Re: [gentoo-user] Tv out stopped working!

2006-05-08 Thread Rohit Sharma
Daniel, I have a successful config at home with nvidia GeForce4 FS 5200 card. I use it in clone configuration so this screen would be shown exactly as it is on my TV. Both my TV and LCD monitor have the same resolution. I get TV Out as composite video at 1024x768 and use it to watch movies with Nv

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread Rohit Sharma
marcin wrote: > Hi > > I've been comparing lately performance OpenGL apps against different > kernels 2.6.x and 2.4. Overall performance is comparable but a scheduler > of kernel 2.6 is very annoying (to say at least). I have not tried it myself, but there is an option in kernel config which faci

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 DVD hangs !

2006-04-30 Thread Rohit Sharma
Rohit and Bhavana wrote: >Hi there, > >I downloaded the ISO image and as I didn't have a blank CD handy, I >burned it onto a single layer DVD [after all it was an ISO image, >right?] and hoped for the best. > Totally my fault. Should have verified the md5sun before messing two perfectly good media

Re: [gentoo-user] how to update /etc/services file?

2006-04-16 Thread Rohit Sharma
David wrote: >I found my /etc/services is too many ports are not included in the file! >eg telnet,ftp,http for UDP, > >so, how to get a stronger /etc/services file? >thanks! > > Enjoy. http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers leads you to.. Search on google for complete /etc/services and w

Re: [gentoo-user] dns at startup

2006-04-16 Thread Rohit Sharma
David Corbin wrote: >>"use dns" probably refers to DNS server [running on your local host - which >>is not the case with most of us, as we don't run DNSes of our own] >>I kind of figured that, but at the same time, why would the various scripts >>care where the DNS is being resolved from? >>

Re: [gentoo-user] dns at startup

2006-04-16 Thread Rohit Sharma
David Corbin wrote: >When I boot my latpop, ntpdate doesn't work. It fails saying there is a >"temporary failure in name resolution" it cannot lookup pool.ntp.org . >After my system finishes booting, "/etc/init.d/ntp-client start" works fine. >The script is running nearly last from the outp

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 + framebuffer - does it work?

2006-04-15 Thread Rohit Sharma
Richard Fish wrote: >I would suggest not dealing with bootsplash issues at this point, and >work on getting a stable framebuffer working. Once you have that, the >bootsplash side of things is pretty straight-forward. > > Thank, Richard - I shall follow you advice. You chose the following I pres

Re: Almost solved :-( - Re: [gentoo-user] Help : mc and ln mixup

2006-04-15 Thread Rohit Sharma
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >After you get your filesystem in order, and doubly verify that you hw isn't >going south, just repair the packages that are broken, using Richard >Fish's technique. > > Thanks - but I am frustrated now. Did --check, then --fix-fixable, and ultimately a --rebuild-

Re: Almost solved :-( - Re: [gentoo-user] Help : mc and ln mixup

2006-04-15 Thread Rohit Sharma
I simply shall do a reiserfs rebuild for all partitions before doing anything else now. Once that error goes away, I shall emerge my mc and then I am hoping that it shall be solved. [saved by find] Shall post results when checked. -- Best regards, Rohit Sharma -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Almost solved :-( - Re: [gentoo-user] Help : mc and ln mixup

2006-04-15 Thread Rohit Sharma
rebuild.. working again etc etc] If anyone has a better idea, kindly let me know. Rohit Rohit Sharma wrote: >Bo Andresen wrote: >Rohit replies -- > >Thanks, both of you, for your response. I am re-emerging coreutils, just >in case. Done. >The commands are below - a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help : need grub,conf file : kernel wouldn't boot

2006-04-15 Thread Rohit Sharma
Francesco Talamona wrote: >1) Are you aware that you are using a comma inside the file name in the >subject and in the message? It sould be grub.conf, not grub,conf. > > Yes Francesco, the comma was a typo on my part. Things are they way I have tried to convey, on my machine. >What name do y

Re: [gentoo-user] Help : mc and ln mixup

2006-04-14 Thread Rohit Sharma
Bo Andresen wrote: Rohit replies -- Thanks, both of you, for your response. I am re-emerging coreutils, just in case. Done. The commands are below - and in summary here is what happens. - PATH is shown. My own .bin directory has two mp3 ripping scripts. That is all. "/usr/bin" comes before "/

[gentoo-user] Help : mc and ln mixup

2006-04-13 Thread Rohit Sharma
. -- Best regards, Rohit Sharma -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Finally, the bell rings.

