Help me get Severn, please?
by Andrew Lofthouse
I'd be happy to test out Severn on my laptop and
desktop, but I don't have any access to a high speed
connection (and lousy phone lines only give me 40
kbps). Anybody willing to send me CD's by snail mail?
I'll reimburse shipping expenses, etc, plus a moderate
fee for the trouble...
Thanks!
Andrew Lofthouse
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20 years, 9 months
alsa - unresolved symbols
by Lars G
hi
i'm getting unresolved symbols when loading the alsa 0.9.4 or 0.9.5 modules
for the nforce2 audio.
worked fine for shrike.
i guess it has something todo with nptl.
i tried gcc33 and gcc32.
any tips?
thanks
lars
20 years, 9 months
Reiserfs? Say it ain't so!
by Benjamin Vander Jagt
I tried "linux reiserfs", but I didn't get a Reiser option in Disk
Druid. Furthermore, Reiser support was not compiled into this kernel!
Is there a different way to get Reiser support?
--
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20 years, 9 months
Announcing a beta release of Red Hat Linux: Severn
by Bill Nottingham
Thank you gentlemen. This is rumor control. Here are the facts.
As some of you know, new Red Hat Linux Beta bits crash landed
here at 1000 on the morning watch. There was one survivor.
Two dead processes, and a daemon that was hopelessly smashed
beyond repair. The survivor is called SEVERN.
It's that time again.
(Time to floss?)
(Time to make a gooky?)
No, it's time for a Red Hat Linux Beta, named SEVERN.
"I just want to say that I took a vow of stability. That also
includes betas. We all took the vow. Now let me say, that I
for one, do not appreciate Company policy allowing beta bits
to freely intermingle..."
"Cheeky bastard, right sir?"
"What brother means to say is ... We view the presence of
any outside OS, beta, as a violation of the stability, a
potential break in the spiritual unity."
We are well aware of your feelings in this matter. You will
be pleased to know that I have requested a testing team -
Hopefully, they will be here inside of a few hours and
evaluate it A.S.A.P.
As always, betas such as SEVERN are not intended for use on
production environments. Use as such could lead to your machines
being slaughtered like pigs by the dragon. Or just public laughter.
Problems with SEVERN should be reported via bugzilla, at:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/
What's its development status?
"It doesn't seem too horrendously in flux. Difficult at this
moment to make a specific diagnosis."
Among other things, SEVERN has:
- a new graphical boot
- GCC 3.3
- an updated 2.4.21 kernel
- updated Evolution and Mozilla
- and more!
Will it live?
"Yes, I should think so."
Look, none of us here is naive. It's in everybody's best
interests if this beta doesn't come out into production until
the testing team is through with it. And certainly not
without the proper qualification and bug reports. Right? So
we should all stick to our set routines and not get
unduly agitated. Correct? All right. Thank you gentlemen.
Speaking of unduly agitated... there's lots of rumors going on
about Red Hat Linux. We've been doing it for nearly ten years
now, and in that time, there's been various changes. From
rpp to RPM, from Red Hat Commercial Linux to Official Red Hat
Linux, from 'install' to anaconda. And now, we're making another
change.
We changed the rules. We said our Linux should be your Linux. Just as
most of the software in Red Hat Linux is developed in an open
fashion, so should Red Hat Linux itself; driven by those who
develop, test, document, and translate. To accomplish this, we're
opening up our process.
