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Linux Compatible Laptops
by Mandar Joshi 27 Feb '07

27 Feb '07

Hello, I bought a Compaq V3033AU few months back. Turion X2 1.6, 1GB RAM , 100GB HDD, 14.1 wide screen. and rest of the regular features. I've tested it with FC5 32 bit , FC5 64 bit , Gentoo 64 bit, OpenSuse 10.2 but stuck to Gentoo 64 bit in the end. The laptop works well with all the versions I mentioned. The graphics are great with the Nvidia proprietery driver. For wireless I had to use ndiswrapper but I think it might work with the native bcm43xx driver in 2.16.20 . Ofcourse, I am using the i386 binary version of Firefox. Blackdown Java as well as Flash work fine. With the alsa oss emulation I get audio too inside firefox ! Whats your budget ? I think the current starting price of the Compaq V3000 series is around 42000/- . Regards Mandar Joshi ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Have you been here yet ? http://mndar.phpnet.us ____________________________________________________________________________________ Don't get soaked. Take a quick peak at the forecast with the Yahoo! Search weather shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#loc_weather

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excess downloads on Ubuntu
by Shiv Kumar - 9820320927 (cell) 91-22-28906693 26 Feb '07

26 Feb '07

I have a system with Ubuntu Dapper, firefox, Opera and Evolution email client running. After i activated the Connection properties button I notice that a lot of downloading continues to happen even when the system is idle. the downloading stops only after at least 6 to 8 MBs are downloaded every time I activate MTNL triband. How do I stop this? Every MB costs One Rupee so its obviously very expensive. Shiv Kumar

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Samba PDC permission issues
by Openlx Linux 26 Feb '07

26 Feb '07

Hello List, I have created a setup consisting of : 1. Samba-PDC server running Centos Linux 4.4, 32 bit, Samba version 3.0.9.1.3E.10, named A 2. This server is joined by three Samba workstations running Centos Linux 4.4, 32 bit, Samba version 3.0.9.1.3E.10, Named B, C & D. The workstations (B, C & D) are authenticated by PDC (A). There are Unix groups on PDC which are converted to NT-groups on A (PDC), using the command : # net groupmap add ntgroup="group-name" unixgroup="group-name" type=d The 3 workstations share files that are given group-wise ACL permissions. When I join the workstations to the PDC server through authconfig command, the workstation is shown as joined. When I use the command "getent -g" , it does not show the PDC group. It shows the groups of the local workstation only. The ACL permissions are not working. I am using the command : # setfacl -m g:DOMAIN\\groups:rwx /foldername I get the error message : setfacl: Option -m: Invalid argument near character 3 I seem to be missing something, because, on completing the setup, this worked for 4 hours and then stopped. The log message, at error time, started showing this message : ===================error message on PDC (A) server=============== Feb 26 15:53:47 pdcdel smbd[12063]: make_server_info_info3: pdb_init_sam failed! Feb 26 15:53:49 pdcdel smbd[12063]: [2007/02/26 15:53:49, 0] auth/auth_util.c:make_server_info_info3(1134) Feb 26 15:53:49 pdcdel smbd[12063]: make_server_info_info3: pdb_init_sam failed! Feb 26 15:53:49 pdcdel smbd[12063]: [2007/02/26 15:53:49, 0] auth/auth_util.c:make_server_info_info3(1134) Feb 26 15:53:49 pdcdel smbd[12063]: make_server_info_info3: pdb_init_sam failed! ===================end of above message======================= ===================error message on WORKSTATIONS (C) ======= Feb 25 17:41:19 csw2smbbak kernel: mtrr: base(0xd0020000) is not aligned on a size(0x300000) boundary Feb 25 17:41:28 csw2smbbak kernel: mtrr: type mismatch for d0000000,10000000 old: write-back new: write-combining Feb 25 18:18:15 csw2smbbak nmbd[8274]: [2007/02/25 18:18:15, 0] nmbd/nmbd_responserecordsdb.c:find_response_record(220) Feb 25 18:18:15 csw2smbbak nmbd[8274]: find_response_record: response packet id 23126 received with no matching record. Feb 25 18:18:15 csw2smbbak nmbd[8274]: [2007/02/25 18:18:15, 0] nmbd/nmbd_responserecordsdb.c:find_response_record(220) Feb 25 18:18:15 csw2smbbak nmbd[8274]: find_response_record: response packet id 23126 received with no matching record. ===================end of above message======================= The workstations (B, C & D) have same OS, samba and configurations. The workstations B & D are working fine, whereas the C is giving the error. Any ideas to resolve the issue will be helpful and I will be grateful. Ashok. -- Linux - Transforming Lives !

