cross compiling on x86_64
by Philippe A.
I have installed FC6 x86_64 on my new system. I would like to know how I can
compile a 32 bit freetype package. The following didn't work:
rpmbuild -bb freetype.spec -bb --target i386
It fails with these errors:
checking build system type... x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i386-redhat-linux-gnu
checking for x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-gcc... no
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C
compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.
make: *** [setup] Error 77
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.65705 (%build)
Thanks.
17 years, 3 months
FC6 and Flash
by John
Stupid question; I'm setting up a new box (used) with FC6 and can't
remember where I got Flash for FC5. I know I should've bookmarked the
site/s I got from people, but didn't. Help!
John
17 years, 3 months
zd1211 wireless
by Terry Polzin
Greetings group;
Can anyone out there relate their success or failures with the zd1211 module
built into some of the latest fc5 fc6 kernels.
THANKS
Terry
17 years, 3 months
delta rpm for yum. is it in the works?
by Valent Turkovic
If this has already been discussed sorry for my lack of knowledge.
I probably had to write this a year ago, but I hoped that it would happen in
Fedora Core 6. When it didn't I was surprised and shocked!
SuSE, Fedora and Mandriva use RPM packages, but Suse (mandriva adopted it
also) uses delta rpm packages for updated. Which is a GREAT solution for
updates because they are a fraction of the whole download. Even on a high
bandwidth ADSL line it takes a lot of time (and banddwidth) to download
Fedora updates. Delta RPMs are an extreme upgrade to standard updated so
please consider adopting it.
So I applaud you if this is already in the works for Fedora 7, and you get a
really, really strange look from me if it is not.
Thank you for all your effort for making Fedora a great distro it is!
Valent from Croatia.
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17 years, 4 months
How to re-install grub in hda?
by Paul Smith
Dear All
I had grub installed in the disk hda, but I have meanwhile formatted
hda. How can I re-install grub again in hda? I am using a Knoppix and
I do not have access to hde, the disk where Fedora is installed,
because I cannot boot into it.
Thanks in advance,
Paul
17 years, 4 months
Eclipse running out of memory, or..?
by Frode Petersen
I have a problem that I've tried to figure out, but without much progress.
I run Fedora Eclipse with an UML plugin. Very often Eclipse seems to be
stuck in some sort of loop where the java VM is using appr. 50% CPU
(dual core = 100% of one core?). The result is that Eclipse shuts down
after a few minutes. (This happens with ArgoEclipse and Omondo
EclipseUML Community Edition)
I have found some advice suggesting I should try to increase the VM's
memory, but they use flags with the java... command used to run the
normal Eclipse. I have not figured out how to do this with Fedora Eclipse.
FC6 x86_64, SunJDK 1.5
I'll be greatful for some pointers...
Frode Petersen
17 years, 4 months
fglrx question
by Gene Heskett
Greetings;
Warning, fglrx newbie here. I've been running the kernels radeon drivers
for the last 3 years since my last nvidia card took a crap and took the
motherboard with it.
I've downloaded and installed the current ati drivers for my third party
(VisionTek I think) ati 9200SE 128mb card.
Unforch, its running at about 1/4 the speed I can get from the kernels
radeon drivers.
kernel is 2.6.20-ck1, ati-agp and nvidia-agp are compiled in but this made
no difference. There is also an ati-agp module loaded according to
lsmod.
DRM and DRI refuse to initialize. So the Xorg.0.log has this:
-----------------------
(II) LoadModule: "fglrx"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so
(II) Module fglrx: vendor="FireGL - ATI Technologies Inc."
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:2:0:1)
found
(II) fglrx(0): pEnt->device->identifier=0x8217610
(II) fglrx(0): === [R200PreInit] === begin, [s]
(II) fglrx(0): PCI bus 2 card 0 func 0
(**) fglrx(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
(II) fglrx(0): Pixel depth = 24 bits stored in 4 bytes (32 bpp pixmaps)
(==) fglrx(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(**) fglrx(0): Option "DPMS" "true"
(==) fglrx(0): RGB weight 888
(II) fglrx(0): Using 8 bits per RGB (8 bit DAC)
(==) fglrx(0): Gamma Correction for I is 0x06419064
(==) fglrx(0): Gamma Correction for II is 0x06419064
(==) fglrx(0): Buffer Tiling is ON
(II) fglrx(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000
(--) fglrx(0): Chipset: "RADEON 9250/9200 Series (RV280 5964)" (Chipset =
0x5964)
(--) fglrx(0): (PciSubVendor = 0x1545, PciSubDevice = 0x7c13)
(--) fglrx(0): board vendor info: third party graphics adapter - NOT
original ATI
(--) fglrx(0): Linear framebuffer (phys) at 0xd8000000
(--) fglrx(0): MMIO registers at 0xe9000000
(==) fglrx(0): ROM-BIOS at 0x000c0000
(II) fglrx(0): VESA BIOS detected
(II) fglrx(0): VESA VBE Version 2.0
(II) fglrx(0): VESA VBE Total Mem: 16384 kB
(II) fglrx(0): VESA VBE OEM: ATI RADEON 9200
(II) fglrx(0): VESA VBE OEM Software Rev: 1.0
(II) fglrx(0): VESA VBE OEM Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
(II) fglrx(0): VESA VBE OEM Product: V280
(II) fglrx(0): VESA VBE OEM Product Rev: 01.00
(WW) fglrx(0): Failed to open DRM connection
(--) fglrx(0): VideoRAM: 131072 kByte, Type: DDR SGRAM / SDRAM
(II) fglrx(0): AGP card detected
(WW) fglrx(0): board is an unknown third party board, chipset is supported
(II) fglrx(0): Connected Display1: CRT on primary DAC
(II) fglrx(0): Display1 EDID data ---------------------------
(II) fglrx(0): Manufacturer: XXX Model: 1996 Serial#: 69590637
(II) fglrx(0): Year: 2005 Week: 30
(II) fglrx(0): EDID Version: 1.1
(II) fglrx(0): Analog Display Input, Input Voltage Level: 0.700/0.700 V
--------
then near the end, this:
--------
[root@coyote ~]# grep '(WW)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(WW) The core pointer device wasn't specified explicitly in the layout.
