Re: [expert] Sound

2002-03-13 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Sounds like someone needs to take a trip to aumix, accessible by the command-line entry: aumix Have fun with it. Note well that the "mute" function is disabled/enabled by the "M" key on your keyboard. -- Asheesh. On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Roy Barton wrote: > Can anyone explain to me how t

Re: [expert] Palp M500

2002-03-13 Thread Asheesh Laroia
modprobe visor That should install the Palm-USB driver (it used to be Handspring Visor-only, thus the name). You'll follow the following procedure: Hotsync port: /dev/usb/tts/1 (Enter that in settings whenever you need the hotsync serial port. Alternatively, you can go do /dev and make a symli

Re: [expert] Netscape Crash

2002-03-11 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Why on earth are you using *Netscape 4.x*? Can you throw Mozilla in there in its place? It is orders of magnitude more pretty and more stable. (Use the "Classic" theme so the [l]users believe it's NS 4.x.) -- Asheesh. udo rader said: > hmm, that doesn't sound too good. if you say that the on

Re: [expert] USB mouse - only verticaal cursor movement

2002-03-11 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Do you have a USB-to-PS/2 adapter? I had that problem with the Logitech Cordless MouseMan+ that came with my Freedom Pro Cordless set, plugged it into PS/2, and it worked flawlessly, wheel and all. You could try fiddling with the protocol, but I just gave up instead. (This is actually on a Debia

Re: [expert] What might cause partition table corruption.

2001-12-06 Thread Asheesh Laroia
partitions on certain days. And in response to another reply, I made the partition table myself under Linux fdisk (or maybe cfdisk), as I recall. -- Asheesh. On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Thursday 06 December 2001 03:06 pm, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > > On my computer, simply b

Re: [expert] What might cause partition table corruption.

2001-12-06 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On my computer, simply booting into Windows caused the partition table corruption. No Anti-Virus software installed. Seriously, I think it's a bug in Win98 that occurs under certain non-MS-tested circumstances. -- Asheesh. On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Richard Wenninger wrote: > Is it possibly Anti-Vir

Re: [expert] What might cause partition table corruption.

2001-12-05 Thread Asheesh Laroia
I've suffered serious partition loss after booting back into Win98 from Linux. Repaired my partition table with gpart, but it was *really* frustrating. -- Asheesh. On 6 Dec 2001, Charles Darcy wrote: > > Hi, > > My partition table was recently corrupted, and thanks to the help of > this li

Re: [expert] problems with NE2000 compatible Ethernet PCMCIA card

2001-12-04 Thread Asheesh Laroia
/etc/init.d/pcmcia start You *did* install the PCMCIA utilities, right? If you did, can you use other PCMCIA cards? If you've done both of these and tried a simple "modprobe ne" and "modprobe ne-pci", reply back. -- Asheesh. On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Lee Roberts wrote: > Have you tried the vendor

Re: [expert] Re: LM8.1 Boot fails due to mount error (bad partitiontable ?)

2001-12-04 Thread Asheesh Laroia
(-: Asheesh is the name :-). Anyway, gpart has an option to scan the entire HD. Thanks for trying this; I thought you disappeared. Give gpart the "-f" option to scan the "full" disk. If that doesn't work, grab a copy of testdisk (a program I found linked from the gpart homepage; I compiled it

Re: [expert] LM8.1 Boot fails due to mount error (bad partitiontable ?)

2001-12-03 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Steps: 0. Read the web site I mention in step 1. 1. Download gpart.linux from http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/ (Gpart is a partition table guesser. I've had much success with it.) 2. Put gpart.linux on a floppy 3. Boot into Rescue on the LM8.1 CD 4. Copy gpart.linux to /bin

Re: [expert] kernel sources 2.4.13 mdk

2001-12-02 Thread Asheesh Laroia
The kernel-2.4.x package just installs the kernel itself. kernel-source-2.4.x-xmdk might be more what you are looking for. -- Asheesh. On Sun, 2 Dec 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello All, > > I have recently tried to install the kernel-2.4.13-12mdk rpm on my Linux > Mandrake 8.1 system bec

