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atrpms at kosowsky

Nov 1, 2008, 4:50 PM

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Would it be possible to give a warning before you wipe out the Fedora8 atrpms

Even better would be if you could retain them ;)
but assuming you can't it would be good to have something like a 30
day transition/warning if possible.

Just a suggestion if that's possible...
Jeff

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Nov 1, 2008, 5:00 PM

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Re: Would it be possible to give a warning before you wipe out the Fedora8 atrpms [In reply to]

On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky <atrpms [at] kosowsky> wrote:
> Even better would be if you could retain them ;)
> but assuming you can't it would be good to have something like a 30
> day transition/warning if possible.

This is a serious issue. Fedora 9 has *huge* number of problems, large
and small. The half-baked KDE4 which, even with the update, is nowhere
ready for release. GDM is still missing some basic functionality like
auto-login. Synaptic cannot be used at all, and the developers are
pointing fingers at each other every few months in Bugzilla comments.

May be the Fedora 10 is better. But at least until it has enough
exposure and we know more about it, Fedora 8 is the last usable
release. The support for it should not be dropped until there is an
alternative, and right now (not counting the still-unknown Fedora 10)
the only alternative is Ubuntu/Gentoo/etc.

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drees76 at gmail

Nov 1, 2008, 11:49 PM

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Re: Would it be possible to give a warning before you wipe out the Fedora8 atrpms [In reply to]

On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Fedor Pikus <fpikus [at] gmail> wrote:
> GDM is still missing some basic functionality like
> auto-login.

GDM auto-logins just fine. Just add these three lines under the
[daemon] section.

TimedLoginEnable=true
TimedLogin=username
TimedLoginDelay=0

Replace username with the user you wish to auto-login, of course.

-Dave

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Nov 2, 2008, 3:33 PM

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Re: Would it be possible to give a warning before you wipe out the Fedora8 atrpms [In reply to]

On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 11:49 PM, David Rees <drees76 [at] gmail> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Fedor Pikus <fpikus [at] gmail> wrote:
>> GDM is still missing some basic functionality like
>> auto-login.
>
> GDM auto-logins just fine. Just add these three lines under the
> [daemon] section.
>
> TimedLoginEnable=true
> TimedLogin=username
> TimedLoginDelay=0
>
> Replace username with the user you wish to auto-login, of course.

Can you configure it through gdmsetup?

>
> -Dave
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Nov 7, 2008, 1:15 AM

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Re: Would it be possible to give a warning before you wipe out the Fedora8 atrpms [In reply to]

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 6:22 AM, Christian Knauber <atrpms [at] knauber>wrote:

> Personnally I went through this
>
> - Fedora 6 up until a few month (well at the end no more mythtv updates,
> but it was working so why upgrade ?)

I still have an FC6 running until today. I just rebuild myth packages from
time to time and in a few minutes I have the latest version. Just a single
.src.rpm creates all the rpms I need. Anyone can do this, even using mock
from another
computer, running a different Fedora version.

It is really very easy, once you have a working .src.rpm.

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chris at westnet

Nov 7, 2008, 6:34 AM

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Re: Would it be possible to give a warning before you wipe out the Fedora8 atrpms [In reply to]

To add my $.02 :

I see the situation with Fedora 8 being different, only because of the
legacy nvidia driver situation. Fedora 9 included a pre-release X server.
As far as I know there still are not legacy Nvidia drivers that work with
Fedora 9.

Only because of this I would ask that ATrpms support myth on Fedora 8, until
drivers are available for whatever is the current release. Unless, of
course, Nvidia decides to completely cut off the old cards.

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Nov 7, 2008, 11:57 AM

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Re: Would it be possible to give a warning before you wipe out the Fedora8 atrpms [In reply to]

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 6:34 AM, Christopher X. Candreva
<chris [at] westnet> wrote:
> I see the situation with Fedora 8 being different, only because of the
> legacy nvidia driver situation. Fedora 9 included a pre-release X server.
> As far as I know there still are not legacy Nvidia drivers that work with
> Fedora 9.

ATrpms carries these versions of Nvidia drivers for Fedora 9:

177.80
173.14.12
173.14.09
96.43.07
71.86.06

Two legacy versions of the Nvidia drivers for you.

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chris at westnet

Nov 7, 2008, 1:27 PM

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Re: Would it be possible to give a warning before you wipe out the Fedora8 atrpms [In reply to]

On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, David Rees wrote:

> Two legacy versions of the Nvidia drivers for you.

They may be on the repo, but they don't work. Nvidia has not released a
patch yet.

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Axel.Thimm at ATrpms

Nov 7, 2008, 11:06 PM

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Re: Would it be possible to give a warning before you wipe out the Fedora8 atrpms [In reply to]

On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 04:27:11PM -0500, Christopher X. Candreva wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, David Rees wrote:
>
> > Two legacy versions of the Nvidia drivers for you.
>
> They may be on the repo, but they don't work. Nvidia has not released a
> patch yet.

They have, but it's labeled beta. So on ATrpms you;ll find them
currently under bleeding until NVIDIA is confident to release them as
GA.
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chris at westnet

Nov 11, 2008, 1:56 PM

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Re: Would it be possible to give a warning before you wipe out the Fedora8 atrpms [In reply to]

On Sat, 8 Nov 2008, Axel Thimm wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 04:27:11PM -0500, Christopher X. Candreva wrote:

> > They may be on the repo, but they don't work. Nvidia has not released a
> > patch yet.
>
> They have, but it's labeled beta. So on ATrpms you;ll find them
> currently under bleeding until NVIDIA is confident to release them as
> GA.

Well, so far then do seem to be "bleeding". I'm having text scrolling
problems on gnome-terminal windows.

But thankyee for the reference. I didn't realize anything had been released
yet.

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