yum tutorial and setting up ATAPI laptop drive without SCSI emulation
by Robert P. J. Day
first, and totally off-topic, there's an updated version of my yum
tutorial online at http://www.kwlug.org/download.php if you're interested.
most of the blanks have been filled in; feedback always appreciated.
(it's still not finalized, but it's getting there.)
second, i'm running FC3 (well, FC2 with absolutely everything updated
to FC3) on my inspiron 8100, and i'd like to set it up to access the
ATAPI CD-RW drive (/dev/hdb) without the historical SCSI emulation.
at the moment, working with kernel 2.6.0-test8, after i boot, there's
no record of a CD-ROM drive, so i'm thinking i've somehow messed up
converting over from the SCSI emulation to not needing it.
that is, i should be able to run things like
# cdrecord dev=/dev/hdb ...
and so on. i'm about to go over all my config file settings and
kernel options again to see what i missed, but is there a short recipe
for what's necessary?
rday
20 years, 6 months
no X after full upgrade from test3 to upgraded pkgs for test3
by Harry Putnam
After a full upgrade this morning from older test3 to the newest
stuff, I'm unable to startx or to boot to runlevel 5.
XFREE pkgs were some of those updated and now consist of:
rpm -qa|grep XF
XFree86-libs-data-4.3.0-42
XFree86-devel-4.3.0-42
XFree86-libs-4.3.0-42
XFree86-Mesa-libGL-4.3.0-42
XFree86-Mesa-libGLU-4.3.0-42
I'm pretty sure there should be a bunch more from
rpm -qa|grep XF
Particulary the font packages
If these were not installed during upgrade there must be something
fairly major wrong since I was runnning X before the upgrade. I did
the upgrade with no X running however.
attempting to start collecting the missing packages I tried:
up2date -i XFree86-100dpi-fonts which is now hanging at the
dependancy resolving part and been there about 1/2 hr.
up2date version is up2date-4.12.1-4
I'd like to see a list of the full set of packages requred. And try
to piece them in by hand if necessary.
20 years, 6 months
VNC + local X session causes problem with GNOME panel applets
by Mark Mielke
Can anybody else reproduce this?
If I create a VNC session that is running GNOME, and then login to a local
X session, the GNOME panel applets all (or most) refuse to come up in the
local X session (and vice versa, if started in reverse).
This is a common scenario for me: Have a permanent Xvnc session
running to access my work machine from home. When at work, login
locally. I don't want/need to share the same desktop session. I only
need for both sessions to operate independently, and not collide with
other for resources (CORBA problems?).
Any suggestions?
I've almost gone so far as to create a second user with a different HOME
directory, just to start the VNC session from... (ugly, and impractical for
numerous reasons...)
mark
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20 years, 6 months
up2date hang
by Gene C.
I have noticed that up2date seems to "hang" if I select a log (eg, all)
updates to be downloaded/installed. The download is fine but when it gets to
the install there is some cpu usage but then everything drops to zero and
nothing happens. If I kill up2date and then select only a few packages,
everything seems to work fine.
Anyone else notice this?
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20 years, 6 months
Xnest grabbing mouse
by Will H. Backman
Running up2date XFree86-Xnest --nosig
Running under gnome.
Xnest :1&
Gives me a windows that is smaller than full screen, which is ok.
If I maximize the window, the Xnest root window does not expand as
expected, but I am now unable to move the mouse outside the smaller
confines of the root window. Is this normal for Xnest?
-- Will
20 years, 6 months
Re: State of multiple gfx cards support ?
by DAVID BALAZIC
"Mike A. Harris" <mharris(a)redhat.com> wrote :
>On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, DAVID BALAZIC wrote:
>
>>What is the status of multiple gfx card support ?
>>redhat-config-xfree86-0.9.15-1 only detects my radeon 8500LE AGP card, but
>>not the SiS 6326 PCI card.
>
>The config tool now can configure multihead on multihead cards.
>I don't know if it is working with multiple separate cards
>however.
[snip]
>Short story is, try it and if it works, great! If not, you're
It does not work.
Maybe my question was not clear enough. Here an improved version :
Is redhat-config-xfree86 supposed to detect and configure
multiple gfx cards, or is that outside of its scope ?
I was not asking : "Do my two gfx cards work with xfree86"
>best off reporting multihead bugs like that to XFree86.org
>bugzilla at http://bugs.xfree86.org as each person's individual
>multihead configuration tends to be quite unique due to the
>complexity of variables involved.
>
>Hope this helps.
Not much :-E)
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20 years, 6 months
100% reproducible "freeze"(?) bug in RPM 4.2.1-0.30, 4.2.1-4.2
by Barry K. Nathan
(Sorry about all the crossposting, but with the Fedora Core 1 release so
close, I figure I should take the chance...)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=108456
It's bug 108456 is bugzilla. Basically, RPM seems to be misinterpreting
an HTML document with a .rpm extension as a list of files (packages to
install?). Moreover, when it encounters a package name (if you will) that
starts with a dash, it tries to read data in from stdin. Of course, the
user isn't typing anything in -- (s)he's just waiting for RPM to finish
its business...
I think I've made about as much progress today as I'm going to make; I
highly doubt I'll be able to have any kind of patch developed today. I'm
posting about this bug in case anyone else wants to take a look at this
and possibly develop a patch.
-Barry K. Nathan <barryn(a)pobox.com>
20 years, 6 months
redhat-config-httpd broken?
by billy ball
- hi all... good work so far on Fedora!
- i get:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/redhat-config-httpd/ApacheConf.py", line 50, in ?
import ApacheGizmo
File "/usr/share/redhat-config-httpd/ApacheGizmo.py", line 36, in ?
import ApacheBase
File "/usr/share/redhat-config-httpd/ApacheBase.py", line 9, in ?
from xml.xslt.Processor import Processor
ImportError: No module named xslt.Processor
- using Fedora Core beta 3... requisite packages and latest packages seem
to be installed... perhaps i missed something?
- tia!
20 years, 6 months
rhgb/graphical boot questions
by Daniel Wittenberg
I just applied the updates since about Wed/Thursday, and the graphical
boot no longer works. I didn't see anything on this list about it, so
ideas? Still configured the same as it was, just doesn't work.
Also, when you see the messages "Starting network services..." where
does that "pretty message" come from? I've got a couple custom apps I'd
like to have them print a nicer message.
Thanks,
Dan
20 years, 6 months