Re: [Fwd: [LIH] pcqupdt for RH6.2]

2000-08-22 Thread Nick Hill
> > I have installed RH6.2 in one m/c. It went smoothly. > But when I wanted > to do pcqupdt from pcq folder of PCQ CD of JUN 2k, I > got error saying > permission denied. I was doing it as root. > Previously when I did the > same for some other m/c I didn't have this problem. > Any solution?

[LIH] Announce - The GNOME Messaging System

2000-08-19 Thread Nick Hill
Hi. I just uploaded some lil' creation of mine up onto sourceforge. Its basically a IM system. The server is in C, using completely portable code. BSD socks et al. I wrote a client for it on GNOME/GTK+ using glade. The protocol is _extremely_ lightweight. I know a lot the community banks on text p

[LIH] Allegro - correction

2000-08-17 Thread Nick Hill
/me kix himself. the correct address for Allegro is http://www.talula.demon.co.uk ( i forgot the talula part in my previous mail). sorry for the filled inboxes which get cluttered. ;P Nikhil. -- An alpha version of a web based tool to manage your sub

Re: [LIH] raid1 config problem

2000-08-10 Thread Nick Hill
> Rajesh Fowkar wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I have got say 6 partitions on sda. > > I have created 6 partitions on sdb of equal size. > > > > My /etc/raidtab file is as follows : > > > > raiddev /dev/md0 > > raid-level 1 RAID-1 _is_ mirroring and that's what u're getting. It wi

Re: [LIH] Yahama Sound cards configured finally!!

2000-08-09 Thread Nick Hill
--- "Binand Raj S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, Shankar Balan's 19th June mail to the list is > what I would consider > the 'Official End of Wait Posting' - Even I could > play sound on my Yamaha > PCI card after reading his HOWTO. hey didn't i put up one of mine too? heck, maybe i need t

[LIH] XFree86 4.0.1 Released

2000-07-02 Thread Nick Hill
XFree86 4.0.1 is released. there are numerous bug fixes and stablizing of drivers. I think its worth upgrading, if u were running XF4 previously... Nikhil. --- For information on this and other Linux India mailing lists check ou

Re: [LIH]vcd's

2000-07-02 Thread Nick Hill
i think its a case of the _wrong_ header files, maybe from a previous release, being used... check u're /usr/include and /usr/local/include, and check where u're 1.1.3 SDL includes are. If u've compiled and installed it u'reself, they're most prolly sitting at /usr/local/include, if u did an RPM

Re: [LIH] ASP2PHP

2000-07-01 Thread Nick Hill
yeah... found this quite a while ago... i'm in the middle of benchmarking a asp2php page, with and without optimizations by hand... will report results... Nikhil. On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 10:17:22AM +0530, Syed Khader Vali wrote: > > asp2php converts WWW Active Server Pages (ASP) files that run

Re: [LIH] Re: need 600 x 800 resolution on SiS 6215C please help

2000-07-01 Thread Nick Hill
On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 06:15:08PM +0530, Babu Kalakrishnan wrote: > > 4 virtual desktops ??? As I told you, 99.9% of my work is done under text > mode - I don't even have X running normally - So why would I care about > better buffering & rendering ? > for the 0.1% of play. Q3A! ;> > What I w

Re: [LIH]vcd's

2000-07-01 Thread Nick Hill
ok... here's the catch. the SDL required by mpegOrion is the 1.1 series. it wont work with the 1.0 series. so u better get the 1.1.3 or some ver. i think the configure needs to be fixed... it worked with me and to say the least, it simply rox. the DivX play is _kewl_. another thing that's kewl,

Re: [LIH] FW: Alsa 0.5.8. works, problem with xmms

2000-07-01 Thread Nick Hill
which audio plugin are u using in XMMS? u shud be using the OSS plugin. the ESD plugin currently seems to having some probs with the ymfpci driver. or get the latest alsa release, which fixes this. Nikhil. On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 11:25:44PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am not able to *h

Re: [LIH] Compression

2000-07-01 Thread Nick Hill
the %age is the amount of space saved due to compression. it is expressed as the %age of the file's size. tho some compression proggies mean the compression to be / * 100 tho... I thin PKZIP used to do that, or was it RAR... dont remember. Nikhil. On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 02:47:30PM -0700, Sudh

Re: [LIH] SDL in mpegOrion ?

