Re: How to get Sound to work - Need step by step instructions

2005-01-02 Thread Syed Huq
Hi > > Before you start messing around with new kernels, do yourself > a favor and switch to Grub. Once you get it installed, it is > much easier. Additionally, if you use symlinks like /vmlinuz > and /vmlinuz.old and so on, you can point the symlinks at > newly installed kernels and reboot wi

Re: How to get Sound to work - Need step by step instructions

2005-01-02 Thread Syed Huq
> > Ditch that kernel and install another one, either kernel-image-2.2.20 or > kernel-image-2.4.18-1-386|686|k6|k7|586. If you use 2.4.18, don't > forget to configure lilo to use the initrd needed to boot that kernel. > After booting with the new kernel, try again. > I tried 'ditching' that kern

How to get Sound to work - Need step by step instructions

2005-01-01 Thread Syed Huq
Hi, A newbie question: # Is there a step by step instuctions on how to setup Sound ? 1) I did an apt-get install sndconfig. When I run sndconfig, I get the following error: "" You don't seem to be running a kernel with modular ? sound enabled. (soundcore.o was not found in the ? module

Help with Linux command

2004-12-31 Thread Syed Huq
Hi, If I want to swap the mount point and all it's content between /usr and /home. What should I do ? I realized that I made a mistake in the partition size between the two and I would like to "swap"them. The disk space I originally intended for /usr and /home needs to be swapped. Thanks, Rathon

Re: How to boot from Sarge CD#1 if BIOS does not support booting from CD

2004-12-30 Thread Syed Huq
esponses from many of you.. - Rathon On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 21:32:07 -0800, Syed Huq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > If you're lacking space in /usr, how is booting from a Sarge CD going to > > help? Are you planning on > > wiping/repartitioning/resizingpartitions

Re: How to boot from Sarge CD#1 if BIOS does not support booting from CD

2004-12-30 Thread Syed Huq
> > If you're lacking space in /usr, how is booting from a Sarge CD going to > help? Are you planning on > wiping/repartitioning/resizingpartitions/reinstalling, or what? > Exactly yes. I just added a 2nd hard hard drive and I intend to wipe it all out/re-parition/re-install from scratch. This 2

Re: How to boot from Sarge CD#1 if BIOS does not support booting from CD

2004-12-30 Thread Syed Huq
The ./install/floppy dir has some .img file. I do not have a floppy drive. So still not sure how to run the installer... Isn;t there any type of a .bat file I could run to envoke the installer ? - Rathon On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 00:08:44 -0500, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

How to boot from Sarge CD#1 if BIOS does not support booting from CD

2004-12-30 Thread Syed Huq
Hi, I have downloaded the .iso image of Sarge CD#1. Even though I have set the first boot device to boot from is my CD-Drive(in my BIOS setting). It is not booting from CD-Drive. I went to the ./install dir of this CD#1 and cannot see any files I can run to make it boot from the CD-Drive or how t

Re: [[offlist] Re: [Way off topic] the Quran

2004-12-29 Thread Syed Huq
> Then why do early verses in the Quran say that Jews and Christians > (people of the Book) or OK and can continue practicing their > religion and later say that they must be converted? That would > seem like a contradiction to me. > The Quran considers Jews and Christians as people of the Book

Re: [Way off topic] the Quran

2004-12-29 Thread Syed Huq
> > The Muslims believe in a conecpt of "nullification" (I forget the > correct term) that essentially states that later verses in the Quran > that contradict with earlier verses, contradict or "trump" the earlier > verses. Read the book I mention above and you will see what I mean. > The Quran d

Moving from Woody to Sarge

2004-12-27 Thread Syed Huq
Hi, Question from a newbie. I am currently using 3.0r1(Woody) and would like to move to Sarge soon. I had to use a specific xserver-mach4 for my ATI card. If I use Apt to do the upgrade to Sarge, do I need to re-do my xserver or that piece remains as is. Are there possible things that could brea