2006-04-03 Thread Rohit Sharma
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi Jim >I have already done what you suggested. >When I try to set up my printer using cups I do not find any driver (here is >the problem). > > gentoo-wiki.com has the best/updated guide on the subject. That is what I would follow - just a thought. Rohit -- gentoo-

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla - pop-ups not blocked !!

2006-03-20 Thread Rohit Sharma
My apologies - - for asking a mozilla related question on this list. - for writing an HTML message to the list - future crimes [in advance] as I am sure I shall make a mistake some time. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla - pop-ups not blocked !!

2006-03-20 Thread Rohit Sharma
fire-eyes wrote: >On Sunday 19 March 2006 12:48, Rohit Sharma wrote: > > >>> >> >[snip] >Please post to this list in plain text > Preference set for the list as "prefers to receive email as plain text" in my mozilla. let us see how this one reac

[gentoo-user] Mozilla - pop-ups not blocked !!

2006-03-19 Thread Rohit Sharma
wrong? -- Rohit's signatures Best regards, Rohit Sharma -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Gentoo/Linux support for Firewire/USB 2.0 combo PCI cards

2006-03-11 Thread Rohit Sharma
Hi there, Please take a look at http://search.ebay.co.uk/usb-firewire-pci-card_W0QQfcoZ1QQfromZR8QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ1 for an example of the kind of cards I am thinking about buying. There are choices where one PCI card has two via processors which control 4 USB 2.0 and 2 Firewire ports. Since my existi

Re: [gentoo-user] Image resize question.. : resolved

2006-03-05 Thread Rohit Sharma
Rohit Sharma wrote: >Is there a command [hint "man command" shall do] which I can use to resize an >image? I have 200 of them in a directory which I want to >resize to fit my cellphone. > > works as in find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -print0 | xargs -r -0 -ixxx convert

[gentoo-user] Image resize question..

2006-03-05 Thread Rohit Sharma
Apologies in advance for this quick question which isn't about Gentoo per se, but is about work on Linux. Is there a command [hint "man command" shall do] which I can use to resize an image? I have 200 of them in a directory which I want to resize to fit my cellphone. -- Thanks, Rohit -- gentoo-u

Re: [gentoo-user] Unusual DVD-RW behavior?

2006-02-18 Thread Rohit Sharma
Jeff wrote: >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Feb 18 05:29 cdrom -> hdc >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Feb 18 05:29 cdrw -> hdc >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Feb 18 05:29 dvd -> hdc >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Feb 18 05:29 dvdrw -> hdc >brw-rw 1 root cdrom22, 0

Re: [gentoo-user] Thought : making the build/emerge faster

2006-02-18 Thread Rohit Sharma
>You need three things (my experience) - a patch for portage-2.1_preX/4; >emerge "confcache" from portage and put FEATURES="...confcache..." >in /etc/make.conf. This works for me. >The patch is:confcache-final (IIRC) search mailing-list archives for it. >Or mail me directly. > > Thanks Rumen - I

Re: [gentoo-user] Thought : making the build/emerge faster

2006-02-18 Thread Rohit Sharma
here. confcache --help suggests export CONFCACHEDIR which I have done but is there a way for me to make portage use this by default? Or is exporting the env variable enough? [done "emerge confcache" already] -- Rohit Sharma -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Thought : making the build/emerge faster

2006-02-18 Thread Rohit Sharma
, create their config.cache. I was just curious. Have you considered it before? Please reply. -- Rohit Sharma -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA + CMI8738 card set up

2006-02-12 Thread Rohit Sharma
Quick questions - Holly. When I configure alsa support in my kernel and build modules using menuconfig and tell kernel to load modules automatically [or do manual loading using modules.autoload.d] 1. Do I still have to enable alsasound service using "rc-update add alsasound default" ?

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA + CMI8738 card set up

2006-02-12 Thread Rohit Sharma
Holly Bostick wrote: >and it works fine, so I'll do my best to help. > > Yes you have. Million thanks for what can be best termed a good technical write up about the theory of Alsa plus this card. I shall try all that you have written and then get back - either at a halt, or to thank you. Regar

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a partition is formated

2006-02-12 Thread Rohit Sharma
Iain Buchanan wrote: >You can't just "mount the puppy" either (and let mount do the work) > > Are you sure? While using Gentoo's installation disks, I have successfully mounted the disk partitions without caring to tell the installation linuxrc as to what formatting was provided. it mounted rei

[gentoo-user] ALSA + CMI8738 card set up

2006-02-12 Thread Rohit Sharma
Hi list, This is about my struggle to make my Trust 514DX soundcard work with Linux. This is expected to be supported in Linux [alsa-project.org] and I have read other testimonials on the net. To cut a long story short, the card worked in Windows. It gives fantastic sound output with DVDs and ot