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Hi all, I'm very confused with all these lcd monitors available in the market. I'm looking for 22 or 24 inch (dell, samsung or lg), my budget is <16K Mainly use it for watching movies and for gaming. Which one do you guys suggest, also can anyone guide me with what specs/options I should...

Hi, Im having a triple boot with windows XP, slackware & BSD. Every time i start my comp, it halts before showing the bootloader (LILO), it says a CMOS error has occured & the BIOS settings are set to default, due to this I have to set the system time & USB keyboard support to "enabled" every...

I always wanted to ask this question, how do open source software developers earn, i mean for ex: u can get an ubuntu cd anywhere in the world for FREE, what's the use for them?? u may say i didn't google enough... i did, but this question is too general :D

Im using FreeBSD 6.2, how to adjust the resolution of the console mode? I used vidcontrol command and i get the following error: $vidcontrol MODE_261 0A7F0G0H7Ividcontrol: cannot activate raster display: Inappropriate ioctl for device 0A7F0G0H7Ividcontrol: cannot activate raster display...

Thought of trying BSD and didn't take much time to know that it needed a super geek to install.... I needed help on partitoning: I'm having a 40 GB HDD, with triple boot, windows XP on my primary partition and Slackware & ubuntu on one of the logical partitons. Now, I want to replace ubuntu...

Hi, can anyone help me on building linux from scratch? I am trying to build my own linux for the 1st time, but am stuck in the early stage itself... I use Fedora core 6 as my host system, I am referring to the LFS book ver. 6.2 and am currently in chapter 5.3 I get these errors when I do 'make...

Hi, im using fedora core 6, I also have windows XP on my hard disk (40 GB) and have kept 8-9 GB for linux. Now : >my root partition is an ext3, with 4.9 GB, out of which im left with just 160 MB free :( (I thought 4.9 GB was enough, and i haven't just blindly installed everything on my DVD)...

Hi, i have an FC6, i've changed my default runlevel to 3 and after my system boots im presented with the login prompt at the console, after i login if i want to enter the GUI, i give the 'startx' command and then it enters Gnome >I use KDE as desktop environment, i want 'startx' to start KDE...

Any one knows any good software in linux that converts avi files to mpeg format?? :confused:

I use an FC6, i tried installing mplayer.i386 using the yum install command, after resolving the dependencies and showing a table as to which all packages it wishes to download, i hit the 'y' key to download, then it showed the below error after downloading all those packages: Transaction Check...

Hi, I have some problem in playing video, I use VLC media player on FC6. The problem is, when i press play button, it plays but as soon as i click on the video for fullscreen OR if i seek forward the video goes black and nothing can be seen. What could be the problem? I get these messages if i...

I heard linux (any distro) is difficult to/cannot be installed on an Intel D102ggc2 motherboard. Is that true ? Anyone successfully installed any distro of linux on D102?

Hi, I have a fedora core 6, I installed beryl from fedora repositories, the problem is, the beryl-manager starts, but the window border disappears. Even if i choose compiz window manager it doesn't change.

Hi, I installed fedora core 6, now when i start, the screen goes blank and stays like that giving me no choice but reboot. This happens just a few seconds after that "Press I for interactive mode" message appears. >I have done the media check and it passed >I have / and /home as two seperate...

Has anyone successfully installed and using Beryl without a seperate graphics card? I'm running a slackware 10.2 with 2.6.20 kernel, my system is an Intel 845G chipset, P4 2.4 Ghz, 256 MB RAM my lspci|grep VGA output is like this: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation...

Hi, I wanted to upgrade to the new 2.6.20 kernel (i needed 2.6 ver mainly coz i wanted to try Beryl) This is how I did it: #make menuconfig #make dep #make clean #make #make install #make modules #make modules_install But the problem is when i choose the new kernel from LILO during boot time...