Daily Archives: June 2nd, 2009

Writing in Bengali in Fedora 9…! ফেডোরা ৯ লিনাক্সে বাংলা লেখা।

Yes buddies, I know that this is a pretty cliche topic and there are maybe many sites explaining the same. I also took help from specilaly অঙ্কুর বাংলা Website and some more sites which I forgot to bookmark :( . Specially, Project has many activities which ranges from Localisation to creating a fantastic বাংলা বানান নিরিক্ষক অভিধান for Firefox.

Well, I’m telling you *My* Procedure! It’s simple like hell.

I went into ” System > Preferences > Hardware > Keyboard “

Then, I selected, Layouts in there. After that, I clicked “Add” and found out বাংলাদেশ প্রভাত and  ইন্ডিয়া বাংলা keyboard layouts. I added them and set the USA Layout to the defaults. There are other layouts for other Indic languages also. You can Try out that if you know them!

Now I right clicked into my gnome panel and selected, “Keyboard Layout Indicator” such that I can switch to any desired keyboard Layout when I want to.

Whoa, I’m done. Now Selecting the indic layouts, I can write in bengali in anywhere… :)

But now, one problem arised. I wasn’t being able to write composite letters in bengali. that is যুক্তাক্ষর . Fortunately, Kushal da was online ( who is also in অঙ্কুর বাংলা Project among his many activities and busy schedulle ) and I mailed him my problem. The response was instant, to-the-point and a complete breeze. He just said, ” use ‘/’  ” … That is, k / t = ক্ট ! :D

More support about the layout and writing যুক্তাক্ষর can be found in here.

Whoa. I’m done fianly and chatted for almost 4 hours with her in bengali… :D

Hope, This will be a little help to all those, who still stumbles writing in Indic font. This’s also a reason among a thousand, why one should switch into Linux… and trash Windoze :P

Everything is sooo cool in this OS. I just Love it… :D

Trouble with “/etc/X11/xorg.conf”

Heya… It’s been a long long time since my last post in here. I’m sorry, I went totally haywire from the Linux world… Only Academics and all that Master’s Degree plans… :P

Well, Since 2 weeks, I’m back with my Linux box tweaks. Tonight, At very early hours, I was trying to install the new nVidia Driver into my machine. They have closed the rpm repository so the installation is a complex procedure now… You’ve to configure the xorg.conf file, then close the X server, and then, another problem may arise if you don’t have any precompiled kernel but only the binary image of it. I had, unfortunately nVidia installation software stopped me right there and as it was very late, I was gearing up for bed, then the bolt came from the blue.

I tried to restore my X server back by [ALT+F7] and it failed, giving a quick and scrolled error message. What I guessed that, It has something to do with what I’ve changed.

/etc/X11/xorg.conf

I just checked, what was wrong with that, ( I had my command line shell :) )and I found I’ve left the server name in

Section “Device”
Identifier  “Videocard0″
Driver      “nvidia”
EndSection ,

The root of the problem was the word, nvidia. Which I recalled, earlier was, nv. Actually what happened, HAL didn’t find any device named nvidia… that’s it so X server failed.

I changed that. and restarted.

Everything worked fine, until the login screen. I was shocked to see that my keyboard is not working! :(

I logged into my root accnt by help of on-screen keyboard and again oened the xorg.conf file. There I found,

# keyboard added by rhpxl
Identifier  “Keyboard0″
Driver      “nvidia”
Option        “XkbModel” “pc105″
Option        “XkbLayout” “us”
EndSection

How silly of me… :( I’ve mistakenly put the keyboard driver also as nvidia which was earlier, intuitively, “kbd”

I changed that and restarted again.. and Whoa… Life is peaceful once again.. ! :D

Motto of the text : Always have a backup file while tweaking with system files !

Hope this experience will someday be a help to you… :) Signing off… Need a sleep seriously… :D … Good Night… or rather, mornin’.. :)

Love you sweetheart… :)