Fedora Core 1 for AMD64 test1
by Michael K. Johnson
My announcements aren't as fun to read as Bill Nottingham's, but
hopefully the content makes up a bit for the (lack of) style.
A test release of Fedora Core 1 for AMD64 is now available at
ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/test/0.96/x86_64/
and at distinguised mirror sites near you. Like the original x86
architecture release, the AMD64 architecture has three binary ISO images
and three source ISO images. This is a single (we hope and intend)
test release specifically to check hardware support; the package set is
the same versions as an updated Fedora Core 1 for x86 system will have.
Please file bugs via Bugzilla, at http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/
(Product "Fedora Core", Version "test1", Architecture "x86_64" so that
they are noticed and appropriately classified. Hardware support bugs
should generally be filed against the <tt>kernel</tt> component, unless
they are specifically about kudzu or anaconda. Discuss this test release
on fedora-test-list.
We are hoping to make minimal changes before making the final release
available, soon.
Many mirrors are in sync already, many more are still syncing.
michaelkjohnson
"He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book."
Linux Application Development -- Ben Franklin
http://people.redhat.com/johnsonm/lad/
20 years, 2 months
Fedora Core 1 for AMD64 test1 "Disks and Boot" Questions
by jamesacook@breathe.com
I will be getting a new laptop shortly with an amd64 processor... and will
definately be trying out fedora,,, couple of questions really. Is it
posible to dual boot between 64bit and 32bit OS (maybe a daft question :P
)and is there a way of putting all the install cd's on to one bootable
dvd... (cd's soon to be confined to dark ages)
I know i should probably play when i get it but just thought id test the
water
J :)
20 years, 2 months
[SECURITY] Fedora Core 1 Testing Update: slocate-2.7-4
by Bill Nottingham
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Fedora Test Update Notification
FEDORA-2004-059
2004-01-21
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Name : slocate
Version : 2.7
Release : 4
Summary : Finds files on a system via a central database.
Description :
Slocate is a security-enhanced version of locate. Just like locate,
slocate searches through a central database (which is updated nightly)
for files which match a given pattern. Slocate allows you to quickly
find files anywhere on your system.
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Update Information:
Patrik Hornik discovered a vulnerability in Slocate versions up to and
including 2.7 where a carefully crafted database could overflow a
heap-based buffer. A local user could exploit this vulnerability to gain
"slocate" group privileges and then read the entire slocate database. The
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned
the name CAN-2003-0848 to this issue.
Users of Slocate should upgrade to these packages which contain a
patch from Kevin Lindsay which causes slocate to drop privileges before
reading a user-supplied database.
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* Wed Jan 21 2004 Mark Cox <mjc(a)redhat.com>
- drop privs for non slocate gid databases (CAN-2003-0848)
- update to 2.7
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This update can be downloaded from:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/1/
48a9f6409ede89470dbeb9c9be3bbb42 SRPMS/slocate-2.7-4.src.rpm
5cecdaa91d6f26d0285592620d13ac9d i386/slocate-2.7-4.i386.rpm
b4e7fab0377000fabdd136dbe99a8cea i386/debug/slocate-debuginfo-2.7-4.i386.rpm
This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command. You may
need to edit your up2date channels configuration. Within
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources enable the following line:
yum updates-testing http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/testing/fedora-core-1
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20 years, 2 months
Re: Initial test of x86_64 on eMachines / Best Buy / Circuit CityM6805 notebook
by Alan Santos
I just installed it as well last night on my new laptop and my
experiences are pretty much identical, although I haven't spent as much
time with it since the initial installation.
A few points:
Re: the X installation. I also had to create a symlink under
/usr/X11/lib/modules from /usr/X11/lib64/modules or the video would die
while complaining about not finding a couple of modules. I don't have
the machine handy to confirm that, so the path could be wrong, but it's
wherever the X mofules are typically located. Again from memory, the
modules being complained about were pcidata and bitmap. I have debian
(386) on another partition so I was able to grab that XF86Config file
and use that after switching it to use the vesa driver.
My ethernet card isn't working either and I haven't spent any time with
it, but I would also note that the card didn't work under the stock
debian 2.4.24 kernel. It wasn't working until I installed the 2.6 kernel
and rebuilt without acpi.
Sort of off topic, If anyone is interested in getting one, I really like
mine. The quality is nice and the machine is fast and cheap. The only
concern I have is with regard to the acpi. If it's something which is
going to require a BIOS update from emachines I'm not holding my breath.
20 years, 2 months
does the test have 32 bit libs?
by jason pearl
how is the support for 32 bit games and apps on the test1?
--
jason pearl <jpearl24(a)cox.net>
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"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer"-Tupac
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Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZ registered linux user #307811
MDK 9.2 Linux Machine# 193475, 227341
AMD64 Opteron 1.6 http://counter.li.org
ASUS SK8N
uptime: 18:38:24 up 6:10, 3 users, load average: 2.31, 2.25, 2.34
20 years, 2 months
testing kernel-2.4.22-1.2163
by Mike Lurk
This is a message to let everyone know this.
I just puchased a new motherboard, Asus A7N8X-E with an athlon 2500+ CPU
and everything went well. Everything was detected when I first booted
the system, except for the gigabit lan and the nVidia MAC fast ethernet
adapter that was integrated into the motherboard.
For testing purposes I used the gigabit lan as my lan connection, but I
had to get the kernel running first with the gigabit lan configured in
the kernel.