Re: [expert] printing

2001-12-02 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Are you thinking of /dev/lp0? -- Asheesh. On 2 Dec 2001, richard wrote: > Hiya, which modules need/must to be compiled to allow norml printing on > 2.4.13-7mdk ? > I have tried both building the kernel with modules and built in for par > port etc, but cups is winging it cant find the device ie

Re: [expert] Server

2001-12-02 Thread Asheesh Laroia
open up /etc/xinetd.d/swat in your favorite editor, change "disable = yes" to "disable = no", restart xinetd (service xinetd restart). Now open up http://localhost:901/ in your favorite browser and set the configuration as you like it. When you're done, "service samba restart". -- Asheesh. On

Re: [expert] NTP -- driving me crazy!

2001-12-01 Thread Asheesh Laroia
750-31033-754 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > > Asheesh Laroia said: > > Are you sure the "ntp" package has the NTP *server*, not just the > > client? > > Since when have there been two different packa

Re: [expert] NTP -- driving me crazy!

2001-12-01 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Are you sure the "ntp" package has the NTP *server*, not just the client? -- Asheesh. On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Charlie Bebber wrote: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format... > > =_1007244412-31033-738 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bi

Re: [expert] SAMBA help PLEASE!!!

2001-11-30 Thread Asheesh Laroia
I recommend either SWAT or webmin for setting up your samba *server*. They're both web-based tools. Webmin may be slightly easier, while SWAT is feature-complete. -- Asheesh. On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Robert Boggs wrote: > I got my wife's machine set on tcp/ip, and it isworking fine, however, I c

Re: [expert] Network problem

2001-11-28 Thread Asheesh Laroia
I think you can use that netgear card via the "tulip" driver. -- Asheesh. On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 28. November 2001 17:22 schrieben Sie: > > "Richard Bown (QMW)" wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > I'm waiting to hear back from Wolfgang on the list of things to > > v

Re: [expert] cdrom woes

2001-11-26 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Change "auto" in the /dev/hdc entry to "iso9660". Your computer is looking for a DOS ("FAT") filesystem on the CD, while it should be looking for an CD-ROM ("iso9660") filesystem. -- Asheesh. On 27 Nov 2001, Angus Beath wrote: > OK, I've tried very hard to figure this out and I can't. Everytim

Re: [expert] Upgrade from 7.2 to 8.1

2001-11-20 Thread Asheesh Laroia
I felt boxed-in by Mandrake as well. Then I tried Debian, and loved it. You might try Slackware if you find Debian not hands-on enough. If you *really* need liberation, check out LinuxFromScratch, a document that describes how to make your own distro. Best of luck! -- Asheesh. On Tue, 20 Nov

Re: [expert] problems with filsesystem in LM8.1

2001-11-16 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Run "badblocks /dev/hdc5", or e2fsck with the "-c" option. These check for bad blocks. If this block repeatedly causes problems, it might be a bad sector on your hard disk. -- Asheesh. On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Jeferson Lopes Zacco wrote: > That's me again. Some days after I installed LM8.1 I st

Re: [expert] Still Star office 6 install problems

2001-11-15 Thread Asheesh Laroia
You might try running the Star Office install under GDB (the GNU debugger) or under strace (a system call tracer). I find that running programs under these (1) lets one know what the program is doing when it hangs/crashes/doesn't start, and (2) sometimes gives the program an incentive to work. I

Re: [expert] bind mount: Howto add to fstab?

2001-11-15 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Use "bind" in the options field, and nothing (or "auto") as the type. -- Asheesh. On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hi! > > Since kernel 2.4.0 it is possible to mount local directories onto > another local dir by entering: > > mount --bind /tmp /dest > > But, how would I add s

Re: [expert] setting user shell in ~/~.profile

2001-11-13 Thread Asheesh Laroia
You need to set the shell using the "chsh" command when logged in as that user, not in the .profile. -- Asheesh. On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Lars Roland Kristiansen wrote: > I need to set the user shell in ~/.profile how is that done (it should > be a special version of the bash shell locatet in /usr/

Re: [expert] Sound card recommendations

2001-10-05 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Um, is there a better card than the SoundBlaster Live!? (And what are you planning on doing with that old SBL!...?) I've found their Linux support (in recent times) to be better than any other card, and as far as hardware goes, I know of no better consumer-price-level card. -- Asheesh. On Thu,

