RE: fedora 9 and an nvidia 7200gs video card

[Don Raikes]

Thanks for this info:

Unfortunately, once I installed the rpmfusion yum configuration files, and 
search for the kmod-nvidia package as indicated on the howto page, I didn't 
find any packages.

Oh well I also discovered that it helps to make sure the card itself is firmly 
seated in the pci slot. I opened the case up again this morning and made sure 
it was seated firmly, and reran /sbin/lspci and this time it showed the nvidia 
geforce 72 card :-)

I manually edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf and changed the driver from radeon to vesa 
and now I can at least get into gnome using startx.

-Original Message-
From: Veli-Pekka Kestilä [mailto:fed...@guagua.fi]
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 8:05 AM
To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora.
Subject: Re: fedora 9 and an nvidia 7200gs video card


Tosh wrote:
> Don Raikes wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have fedora 9 installed on my gateway desktop and it was working 
>> fine except for the fact that my video card died.
>>
>> I just installed a new nvidia 7200gs card (the nvidia 84000gs card 
>> wouldn't fit).
>>
>> Now when I try to run gnome, I get a message saying no devices were 
>> found. I am assuming I need to install some drivers, but cannot find 
>> any for linux 32-bit.
>>
>> Does anyone know where those pesky drivers are?
>>
> First login in runtime 3 and edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> The line Containing should be changed to "Driver vesa" (no quotes needed)
> Now you reboot (or restart X) and login, you will be able to run an X 
> environment, but you will nog have any drm or 3d support
> For that download your driver at :
> http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
> yum install kernel-devel
> and then run the file downloaded from nvidia
> I seem never to have any luck being able to use the standard yum 
> procedure, the above works always for me, but adds more work as you 
> need to do this every time your kernel changes
>
Wouldn't it be just better to use the rpmfusion packaged ones. And I 
even remember there have been mentioned on this list that the driver 
directly from nvidia can break things in your system.

Just install the rpmfusion:

su -c 'rpm -Uvh 
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm

http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm'

And use instructions in here to install the correct driver for your 
card. http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia

I have never had problems with rpmfusion drivers except that they 
usually update for the new kernel day or two later than it's out for 
fedora, but I have been able to live with that. And as extra benefit you 
can just uninstall them with yum when there is some problems.

Veli-Pekka


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fedora 9 and an nvidia 7200gs video card

[Don Raikes]

Hi all,

I have fedora 9 installed on my gateway desktop and it was working fine except 
for the fact that my video card died.

I just installed a new nvidia 7200gs card (the nvidia 84000gs card wouldn't 
fit).

Now when I try to run gnome, I get a message saying no devices were found. I am 
assuming I need to install some drivers, but cannot find any for linux 32-bit.

Does anyone know where those pesky drivers are?

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RE: weird graphics characters when logged into runlevel 3

[Don Raikes]

-Original Message-
From: g [mailto:gel...@bellsouth.net]
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 9:05 PM
To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora.
Subject: Re: weird graphics characters when logged into runlevel 3


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Don Raikes wrote:

> When I boot into run level 3 (console mode), I "see" a lot of random
> graphics characters on my display.

not being able to view your screen makes replying with any more helpful answer.

> Any suggestions would be appreciated.

what happens if you enter 'clear'?

When I enter clear, the visible display (brltty) seems ok for a few minutes or 
perhaps a few lines, then I run into the lines again.

My son was watching the system while it was rebooting the other day, and he 
said that the display is all messed up even as it is rebooting. I think perhaps 
my video card is failing.
also, being curious about assistance for impaired vision, i ran a google-linux
search of 'brltty' which yielded 27,900 hits. on first page, i found a link,

https://lists.linux-foundation.org/ \
pipermail/accessibility-io/2005-July/16.html

with a link to brltty mailing list.

http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty

if not already on list, you might give it a try.

much luck to you.


peace out.

tc,hago.

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.


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RE: best video card for fedora 10

[Don Raikes]

Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be any on-board graphics controller, or 
at least there is no external port for it :-)
The system is about 5-6 years old or so.

-Original Message-
From: Petrus de Calguarium [mailto:kwhisk...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 2:07 PM
To: fedora-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: best video card for fedora 10


Don Raikes wrote:

> I will do most of my workin console mode ( run level 3), and some work in
> the gnome desktop.
> 
Stick with the motherboard's onboard Intel graphics. Supports 3D and works 
great on the modern desktop. No proprietary drivers required. Just install 
system and go!