2000-06-28 Thread Nick Hill
On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 12:01:27AM +0530, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: > > which header file is this smpeg.h ( from which package ) any ideas ? > its from the smpeg lib. get it from loki. http://lokigames.com/development/ i think Nikhil. --

Re: [LIH] Which is better AMD or INTEL

2000-06-28 Thread Nick Hill
DDR FSB? are u sure u dont have u're acronyms mixed up a bit? Nikhil. On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 08:55:15PM +0530, Sachin Garg wrote: > > I thought u meant DDR FSB. Also, Celeron has been *artificially* clocked > down by Intel. It seems the chip has an amazing overclocking potential, the only rea

[LIH] MySQL Released Under The GPL

2000-06-28 Thread Nick Hill
the time's come! MySQL is GPL'ed! http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000628/ca_va_linu.html We need more of these! ;> Nikhil. --- Check out the 'What to do before posting to the list' site for a list of things to try before posting. T

Re: [LIH] i810querry

2000-06-28 Thread Nick Hill
On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 02:10:47PM +0530, Kiran wrote: > 1. No downloading/compiling the kernel as such did i mention compiling the kernel? > 2. Not the agpgart from matrox users i sent an addendum soon afterwards. > 3. No agpgart patch to the kernel this is for the RH6.1 and earlier guys. Th

Re: [LIH] dos applications in linux ?

2000-06-28 Thread Nick Hill
wine cant do DOS proggies... use dosemu fer that. On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 03:02:33AM +0530, jayant kumar wrote: > Get wine from winehq.com. Install wine. Wine helps in running some > dos/windows based programs. But some programs do not run or take a lot of > time to run. Maybe that wine is sti

Re: [LIH] Which is better AMD or INTEL

2000-06-28 Thread Nick Hill
u're too way off in the past. Intel's compermine definitely beats athlon anyday... look at some latest benchmarks... Nikhil. On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 03:02:42AM +0530, jayant kumar wrote: > > Take a look at PCQuest Oct'99 where AMD k7 and P-III 600 are compared. >

Re: [LIH] Using hdparm to enable 32 bit IO / DMA

2000-06-28 Thread Nick Hill
u can either put this in in rc.d, or in 2.4 kernels, its a kernel option, which enables DMA on the bus at boot... there's a -k option with hdparm, but i dunno how many drives implement this... u could give it a try... Nikhil. On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 03:02:47AM +0530, jayant kumar wrote: >

Re: [LIH] i810querry

2000-06-27 Thread Nick Hill
no offence, but wasn't the same thing posted by some kind soul (ahem!) a couple of weeks ago. bad to see that it wasn't noticed and wasn't of much help. maybe i shud give up writing any howtos and stick to my coding. wel... Nikhil. On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 08:45:59PM +0530, Kiran wrote: > Well,

Re: [LIH] SDL in mpegOrion ?

2000-06-27 Thread Nick Hill
do a # which sdl-config if nothing turns up, if u've compiled u're own SDL, then _mostly_ it'll be at /usr/local/bin. some distros are too lame to include this in the PATH in u're profile. so either add it in, or define SDL_CONFIG to point to /usr/local/bin/sdl-config Nikhil. On Wed, Jun 28

Re: [LIH] ESS 1988 Sound Card Driver

2000-06-27 Thread Nick Hill
i'd do the same thing as Suresh, but i thought might as well waste the time replying to u instead. goto www.alsa-project.org and get u're junk. On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 04:34:21PM +0530, Ajay Singh wrote: > I gonna post mails untill i gotta a driver for ESS 1988 Sound card . > ! ADDICTED TO LIN

Re: [LIH] i810 - what does agpgart do ?

2000-06-27 Thread Nick Hill
the CVS of Utah-glx runs fine with the gart provided on the Intel site. I was too lazy to get the newagp CVS at my friend's house... i probably would have taken some more care if it had been my own system bleh. i can play fine at 640x480 at 16 bit with high textures and vertex lighting, i think

Re: correction on shanu's page (was Re: [LIH] i810 - what does agpgart do ?)

2000-06-27 Thread Nick Hill
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 10:45:08AM +0530, Shanker Balan wrote: > I tried glx (cvs) w/o DRI and it sucks. Let me get the cvs DRI and see > whether i can get q3a up! i dunno 'bout u, but i get a _very_ playable q3 under a i810 with a 500Mhz processor with 64MB of RAM, and of 'course Slack 7.0 ;>

Re: [LIH] correction on shanu's page (forgot some oth' stuff)

2000-06-25 Thread Nick Hill
just search the archives... i think it must be somewhere during the last week... SuSE works out of the box on _any_ i810. Its RH which has the problem with some kobian boards... Nikhil. On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 07:26:26AM +0530, Ashwin wrote: > Hi, > > I would'nt mind a copy of this "quick/dirt

[LIH] correction on shanu's page (forgot some oth' stuff)

2000-06-24 Thread Nick Hill
sorry to waste the bandwidth, i just scrolled down a lil' more on the page, and about the Kobian stuff... yeah, i agree it isn't the _standard_ i810 config, but it worx. i think i posted a (quick n dirty) howto some time back. maybe u can put it in, if it makes any sense... Nikhil. _

correction on shanu's page (was Re: [LIH] i810 - what does agpgart do ?)

