FC3 and my webcam
by Gianluca Sforna
I had around a cheap webcam but were always unable to use it with
Linux since there weren't a proper driver in the 2.4 kernler serie.
Now, just for curiosity, I plugged it into my newly installed FC3
laptop and it is still not working but there is an improvement; here
is the log result:
Nov 12 08:56:25 hal9001 kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device
using address 6
Nov 12 08:56:25 hal9001 kernel: usb 1-1: SN9C10[12] PC Camera
Controller detected (vid/pid 0x0C45/0x600D)
Nov 12 08:56:25 hal9001 kernel: usb 1-1: PAS106B image sensor detected
Nov 12 08:56:26 hal9001 kernel: usb 1-1: Initialization succeeded
Nov 12 08:56:26 hal9001 kernel: usb 1-1: V4L2 device registered as /dev/video0
Nov 12 08:56:31 hal9001 wait_for_sysfs[6811]: either wait_for_sysfs
(udev 039) needs an update to handle the device
'/class/video4linux/video0' properly (no device symlink) or the
sysfs-support of your device's driver needs to be fixed, please report
to <linux-hotplug-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net>
Probably if I made my homeworks now I would be able to fix the thing
myself but this is not the case :(
Should I report this thing to the linux-hotplug ML, bugzilla.redhat.com or what?
thanks in advance
Gianluca
19 years, 6 months
rawhide report: 20041110 changes
by Build System
Updated Packages:
abiword-1:2.0.14-1
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* Tue Nov 09 2004 Caolan McNamara <caolanm(a)redhat.com> - 1:2.0.14-1
- bump to latest stable version
cpio-2.5-10
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* Tue Nov 09 2004 Peter Vrabec <pvrabec(a)redhat.com>
- fixed "cpio -oH ustar (or tar) saves bad mtime date after Jan 10 2004" (#114580)
* Mon Nov 01 2004 Peter Vrabec <pvrabec(a)redhat.com>
- support large files > 2GB (#105617)
* Thu Oct 21 2004 Peter Vrabec <pvrabec(a)redhat.com>
- fix dependencies in spec
docbook-style-xsl-1.67.0-1
--------------------------
* Wed Nov 10 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 1.67.0-1
- 1.67.0.
dosfstools-2.8-16
-----------------
* Wed Nov 10 2004 Martin Stransky <stransky(a)redhat.com> 2.8-16
- add check for minimum count of clusters in FAT16 and FAT32
epiphany-1.4.4-6
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* Tue Nov 09 2004 Marco Pesenti Gritti <mpg(a)redhat.com> - 1.4.4-6
- Add docs
firefox-0:1.0-1
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* Mon Nov 08 2004 Christopher Aillon <caillon(a)redhat.com> 0:1.0-1
- Firefox 1.0
gdb-6.1post-1.20040607.48
-------------------------
* Tue Nov 09 2004 Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn(a)redhat.com> 1.200400607.48
- Expose $base, $allocate constructors and $delete, $base destructors
for breakpoints.
* Tue Nov 09 2004 Andrew Cagney <cagney(a)redhat.com> 1.200400607.47
- Enable PPC CFI.
* Mon Nov 08 2004 Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn(a)redhat.com> 1.200400607.46
- Bump up release number
glibc-2.3.3-76
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* Wed Nov 10 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 2.3.3-76
- update from CVS
- fix regcomp crash (#138439)
- fix ftell{,o,o64} (#137885)
- robustification of nscd to cope with corrupt databases (#137140)
- fix NPTL with pthread_exit immediately after pthread_create (BZ #530)
- some regex optimizations
grep-2.5.1-37
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* Wed Nov 10 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 2.5.1-37
- Prevent false matches when DFA is disabled (bug #138558).
gstreamer-0.8.7-6
-----------------
* Tue Nov 09 2004 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> 0.8.7-6
- Add initial lib64 patch.
* Tue Oct 26 2004 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> 0.8.7-5
- Do not override docdir (126860)
- Remove datadir/gstreamer-0.8/doc from files list
* Wed Oct 20 2004 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> 0.8.7-4
- Add URI escaping patch from Ronald (136507)
gthumb-2.6.0.1-2
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* Tue Nov 09 2004 Marco Pesenti Gritti <mpg(a)redhat.com> 2.6.0.1-2
- Use upstream desktop file, it has translations and mime
hwdata-0.147-1
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* Wed Nov 10 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> - 0.147-1
- update usb.ids (#138533)
- migrate dpt_i2o to i2o_block (#138603)
* Tue Nov 09 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> - 0.146-1
- update pci.ids (#138233)
- add Apple monitors (#138481)
java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-0:1.4.2.0-14jpp
-------------------------------------
* Tue Nov 09 2004 Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim(a)redhat.com> - 0:1.4.2.0-14jpp
- Remove upstream references in java wrapper output.
