F10 compositing incredibly slow
by Chris Bredesen
Hello List,
I'm not sure if this goes on test-list or not but I'm running F10
originally installed from Beta but fully up to date.
Compositing has been horrible from day one. I've tried the minimal
Compiz that comes with Gnome, I've tried full-on Compiz Fusion and I've
tried KDE's compositing. The performance is equally bad in all three.
I've run Compiz on FC6 and F8 using this laptop (Intel GMA950) and the
GPU is more than adequate to make the effects useful.
Direct rendering seems to be enabled:
$ glxinfo |grep direct
direct rendering: Yes
I don't know what else to check. Any pointers?
-Chris
15 years, 5 months
KDE dbg
by Jim
FC10, KDE
I have "dbg" installed, but what Package do I install to get the dbg
symbols for KDE-10.
15 years, 5 months
Anaconda, parted, and geometry
by Chuck Anderson
For reasons known only to IBM, Thinkpads have been shipping with hard
disks partitioned with a geometry of 240 heads, 63 sectors. Even my
brand shiny new T61 does this. However, since Linux has stopped
asking the BIOS what geometry to use, it now defaults to 255 heads, 63
sectors. Further, it isn't clear to me how to override Linux's choice
of hdd geometry in the new world order of libata, nor should that be
necessary in the normal case to get a sane partition table IMO.
Why should I care, you ask? Isn't disk geometry an anachronism from
the days of DOS? Well, yes, but the problem is for whatever reason,
not everything ignores geometry...
For example, Anaconda/parted likes to force cylinder alignment.
Windows uses the BIOS/partition table geometry which may have a
different idea about where cylinders begin and end. The reasons for
these behaviors aren't entirely clear to me.
This leads to /really/ weird partitioning when different programs with
different ideas of the geometry add/delete partitions from the disk,
such as strange gaps of free space when you create a new partition in
Anaconda, or situations where some partition table entries are stored
using one set of C,H,S values, and others are using a different set.
This of course also causes programs like "fdisk" and "sfdisk" to
complain about cylinder boundaries and C,H,S values being incorrect.
What to do about it? Can't we all agree to use the same geometry when
dealing with the partition table? When Anaconda/parted reads the
table, shouldn't it deduce the most fitting C,H,S values to use for
cylinder alignment and writing out new entries? Or shouldn't it ask
the BIOS what to use, since that seems to be what Windows does?
I used to work around issues like this by using fdisk in VT2 to
partition things how I like, and then let Anaconda install to those.
However, it now seems impossible to create a new encrypted LVM PV
unless you let Anaconda's parted create the PV partition too. Perhaps
that could be improved upon.
I remember a bit of the fiasco of "I can't boot Windows anymore" that
happened a few years ago, but I don't know what the outcome/solution
was. Did the Linux kernel and Anaconda just punt the whole issue of
trying to match geometries and let things fall as they may?
Whatever was done, it just seems wrong and dirty to end up with a disk
that has a schizophrenic idea of what geometry to use for its
different partitions.
--Chuck, who had to create a spreadsheet just to figure out what
happend to his partition table...
15 years, 5 months
Ksdevice not working witth kickstart
by A.J. Werkman`
In anaconda 11.4.1.55 from rawhide the kernel cmdline option ksdevice
does not work.
NetworkManager tries to setup a network, fails and gives a screen where
I have to specify the kickstart device again.
I use a grub entry:
Title Fedora Rawhide
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz.raw ksdevice=eth0 ks=http://<server>/ks.raw
initrd /boot/initrd.raw
I thought this issue was dealt with. Should I file this to bugzilla again?
Koos.
