Re: Scientific Linux 5.7 RC 2 Release i386/x86_64
On Fri, 9 Sep 2011, Connie Sieh wrote: The second release candidate for Scientific Linux 5.7 has been released. This release has all the new updated packages from The Upstream Vendors Update 7, as well as the security and fastbugs up to today except for the kernel that was released a few days ago. We have network install images. The DVD/CD images will be available soon. The DVD images are now available. http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/57/iso/i386/dvd/ http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/57/iso/x86_64/dvd/ -Connie Sieh If there are not any bugs reported by late Tuesday September 13 , 2011 against this release then it will be released as 5.7 on Wednesday September 14 , 2011 . Thanks for all the testing. - UPDATES Since RC 1 - sl-release-notes-5.7-1.noarch.rpm Updated the SL.releasenote to show "released" firefox-3.6.22-1.el5_7 openais-0.80.6-30.el5_7.1 openais-devel-0.80.6-30.el5_7.1 thunderbird-2.0.0.24-25.el5 xulrunner-1.9.2.22-1.el5_7 xulrunner-devel-1.9.2.22-1.el5_7 Security updates. - DOWNLOAD INFO - Network Install Images http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/57/i386/images/boot.iso http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/57/x86_64/images/boot.iso Network install tree locations http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/57/i386 http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/57/x86_64 The Scientific Linux Development Team
Re: need help installing nvidia driver on new laptop
Try switching to other consoles once it hangs on atd. (Alt-f2, etc). Let us know Andrew -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Kevin Thomas wrote: Ok, I jujst got a brand new Dell XPS laptop a few days ago. I managed to install Windows 7 and SL 6.1 side by side in a dual boot setup. This laptop has the core i7 processor, which means it has integrated Intel HD 3000 graphics, but it also has a 2GB Nvidia GT540M (with optimus) discrete card as well. I know that optimus is not natively supported yet, but according to the SL forums, the generic nvidia driver can be installed instead (kmod-nvidia). The instructions said to just do "yum install kmod-nvidia". This installed the drivers for me and when I rebooted, I saw the plymouth-rings splash screen for the first time ever, but the system hung. I restarted again and pushed ESC to see the messages and the screen flickered a few times and it stopped on "registering binary handler for windows applications" Some googling informed me that this was due to the wine service being enabled, so I disabled it and restarted. This time, it got hung on "starting atd:" and the screen flickered a few times. I have a feeling that if I disabled atd, it would just hang on the next service. I had to uninstall the kmod-nvidia package just to boot my system again. There has to be a way to get the nvidia driver working. Any help would be appreciated. Kevin
Re: need help installing nvidia driver on new laptop
On 10/09/11 06:36, Kevin Thomas wrote: Ok, I jujst got a brand new Dell XPS laptop a few days ago. I managed to install Windows 7 and SL 6.1 side by side in a dual boot setup. This laptop has the core i7 processor, which means it has integrated Intel HD 3000 graphics, but it also has a 2GB Nvidia GT540M (with optimus) discrete card as well. I know that optimus is not natively supported yet, but according to the SL forums, the generic nvidia driver can be installed instead (kmod-nvidia). The instructions said to just do "yum install kmod-nvidia". This installed the drivers for me and when I rebooted, I saw the plymouth-rings splash screen for the first time ever, but the system hung. I restarted again and pushed ESC to see the messages and the screen flickered a few times and it stopped on "registering binary handler for windows applications" Some googling informed me that this was due to the wine service being enabled, so I disabled it and restarted. This time, it got hung on "starting atd:" and the screen flickered a few times. I have a feeling that if I disabled atd, it would just hang on the next service. I had to uninstall the kmod-nvidia package just to boot my system again. There has to be a way to get the nvidia driver working. Any help would be appreciated. Kevin In order to help troubleshoot, could you please provide some more information. Please install kmod-nvidia and see if you can boot to runlevel 3 and provide the following information (output from the following commands): uname -a find /lib/modules -name nvidia.ko cat /boot/grub/grub.conf Thanks.
