Re: [Ilugc] Dual boot firmware question
On 3/23/2010 8:30 AM, Ashish Verma wrote: > Isn't firmware on the > device and isn't is supposed to effect the functionality when I boot into > another OS? For wireless drivers the firmware is actually a binary blob on the hard disk. The blob is loaded from the hard disk by the kernel everytime the system boots up and is loaded into the device. So the firmware has nothing to do with what is happening in Windows. It is like this mainly due to some regulatory requirements for radio frequency devices. In case of nVidia drivers, when you upgraded the kernel, the driver was unchanged but the glue code for interfacing the driver to the kernel (which was written to avoid opening up the drivers) had to be recompiled to match the running kernel. Regards, Senthil ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Compiling the whole Linux distro from source
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:03 PM, S. Senthil Anand > Is pkgsrc such tool??, to find all the dependency library files/ bin files > / > files that are required for the application that has its contents inside a > directory? > You get a application directory with a Makefile and a few patches. The makefile clearly says what are the other packages which are needed to build the software and then to run the software [these need not be identical eg. to build C++ programs you need g++ but to run it you need libstdc++ and not g++.] Each of those packages will have their own Makefile etc. When you run make install, make will take care of building all the required dependencies recursively by downloading the source code and building them in the required order. FreeBSD and OpenBSD ports, and Gentoo's portage which is inspired by FreeBSD ports works similarly. If you want to simply view dependencies, go to http://pkgsrc.se and see if the software you want is there. You will get the complete dependency information for a package in pkgsrc under all supported platforms. > To be simple, is there any such ldd command for all files/ sub-directories > of a directory specified, not just for libraries but also for all > dependencies ??? I am not aware of a single tool like ldd to display all the dependencies recursively. You can probably write a tool to walk through the dependency graph of a package for the various package managers you are interested in. For me the dependencies tab in synaptic is good enough. > Or how to make an application *absolutely* portable in Linux environment > ??? For source portability, pkgsrc or portage will take care of the stuff. For binary portability within a same architecture ie. i686 (betwwen distributions of the same architecture) , you need to statically compile your program + dependencies eg. Opera. Binary compatibilty between architectures ie. i686 and arm for example, is not feasible unless you go for something like MacOS's universal binaries which is not used anywhere in Linux land. Regards, Senthil ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Compiling the whole Linux distro from source
Hello, > Mm, Not necessarily a distro Project, also any such open-source project > that > provide good documentation on compilation's steps with appropriate > parameters, etc. > Have any one tried compiling popular open source projects from source like > Firefox, etc. Not a hard job. Dependencies can be a pain. You can also try pkgsrc which is NetBSD's answer for cross platform OS agnostic package building. You can find all the configuration flags of an application in the corresponding pkgsrc makefiles. I have personally used it in various Linux distros, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and DragonflyBSD at various times mainly to benchmark stuff. Regards, Senthil ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Google Chrome
> 2010/1/10 S. Senthil Anand > >> >> By using a separate process per tab, Chrome is trading off speed and >> security with memory usage. >> > > How is that a tradeoff?? Isn't that supposed to be good having per process > tabs? I've always been annoyed when one tab freezes and takes the whole > browser down with it.. How is it a tradeoff of speed and security? You get increased speed and security which is needed but you also get increased memory usage which is not desired. To put it crudely: Speed, Security, Memory Usage. Pick any two. Regards, Senthil ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Google Chrome
> Yeah. Browsing for a long time, with many tabs. Firefox 3.5 and 3.6 > use far less memory than Chrome, at least on my machines. I should > have called it 'power browsing' or 'vettiness' :P Isn't that by design ? By using a separate process per tab, Chrome is trading off speed and security with memory usage. Regards, Senthil ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Stocks & Share market software - linux
Hi, > On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Yogesh wrote: > > This application uses java 6. First you have to install java 6 in your > machine. > > Check the following links for installing java. > http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/install/jdk/install-linux.html > http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp > Any modern distro has OpenJDK (which passes the Java TCK) JRE installed by default with JDK available in the repositories. So why still point to the sun download site to install a version which will be poorly integrated with the rest of the system? Regards, Senthil ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] GMA950 on Ubuntu 9.10 + VirtualBox3.1 Direct3D issue
