Re: Broadcom BCM4312 not working after updating the kernel
Jatin K wrote: My kernel is 64bit ( uname -a is as under ) uname -a - Linux jk-pc 2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Dec 21 05:33:33 UTC 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I've installed *kmod-wl-2.6.31.6-_166.fc12_.x86_64*as kmod-wl-2.6.31.9-*_174.fc12_*.x86_64 is not available in repository .. and I'm not able to install it using yum what can I do is there any source from where I can get *_kmod-wl-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64_ * Just go back to using the previous kernel in your GRUB menu. You can edit your grub.conf file to select the previous kernel automatically. These issues usually work themselves out within a couple days with some new updates. After installing the new kernel I noticed the Nvidia driver wasn't working so I didn't get to the wifi, so I'm using the previous kernel until I notice a fresh batch of updates to try again. -- Jason Turning -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Kernel update to 2.6.30.5-43.fc11.x86_64 issues
Michael Cronenworth wrote: On 09/07/2009 01:04 PM, Jason Turning wrote: I did the update to kernel 2.6.30.5-43.fc11.x86_64 today, noticed there were updates to pulse audio, and when I rebooted wireless didn't work and I heard these loud sound pops, one at boot, one at login, so I just reverted back to the previous kernel. Anyone having similar issues? What wireless chip do you have? We need more info besides it doesn't work. :) Broadcom, and I think I saw the update for that package, so it was just a bit behind the kernel. But from the other reports of popping, I still haven't fiddled with the new kernel as I haven't been using this laptop very much. The first thing I had done was edit grub to always pull the older kernel. -- Jason Turning -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Kernel update to 2.6.30.5-43.fc11.x86_64 issues
I did the update to kernel 2.6.30.5-43.fc11.x86_64 today, noticed there were updates to pulse audio, and when I rebooted wireless didn't work and I heard these loud sound pops, one at boot, one at login, so I just reverted back to the previous kernel. Anyone having similar issues? -- Jason Turning -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: any thoughts on why cooling fan keeps spinning up and down?
Robert L Cochran wrote: ...new out of the box does not mean it works perfectly. And I don't see postings on this list from others with fan speed issues which would tend to indicate a repeatable software issue. Bob On 07/05/2009 02:21 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Sun, 5 Jul 2009, Robert L Cochran wrote: ... snip ... I'll look into this, thanks. On the other hand I've opened up enough system cases (including laptops) and cleaned more than enough dust bunnies or coffee spills to realize fan speeds can have very physical causes indeed. Don't think of the fan as just controlled by operating system software. There is usually a physical reason why the speed varies and that ought to be the first thing to check before suspecting the operating system. this behaviour has been there since day one of installing f11 beta on this laptop, when it was new out of the box. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rpjday Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday I've noticed some strange fan behavior on my laptop after upgrading to Fedora 11. Sometimes right after Fedora loads and I log in the fan is running where it is audible, but the temperature sensors show it's cold. After a couple minutes it settles down to normal where I only hear the fan if things get warm from heavy CPU or wireless use. I've also noticed that sometimes the Gnome battery indicator stays full when I'm running on battery. So there are more than a couple hardware glitches. -- Jason Turning -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: F11 unusable !!!