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fedora 10: best video card

[Don Raikes]

Hi everyone,

The video card on my gateway desktop has failed, so as I shop for a new one, I 
am wondering what cards are best with fedora 10.

I work mostly at run leve l 3 (console), with occassions when I go into the 
gnome desktop.

I ddo not play any games, and as yet have not had a reason to watch any movies 
on my fedora system, but that may change.

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best video card for fedora 10

[Don Raikes]

Hi everyone,

I have been watching this list for a while.
The ati radeon video card on my gateway desktop has failed, so I am starting to 
look for a new video card, and am wondering which is the best for fedora 10.

I will do most of my workin console mode ( run level 3), and some work in the 
gnome desktop.

I am not a gamer of any sort, and do not plan on watching many (if any dvd's) 
on it. I just need basic video capabilities, and don't want ot spend a ton of 
money.

Any suggestions appreciated.

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help! can't login

[Don Raikes]

Hi all,

I have fedora 10 installed on my gateway desktop.
It has been running fine for several weeks.

Over the weekend, I had ot reboot the system, and when the grub boot menu 
appears, the system just locks up.

I have no keyboard control, and cannot get the system to proceed at all.

There is only one entry in my menu.lst file, which is the same entry that has 
been there for a month now.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.


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fedora 10 can't get past boot menu

[Don Raikes]

Hello,

I have had fedora 10 running fine for several weeks.
Over the weekend, I noticed that there was an error message displayed on the 
console something about a general protection error.

Everything was locked up, so I performed a hard reboot of the system. Now The 
system gets to the grub boot menu, but at that point, I can't do anything. The 
keyboard does not respond at all.

The system is configured to boot to level 3 (console) because I am a blind user 
and prefer to use command-line as much as possible.

System configuration: 

Gateway 7200X
4 gb ram
250 gb harddrive
ati radeon 9200 video card
usb keyboard
marvel gigabit network controller.

I would prefer not ot have to re-install if possible, but so far I have no way 
to get logged into the system.

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RE: f10 no sound through usb headset

[Don Raikes]

Nigel,

Ok so here it goes:

The system is a gateway desktop pc about 6 years old.

cat /proc/asound/cards (without the usb headset plugged in:
 0 [Intel  ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
  HDA Intel at 0x8830 irq 16

lsmod | grep snd (with usb headset not plugged in:


snd_usb_audio  77696  0 
snd_hda_intel 351124  2 
snd_seq_dummy   6660  0 
snd_seq_oss30364  0 
snd_seq_midi_event  9600  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq48576  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_pcm_oss42496  0 
snd_mixer_oss  16896  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm65924  3 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_usb_lib17536  1 snd_usb_audio
snd_rawmidi22528  1 snd_usb_lib
snd_seq_device 10124  4 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
snd_timer  22024  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 11016  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_hwdep  10500  2 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_intel
snd50616  17 
snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_usb_lib,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
soundcore   9416  1 snd

cat /proc/asound/cards (with usb headset plugged in:

 0 [Intel  ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
  HDA Intel at 0x8830 irq 16
 1 [default]: USB-Audio - C-Media USB Headphone Set  
  C-Media USB Headphone Set   at usb-:00:1d.2-2.1.7, 
full speed

lsmod | grep snd (with usb headset plugged in:

snd_usb_audio  77696  0 
snd_hda_intel 351124  2 
snd_seq_dummy   6660  0 
snd_seq_oss30364  0 
snd_seq_midi_event  9600  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq48576  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_pcm_oss42496  0 
snd_mixer_oss  16896  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm65924  3 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_usb_lib17536  1 snd_usb_audio
snd_rawmidi22528  1 snd_usb_lib
snd_seq_device 10124  4 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
snd_timer  22024  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 11016  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_hwdep  10500  2 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_intel
snd50616  17 
snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_usb_lib,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
soundcore   9416  1 snd

And yes without the headset plugged and just the small external speakers 
plugged in, sound in gnome works fine. I can hear orca without a problem.
-Original Message-
From: Nigel Henry [mailto:cave.dnb2m9...@aliceadsl.fr]
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 12:23 PM
To: fedora-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: f10 no sound through usb headset


On Friday 19 December 2008 19:11, Don Raikes wrote:
> I have f10 installed and running fine on my gateway system, but I wanted to
> use my plantronics headset with it. I plugged in the headset and can see
> from the log that it is recognized, but I get no sound through the headset.
>
> Any thoughts appreciated.

Hi Don.

I'm not too up to speed on USB audio apps, apart from my USB midi keyboard, 
but I'll have a go to start things off.

Is this on a laptop, or a PC? Which make, and model?