Re: [expert] setting up new linux workstations

2001-09-30 Thread Asheesh Laroia
I'm currently using the EPOX 8KTA3 motherboard along with a 256MB PC133 stick of SDRAM and a 1Ghz Athlon with a "266 MHz" bus. The board has six (!) PCI slots, an AGP slot, onboard ATA/100, an ISA slot (remember those?), four USB connectors, onboard AC97 sound (that I don't use; my SoundBlaster P

RE: [expert] Now I screwed up.. WooHoooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2001-09-30 Thread Asheesh Laroia
You know, there was an easier way At the LILO prompt, type "1" or "init=/bin/sh" at the end of your image name. That will get you to a root prompt. Then cd into /dev. The program "mknod" creates device files. /dev/null is no exception; it can be recreated. mknod --help reveals the syntax

Re: [expert] LILO - Fatal Error (for a friend-rush please?)

2001-09-23 Thread Asheesh Laroia
First of all, what's with the backslash after "message" in his lilo.conf? If that's of no help, try removing the "table=" line in his. Also, is it just me or do you have duplicate Linux entries? Other than that, I can be of no help. Sorry. Best of luck -- Asheesh. On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, L

Re: [expert] Mac-on-Linux

2001-09-22 Thread Asheesh Laroia
I can confirm that many sources (via http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+8100+mac) agree that MkLinux will run on your Mac. However, OpenBSD and NetBSD also run. If I were you, I'd grab one of those instead, as they're not ancient (MkLinux's last web site update was 31 Jul 2000). Check www.ope

Re: [expert] closing ports

2001-09-21 Thread Asheesh Laroia
What ports in particular? Some ports are controlled by a program called xinetd, a "superserver"; others are controlled by one specific program. Example: SSH is controlled by the OpenSSH program, but telnet is part of the xinetd superserver. Try this command (as root): netstat --listening --pro

Re: [expert] IBM PC Camera

2001-09-19 Thread Asheesh Laroia
*Always* use "modprobe" instead of "insmod". Modprobe first checks for dependencies, insmods those, and then insmods the module you asked for. Likely, there's some related module that needs to be installed. Just use: modprobe ibmcam Hope this helps! (Just a warning: if you *know* you want to

Re: [expert] irq conflict

2001-09-16 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Another note: If you don't need serial ports, disable them. You might be able to enable USB and still disable its IRQ in the BIOS as well. Disable all unneeded parallel ports. If he doesn't have any devices on the floppy controller (e.g., I don't have a floppy drive in my system), disable it.

Re: [expert] irq conflict

2001-09-16 Thread Asheesh Laroia
In the BIOS settings, find the advanced hardware properties. In there, there should be an option to disable "IRQ for VGA" (that is, take away the video card's IRQ). That's how all my systems are set up, and it works for me (tm). Then tell it to "Reset ECSD Data" (this clears the IRQ-device cach

Re: [expert] Lexmark Z12

2001-09-15 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Sorry to be the one to break it to you, but http://www.linuxprinting.org/database.html says the printer has currently "paperweight" status (on a range from Perfectly-working to Paperweight). Time to send a message to Lexmark about their half-hearted support. Sorry -- Asheesh. On Wed, 12 Sep

RE: [expert] Compile error: -lX11 not found

2001-09-15 Thread Asheesh Laroia
rote: > On Sat, 2001-09-15 at 08:40, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > > Um, this should be simply solved by installing the XFree86-devel package, > > no poking-and-tweaking should be required > > The XFree86-devel package was/is installed, however I am still getting > this erro

RE: [expert] Compile error: -lX11 not found

2001-09-15 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Um, this should be simply solved by installing the XFree86-devel package, no poking-and-tweaking should be required -- Asheesh. On 15 Sep 2001, Dave Sherman wrote: > On Fri, 2001-09-14 at 01:41, Gregor Maier wrote: > > It is looking for the X11 library. > > Try to find where this lib is (fi

Re: [expert] installation problems in 8.0

2001-09-15 Thread Asheesh Laroia
For 1 and 2, were you in "Newbie" install mode? I know in "Expert" it prompts for these things. For 3, try "alsamixer". If that doesn't work, try the program "aumix". There are two different sound systems available under Mandrake. These are their different volume control programs. -- Asheesh.