2000-06-24 Thread Nick Hill
i was just skimming thru the page, and i found this: - 9.7 Are there any limitations to the i810 X server? No 32 bpp and no OpenGL support in this release. - the second part of the answer is wrong. OpenGL _is_ supported thru Utah-GLX on the i810 serve

Re: [LIH] PPP config

2000-06-22 Thread Nick Hill
Slackware comes with something similiar... its called pppsetup tho... but i think a certain amount of tweaking the options _is_ necessary if u want to have a pleasant change from the speed that doze gives u... no script'll replace that! ;> Nikhil. --- Sthitaprajna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

Re: [LIH] superblock correction

2000-06-22 Thread Nick Hill
are u sure that the block size if 8k? if so, i think the duplicate sup-block is stored at 8192, doesn't block numbering start from 0? maybe wrong here... Nikhil. --- Sthitaprajna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > efsck -b 8193 /dev/home and /usr directories. > through to 5-6 iterations. __

Re: [LIH] Yamaha PCI sound quickstart guide

2000-06-20 Thread Nick Hill
--- Raghavendra Bhat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 'Coz U do not have the device. Do a ' ./MAKEDEV > update' > whilst inside /dev. Take care when U do this if ur > using the unstable kernel tree 2.3.x/2.4.x > wont have much of a prob if u're not using devfs... Nikhil. ___

[LIH] Slackware 7.1 beta!

2000-06-20 Thread Nick Hill
Slackware 7.1 beta is out! its got XF4, KDE2 (pre), and some oth' kewl stuff... finally mutt makes it in! :> Nikhil. __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ --

Re: [LIH] Yamaha PCI sound quickstart guide

2000-06-20 Thread Nick Hill
--- "Binand Raj S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was earlier able to play sound with the OSS > drivers. No sdl or smpeg > libraries were necessary. > SDL is a gfx rendering lib, which uses DGA a la DX in doze..., altho a _much_ cut down ver. of that. DRI does more in this aspect... smpeg is a

Re: [LIH] Yamaha PCI sound quickstart guide

2000-06-20 Thread Nick Hill
--- Shanker Balan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Since i am currently on a RHL 6.2 system i dont need > the alactl stuff. > Can you just outline the stuff so i cant add it up > there? > basically u just set u're volume with rexima/aumix and do # alsactl store u're mixer settings are stored

Re: [LIH] Yamaha PCI sound quickstart guide

2000-06-19 Thread Nick Hill
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 08:33:03PM +0530, Binand Raj S. wrote: > Shanker Balan forced the electrons to say: > > The Yamaha sound guide is up at http://www.exocore.com/linux/yamaha > > Thanks for the guide. I had the alsa drivers installed, but couldn't get it > working before. > > But why cannot

Re: [LIH] Yamaha PCI sound quickstart guide

2000-06-19 Thread Nick Hill
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 07:39:32PM +0530, Shanker Balan wrote: > > Hi dudes, > > The Yamaha sound guide is up at http://www.exocore.com/linux/yamaha > just a reminder... those instructions are the same for the YMF754 too... and... a better/cleaner way of fixing the volume is to do a alsactl r

Re: [LIH] ELSA 1988 sound card

2000-06-19 Thread Nick Hill
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 07:27:38PM +0530, Mrinal Kalakrishnan wrote: > > Ajay Singh typed: > > It is ELSA 1988 chipset. > > Though 6.2 supports some versions of ELSA chip but not for 1988. > > I wanna to know does nebody having ne info 'bout it's driver ? > > ALSA supports: > > ES688, ES1688,

Re: [LIH] 100% linux compatible notebook.

2000-06-16 Thread Nick Hill
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 11:35:01AM -0700, Sudhakar Chandra wrote: > > Do notebooks have AGP? I thought AGP was a desktop thing. > nah... notebooks've been doing AGP for a while... the ATI 128 mobility is one of the fastest cruisers on OpenGL, in notebooks. It's been available for the powerbook

Re: [LIH] 100% linux compatible notebook.

