problem with nvidia driver 169.07
by oleksandr korneta
Hello,
After I updated the kernel to the latest version
$ rpm -qa | grep kernel
kernel-2.6.23.9-85.fc8
kernel-devel-2.6.23.9-85.fc8
kernel-headers-2.6.23.9-85.fc8
it has pulled the latest nvidia drivers from livna for my GeForce 6600 card.
$ rpm -qa | grep nvidia
kmod-nvidia-2.6.23.9-85.fc8-169.07-1.lvn8
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-169.07-4.lvn8
kmod-nvidia-169.07-1.lvn8
As I rebooted, my LCD panel went blank with the power light turning
yellow, indicating that there is no video signal. Fortunately, I have
dual-heal configuration, and I quickly discovered that the picture on my
TV is OK. After running nvidia-settings, I was quite surprised to find
out that all my videocard sees is just TV, but no LCD. If I switch to
console mode, the flat panel comes alive and the picture appears on both
TV and LCD. I changed the driver to nv, instead of nvidia and the
picture appears on both screens without glitches. I hooked my LCD to
DSUB output of my card instead of DVI, and nvidia-settings immediately
found new CRT monitor, perfectly detecting the model and resolution.
Thus, latest nvidia driver does not detect the DVI output on my video
adapter. Did anyone notice anything like this before? Is there something
I've missed?
--
regards,
Oleksandr Korneta
I'm running FC8 i386 on x86_64 hardware, should this matter.
/The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from./
16 years, 4 months
Re: USB storage devices and /etc/fstab
by JUSTIN TAYLOR
I am still trying to get this to work. The e2label seems to work but I cannot
mount the device, and the system will not boot with the specified /etc/fstab.
# /sbin/e2label /dev/sdb5 usbdisk2
/etc/fstab:
LABEL=/usbdisk2 /usbdisk2 ext2 noauto,user,rw 1 2
#/dev/sdb5 /media/usbdisk2 ext2 user,suid,dev,exec,noauto 0 0
# mount /usbdisk2
mount: special device LABEL=/usbdisk2 does not exist
16 years, 4 months
TV tuner card on Fedora 8 x86_64
by Jeffrey Ross
I have a old TV tuner card that I used to be able to use with Fedora, (I
think I was last successful with FC2 or 3? and on different hardware).
The card is an old Brooktree BT848 card.
lspci:
07:02.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt848 Video
Capture (rev 12)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 18
Memory at 90000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
Hald no longer recognizes the card on startup and I am unsure how to
manually install the drivers into the kernel.
I used to have the following in my /etc/modprobe.conf file:
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 bttv
options bttv card=2 pll=1
options tuner type=6 debug=0
post-install bttv modprobe tuner; modprobe videodev
but either I incorrectly saved my previous configuration settings for
they no longer work on F8.
any help would be appreciated!
TIA, Jeff
16 years, 4 months
Compiling kernel
by Fernando Apesteguía
Hi all,
I have a problem when I try to compile the latest kernel for my FC6. I
downloaded kernel-2.6.22.14-72.fc6.src.rpm.
I'm following the instructions in
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/CustomKernel?highlight=%28kernel%29
as I did successfully before.
However, now, when I reach point 6 under "Configuring kernel options"
I see, there are not config-<arch> files anymore (as there were with
the kernel-2.6.22.9-61) but only these two files:
config-rhel-generic config-rhel-x86-generic
What are these two RH Enterprise files for?
Why this changed?
Can any of you give me some ideas on how to compile the kernel in the
"Fedora way"?
Thanks in advance... and Merry Christmas!
16 years, 4 months
Using console.perms
by Karl Larsen
I share this because no one else seems to understand. Assume you
want to change owner of /dev/ttyS0 to user when user logs in. Otherwise
it reverts to root.
