Re: Hang With EHCI_HCD Activated

2005-08-27 Thread joy merwin monteiro
Hi, Googled around and found a guy with similar problems. Via USB 2.0 controller, with ehci-hcd hung with 2.6 though. He had recently upgraded his BIOS, started after that.. Any similarities prolly something for someone more experienced to talk bout.. Joy On 8/28/05, Peter H. <[EMAI

Re: TANSTAAFL (was: Re: contributing to FSF)

2005-08-27 Thread joy merwin monteiro
Someone please get Ray a PhD in something he has prolly researched this one more than some languauge students ;) How bout technical writing ??? Thesis on "2 Gazillion lines on linux-newbie: a summary (in 1.98 Gazillion lines)" To Ray Olzewski, THE Dude on newbie.. 3 Cheers! -

Re: Re[2]: root password *reset root password with grub*

2005-04-02 Thread joy merwin monteiro
Hi, My Debian System asks for a password even in single mode... Your solutino would probably work on RH and variants Which is OK in this case, but in case somesone needs to know... Joy On Apr 3, 2005 8:34 AM, Kev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Ankit Jain wrote: > > > > > i have forgot

Re: changing network card driver

2005-01-08 Thread joy merwin monteiro
Hi, first of all , is the present driver compiled into the kernel or as a module? If first option, you will need to compile a new kernel eithout the driver. if second, easy, goto /lib/modules//drivers and delete the module which will be there somewhere. Then modify ( delete) the entry in your

Re: retrieval

2005-01-02 Thread joy merwin monteiro
its really a trivial thing. just alias rm to rm -i in your .bashrc if you have deleted it one bruteforce method to retrieve it (if it was a text file) is to run 'strings' on the partition that had the file, catch all output and sift through it to find your data (might be possible, a friend of

Re: Getting ls results in text file - Charset issue

2004-12-21 Thread joy merwin monteiro
Hi, don't ask me why, but these characters look more like ANSI escape sequences (everything prefixed with an ESC (^[ ) ) .looks like your console is giving you the raw data it receives instead of just the text.. regards, Joy.M.Monteiro On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 23:25:42 +0100, ACario <[EMAIL PRO

Re: problems with command su

2004-12-07 Thread joy merwin monteiro
Hi, when you are at the LILO bootloader prompt type single as an argument to the kernel. after it boots , type passwd to change your password. should work, try it out and tell us... The same should work on grub as well, there is an option to edit kernel parameters before booting. try it out. r

Re: Query on SIGFPE handling

2004-11-22 Thread joy merwin monteiro
The basic mistake is that the variable values have not changed. 1/0 will generate a FPE no matter what you do. use variables like a=0;b=1; and if b/a generates an FPE, change its value.(bit hazy how to implement this... google around) the reason for giving you a signal handler is obviously to help

Cmedia support.....(Slack 10)

2004-10-23 Thread joy merwin monteiro
Hi, One of my friends has a comp with this config: AsRock mobo with an intel 845g chipset running a celeron an ac97 codec by cmedia.(cmedia 041 i think..) when I run alsaconf , it says no device detected. anyone else with this chip having problems Slackware 10 is running and also fedora core 1. n