Now this is an evolution, not a revolution. The first steps will
be moving much of our development discussions and schedules
external, via mailing lists and other means, and including external
developers in the process of making technical decisions. More
will be done from there. Red Hat Linux will remain as it has been; a
freely available general purpose operating system, released on the
average every six months. For more information, see:
http://rhl.redhat.com/
For discussion of SEVERN, send mail to:
rhl-beta-list-request(a)redhat.com
with
subscribe
in the subject line. You can leave the body empty. Or see:
https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhl-beta-list/
As always, you can get SEVERN at redhat.com, specifically:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/beta/severn/
Or the following mirrors:
North America:
United States:
ftp://moni.msci.memphis.edu/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn/
http://moni.msci.memphis.edu/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn/
ftp://linux.stanford.edu/pub/mirrors/redhat/linux/beta/severn/
ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/RedHat/redhat/linux/beta/severn/
ftp://mirror.eas.muohio.edu/mirrors/redhat/linux/beta/severn/
ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/redhat/beta/severn/
ftp://redhat.dulug.duke.edu/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn/
ftp://mirror.hiwaay.net/redhat/redhat/linux/beta/severn/
http://mirror.hiwaay.net/redhat/redhat/linux/beta/severn/
http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn/
ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn/
rsync://rsync.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/redhat/linux/beta/severn/
Canada:
ftp://less.cogeco.net/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn/
ftp://ftp.nrc.ca/pub/systems/linux/redhat/ftp.redhat.com/linux/beta/severn/
South America:
Brazil:
http://bastion.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn
ftp://bastion.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn
Chile:
ftp://ftp.tecnoera.com/Linux/redhat-beta/severn/
Europe:
Austria:
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/redhat.com/dist/linux/beta/severn/
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/redhat.com/dist/linux/beta/severn/
rsync://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/redhat.com/dist/linux/beta/severn/
Czech Republic:
ftp://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/MIRRORS/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/beta/severn/
ftp://ultra.linux.cz/MIRRORS/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/beta/severn/
ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/redhat/linux/beta/severn/
ftp://ftp.linux.cz/pub/linux/redhat/linux/beta/severn/
ftp://ftp6.linux.cz/pub/linux/redhat/linux/beta/severn/
Denmark:
ftp://klid.dk/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn/
Germany:
ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/redhat-ftp/redhat/linux/beta/severn/
http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/redhat-ftp/redhat/linux/beta/severn/
ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/pub/linux/Mirror/ftp.redhat.com/lin...
ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/redhat/linux/beta/severn/
Ireland:
ftp://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/beta/severn/
http://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/beta/severn/
rsync://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/beta/severn/
Netherlands:
ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/RedHat/ftp/redhat/linux/beta/severn/
ftp://ftp.surfnet.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/RedHat/ftp/redhat/linux/beta/severn/
ftp://alviss.et.tudelft.nl/pub/redhat/beta/severn/
Poland:
ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/redhat/linux/beta/severn/
rsync://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/ftp/pub/Linux/redhat/linux/beta/severn/
http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/redhat/linux/beta/severn/
Romania:
ftp://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta...
http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/se...
rsync://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn/
Turkey:
ftp://ftp.linux.org.tr/pub/redhat/beta/severn/
United Kingdom:
http://zeniiia.linux.org.uk/pub/distributions/redhat/beta/severn/
ftp://zeniiia.linux.org.uk/pub/distributions/redhat/beta/severn/
rsync://zeniiia.linux.org.uk/ftp/pub/distributions/redhat/beta/severn/
Asia/Pacific:
Australia:
http://planetmirror.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn/
ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn/
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/redhat/linux/severn/
ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/redhat/linux/severn/
Japan:
ftp://ftp.sfc.wide.ad.jp/pub/Linux/RedHat/linux/beta/severn/
Singapore:
ftp://ftp.oss.eznetsols.org/linux/redhat/linux/beta/severn/
rsync://rsync.oss.eznetsols.org/linux/redhat/linux/beta/severn/
One additional feature provided by the Linux community is the
availability of SEVERN via BitTorrent.
http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/severn-binary-iso.torrent
http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/severn-source-iso.torrent
RPMS for Red Hat Linux 7.3 through 9 of BitTorrent are available from:
http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/btrpms/
Usage is simple:
btdownloadcurses.py --url http://URL.torrent
Allow incoming TCP 6881 - 6889 to join the torrent swarm.
http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/
20 years, 9 months
missing openGl extensions
by Lars G
another one here
after installing the latest nvidia drivers everything went smooth and opengl
is somewhat working, but glxinfo shows that direct rendering and a lot gl
extensions are missing.
tried recompiling the xfree src-rpm but it aborts with syntax error
used both gcc33 (segfaulted) and gcc32 (produced syntax error)
lars
ps:
output of
# glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: No
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.3
server glx extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_ARB_multisample
client glx vendor string: SGI
client glx version string: 1.2
client glx extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
GLX extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce4 Ti 4200/AGP/SSE/3DNOW!