15 years, 5 months
iso-8859-1 warnings running createrepo
by Bruno Wolff III
Is this something(s) that should be reported as a bug(s):
3419/19054 - Packages/stk-4.3.1-6.fc10.x86_64.rpm
iso-8859-1 encoding on /usr/lib64/aspell-0.60/�slenska.alias
6499/19054 - Packages/xfig-plain-3.2.5-11.fc10.i386.rpm
iso-8859-1 encoding on Arnaud Ab�lard <arny(a)arny.org>
12585/19054 - Packages/abe-1.1-7.fc9.x86_64.rpm
iso-8859-1 encoding on /usr/share/xblast/level/reconstruct�on2.xal
15 years, 5 months
Re: Firefox is not printing...
by Gianluca Cecchi
On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 15:18:30 +0100 Antonio M wrote:
> I havre tried but I didn't get any output as Firefox should not send
> any output to CUPS: I will try with difefrent machines at home!!!
This morning I printed to a network attached printer (HP LJ using
jetdirect) without problems.
My system is x86_64 with firefox-3.0.2-1.fc10.x86_64
You could try to run firefox from command line and verify if you see
anything useful for debug in console window when you print...
HIH,
Gianluca
15 years, 5 months
Firefox is not printing...
by Antonio M
I am running Rawhide: this morning I realized that Firefox is not
printing!!! all other applications print great.
I didn't find any filed bug: or did I miss some line in bugzilla???
--
Antonio Montagnani
Skype : antoniomontag
15 years, 5 months
rawhide report: 20081107 changes
by Fedora compose checker
Compose started at Fri Nov 7 06:01:25 UTC 2008
New package rcssbase
Robocup 2D Soccer Simulation Base Library
Updated Packages:
PackageKit-0.3.9-4.fc10
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* Wed Nov 5 17:00:00 2008 Richard Hughes <rhughes(a)redhat.com> - 0.3.9-4
- Increase the timeout for cleaning up unused transactions. Due to a bug
in the PkClient library the new TID was not being requested, and the old
TID was being re-used. This gave a DBUS error if the user spent longer than
five seconds entering the password the very first time they used PackageKit
to do an authentication.
Apply a simple patch to mitigate this, as a more invasive (and correct)
patch is upstream. A new release will follow in f10-updates. Fixes rh#469950
cherokee-0.10.0-2.fc10
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* Thu Nov 6 17:00:00 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat.com> - 0.10.0-2
- do not package spawn-fcgi files (lighttpd-fastcgi provides them)
Resolves bz 469947
- get rid of rpath in compiled files
* Fri Oct 31 18:00:00 2008 Pavel Lisy <pavel.lisy(a)gmail.com> - 0.10.0-1
- updated to 0.10.0
cryptsetup-luks-1.0.6-6.fc10
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* Thu Oct 30 18:00:00 2008 Milan Broz <mbroz(a)redhat.com> - 1.0.6-6
- Wipe old fs headers to not confuse blkid (#468062)
fedora-logos-10.0.1-2.fc10
--------------------------
* Thu Nov 6 17:00:00 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat.com> 10.0.1-2
- pull .git files out of source tarball to keep SRPM size down
* Thu Nov 6 17:00:00 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat.com> 10.0.1-1
- fix broken xfce4 icon (bz 470353)
- own directories for clean removal (bz 169282)
mock-0.9.13-1.fc10
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* Thu Nov 6 17:00:00 2008 Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com> - 0.9.13-1
- Add configs for F10 (jkeating)
torque-2.1.10-6.fc10
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* Wed Apr 16 18:00:00 2008 Garrick Staples <garrick(a)usc.edu> 2.1.10-6
- add alternatives system
Summary:
Added Packages: 1
Removed Packages: 0
Modified Packages: 6
Broken deps for ppc64
----------------------------------------------------------
livecd-tools-019-1.fc10.ppc64 requires yaboot
15 years, 5 months
PackageKit
by Fastie
Running a x86_64 Fedora 10
And I keep getting an error when I am trying to install anything..
Just come put with a Red !
Looks like it is every time I install and i386 package.
Does this mean I can't install Flash or anything cause it i386 or is there
something wrong with my Fedora 10 install..
Also note I have done a fresh install from the livecd yesterday..
Chris
15 years, 5 months