* Tue Nov 09 2004 Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim(a)redhat.com> 0:1.4.2.0-12jpp
- Define java.version in java wrapper script.
libexif-0.5.12-4
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* Tue Nov 09 2004 Matthias Saou <matthias.saou(a)est.une.marmotte.net>
- Use %find_lang macro.
- Add %doc files, including mandatory copy of the LGPL license.
- Use -j4
- Improve the descriptions
libidn-0.5.10-1
---------------
* Tue Nov 09 2004 Joe Orton <jorton(a)redhat.com> 0.5.10-1
- update to 0.5.10
- buildroot cleanup fix (Robert Scheck)
libselinux-1.19.1-1
-------------------
* Tue Nov 09 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.19.1-1
- Update from upstream, fix setsebool -P segfault
* Fri Nov 05 2004 Steve Grubb <sgrubb(a)redhat.com> 1.18.1-5
- Add a patch from upstream. Fixes signed/unsigned issues, and
incomplete structure copy.
libxml2-2.6.16-5
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* Wed Nov 10 2004 Daniel Veillard <veillard(a)redhat.com>
- upstream release 2.6.16 see http://xmlsoft.org/news.html
* Thu Jan 02 2003 Daniel Veillard <veillard(a)redhat.com>
- integrated drv_libxml2 xml.sax driver from Stéphane Bidoul
- provides the new XmlTextReader interfaces based on C# XML APIs
* Wed Oct 23 2002 Daniel Veillard <veillard(a)redhat.com>
- revamped the spec file, cleaned up some rpm building problems
mktemp-2:1.5-21
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* Tue Nov 09 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 2:1.5-21
- bump release and rebuilt
nautilus-2.8.1-5
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* Tue Nov 09 2004 Marco Pesenti Gritti <mpg(a)redhat.com> - 2.8.1-5
- Remove eog dependency. The bonobo component is no more used.
* Mon Oct 18 2004 Marco Pesenti Gritti <mpg(a)redhat.com> - 2.8.1-4
- #135824 Fix throbber position
* Fri Oct 15 2004 Alexander Larsson <alexl(a)redhat.com> - 2.8.1-3
- Slightly less bad error dialog when there is no handler for a file.
Not ideal, but this change doesn't change any strings.
openoffice.org-1.1.2-11.7
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* Mon Nov 08 2004 Dan Williams <dcbw(a)redhat.com> - 1.1.2-11
- #rh120055# enable .doc mscodec backport for 1.1.2 (Caolan)
- #rh136907# Wrong colors in openoffice menubars
- #rh106548# Openoffice 1.1 places '.' on LD_LIBRARY_PATH (Caolan)
- #rh137281# OpenOffice crashes due to "lack of memory" (Caolan)
- #rh137335# OOo should not depend on evolution-devel
- #rh137854# Japanese document from Windows is heavily broken
- #rh137799# German spell checker does not work
- #rh137741# Warnings about dictionary list corruption on startup
- #rh137307# Cannot show hidden columns in calc
- #rh137977# Open Office failes to recognise TXT datasource after upgrade
- #rh118742# Templates/wizards in Polish language not working
- #rh123758# Writer does not fallback to english for Index templates
- #rh137395# [x86_64][OOo] installation of OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 failed
- #rh102287# Prelink failures with openoffice (Caolan)
- #rh137487# (partial) Norwegian translation includes som german texts
- #rh137969# crashes openoffice-1.1.2-10 under certain circumstances (Caolan)
- #rh129719# (partial) Incorporate updated Gujarati translation
- #rh107298# Remove File->Autopilots->Report menu for NoJava builds (Caolan)
- #rh110934# OpenOffice Writer locks up when pasting image (Caolan)
- #rh120696# splash window has title "untitled window" (Caolan)
- #rh138317# Printer setting is scrambled for Japanese env
- Change naming schemes so upgrades work (ex FC2 -> FC3) even with
the same NVR on both OS versions
php-5.0.2-7
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* Wed Nov 10 2004 Joe Orton <jorton(a)redhat.com> 5.0.2-7
- truncate changelog at 4.3.1-1
- merge from 4.3.x package:
- enable mime_magic extension and Require: file (#130276)
* Mon Nov 08 2004 Joe Orton <jorton(a)redhat.com> 5.0.2-6
- fix dom/sqlite enable/without confusion
* Mon Nov 08 2004 Joe Orton <jorton(a)redhat.com> 5.0.2-5
- fix phpize installation for lib64 platforms
- add fix for segfault in variable parsing introduced in 5.0.2
pyOpenSSL-0.6-1.p23.1
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* Tue Nov 09 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> 0.6-1.p23.1
- rebuild
qt-1:3.3.3-11
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* Wed Nov 10 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 1:3.3.3-11
- apply patch to fix fullscreen problem
- remove html documents duplicate #135696
rhnlib-1.8-6.p23.fc3.1
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* Tue Nov 09 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> 1.8-6.p23.fc3.1
- rebuild
rpmdb-fedora-1:4-0.20041110
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samba-0:3.0.8-3
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* Tue Nov 09 2004 Jay Fenlason <fenlason(a)redhat.com> 3.0.8-3
- Include the corrected docs tarball, and use it instead of the
obsolete docs from the upstream 3.0.8 tarball.