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Timed Download Cron Script Required
by Rony 26 Feb '07

26 Feb '07

Hello All, I need the script for using wget in a cron job for timed downloads at night and disconnect by morning. There are Triband NU users who use the script for night downloads. So if a script copy could be posted, I would be grateful. Regards, Rony. ___________________________________________________________ All new Yahoo! Mail "The new Interface is stunning in its simplicity and ease of use." - PC Magazine http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

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Steve Jobs on DRM
by Vihan Pandey 26 Feb '07

26 Feb '07

Dear Friends, Linuxers and Music Lovers, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has issued and interesting public statement on DRM. In the statement his wholeheartedly agrees that DRM has NOT worked and is NOT the solution for curbing ``illegal music" and is certainly NOT the way to go for the future. i think this statement worth noting as this is the fist time(to the best of my knowledge) a CEO of a company doing major music related business has ever admitted to the failure of DRM. To all those with the Anti-DRM campaign, i think someone's listening :-) For the complete article : http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/ Regards, - vihan

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Yet another hardware thread
by Devdas Bhagat 26 Feb '07

26 Feb '07

LinuxBIOS support for the GIGABYTE M57SLI-S4 motherboard: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/496453 Devdas Bhagat

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Linux on DG965RY Motherboard
by Rajesh Rajani 25 Feb '07

25 Feb '07

Hi All, This is just a brief writeup on my experience with installing Linux on the Intel DG965RY motherboard. Hardware -------- Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 @2.4GHz Intel DG965RY Motherboard 1 GB DDR2-533 RAM 250GB SATA HDD PATA Emprex DVD+-RW Software i386 ------------- Suse 10.1 Suse 10.2 Debian Sarge Knoppix 5.1.1 Fedora Core 6 Mandriva Software x86_64 --------------- Suse 10.1 x86_64 Debian Etch AMD64 Fedora Core 6 x86_64 CDROM detection --------------- Out of all the software mentioned above, NONE of them except for Fedora Core 6 even proceeded further than the CDROM detection stage. The DG965RY board uses the Marvell PATA chipset which is not supported by the linux at the moment (though there are some patches available in the kernel tree). All the distros would boot and then fail to detect a valid installation disk in the drive. The solution on google is to add the "all-generic-ide" option while booting. It didn't work for any of the distros. Only the Fedora distros would actually proceed beyond the CDROM detection phase and start the installation procedure. The complete option set recommended for this board is "all-generic-ide irqpoll pci=nommconf". Installation ------------ Having a dual core system, I obviously wanted to use virtualization so I opted for the virtualization package while customizing my install. The install proceeded normally and within 30-40 mins I had an installed Fedora Core 6 system with Xen virtualization. Unfortunately it was horribly unstable. Being a new system, I didn't know if the issue was with my hardware or software so I reinstalled Fedora (both i386 and x86_64) multiple times with various combinations of bios settings, installation options, etc. Nothing worked. The system would lock and crash within 10 mins of use. Yesterday I installed a bare minimum Fedora Core 6 x86_64 option again with no virtualization. Lo and behold, it worked beautifully. No crashes, very stable with the 2.6.18 kernel. Booting ------- The install doesn't add the full option line to the kernel in the grub menu.lst. It just adds the pci=nommconf option. The line has to be manually edited in the menu.lst file. Browsing -------- Browsing, of course, doesn't work out of the box since it enables IPV6 by default. Disabling IPV6 worked and I could browse the net. Updates ------- The default yum repository configured is from download.fedora.redhat.com which is so slow that yum timeouts trying to retrieve repomd.xml. Same with the default configured mirrorlist. The option was to create a local mirror list with mirrors added manually from Taiwan, Hong Kong, etc. This worked and a "yum update" updated 300 packages by downloading 421 MB from the mirrors. (1 night's work with the DSLNU plan from MTNL) Open Issue ---------- Even though I have added "irqpoll" in the kernel option, the boot message says that IRQ #19 not working or something and that I should use the irqpoll option !!! Haven't yet checked this on google. Any inputs will be welcome. Summary ------- I now have a working Fedora system with the 2.6.19 kernel and updated packages. It is still barebones and I have to install all the productivity and development software but now I don't anticipate any difficulties. I have not added my printer/scanner/camera, etc. I'll try and update this when I do so. Hope this helps others using this board. Regards, Rajesh

