Anyone seen radeon driver fail to find DVI?
by Tom Horsley
Haven't had a chance to gather much data on this, but on a machine at home
with a fairly old radeon card (might be a 9200 or 9600, I can't look right
now), debian etch has no problem running the display with the xorg radeon
driver it has, but fedora 8 can't talk to the display.
When I look at the log file, I see it believes that it should be talking
to DDC_VGA (which isn't connected), doesn't find a monitor (which makes
sense), and refuses to talk.
The log when I boot debian doesn't mention VGA at all, but goes right
to the DVI connector and works fine.
Just wondered if this rings any bells for anyone before I kill a
lot of time to examine it in more detail.
16 years, 3 months
Possible bug with TypeError in Python
by Aaron Konstam
The following seems like an bug in python in both f7 and f8 but I would
like input before I post a bugzilla. It seems the exception handler
cannot trap the TypeError in python.
For example:
def plus(a,b):
try:
return(a+b)
except TypeError:
return None
If we define plus as above and call it with: plus(3,) we should get
nothing returned. Instead we get:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./calculator", line 47, in <module>
exec("register=op[tokens[0]](register)")
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: plus() takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given)
This seems like a bug. An ideas out there?
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16 years, 3 months
Customizing Fedora Core 6
by potat0
Dear All,
I am working on customizing fedora core 6 with limited packages,and some additional packages. I trimmed all packages to 1.4 GB and planning to make installation disks(probably 2 CDs).
Now I have the same directory structure what CD1 has, but only difference is RPMS directory contains all trimmed pacakages.
I have resolved all the package dependencies using "rpm --test". My query is how can I divide the RPMs so that we can accomodate in 2 CDs.
Please provide me some suggestions or procedure for doing this
Praveen
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16 years, 3 months
USB disk won't mount during boot
by Larry Breyer
I have three different Dell desktops. They are running
FC5, FC6, and F7, respectively. I mention this because
the problem does not occur on FC6. I have Western Digital
USB drives with ext3 filesystems attached to each.
On the FC5 and F7 machines the boot process fails to mount
the USB drive. There is some complaint about an invalid ext3
filesystem. But, after the machines are fully booted, I can
mount the USB drives without any problem.
Is the mount being attempted before the drivers are in place?
Is there a way to resolve this problem?
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16 years, 3 months
gettext function not found by Perl module
by M. Fioretti
Greetings,
I need to install the gettext-1.05 perl module from CPAN because
some inherited , very obscure unmaintenable scripts I _need_ to run on FC8
64 bit need it.
When I run the perl Makefile.PL command, I get:
[root@polaris gettext-1.05]# perl Makefile.PL
checking for gettext... no
checking for gettext in -lintl... no
gettext function not found. Please install libintl at Makefile.PL line 18
but I don't know anymore where to find this libintl thing. After the first
time I got this error, I did:
yum install gettext
yum install perl-libintl
yum install perl-gettext
yum install libintl
yum install gettext-devel
and nothing changed, I still get that error. yum search libintl only returns:
perl-libintl.x86_64 : Internationalization library for Perl, compatible
with gettext
what else? I've even installed by hand the libintl-perl and
Locale::Maketext::Gettext modules from CPAN, and nothing changes, I still
get that error. What do I need to install to make it go away?
Thank you in advance for any feedback,
Marco
PS: if it helps, the error message comes from this piece of Makefile.PL:
unless (conftest("char *x = gettext(\"foo\");", "gettext", 0)) {
# try with -lintl
$libs = "-lintl";
unless (conftest("char *x = gettext(\"foo\");", "gettext", 0)) {
unlink("conftest.c");
unlink("conftest");
die "gettext function not found. Please install libintl";
}
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16 years, 3 months
libGL error: open DRM failed (Operation not permitted) Fedora-8-xfce
by Frank Murphy
PCI-Card loaded first in bios.
libGL error: open DRM failed (Operation not permitted)
so:
dmesg | grep agp
Linux agpgart interface v0.102
agpgart: Detected an Intel i810 Chipset.
agpgart: detected 4MB dedicated video ram.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe80000
This is my inbuild video-chip.
