Re: [ilugd] Planning to purchase a laptop

2007-10-31 Thread Manmohan Sethi
Thanks a lot for your suggestions. I really like the configuration of this Model but as you are suggesting I think I should drop it and try something else .. Thanks once again. -- Regards Manmohan Sethi 9899485425 On 10/31/07, Vikas Rawal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello,

Re: [ilugd] Linux + AMD support

2007-10-31 Thread Manmohan Sethi
Hi Vikram, I am planning to purchase a Compaque Presario Notebook V6608AU next week. It has AMD Turion 1.9 GHz processor, NVIDIA GeForce Go 7150M intergrated graphics with upyo 287 MB TAG, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB HDD, etc.. I would like to use linux with it but I am not sure whether the graphics and

Re: [ilugd] Linux + AMD support

2007-10-31 Thread Vikram Ranade
Manmohan Sethi wrote: Hi Vikram, I am planning to purchase a Compaque Presario Notebook V6608AU next week. It has AMD Turion 1.9 GHz processor, NVIDIA GeForce Go 7150M intergrated graphics with upyo 287 MB TAG, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB HDD, etc.. I would like to use linux with it but I am not

Re: [ilugd] Linux + AMD support

2007-10-31 Thread Sahil Dave
On 10/31/07, Manmohan Sethi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Vikram, I am planning to purchase a Compaque Presario Notebook V6608AU next week. It has AMD Turion 1.9 GHz processor, NVIDIA GeForce Go 7150M intergrated graphics with upyo 287 MB TAG, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB HDD, etc.. I would like to

Re: [ilugd] [PLUG] [x-post] foss events list in india 2008?

2007-10-31 Thread Linux Lingam
LL - Microsoft bought 1.5% stake in Facebook :) that's a total sellout as far as i'm concerned. ymmv. hehehe :-) niyam ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in

Re: [ilugd] [LIG] [PLUG] [x-post] foss events list in india 2008?

2007-10-31 Thread Linux Lingam
dear all, so looks like the community has gravitated towards upcoming.yahoo.com and that solves our problem. one final issue: exactly what is the url for discovering all foss and foss-related events in dinai at upcoming.yahoo.com for instance, when i visit the site, it naturally defaults to

[ilugd] [Reminder] LinuxIndore-2007 @ Fri Nov 2, 2007 ()

2007-10-31 Thread Google Calendar
ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org, this is a reminder for Title: LinuxIndore-2007 Time: Fri Nov 2, 2007 (India Standard Time) Where: Indore, MP, India Calendar: Description: Hi Linuxers,LUG Indore proudly announce the Biggest Linux Event of Central India - LinuxIndore-2007. All are welcome. Details of

Re: [ilugd] [Reminder] LinuxIndore-2007 @ Fri Nov 2, 2007 ()

2007-10-31 Thread Linux Lingam
hi prabhat, On 10/31/07, Google Calendar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org, this is a reminder for Title: LinuxIndore-2007 Time: Fri Nov 2, 2007 (India Standard Time) Where: Indore, MP, India Calendar: please add linux indore 2007 to upcoming.yahoo.com with the tags

[ilugd] M$-Open Document Foundation

2007-10-31 Thread Mani A
Their recent antics about dropping the Open Document Format for a more OOXML-compatible format suggests precisely that. See : http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/10/cracks-in-foundation.html Best A. Mani -- A. Mani Member, Cal. Math. Soc ___ ilugd

[ilugd] [Commercial] Why not enroll in FOSS India Awards?

2007-10-31 Thread Niraj Sahay
Hi, Are you working on any free software or open source (FOSS) project? Do you know anyone who is? There's a great opportunity for all Indian FOSS contributors to showcase their work at the national level, and perhaps global too! Plus, the development team (or individual) can get a minimum

[ilugd] [OT] Re: [Commercial] Why not enroll in FOSS India Awards?

2007-10-31 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Niraj Sahay wrote: Are you working on any free software or open source (FOSS) project? Do you know anyone who is? For a brief moment I read the $SUBJECT as why *not* in the sense of why one should not enroll :) you might have chosen another

Re: [ilugd] [OT] Re: [Commercial] Why not enroll in FOSS India Awards?

2007-10-31 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 31-Oct-07, at 7:08 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: Are you working on any free software or open source (FOSS) project? Do you know anyone who is? For a brief moment I read the $SUBJECT as why *not* in the sense of why one should not enroll :) $spectales.clean() -- regards

Re: [ilugd] [LIG] [PLUG] [x-post] foss events list in india 2008?