2000-06-16 Thread Nick Hill
i guess most of the notebooks run Linux fine... I've got a Compaq Laptop, which runs Linux _or_ FBSD pretty kewl. I guess H/W support for Linux is no longer a problem as it was a few years ago... most distros' install proggies come with pcmcia support (atleast Slackware does). Nikhil. On Fri, J

Re: [LIH] correction to i810 guide

2000-06-16 Thread Nick Hill
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 03:35:29PM +0530, Shanker Balan wrote: > Did you try using the kernel 2.3/2.4's /dev/agpgart support? Let me know > whether it works. Also, do you get glx in all its glory on teh i810? > umm... this is _NOT_ my home system, so i dont have my kernel collection with me, so

Re: [LIH] FTP [ I can'nt download directories ]

2000-06-14 Thread Nick Hill
if the server supports tar-balling of dirs, this is child's play... get dir.tar.gz Nikhil. On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 11:21:01AM -0700, Sudhakar Chandra wrote: > Plain old FTP does not let you download directories and their contents > recursively. You need 'ncftp'. Once ncftp is installed (left

Re: [LIH] boot process stopping at eth0.....

2000-06-14 Thread Nick Hill
if u're card(s) is a ISA, u might be having a IRQ conflict... change the setting by switching jumpers on the card, or if the card supports PNP, use isapnp and pnpdump to assign resources... Nikhil. On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 09:39:26AM +0700, nageswarap wrote: > i configured sound card in my syste

[LIH] get u're i810 working under any distro - this ain't an ad

2000-06-14 Thread Nick Hill
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 10:26:50AM +0530, Shanker Balan wrote: > There is a utility called "testgart" which tests whether agpgart.o > module was successfully able to allocate frame buffer or not. > > I think it is part of the Utah-GLX suite. Try it out! Pal, that doesnt/wont work, as the fundame

Re: [LIH] Alternative Web Browser

2000-06-14 Thread Nick Hill
cyclone rulez! get it from http://slashnet.org Nikhil. On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 04:49:04PM +0530, jvssrinivas wrote: > Is IRC server on Linux possible?If so where can I download it from? --- Check out the 'What to do before post

Re: [LIH] Problem compiling Alsa 0.5.8a

2000-06-12 Thread Nick Hill
get a new kernel or hack the old one to sync the types... Nikhil. On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 04:01:44PM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > /usr/include/netinet/in.h:204: conflicting types for `ntohl' > /usr/include/asm/byteorder.h:22: previous declaration of `ntohl' > /usr/include/netinet/in.h:206: confl

Re: [LIH] [support@mailbox.cps.intel.com: RE: Intel 810 chipset support form for Linux*]

2000-06-12 Thread Nick Hill
to add to the fire... i've got the same problem here with Mercury i810 chipsets on stock RH6.2... and yeah... www.exocore.com/linux/i810 doesn't help... :\ the only solution is get my own kernel (RH's kernel wont patch, as they ship with some of their own), get gart (the old one, _NOT_ the new on

Re: [LIH] FTP problem

2000-06-12 Thread Nick Hill
another solution is load the ip_masq_ftp module, which forwards FTP data pretty fine... it usually comes with any stock distro (atleast slackware comes with it, and the last i checked, even suse and rh have it...). Nikhil. On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 10:53:11PM +0530, Binand Raj S. wrote: > For pass

Re: pico [WAS] Re: [LIH] i810 stuff.

2000-06-12 Thread Nick Hill
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 10:20:57PM +0530, Atul Mehta wrote: > go east or west, Emacs is the best !!! > That "bloated [browser|editor|mailer|wtf_ever_you_want]?" happens to be the > best in buisness right now... and imho vi sucks !!! > I'm wondering what business means in a free world... ;>

Re: [LIH] i810 stuff.

2000-06-09 Thread Nick Hill
i recently used the CVS on a few PCs with the i810, and ALSA sounds great... i loaded the stuff just to get Q3 up and running, but the i810 cant manage the performance required with the gfx... too bad. if i were u, i'd dump the i810... Nikhil. On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 01:42:57PM +0530, Shanker B

Re: [LIH] Re : Still not able to connect to Font server

2000-06-06 Thread Nick Hill
u could try to launch xfs on some other port, and changing u're XF86Config accordingly. btw, have u done a xset fp rehash, after chaning the fontpath? Nikhil. On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 11:03:49PM +0530, G A Abhay wrote: > $ xfs >aborted core dumped > $ xfs -port -1 > _FontTransSocketINETC

Re: [LIH] ALSA 0.5.8a supports YMF724

2000-06-06 Thread Nick Hill
i checked out the drivers, and they're doing the same thing as i tried... let me look further... looks like there're some heavily undocumented features on the chip. damn. Nikhil. On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 04:29:58PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ALSA drivers 0.5.8a has been released with su