(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module ati-agp
(WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:2:0:1)
found
(WW) fglrx(0): Failed to open DRM connection
(WW) fglrx(0): board is an unknown third party board, chipset is supported
(WW) fglrx(0): ***********************************************
(WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed! *
(WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO) *
(WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available *
(WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* *
(WW) fglrx(0): Option "VendorName" is not used
(WW) fglrx(0): Option "ModelName" is not used
(WW) <default pointer>: No Device specified, looking for one...
The question is what kernel module?
The /etc/X11/xorg.conf was generated with 'aticonfig --initial' from a tty
console. I've added drm and ati-agp to the Load Modules section, no
difference.
The gzipped .config for this kernel is attached.
What else would it be helpfull to post in an attempt to troubleshoot this?
--
Cheers, Gene
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soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
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message by Gene Heskett are:
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17 years, 4 months
Re: ESR: Goodbye Fedora
by Kwan Lowe
>>> ESR has always been a lot of hot air. He's an attention whore.
>>>
>>
>> He is some thing of a gas bag, isn't he. :D
>>
>
> Maybe :), but he has a couple things I agree with, RH/Fedora is losing
> ground on desktop share, because people want things to just work, like as
> simple as playing a bloody mp3, which they can do with every other distro
> out there. like it or not, its here and here to stay.
I'm not certain that there's much Fedora can do about that. AFAIK, legal MP3
playback requires a license. For a community supported distro, I'm not sure if this
is feasible and even if it were, it may disagree with some of the fundamental tenets
of Free software. To his point about compromising ideals for end-user convenience,
I'm in disagreement.
> Try converting winblows users to Fedora, but saying, oh but you cant play
> mp3's out of the box...you can, but youll have to go toa unofficial
> RH/Fedora repo and try install it, or do like I do and erase the players
> RH bastardises, and grab the source and install it, now say that to a
> newbie and you've lost em! First impression are ever lasting in this
> game.
Here too... MP3s are nice, but it's not something that is a show-stopper for me or
anyone that I've helped with Linux. I.e., if MP3 playback is important enough then
it's a relatively simple matter to install the software. A rough equivalent would be
WinZIP. It doesn't ship with Windows, but is a quick install. Same for SSH clients,
editors, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Flash/Shockwave, Quicktime, and a host of other
proprietary codecs.
> Secondly, the version upgrade is messy, I've never ever yet upgraded from
> one version of RH or Fedora without conflicts, FC4 was a comple explosion,
> I gave up and reinstalled previous and ignored FC4.
> Yet I can do this with even slackware and have been able to for years,
> with slapt-get I was able to upgrade without a drama a slackware 7 box
> to a slackware 11.0!!, reboot and viola! all working.
True, I'll agree here. I haven't upgraded FC or RH in a long time as I generally do
scratch installs. My boxes, once the distro is loaded, usually get heavily modified
with all sorts of packages so it may be unrealistic in my case to have an upgrade
work smoothly. My /home is separate so it's not too big a deal.
> I'll possibly for time being stick with Fedora for desktops,as I've used
> them since early RH, but no way in bloody hell will it ever run on any
> server in my data center, I'll stick with slackware there, last RH server I
> decommisioned about 2 years ago was RH9, it was unbreakable, Fedora
> is by design "bleeding edge" or is that "bleeding edge of blunders", and
> if we dont fix it soon, the likes of debian and suse will overtake us by a
> long mile.
I'd agree that FC on a server is not the best choice, though I run my own
web/dns/file/ldap on FC5 or FC6 currently. Being a lazy admin though, FC fits me
pretty well.
You raise some good points and if you'd written the same thing that the gasbag had
mailbombed the world with, I'd probably have read more attentively :P
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17 years, 4 months
What is the proper way to restart udev?
by Steven W. Orr
I found /sbin/udevstart but there is no udevstop. Can I kill -1 the
running udevd, or do I kill -9 the udevd followed by a udevstart, or do I
have to reboot?
TIA
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Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- 000
individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
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17 years, 4 months