Hi, > Questions: > 1. Can Direct3D support be enabled with the regular vesa driver? > 2. I've downloaded the latest Intel GMA Linux driver source. Has anyone > used > this on Koala? Any downsides? The card is not powerful enough to support Direct3D under Virtualbox. Even native OpenGL support is is rather bad under Linux. In Ubuntu by default you are not running vesa drivers, but rather the accelerated Intel drivers present in Xorg -- check if you are running desktop effects for the presence of acceleration. Intel has no proprietary drivers for Xorg (except for Poulsbo which is found only in a few gimped netbooks). What is in Xorg is all that is offered. What you downloaded from Intel's site is probably a few weeks newer that what is available in Ubuntu. So you probably wont notice a great difference in performance. Regards, Senthil ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Twisted Installation Error
>> >>> import Crypto >> >>> import twisted.conch.ssh.transport >> >>> twisted.conch.ssh.transport.RSA >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "", line 1, in >> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'RSA' >> >> twisted.conch.ssh.transport clearly has no attribute RSA. You can >> confirm > this either with dir() or with getattr(). What are you trying to do ? > Perhaps you can paste a few more lines of the code that you are trying to > run. I think this is the code being used: http://books.google.co.in/books?id=sUviL0XxgMEC&lpg=PA177&ots=c3lfubBhl6&dq=twisted%20conch%20rsa&pg=PA6#v=onepage&q=twisted%20conch%20rsa&f=false I am not sure if it is due to a library change or a language spec change. Regards, Senthil ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] The Hindu features SFD
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Venkatraman S wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Salvadesswaran P.S. < >> By the way, what causes an 'ece' extn? > > Links aren't broken for me. I also wish to know what ece extn means. It seems to be from Escenic Content Engine, a CMS. The Hindu is in: http://www.escenic.com/customers/media/ Regards, Senthil ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] RE: Grub booting
> Both HHDs are having linux and when i select the windows, second HHD linux > (FC11) is booting without any problem. How is it possible? When you tell grub to chainload, it does not care about the OS installed in the partition. It simply transfers control to whatever loader is in the partition. In your case you hace F11 which gets loaded. The title you give on grub need not match the actual OS in the hard disk. Regards, Senthil ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Need help on Koha 3.0 installation in Debian 5.0
> Is there anyone here who worked on Koha 3.0 in Debian 5.0? I need your > help > badly. > Hi, What problem are you having ? Koha on Debian is relatively straightforward. Regards, Senthil ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] unable to update kernel to latest version fedora9 using yum
> I found this. Probably Rahul would be able to explain this newkey repo better > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/9/x86_64.newkey/ > It seems to have kernel 2.6.27 Some machines inside Redhat were compromised around September last year. Because of thet Redhat and Fedora had to re-sign all the rpms using a new signing key. They also changed the update urls to reflect that. So the default yum config from the DVD is out of date. That is why you have the i386.newkey and x86_64.newkey repositories. Regards, Senthil ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Debian 64 bit support for HP Compaq dx2480 Microtower PC
> We wish to buy HP Compaq dx2480 Microtower PC. > > We need to know that whether Debian 64 bit is supported for this PC. > > How to know this? > If you are getting the PC with a Core 2 Duo or Quad it supports 64 bit OS. For Pentium Dual Core or Celeron you will need to check Intel's website. As for other hardware in the system I have no idea about their Linux compatibility. Regards, Senthil ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Firefox problem
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 6:15 AM, padma priya wrote:
>
>>
>> /usr/lib/firefox-3.0b5/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 4479 Segmentation
>> fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"}
>>
>
> Looks like fedora packaged a beta version :(
> The best thing you can do is to start fresh by removing .mozilla
> directory
> and installing firefox new
> $cd
> $rm -rf .mozilla
>
> You will loose all your profile information and plugins :(
>
> Anyways the current stable version is 3.0.7 . You can also try 3.1 beta 2
> (
> my choice as 3.1 has new features )
> They are all available at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html
>
Or you can simply apply all the security updates and get the latest
version without breaking all the other software which depends on gecko.
Fedora 9 and 10 have 3.06 in their updates and will get 3.07 in a few
days.
Regards,
Senthil
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