Re: [LIH] Unable to connect to Font server

2000-06-06 Thread Nick Hill
try this: # xfs -port -1 ignore any errors. and then fire X. Nikhil. On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 12:00:42PM +0530, G A Abhay wrote: > The following are the error messages > -- > _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 > fai

Re: [LIH] Fast Linux downloads

2000-06-04 Thread Nick Hill
i've been using this mirror for the past couple of months but most of the files aren't there and the URL's are messed up a lot, and i ultimately end up with a 404. :\ eg.. try getting micq off it... Nikhil. On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 11:41:12AM +0530, Raju Mathur wrote: > Hey Dudes and Dudettes, >

Re: [LIH] Re: Which one to learn? Gtk or Qt?

2000-06-04 Thread Nick Hill
On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 11:10:06AM -0700, Arun Sharma wrote: > Forgot to mention kdevelop - www.kdevelop.org as a factor. It supports > Gnome too. > > Also, instead of viewing this as qt vs gtk, see it as kde vs gnome. > rightly said... :> IMHO GNOME has a better framework than KDE... GNOME is

Re: [LIH] Re: Which one to learn? Gtk or Qt?

2000-06-04 Thread Nick Hill
On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 03:08:51PM -0700, Arun Sharma wrote: > > While Java is great as a language and Swing has nice APIs and a complete > widget set, the end result is less than pleasing. I'm yet to see a > Java GUI that's actually responsive. > it just happens that IBM's JDK1.3 produces fas

Re: [LIH] Fetchmail:parse error at 0

2000-05-31 Thread Nick Hill
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 02:27:52PM +0530, root wrote: > > #!bin/sh I've seen the oth' replies... but isn't that s'posed to be #!/bin/sh Nikhil. --- LIH is all for free speech. But it was created for a purpose - to help peop

Re: [LIH] TFTP boot rom where to find

2000-05-31 Thread Nick Hill
the etherboot package contains _most_ (if not all) of the BOOT ROMS required, search for it on fm... Nikhil. On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 11:51:23AM +0530, Jiju Thomas Mathew wrote: > can i find TFTP boot rom? i may need some 30 pieces immidieately > > we are setting up a cyber cafe near here with 3

Re: [LIH] Problem with Mercury Via Chipset Motherboard

2000-05-31 Thread Nick Hill
the DMA on the latest VIA mobos is bugged... disable it in u're BIOS or flash it with some newer firmware, if available... Nikhil. On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 09:23:47AM +0530, Robin Chatterjee wrote: > I too am having problems with a mercury/kobian mb version bx-99. the udma > doesn't work . if i

Re: [LIH] 128MB RAM & loadlin

2000-05-28 Thread Nick Hill
put it on u're loadlin command line. Nikhil. On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 06:45:05PM +0530, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: > Now my problem is, since LILO is not installed. If in future I upgrade my RAM > to 128MB than how should I tell Linux about it.(I can not use mem=128M).

Re: [LIH] Re: Window manager tweaks

2000-05-28 Thread Nick Hill
On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 09:30:25PM +0530, Mrinal Kalakrishnan wrote: > OK, the theme you're using is BlueSteel, and that at the top is > part of the title bar (which IMHO is stylish!), which is not supposed > to be annoying! :-) actually that _is_ annoying, the whole theme looks annoyin

Re: [LIH] Re: Fetchmail sound

2000-05-28 Thread Nick Hill
On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 05:08:39AM +0530, rohit sharma wrote: > This works for me,mail.wav is played whenever there is new mail > fetched by fetchmail. This is on my BSD box, check what is the device for > sound on your linux box (/dev/snd)(?) and substitute /dev/dsp1. > > if fetchmail; the

Re: [LIH] modem does not responds

2000-05-28 Thread Nick Hill
On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 09:45:13PM +0530, Jiju Thomas Mathew wrote: > \> modem directly by giving 'AT' Command sets. > > we do the same in DOS by say ' echo ath1 >com2' HOw do I do it in Linux. > > you can try ' echo ath1 > /dev/ttyS{0-3}' ; where 0-3 stands for com {1-4} > shouldn't that be "e

Re: [LIH] Printing in a telnet session?

2000-05-28 Thread Nick Hill
read the Printing-HOWTO... read chapter 11.1 to be precise... Nikhil. On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 03:50:10PM +0530, B.N.V. Raman wrote: > Hello... > > How can i print in my printer while being connected to a server in a telnet > session?