Observe that there is a place on /etc where you can do things. So we
will first try /etc/console and see what's there. Nothing. Now try
/etc/security/. This is interesting and you see:
[root@k5di security]# ls
access.conf console.perms namespace.conf pam_winbind.conf
chroot.conf console.perms.d namespace.init sepermit.conf
console.apps group.conf opasswd time.conf
console.handlers limits.conf pam_env.conf
Now you see console.perms and console.perms.d. Here is what these files
look like:
[root@k5di security]# more console.perms.d
*** console.perms.d: directory ***
# /etc/security/console.perms
#
# This file determines the permissions that will be given to priviledged
# users of the console at login time, and the permissions to which to
# revert when the users log out.
# format is:
# <class>=list of regexps specifying consoles or globs specifying files
# file-glob|<class> perm dev-regex|<dev-class> \
# revert-mode revert-owner[.revert-group]
# the revert-mode, revert-owner, and revert-group are optional, and default
# to 0600, root, and root, respectively.
#
# For more information:
# man 5 console.perms
#
# This file should not be modified.
# Rather a new file in the console.perms.d directory should be created.
# file classes -- these are regular expressions
<console>=tty[0-9][0-9]* vc/[0-9][0-9]* :[0-9]+\.[0-9]+ :[0-9]+
<xconsole>=:[0-9]+\.[0-9]+ :[0-9]+
** Joe's Own Editor v3.5 ** (utf-8) ** Copyright © 2006 **
Now go to the console.perms.d directory
[root@k5di security]# cd console.perms.d
[root@k5di console.perms.d]# ls
50-default.perms ttyS0.perms
[root@k5di console.perms.d]#
And ttyS0.perms is:
[root@k5di console.perms.d]# more ttyS0.perms
# this file should give /dev/ttyS0 proper priv's for me.
#device classes
<ttyS0>=/dev/ttyS0
# permission definitions
<console> 0600 <ttyS0> 0600 root.uucp
[root@k5di console.perms.d]#
and this works fine, of course.
Karl
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Linux User
#450462 http://counter.li.org.
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16 years, 4 months
Re: GNOME_ClockApplet doesn't always load
by wayne
Tim replied with:
>On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 22:28 -0500, wayne wrote:
>> I finally decided to upgrade from my old reliable Redhat 9 to Fedora
>> 8. For the most part it works great. I am having problems with
>> GNOME_ClockApplet and GNOME_WorkspaceSwitcherApplet, where they do not
>> always appear on the panel when I log in.
>
> I think the first thing people will ask is how you did the "upgrading"?
> Did you upgrade from one to the other, over the top? Did you replace
> the old with a completely new installation on reformatted drives?
I installed F8 on a new disk, copied everyone's /home directories to
the disk, and then created new accounts that matched the same user/group
numbers for everyone's account.
I did it this way to preserve the original look and feel for everyone
in my family (7 accounts). This retained the single panel bar and single
"main menu" on the panel bar. I suspect that this might have something
to do with the problems I'm experiencing.
Thanks,
-- Wayne.
16 years, 4 months
pptp Configuration
by Rod MacNeil
Does anyone know where I can get a package with the pptp plugin for network
manager for FC7?
Or some good instructions for configuring a pptp client connection manually?
I did use pptpconfig from the pptp-client project at sourceforge in the
past, is it still the one to use?
Rod
16 years, 4 months
USB
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
I did copy a FC4 working machine to a usb external disk before update.
However, I wanted to boot on this clone but I am still working to find a
way to have it work.
I am using lilo.
Can I find a clear example or a clear documentation on how to setup
up the lilo.conf file.
Thank.
--
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Patrick Dupré pd520(a)york.ac.uk
University of York Department of Chemistry
Heslington, York YO10 5DD United Kingdom
Phone: +44-(0)-1904-434384 Fax: +44-(0)-1904-432516
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16 years, 4 months
a new sendmail question
by Tom Horsley
I have tried to poke around in google for this before,
but never found a satisfactory answer.
Say I'm not running my own server, I don't have a domain name,
i.e., a typical home computer.
Can I configure sendmail to shuffle local mail around to
local mailboxes, and take mail to external addresses
sent by me and direct it to my ISP smtp server (which
needs an SSL connection and user and password
authorization).
Or is there something that can act a lot like sendmail
but is easier to configure to do this sort of thing?
16 years, 4 months