Re: Installing SL6 behind a proxy
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Steven Haigh wrote: > On 10/09/2011 1:46 AM, Tom H wrote: >> >> On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 7:39 AM, mad wrote: Set up a local mirror. Use *that* as the URL for your installation: the packages are GPG signed and thus authenticated, which helps >>> >>> I do exactly that. That is the reason why I am so confused. Why is the >>> SL6 installation trying to contact an outside repository when the >>> installation repository is inside the company network? >> >> Anaconda tries to download a file from an SL security repository. It's >> come up on the list recently in the context of a kickstart install. > > This is an anaconda issue. I reported it as a bug on the SL-devel list, > however I have yet to hear any progress on what has happened. > > The outcome is that without a live network connection, the install will fail > - even on the standalone install DVDs. > > Maybe Connie can comment on this? I see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=634655 , which seemed to describe a related bug, which is addressed in the anaconda-13.21.117-1.src.rpm from our favorite upstream vendor. I don't personally have the spare resources to do media building.
Re: need help installing nvidia driver on new laptop
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 12:36:07AM -0500, Kevin Thomas wrote: > Ok, I jujst got a brand new Dell XPS laptop a few days ago. I > managed to install Windows 7 and SL 6.1 side by side in a dual boot > setup. This laptop has the core i7 processor, which means it has > integrated Intel HD 3000 graphics, but it also has a 2GB Nvidia > GT540M (with optimus) discrete card as well. I know that optimus is > not natively supported yet, but according to the SL forums, the > generic nvidia driver can be installed instead (kmod-nvidia). The > instructions said to just do "yum install kmod-nvidia". This > installed the drivers for me and when I rebooted, I saw the > plymouth-rings splash screen for the first time ever, but the system > hung. I restarted again and pushed ESC to see the messages and the > screen flickered a few times and it stopped on "registering binary > handler for windows applications" Some googling informed me that > this was due to the wine service being enabled, so I disabled it and > restarted. This time, it got hung on "starting atd:" and the screen > flickered a few times. I have a feeling that if I disabled atd, it > would just hang on the next service. I had to uninstall the > kmod-nvidia package just to boot my system again. There has to be a > way to get the nvidia driver working. Any help would be > appreciated. > > Kevin I have a two-year-old Dell laptop, a Latitude E6500. To get the Nvidia driver working on this (single-boot, Scientific Linux 6), I used the elrepo: yum --enablerepo=elrepo install kmod-nvidia nvidia-x11-drv nvidia-x11-drv-32bit Good resource: http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia Best of luck, Barry
Re: need help installing nvidia driver on new laptop
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Kevin Thomas wrote: > Ok, I jujst got a brand new Dell XPS laptop a few days ago. I managed to > install Windows 7 and SL 6.1 side by side in a dual boot setup. This laptop > has the core i7 processor, which means it has integrated Intel HD 3000 > graphics, but it also has a 2GB Nvidia GT540M (with optimus) discrete card > as well. I know that optimus is not natively supported yet, but according > to the SL forums, the generic nvidia driver can be installed instead > (kmod-nvidia). The instructions said to just do "yum install kmod-nvidia". > This installed the drivers for me and when I rebooted, I saw the > plymouth-rings splash screen for the first time ever, but the system hung. > I restarted again and pushed ESC to see the messages and the screen > flickered a few times and it stopped on "registering binary handler for > windows applications" Some googling informed me that this was due to the > wine service being enabled, so I disabled it and restarted. This time, it > got hung on "starting atd:" and the screen flickered a few times. I have a > feeling that if I disabled atd, it would just hang on the next service. I > had to uninstall the kmod-nvidia package just to boot my system again. > There has to be a way to get the nvidia driver working. Any help would be > appreciated. > > Kevin You might want to search through the Nvidia forum site. I see some issue reports there. You can google with something like "site:forums.nvidia.com dell xps laptop". Akemi
