kernel 2.6 and mouse issues
by Mike Martin
I know this is the beta list, but I know a lot here are using the new
kernel (esp the arjanv S/RPMs - thanks).
I am finding two wierdities which have been present for ages.
1. mousedev does not load on bootup - anyone any idea why?, obviously
I can put in a modprobe command in rc.local, but not really
satisfactory.
2. the mouse movement, not to put to fine a point on it, is
horrendous. What I mean is that it seems really jerky and accelerates
all over the place. 2.4.x is fine, I have seen this quite a bit.
Any one else seen this/ got workarounds.
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20 years, 9 months
RE: Graphical boot isn't so graphical
by Todd Booher
Not sure what mandrake uses (framebuffer, vesa, etc.) but I think it's
a good balance between being "graphical" and still showing the
informational
stuff so you can get an idea if something failed during the bootup.
What does mandrake use?
Todd
/quote
If we consider how successful desktop systems have been, without the
detailed startup messages (WIN, MACOS, ...) it isn't that odd of a
decision.
What would be nice is a sort of compromise between the two. Perhaps the
text should be written to both the console and managed by the graphical
boot manager, and if any of the startup scripts fail, the GUI should
drop away?
One more vote for a frame buffer implementation from this corner as
well...
mark
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20 years, 9 months
CD testing
by Benjamin Vander Jagt
I've burned countless CDs with RH 8.0, and never had a problem. Burning
RH 9.0.93 to CD, though, I used RH 9. I have a 52x24x52x writer (can't
remember the brand), and RH 8.0 had a 32x maximum, so I stayed with 32x
in RH 9. I burned a load of 9.0.93 CDs, and half were bad. If I
remember correctly, I also had some kernel panics while burning music
CDs, but I never had any bad data CDs until I burned this beta.
I can't think of any reason why this would happen, but has anyone else
had any trouble making this beta?
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20 years, 9 months
No ext3/htree in Severn ?
by Yusuf Goolamabbas
A quick look at Severn indicates that ext3/htree patches and ACL patches
are not included in the kernel.src.rpm. It would be nice to have
filesystem support for large directories available out of the box for RH
Linux (ext3/htree or XFS).
I thought the ext3/htree backport of 2.4 was quite stable
REgards, Yusuf
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20 years, 9 months
RE: Severn NFS Install
by EricRyd@cdw.com
Jeremy,
You may have been right...So I again mounted the disk 1 iso image to /temp2
and then ran "dd if=/temp2/images/bootdisk.img of=/dev/fd0"
I start up and do a linux askmethod and it fails giving me "boot
failed...please change disks". This happens during the loading of the
kernel on one floppy, and a second floppy this happens during loading the
initrd.
Any ideas?
Eric
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Katz [mailto:katzj_@_redhat.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 12:36 PM
To: rhl-beta-list(a)redhat.com
Subject: Re: Severn NFS Install
On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 13:27, EricRyd_(a)_cdw.com wrote:
> I'm trying to install severn via NFS. I have an rh8 server up and
running.
> I downloaded the iso's to that server. I did the mount -o loop ... and
was
> able to copy the RedHat folders to a exported folder. I also went in to
the
> iso and made a boot disk. When attempting to do an nfs install it wanted
> nic drivers. I tried the drvnet.img but that didn't work. So I used an
> rh9's drvnet.img and that worked. Yet, when I input the nfs path it comes
> back stating I need to use the same media on both ends.
>
> Any ideas?
You're using a Red Hat Linux 9 boot disk, not a Severn boot disk :)
Cheers,
Jeremy
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20 years, 9 months
Re: alsa - unresolved symbols
by Lars G
trying to figure out my unresolved symbols for the alsa modules.
for testing i installed my older 2.4.21 kernel and sources and also get the
unresolved symbol problem.
it worked fine before, so i seems to be the new compiler.
as it does not work with gcc33 i have to try gcc32 from the gcc32.rpm
i tried
#export CC=gcc32
#export CXX=gcc32
#export HOSTCC=gcc32
before compiling alsa source rpms but it did not change anything
after digging around on the web i get the impression that i have to
#export CXX=g++32
but there is no such file in the gcc32.rpm
so my question is how to recompile source rpms using gcc32 correctly.
thanks in advance
lars
20 years, 9 months
Sndconfig, does it have to go?
by Benjamin Vander Jagt
Is there any particular problem with sndconfig? I and some of my
customers use older ('96) sound cards, like the Turtle Beach Tropez+.
No plug-and-play configuration has ever set it up right, and most just
lock up. (In fact, I have *never* gotten the MIDI on these CS4232-based
cards to work.)
Some of the cards my customers and I use still run over $500 each. I
understand that there could possibly be other ways to set up these sound
cards, but sndconfig seems to do so the best. Is there some specific
problem with sndconfig for which it needs to be removed? If so, would
you happen to know any better way to set up some of these older cards?
Thanks.
P.S.: Wow, now that I'm finally not getting batched mailing list, I can
see how amazingly active this list is!
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20 years, 9 months
Files larger than 2GB Supported In This Version?
by Lo Sheng
Hi,
I'm wondering if anyone knew if files larger than 2GB are supported via
Samba in this version?
I was trying to replace the company's NAS with a Linux system, was
totally caught off guard that the samba installed on Red Hat 8 does not
support files larger than 2GB, despite the fact that large files are
supported on Linux's native filesystem. I needed to obtain the patches
for both ther 2.4.18 kernel's smbfs, as well as smb itself to get it
work correctly.
It would be great if this is done in this new release from Red Hat!
ls
20 years, 9 months
Broadcom Drivers
by Christopher C. Weis
Maybe not the correct place to voice this, but any chance of updating
the broadcom driver in RH's kernel to support chipsets that are
currently shipping with HP workstations?
The current HP xw4100 (and probably a lot of others) workstations that
HP is shipping have a Gig. Broadcom chipset in them, but the tg3 driver
doesn't support the newer chipsets. Broadcom's own bcm5700 driver works
(under RH9 anyway). The driver would need to be added to all the kernel
packages, as well as to the initrd in the installation images (boot.iso,
etc.)
I can make the modifications myself and submit them if anyone at RH is
interested. I'm not sure how RH handles requests such as this, so
please fill me in if I'm way out of line.
Thanks.
~Chris
20 years, 9 months