Recompiling the Fedora 3 Kernel - interessting ?
by Frank
Hallo,
how about the 'Error: *** .text refers to 00000XXX' Descriptions ... is
this interessting for the builded Kernel ... yes rpmbuild does the Job
very good
Error: ./init/initramfs.o .text refers to 00000fc2
R_386_PC32 .init.text
Error: ./init/initramfs.o .text refers to 00000ff4
R_386_PC32 .init.text
Error: ./init/initramfs.o .text refers to 000013c4
R_386_PC32 .init.text
Error: ./init/main.o .text refers to 00000086
R_386_PC32 .init.text
Error: ./mm/bootmem.o .altinstructions refers to 00000000
R_386_32 .init.text
Error: ./mm/slab.o .text refers to 0000059e R_386_32 .init.data
Error: ./mm/slab.o .data refers to 00000138 R_386_32 .init.text
Error: ./mm/slab.o .altinstructions refers to 00000000
R_386_32 .init.text
Error: ./mm/slab.o .altinstructions refers to 0000000c
R_386_32 .init.text
Error: ./net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_nat_rule.o .data refers to 00000028
R_386_32 .init.data
Done
more detailled as Attachement
Greetings Frank
19 years, 5 months
Xinerama Auto-switcher Thingy Using Kudzu
by Jeff Pitman
Hi all:
Hacked this piece a few years ago. Now, updated to xorg.conf. Haven't
searched the internet, but it's probably already been done somewhere.
Since X.org doesn't have an auto-switcher mechanism I just hack a kudzu
DDC probe in py and then switch config based on that.
Config xinerama (or clone or whatever) with two monitors connected to
your laptop and then save it as xorg.conf.multi. Oh, save the single
screen config to xorg.conf.single first. Then, run gorama. Simple
thing really. Someday it'll be trash since Xorg will do it. (Maybe it
does it now and I'll be really embarassed.)
BTW, to solve the problem where you shutdown with two monitors and you
boot up with single, put the call to gorama in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local.
If you wonder where to put it, I threw it in /usr/local/sbin, for fun,
but you can put it anywhere.
have fun,
--
-jeff
19 years, 5 months
Requests for FC4
by Jason Dravet
I would just try to convert as many programs over to the new interfaces. I
am tired of seeing messages like: GtkDeprecationWarning: gtk.mainloop is
deprecated and using a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it to SG_IO.
Yes there are bugzilla entries for this.
Tell everyone FC5 will not ship with the old X font server. Maybe switch
from using initrd to initramfs? Start to get rid of the dead wood.
Also passing resolution=800x512 on the command line only crashes the X
server so I am forced to use a text install. Since I have to use a text
install, the xorg.conf contains the wrong information about the monitor and
I have to boot into single user mode to copy a working xorg.conf over the
old one. It would be nice for this to work properly. Yes there is a
bugzilla about this.
Please try to get the main distribution down to 1 or 2 CDs. At the rate FC
is growing I think FC4 will be 5 CDs. Maybe consider breaking core into
server and desktop groups. I think most sysadmins don't install Gnome games
or openoffice on a webserver. You need X windows because the Oracle
installer requires it.
Please include a better firewall configuration tool. The current one is
good for only basic firewalls, but I need something that allows me to open
specific ports from specific IPs, log all traffic except for this port, or
log all traffic on this port only, etc.
Someone from RedHat really needs to go through bugzilla. I have been
reading the old threads about this. I hope something happens soon.
Anaconda really needs to list all packages during the selection part of the
install (this goes for text based and graphical installs) or maybe have an
advanced menu for experienced users. For example I don't have isdn, so I
don't want the isdn packages installed. However there is no place to
uncheck a ISDN box during the package selection phase, or am I not looking
hard enough. Also a description about each package would be nice. Also, I
uncheck a couple of packages that I know have packages depending on them
before the install, the checking dependencies phase does not tell me
anything is being added, yet those packages are installed. All I am asking
for is please tell me when the installer is adding a package because of a
dependency so if I want I can go back and tell anaconda to not install that
package.
I would have delayed the release one at most two weeks. Firefox has had
their release date on their website for about month. I would have delayed
the release to include the 1.0 release. This extra week would have given
people time to further test KDE 3.3.1 so it too could be included in the FC3
release. I am aware of the 'if you keep delaying it will never be released'
argument, but with 2 major packages being updated within a week of release
makes me think it was released a little prematurely. I use gnome myself,
but as someone who uses dial up, I really don't want to see 50 packages
being released the first day or two after a release.
