Working 3d with Nouveau!
by Bruno Wolff III
Ben did some updates tonight for rawhide and I am able to play tremulous now
on an nVidia nv28 based card.
It's pretty late so I didn't do much testing and there may be bugs. But if
you have nv20 series or earlier cards you might want to give it a try
with Monday morning's rawhide.
14 years, 3 months
ATI graphics mobility 5830 - does it work?
by Genes MailLists
Can anyone tell me if the ATI mobility HD 5830 will work in fedora 12
- 2-D is sufficient - its on an HP laptop that look sinteresting but
I've only used nvidia till now.
So looking for any info on whether this will work in fedora
Thanks kindly for any help.
gene/
14 years, 3 months
I/O error while rebuilding an md raid-5 array
by Dawning Sky
Hi,
I have some trouble with my md raid-5 array. It has four 500GB drives
(sdb1-sde1). sde started giving some SMART error (Pending Bad Sectors), so
just to be safe, I decided to replace it. I declared it to be faulty and
removed it from the array and add a new drive and the rebuilding was
automatic. But before the rebuilding can finish, I got an I/O error from
sdb1 and it was declared faulty by md.
Now I have two faulty drives and things don't look good. However, I was
able to added the second drive back to the array and md seemed not mind and
still reports "active sync". At this point I shut down computer and decided
to clone sdb with clonezilla. Not sure if it will complete without I/O
errors. It appears clonezilla is using dd and the speed is extremely slow
(~5MB/sec) and it says it's gonna take 1 day to clone the 500GB.
The only reason I'm not in a total panic mode is that I did a back up before
doing all this. Now I'm keeping my finger crossed that my backup drive
won't die. In retrospect, I should have just shut down the computer and
cloned sde instead of letting md to rebuild the array.
Any suggestion on the best to proceed is highly appreciated, especially on
the scenario that I won't be able to clone sdb. Is there any way to avoid
building a new array?
Regards,
DS
PS, if in the end I have to build a new array, I'll probably go with a raid
6 instead.
14 years, 3 months
radeon driver heading in wrong direction :-(.
by Tom Horsley
My poor system at work generated this bug shortly after
I installed f12 on it:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541387
I had hoped that over time, the drivers would improve,
but since the updates of about a week ago, the crashes
have been much more dramatic and frequent, so much
so that I've had to go back to my fedora 11 partition
because I couldn't get any work done due to the
frequency of crashes on fedora 12.
Is there a list anywhere of the video cards that
are actually used by X developers on the machines they
need to be up all the time? Switching to a card from that
list seems like it would be a good idea :-).
Is there any remote chance that AMD/ATI are ever going
to produce a catalyst driver that can be built on the
fedora 12 kernel? It might work better...
14 years, 3 months
What is seapplet?? Running at 97% and 100% of CPU.
by Michael D. Setzer II
Started out that I thought this was an issue with a new install, but just
checked my home AMD 64 Phenom II and it has one of its CPUs running at
100% with seapplet as well. Don't see anything on P4 systems?
==Start of issue ==
I've just setup an older AMD 64 machine with Fedora 12, and just saw
seapplet running at 97% of the CPU. Didn't see this running at this level
before today. Got nothing on the man with the command so wondering what
this is. Just installed it on Saturday, so perhaps this is something that runs
after setup. The process is on my other machines P4 machines, but not
running at any level.
Anyone know exactly why this is happen? Why or how to fix it?
On the single core machine I changed the nice level to 19 so now it is only
running at 49% or CPU.
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14 years, 3 months
ext4 defaults and access time
by Andras Simon
All my partitions are ext4 and mounted with ext4 defaults from fstab.
Still, sometimes it's as if noatime was used:
[simon@pici uffi]$ date
Tue Feb 2 20:48:22 CET 2010
[simon@pici uffi]$ cat clsql-uffi-loader.lisp > /dev/null
[simon@pici uffi]$ ls -lu clsql-uffi-loader.lisp
-rw-rw-r--. 1 simon simon 2995 2010-02-02 16:24 clsql-uffi-loader.lisp
Can it be some caching issue? If so, is there a way to force ls -lu to
show the last access time, independently of whether that involves
physical access?
Andras
14 years, 3 months
Using a USB external enclosure with a PATA hard drive ?
by Jim
FC 12-x86_64/kde
I have a Acomdata external hard drive enclosure with a PATA hard drive
set to Master.
I want to just be able to read and write to it as a storage drive, lsusb
sees the enclosure Acomdata but not the drive, what do I have to do to
read/write to the hard drive ??
14 years, 3 months
Stoopid script failure
by Patrick O'Callaghan
Can anyone explain why this doesn't work? I've been writing shell
scripts on and off for several decades and I can't see what's going on
here. Is senility setting it?
$ cat > tst
#!/bin/sh
echo foo
$ chmod +x tst
$ ls -l tst
-rwxrwxr-x 1 poc poc 19 2010-02-06 10:22 tst
$ type tst
tst is ./tst
$ tst
bash: ./tst: Permission denied
(SElinux is off, if it matters).
poc
14 years, 3 months
Option 322 quicksilver
by Jeffrey Landgrebe
Hello,
I am Jeff, and my email is:
mountainhome3(a)yahoo.com
I am new to linux, but not new to computers and programming (retired, having worked in the latter part of my career programming and working with data in the Microsoft quicksand). I would like now to learn linux on my laptop (my only PC at the moment). I had rummaged around, and some folks advised me try Ubuntu. I did so, and I am currently dual-booting MS Win XP and Ubuntu 9.10.
Unfortunately, I quickly learned Ubuntu 9.10 does not support my internet USB device from AT&T, the Option Icon 322 Quicksilver. There is a workaround, but that is not really how I would prefer to begin my learning.
Could someone please tell me if this device is supported in Fedora 12 (or whatever the most recent release is)?
If so, I will replace Ubuntu with Fedora. It is tedious jumping back to WinXP when I need to get info from internet sources, and then re-booting to Ubuntu.
Thank you in advance for any help.
14 years, 3 months
KDE 4.3.5 Sound - Continuing Problems
by Tim and Alison Bentley
Since my last request for help the comments passed back have started to make
things better.
Thanks to for those.
pauvcontrol now shows sound from Amarok but it does not come out of the
speakers.
Even after the last KDE update this does not work.
I have tried to change xine to gstreamer but that crashed Amarok.
The latest set of KDE updates have not improved things.
the current xine packages installed are
Installed phonon-backend-xine-4.3.80-5.fc12.x86_64 xine phonon
backend
Installed xine-lib-1.1.16.3-5.fc12.x86_64 A multimedia
engine
Installed xine-lib-extras-freeworld-1.1.16.3-2.fc12.x86_64
Extra codecs for the Xine multimedia library
any ideas on where to look next.
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14 years, 3 months