Re: [LIH] help regarding linux installation

2000-05-26 Thread Nick Hill
there seems to be a bug in the RH6.1 disk druid. I was trying to install on a 17GB, and disk druid _refused_ to make partitions beyond 8 GB. i had to switch consoles and make the partitions thru fdisk... Nikhil. On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 07:29:42AM +0530, Vipan wrote: > now my problems starts.

Re: [LIH] mount failing on fat32

2000-05-26 Thread Nick Hill
u're kernel doesn't have support for fat32. get a new kernel. Nikhil. On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 03:23:51PM +0300, The Moores wrote: > Your windows partition might not be formatted as fat32, try mounting it as > ms-dos fat16 > > Ashley Moore > > - Original Message - > From: <[EMAIL PROTEC

[LIH] Re: Info needed on image processing

2000-05-22 Thread Nick Hill
i have DIP in my 4th year, so i dont know what exactly its about. if all u want is to manipulate images there're a _HORDE_ of gfx libs around. if u care to gimme some more of the details, maybe i can help u out a wee bit more. Nikhil. On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 03:43:54PM -0400, Sekhar. V wrote: >

Re: [LIH] ftp problem

2000-05-22 Thread Nick Hill
nikhilwiz@linux:~ > cat /etc/shells /bin/ash /bin/bash /bin/bash1 /bin/csh /bin/false /bin/sh /bin/tcsh /usr/bin/csh /usr/bin/ksh /usr/bin/passwd /usr/bin/tcsh /usr/bin/zsh i dont see /bin/true anywhere in the list. and still it works. voila?! ;) Nikhil. On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 09:21:16AM +0530

Re: [LIH] [OT] Linux Geek Reading Tastes (Was Re: load balancing ?)

2000-05-22 Thread Nick Hill
heck. here's muh 2 paise. oh boy, isn't LIH gettin' richer by tha moment? ;> On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 10:50:08AM -0700, Sudhakar Chandra wrote: > * Geeks in the US are perceived as weirdos by many. Geeks in India are > actually looked up to (high grades, good job etc.). not me! I've got low grad

Re: [LIH] Hindi Language in Linux? True type fonts howto!!!

2000-05-21 Thread Nick Hill
wont a xset fp rehash do? Nikhil. On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 01:55:30AM +0200, MAA Rizwan wrote: > > 5. restart X server by pressing CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE. > --- For information on this and other Linux India mailing lists check out

Re: [LIH] Two channel sound output

2000-05-21 Thread Nick Hill
use ALSA. it supports multiple channel sound, mixes it on the fly. and has a better structuring of the drivers... http://alsa-project.org Nikhil. On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 03:47:03PM +0530, Yep wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Is it possible to have two simulataneous sound outputs from one computer in >

Re: [LIH] ftp problem

2000-05-21 Thread Nick Hill
i'm running a SuSE 6.3 system here, and ftp seems to be working here with _both_ true and false as shells, even tho both return different status... so, the ftpd is atleast not checking the return values... i cant explain why this isn't working for u... :=\ Nikhil. On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 09:27:4

Re: [LIH] Re: Oracle 8i database creation problem - hoping for some help

2000-05-16 Thread Nick Hill
I've never installed/used oracle anywhere, let alone linux, but here's my 2 paise... On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 08:58:11PM +0530, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: > As you can see the *runInstaller* script has got execute permissions to all and >hence when > I try to run it from oracle user it should not

Re: [LIH] ftp problem

2000-05-16 Thread Nick Hill
On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 09:13:08AM -0700, Sudhakar Chandra wrote: > I'd like to go on record as saying that among all the answers provided to > this Q, only this is the Right One. > erm... thanx... :) > > 4. Restart inetd. > is this required? i dont see any purpose for it, as passwd file is

Re: [LIH] Linux Clients

2000-05-16 Thread Nick Hill
On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 08:45:41PM +0530, Syed Khader Vali wrote: > > Hi there, > Check out the NIS-HOWTO and the NFS-HOWTO. isn't LDAP a better way than NIS for remote auth? Nikhil. --- Check out the 'What to do before posti

Re: [LIH] ftp problem

2000-05-16 Thread Nick Hill
edit /etc/passwd and make the shell field (the last field on a line) to something like /bin/false or something on thoz lines. this will allow u're users to ftp thru their home dir, but block telnet. U may consider anonymous access. anyway ftping files in, when u cant access thru a telnet doesn't m

Re: [LIH] xawtv problem

2000-05-15 Thread Nick Hill
the pixelview driver (xtv) doesn't support _all_ pixelview chips. U're stumped as far as Linux goes. I was writing a driver, but i gave up as i no longer have access to the card... :( btw, there isn't a v4l driver for pixelview, so u're not goin' to get the /dev/video working till one is written..