I assume that the sounds are working on F10, apart from the headset problem.

With the headset unplugged, post back the output from the commands below.

cat /proc/asound/cards
/sbin/lsmod | grep snd

If you have a laptop, with built in webcam, and mike, you will probably see 
lsmod showing the snd-usb-audio module loaded, and the output from, 
cat /proc/asound/cards will also show a card entry (perhaps card1, or card2) 
for a USB device (a webcam's mike perhaps).

Anyway. Post back the output from running the commands above, and we'll take 
it from there.

All the best.

Nigel.




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RE: f10 no sound through usb headset

[Don Raikes]

Hi,

The usb headset does not appear in the pulseaudio volume control. In fact, I 
don't have any devices listed.

I went to administration -> volume control and selected teh usb headset and set 
the volume level to 90% but still nothing.

-Original Message-
From: Tom Horsley [mailto:tom.hors...@att.net]
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 6:53 PM
To: fedora-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: f10 no sound through usb headset


On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:39:38 -0800 (PST)
Antonio Olivares wrote:

> > How does one "fire up PulseAudio Volume Control"?  
> 
> Easy :)
> Applications ---> Sound & Video ---> PulseAudio Volume Control
> 
> This is how it can be done at least in Gnome.  In KDE, YMMV or it is a bit 
> different, but it should be there, otherwise turn to good old CLI and type 

It is often simpler to find apps by doing a grep -r of the
/usr/share/applications .desktop files than to figure out where
the heck they are hidden in the menus :-). Once you find the
right .desktop file look for the Exec= line to see what program
to run.

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weird graphics characters when logged into runlevel 3

[Don Raikes]

Hello,

When I boot into run level 3 (console mode), I "see" a lot of random graphics 
characters on my display.

Actually I am blind, and am running brltty which shows "?" characters where 
there are graphics characters.

My daughter looked at teh screen a few days ago and said there were indeed  
single and double virtical lines running through the display making it almost 
impossible to see anything else on the display.

System configuration:
Gateway desktop with a radeon 9600 video card, dell 9000 monitor
fedora 10 with all updates applied from yum.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

BTW: when I run gnome, and open a terminal window the problem is not present.

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f10 no sound through usb headset

[Don Raikes]

I have f10 installed and running fine on my gateway system, but I wanted to use 
my plantronics headset with it.
I plugged in the headset and can see from the log that it is recognized, but I 
get no sound through the headset.

Any thoughts appreciated.

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RE: OT: "Linux holds back the kids"

[Don Raikes]

I agree wholeheartedly. My oldest son is in college (ready to graduate this 
year), and last christmas break he converted his laptop to ubuntu. When my 
youngest son had problems with vista on his brand-new laptop, he installed 
ubuntu as a dual boot and was able to use it for everything except for playing 
some online games he liked.

So the kids do like linux once they get to know it.

-Original Message-
From: Antonio Olivares [mailto:olivares14...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 5:53 PM
To: fedora-list@redhat.com
Subject: OT: "Linux holds back the kids"


Dear all,

This is somewhat OT, but in light of this, I have to disagree with that teacher 
who made the claim.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/15/helios_linux_texas_teacher/

I am a math teacher at a high school in Texas and I have 10 machines running 
Linux, 8 running Fedora 10, one running Fedora 8, and the other running 
OpenSuse 11.0(just updated).  My students at first did not seem to like the 
Linux machines, but now they are at home with them and some of them asked me 
for copies and I gladly gave them a Fedora 10 install DVD.  I have been running 
Linux at school since 2002/2003 and my students asked me what version of 
"Windows" were my machines?.  I told them it was Linux, one was Mandrake 9, 
another was Red Hat 9.  Machines worked beautifully and did the job I wanted.  
I told them about Linux, some students actually graduated and use Linux, only 
that they prefer Ubuntu and they come and tell me about it.  They tell me 
it(Ubuntu) picks up the wireless and your Fedora does not.  I tell them as long 
as it works and it is Linux that I am very happy that they are running it.  
Sorry to take up your time.  I hope you enjoy
 reading the article if you get to it.  

Regards,

Antonio 


  

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fedora 10 and an ati 9600 graphics card

[Don Raikes]

Hi,

I recently installed fedora 10 onto my gateway desktop system. The system has 
an ATI 9600 graphics card, nad when I am running in console mode (which I do 
frequently), my braille display is showing a lot of random graphics characters.

My daughter looked at the display a week ago or so, and said there were a bunch 
of single and double virtical lines covering the display.

Is there a new driver I need, or an old driver I need for this graphics card to 
enable this system to work properly?

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