Successful install of FC2t3 on dual athlon
by Telsa Gwynne
Long-term readers of my install adventures will be shocked.
Beautiful happy successful (so far :)) install of Fedora Core test 3
on a dual athlon with 512Mb RAM, 2x120Gb discs and Radeon 9000+.
Told it to do RAID, too, and it did.
Ran both text and graphic installs, in Welsh just to see what
happens. Firstboot all worked (it picked the wrong resolution
for the monitor, but the right one was in the list of options
so no problems). 3d acceleration on the radeon worked (now I
feel seasick from Tuxracer at speed).
Will bugzilla some cosmetic trivia later, but everything I
have searched bugzilla for has already been reported.
Telsa
19 years, 12 months
FC2T3 problems with S3Trio3D and Sis315
by Lorenzo Fiorini
I've tried Fc2T3 on two PC: an old IBM PC300 with S3Trio3D and a PC Asus A7V8x with Sis315.
They both had FC1 installed and working perfectly.
On both I had to reboot in text mode and use startx to start Gnome.
On S3Trio3d the screen gets black while with Sis315 I get fancy colors
lines and spots.
The symptoms are much like "x on VIA/S3G graphics".
regards,
Lorenzo
19 years, 12 months
procps 3.2
by Sean Bruno
I noted that in the 3.x series of procps, the --format option no longer
supports the listing of the cpu in "ps"
Is there another way I can do this without using "top?"
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19 years, 12 months
Re: NVIDIA grpahics driver
by Brian Stretch
> How can I use the NVIDIA driver successfully in later kernels?
Go here:
http://www.minion.de/nvidia.html
If you're running 32-bit, you'll need to recompile your kernel to get
rid of the 4K stacks patch and the Use Register Arguments (REGPARM)
option. Compiling a vanilla 2.6.6rc2 with Fedora's .config as a starting
point worked for me.
If you're running 64-bit, no kernel recompile is needed.
In both cases you'll need to add this line to /etc/modprobe.conf:
alias char-major-195 nvidia
If you want to play UT2004 you'll want the patch listed here:
https://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1413
(search for .bz2) Until the official patch is available. With it, UT2004
is solid on my Athlon 64 desktop with GeForceFX 5700 Ultra.
19 years, 12 months
FCT3 - Hangs when installing from CD
by Eric Beyer
I finally got around to downloading test 3 and have attempted to install
it for the last couple of hours but haven't had any luck so far. I am
running into an issue where it is hanging right after the message
"Uncompressing Linux... ok, booting the kernel". From there on out the
cursor just flashes on the left side of the screen and my system is hung,
it requires a hard reset to reboot.
I have searched this list and google for suggestions but haven't had any
luck so far. I tried CD1 in another machine to rule out a bad CD (the
MD5SUMS matched before I burnt them) and the CD appears fine. I am sure it
has something to do with my hardware but I thought I would at least post a
message to see if people with similiar hardware have had some luck.
My configuration is as follows:
ASUS P4P800 Motherboard
P4 2.6GHz (HyperThreading Enabled)
512 MB PC2700 RAM
120 GB SATA drive (set as first drive)
40 GB ATA/100 (PATA)
Plextor 8/4/32 CDRW (master on secondary)
Pioneer DVD ROM (slave)
I have tried different variations such as disabling SATA support,
HyperThreading, "Compatible Mode", and even flashed the BIOS to a more
recent version for S&G... Anyway, thanks in advance.
Thanks!
Eric
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19 years, 12 months
Re: sata_sil - sil3114
by Si Jones
I think am missing the whole thing here.!!!
I have downloaded and wrote the 4 iso's to cd, booted cd
it says no hard drives found i then say yes to loading a module and look
though the list and it is not there, no silicon image support at all.
I did alt + f2 to go in to a sheel and have tried modprobe sata_sil and
insmod sata_sil they dont fail they seem to look as if they are loading
but when i do lsmod the sata_sil is not listed..
can anyone help me? what am i doing wrong here?
19 years, 12 months
FC2T3 Shut down / reboot taking much longer to complete
by A1tmblwd@netscape.net
After upgrading from FC1 to FC2T3 the shuting down / reboot process is taking much longer to complete. The slow down begins when the message "Shutting down system logger" appears. Termiation of the process takes a minute or more. Then each of the following processes, "Shutting down interface eth0", "Shutting down loopback interface", and "Stopping iptables" exhibit similar behavior. Termination of these four processes takes minutes to complete. Whereas in the past it took only seconds.
Firewall and iptables are enabled. SELinux is disabled.
What is causing the slowdown? What do I need to do to get back the responsiveness of FC1?
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19 years, 12 months
x on VIA/S3G graphics
by MADAMANCHI, RAJESH KUMAR
Hi guys,
I just installed fedora core 2 test 3 on my averatec 3225h laptop. When I restart, the rhgb starts normally and in the meanwhile the screen fades away and then stalls with some vertical lines. I rebooted in text mode and started X from command line. It starts GNOME and everything is fine. And if I kill X, the same thing happens again. None of Ctrl-Alt-Backspace/Ctrl-Alt-F1/Ctrl-Alt-Del will work. It totally hung and I have to restart everytime I kill X. I have a VIA/S3G VT8378 Unichrome Graphics card. Anyone with this problem ?
Someone HELP!
Thanks,
Rajesh
19 years, 12 months
Hypertreading faster myth or truth?
by Christian B. Ellsworth Capo
Intel says that a cpu with HT turned on is faster, but is that true for
Linux? and for FC2 as well?, I have seen some @intel.com posts so a
Intel Inside view could be very interesing.
some people of the list are also kernel developers... so a kernel
developer view also can be helpful...
In this link are some benchmarks that don't show any real improvement on
a HT-on cpu vs a HT-off CPU.
http://amber.scripps.edu/unc_duke_apr04.html
(not my page... just a google result looking for hypertread linux
benchmark)
Is that True?
Some links to other HT benchmarks on Linux can be helpfull...
greets.
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19 years, 12 months
NVIDIA grpahics driver
by Lewis Bloch
I downloaded the NVIDIA graphics driver (source) for Linux and built it
for 2.6.1-1.65. Everything was wonderful, until I updated the kernel.
No further build worked - that is, I cannot bring up X Windows in any
later kernel, despite having rebuilt the NVIDIA driver for each later
version. Fortunately, I am able to return to 2.6.1-1.65 and all is
hunky-dory.
How can I use the NVIDIA driver successfully in later kernels?
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19 years, 12 months