Radeon, Video driver
by Jim
I have a i386 box that I'm installing F8 from F5 that had a "radeon"
driver for a ATI video card that work great on F5,
but is the xorg-drv-radeonhd the correct driver replacement or xorg-drv-ati.
I would greatly appreicate that if you give a answer that it is because
you have tryed this on your computer.
16 years, 1 month
trac and Fedora 9 alpha
by Martin Marques
I was checking the packages in one of the Fedora 9 alpha mirrors and
couldn't find trac. I see it in rawhide, but not in F9-alpha. does it
have something to do with not having "Everything"?
16 years, 1 month
x86_64 desktop system questions
by Mike Chambers
Hey all,
Ok, am new to using the 64bit systems and this is my first one. I
finally got my dual boot all setup and Fedora 8 initially installed with
updates applied as of this morning. So far basically no problems, and
running fine AFAICT. But some issues, comments, or questions I have to
help better understand how to run my system.
1 - Noticed i386 packages (some, not all) installed along with the 64
bit ones. Is there an rpm/yum command to list the i386, and possibly
then remove the ones I def don't need that the system will allow? Are
there some of these that I *have* to have, depending on what I use the
program for? I have seperate test/updates/rawhide dir's that I mirror,
and notice in the 64 bit ones, that there are i386 packages, as I guess
those are needed depended on if i386 is what is needed to go along with
the 64 bit ones?
2 - This may be part of my question to 1 above, but are firefox and
evolution i386 packages needed? I installed the flash-plugin but think
I have seen talk bout only for i386 and that is why firefox-i386 is
needed?
3 - My system is an AMD Athlon 64 x2 Dual Core Processor 3600+ (2.0G cpu
speed each one I think). What kernel does this need to be using for
best results?
4 - I only use the system for home use, email, internet, occasional
packaging (not much, just edit or repackage), that type thing. Do I
*really* have to worry bout using 64 bit installs , or can i386 work
just fine and not have to worry about separate dir's and packages
mixing? Will my system/kernel still run just as fast or whatever with
i386 or is it even running that much (if at all) faster now with 64 bit?
Hope this isn't too many questions, just trying to understand what my
system is capable of doing. Thanks for your time.
--
Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY
"The best lil town on Earth!"
16 years, 1 month
booting an external disk via grub
by Markus Kesaromous
Since my bios does not support booting from a USB stick,
how can I modify my grub, so that it will boot from memory stick.
My main internal (laptop) drive has 1indows in partition 1
and Fedora 7 in partition 2. Grub lets me select either linux
or windows. But any external bootable device connected
to the laptop either via usb or sata (cardbus) is totally invisible
to bios and to grub.
So, my question to the list is: What should be added to grub
menus so that it can boot from external device?
Could someone show a grub entry example of booting
an external device that is invisible to BIOS?
What about the OS on the external disk that we are trying to boot?
Is there something that needs to be done to it so that the id
it assigns to itself is same as that assigned to it by grub?
(i.e such as hd0 or hd1, ...etc).
Thanx for your help.
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16 years, 1 month
DMI errors in latest kernel
by Mike Chambers
I am seeing these in my log, is it anything to worry about right now?
This on an x86_64 system.
Feb 29 23:29:02 scrappy kernel: DMI present.
Feb 29 23:29:02 scrappy kernel: dmi_string: out of memory.
Feb 29 23:29:02 scrappy kernel: dmi_save_oem_strings_devices: out of memory.
Have 2G memory (RAM) on way this week, Tue or so, in case that is any sort of problem. Right now on 1G memory.
--
Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY
"The best lil town on Earth!"
16 years, 1 month
F8 drivers for ASUS EeePC??
by Beartooth Sciurivore
Having bought an ASUS EeePC (4 GB version), I soon discovered its
native OS, Xandros, far more Windowy than I could stomach. So I tried
several others, and had various troubles.