OpenGL version string: 1.4.0 NVIDIA 43.63
OpenGL extensions:
GL_ARB_imaging, GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp,
GL_ARB_texture_cube_map, GL_ARB_texture_env_add,
GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3, GL_EXT_abgr,
GL_EXT_blend_color, GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract,
GL_EXT_texture_env_add, GL_EXT_texture_env_combine,
GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3, GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias
glu version: 1.3
glu extensions:
GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess
20 years, 9 months
Initial impressions
by joe
Last night I installed the severn beta on my $229 Fry's computer, a
Duron 1100 with sis chipset - (I did add 512 MB RAM and an nvidia
GeForce however).
The install was smooth and quick, and everything was detected. The
choices were a bit more streamlined, and I could not make the fine
grained choices that were possible in earlier versions, but the
"everything" install is still an option and I suppose the kickstart
method can still be used for ultimate customizability...
I was gratified to see postfix v2.0.11 among the updated packages,
that's a big help.
All in all, it looks good - the desktop seems quite snappy at first
glance; I will be trying out multimedia and 2.6 test kernels and will
report back -
Joe
20 years, 9 months
RE: Severn install summary
by EricRyd@cdw.com
Same thing here. First boot it froze just after probing hardware. Checking
the other consoles, it appeared to have stopped after enabling swap. Reboot
fixed this. I see that initial gui also runs on screen 8? Is this new, or
just me?
Eric
-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Johnson
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 2:45 PM
To: rhl-beta-list(a)redhat.com
Subject: Re: Severn install summary
On 7/22/2003 12:28 PM, Jack Bowling wrote:
> Dumped Severn on one of my play boxes yesterday. Totally uneventful
> install. Congrats to all the crew. Some chagrin at not being allowed to
> set boot runlevel during the install but this release is newbie-ized to
> the extreme so I can see the rationale.
I was a bit disappointed at the lack of options as well, to iniitially
define screen resolution, login type, etc. On the plus side, resolution is
changable from the GUI.
> One glitch is that (as with thr RH9 beta) the first reboot after the
> install seems to hang on the kudzu probe. I booted rescue from the CD
> and killed kudzu and it proceeded fine after that. IIRC from the RH9
> beta, it really isn't hung but instead it is timing out on one of the
> services. I think it was CUPS then and possibly is now, too. No relevant
> feedback on the output VTs, sorry.
I found that simply rebooting did the trick, but had the same hang.
--
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Linux/Network Administrator - Medata, Inc.
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20 years, 9 months
Cambridge++ ...what?
by Mark Guzzo
OK, Severn just came out and now I'm seeing talk about Cambridge and
Cambridge++, what is this? I've looked on RedHat's site but could not
find any info. Can someone please post a like to some ifo on this so
that I may know what the heck is going on ;-)
Mark
20 years, 9 months
RE: Severn NFS Install
by EricRyd@cdw.com
Jeremy,
After 3 bad floppies I guess, I was able to get it working (4th was a
charm). Whats odd is that the first 3 worked for other uses (including RH8
boot disk)...
Oh well,
Thanks for your help..installation is well on its way.
Erics
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Katz [mailto:katzj_@_redhat.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 12:52 PM
To: rhl-beta-list(a)redhat.com
Subject: RE: Severn NFS Install
On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 13:46, EricRyd_(a)_cdw.com wrote:
> 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.
This is usually "bad floppies" -- especially since it happens at
different places on different floppies
Jeremy
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20 years, 9 months