- Update the logfiles patch to work with the updated docs.
selinux-policy-strict-1.19.1-2
------------------------------
* Wed Nov 10 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.19-1-2
- Allow httpd to read bin_t lnk_files
* Tue Nov 09 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.19-1-1
- Update from NSA
* Mon Nov 08 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.18.2-4
- Add /dev/pmu and privoxy fixes
selinux-policy-targeted-1.19.1-2
--------------------------------
* Wed Nov 10 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.19-1-2
- Allow httpd to read bin_t lnk_files
* Tue Nov 09 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.19.1-1
- Update to latest from upstream
sound-juicer-0.5.14-4
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* Tue Nov 09 2004 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> 0.5.14-4
- Add sound-juicer-idle-safety.patch (bug 137847)
subversion-1.1.1-3
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* Mon Nov 08 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 1.1.1-3
- rebuild against python 2.4
thunderbird-0:0.9-1
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* Fri Nov 05 2004 Christopher Aillon <caillon(a)redhat.com> 0.9.0-1
- Update to 0.9
usermode-1.75-1
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* Wed Nov 10 2004 Jindrich Novy <jnovy(a)redhat.com> 1.75-1
- make pam-panel-icon using localized strings (#138609)
- update translations
- fix usermount to use "-I" option only for vfat and msdos fs
- fix Makefile.am to not to use "Release" from spec to name dist tarballs
* Wed Oct 20 2004 Jindrich Novy <jnovy(a)redhat.com> 1.74-1
- add patch from Mathew Miller (mattdm(a)mattdm.org) to use
own user's password instead of root's in authentization
(the user must be a member of specific group to enable it)
* Mon Oct 04 2004 Jindrich Novy <jnovy(a)redhat.com> 1.73-1
- add support to configure.in for more languages
- update translations from upstream
- generate build scripts by autogen.sh
vte-0.11.11-13
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* Tue Nov 09 2004 Ray Strode <rstrode(a)redhat.com> 0.11.11-13
- Don't copy blocks; use pointers to block array directly.
(based on the debugging efforts of
Egmont Koblinger <egmong(a)uhulinux.hu>, bug 135537).
xscreensaver-1:4.18-9
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* Tue Nov 09 2004 Ray Strode <rstrode(a)redhat.com: 1:4.18-9
- Call pam_acct_mgmt() (might fix bug 137195)
* Tue Nov 09 2004 Ray Strode <rstrode(a)redhat.com: 1:4.18-8
- Give vidwhacker screensaver working defaults
(bug 64518)
* Tue Nov 09 2004 Ray Strode <rstrode(a)redhat.com> 1:4.18-7
- Get rid of old crufty /usr/share/control-center/ tree
(bug 114692)
19 years, 6 months
ogg streams and rhythmbox
by Michael A. Peters
Rhythmbox from upstream works well with mp3 shoutcast streams, which
are removed from Fedora Core due to mp3 support not being there.
Apparantly CBC will be streaming with ogg - and I'm curious as to how
popular ogg streaming is, and wether or not some default internet radio
stations using ogg through shoutcast should be used for Rhythmbox - are
there enough to make it worth it?
I know shoutcast2 builds fine on FC2 and FC3 and the gstreamer plugin
also does - I don't know that they are required for ogg streaming in
rhythmbox (they don't seam to be for mp3 streaming) but if they are,
they work and should be patent free.
Do ogg shoutcast streams work in Rhythmbox as it is?
I think it is worth investigating just so that rhythmbox could be
distributed with Fedora Core 4 with working internet radio stations.
