NVIDIA Question
by David St.Clair
This may be a dumb question, but why can't Redhat distribute NVIDIA binary
drivers?
In NVIDIA's licence (http://www.nvidia.com/object/nv_swlicense.html) it
says:
"2.1.2 Linux Exception. Notwithstanding the foregoing terms of Section
2.1.1, SOFTWARE designed exclusively for use on the Linux operating system
may be
copied and redistributed, provided that the binary files thereof are not
modified in any
way (except for unzipping of compressed files)."
So, what's keeping RedHat from putting the drivers in the distribution? If
it's a GPL
thing, would it be easy to just download it during installation or at
least give the option to the user?
Thanks,
--
David St.Clair
dstclair(a)cs.wcu.edu
1 year, 8 months
Mouse goes crazy
by Jonathan Villa
Ok, I have had Yarrow working well for a while now, but yesterday I
started experiencing some odd issues with my mouse. All of a sudden it
stops working correctly. The only thing that seems to fix is to kill X
and run mouse-test, then restart.
Any ideas?
Also, I have FC 1 running on a desktop which is hooked up to a KVM
switch. Whenever I go to another PC, and return, the same thing
happens, the mouse goes crazy.
???
1 year, 8 months
RE: Compiling NVIDIA driver for -ntpl kernel
by Ossama Khayaat
> -----Original Message-----
[SNIP]
> From: Marc Schwartz [mailto:MSchwartz@MedAnalytics.com]
> Don't forget to remove the Mesa-LibGL rpm before doing that.
>
> Use:
>
> rpm -e --nodeps XFree86-Mesa-libGL
>
> You will need to do that before running both of the NVidia install
> processes and will need to repeat that when there are XFree86 and
kernel
> updates.
>
> Also, I have found that removing the Mesa-libGL will cause some
> dependency issues when using up2date. So be aware that you may need to
> uninstall it again after some updates.
If I may ask, why do I have to remove this? I've always used the NVIDIA
driver, before fedora, and never had a problem.
Thanks
Ossama
19 years, 8 months
Re: FC2 and general LDAP Support
by Neal D. Becker
On Wednesday 26 November 2003 06:18, Roland Käser wrote:
> Hi all
>
> What about moving the user database to LDAP for the FC2 release? It
> would be possible to integrate also the samba part of the user records
> directly to the LDAP directory. The only thing we need is a useful ldap
> administration frontend and the command line tools for creating and
> modifying the user records from the command line. The most of the
> command line tools are shipped with the samba source code. It it is
> desired, i can make a RPM for that.
>
I'm curious about moving to LDAP server (currently using rdist to sync
passwords and groups), but I still haven't found a simple step-by-step guide
to setting up the LDAP server and copying password and group data to it.
AFAICT, the only existing howtos are so general that I can't tell what to do.
19 years, 10 months
IDE write ordering ?
by David Balazic
Hi!
I wonder if the problems with IDE write ordering is resolved with lastest
kernels.
The problem is , that is is hard to insure the wanted order of writes on ATA
disks.
This is needed for journalled/logged filesystems for example.
Regards,
David
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19 years, 10 months
XFree86-4.3.0-44 build fails in xc/programs/bitmap
by sean darcy
I'm trying to build XFree from development. It fails here:
gcc -m32 -o bitmap -march=athlon-xp -m3dnow -msse -mmmx -mfpmath=sse -Os
-fno-strict-aliasing -pip e -ansi -pedantic -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wundef
-L../../exports/lib BitEdit.o CutPaste.o Grap hics.o ReqMach.o Bitmap.o
Dialog.o Handlers.o -lXaw -lXmu -lXt -lSM -lICE -lXpm -
lXext -lX11 -lm -Wl,-rpath-link,../../exports/lib
../../exports/lib/libXaw.so: undefined reference to `.L91'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[4]: *** [bitmap] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory
`/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/XFree86-4.3.0/xc/programs/bitmap'
Is this the correct list for build issues?
thanks
sean
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19 years, 10 months
program startup laggy after dev/rawhide update
by Lars G
after updating to the latest development/rawhide rpms
the startup of different (most) programs feels laggy.
anyone have the same behavior?
would like to find the offending rpm and downgrade.
thanks!
lars
19 years, 10 months
Xinerama causes no Kde antialias and hanging during logout
by Michal Zeravik
Hi,
i'm running standard FC1 with geforce4 nvidia driver
and matrox mystique with orig driver on kde xinerama.
When running with single screen, everything was fine.
But if I configure the second screen, Qt has no antialias only bitmap
fonts.
GTK apps still has AA even with two screens (mozilla-xft,..).
I've configured qtconfig to use AA fonts but with no effect.
And second problem is hanging X server (frozen with X cursor mouseable
and dead keyboard).
Situation for oncase reset. Don't you have any idea?
thanx, michalz
19 years, 10 months
turning of hardisks, acpi, standby
by Michal Zeravik
Hi,
what is (can do) acpi which comes with FC1 kernel?
Can I use that for turning computer into standby?
I noticed its possible to turn off ide harddisks,
but what about scsi disks? I have Fasttrack onboard
raid two disks connected as sda. Is it possible to turn
it off (after unmount) if system running on ide disk?
Michalz
19 years, 10 months