Hi all, me back on the list after being shoo-ed off due to my employer's meaningless yet compulsory signature, by Ra[ja-Bab]u.
So here is my fantastic experience with Linux - this thing never ceases to surprise me even after 3 years of loyalty. Added a new HDD to my system. 40GB on a motherboard which supported P3 450 at 100 MHz FSB. I had thought that it would all work really fine with windows, and it did not. First the machine hanged [BIOS] problem. And then Windows hanged. And nowhere on the pack, or on the HDD itself was the geometry CHS written. So I did the obvious - bypassed BIOS and reached Linux. Kernel - thanks to Linus bhaiya and others - detected the correct geometry of HDD and I could retrieve the parameters from /proc 's virtual filesystem. Supplied the same parameters to BIOS and it, at least, calculated the actual size correctly - but it does not yet boot the machine well. Another good impression on me was from mplayer. DivX codec in Win media player shows me a proper powerpoint slideshow when watching DVD rip movies that I secure from IIT. playa, from Divx [codec - 5] screws up the display in a big way. Could be my card - but the true test would be in Linux - where I have seen extremely impressive [to understate] results of mplayer playing N types of videos. I have two things to do. Anyone having some experience, tell me if I am on the wrong path. 1. I think I shall need to upgrade/update the BIOS that is there on my motherboard. Few sites hinted that if my motherboard is supporting P3 450, it should be able to support 40G after a BIOS update. Does anyone have experience there? 2. I have SuSE 7.1 with me - with an older, but permissible, version of GCC for compiling mplayer. The compilation failed last night :-( so I am thinking of installing the red hat binary rpms of mplayer with --nodeps. Should work - but as the binary install would itself be close to 1.5 BM on a dial-up line at home, would anyone tell me if I am extremely wrong - before I try this? Bish/Rajesh Fowkar? Thanks, Rohit __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Dice - The leading online job board for high-tech professionals. Search and apply for tech jobs today! http://seeker.dice.com/seeker.epl?rel_code=31 _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
