Linuxers November 2003

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Redhat 8 installation fails at Xfree 86
by Dilip M 02 Dec '03

02 Dec '03

Hi, When ever i tried to install Redhat 8.0 , it always fails at XFree86-4.2.0.72 rpm :(( What may be the cause ? -Dilip.M

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gnome mouse button mapping
by linuxdev 02 Dec '03

02 Dec '03

hi fellas, I have a Logitech MX300 optical mouse with foll. buttons and functions 1. left click 2. right click 3. a tiny button - no predefined function 4. mouse wheel button (its pressable) while i can change their associations under X (XF86Config + xmodmap), I am unable to figure out the mapping gnome is making. any pointers (pun intended) to the right conf. file ? regards, C Get Your Private, Free E-mail from Indiatimes at http://email.indiatimes.com Buy The Best In BOOKS at http://www.bestsellers.indiatimes.com Bid for for Air Tickets @ Re.1 on Air Sahara Flights. Just log on to http://airsahara.indiatimes.com and Bid Now!

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Linux Bombay??
by Mayuresh Kathe 02 Dec '03

02 Dec '03

Hello luggers, There was some talk about organising a Linux event in Bombay too, what happened? ~Mayuresh

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kernel 2.4.23
by linuxdev 30 Nov '03

30 Nov '03

Important news, albiet a little stale. 2.4.23 stable kernel is out. You might want this one for 1. acpi fixes 2. new usb additions/fixes. 3. brand new XFree86 synced drm driver modules. 4. lots of other fixes I don't know about :D The XFree86 one is important if you want any sort of h/w acceleration for display. eg. quake :D also if ur a mplayer buff like me (who isn't ?) u'll want this one to take care of the pain of recompiling the X drm drivers and plugging them into the kernel. happy compiling, C p.s: no probs. faced as yet. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from Indiatimes at http://email.indiatimes.com Buy The Best In BOOKS at http://www.bestsellers.indiatimes.com Bid for for Air Tickets @ Re.1 on Air Sahara Flights. Just log on to http://airsahara.indiatimes.com and Bid Now!

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India's biggest 'open source'...
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 30 Nov '03

30 Nov '03

INDIA'S BIGGEST 'OPEN SOURCE' MEET GETS UNDERWAY DEC 2 IN BANGALORE FROM FREDERICK NORONHA In a country of vast numbers, figures sometimes cease to surprise. But organisers were themselves thrilled on roping in 2000 registered delegates for a major open source conference over 72 hours before the meet's start on December 2. "A little while ago, we breached the 2000 registered delegates barrier, and are heading for the stars. We are going to need tin openers and shoe-horns to get everyone in," said a tongue-in-cheek announcement from Atul Chitnis, one of the main organisers of the Linux Bangalore 2003. India's southern garden-city of Bangalore considers itself the 'Silicon Valley of India' and this will be the third year running it has been hosting the largest-so far open source conference in this country of a thousand million. At 2000 registered participants, the number crossed the official seating capacity of the conference. But, organisers said: "This does not necessarily mean that you wont get to participate, since not everyone who registers actually shows up, and some people will attend on some days, and miss others. However it does mean that we are going to be seeing a full house again this year." Online-registration costs Rs 300, while those who sign-up at the venue, the prestigious Indian Institute of Sciences, would have to pay Rs 500. In dollar terms, this is just approx US$ 6 and US$ 11 respectively. But for Indian participants, this obviously means more than its dollar-equivalent suggests. Food comes included for this three-day event. Hewlett Packard, Novell Inc which recently bought over Ximian and Suse, and local Bangalore firm Exocore Consulting are sponsors for the event. India's federal government, which has earned some flak for appearing unsure of its support to Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS), has also come in with sponsorship, as in the past year. Organisers went ahead to call this "India's biggest annual Open Source event". Till now, they've had no competition in either size or ambitions. But in 2004, the country's first exclusively-FLOSS magazine called 'Linux For You' has announced plans for a national meet in Delhi. It is not clear still what size and shape that meet would take on. Said the Bangalore organisers: "What differentiates this event from commercial events (that are typically driven by vendors) is that this event is completely conceived, organised and driven by the Open Source community, focussing on technology talks and a technology expo." It is seen as being built on a "low-cost" model, where Rs 300 to 500 brings in access to "all talks and sub-events". This year, over the three days, this event promises nearly 100 talks. Speakers pulled in from across the globe include Miguel de Icaza (Mono/Ximian), Rasmus Lerdorf (PHP), Nat Friedman (Ximian), Jeremy Zawodny (MySQL/Yahoo), Bdale Garbee (Debian), Harald Welte (iptables) and others. Local big names from across India's open source movement would also be present, though those in the Free Software camp -- with its nucleus around the also South India-based Free Software Foundation (India) -- are known to sometimes keep off this event due to differences in approaches. Some of those from India taking part would include KDE-developer of Indian origin Sirtaj Singh Kang, Anjuta-developer Naba Kumar, one of the co-founders of the Linux India movement Sudhakar 'Thaths' Chandrasekharan and others. Organizers have planned the screening of a movie ('Revolution OS'), a music concert by the fusion group Laya Taranga, and a rock concert by the group Phenom. "Bangalore, already the IT capital of India, is quickly becoming a hothouse for Open Source development, with companies like Ximian/Novell, IBM, HP and others setting up development centres there," said the event's organisers. More details about the event at http://linux-bangalore.org/2003 Avik Sengupta <avik.sengupta(a)itellix.com> discussed the possibility of holding a PGP Key Signing Party at the conference. He explained: "Unlike SSL/SMIME certificates (where trust flows from a single authority), PGP operates on a 'web of trust', generated through identifying and signing each other's keys." (ENDS) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frederick Noronha (FN) | http://www.fredericknoronha.net Freelance Journalist | http://www.bytesforall.org http://goalinks.pitas.com | http://joingoanet.shorturl.com http://linuxinindia.pitas.com | http://www.livejournal.com/users/goalinks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- T: 0091.832.2409490 or 2409783 M: 0 9822 122436 -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Re: [ILUG-BOM] gnome mouse button mapping
by linuxdev 30 Nov '03