Luc MAIGNAN wrote: For more informations about my system, I have a Dell Vostro 400 (Intel Dual 2 Core with 4GB of memory). Unfortunaly, Windows runs without problem on this hardware Le 6/07/09 15:56, Patrick O'Callaghan a écrit : On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 10:16 +0200, Luc MAIGNAN wrote: Hi, I'm desesperate Even after updating latest version of kernel, after a few minutes the fan is starting and my systems hangs up. It is the same in level 1,3 or 5. Starting without acpi make the systems very very very slow (a yum update kernel took 3 hours...) Has anyone an idea ??? Sounds like a temperature problem. Perhaps you'd consider adding some pertinent information, such as: What hardware is this is happening on? Are you monitoring system temperature and if so is it normal or high? Does 'top' show any cpu hogs? Does the problem also happen on F10 or any other system (e.g. a Live CD)? In the past, my noisy fan problems have always been caused by temperature, caused in turn by dust clogging intakes or even fan motors. poc Try a Fedora 10 live CD. If things work fine, then think about going to Fedora 10 for a bit or another distro. I've heard a lot of experienced Linux users say they haven't even been able to install Fedora 11 on their laptop hardware, and they ended up going with another distro. For the most part on my laptop Fedora 11 works fine after jumping through hoops to install (upgrade failed), but the fan blows about medium for a couple minutes when I log in even though everything is cold, before settling down to function normally. I also have a glitch where when on battery the indicator in the gnome panel keeps showing full on occasion. Also, it eats the battery faster compared to Fedora 10. I wish I would have waited a month or two to upgrade after I saw the issues dwindle down. I do like Fedora 11, so it's worth suffering through this period to run eventually. I run Slackware 12.2 on my desktop. Rock solid stable and fast, less memory usage, but you have to take a more hands on approach to manage it and add extra software. Patrick won't release it until it is ready which doesn't appear to be the case with Fedora. I've run Fedora on my laptop since I purchased it, Fedora 7 I believe, and this was the worst upgrade experience. But I guess you have to consider that Fedora is the experimental branch of Red Hat, so watch the message traffic before upgrading right away. -- Jason Turning -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Firefox 3.5 beta occasionally completely locks system when starting f11 x86_64
stan wrote: Hi, Occasionally, when starting Firefox in F11 x86_64 it will completely lock the system, requiring a hard reboot. Is anyone else experiencing this? If it is just an idiosyncrasy on my system, I won't bother opening a problem record. I have no indication of what is causing this, it might not even be firefox but something that firefox triggers. Seems to happen when the tabs from a previous shutdown of Firefox are loading. The system is up to date with all the updates from updates-testing so is running the latest kernel from there. I haven't had a problem on my F11 x86_64 laptop. I do run the closed Nvidia driver. Are you running a closed driver? Maybe it is locking X, so see if you can re-enable the CTRL-ALT-BKSP key to reset just X. http://preview.tinyurl.com/lusrn9 Also, do you have flash working properly or could that be an issue? I used the following website to setup my fresh Fedora 11 install. http://www.my-guides.net/en/content/view/161/26/ -- Jason Turning -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Fedora 10-11 Preupgrade Failure. Franken-system.
Kevin Bowling wrote: Hello, I have an IBM x3650 that was running F10. I initiated preupgrade-cli for F11, which downloaded packages and rebooted the box. Preupgrade came up in GUI mode, but for whatever reason the Radeon R100 card was excruciatingly slow and this somehow affected the speed of installing packages. It took nearly 16 HOURS for the upgrade packages to install (99.999% CPU idle, barely any disk activity) -- keep in mind this is an 8 core server and is connected to a high-speed RAID-6 storage system. After the ~1800 of ~1800 packages were installed, it opened the Please wait while setup is finished. This may take a while dialog. This sat for 24 HOURS without completing. At this point, I rebooted the machine because this is a quasi-production QA box and I had people that needed access to it. The upgrade seemingly went well despite, and it booted up. However there are some particularities. Yum lists both the F10 and F11 packages as installed. One area that seemed to be affected is Java/Eclipse. It is much slower than it should/used to be. There are two problems here: 1) KMS or DRM, or most likely the radeon video driver are faulty. The textmode framebuffer worked at full speed. Further, why does preupgrade-cli even start Xwindows? Why would the speed of X determine how fast Anaconda ran background tasks? There was nothing interesting in the upgrade logs, dmesg, etc :-(. 2) I now have a franken-system that seemingly has both F10 and F11 versions of packages installed. How can I manually clean this up? Regards, Kevin I couldn't even get started as the preupgrade reboot to install couldn't figure out my laptop screen. I had a garbled mess which was the same with the install DVD on upgrade, and it's a standard HP 15.4 laptop screen. I unison all my data with my desktop, so I did a clean install with new partitions using the basic video driver instead of looking to see if I could do a command work around. That worked, but took a bit more tweaking afterwards, but I thought I'd try ext4 which seems snappier. The graphical boot required some grub file editing to get working. Also, I had to configure my touchpad for taps to work as a mouse click which is still off in the login screen. Overall, seems like a rushed roll out with some annoying issues still in the mix. I should add that I'm overall liking Fedora 11 to where I'm not ready to switch distros on the laptop. But then Fedora 11 is no where close to having me replace Slackware 12.2 on my desktop system. -- Jason Turning -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Synaptics touchpad problems FYI