Re: [expert] Broken Filesystem, but I fsck'ed it----

2001-09-15 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Do you know what file system you have? If it's ext2, use: e2fsck -f The "-f" makes sure it runs the check. Sometimes the fsck program thinks the file system is clean on first check when it is not. For a ReiserFS partition, use: reiserfsck Best of luck! -- Asheesh. On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, E

Re: [expert] X11 on old-style iBook (Mandrake PPC 8.0)

2001-09-14 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Hmm. Do you still have that LinuxPPC install? Would you happen to have your config files...? (Nah, it won't be that easy. But at least I tried.) -- Asheesh. On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, William von Hagen wrote: > Thanks for the reply. Ironically, I've already used been using LinuxPCC, > YDL, and mo

Re: [expert] Fwd: Re: [newbie] filenames with spaces causing errorin script

2001-09-14 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Your script works fine; you just made one mistake: Don't use quotes around $file now. It comes pre-quoted. Everything should work fine if you use $file by itself, without quotes around it. A rudimentary echo test proved this true for me. -- Asheesh. On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, bascule wrote: > i h

Re: [expert] X11 on old-style iBook (Mandrake PPC 8.0)

2001-09-14 Thread Asheesh Laroia
My feeling is there aren't many Mandrake PPC users yet. I'd post a message on an X11-related or Mac-related mailing list instead. My feeling is there are lots of debian users who've used iMacs, and lots of LinuxPPC users who know this information. BTW, I just checked, and LinuxPPC has XFree 4 pa

Re: [expert] Postfix

2001-09-13 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Use the "mailq" command to see the "mail queue." -- Asheesh. On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Brett wrote: > I've sent some large emailand it's in my SMTP queue to be delivered > outside my network. > > How do I view what's currently in queue yet to be delivered? > > > Regards, > Brett Want to buy

Re: [expert] installing progs

2001-09-13 Thread Asheesh Laroia
First, stop shouting. After doing that, we need to find out some information. Do you have your Mandrake install CD? Do you know how to use data CDs under Linux? Do you have Internet access from this computer where you want to install CDDA2WAV? -- Asheesh. On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, ben s wrote: >

[expert] Firewall configuration for iConnectHere.com telephony client

2001-07-16 Thread Asheesh Laroia

Re: [expert] Adding a LinkSys ether card to LM 7.0?

2001-02-27 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Try using the kernel driver "tulip". You can make it available by "modprobe tulip", of course. -- Asheesh. -- Many of the convicted thieves Parker has met began their life of crime after taking college Computer Science courses. -- Roger Rapoport, "Programs for Plunder", Omni, M

Re: [expert] sftp? and Mason

2001-02-26 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Check out PuTTY and Secure iXplorer. A google search will give you their URLs. If you need to tunnel through an http proxy, check out httptunnel. That's the solution I use. -- Asheesh. On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Franki wrote: > Hi all, > > > Can't remember if I asked this or not.. I need app for w

Re: [expert] What is WRONG with konqueror?!

2001-01-12 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Make sure you have JavaScript turned on globally in the "Java/Javascript" settings of Konqueror. HTH. -- Asheesh. On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Praedor Tempus wrote: > I am running Mandrake 7.2, kernel-2.2.17, KDE 2.1 on both a laptop and a > desktop machine. This problem occurs on both. > > I have an

[expert] SSH port forwarding

2000-12-20 Thread Asheesh Laroia
I need to setup an SSH tunnel that listens on a port, that redirects all data to 192.168.0.2:5901 (decrypted at this point). localhost is a Linux-Mandrake server with SSH installed. 192.168.0.2 is a Win98 machine. I have tried to configure SSH to forward the port, but to no avail. What command

Re: [expert] CUPS exasperation

2000-12-20 Thread Asheesh Laroia
You might try "Print to File" in WP, then running, as root: lpr name_of_WordPerfect_output_file That used to work for me when CUPS broke. -- Asheesh. On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, b5dave wrote: > Hi > > I really need to be able to print from Wordperfect 8/Linux real soon now > or I'm sunk. (essay dea

Re: [expert] Where to aquire Spice RPM -> ?

