Disable loading of nouveau driver for installing NVidia driver

2011-03-19 Thread Mark Ryden
Hello, I tried to install NVIdia driver from their site for GeForce 8400 GS display card. I ahve F12 x86_64. I downloaded from NVidia site this file: NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-260.19.44.run which is a 64 bit setup for Linux I tried to run it from terminal. I got an error message that nouveau driver must

Re: kernel man page

2011-02-26 Thread Mark Ryden
Well, thanks! It sure helped. I installed kernel-doc rpm. Now I have "man request_threaded_irq" ( but not "request_irq", which was substituted by request_threaded_irq) rgs, mark On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 1:31 PM, David wrote: > On 26 February 2011 21:53, Mark Ryden wrote

kernel man page

2011-02-26 Thread Mark Ryden
Hello, Is there some rpm for kernel man pages ? For example, I see that there is man page in section 9 for request_irq() http://www.fiveanddime.net/man-pages/request_irq.9.html but on my system : man request_irq No manual entry for request_irq rgs, Mark -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproj

Re: Fedora 13 installation

2010-06-07 Thread Mark Ryden
Jerry, Thanks a lot! but this is not the case. The things is that it keeps rebooting over and over again after hanging for a while! I should have mentioned it, sorry. Rgs, Mark On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > On 06/05/2010 02:43 AM, Mark Ryden wrote: >> Hello, &

Fedora 13 installation

2010-06-04 Thread Mark Ryden
Hello, I had tried to install Fedora 13 on Lenovo N500 latpop and when I try to boot it starts, the fedora logo appears, some services (like udev) are started, and then it hangs; I tried it three times. I added to the kernel boot parameters "noprobe noapic noapci" but it did not help. This laptop

bluetooth and dbus

2010-04-09 Thread Mark Ryden
Hello, I am trying to start the bluetooth manager (pref I ran "service bluetooth start". then system->preferences->bluetooth manager , and I got "connection to bluez failed", "bluez daemon is not running, blueman manager cannot continue" I tried: bluetoothd -dn and I get: bluetoothd[3268]: Blu

Adding a user and login from "X"

2010-03-28 Thread Mark Ryden
Hello, I run fedora 12 with gnome. By default, I boot into gnome with Xwindows. When I add a user ("useradd xyz"), I see that user in the login dialog immediately after boot. (there is a list of all users in the system). I sometimes add some users for tests, like "test1", "test2",..., "test

grub and serial

2010-03-09 Thread Mark Ryden
Hello, I am trying to enable serial console by editing GRUB boot loader. What I want is to be able to view in the boot messages of a machine A which is connected with a serial cable to machine B. (I want to view these messages on machine B) I found this link: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-se