19 years, 6 months
NTFS support with FC3
by Troy Murray
I am in the process of migrating a developer workstation (at home) from
another Linux distribution over to Fedora Core 3.
Does Fedora Core 3 include NTFS support (mount NTFS volumes, read/write
files, traverse directories, control permissions/ownership of files and
directories)?
Troy Murray
19 years, 6 months
CVS snapshot packages for Emacs crashes
by Amitabha Roy
Jens,
I tried running your latest emacs rpms on my fc3 system. I can get emacs to
crash reliably by trying to saving a file using the toolbar (click on
the save icon
on the toolbar).
I get the following error on console:
libgnomevfs-ERROR **: file gnome-vfs-cancellation.c: line 133
(gnome_vfs_cancellation_cancel): assertion failed:
(gnome_vfs_is_primary_thread())
aborting...
Fatal error (6)Aborted
Amitabha
19 years, 6 months
Getting install time for an RPM
by Gavin Henry
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Dear all,
I have always wondered (setting here waiting for FC3 to install) how the
install time for an RPM is calculated.
Would anyone like to tell me ;-)
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Kind Regards,
Gavin Henry.
Managing Director.
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19 years, 6 months
java intergration with firefox
by John Mizell
Is it possible to view java applets with the inclued packages of gij
with fedora core 3? Can they be configured to work as a plugin with
firefox?
Thanx,
John Mizell
19 years, 6 months
Re: python 2.4 upgrade
by Alan Milligan
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| There is nothing at all stopping you (or Fedora) from configuring rpm in
| /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/macros,
| /etc/rpm/macros or ~/.rpmmacros if you wish. You can also add the
| definitions to your own
| package spec files.
|
Of course that's what we've already done. However the full power of
this is only felt when a significant number of Python spec files take
advantage of the same macros. The community cannot work with what is
yet to be published.
We actually had this reflected in ALL of our RH9 Python specs but the
only avenue to contribute this work now is to agitate for change on a
mailing list...
| What stops adding to rpm default configuration -- aside from the
| instantly induced build
| failures with older versions of rpm
This cannot be so. No spec file is yet to reference these 'new' macros.
| I've asked python guys regarding retrieving /usr/lib or /usr/lib64 paths
| portably from python,
| and have no clear indication one way or the other of the Right Thing
To Do.
Harold Hoyer's contributed these multilib functions and I assume he's
thought quite carefully about them. In the unlikely event of a macro
not working in a specific instance, the packager would surely not use it ...
|
| Get me confirmation that the changes work with python 2.[01234], and
| perhaps python 1.5,
| currently deployed and I will be happy to add default macros to rpm.
This is a very moot point, and one that I see many people here
contending with in various forms across a range of applications.
While RH itself is obliged to support many code bases, Fedora doesn't
necessarily need to do so! Anchoring Fedora with the rest of RH is
surely against the spirit of it's conception, and many of us would be
concerned about continued participation (if you could call it that) in
the project on that basis.
Yes RH needs to support this, but not Fedora. That is what source code
control, branches etc is about. Using this arguement as a basis to
dictate what's in and what's out sucks!
| Otherwise, it
| seems kinda pointless to add default macros that don't just "work"
| everywhere imho.
Come now, even you cannot believe it can be that hard for a group of
hard-core Python programmers to sit down and agree upon and publish four
macros!
Alan
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19 years, 6 months
Re: python 2.4 upgrade
by Alan Milligan
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| %pythonprefix - seems overkill; %{_prefix} will should cover well
Only if you want to place python in /usr/lib. Mostly you would wish to
do so, and you will almost certainly get bitten if you dont, but if for
some reason you want to locate python (or another version of the same)
elsewhere, this allows you to do it.
| %pythonversion - %pyver, %pybasever already exist ... would need
| harmonization throughout all specs.
Thats exactly the point of the exercise. If we actually publish the
'standard', it will get adopted. Presently, there are no macros, anyone
packaging something pythonic does their own thing, and ala the
inconsistent mess we have now!
|
| %pythonpath - suggest %pythonhome as naming (a la $JAVA_HOME)
Whatever - anything remotely meaningfully named is ok - publishing it is
the important bit.
|
| Can someone share with me when get_python_lib() != get_python_lib(1)?
| Inquiring minds want to know. %pythondir, %pyexecdir,
| %python_sitearch, %python_sitelib, are pretty superfluous macros.
Actually they are not. These become critical to overriding makefile
parameters in quite a few cases, thereby mitigating the need to hack
third-party setup.py scripts, allowing you to use the vanilla
third-party tarball :)
Alan.
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