New BugZapper Introduction
by Victor
Hi everyone!
I've applied to the BugZapper team today, hoping to contribute with what I
can. Please note that I have only used Fedora and Linux for about six months
so far, which means I have a _lot_ left to learn. Having said this, I feel
that with a little nudge in the right direction I should be able to at least
be of some assistance :)
To tell you a little bit about myself, my name is Victor Danell and I'm a 22
year old Computer Science student from the northern parts of Sweden. As with
anyone who studies at a university my hours vary greatly depending on what
courses I take and this does of course affect how much stuff I can zap. A
guestimate would be that I'll have a few hours a week to spare.
As for area of preference, I really can't say. I guess the easier the better
in the beginning, to get a hang of how everything works. I'll definitely be
on IRC if I'm accepted, to see what is going on.
Thanks in advance for considering my application! Feel free to contact me,
should there be any questions.
IRC nick: lightweight
msn: fs04vida(a)gmail.com
// Victor
14 years, 6 months
ath9k
by Scott Robbins
I'm wondering how others are finding ath9k. I'm finding in 2.6.31
kernels that it will constantly drop connections. I see various and
sundy bugs on both bugzilla and the kernel's bugzilla.
Have others also been finding it to not work very well?
(This is on an Asus 1000HE, with an Atheros 928x)
--
Scott Robbins
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Angelus: I wanna torture you. I used to love it, and it's been
such a long time. I mean, the last time I tortured someone, they
didn't even *have* chainsaws.
14 years, 6 months
F12 won't stop taking naps
by Robert G. (Doc) Savage
The first step in finding and fixing a problem is coming up with a
description of the fault that helps you identify and focus on the
misbehaving component. That's what I've been struggling with since F12's
alpha release.
The sympton is a ThinkPad W700 uber-laptop that seems to "nap"
constantly. An example of a "nap" is a long pause -- several minutes --
in one of the steps during a non-graphical startup. For example: between
"Starting NFS statd:" and its "[ OK ]" completion. If I don't want to
wait for the timeout, I can generate a hardware interrupt by
left-clicking or touching the mouse or touchpad. I see from two to five
such pause episodes during every startup, but they never occur at the
same startup events.
It's not confined to the boot sequence, either. It affects the
NetworkManager-managed wireless port, which must frequently be manually
reconnected. The clock often stops even though ntpd is running. I've
even had to constantly trace a circle on the touchpad to keep a routine
fsck session from stalling. If I remove my finger from the touchpad, the
hard drive light stops blinking.
I'm fairly certain this problem, whatever it is, is specific to F12 and
not a hardware fault. It did not occur with F11 and earlier, nor when I
replace the Fedora hard drive with the original Vista hard drive and
boot up. It has manifested itself in both F12a and F12b releases, and
through all updates.
If I had to hazard a guess -- and a PWAG at that -- I might suspect
something is wrong with the power management code. I'm open to
suggestions.
--Doc Savage
Fairview Heights, IL
14 years, 6 months
Suspend to RAM on nouveau
by Masood
Hi
Does Suspend to RAM works for anyone on nouveau driver? I have a NVIDIA 8500
and nouveau-0.0.15-17.20091105gite1c2efd.fc12.
$ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8500 GT (rev
a1)
Regards,
Masood
14 years, 6 months
Dammit...
by Birger Monsen
This workstation was supposed to be for continuous reinstalls of f12 while I
continued running f11 on my production desktop. It was supposed to just be a
testbed to see what was new and how stable I could get it. But most of all I
wanted to test installations from live media, from DVD image and with
kickstart files.
This has all come to a halt. Why? I don't really know, but there is
something about this release that just feels so good I don't want to work
from my f11 system any more. Everything just flows better on the test
system. So I don't want to reinstall my test system because then I have to
work on my production system for a while. And I don't quite dare upgrading
my production desktop just yet, as you never know when rawhide hits you.
*Sigh*
There are issues, of course. Keyboard mapping in tsclient/rdesktop,
evolution-mapi being terribly unstable (but always getting better), having
to compile pidgin-sipe myself (when will someone do the review of the
package sitting in bugzilla?)... But this is really starting to make sense
as an office desktop.
I'll kick myself off this system again and reinstall it. Soon. I promise :-)
In the meantime kudos to everyone making fedora an impossibly stable
bleeding-edge distro.
--
birger
14 years, 6 months
/lib/modules/<kernel>/build
by Scott Robbins
I'm wondering if this is just some oddball Just Me(TM) thing. I haven't
seen it mentioned, but haven't been following the list that closely
lately.
On the latest updated F12.i686.PAE, trying to build something failed.
This was because /lib/modules/2.6.31.5-122.fc12.i686.PAE/build was
linked to /usr/src/2.6.31.5-122.fc12.i686.PAE. However, when installing
the kernel-devel package, the /usr/src directory didn't have the PAE
suffix. Manually renaming it fixed the issue for now, but I've not run
into that before, and am wondering if it's just some oddity that
happened during updates at some point.
--
Scott Robbins
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Forrest: This is the burden we bear, brother. We have a gig that
would inevitably cause any girl living to think we are cool upon
cool. Yet, we must Clark Kent our way through the dating scene,
never to use our unfair advantage. Thank God we're pretty.
14 years, 6 months
r8101 in F12
by Joseph L. Casale
What's the trick in getting this nic to work for either the beta
dvd or snapshot netinstall iso?
F11 seemed to have support for it?
Thanks,
jlc
14 years, 6 months
rawhide report: 20091108 changes
by Fedora compose checker
Compose started at Sun Nov 8 08:15:08 UTC 2009
Summary:
Added Packages: 0
Removed Packages: 0
Modified Packages: 0
14 years, 6 months
right place for comments on fedora moblin remix?
by Robert P. J. Day
unsurprisingly, the fedora moblin remix does not play well with my
laptop with the radeon xpress 200m video. i get a login dialog, but
with a fairly large rectangular box plopped on top of it, at which
point trying to log in as the live user just eventually brings me back
to the login dialog. i can't get any further than that.
rday
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Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry.
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14 years, 6 months
Re: Broken dependencies with Fedora 11 updates-testing - 2009-11-07
by Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:08:04 +0100, Tim wrote:
> On 07.11.2009 14:43, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > The following packages in the repository suffer from broken dependencies:
>
> The -static sub-package does not exist anymore with Player 3.0.0. What's
> the proper procedure to remove this sub-package from the repository?
The question is misleading. Removing a package from a repository would not
fix the unresolvable dependency for any users who have installed the package
already.
The proper way to handle an obsolete sub-packages like this is to add
Obsoletes: player-static < 3.0.0
to player-devel.
14 years, 6 months