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Kubuntu 8.10 on LG X110 [Installation Report]
by Rony 28 Feb '09

28 Feb '09

Hello, Today Kubuntu 8.10 was installed on the LG X110 netbook. Unlike Acer which has no recovery CD and uses a 20 GB hidden partition, LG's X110 comes with driver CDs and there is only one partition of 160 GB that's installed with Doze XP home. A Moserbayer DVD writer temporarily plugged into an external USB IDE HDD adapter was used as the external USB CD drive. After booting flawlessly into the Live session of Kubuntu 8.10, installation is pretty simple. When you come to the partitioning part, it stops at the first option to partition the disk 50-50 for Doze and Linux. Select your option and the rest of the installation is automatic. If you choose 50-50 then the first time you boot into Dose post installation, you will get a file system error and the scandisk option will pop up. Do not bypass it. Let it happen and it will restart the system after correcting the disk space entries. After that the system boots into doze normally. After installation run 'sudo apt-get update' and install multimedia support with 'sudo apt-get install kubuntu-restricted-extras'. It is better to run this command in a terminal or gui terminal like konsole as the Java license agreement choices cannot be navigated properly through a GUI package manager like Adept, Synaptec etc. It will hang there. To add firefox3, simply use 'sudo apt-get install firefox'. Please note that Firefox 3 is a gnome package and it will download a bulk of gnome based support packages. For the webcam interface use 'sudo apt-get install luvcview' Luvcview is a nice software but the gui needs a little getting used to. Pictures clicked are good and in a raw format. You can later convert them into your favorite format. It does video recording too. While the Realtek LAN is up automatically, the Realtek wireless drivers need to be installed and that is done from this site http://julienpecqueur.com/tutoriaux/install_driverwifi.html The site is in French but the commands to be executed are in English so simply copy/paste them into a terminal. Remember, the 'uname -r' is to be replaced by the actual output of 'uname'r'. So do that first and make a note of it. Download the tarball and untar it using 'tar xzvf rtl8187se_linux_26.1023.0928.2008.tar.gz' then go ahead with the rest of the instructions. Basically you download the builder packages and build the drivers from the tarball. Then you save the modules into the respective locations. Bluetooth is still a gray area and hopefully it will get resolved soon. What is surprising is that peripherials like BT, Camera, Cardreader etc. do not show up in lspci. I will see if the output can be posted to the list. Maybe there is a patch in the Doze side to get these devices detected. Anyway the system is now up and running with Kubuntu 8.10 with LAN and Wireless support and Camera. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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proposed pycon india
by Kenneth Gonsalves 27 Feb '09

27 Feb '09

hi, bangpypers are discussing a proposal to hold an Indian pycon conference in september. If you are interested, please check out the bangpypers mailing list archives and the wiki: http://wiki.python.org/moin/ProposalForPyConIndia -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/

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Re-[Announce] Free Software camp for Ngo's and voluntary organizations, March 24-28, Madhya Pradesh India
by Rajeev Nair 27 Feb '09

27 Feb '09

Hi all. We are pleased to announce our 7th free software(FOSS) camp called Ngo in a Box for Ngo's and similar interest groups,scheduled to be held from March 24-28 in Madhya Pradesh India. This is a 5 day residential workshop and limited scholarships are available to select participants who will be provided with free training ,boarding and lodging. Full details and application forms are available at our website http://ngoinabox.mahiti.org Application deadline is March 5th 2009 so hurry up! All those on the list who have contacts in Ngo's can pass on this information to them. regards rajeev nair Project Coordinator Ngo in a Box - South Asia rajeev.nair(a)mahiti.org

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] A small suggestion
by Sanjay Singhvi 27 Feb '09

27 Feb '09

When I said my comp crashed I meant that when I "hit the button" all that happened was that the power led glowed - no display and no led even for the hard disk. However, it turned out that is was more my hopes that had crashed. The BIOS had got corrupted and a call to Acer helpline fixed that. The comp is up and about again. BTW +1 from me. Sanjay

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Security fix for webcams
by jtd 26 Feb '09

26 Feb '09

http://valhenson.livejournal.com/29588.html Mic is not fixed yet.. -- Rgds JTD

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connecting to gmail via imap over squid
by sameer shinde 26 Feb '09

26 Feb '09

Hi All, I'm using squid3.0 as our proxy server to serve the internet users, which is working fine. Now I want users to access IMAP(say gmail on imap) over my proxy. Can anyone let me know, How do I do this? Is there any way I can do it with squid? Is there any other way? So far what I've read on google is, as squid is an http proxy, it only supports http/ftp protocol. not fully for even https. Is there any other way to proxy remaining protocols like imap/imap4/pop3/smtp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sameer Shinde. M:- +91 98204 61580 Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

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[Info] More Netbooks.
by Rony 25 Feb '09

25 Feb '09

Hello, This is just for everyones' information that more manufacturers have jumped into the netbook bandwagon and one such model is from LG. A client of mine bought it from Vijay Sales for 19K. Specs:- LG X110 10" screen 1.2 Kgs 2.5+ Hr batter life Atom Processor 945 Mobo 1 GB RAM 160 GB HDD 1.3 MP camera 3 USB 1 VGA LAN and Wireless (lspci showed them as Realtek devices and the wireless was not detected by Lenny Live) Bluetooth One MM card slot Speakers. Mic and H/P sockets Preloaded with doze home edition I found the screen to very bright but the camera was darkish, compared to the Aspire One. The dealer told him that the camera can be made bright through software settings but I have not tried it. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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wired internet still not working on Acer Aspire One with Kubuntu 8.10
by Sanjay Singhvi 24 Feb '09

24 Feb '09

Dear All, I finally found this piece of information at the http://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne site. It says : Note Kernel 2.6.27-11 breaks the wired ethernet interface. Bug 313866 has been verified: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/313866 Add to the information to help. Revert to an earlier kernel to fix the wired interface for now. However, I managed to crash my laptop while trying out various ways to fix the problem. I am told by the Acer people that it is probably only a corruption of the BIOS and will have to start from putting in a new BIOS. But when I have my Kubuntu intrepid up, I will remember to revert to an earlier version of the kernel. Hope this helps others who have the Acer Aspire One. Regards, Sanjay Singhvi

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sarg howto
by sameer shinde 24 Feb '09

24 Feb '09

Hi All, Can anyone provide me simple how-to for sarg. I'm searching on net, but not getting the appropriate documentation on sarg. I'm using following configuration on my proxy. Squid3.0 Stable1 + SquidGuard (for filtering) Now I want to pull out some reports of squid usage, so configuring SARG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sameer Shinde. M:- +91 98204 61580 Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

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RH cozing up to the big bully?
by jtd 24 Feb '09

24 Feb '09

M$ and RH have signed a deal of some sort. http://www.redhat.com/promo/svvp/ Saving grace is that there are no weasel words as yet. -- Rgds JTD

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