Did I really install Kmod-Nvidia ?
by gilpel@altern.org
There are all sorts of instructions as to how to install Kmod-Nvidia on
Fedora, but I thought yum would do a better job of guessing my
configuration (x86_64, 9400 GT) to get the most up-to-date correct package
and getting everything right. So, I just typed:
yum install kmod-nvidia
Now, /etc/X11/xorg.conf looks like this:
# Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
The file is only a few minutes old... So, I suppose it's a new config for
the Kmod driver. But the process was so transparent, I can't help but
wonder if all those modifications to the kernel that I read about in the
doc have been made.
If so, why not provide the documentation that all that is needed is to
type the yum command?
The Nouveau driver worked very well and, since I'm not too sure I'll
install 3D, maybe I could have kept it. But my screen kept blanking once
in a while for a few seconds. This happened with my previous computer too
-- it had an old ATI card, the same monitor and a very standard open
source driver for ATI -- but not so often and not for so long: it was just
a quick blank. I thought this might fix the problem.
Also, I intend to install a TV card and, it anything doesn't work, I'm sure
the first suggestion from Nvidia will be to install their driver. As the
material I buy is only on a one week money back guarantee, I prefer to
make sure everything works in advance.
Also, as it often happens when I download new packages, there was a socket
error and a long (~ 1-2 min) halt before another server took over. (I
forgot to save the console screen before I rebooted, but the name
"liberty" was part of it.)
After the installation finished, the rx/tx light of the modem began
flashing very fast as if there was a download occuring... or maybe an
upload if some information on the installation has to be sent back to
rpmfusion or nvidia.
No indication of what was going on appeared onscreen. Is this anything to
be concerned about? Any idea What this transfer was about?
4 years, 6 months
Re: Getting more juice from a preamp?
by Antonio Olivares
--- On Sat, 7/11/09, gilpel(a)altern.org <gilpel(a)altern.org> wrote:
> From: gilpel(a)altern.org <gilpel(a)altern.org>
> Subject: Getting more juice from a preamp?
> To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com
> Date: Saturday, July 11, 2009, 10:34 PM
> I listen to sound on my system with
> headphones, so I only use the preamp.
>
> This aft, I was watching this feature on the cause of
> Beethoven's death:
>
> http://www.radio-canada.ca/emissions/decouverte/2008-2009/Reportage.asp?i...
>
> but the sound is a bit weak. You don't miss anything, but
> you feel you
> have to be very attentive. Maybe they wanted to make you
> feel like you're
> getting deaf yourself :)
>
> I checked alsamixer, but volume control is maxed out. Is
> there any other
> control somewhere else? Anything in alsactl or pulseaudio,
> for instance?
>
> Thnaks!
>
> --
Try the following:
$ alsamixer -c0
then
$ pavucontrol
after adjusting those to your preference save your settings with
$ su -c '/sbin/alsactl store'
put in your password and settings should be saved for next reboot, ***unless*** an update(s) breaks your configuration and let us hope that those things don't happen :)
Regards,
Antonio
4 years, 6 months
Problems with 3COM 3C900Combo
by Christian Moller
Hi all Fedora users,
I have just joined this list. I am running the latest Fedora but I can't get
my 3C900Combo networking card to work. I can see that the card is installed
but no IP-address is asigned to it and I can't set it. So I think that there
is a bug in that driver. Any other user out there who have a solution for
this?
Best regards and thanks,
Christian
4 years, 6 months
RAGE XL Framebuffer
by Yanick Quirion
Hi all
I know that is not a specific question about Fedora, but I can't find answer on the kernel mailing list.
Is somebody having server with integrated ATI RAGE XL video card? Is it possible to patch the kernel to support this video card? If I add VGA=791 in my grub.conf, I will have a resolution of 1024x768 which is good, but the display is very slow (especially when the screen is scrolling). If I use I this: "video=aty128fb:1024x768@70" it will not work. I'm using kernel 2.4.22 but I will try 2.6.0-test11 today.
If somebody has a patch, a link or anything else that can help me, it will be appreciated.
Thanks for your help.
Regards,
-----------
Yanick Quirion
Administrateur Réseau/Network Manager
NEOKIMIA INC.