This is what I did
1. Enable 'loadable module support' in the kernel.
2. For automatic driver start, enable the 'Kernel module loader'.
3. Select the menu "Network device support" and then "Ethernet(1000Mbit)"
4. Mark "Marvell Yukon Chipset / SysKonnect SK-98xx family support"
with (M)
5. Execute the command "make modules".
6. Execute the command "make modules_install".
The appropiate modules will be installed.
7. Reboot the system.
Then this to load the module manually just to see if it works, and did.
1. Enter "modprobe sk98lin".
2. "ls /proc/net/sk98lin/"
This should produce an output containing a line with the following
format:
eth0
which indicates that the adapter has been found and initialized.
Then setup my network connection in Gnome and turned off kudzu
Everything that I wanted working is working very well.
Job well done to all who contributed to the kernel.
Now if I could get Windows XP to run with this new motherboard, hmmmmm. It just
reboots every time I try to run it. I think I have to reinstall.
Go Figure....
Any ways Linux is my main OS so it doesn't matter too much about XP.
Mike
20 years, 2 months
unable to connect to the internet
by alton bailey
A few days ago i went for a drive and return to see that my computers
internet connection was down. I began to trace all my net cable to my router
only to find out that my router bagan to malfunction. I deassemble my
network and connect my dsl modem to a 8 port hub and start the network only
to find out that FC1 cant find the internet connection the firewall is
preventing it from connecting I desable the firewall and it still says the
same thing I reinstall and the same thing happen could someone point me in
to resolve this problem
20 years, 2 months
Initial test of x86_64 on eMachines / Best Buy / Circuit City M6805 notebook
by Mike Larkin
Looks like things still need some rough edges polished out....
1) Keyboard is not detected ( "keyboard adapter time out") - this
resolves itself after the selection to "test" or "skip" the media check.
Not sure why you can use the built-in keyboard after that point, but not
before. Workaround is to use a USB keyboard which works fine from the start.
2) ATI Radeon 9600 card inside the notebook has an unknown PCI minor
code - card is not detected. This means you have to install in text
mode. Not a major issue
* Sisoft Sandra in Windows reports it as an "ATI Radeon 9600"
manufactured by "Arima" (the ODM that makes the laptop)
3) ddcprobe fails to probe any screen size/monitor type/refresh rates -
may have something to do with #2 above.
* Result is "no video hardware detected - assuming headless"
I tested these late last night/early this morning, so I did not go
through the whole install. I'll finish up testing today and post a more
thorough report and any fixes/workarounds I've identified at that point.
So far, I'm pretty impressed with the machine. If the types of problems
I'll encounter are limited to those like I've described above, I'll be
happy. Those problems are not really show stoppers in any sense.
More later..
-ml
20 years, 2 months
dmesg errors with kernel-2.6.x
by Martin Gansser
Hi,
this is my first attempt to get the 2.6.x kernel working on fedora
core1.
At the moment kernel-2.6.1-1.47.i686 is running on my system.
Now I get a lot of error messages in dmesg like this:
...
request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- char-major-10-134. error = 256
request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- char-major-195-255. error = 256
...
SCSI subsystem initialized
request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- char-major-21-1. error = 256
request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- char-major-21. error = 256
request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- char-major-21-10. error = 256
request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- char-major-21. error = 256
request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- char-major-21-19. error = 256
request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- char-major-21-24. error = 256
request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- char-major-21-29. error = 256
...
request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- char-major-4-72. error = 256
request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- char-major-4. error = 256
request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- char-major-188-2. error = 256
request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- char-major-188-13. error = 256
...
request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- block-major-8-1. error = 256
request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- sound-slot-0. error = 25
how could I avoid this messages ?
this is the contents of my /etc/modprobe.conf:
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias eth0 3c59x
options 3c59x options=3
# options ide-cd ignore='hdc hdd'
alias char-major-116 snd
options snd major=116 cards_limit=1
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 i810_audio
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
alias snd-minor-oss-0 snd-cs4236
alias snd-minor-oss-1 snd-opl3
alias snd-minor-oss-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss
alias /dev/sequencer snd-seq-oss
options agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1
install char-major-10-134 /bin/true
install char-major-180 /bin/true
install char-major-188 /bin/true
install sg { modprobe ide-scsi; } ; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install sg
install snd-card-0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-card-0 && {
/usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :; }
install sound-service-1-0 /bin/true
remove snd-card-0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || :; } ;
/sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-card-0
#
#
alias char-major-250 dvb-ttpci
install dvb-ttpci for f in alps_bsru6 alps_bsrv2 \
grundig_29504-401 grundig_29504-491 \
stv0299 ves1820; do /sbin/modprobe $f; done; \
/sbin/modprobe --ignore-install dvb-ttpci
alias char-major-195* nvidia
any help ?
--
viele Grüße Martin
20 years, 2 months
RE: Fedora Core 1 for AMD64 test1
by Henry Hartley
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Justin M. Forbes [mailto:64bit_fedora@comcast.net]
>> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 12:34 PM
>>
>> The FAQ is also available at http://www.linuxtx.org/amd64faq.html
>> It has been updated for test1, and specifically answers the macro
>> issue with rpm (notabug).
As useful as that is, it would be more useful if I could read it ;-) My old
eyes really have a hard time with the gray on black. I know I can override
the colors but if it were white on black or black on white I wouldn't have
to. Sorry to complain about something as trivial as the color scheme (the
grayscale scheme?) of the FAQ but...
--
Henry
20 years, 2 months