2007-10-31 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 31-Oct-07, at 3:42 PM, Linux Lingam wrote: so looks like the community has gravitated towards upcoming.yahoo.com and that solves our problem. although the community has voted for yahoo and google, I hope you dont mind if us desi guys continue our humble efforts?

Re: [ilugd] Alsa stopped working

2007-10-31 Thread Joe Bloggs
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:37:54 +0530, Saleem Ansari [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On 10/26/07, Joe Bloggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Help! my audio has stopped working Here is the relevant part of my .xsession-errors file: I think maybe I have to

Re: [ilugd] [OT] Re: [Commercial] Why not enroll in FOSS India Awards?

2007-10-31 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: $spectales.clean() Thou speaketh with a forked tongue. :-P Python in the day, and Perl for real work like cleaning specs? - Sandip ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org

[ilugd] Help on Sify Client Installation

2007-10-31 Thread Er. Saurabh Sharma
I've CentOS 5 and Windows XP installed on my machine,and i'm using the SIFY Connection [128KBPS] for accessing the net. I'm finding a little problem to get on with installation of the Sify Client for Linux,to get start for using Inet on my L-Box. I worked all the way as told by SIFY through the

Re: [ilugd] Alsa stopped working

2007-10-31 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:54:03 +, Joe Bloggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Tried replacing gnome .config files with backups but didn't work. Also tried alsaconfig (and have tried previously); it always goes through the procedures as though there are no problems, but then no sound. Also tried

Re: [ilugd] [LIG] [PLUG] [x-post] foss events list in india 2008?

2007-10-31 Thread Linux Lingam
although the community has voted for yahoo and google, I hope you dont mind if us desi guys continue our humble efforts? http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/feeds/calendarnews/ hey! thanks kenneth, that's quite sweet of you. have already subscribed to your rss feed. noted the contents are updated

Re: [ilugd] Bug in Rendering Devanagari text.

2007-10-31 Thread आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ,--[ On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 12:56:12AM +0530, Gora Mohanty wrote: | | On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 21:40 +0530, आशीष Ashish wrote: | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | Hash: SHA1 | | Hi, | | When I've typed बख़्शी in Psi and Leafpad, |

Re: [ilugd] Help on Sify Client Installation

2007-10-31 Thread Piyush Kumar
The installation was cool,but when i tried to access the script to start the client,it showed error asking for some file that it was not able to get. Which script you are talking about...?? and what ERROR is shown..??? On 10/31/07, Er. Saurabh Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've CentOS 5

Re: [ilugd] Help on Sify Client Installation

2007-10-31 Thread Anupam Jain
On 10/31/07, Er. Saurabh Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've CentOS 5 and Windows XP installed on my machine,and i'm using the SIFY Connection [128KBPS] for accessing the net. I'm finding a little problem to get on with installation of the Sify Client for Linux,to get start for using Inet on

Re: [ilugd] Help on Sify Client Installation

2007-10-31 Thread Piyush Kumar
Sify Broadband Client by Bhushan Tiwari: http://puggy.symonds.net/%7Esrp/sify.c http://n.domaindlx.com/ujjwal/linux/sify_tweaked2.c For any other issue ...write your queries at http://broadbandforum.in and Yeah!!...Plz READ the last lines by Anupam Jain :) nJoy!! :) Piyush On 11/1/07, Anupam

Re: [ilugd] [LIG] [PLUG] [x-post] foss events list in india 2008?

2007-10-31 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 31-Oct-07, at 11:36 PM, Linux Lingam wrote: hey! thanks kenneth, that's quite sweet of you. have already subscribed to your rss feed. noted the contents are updated too. you just need to add freed2k8, gnunify, and a few other events. would you like access? if so, please register and send

Re: [ilugd] Linux + AMD support

2007-10-31 Thread Raj Mathur
On Wednesday 31 October 2007 14:59, Sahil Dave wrote: [snip] Yes u can bet on Nvidia.. much more than ATI until open source 3D drivers for ATI are released. Er, I'm using two ATI chipsets (one on desktop and one in laptop), both with FOSS drivers and have 3D working just fine on both. What

[ilugd] Wal-Mart sells $199 Linux computer

2007-10-31 Thread Lokesh Bhog
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Re: [ilugd] Linux + AMD support

2007-10-31 Thread mehul
On 11/1/07, Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Er, I'm using two ATI chipsets (one on desktop and one in laptop), both with FOSS drivers and have 3D working just fine on both. What makes you think that FOSS ATI drivers aren't available? Does do you need to use XGL for Compiz Fusion with that