Re: [ubuntu-in] New Ubuntu Mirror in India

2017-06-25 Thread Vishal Rao
And I just crossed 40+ mbps (my max connection speed) on my Jio 4G device which happened to connect to the ideal LTE band 40 at 20 mhz bandwidth :-) On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 12:37 PM, Prakash Advani wrote: > We are happy to host a new Ubuntu mirror in India in partnership with > Mumbai Internet E

Re: [ubuntu-in] New Ubuntu Mirror in India

2017-06-25 Thread Vishal Rao
Also, since you mentioned you plan to mirror "all" open source distros/software, would you please try to mirror KDE software and also KDE Neon distro? See https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/neon (to contact Neon admins) and also https://www.kde.org/mirrors/ftp_howto.php for general KDE mirroring

Re: [ubuntu-in] New Ubuntu Mirror in India

2017-06-25 Thread Vishal Rao
Tried it on my Airtel and Jio 4G connections in KDE Neon distro. Very good! Airtel seems to be limiting it to 10 mbps max (it does this even for other international mirrors/sites) even though I can get 20-40 mbps on some other places like Youtube or speedtest.net. Jio is giving me it's max speed

Re: [ubuntu-in] Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha 2 Has Support for Sandy Bridge

2011-02-11 Thread Vishal Rao
On 7 February 2011 00:05, Marius Nestor wrote: > ... > More > here: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-11-04-Alpha-2-Has-Support-for-Sandy-Bridge-182478.shtml > > -- > Best Regards, > Marius NESTOR > > http://www.softpedia.com > http://linux.softpedia.com Any chance of this softpedia spam to t

Re: [ubuntu-in] Help Can't install Ubuntu 10.10 final

2010-10-10 Thread Vishal Rao
How about trying to search then post in the maverick testing section of the main ubuntu forum? Here: http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=385 -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in

Re: [ubuntu-in] Help Can't install Ubuntu 10.10 final

2010-10-10 Thread Vishal Rao
When the GRUB/boot menu shows up and before booting, have you tried editing the kernel boot options to remove the "quiet splash" portion (after pressing F6 i think) ? -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in

Re: [ubuntu-in] Personalising Ubuntu LiveCD

2010-09-15 Thread Vishal Rao
I've seen "remastersys" being mentioned for such use, try it? -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in

Re: [ubuntu-in] Ubuntu 10.10 beta boot error.

2010-09-05 Thread Vishal Rao
To followup (since you dont use LiveUSB), you could try editing the boot options to remove the "quiet splash" portion and see where in the console output it starts failing. Try adding "nouveau.modeset=0" to your boot options (pressing F6 during boot menu I think) -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-

Re: [ubuntu-in] Ubuntu 10.10 beta boot error.

2010-09-05 Thread Vishal Rao
The beta has a known issue where you should *not* specify the persistence option while making a USB stick. If that doesn't help I think I saw a thread with similar subject as this email at ubuntuforums.org maverick section here: http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=385 -- ubuntu-in mailing

Re: [ubuntu-in] grub missing

2010-09-04 Thread Vishal Rao
Google for "restore grub" to see how you can use your LiveCD/LiveUSB to get booting back into Ubuntu working... post followup questions if you face problems. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in

Re: [ubuntu-in] Ubuntu on Dell XPS 16 - with new intel i processors

2010-07-27 Thread Vishal Rao
On 26 July 2010 02:46, Ramnarayan.K wrote: > But still am looking for advise on the specific machine and its performance > under Ubuntu linux Another email which doesn't mention your specific model but I got an Acer Aspire with an i3 and intel gfx recently and Lucid works great on it... -- "Tho

Re: [ubuntu-in] Tata Photon+ on Linux 10.04 LTS

2010-06-23 Thread Vishal Rao
You may also need that usb-modeswitch package installed... -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in

Re: [ubuntu-in] OT - laptops in the 20 K range

2010-03-25 Thread Vishal Rao
I've become a fan of Acer since I got the Aspire 5740 base model with 3GB RAM and intel video for rs 35k... Ubuntu 10.04 beta1 (live session) worked right out of the box with wifi (with wpa2 password) and all... didnt test extensively like bluetooth etc but some quick checks like webcam/sound/deskt

