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

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

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] X11 + framebuffer - does it work?

2006-04-16 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 presume?

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 output, and

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? that

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 within

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 you

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 - and in summary here is what

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-tree

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 --

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: !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DT [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 reaches you. -- gentoo-user

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

[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] 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 --

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 -resize 200x147 xxx ./PPP/xxx.jpg

[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] Thought : making the build/emerge faster

2006-02-18 Thread Rohit Sharma
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

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'll take

[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

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

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.

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 ?