Re: Newbie Xserver problem with ATI Mach64 and Woody

2004-12-24 Thread Syed Huq
It Worked !! Downloaded the xserver-mach4 using apt. Last question, how do I toggle between the various resolution modes. Right now, it's set to 640X480 and I want to toggle to the 1024X768 - Rathon On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 21:07:52 -0500, David Mandelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: Newbie Xserver problem with ATI Mach64 and Woody

2004-12-24 Thread Syed Huq
Hi David, > > > > Then I changed to Depth of 8 and get this error: > > (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice, No such device > > (EE) Generic Mouse: Cannot open input device > > (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Generic Mouse". > Try reconfiguring xserver-xfree86 and changing

Newbie Xserver problem with ATI Mach64 and Woody

2004-12-24 Thread Syed Huq
Hi, I am a newbie trying to get my Xserver working using Woody(3.0r1) and ATI Mach64 Graphics card. The general error is: (EE) ATI(0): Depth 16 is not supported through this adapter I had started with a Depth of 24 and got a Depth 24 is not supported Then I changed to Depth of 8 and get this er

Re: ASUS P5P800 Motherboard support

2004-12-01 Thread Syed Huq
on CPU+DDR Mem+MoBo, it is an expensive project. - Rathon On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 10:34:03 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Par wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 10:03:01AM -0800, Syed Huq wrote: > > > >>Can you pls tell me if the ASUS P

Re: ASUS P5P800 Motherboard support

2004-12-01 Thread Syed Huq
Unfortunately that link has a list of a few Motherboards only. Absolutely no mention of ASUS. I am sure there are a lot of Linux users with ASUS.. Thanks anyways, Rathon On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 17:04:50 +0800, Mark Par <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 10:03:01AM -0800,

ASUS P5P800 Motherboard support

2004-11-30 Thread Syed Huq
Hi, Can you pls tell me if the ASUS P5P800 Motherboard would work with Debian ? OR Can you point me to a Motherboard Hardware listing that shows which Motherboard's would work with Debian. Thanks in advance, Rathon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

AMD PCNET PCI Ethernet question

2000-04-01 Thread syed huq
Hi, (absolute Newbie to Linux): Using Slink and trying to setup my eth0 for the first time. I am reading the Ethernet-HOW-TO and have a few ques. When I did dmesg | more, it did not show any eth'N' messages so my first installation did not see the card. I looked under /lib/modules/2.0.36/ and fo

Re: [EDI software]

1998-10-06 Thread Syed Huq
Peter, Did you mean EDA ?? What is EDI ?? Rathon. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all: Does anyone know of any EDI software which runs under Debian or Linux. Thanks Peter -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null ___

Re: Repeated messages?

1998-07-09 Thread Syed Huq
Yep, you are right, I am getting all these old messages all over again. Syed. > > Is it just me, or am I getting messages from two or three days ago again? > > --Evan, who swears he's seed the dir *. /s msg before... > ---And the Gateway message... and others... > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail

Missing base14-x.bin files in /disks-i386/current dir

1998-07-06 Thread Syed Huq
Hi, I am a first time user of Debian Linux and have the following questions. I have read the 'Installing Debian Linux 2.0' documentation and tried to download the files mentioned in section 6.1 from: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/stable/disks-i386/current/ All the files are there except base14-1.b

Re: a user list too big, a suggestion

1998-07-06 Thread Syed Huq
I agree too. The volume of mail per day is a LOT ! I hope we can do something about it. Syed. > > Hello fellow users. > The debian user lists are the most important source of > information for debian users, > especially in detailed problems. I believe we all agree to > that. > However the lists h

Debian T-shirt

1998-06-26 Thread Syed Huq
Hi, Where can I buy a Debian T-shirt ?? Syed. -- ~ Syed B. Huq [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ ~ Interface Apps Engineer ~ ~ National Semiconductor Corp. ~ ~ Tel:(408)721-4874; Fax:(408)721-4785 ~