[ubuntu-in] Queries about first-time attempt at a kernel PPA

2010-01-27 Thread Vishal Rao
Hi, Any ubuntu gurus care to comment at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1390829 ? Basically, I'm trying to build kernel packages in my PPA and facing a few issues :-) Thanks, Vishal -- "Thou shalt not follow the null pointer for at its end madness and chaos lie." -- ubuntu-in mailin

Re: [ubuntu-in] भाई लोग मेर ी एक प्राब्लम सा ल्व करो

2010-01-08 Thread Vishal Rao
I believe there is a gmail labs feature which you can enable and it shows drop down boxes to translate your emails right there... -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in

Re: [ubuntu-in] New ubuntu mirror, India

2009-11-03 Thread Vishal Rao
2009/11/3 Mallikarjun > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Ripunjay Bararia wrote: > >> Hi All, >> We are pleased to announce a new Ubuntu mirror for India @ >> >> http://ubuntuarchive.hnsdc.com/ - archive-mirror >> >> I am using this mirror from quiet some time. > So you mean to say release-mirror

Re: [ubuntu-in] Interested in hearing about ser experiences about Karmic Koala (9.10)

2009-11-03 Thread Vishal Rao
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Onkar Shinde wrote: > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Saikiran Madugula > wrote: > > Onkar Shinde wrote: > >>> - network manager is gone I do not see it on the panel. > >> > >> May be it is not gone form panel but the icon is something you are not > >> familiar wi

Re: [ubuntu-in] Experimental debdelta repository

2009-09-15 Thread Vishal Rao
I'm running Karmic - what about that? Are you working with the current delta effort which should land post Karmic as a PPA (Lars Wirzenius etc)? -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in

Re: [ubuntu-in] What you want to see in Ubuntu 9.10?

2009-05-23 Thread Vishal Rao
Hello Hardik, One thought that came to my mind was the default mirror selected for Ubuntu, it is currently the IIT site which I'm not sure is up-to-date. If not, could you discuss changing the default to some European or Japanese mirror which I seem to always get full/high speeds on? Easy to do ma

Re: [ubuntu-in] Wifi behaving Erratic: SOS

2009-05-11 Thread Vishal Rao
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Manish Gupta wrote: > Dear Ubuntu India Local Community, and Mr. Jantin, > > Thankyou for your prompt and genuine support. I have made the following > changes to the DNS IP, I guess the tata IP that I have my connection with > was creating some problems. So with t

Re: [ubuntu-in] Touchscreen working on HP tx1000 series tablet with Intrepid 32bit

2009-02-28 Thread Vishal Rao
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Fabian Rodriguez wrote: > Vishal Rao wrote: >> Hello, >> >> In short: >> >> Run "sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-evtouch" in a terminal >> and run the resulting >> "Calibrate Touchscreen"

Re: [ubuntu-in] Some questions regarding Kubuntu

2009-02-21 Thread Vishal Rao
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Ramnarayan.K wrote: > get it going - like in other distro's where one can install multiple > environments "like in other distros" ? you can do it in ubuntu too without the need to install the whole OS twice... i installed ubuntu (9.04 alpha tho) and installed th

[ubuntu-in] Interview with Samba's Jeremy Allison

2008-12-15 Thread Vishal Rao
"Ubuntu has the strongest chance to take Linux mainstream" :-) See http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/-ubuntu-has-the-strongest-chance-to-take-linux-mainstream--486274 -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in

Re: [ubuntu-in] Need the distribution store bangalore

2008-12-06 Thread Vishal Rao
You might have seen another email thread just now with this link: http://www.zyxware.com/requestcd :-) -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in

Re: [ubuntu-in] Need the distribution store bangalore

2008-12-06 Thread Vishal Rao
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Parthan SR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OMG. Everybody forgot this - http://www.ubuntu.com/GetUbuntu/purchase ? The Asia distributors page for "authorised" CDs (whatever that meants) lists an Indian website which is currently in the hand of squatters looks like