2000-12-19 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Check http://rpmfind.net for them. It looks like it has what you need. -- Asheesh. On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Stefan Srdic wrote: > I 've been using Oregano (the circuit design tool for Gnome) for quiet > some time now. I have a few personal designs that I want to test out but > unfortunetly Mandrake

Re: [expert] Alsa - and the ac97

2000-12-07 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Hey there. I have a fix for your problem. Once you have the mixer setting you want, run the following as root: touch /etc/asound.conf /usr/sbin/alsactl store Now, whenever you want your old settings back, type: /usr/sbin/alsactl restore And, to make this automated, add the following lines to

Re: [expert] XFree 4.0.1 not cooperating

2000-12-07 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Try putting the new config file in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Best of luck. -- Asheesh. On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Tim Faehnle wrote: > > Okay, Does Mandrake 7.2 come with 4.0.1 or not? I'm confused by Mandrake > install. (it's buggy and ill-designed, but that's a different discussion) > > First of al

About your post on [expert]

2000-12-03 Thread Asheesh Laroia
What processor and motherboard do you run? I'm asking because I'm considering adding a 256MB DIMM to my AMD K6-2 300 (on the VIA MP3 chipset), and I was wondering if it was compatible. Thanks in advance. -- Asheesh. On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, EagleIce wrote: > This sounds similar to the problems I h

Re: [expert] compiling gpilot for visor

2000-12-02 Thread Asheesh Laroia
In the gpilot src dir: make clean rm -f config.cache ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable usb-visor make make install That should fix this whole mess for you. -- Asheesh. On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Jerry Sternesky wrote: > It seems the rpm that Mandrake ships for 7.2 doesn't have the visor flag > c

[expert] Library + MySQL DB

2000-12-01 Thread Asheesh Laroia
inished product will be at http://residents.wox.org/) Thanks in advance. -- Asheesh Laroia. PS: I have a CueCat barcode scanner, in case that might be helpful in inputting data. -- The camel died quite suddenly on the second day, and Selena fretted sullenly and, buffing her already impeccable

Re: [expert] Telnet Delays

2000-11-25 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Make sure you have an entry in the server's /etc/hosts file for the machine you're telnetting in from. (i.e., if you're running telnet from "192.168.0.2" to log in to "192.168.0.1", put "192.168.0.2 SomeComputerNameHere" in /etc/hosts of "192.168.0.1".) -- Asheesh. On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, mail wro

Re: [expert] Another boot problem with Mandrake 7.2

2000-11-25 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Sounds like Windows (or whatever you're ctrl-alt-del'n' from) is leaving your hardware in an unstable state. That's why Linux always does a cold boot when it restarts (note the RAM checks after a Linux ctrl-alt-del). A touch of the reset button will do wonders in these cases. -- Asheesh. On Tu

Re: [expert] Soundblaster PCI512

2000-11-14 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Just tell your OS it's a SoundBlaster Live! It'll never know the difference (-;. (The SB512 is a stripped SB Live, so it might not have all the features, but it's basically the same hardware.) -- Asheesh. On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is a multi-part message in MIME

Re: [expert] Partition-in-a-file? ReiserFS?

2000-11-14 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Tom Eastman wrote: > This would be especially convenient for me to use in future since I have > FAR more fat32 hard drive space on my computer then ext2 hard drive space > (30GB and 6GB respectively). I want to be able to create a large file on > FAT32, then mount the FILE a

Re: [expert] why does KDE change to user home for running apps ?

2000-11-12 Thread Asheesh Laroia
You could, alternatively: Boot up into runlevel 3 ("linux 3" at the lilo prompt) log in to Linux on a text console "xinit" At the XTerm you now see, cd to the dir you want and "startkde&" Then minimize the XTerm. -- Asheesh. On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, J . A . Magallon wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Nov 2000

Re: [expert] dup/bad blocks-won't boot

2000-11-12 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Have you tried running "/sbin/e2fsck -c -f /dev/hdb6" at this prompt? That should fix your partition. -- Asheesh. On 12 Nov 2000, Drew Bartorillo wrote: > When I boot-up I get the following: > > /dev/hdb6: Duplicate/bad block(s) in inode 746326:/dev/hdb6: 64/dev/hdb6: > /dev/hdb6: Pass 1C: Sca