Institut de Pharmacologie de Sherbrooke
3e étage (Édifice Z5)
3001 12e avenue Nord
Sherbrooke, Québec
CANADA
J1H 5N4
Tél.: +1 819 820-6040
Direct: +1 819 820-6855
Fax.: +1 819 820-6841
email: Yanick.Quirion(a)neokimia.com
4 years, 6 months
Soundblaster
by Antonio Montagnani
I have two similar PC (old Pentium but workin fine)
In Pc no.1 I upgraded from RH8 to Fedora and it went fine: Soundblaster
is working fine
In Pc no.2 I made a fresh installation but in redhat-sound-config Fedora
doesn't see any card, that was working on Redhat 9 after soundconfig...
Where is the trick?? I assume that my Sounblaster is an old 16...but
fine on a router/firewall.
Tnx
Antonio
4 years, 6 months
WiFi permanently disappeared after booting test kernel
by Mike Fleetwood
Hi,
On my netbook I booted a test kernel 3.8.0-rc4+ I compiled. Now after
booting back into my regular Fedora kernel 3.6.11-5.fc17.i686.PAE my
wifi network device remains permanently disappeared. No wifi networks
displayed in Network Manager gui. Also the Network Manager syslog
messages make it look like the device has completely disappeared.
Suggestions for restoring wifi welcome.
Thanks
Mike
Fragment of Network Manager syslog messages when working before
--8<--
Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> monitoring kernel
firmware directory '/lib/firmware'.
Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> rfkill2: found WiFi
radio killswitch (at
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.3/0000:01:00.0/ieee80211/phy0/rfkill2)
(driver ath9k)
Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> rfkill0: found WiFi
radio killswitch (at /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/rfkill/rfkill0)
(platform driver eeepc)
Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> rfkill4: found WWAN
radio killswitch (at /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/rfkill/rfkill4)
(platform driver eeepc)
Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> WiFi enabled by radio
killswitch; enabled by state file
Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> WWAN enabled by radio
killswitch; enabled by state file
Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> WiMAX enabled by
radio killswitch; enabled by state file
Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> Networking is enabled
by state file
...
Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> (wlan0): using
nl80211 for WiFi device control
Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <warn> (wlan0): driver
supports Access Point (AP) mode
Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> (wlan0): new 802.11
WiFi device (driver: 'ath9k' ifindex: 3)
Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> (wlan0): exported as
/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1
Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> (wlan0): now managed
Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> (wlan0): device state
change: unmanaged -> unavailable (reason 'managed') [10 20 2]
Jan 18 23:01:53 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> (wlan0): bringing up device.
...
Jan 18 23:01:59 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> Activation (wlan0)
successful, device activated.
Jan 18 23:01:59 edge NetworkManager[479]: <info> Activation (wlan0)
Stage 5 of 5 (IPv4 Commit) complete.
Fragment of Network Manager syslog messages when broken after
--8<--
Jan 28 18:43:26 edge NetworkManager[466]: <info> monitoring kernel
firmware directory '/lib/firmware'.
Jan 28 18:43:26 edge NetworkManager[466]: <info> rfkill0: found WiFi
radio killswitch (at /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/rfkill/rfkill0)
(platform driver eeepc)
Jan 28 18:43:26 edge NetworkManager[466]: <info> rfkill2: found WWAN
radio killswitch (at /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/rfkill/rfkill2)
(platform driver eeepc)
Jan 28 18:43:26 edge NetworkManager[466]: <info> WiFi disabled by
radio killswitch; enabled by state file
Jan 28 18:43:26 edge NetworkManager[466]: <info> WWAN enabled by radio
killswitch; enabled by state file
Jan 28 18:43:26 edge NetworkManager[466]: <info> WiMAX enabled by
radio killswitch; enabled by state file
Jan 28 18:43:26 edge NetworkManager[466]: <info> Networking is enabled
by state file
No (wlan0) related NetworkManager syslog messages afterwards at all.
5 years, 3 months
losing WiFi Access - prompted for password
by SternData
F18...
Over the last few days, I'm getting prompted to re-enter my password for
my WiFi network. It's not the router because no other device on the
network seems to be having problems.