[ubuntu-in] Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10 works very well on Acer Aspire 4730z laptop

2008-12-01 Thread Vishal Rao
Hello, Just another post (so that others might find it by search) about an Ubuntu smooth run. Will be useful I guess for anyone looking to purchase an Ubuntu-friendly laptop... Installed Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex (amd64 desktop edition but 32bit should be fine too) Linux on a coworker's new Acer

Re: [ubuntu-in] Problem with Firefox view (solved)

2008-11-30 Thread Vishal Rao
See http://www.ubuntugeek.com/howto-fix-window-titlebar-drawing-problems-with-nvidia-gfx-using-18008-beta-driver-in-intrepid.html -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in

Re: [ubuntu-in] Problem with Firefox view (solved)

2008-11-30 Thread Vishal Rao
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Sanjay Bhangar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hey - so i have this problem every time my machine starts - all the windows > don't have their top-bars. right now I just get around it by doing "metacity > --replace &" at the terminal and it switches to using metacity as

Re: [ubuntu-in] Problem with Firefox view

2008-11-29 Thread Vishal Rao
Does this thread help? Especiall the "delete localstore.rdf" part? See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=775909 -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in

Re: [ubuntu-in] Intrepid sluggish on AMD Turion64 X2

2008-11-24 Thread Vishal Rao
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Mir Nazim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any one using Intrepid on AMD Turion64 X2. I have one laptop with AMD > Turion64 X2(1.6 GHz) and TI Radeon x1250 card. Appears to be working fine for me (amd64 version) on my Turion64 X2 (1.9 ghz) based tablet with nVidia 6150

Re: [ubuntu-in] Missing tools in Ubuntu 8.10

2008-11-24 Thread Vishal Rao
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:52 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > was trying to use hal - the gui device manager or something it was > called, which used to be in system -> administration in Ubuntu (atleast > till 7.10) now i cannot find it. was it the kde-hal-device-manager package

[ubuntu-in] Touchscreen working on HP tx1000 series tablet with Intrepid amd64

2008-11-15 Thread Vishal Rao
Hello, In short: Run "sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-evtouch" in a terminal and run the resulting "Calibrate Touchscreen" applet in the System->Administration menu to get touchscreen working! Long story: Similar to my earlier email "Touchscreen working on HP tx1000 series tablet with H

Re: [ubuntu-in] Fwd: Introducing the Jaunty Jackalope

2008-09-09 Thread Vishal Rao
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Aanjhan R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Its Jaunty Jackolope next!!! In the link http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1278 a bunch of topics are mentioned. * Networking * Power Management * Desktop Experience * Booting * Hardware Support * Sharing an

[ubuntu-in] How to "remember" gnome terminal window size and position?

2008-09-04 Thread Vishal Rao
Hi, Is there a way to get the gnome terminal window (and other apps' windows) to remember its size and position so that the next time I open it should be restored that way? At home I use compizfusion's window placement plugin to set this up but at work I don't have or want compiz running so am lo

Re: [ubuntu-in] Problem with Firefox 3.0.1

2008-08-31 Thread Vishal Rao
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Ramnarayan. K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On the following page > http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:category.details?current-catalog-id=12F0696583E04D86B9B79B0FEC01C087¤t-category-id=19C791A03AF24034A0011B825513

Re: [ubuntu-in] List of new features in Intrepid Ibex

2008-08-30 Thread Vishal Rao
Well, they made a good "intrepid" decision (hopefully final) about moving to kernel .27 - I was looking forward to better hassle-free wireless support on my HP tablet with Broadcom wifi chipset, but after looking at the thread in the link below for Hardy that proposed update works well for me. Now

Re: [ubuntu-in] Strange Internet Experience on Ubuntu Linux

2008-08-30 Thread Vishal Rao
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Ravi Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am facing strange Internet experience on my Ubuntu system. I have a system Have you tried alternate DNS servers such as those of opendns.com ? -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/

Re: [ubuntu-in] [Fwd: Ubuntu Merchandise in India]

2008-08-29 Thread Vishal Rao
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Aanjhan R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The below mail was sent to the admins list. If someone could give some > pointers on getting Ubuntu merchandise in india, it will be great. I am > not sure whether the OP is in the list so CCing him as well. > > Origi