Re: [expert] Anyone have a copy of 7.2 mandrake they would sell

2000-11-11 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Try http://www.cheapbytes.com. They have all the Linux GPL CDs available for around $2 each, plus cheap USPS shipping. -- Asheesh. On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, HES wrote: > I am stuck running on a slow internet connection > I bought MDK 7.2 from Macmillan but it wont install > freezes durring second s

Re: [expert] Running X apps locally from remote host

2000-10-24 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Definitions: $server = External IP of your computer $AIX = External IP of AIX machine If you want, you can use bash's export command to make the following more literal. Lo and behold. Logged onto $server, type: xhost +$AIX That lets your machine accept X connections from $AIX. Log into $AIX

Re: [expert] logrotate

2000-10-20 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: > I wrote a C program that would create a batch to do just that: > rm mail.err.%d.gz.%d.gz.%d.gz.%d.gz* Can you email me the source to this? I'm starting to learn C++ and C, and I can't understand how to do system calls. Thanks a bundle! -- Ashees

Re: [expert] ssh

2000-10-18 Thread Asheesh Laroia
I had the same problem when I upgraded my OpenSSH on my 7.0 server. Get the new pam-*.i586.rpm files from your local cooker, and install them. That fixed it for me. -- Asheesh. On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Jim Holthaus wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, 17 Oct 2000

Re: [expert] Is kde2 only for mkd 7.2?

2000-10-17 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Leopold Palomo wrote: > error: failed dependencies: > rpm >= 3.0.5-22mdk is needed by menu-2.1.5-41mdk > libbz2.so.1 is needed by menu-2.1.5-41mdk > [root@hoth kde]# rpm -i rpm-3.0.5-26mdk.i586.rpm > error: failed dependencies: > libbz2.so.1 is needed

Re: [expert] Sprint Broadband internet

2000-10-17 Thread Asheesh Laroia
if not, no harm done. Best of luck. -- Asheesh Laroia. -- Seems a computer engineer, a systems analyst, and a programmer were driving down a mountain when the brakes gave out. They screamed down the mountain, gaining speed, but finally managed to grind to a halt, more by luck than anything el

Re: [expert] Build kernel???

2000-10-09 Thread Asheesh Laroia
http://freshmeat.net Do a search there. First hit. Or, instead, http://www.google.com/linux would work probably. -- Asheesh. On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: > I"ve been asking for days now and frankly getting VERY frustrated from > being seemingly ignored. Could someone please tell m

[expert] KDEGames-1.99-2mdk: Signed?

2000-10-08 Thread Asheesh Laroia
#x27;s going on here? Every other package MdkUpd has downloaded has been signed and happy. What's with this one? Thanks in advance. -- Asheesh Laroia. -- [American] Football combines the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings. -

[expert] Stupid MySQL question

2000-10-08 Thread Asheesh Laroia
art, and it started fine. Help! I feel so inadequate. . . . ;-). Thanks in advance. -- Asheesh Laroia. -- Only through hard work and perseverance can one truly suffer. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

RE: [expert] Samba, autofs and fstab

2000-10-06 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Try the following: ///smbfsoptions Example: //thecore/appz /appz smbfs uid=502,fmask=700,guest Best of luck. PS: Anyone know what those zeros and ones are at the end of the Mandrake-supplied lines are? -- Asheesh Laroia. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the

Re: [expert] What's the magic file(s)?

2000-10-04 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Try "xinit" from the CLI (command-line Interface). This should bring up, simply, X and an XTerm. Type "gnome-session" into the XTerm, and watch GNOME load. Hope this helps. -- Asheesh. (make sure you're in runlevel 3; "init 3" will do that for you, of course) Keep in touch with http://ma

Re: [expert] kde binary wont install - dead kde

2000-10-03 Thread Asheesh Laroia
aedor Tempus wrote: > Asheesh Laroia wrote: > > > > There's a new version of KDEBase-1.99 > > > > (kdebase-1.99-2mdk.i586.rpm) > > > > available now on all Cooker mirrors. I'm downloading it now; I'll tell > > you how/if it works. >

Re: [expert] Old laptop install.