My tap functionality became incredibly buggy once upgraded to xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-0.15.2-1. I tried all xorg.conf changes, gsynaptics settings, and my tap functionality was still damaged. I actually thought it might be a hardware problem and booted into Vista to check, and it worked perfectly under Vista. I then reverted to 1.15.0.3 and tap functionality was restored. It would appear 1.15.2-1 broke something. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/process_bug.cgi If you need to revert: http://preview.tinyurl.com/6nne6d -- Jason Turning -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Ktorrent is eating all my cpu
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Well, not quite, but I was alerted to this when my fan started whining and the cpu temperature rose about 5 degrees above normal. A look at 'top' confirmed that Ktorrent (downloading a single torrent) was using about 80% of my cpu. The X server was using most of the rest. This is F9 with KDE 4.1.1. I updated to KDE 4.1.2 (using yum groupupdate KDE from updates-testing) but it made no difference (actually, the whole machine started crawling until I disabled Desktop Effects, which hadn't seemed to matter before, but even after doing that Ktorrent was just as bad). Is this a known bug with Ktorrent? I've been using it happily for a couple of years and haven't had this happen before, but now it means I can't use it without risking damage to my motherboard, which makes me uneasy ... poc Try rtorrent. It's CLI, but easy to learn and use. Far more efficient, takes a sixth or less of the CPU resources even with a bunch of torrents active as well as less memory than ktorrent. rtorrent uses libtorrent, both written in C++ with an emphasis on speed and efficiency, while delivering equivalent features to GUI based clients in a ncurses based client. Benefits are you can run it in a screen session and it persists even if you log out of your PC, or possibly have to reset your X session as well as accessing remotely via SSH. http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/ -- Jason Turning -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Ktorrent is eating all my cpu
g wrote: Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: snip Frankly, that's not a convincing explanation. Torrents are almost entirely I/O bound, and this is a DSL connection rated at 2Mbps which in fact is less than that in practice. No way could a torrent client be eating 80% of a 64-bit Intel Core 2 Duo with 2GB of RAM. It's just not reasonable. i have dsl lite i=765kbps / o=133kbps. in having used both ktorrent in f8 and ctorrent in sl5.2, both used up to 85% cpu. after watching graph in ktorrent, i disabled several sites that where being checked but showed little to no action and disabled file access in, which increased thru put from active sites. do not recall exact cpu change, but it was worth it. with ctorrent, i again disabled file access which dropped cpu usage to below 70%. have you tried setting nice? You have a problem with your ktorrent/ctorrent installations. I've run ktorrent on my Slackware box with several active torrents, and at most it took 6% of one CPU. See my other post about rtorrent, which takes 1% or less with many more torrents active. rtorrent is the client to use, but being CLI, you'll have to memorize some of the keyboard commands to utilize it fully. -- Jason Turning -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: kde or gnome
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim wrote: On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 12:16 -0400, William Biggs wrote: I would like to know witch one is better kde or gnome ? Gnome, of course... I say that just to stick fingers up the various KDE fanboys on this list. There's plenty that extoll it's virtues (that I don't care for - it emphasises prettiness and endless fiddling over actually using the computer, and the current incarnation is far from ready for use), compared against fewer people that evangelise Gnome over KDE. But being more serious. Fedora uses Gnome by default, the documentation shows you how to use it with Gnome, much of the configuration uses Gnome tools, etc. The other window managers are *alternatives*. If you're starting out as a Linux newbie, and want an easier start, it's probably much easier to do so with Gnome. Then once you've got your footing, you can try out the alternatives. I've tried and used several window managers. KDE is a time waster, Gnome just works. Some of the lighter weight ones don't work, without a big fight, with recent versions of Fedora (which seems to depend on Gnome or KDE triggering off a few things that says the current user of the console should have sound, should connect to a network, should mount an inserted disc, etc.). When you use some alternative window managers, you have to handle all of that yourself, manually. I mainly agree. Gnome works pretty well with Fedora and is a good starting point. It's a good, clean desktop environment, and gives you the best way to try out Fedora. I actually prefer KDE and run KDE 3.5.9 on my Slackware desktop, but I'm still playing with and figuring out KDE 4.1 on Fedora 9. When I just want to use my laptop I'm running Gnome. You have to love Gnu/Linux for having these choices, :). - -- Jason Turning -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkjfvzoACgkQVvqmgl050ryU3wCfU1dvtTF8ljKUVwZUY+PIIoMu OLwAn1dQr8i9etPzHmhg4xBoUNORfqeW =XPgl -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: 32 or 64 bit kernel for Duo T8400 processor ? Can apps be 32 bit for 64 bit kernel ?