Re: [LIH] Re: [OT]ILOVEYOU - UNIX VERSION (fwd)

2000-05-14 Thread Nick Hill
On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 05:49:45PM +0530, Syed Khader Vali wrote: > > you mean to say even the ones which I gave you for safe-keeping :-) > And what about all those M$ Halloween Document Part 13 which i gave > you ;-) how'dya guess?!?!? anywayz... MC's undelfs saved me! ;P Nikhil.

Re: [LIH] Re: [OT]ILOVEYOU - UNIX VERSION (fwd)

2000-05-14 Thread Nick Hill
damn! i just lost all of muh porn collection, and my personal freshmeat mirror too! shud've known! when'z NAV fer Linux gonna come out? ;) Nikhil. On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 10:09:08PM +0530, Govind Chandra wrote: > > > > This is a virus that works on the honor system: > > > > For those Unix & L

Re: [LIH] [FAQ-Maintenance for LIH] - [UPDATE]

2000-05-14 Thread Nick Hill
i can write HOWTOs on anything after 21st... just tell me what topics u guys think i'm worth fer... Nikhil. On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 09:48:11PM +0530, Ravikant K.Rao wrote: > If anyone comes up with more interesting/viable > options/suggestions, please do email the list. --

Re: [LIH] Tv tuner for linux

2000-05-14 Thread Nick Hill
IMHO, the bt driver works _only_ with the BT chips. I dont think the philips decoders are compatible to them. There isn't a standard on decoding stuff. I think Video decoding should be added to VESA. But i think even that wont make a big difference. Its a pity that the _latest_ _Intel_ chipsets

Re: [LIH] Re: Partition/Win95 problem

2000-05-14 Thread Nick Hill
On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 11:04:59AM +0530, Raju Mathur wrote: > >http://reality.sgi.com/raju/software.html > that gives a 404. got a local copy which u can put up somewhere else fer all of us ta see? hope so! Nikhil. -

Re: [LIH] [OT] BeOS & X not so diffirent! SiS 6215 users pls Read

2000-05-11 Thread Nick Hill
On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 05:03:55PM +0530, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > On Wed, 10 May 2000, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > > (like a voodoo banshee, right, Nikhil??) :) i guess any 3dfx card'll do! ;P > > Here I would like to say something. I have posted this already. I made > this card work

Re: [LIH] problem with services

2000-05-11 Thread Nick Hill
u could try the TFTP client on localhost... Nikhil. On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 12:01:45PM +0530, manju wrote: > Can anybody tell me how to check the services like FTP, TFTP,Telnet and > other are up and running in the linux server. B'coz I have enabled TFTP > services on my linux and Sun server an

Re: [LIH] gcc and egcs

2000-05-10 Thread Nick Hill
IIRC, there was a merger of egcs and gcc. this was nearly a couple of years back. AFAIK, there's gcc 2.95.2 around, and i've stopped CVS'ing gcc loong back it ain't worth the effort. so if gcc is the final product of the merger, i guess that'll make egcs look ancient... that may be the cause of t

Re: [LIH] Ipchains!

2000-05-10 Thread Nick Hill
wasn't there a tunneling vulnerability in ipchains to tunnel to any box thru an ipchains firewall? has a fix been released? Nikhil. On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 11:00:26AM +0530, Raju Mathur wrote: > FYI -- Raju > --- The LIH mail

Re: [LIH] good news for YMF724 owners!

2000-05-09 Thread Nick Hill
On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 04:00:58PM +0518, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > > Cool :) Will that stop the YMF from being one of the lousiest cards Yamaha > put out? It sounds bad enough even on 'doze :) > AFAIK, and from what comes out from my card, i'll really appreciate its quality. its 3D soun

Re: [LIH] REGARDING PING

2000-05-09 Thread Nick Hill
On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 04:14:04PM +0530, Kedar Patankar wrote: > > The thing you are talking about is the 127.0.0.0 network and not > 128.*. Even in case of 127.0.0.0 n/w, it all depends on the way you > configure the routing tables. Normally 127.* class A n/w is configured to > be reachab

Re: [LIH] Riva TNT2 with Quake3 ?????

2000-05-09 Thread Nick Hill
On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 08:18:50AM +0530, Raghavendra Bhat wrote: > Have U enable DRI and re-compiled UR kernel ? NVIDIA cards dont use the DRI. > I keep wondering why the default depth in Maynord's Xconfig is kept at > 16 bpp which can be obtained at http://linux.eelinux.com/ ? Is it to > en

Re: [LIH] Riva TNT2 with Quake3 ?????