Re: [ubuntu-in] sudo: unable to resolve host ubuntu

2008-08-22 Thread Vishal Rao
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 10:26 PM, mallikarjun arjun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it a bug??? Yes it is (was) a bug (I faced it too) I think you need to add your hostname to the hosts file with IP 127.0.1.1 and it will work. A quick google on the error message (minus your hostname) would ge

[ubuntu-in] NetworkManager VPN "Add" button is disabled

2008-08-15 Thread Vishal Rao
Hello, I'm trying out Intrepid Alpha 4 under VMWare 1.0.5 Server on WinXP with NAT networking option. I noticed NetworkManager (0.7?) has a "VPN" option but the "Add" button is disabled. I've installed the openvpn, vpnc, network-manager-openvpn, network-manager-vpnc[-gnome] packages. Trying to i

Re: [ubuntu-in] Big Mystery. (Also need help)

2008-08-15 Thread Vishal Rao
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Prateek Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know its a hardware fault etc, and that u really cant do much about > it. But if windows can run, why cant Linux? How is windows able to > side-step the bad areas to run OK? Atleast the windows kernel runs > fine. I dont

Re: [ubuntu-in] How to check if a running process is a 32 or 64 bit image?

2008-08-03 Thread Vishal Rao
On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Bhavani Shankar R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you have 64bit kernel then the processes running will be 64 bit Not all the time, right? -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in

Re: [ubuntu-in] How to check if a running process is a 32 or 64 bit image?

2008-08-03 Thread Vishal Rao
On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Gourav Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > use "file" command > > e.g. > > $ ps aux | grep -i firefox > 6363 9.8 7.0 577012 141764 ? Sl 18:37 0:45 > /usr/lib/firefox-3.0/firefox > 6700 0.0 0.0 5164 888 pts/1R+ 18:45 0:00 grep -i firefo

[ubuntu-in] How to check if a running process is a 32 or 64 bit image?

2008-08-03 Thread Vishal Rao
Hello, How do I check if a running process is a 32 bit or 64 bit image/program? I'm running Hardy amd64. For example, if I compile a small executable with "gcc -m32" or something like that? I would like to check some running processes like Firefox and OpenOffice.org... Thanks, Vishal -- "Thou

[ubuntu-in] Canonical store delivers?

2008-07-15 Thread Vishal Rao
Hi, Has anyone ordered anything off shop.canonical.com and gotten it successfully delivered to your place in India? A few months ago I tried ordering with my credit card which was accepted but soon cancelled and refunded with a reason given as "possible credit card fraud" :-) This time I plan to

Re: [ubuntu-in] Making BSNL FWT HUAWEI 2288 work under 8.04

2008-06-27 Thread Vishal Rao
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Moz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 21/06/08 04:38 PM, Ramnarayan.K wrote: >>[...snip...] >>under 8.04 (live cd and under an instal) >>the dmesg remains stuck at >> >>usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5 >>usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen

Re: [ubuntu-in] Inviting Ideas for Promoting Linux in Engineering College

2008-06-20 Thread Vishal Rao
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Manish Sinha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi people, I graduated (escaped) from MIT in '98 with a degree in computers... back in those days very very few students used to pass around / talk about computer magazine CDs with the then latest version of slackware on i

Re: [ubuntu-in] Touchscreen working on HP tx1000 series tablet with Hardy amd64

2008-05-10 Thread Vishal Rao
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 6:58 AM, Vivek Khurana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gogod work. Please write a HOWTO on ubuntu-in.org . Done! I hope it's not too amateurish :-) Thanks for the suggestion... It's the "HP Pavilion tx1302au" entry at http://ubuntu-in.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Laptops with a link to t

[ubuntu-in] Touchscreen working on HP tx1000 series tablet with Hardy amd64

2008-05-10 Thread Vishal Rao
Hello, Thought I would post my success trying to get the touchscreen working on my tx1000 series HP Pavilion tx1302au tablet PC with Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 amd64 64-bit :-) I think at least a few people have similar models like Pratul on this list, so I am interested to know if others have got it

Re: [ubuntu-in] hardy getting slower with use?