30 Nov '03

[snip] In order to make ur 3 button working u shall have to Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2 # If ur mouse is ps/2 mouse Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "ZAxisMapping" Y EndSection Hope so it would work out. anyways do let me know the result [snip] >>I have a Logitech MX300 optical mouse with foll. >>buttons and functions >>1. left click >>2. right click >>3. a tiny button - no predefined function >>4. mouse wheel button (its pressable) >>while i can change their associations under X >>(XF86Config + xmodmap), I am unable to figure out >>the mapping gnome is making. The third button already works but the action corressp. to it cannot (?) be changed under gnome ? I've tried even the buttons option and xmodmap, but it still doesn't let me map the third button to any specific function under gnome. lets say I want my gnome terminal to open when I click with my third button on the desktop. How do I do that ?? More specifically I want the double click mapping to the third button. C Get Your Private, Free E-mail from Indiatimes at http://email.indiatimes.com Buy The Best In BOOKS at http://www.bestsellers.indiatimes.com Bid for for Air Tickets @ Re.1 on Air Sahara Flights. Just log on to http://airsahara.indiatimes.com and Bid Now!

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reinstalling over /
by Rahul Saxena 29 Nov '03

29 Nov '03

hello ppl, i wanted ot upgrade from RH7.2 to RH9 today, but this was failing because it seems my rpm database is corrupted or somthing. ( invalid hash ) so now i am planning ot install over my root fs of the original RH7.2 thankfully i have /home on a different partition and i have copied /etc and /usr/src ( carious kernel sources ) there. so the question is can i just "chown" over my home after reinstalling the new RH9 fs. or is there anything else. i have ot look out for ?? thanks for reading rahul -- Let me put it this way: today is going to be a learning experience.

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S/F for scanned text to voice over linux....
by Nilesh Shinde 29 Nov '03

29 Nov '03

Hi everyone i am nilesh n. shinde from Maharashtra Institute of technology,Aurangabdad.....studing in my third year of Instrumentation and control ENGG......... I am making a project for visually imapaired people .... basic idea is scanning the text may be from news paper and conveting it into voice..... I want any open source software which can directly convert scanned text into voice.... also i want to know how to trasfer any C,C++ code into embedded sysem IC chip plz help -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm

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fsf?
by Sachin Nair 28 Nov '03

28 Nov '03

How many of you people actually believe in the fsf movement? .. while there was talk about bringing everything under the fsf umbrella, it seems the India chapter is already dead!! Regards Sachin

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Application Sharing
by mathewj＠aptech.ac.in 28 Nov '03

28 Nov '03

Hi there, I have just compiled gnome-bluetooth on my Suse8.2 machine kernel 2.4.20. the moment i start the application the following error appears. couldnt figure out the error and its cause.. /usr/bin/gnoem-bluetooth-admin (process:20877): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:1875: initialization assertion failed, use g_type_init() prior to this function (process:20877): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:1915: initialization assertion failed, use g_type_init() prior to this function (process:20877): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:1875: initialization assertion failed, use g_type_init() prior to this function (process:20877): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:1915: initialization assertion failed, use g_type_init() prior to this function (process:20877): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:1875: initialization assertion failed, use g_type_init() prior to this function (process:20877): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gobject.c: line 615 (g_object_new): assertion `G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failed i have the following glib and gtk libraries. glibc-2.3.2-6 glib-1.2.10-372 glibc-locale-2.3.2-6 glibc-devel-2.3.2-6 glib2-devel-2.2.1-18 glib-devel-1.2.10-372 glib2-2.2.1-18 gtkspell-2.0.4-SuSE.ulb.1 gtk2-2.2.1-77 gtkmm-1.2.10-31 libgtkhtml3.0_2-3.0.9-0.ximian.7.1 gtkhtml-1.1.8-27 libgtkhtml-2.2.0-35 gtk2-themes-0.1-347 gtkhtml3.0-3.0.9-0.ximian.7.1 gtk2-devel-2.2.1-37 gtk2-engines-2.2.0-39 gtk-1.2.10-552 Mathew -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .

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Linuxers November 2003