New Kernel Nvidia Options
by Craig Preston
With the new Kernel Version - 2.6.16-1.2080_FC5
What is the best method for installing Nvidia drivers? Has this fixed the
previous kernel problems that existed with the nvidia drivers.
18 years, 2 months
How to copy /?
by Tony Nelson
As a learning experience and in preparation for upgrading to FC5, I just
copied my FC3 / partition to another partition. It appears to work. I'd
like to know if I've done it right, in case it just "appears" to work.
I read up on cpio and practiced with find until I had what I wanted.
I made a new LVM partition of the same size as my old one (actually, I just
resized the FC5t3 partition and filesystem, and removed all the files with
rm -rf.
I booted from the FC5 Rescue CD, and, after a couple of false starts did
this (or something very like it):
mkdir /mnt/new
mount /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol02 /mnt/new
cd /mnt/sysimage
find . -depth -noleaf -xdev -size -102400K -print0 | cpio -dumpa0 --sparse /mnt/new
# here would have been a good time to: touch /mnt/new/.autorelabel
umount /mnt/new
exit
I edited /boot/grub/grub.conf to have a stanza for my new partition
I then had trouble during booting, which I decided was from selinux, and
horsed around for a while trying to get that fixed. What was needed was to
boot from something (I used my original FC3) and touch the new
/.autorelabel, and then to boot with the kernel param enforcing=0.
The copy seems to work now.
Someone may say that I should have used dump and restore. I don't know of
any clear advantage over using cpio?
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18 years, 2 months
Fedora C4 dies
by Jim Douglas
Fedora freezes and I'm not sure why
Here are the symptoms.
Things slow down over the course of 2-4 minutes then I can't do anything and
have to turn the power off or if I'm lucky I can get to the terminal window
and shutdown.
It's only been happening the last couple of days and I don't know why.
Jim
18 years, 2 months
Compact Flash and JFFS2
by Jim Cornette
I posted on this list regarding ext3 and different arch machines making
file systems on CF cards. A suggestion was made to use JFFS2 on the cards.
Anyway, I got as far as grabbing a mkfs.jffs2 binary and attempting to
format the card. I was not successful.
The error I got with dmesg |tail referred to a non-MTD device. Anyway, I
got as far as modprobing jffs2, modprobing block2mtd, changing the
partition type to 42 which showed a /dev/md0 after a reboot.
I later read on a FAQ somewhere that CF cards are unreliable if a power
loss is encountered and it is not worthwhile to setup a CF card with
JFFS2 or JFFS3.
Anyway, how would you set a block device to mtd device? Is it worth
setting up or even possible to use a CF card and Journal Flash File System?
Thanks in advance for any leads/ solutions.
Jim
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We use Linux for all our mission-critical applications. Having the
source code
means that we are not held hostage by anyone's support department.
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18 years, 2 months
Problems With Atheros Based Wireless Cards
by Jeffrey D. Yuille
Hello,
I had installed Fedora Core 5 on a Dell Inspiron 4000 computer and
I was using the SMC 2536w-ag wireless card. It used the madwifi drivers
as well as the kernel module. Although it worked fine under Fedora Core
4, I cannot get it working in Fedora Core 5. Has anyone else
experienced problems with these drivers in FC5? And if so, how can I
get this card working? I also have an IBM T-30 with FC5 and am
experiencing the same problems. Thanks in advance for any help I can
receive.
18 years, 2 months
gpilotd crashes
by Robert Bell
I just bought a palm TX. I plugged it in and saw:
Mar 30 18:27:37 everest kernel: usb 3-2: Handspring Visor / Palm OS
converter now attached to ttyUSB0
Mar 30 18:27:37 everest kernel: usb 3-2: Handspring Visor / Palm OS
converter now attached to ttyUSB1
Good right? So I set the device to /dev/ttyUSB0 in the
gnome-pilot-applet.
Now, every time I connect my device gpilotd crashes, restarts, crashes,
restarts . . .
Nothing I found on google seem to pertain to this, in fact what I read
indicated the TX would work fine, thats why I bought it. This is FC4
with the latest packages from Fedora. Any help would be appreciated.
I started gpilotd maually to see if it was throwing any errors. This is
what I got, no idea if its normal
gpilotd-Message: gnome-pilot 2.0.13 starting...
gpilotd-Message: compiled for pilot-link version 0.12.0-pre2
gpilotd-Message: compiled with [VFS] [USB] [IrDA] [Network]
(gpilotd:12358): gpilotd-WARNING **: Number of devices is configured to
0
(gpilotd:12358): gpilotd-WARNING **: No accessible devices available
(gpilotd:12358): gpilotd-WARNING **: Number of pilots is configured to 0
gpilotd-Message: Activating CORBA server
IOR: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
gpilotd-Message: bonobo_activation_active_server_register = 0
18 years, 2 months
fedora ppc
by Matthew Polashek
Hi!
I downloaded the iso files for FC4 ppc and disc 1 fails to pass the
media check every time. I tried downloading it from several mirrors.
Anyone have any idea what the problem is? Additionally, when I go ahead
with the install, I get to the point where the anaconda GUI should come
up and I get a blank screen.
I'm downloading the dvd right now, but it would seem the cds should
work. I'm using a powerbook 17 G4 1.5.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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18 years, 2 months
Fedora Server Crashing
by Ki Song
My Fedora Core 4 Linux Box (primarily used for a mail server: postfix) is
crashing 3-4 times a day!
I looked at the messages log and I see the following unexplainable record in
the log file:
crond(pam_unix)[22601]: session closed for user root
Is someone trying to login to my server as root?
Regards,
Ki
18 years, 2 months
GTK1 (i think) and Java
by Steven Pasternak
Hi! I recently moved from a SuSE 10 installation to a Fedora 5
installation. I also started using gnome instead of kde. In SuSE 10, I
had a sun java 1.5.0_04 installed, which was my java library. I use the
same installation (same downloaded tar file), but java apps (the java
control panel, limewire, etc.) have an awful gtk1.x look and are very
buggy. In SuSE, It was a blue-ish look, and didn't cause any problems.
How can I get this back?
-Steven
18 years, 2 months