn't even report =
>a response.
>
>www.cnn.com filters ICMP packages too. So a ping has to show you 100%
>package loss.
>
>=46rom www.mit.edu I get ping replies. So try that target.
>
>> I've added all sorts of combinations and permutations with 'route add', a=
>lack.
>>=20
>> It seems as though the further one moves away from the low level function=
>ality, the less name resolving etc one 'sees'.
>> I've this going before, but can't remember how.
>> I am aware of the naming issue in the 'Internet Connection Wizard', where=
> one has to enter 'ppp0' as the provider name.
>> Any insight is appreciated.
>>=20
>> Regards,
>>=20
>> Stu@
>
>Check the output of "route", the default route has to point to the ppp
>device.
>Check the settings in /etc/resolv.conf to have valid nameserver entries
>(take the DNS server from your ISP).
>Check /etc/hosts file to have the line for name resolution for
>localhost: 127.0.0.1.
>
>Alexander
>
>
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20 years
RHN source for mplayer?
by Timothy Chan
Livna provides rpms for mplayer, xine, and such but it's not working out
so well due to failed dependencies.
mplayer 1.0-0.lvn.0.4.pre3.1 requires libaa.so.1
mplayer 1.0-0.lvn.0.4.pre3.1 requires libasound.so.2
mplayer 1.0-0.lvn.0.4.pre3.1 requires
libasound.so.2(ALSA_0.9)
mplayer 1.0-0.lvn.0.4.pre3.1 requires libdv.so.2
mplayer 1.0-0.lvn.0.4.pre3.1 requires liblzo.so.1
Anyone know where I can grab these libs? Thanks for any pointers.
-Tim
20 years