Having eventually discovered the Redhat Magazine discussion,
entitled "Fedora + Eee PC = Eeedora" -- which is at http://
www.redhatmagazine.com/2008/02/14/fedora-eee-pc-eeedora/#comment-55444 --
I of course tried F8.
At present both F8 and Puppy 3.01eee are installed, booting, and
running; but only the Puppy (from a USB stick, fwiw) can connect to the
Net. Fedora fails, both wirelessly and with an ethernet cable.
To judge from much discussion of these and other attempts, the
likeliest problem seems to be drivers, for eth0 and ath0.
Compiling is beyond me. Does anyone know if any pre-compiled
drivers for F8 for this machine are available anywhere?
--
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Enthusiast
Fedora 8; Ubuntu 7.10; CentOS 5.1; Alpine 1.0, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6
Remember I know little (precious little!) of what I am talking about.
16 years, 1 month
Problem with hard drive lock out
by Mark LaPierre
Hey All,
I'm having a vexing problem with FC8 losing connection to one of my
hard drives. I've had it drop out in a matter of a few minutes. This
time it was working for several days before it quit.
I have two drives on my system. One SATA drive has the system
installed on it. The other, plugged into the IDE header has data files
on it. The SATA drive runs fine. The IDE drive will eventually quit
working. I can cd onto the drive as long as I don't try to access
something that is not already in the disk cache. When I try to access
the drive I get this error:
[mlapier@mushroom mlapier]$ cd /sdb1
[mlapier@mushroom sdb1]$ cd mlapier
[mlapier@mushroom mlapier]$ cd mail
[mlapier@mushroom mail]$ cd MYDIR
[mlapier@mushroom MYDIR]$ ls
ls: reading directory .: Input/output error
[mlapier@mushroom piano]$ cd /sdb2
[mlapier@mushroom sdb2]$ cd piano
[mlapier@mushroom piano]$ ls
ls: reading directory .: Input/output error
There are two partitions mounted thus:
drwxrwxrwx 16 root users 4096 2007-12-29 12:56 sdb1
drwxrwxrwx 49 root users 4096 2008-01-06 22:48 sdb2
[mlapier@mushroom etc]$ cat fstab
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults > 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /sdb1 ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/sdb2 /sdb2 ext2 defaults 1 2
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults > 0 0
[mlapier@mushroom etc]$ uname -a
Linux mushroom.patch 2.6.23.15-137.fc8 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 17:03:13 EST
2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I've been running Linux for many years on many boxes but I've never
encountered a situation like this. The only way I've found to restore
operation is a to reboot.
Anyone got any clues??
Mark LaPierre
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16 years, 1 month
Virtual Machine Manager not reporting CPU usage
by Colin Paul Adams
I am running a virtual machine (kvm/qemu) on a quad-core x64
machine with 8GB RAM running Fedora 8. I have not supplied the -smp switch to
qemu-system-x86_64, as it doesn't seem to like it. I passed the -m
1024 switch (it doesn't like 2048)
Looking at System Monitor, one of the physical CPUs shows at just
about 100% busy all the time. this is what I would expect, as I am
running a compile in the guest (DragonFly BSD 1.12.0).
But looking at Virtual Machine Manager, it shows CPU% as 0.0%, Memory
usage as 0%. It also 4 VCPUs.
Why? (on all three counts).
I am especially unhappy to see 4 VCPUs, as DragonFly is not known for
good SMP performance at the moment.
--
Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire
16 years, 1 month
Sharing /var between systems
by Timothy Murphy
I have Fedora-7 and Fedora-8 on the same computer.
Can I share /var between them?
(I have the Fedora-7 /var on a separate partition.
If possible, I'd like to use this with the new system.)
Any suggestions gratefully received.
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
16 years, 1 month
usb hub working with linux fedora
by Jan Brosius
Hello,
I have tried a cheap usb hub but it doesn't work with fedora 8.
I have googled a lot to find more about usb hubs brands working with
linux but didn't find anything.
Is there a brand of usb hub that works with fedora 8?
Thanks for any information
Jan
16 years, 1 month