Potential changes on my system include
May 07 21:39:32 Updated: 1:wpa_supplicant-1.1-1.fc18.x86_64
May 25 15:33:44 Installed: kernel-3.9.3-201.fc18.x86_64
May 27 08:06:42 Updated:
1:NetworkManager-glib-0.9.8.1-3.git20130514.fc18.x86_64
May 27 08:06:47 Updated: 1:NetworkManager-0.9.8.1-3.git20130514.fc18.x86_64
May 27 08:06:53 Updated:
network-manager-applet-0.9.8.1-4.git20130514.fc18.x86_64
Given that this has really started the day before yesterday, I suspect
it has something to do with the NetworkManager update. Is anyone else
having this problem?
(Please -- do not tell me to "dump the evil NetworkManager". I'm trying
to solve a problem here, not make some stand against the tide. Thanks.)
--
-- Steve
5 years, 6 months
Re: Why some say "rpm hell"
by AP
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 12:14 AM, Tim <ignored_mailbox(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> It's still missing the headers. Give the other browser a try, and we'll
> see if that change things. Likewise, you could try changing some of the
> privacy settings.
Well, I am replying from Opera browser right now.
> There's little point in trying to be extremely
> private with email on a mailing list, you're posting in public with your
> email address. Perhaps they give you choices for certain websites
> against others (I'm only familiar with NoScript - it does let you
> customise it).
Well, my target is not to be private with email but only to be secured
with Malware during online web surfing and nothing more. Even when I
know that it is Linux, but using those addo-ons just block the
malwares and viruses (if), they guarantee that....
5 years, 10 months
qemu-system-x86 eat 400% CPU
by Franta Hanzlík
On Fedora 19/x86_64, Xeon 4cores/8threads, 8GB RAM I have in a VM
installed windows 2000 (full qemu cmdline see below). What is weird,
'top' on host show that all 4 threads load CPU at 100% each. On guest
are running only minimum processes and windows task manager show load
0-2%; virtual machine is almost idle. VM itself seems react well, its
responses are fine.
Please, how is possible debug this issue?
/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -machine accel=kvm -name w2kf19sp4N-ide -S -machine pc-i440fx-1.4,accel=kvm,usb=off -m 4096 -smp 4,sockets=1,cores=2,threads=4 -uuid 1934a452-a128-cf42-2b83-d8943cf9ad3e -no-user-config -nodefaults -chardev
socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/w2kf19sp4N-ide.monitor,server,nowait -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=localtime -no-shutdown -device piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2 -drive
file=/mnt/zalohy/virtualy/w2kf19sp2New-ide.img,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,format=raw -device ide-hd,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0,bootindex=1 -netdev tap,fd=24,id=hostnet0 -device rtl8139,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:54:ec:4f,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3
-chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -device usb-tablet,id=input0 -vnc 127.0.0.1:0 -vga std -device intel-hda,id=sound0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -device hda-duplex,id=sound0-codec0,bus=sound0.0,cad=0 -device
virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5
TIA, Franta Hanzlik
5 years, 11 months
sharing /boot among multible Linux distros
by Javier Perez
Hi
I need some advice here.
I am running a triple-boot system (Windows 2K, Fedora 19, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS).
It has three HDDs, one for each OS. (Windows, Fedora, Ubuntu).
I am planning to upgrade this system for Christmas. Windows will go away
and I will only run it virtualized. I have more than a year since I boot it
last.
I am planning to put a a small (100GB to 200 GB) SDD to host the OS of
Ubuntu and Fedora and have a big HDD for the /home, /var partition and
swap partitions.
In theory, Ubuntu and Fedora will have their own partitions inside the SDD.
My question is, can I share the /boot partition between Fedora and Ubuntu?
both are using Grub2. Right now I have two /boot partitions (one on each
HDD) and it is a pain. For some reason, Ubuntu does not find out Fedora
unless I mount the disk each time I update ubuntu kernel. If I update
Fedora kernel I have to go to Ubuntu to redo the boot config files. (Yes,
the master boot goes to Ubuntu for some reason I do not remember any
more). I want to keep just one /boot partition of maybe 800 MB to make
everyone feel confy.
Also, although it is off topic, is there any good tutorial to virtualize
the Win2K partition as is? I'd really hate having to reinstall all my
programs and stuff even if I am not using them much anymore.
It will be kind of more trouble having to search for old drivers and
stuff.I have the original CDs for all the programs, but many of the updates
will be missing/disappeared. Also I will have to locate again FOSS software
compatible with win2k
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~~~~ Javier Perez
~~~~ While the night runs
~~~~ toward the day...
m m Pepebuho watches
from his high perch.
6 years