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Wiki updates
by Roshan 25 Feb '07

25 Feb '07

Hello List, The wiki has been updated with updates in the IRC channel section on the main page and the CD's Available page. URL's http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php/CDs_Available Contribute, and let the wiki grow. -- FSF of India Associate Fellow http://www.gnu.org.in I love listening to FM radio! __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/

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Web based feed aggregators -- Gregarius vs Planet (by Derek Cordeiro)
by Frederick Noronha 25 Feb '07

25 Feb '07

http://derek.profusehost.net/ Web based feed aggregators -- Gregarius vs Planet Wed, 2006-12-13 19:29 — Derek Cordeiro It has been a while that Gregarius has been set up on feeds.goa-india.org and has been working pretty fine with minor downtime due to mysql and memory issues. Today I have set up Planet at planet.goa-india.org. How do these two feed readers compare? Gregarius is a PHP/MySQL based script. Its got buzzwords written all over... Ajax! Pros: * Web based admin with adding a feed with just about one click * support for themes * support for plugins * opml import/export makes switching to Gregarius a piece of cake * support for tags and categories * additional functionality like sticky articles, flagged articles, etc Cons: * Requires MySQL database * requires cron Planet is a python based feed reader powering a lot of "planets" Pros: * setting up is very straightforward for a geek.(just a few commands will get it done) * support for Author Photos * requires only python 2.2 * generates static html output(easier on the server) Cons: * No Web based admin, feeds have to be added to a config file. * requires cron. * no theme switching available, templates are available though. * since feeds have to be added manually, there is no direct opml import. * no readily available plugins or themes(to my knowledge) Please visit the sites http://feeds.goa-india.org/ and http://planet.goa-india.org/ and give your opinion -- FN M: 0091 9822122436 P: +91-832-240-9490 (after 1300IST please) http://fn.goa-india.org http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com 7500+ sharable pics from Goa http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/

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Debian Etch DVD's available
by Vihan Pandey 24 Feb '07

24 Feb '07

Hi all, i've finished downloading all 3 Debain Etch DVD iso images for i386. These are the full install DVD's. i have also written 2 sets of them on DVD's. One set is going to be passed to HBCSE so that more people can make copies, i spoke to Anurag about the same. The other is with me, i'm willing to exchange it for 3 blank Sony DVD-R's. i can't burn them that often as its pretty time consuming and my writer only supports DVD burning max at 2x. Let's see if we can work out something. If there are other's willing to share in on the burning time, please get in touch with me. i know most here are waiting for a comment, well i'll throw in one - the text installer is still there and the GUI installer ROCKS :-) Regards, - vihan

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