Second steps of the transition from Livna to RPM Fusion begins: Enabling RPM Fusion for users of livna-testing!
by Thorsten Leemhuis
Hi!
Find below a cut'n'pasted and slightly enhanced version of a post from
my blog FYI:
As you'll likely have heard by now: RPM Fusion ( http://rpmfusion.org ),
the merger of Dribble, Freshrpms and Livna gets closer to its official
release/start. Most of the packages from Livna have been imported and
build for RPM Fusion already, hence we now begin to slowly enable RPM
Fusion for users of Livna by activating the RPM Fusion free and
nonfree repos for users of livna's F8 and F9 testing repos *now*.
The process works like this: I added the rpmfusion-release packages for
RPM Fusion's free and nonfree repos to the livna repo for F8 and F9;
afterwards I built new livna-release for F8 and F9 that is available in
livna-testing for F8 and F9 now; those two livna-release packages
track the two rpmfusion-release packages in with a hard dep. That way
all users that installed livna properly (e.g. by installing the
livna-release package) and enabled the testing repos will now get RPM
Fusion enabled automatically.
Note, nearly all of livna's packages have been imported and build for
RPM Fusion, but a few are still missing. So you should leave livna repos
enabled for now if you want everything. Once all the packages have a new
home we'll let the rpmfusion-nonfree-release package obsolete livna-release.
The plan is to move regular livna users of F8 and F9 over to RPM Fusion
with the same trick sooner or later. But some things in RPM Fusion still
need to get brought in shape before we start considering that. But if
you want you can already help by using and testing RPM Fusion for F8 and
F9 by running this command:
> rpm -ivh \
> http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.... \
> http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-s...
It's even easier now if you already have livna enabled already:
> yum install rpmfusion-free-release rpmfusion-nonfree-release
RPM Fusion's Bugtracker (please report all issues here and not on the
mailing lists!):
http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/
Mailing lists for RPM Fusion users (includes users of the devel branch)
http://lists.rpmfusion.org/mailman/listinfo/rpmfusion-users
Please spread the news! tia!
CU
knurd
P.S.: Just a reminder while at it: Some of you might have noticed
already, the livna mailing lists (like freeworld{,-graphics}(a)livna.org)
are dead since a few weeks; the hard disk in Anvil's mailman host died
afaik (I don't know more details; sorry). But Livna will be superseded
by RPM Fusion soon anyway, so simply use the those lists from rpmfusion
from now on. They should serve well for the remaining time, as all the
livna contributors should be subscribed there as well. Sorry for the
trouble.
P.P.S.: Sorry for crossposting this to five lists, but it seemed the
right thing to do for this announcement...
15 years, 6 months
fedora on dell vostro 1510?
by Robert P. J. Day
as a followup to an earlier post, i'm interested in finding an
entry-level laptop who's most important property is that it have a
full WUXGA (1920x1200) display, preferably non-NVIDIA video, and runs
fedora reliably.
the dell vostro seems to fit the bill:
http://www1.ca.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx?c=ca&cs=cabs...
a default configuration, changing only the display to WUXGA, comes in
at only $779 canadian.
does anyone have any personal experience with this model and
fedora? the video is "IntelJ Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator
X3100", with nvidia as a more expensive option, so i'm not going there.
system doesn't need to be smokin' fast, just needs that display,
needs to run fedora and, ideally, has open source video drivers.
thoughts?
rday
15 years, 6 months
OpenOffice & Fedora 9 KDE 4.1.2
by Alex Makhlin
Hi all,
I just recently installed OpenOffice and non of the apps work. They open
for a split second and then they close. Is this a Java issue, Nvidia
driver issue, or is it a Fedora 9 bug? I checked around on the net but
could not find an answer.
I am running Fedora 9 KDE 4.1.2 on an HP Pavilion dv9208nr laptop:
*Product Name* dv9208nr
* Product Number* RP114UA#ABA
*Microprocessor* 1.6 GHz AMD Turion ^(TM) 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile
Technology TL-50
*Microprocessor Cache* 2 X 256KB L2 Cache
*Memory* 1024MB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm)
*Video Graphics* NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 (UMA)
*Video Memory* up to 288MB (shared)
*Hard Drive* 120GB 5400RPM (SATA)
*Multimedia Drive* LightScribe Super Multi 8X DVD±R/RW with Double
Layer Support
*Display* 17.0" WXGA+ High-Definition BrightView Widescreen Display
(1440 x 900)
*Fax/Modem* High speed 56k modem
*Network Card* Integrated 10/100BASE-T Ethernet LAN (RJ-45 connector)
*Wireless Connectivity* 802.11b/g WLAN
*Multimedia Features* HP Imprint Finish & Integrated Microphone
*Sound* Altec Lansing
15 years, 6 months
Change Font used by xterm in f9
by Dave Feustel
I would like to have xterm use a bold (and possibly slightly larger)
font to make it easier for me to read.
How do I change the default font used by xterm.
Thanks.
15 years, 6 months
Fedora 9 64 bis
by hce
Hi,
I've just installed Fedora 9 64 bit on an Intel PC i686. Is there an
enviirnment macro I can check on a makefile to find it is a 64 bit OS?