2000-10-03 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Cool beans. Glad to hear it was the floppy. Just one question, though: Why Mdk 7.0? Wouldn't 7.1 be better? -- Asheesh Laroia. -- Also, the Scots are said to have invented golf. Then they had to invent Scotch whiskey to take away the pain and frustration. Keep in touch with

Re: [expert] kde binary wont install - dead kde

2000-10-03 Thread Asheesh Laroia
There's a new version of KDEBase-1.99 (kdebase-1.99-2mdk.i586.rpm) available now on all Cooker mirrors. I'm downloading it now; I'll tell you how/if it works. -- Asheesh Laroia. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

[expert] How to set MandrakeUpdate retries

2000-10-03 Thread Asheesh Laroia
4' or so. Thanks in advance. -- Asheesh Laroia. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] Where is all my memory going?

2000-10-01 Thread Asheesh Laroia
usage). Anyway, what are you using this machine for? A server? A workstation? Do you need printing? Remote web-based administration? Sound? USB support? And how much RAM do you have? And how much swap space do you have? Answer the questions, and I'll give you help! -- Asheesh Laroia

Re: [expert] /var/log/news and /var/log/mail directory corruption?

2000-09-28 Thread Asheesh Laroia
w. I can't wait. If I were Sarang Lakare, the individual responsible for said patch, I'd be proud of myself. *This* is where open-source companies shine: open forums like this allow this kind of *immediate* feedback. I am truly impressed. -- Asheesh Laroia. -- Sometimes

[expert] Anyone have a copy of the 7.2 beta **two** ext. disc?

2000-09-26 Thread Asheesh Laroia
I need to install some -devel RPMs on my 7.2b2 machine, and I don't feel like "upgrading" to 7.2b3. So, does anyone have a copy of 7.2beta2's extension disc? Or the ISO file? (preferably the iso) Thanks in advance. If you have a copy, I'd ask you to post it to a public FTP server; if you can'

Re: [expert] can't locate binfmt error

2000-09-24 Thread Asheesh Laroia
First run "alsactl store". That should (hopefully) create that file. -- Asheesh. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] SBLive! sound quality

2000-09-23 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > > > > What I **can** tell you is how I installed my SB Live! via alsa. > > Followed your instructions verbatim. The ALSA driver loads on bootup, but > I can't get any so

Re: [expert] SBLive! sound quality

2000-09-23 Thread Asheesh Laroia
ettings, as everything's muted by default. Then run "alsactl store" to save your settings. To get back to those at any moment, type "alsactl restore." I hope this made sense. >From Linux with love, Asheesh Laroia. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] SBLive! sound quality

2000-09-23 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Harry Flaxman wrote: > I use the em10k1 driver using a SB PCI512 sound card with a set of > altec-lansing speakers and I do notice a difference in the sound between > windows and linux. I'm just assuming it's the best the driver can do. I had that problem too. Then I instal

Re: [expert] Ulysses beta 2

2000-09-17 Thread Asheesh Laroia
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Re: [expert] reiserfs info needed

2000-09-16 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Vincent Danen wrote: > On Sat Sep 16, 2000 at 09:10:37AM -0500, Ellick Chan wrote: > > > > Just out of curiousity, what's the file size limit with ext2? I think > > > it's 2GB but I need to know for sure. Does anyone know? > > > Ext2 is a 32-bit file sys, which can addres

Re: [expert] Console equivalent of VNC?

2000-09-16 Thread Asheesh Laroia
6, even if "remote" just means "in an xterm." Any more ideas? I'l check out screen, though, but it seems like little more than a fancy "konsole" from kde2. -- Asheesh. On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Ellick Chan wrote: > On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Asheesh Laroia wrote: >

Re: [expert] installing special files?

2000-09-15 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Repeat the procedure I said, and if there's an error message, tell me it word-for-word. Verbatim. Exactly what was there? It's probably the lack of some package, but it could be something else. Try it again, if it's not too much. Tell me *exactly* what happens. Best of luck. -- Asheesh. On

Re: [expert] installing special files?