Just my $0.02. All in all FC3 is a pretty good release. If I had to give
it a grade, it would be a B.
Jason
19 years, 5 months
Fedora.us wiki down
by Per Bjornsson
Hi,
While it was mentioned a bit down in an earlier thread I guess that
might have been overlooked (at least since I haven't seen any further
mention of it and it's still down...): The fedora.us wiki is unavailable
at the moment, looks like a MySQL problem as far as I can tell:
---
lib/WikiDB/backend/PearDB.php:32: Fatal[256]: Can't connect to database:
wikidb_backend_mysql: fatal database error
* DB Error: connect failed
* ( [nativecode=Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
'/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)] **
mysql://fedorawikiuser:XXXXXXXX@localhost/fedorawiki)
---
Since I didn't see an admin address on fedora.us I figured this e-mail
might find its target audience (i.e. Warren or someone else with admin
power at fedora.us) through this list...
Best regards,
Per Bjornsson
19 years, 5 months
rawhide report: 20041126 changes
by Build System
Updated Packages:
perl-libwww-perl-5.79-6
-----------------------
* Thu Nov 25 2004 Miloslav Trmac <mitr(a)redhat.com> - 5.79-6
- Convert man page to UTF-8
rpmdb-fedora-1:4-0.20041126
---------------------------
sane-backends-1.0.15-6
----------------------
* Thu Nov 25 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 1.0.15-6
- Random changes in libusbscanner.
19 years, 5 months
python 2.4 upgrade
by Alan Milligan
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Hi,
I noted with interest, the python 2.4 upgrade.
I had hoped that bug request 120635 regarding integrating new python
macros into rpm would have been addressed as part of these changes.
Every spec file with a Python dependency has been individually modified
to facilitate this upgrade, and each could have benefited from using the
new macros.
I do hope an opportunity has not been missed.
Alan
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19 years, 5 months
(no subject)
by Loïc Péron
Hi list,
I'd lmike to know what needs to be done to get FC3 minimal package set runnning
on a i486.
It seems only the kernel package is processor specific, and after some research,
it seems the i486 and i586 ISA are identical.
Could I just install minimal FC3 on a i586 then swap the harddrive to my i486
and hope it runs?
Other gotchas?
TIA
--
Loïc Péron
phone:(33) 683 880 177
mailto:loic.peron@bigfoot.com
19 years, 5 months
ACPI Causing Laptop To Emit High-pitch Whine
by Jeff Pitman
Hi all:
T30 laptop here; I know there's quite a few IBM-toting folks here, so
I'm tossing this message here.
ACPI causes some wierd interaction with possibly a capacitor near the
CPU fan which makes it vibrate at a frequency that the human ear can
detect. Course, if your AC is on, you're in the office, outside, etc.
you're not going to hear it or care. But, when you'd like to retreat
to a quiet setting to hack on some stuff it gets très annoying with
this thing whining at you. (Like, you already get enough of that from
others during the day...)
Anyhow, found a piece here that it happens on DELL:
http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2003/Dec/1037.html
I notice that we config in thermal.ko statically:
CONFIG_ACPI_THERMAL=y
So, guess I'll have to rebuild to do some experimenting.
But, anyway, if you have suggestions, comments, off-topic redirects, let
me know.
thanks,
--
-jeff
19 years, 5 months
fedora.us and Extras FC3 Status
by Warren Togami
Enough people were confused about the situation, so I am making this
interim anouncement.
download.fedora.us for FC3 will only replicate from
download.fedora.redhat.com for convenience of apt users. yum users
should use official download.fedora.redhat.com mirrors which are twice
as plentiful.
Currently the RPMS.extras directory is empty, because redhat's
infrastructure for the Extras relaunch is not done yet. We're *really*
close now with build servers in the rack and CVS in configuration and
heavy testing. Lots of tweaking and labor still pending. Don't ask
for ETA. If we have to answer questions, it will slow us down further.
Extras when built will be simultaneously available for i386 and x86_64
(both supported FC3 archs) and distributed in
download.fedora.redhat.com. fedora.us will automatically replicate from
those directories for apt users.
Details about CVS, contribution legal forms, governance, and development
process & policies will be revealed when this relaunch happens.
Warren Togami
wtogami(a)redhat.com
19 years, 5 months