2008-05-09 Thread Vishal Rao
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Vipul Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Strange... it is running rock solid for me. Firefox 3b5 on hardy 32bit > no plugins installed. Working super duper for me on Hardy amd64 with flash (and i think java too) tho i dont visit lot of flash or java sites... maybe

Re: [ubuntu-in] wireless in Hardy

2008-05-02 Thread Vishal Rao
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Mir Nazim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi guys. > > After endless battles to setup broadcom card I have decided to give > PCMCIA wifi cards. > > > > Can anyone suggest me what card should I buy. I mean your views of > best possible cost vs performance. > > >

Re: [ubuntu-in] wireless in Hardy

2008-05-02 Thread Vishal Rao
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Lut4rp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had the same problem on my HP Pavilion tx1000, and I found a I have the tx1302au which has the Broadcom 4312 rev 2 chip. The Linux b43 Wireless page says the rev 2 is supported with a patch for 2.6.24 and b43/b43-fwcutter did n

Re: [ubuntu-in] AMD Turion X2 64 and Ubuntu

2007-12-26 Thread Vishal Rao
On Dec 26, 2007 11:51 PM, Navneet Sreeraman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can someone throw some light on the successes and failures of trying to > install ubuntu in the same laptop as mine or the same processor of any other > maker. Try Ubuntu 7.10 and providing a boot option by pressing F6 at the

[ubuntu-in] Fingerprint reader/login project announced

2007-11-15 Thread Vishal Rao
Including the Fingerprint reader project announcement below... I believe the Fedora Fingerprint page mentions Daniel Drake to work with for getting fingerprint support into Linux! http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureThinkfinger (right at the end) -- Forwarded message -

Re: [ubuntu-in] Wireless Connection on Suspend or Hibernate

2007-11-14 Thread Vishal Rao
On Nov 14, 2007 5:37 PM, Gautam John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Got it to work using these instructions: > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx/Feisty_No-Fluff I'm not sure about suspend/hibernate... but my wireless connection was not reconnecting after reboot, so I had to

Re: [ubuntu-in] Ubuntu 7 in a Virtual Environment

2007-11-11 Thread Vishal Rao
On Nov 11, 2007 1:49 PM, Mehul Ved <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rather try vmware or virtualbox. Also, search around for WUBI. WUBI looks like an interesting option. Another blog entry here about VPC http://arcanecode.wordpress.com/2007/10/18/installing-ubuntu-710-under-virtual-pc-2007/ -- "Tho

Re: [ubuntu-in] Ubuntu 7 in a Virtual Environment

2007-11-10 Thread Vishal Rao
On Nov 11, 2007 12:52 PM, Kinshuk Sunil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I run a Windows Vista Ultimate PC and unfortunately cannot go for a > dualboot Ubuntu nor migrate to Ubuntu only.. I was thinking of running > Ubuntu in a Virtual PC environment through the Microsoft Virtual PC > 2007. > > Please

Re: [ubuntu-in] Connecting Internet

2007-11-04 Thread Vishal Rao
On 11/4/07, 74yrs old <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In my case bsnl has been configured as DHCP in the relevant webapage of > Bsnl's modem by bsnl > Works fine in MSwindows as well as LiveCD ubuntu 7.04 without any further > configuration!! It must just be that DHCP (automatically obtain IP address

Re: [ubuntu-in] Ubuntu experience on Acer Aspire 4520/4710

2007-10-30 Thread Vishal Rao
FYI, there's a slashdork article today about Ubuntu harming laptop HDs, see http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/30/1742258 Also there's a wiki page with some discussion and workaround https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DanielHahler/Bug59695 -- "Thou shalt not follow the null pointer for at it

Re: [ubuntu-in] Has anyone reviewed Gusty

2007-10-19 Thread Vishal Rao
On 10/19/07, Mir Nazim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks guys these are really helpfull. Does anybody know about a > review of 64 bit gusty highlighting 64 bit specific features I did a Google search for "64 bit ubuntu gutsy review" and got links such as: http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/20