2000-09-15 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Hope this helps: become root Do the following, character for character: cd /root cd tmp mkdir downloads cd downloads tar zxvf pr0g.tar.gz ls ./configure make make install You're done! Tell me what happens. Best of luck -- Ashesh Laroia. PS: What program is it? -- God is a comic play

[expert] Console equivalent of VNC?

2000-09-15 Thread Asheesh Laroia
ait a response. -- Asheesh Laroia. -- NT (as in Windows NT) is short for "Nasty Technology". Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.

Re: [expert] installing special files?

2000-09-14 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Hope this helps: become root Do the following, character for character: cd /root cd tmp mkdir downloads cd downloads tar zxvf pr0g.tar.gz ls ./configure make make install You're done! Tell me what happens. Best of luck -- Ashesh Laroia. PS: What program is it? -- God is a comic play

Re: [Re: [expert] Invalid Partition Table - How To Fix?]

2000-09-14 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On 14 Sep 2000, Brent Hawkins wrote: > I just went and wiped out the whole drive Ah! The Microsoft Way! TM. -- Asheesh Laroia. -- Brahma said: Well, after hearing ten thousand explanations, a fool is no wiser. But an intelligent man needs only two thousand five hund

[expert] Kumba, other <32MB users...

2000-09-09 Thread Asheesh Laroia
> 20mb RAM How do you get Mandrake to run on this computer? When I boot my 64MB machine, I have almost 31MB of "used", not including "shared," "buffer," or "cache" RAM. As for your glibc, I'd try the direct-from-source compile. Good luck!

Re: [expert] telnet server not working...

2000-09-08 Thread Asheesh Laroia
One quick hint: When I used Mandrake 6.1, I had to install a 15K RPM file called "telnet-server" from the distribution CD in order to get telnet working. Check to see if it's installed via "rpm -qa | grep telnet-server". -- Asheesh. -- _/I\_o__o___/I\ l * //_

Re: [expert] Need help with "rmdir"

2000-09-07 Thread Asheesh Laroia
rm -rf (or rm --recursive --force ) -- Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives. -- Sue Murphy

Re: [expert] terminal

2000-09-07 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Foris Gabor wrote: > Dear Asheesh, > > I tried to make head or tail what you said and let me sum it up for > checking. Eeep. Sorry about the vagueness 8-( > I connect two computers together through the serial ports(com2). One of > the computers is equipped with ful

Re: [expert] multiple logons

2000-09-06 Thread Asheesh Laroia
hough. Anyone with more constructive suggestions, feel free to prove me wrong! -- Asheesh Laroia. -- Olmstead's Law: After all is said and done, a hell of a lot more is said than done.

Re: [expert] How to install Grub?

2000-09-04 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Oops. My mistake. The 1024+ patch has been in LILO since 21-3. Weird Well, get the new LILO and see what happens still. It might make the difference Now I'm **really** sorry about the confusion. -- Asheesh.

Re: [expert] How to install Grub?

2000-09-04 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 2 May 2000, Stefan Srdic wrote: > I the latest version of LILO, version 21.4-3, and I still cant boot over > the 1024th cylinder. Everytime that I try to install LILO using KLILO I > always get the same error message: The latest version is 21.5. Might sound like no difference, but that'

Re: [expert] How to install Grub?

2000-09-04 Thread Asheesh Laroia
/sbin/lilo -V Hey, it works for me. Check from the slashdot story what version you'd need to go past the magical BIOSBoundary TM. -- Asheesh. -- Sigh. I like to think it's just the Linux people who want to be on the "leading edge" so bad they walk right off the precipice. (Craig E. Groeschel

Re: [expert] How to install Grub?

2000-09-04 Thread Asheesh Laroia
owever, I'm not sure what version of LILO you have. It might be before the amazing slick kewl nifty wow-giving progress of LILO. (-: I try to be helpful, from time to time -- Asheesh Laroia. -- When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know who have gone to a better

Re: [expert] Dual Athlon Processors

2000-09-04 Thread Asheesh Laroia
ing) for > video. What about the latest NVidia chip? Reviews I've read (www.tomshardware.com) say they're faster. > I would also like to use multiple PCI UDMA/100 controller cards. Is > it possible to use more than one PCI hard drive controller card? Yep! > Thanks, Jason

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