Thank you.
Kind Regards,
Jim
15 years, 6 months
flash and firefox again
by Amadeus W.M.
Man, is flash broken (again?) or what? It was working before the upgrade
to flash-10, but now cnn videos are very choppy when they play, or simply
don't play at all. Do other people have this problem? I have a
hyperthreaded 2.8GHz processor and cnn video takes some 70% on each
thread. Prior to the update I would see some 30-40% (as far as I can
recall), and only on one of the threads, not both.
Video on other sites plays well though, e.g. uefa.com.
15 years, 6 months
Open Office 3
by Dave Feustel
When will Open Office 3 be available for F9?
Thanks.
15 years, 6 months
Missing configuration files for Alpine in Fedora 8, 9
by Michael Hannon
Greetings. I've been seeing some strange behavior with the "alpine"
package in Fedora 8 and 9 recently.
The gist of it is that there don't seem to be any configuration files
for alpine, even though RPM lists them.
Here's an example from a Fedora 8 system. I get the same thing on a
Fedora 9 system.
[root@localsys ~]# grep alpine /var/log/yum.log
Oct 27 16:58:27 Installed: alpine-2.00-1.fc8.i386
No complaints from the installer. OK, what got installed?
[root@localsys ~]# rpm -ql alpine
/etc/pine.conf
/etc/pine.conf.fixed
/usr/bin/alpine
/usr/bin/pico
/usr/bin/pilot
/usr/bin/rpdump
/usr/bin/rpload
/usr/share/doc/alpine-2.00
/usr/share/doc/alpine-2.00/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/alpine-2.00/README
/usr/share/doc/alpine-2.00/tech-notes.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/alpine.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pico.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pilot.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rpdump.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rpload.1.gz
That shows not one but two configuration files in /etc/.
On the other hand, there are no such configuration files:
[root@localsys ~]# ls -ld /etc/*pine*
ls: cannot access /etc/*pine*: No such file or directory
Maybe something's wrong with the installation? RPM doesn't think so:
[root@localsys ~]# rpm --verify alpine
[root@localsys ~]#
This is significant because the alpine binary seems to have been
compiled with /usr/local as the default location for browsers, for
instance. I won't repeat the output here, but try:
strings /usr/bin/alpine | grep netscape
or
strings /usr/bin/alpine | grep lynx
I suppose this could be "fixed" by changing individual .pinerc files,
but that seems to be treating the symptom, not the problem.
Note that I have seen a directory:
/etc/alpine
on some systems, and on one system running Scientific Linux I do find a
file:
/etc/alpine/pine.conf
On the Fedora systems that I've examined, either the /etc/alpine
directory is missing altogether, or it is there but empty.
Is this a local problem, or are others seeing it too?
Thanks.
-- Mike
15 years, 6 months
F8 Decoding smartd\smartctl output.
by Frank Murphy
According to smartd, two drives are failing, googled and found the
smartctl command. But no idea how to comapre\decode it.
<snip>
/dev/sdc :
Prefailure: Raw_Read_Error_Rate (1) changed to
104, 101, 95, 97, 99, 100, 101, 102, 110, 109, 108, 107,
106, 103, 101, 100, 99, 97, 98, 96, 99, 101, 102, 103,
Usage: Airflow_Temperature_Cel (190) changed to
70, 68, 68, 67, 68, 67,
Usage: Hardware_ECC_Recovered (195) changed to
65, 64, 65, 64, 63, 64, 63, 61, 62, 61, 62, 63,
64, 63, 64,
Usage: Temperature_Celsius (194) changed to
30, 32, 32, 33, 32, 33,
/dev/sdd :
Prefailure: Raw_Read_Error_Rate (1) changed to
116, 114, 112, 109, 110, 107, 113, 115, 118, 117, 111, 114,
116, 117, 118, 119, 102, 106, 107, 108, 110, 109, 103, 112,
115, 117,
Usage: Airflow_Temperature_Cel (190) changed to
72, 71, 72, 71, 71, 70,
Usage: Hardware_ECC_Recovered (195) changed to
68, 67, 66, 65, 66, 68, 66, 65, 66, 63, 64, 63,
64, 63, 64, 67, 68, 67, 69,
Usage: Temperature_Celsius (194) changed to
28, 29, 28, 29, 29, 30,
</snip>
smartctl -A /dev/sda
smartctl version 5.38 [i386-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce
Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE
UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 253 006 Pre-fail Always
- 0
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 097 097 000 Pre-fail Always
- 0
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always
- 32
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always
- 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 066 060 030 Pre-fail Always
- 4740290
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always
- 88
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always
- 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always
- 32
187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always
- 0
189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age Always
- 0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 074 064 045 Old_age Always
- 26 (Lifetime Min/Max 18/26)
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 026 036 000 Old_age Always
- 26 (0 18 0 0)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 079 075 000 Old_age Always
- 109140652
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always
- 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age
Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always
- 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age
Offline - 0
202 TA_Increase_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always
- 0
Frank
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15 years, 6 months