Below is my PCI-Card.
dmesg | grep drm
[drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[drm] Initialized radeon 1.28.0 20060524 on minor 0
[drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map
[drm] Loading R200 Microcode
[drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs
How do I prevent the error(s).
Frank
16 years, 3 months
CD and DVD ISO images
by John Summerfield
The latest Fedora newsletter triggered this. Someone was asking about
CD-sized ISO images.
For some time I've wondered whether it might be a Good Thing for distros
to create a bunch of CD-sized ISO images, and then for the DVD-sized ISO
image simply glue the lot into a single ISO image that boots the
installer and installs as usual. I don't see much point to making
different-sized install media that are so different.
Anaconda already has to logic to loop-mount ISO images, it just needs to
be applied to the "CDROM" install path.
There would be space advantages to all who host the distro; they'd
simply host the DVD images.
Users who want the CD images would download the DVD image, loop mount it
on Linux or OS X (I think there's brand-X software for Windows too) and
then extract the ISO images to burn or not.
I'm assuming nobody (Debian users excepted) downloads less than a full
set of images.
Most, but not all, of my too-numerous computers have DVD drives, and
right now I'm looking at installing something that I downloaded as a DVD
image on a system that hasn't a DVD drive.
What do others think?
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16 years, 3 months
usb-device doesn't work
by Jens Keppeler
hello,
i have a problem. Since i updated my Fedora i can't mount a usb device.
with a live-CD the dives are running.
my dmesg says:
usb 4-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 12 usb
4-3: device descriptor read/64, error -32 usb 4-3: device descriptor
read/64, error -32 usb 4-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and
address 13 usb 4-3: device descriptor read/64, error -32 usb 4-3: device
descriptor read/64, error -32 usb 4-3: new high speed USB device using
ehci_hcd and address 14 usb 4-3: device not accepting address 14, error
-32 usb 4-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 15 usb
4-3: device not accepting address 15, error -32 usb 4-3: new high speed
USB device using ehci_hcd and address 16 usb 4-3: device descriptor
read/64, error -32 usb 4-3: device descriptor read/64, error -32 usb
4-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 17 usb 4-3:
device descriptor read/64, error -32 usb 4-3: device descriptor read/64,
error -32 usb 4-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address
18 usb 4-3: device not accepting address 18, error -32 usb 4-3: new high
speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 19 usb 4-3: device not
accepting address 19, error -32
grep "^[TS]" /proc/bus/usb/devices
says:
T: Bus=04 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=480 MxCh= 6 S:
Manufacturer=Linux 2.6.23.12-52.fc7 ehci_hcd S: Product=EHCI Host
Controller S: SerialNumber=0000:00:03.3 T: Bus=03 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00
Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2 S: Manufacturer=Linux 2.6.23.12-52.fc7
ohci_hcd S: Product=OHCI Host Controller S: SerialNumber=0000:00:03.2 T:
Bus=02 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2 S:
Manufacturer=Linux 2.6.23.12-52.fc7 ohci_hcd S: Product=OHCI Host
Controller S: SerialNumber=0000:00:03.1 T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00
Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2 S: Manufacturer=Linux 2.6.23.12-52.fc7
ohci_hcd S: Product=OHCI Host Controller S: SerialNumber=0000:00:03.0
I hope someone could help me
16 years, 3 months
dhcpd mystery
by Timothy Murphy
Who or what decides the length of a dhcp lease?
I notice that the computers accessing my desktop dhcpd server
have widely different lease times.
The laptop I'm currently using, for example,
has a lease time of about half-an-hour
according to /var/lib/dhclient/dhclient-eth1.leases:
-----------------------------
renew 2 2008/1/29 13:08:12;
rebind 2 2008/1/29 13:34:10;
expire 2 2008/1/29 13:41:40;
-----------------------------
But the server sets the time much longer,
according to /etc/dhcpd.conf on my desktop:
-----------------------------
default-lease-time 21600;
max-lease-time 43200;
-----------------------------
Can the client change the lease times?
Or is it entirely up to the server?
[My grand-daughter's Wii seems to have an even shorter lease time,
at least it exchanges DHCPREQUEST/DHCPACK with the server every 2 minutes.]
Is there an online document that will instruct me on this?
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