Re: [ubuntu-in] AMD vs intel

2007-10-18 Thread Vishal Rao
On 10/19/07, Jayanth S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks.. I should try that i guess.. Cause so far i've been trying to use > the 64bit drivers using Ndiswrapper! :) No problem! What hardware config do you have? For the OP (nan budh?) , there is a thread on ubuntu-users@ about "AMD64 vs. i386"

Re: [ubuntu-in] AMD vs intel

2007-10-18 Thread Vishal Rao
On 10/19/07, Jayanth S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vishal, Correct me if i'm wrong, You used a 32bit Driver on the 64bit > machine? Yes, the CPU is AMD64 of course, but I've installed the 32-bit i386 version of the distros and used the 32-bit WinXP driver package. -- "Thou shalt not follow the

Re: [ubuntu-in] Has anyone reviewed Gusty

2007-10-18 Thread Vishal Rao
On 10/19/07, Mir Nazim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone reviewed Gusty. It will be great if you guys could share > the thought for us mere mortals who are still trying to download the > iso Ah, I just read slashdork and there is a review based on the RC, see http://www.wired.com/software/s

Re: [ubuntu-in] AMD vs intel

2007-10-18 Thread Vishal Rao
On 10/19/07, Mir Nazim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could you please expad on it how you did it or link us up. Right now I'm running openSUSE, but the following can apply to Gutsy I'm sure :-) I blacklisted the bcm43xx module and used ndiswrapper with the latest WinXP 32bit driver (bcwl5.inf and

Re: [ubuntu-in] AMD vs intel

2007-10-18 Thread Vishal Rao
On 10/18/07, nan budh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Friends, > If anyone of you are using these, could you please comment on performance of > the processors given below? especially about cooling, energy consumption and > of course speed. > > AMD Turion™ 64 X2 Dual-Core TL-56 > > Intel(R) Core™2 Duo

Re: [ubuntu-in] Has anyone reviewed Gusty

2007-10-18 Thread Vishal Rao
On 10/19/07, Mir Nazim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone reviewed Gusty. It will be great if you guys could share > the thought for us mere mortals who are still trying to download the > iso > > I am using AMD 64 X2 processor with ATI Radeon 1250. Specific > questions that I have. > > 1) How

Re: [ubuntu-in] Need Help with Configuring WLAN

2007-10-15 Thread Vishal Rao
On 10/15/07, Jayanth S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The drivers that i used with ndiswrapper were the ones provided with the > Laptop.. But i think i'll take your word for it and find the newer drivers > and then see if it works.. 4320 is a AMD x2 64-bit.. Thanks.. It would also > be nice if you po

Re: [ubuntu-in] Need Help with Configuring WLAN

2007-10-15 Thread Vishal Rao
On 10/15/07, Jayanth S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Onkar in my previous emails i've mentioned that i've tried both the > methods mentioned for Atheros.. The MadWifi drivers didnt help.. And > Ndiswrapper with windows Drivers didnt help either.. And the output of the > lspci is quoted in this em

Re: [ubuntu-in] Fwd: ubuntu-in post acknowledgement

2007-10-07 Thread Vishal Rao
On 10/8/07, Barkha Khatri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You had the ``ack'' option set, which, sends an acknowledgment of > every post you send to the list. I have changed it. Now onwards, you > should not get this acknowledgment mail. While we're disabling acks, could you also disable mine please?

Re: [ubuntu-in] Help for Screen resolution

2007-10-06 Thread Vishal Rao
On 10/6/07, Ashfaq Shaikh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please help me out with this how to? and do let me have the details, as > I am totally novice with linux language please! Sorry, I'm not sure what to do with 7.04, but if you can wait for a couple of weeks, 7.10 will be released! Try that one

[ubuntu-in] My test drive of Gutsy beta.

2007-10-06 Thread Vishal Rao
Hello ubuntu-in, I just signed up with launchpad.net and ubuntu-in.org. Someone on the Pune LUG mailing list suggested I should send you my "review" of Gutsy (and maybe also openSUSE 10.3 and Fedora 8) but I felt it might not be of much use since it's not a proper review just a quick/casual instal