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin J. Cummings wrote: linuxguy wrote: My new laptop has an Intel Duo T8400 processor. Should I install the 32 or 64 bit distro ? I run a lot of esoteric open source apps. Can I run a 32 bit application if I install the 64 bit distro ? I'm running F9.x86_64 on my Intel Core2 T7200. I have a small number of 32 apps installed for those edge cases where the parts either don't work, or aren't available in 64 bit. nspluginwrapper takes care of most of those for me (OK, I have to run adeona in 32 bit as well, grumble, grumble). But, for the most part, 64 bit works for me. YMMV I'm running 64 bit Fedora 9 on AMD Athlon 64 X2, and it works pretty well. You'll have to use nspluginwrapper for Flash with the 64 bit Firefox, and I've found this to be a bit buggy. Especially jumping around the NFL website with game tracking. Sometimes it won't load and you'll get grey boxes where Flash content should be (reload or page back and click again works to fix). And I have to grab the 64 bit Enigmail from Remi as it's not in the Fedora repos. I haven't had a issue running 32 bit apps. Basically, unless you're doing something where you'll really benefit from the speed increase of 64 bit, video transcoding for example, you'll save yourself some headaches going 32 bit. But if you just want to play with 64 bit it's ready. - -- Jason Turning -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkjfxR4ACgkQVvqmgl050ryoHgCfQr9NHUrhTPEOnO9wnrTH79s8 xn8An3Nj7VVp9TroezdZAuNp61LL4E3D =LcR6 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: OT-ish F9 Laptop\USB-Stick CentOS5.x Server SSH Access
Frank Murphy wrote: Tim wrote: On Sat, 2008-08-30 at 08:09 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: What do I do to only allow remote access via ssh to my centos box. From my laptop F9+, or an F9+ usb-stick What do you mean by only allow? You want to block all ports except for what SSH uses? It should have a firewall configurator to make that easy for you, untick all the options except for ssh. Write again if you need more info. I mean only allow ssh access from those two scenarios, my laptop + an F9 usb-stick. because there are attempts by fluffy and other(s) to access the box. Frank This article has a lot of the tips I've used to make my SSH server more secure. You might want to look at using DSA public key authentication to limit the logins like you requested. http://www.linux.com/feature/61061 I do like to have my SSH server password accessible, so I've set AllowUsers and run Denyhosts. Denyhosts is like the other program that locks out certain users that have failed logging in so many times, except it has a server that you report banned IPs and the server feeds you the IPs reported by everyone else. That way all the active bots trying to crack SSH servers are mostly locked out already. And remember to pick a strong passphrase if you leave this available. Jason -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Gnome applet error after upgrading to F9
Hello, I have an old applet from F8 that is no longer available, and I get an error message every boot up. How can I get into the config files of Gnome to remove that applet? Jason -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: Gnome applet error after upgrading to F9
Steve Searle wrote: Around 04:30pm on Thursday, August 14, 2008 (UK time), Jason Turning scrawled: I have an old applet from F8 that is no longer available, and I get an error message every boot up. How can I get into the config files of Gnome to remove that applet? Can you disable or remove it in System - Preferences - Personal - Sessions? steve It's an applet not listed there. But still, that was an interesting part of Gnome I wasn't familiar with. Jason -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: Kernel 2.6.25.4-10.fc8 no X w/ nvidia dkms from freshrpms
Richard Shaw wrote: On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Richard Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 5:49 AM, Mike Burger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Shaw wrote: After updaing to kernel 2.6.25.4-10.fc8 X will not load. dkms runs and says it's loading the module but X fails to run. Choosing my previous (still installed) kernel 2.6.24.7-92.fc8 boots fine. Anyone else run into any X issues with the latest kernel? With Fedora 9, an update to 2.6.24.4-30 has just broken X on my machine, while rebooting to 2.6.24.3-18 works OK. In my case X usually loads, but the X display is scrambled. I have a Matrox 400 card in this machine. I was wondering if they broke the Matrox driver or more general X related code. It looks like it may be the general code, as it seems people with various cards are complaining in various forums. I reported something similar, on my F9 system, but in my case, X doesn't come up scrambled...it doesn't start at all, on initial boot to runlevel 5. If I init 3 and then init 5 again, or if I log in and run startx, it's fine. X just won't start, initially, in runlevel 5. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org I ran dkms manually got got a Status 10: Build Failed... going to try with --verbose and see if I can find out what happened. Richard Ok, I just downloaded the latest 173 drivers from Nvidia and they installed properly. Is there something inherently incompatible with the 2.6.25 kernal and 169 drivers? Also, why are the 169 drivers the latest available from freshrpms, atrpms, and livna? Richard Same experience, the NVIDIA 173 (7 series) driver worked for me on Fedora 8 when the 169 driver install failed. -- Jason Turning [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.bugz.homeunix.net:8000/ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