2000-05-09 Thread Nick Hill
#x27;s not Maynord's site. that's 3dfx's official linux site. > Nick Hill is May's LICQ pal. Please follow the Banshee > setup link. huh? i dont use LICQ. Its been an year since i've used it. I dont know Maynord either... what gives? Nikhil.

Re: [LIH] Sound card Problem!!!

2000-05-09 Thread Nick Hill
u have the infamous YMF724. there isn't a driver for it. i have a small hack to make it work, but have halted work on it for some time. Its in no way stable and dont ask for it. u might be better off getting a new card. there is some rumor that it'll be on the list of jobs on 2.5 but dont hold u'

Re: [LIH] REGARDING PING

2000-05-09 Thread Nick Hill
On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 04:45:53PM +0530, Ramchandra Phadake wrote: > Hi all, > I am having a very serious problem. > When I give a machine a ip address with > #ifconfig eth0 128.0.6.100 .it gives no error > But when i ping it with other machine it gives the errore as follows > i

[LIH] good news for YMF724 owners!

2000-05-09 Thread Nick Hill
Hi. I just had a chat with some of the guys on ALSA, and they seem to be writing a driver for the YMF724. I'm yet to see if they'll use my hack... will keep u updated... Nikhil. --- LIH is all for free speech. But it was creat

Re: [LIH] [OT] BeOS on May Chip

2000-05-08 Thread Nick Hill
On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 04:54:42PM -0700, Arun Sharma wrote: > > Actually, there is nothing in Linux or XFree86 that prevents people from > doing that. Infact, making sure that technologies like KNI get adopted > quickly was the charter of my former group at Intel. > there are a few attempts to

Re: [LIH] Riva TNT2 with Quake3 ?????

2000-05-08 Thread Nick Hill
On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 01:55:02AM +0530, satheesh wrote: > > I have done every thing exactly, even though it is not working. X is > still hanging. > > > if you want to examine the log file I can send you my Xfree86 log > yes. send me the X log file, and also do this: $ q3demo >& q3a.log

Re: [LIH] hospital software

2000-05-07 Thread Nick Hill
On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 06:55:30PM +, Shanker Balan wrote: > > > Corel Draw isn't ported (yet). > > U sure? Found this on /. > > Corel Draw 9 for Linux Needs Beta Testers > http://slashdot.org/articles/00/01/19/0919238.shtml > > If they used winelib for Wordperfect, i guess they must have

Re: [LIH] [OT] BeOS on May Chip

2000-05-07 Thread Nick Hill
On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 05:59:07PM +0530, Ravikant K.Rao wrote: > Uh, BeOS is all out GUI. On what other O/S can you do the kind > of image rendering/manipulation and other stuff at the speed that you > can on Be? Linux does is pretty fast. Use SDL/XVidExt. it's faster than doze atleast.

Re: [LIH] hospital software

2000-05-07 Thread Nick Hill
On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 05:39:56PM +, Shanker Balan wrote: > > Ooops! Wasn't winelib used to port Corel Draw to Linux? > winelib was used to port Corel WordPerfect. Corel Draw isn't ported (yet). I dont even think they're planning to port it. It'll be a good competition to GIMP tho... Nikh

Re: [LIH] X and Gnome

2000-05-07 Thread Nick Hill
On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 03:30:32PM +0530, Rakesh Agarwal wrote: > X and Gnome does'nt start by themselves when my system boots up even > if the runlevel is 5. Now how do I change the configuration files such > that gnome starts automatically during system boot > put this in u're ~/.xinitrc gn

Re: [LIH] Riva TNT2 with Quake3 ?????

2000-05-07 Thread Nick Hill
I've never used a TNT2, but i'll try to help... On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 09:47:26AM +0530, satheesh wrote: > > I have TNT2 card with 32 MB I have installed XFree86 4.0 . also > downloaded NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-2 > and GLX-0.9-2 from Nvidia site and installed > are they RPMS? check u're XF86Conf

Re: [LIH] [OT]Pet Peeves (was Re: help)

2000-05-07 Thread Nick Hill
On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 01:41:42AM -0700, Biju Chacko wrote: > > b. People not taking the 2 seconds required to quote only the relevent > portions in the old post. (Nikhil -- you're a real asset to the list, > but pls, pls edit your posts. No offence meant.) > i generally quote the relevant par

Re: [LIH] RAID on root partition

2000-05-07 Thread Nick Hill
On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 07:25:29PM +0530, Raju Mathur wrote: > reasonable fees (e.g. 1/2 your kingdom and your daughter's hand in > marriage). > gee that's cheap! ;) > ramdisks, and you can't install most (all?) distributions on RAID Slackware can install on RAID. Nikhil. --

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