Dear Friends, Iam very happy to introduce myself. Working as a system adnminstrator for Windows NT. P assed MCSE last year. From a month i got the interst in Linux. Installed the KDE & Gnome, as iam a windows buff. But couldn't get the 640*480 resoulation. I have a SIS 6215 c card. I am thankful to the Guy who asked about this & to the answered gem. Thanks guys, Ramesh.V.K --- Linux India Digest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Linux India Digest Tuesday, December 7 1999 > Volume 01 : Number 417 > > > > In this issue: > > Re: [LI] Interesting error on unix >> Perfection of > Solar calender Over TIME << > Re: [LI] Interesting error on unix >> Perfection of > Solarcalender Over TIME << > RE: [LI] RH6.1 passwd - bug? > [LI] SiS 6215c temp soln... > [LI] kppp root password. > RE: [LI] RH6.1 passwd - bug? > Re: [LI] kppp root password. > [LI] Novell Client for Linux > Re: [LI] kppp root password. > Re: [LI] Novell Client for Linux > Re: [LI] Novell Client for Linux > [LI] NIS+ > [LI] Networking with linux > Re: [LI] Interesting error on unix >> Perfection of > Solar calender Over TIME << > Re: [LI] Prob. with X-configuration.... > Re: [LI] terminal problem > Re: [LI] Lack of hard disk space > Re: [LI] X problem with Cyrix MediaGX >> MediaGX or > FBDev << > RE: [LI] Networking with linux > [LI] slackware96 y2k compatibility > [LI] Digital Pictures and Linux > [LI] eth0 initialistion delayed > [LI] Equivalent of Gozilla in linux > Re: [LI] RH6.1 passwd - bug? > [LI] Uploaded sendmail 8.9.3-3slink1 (source alpha > i386 m68k sparc) to master (fwd) > [LI] Beautiful FBDev ( Great ) > Re: [LI] Beautiful FBDev ( Great ) > Re: [LI] Equivalent of Gozilla in linux > RE: [LI] IT.com Photos ( correction ) ;-) > [LI] switching off cpu? > [LI] Switching to Runlevel 3 > Re: [[LI] Equivalent of Gozilla in linux] > [LI] [offline] Too much noise ... > Re: [LI] Switching to Runlevel 3 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 20:12:41 +0530 > From: Rohit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LI] Interesting error on unix >> > Perfection of Solar calender Over TIME << > > > Actualy speaking its again not 356 1/4 exactly. > Thats why one as the Centinal > > rule, where a centinal year has to be divisible by > 400 to be a leap year. This > > again misses by a FEW SECONDS each year. > > Right. A year = 365.2422 days, to be precise > siderially. > - > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > The Linux India Mailing List Archives are now > available. Please search > the archive at http://lists.linux-india.org/ before > posting your question > to avoid repetition and save bandwidth. > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 20:13:15 +0530 > From: Rohit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LI] Interesting error on unix >> > Perfection of Solarcalender Over TIME << > > Vimal Mathew wrote: > > On Sun, 05 December 1999, C Hanish Menon wrote: > > > However much much later it was found that a year > was actualy 356 1/4 days. > > > ..... > > > Actualy speaking its again not 356 1/4 exactly. > > > .... again misses by a FEW SECONDS each year. > > Aargh! You mean my watch does not show the > correct time. I should > > have listened to the atomic-clock salesman.... > > ;) > > --vml, > > May be not. Those things COST > :-P > - > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > The Linux India Mailing List Archives are now > available. Please search > the archive at http://lists.linux-india.org/ before > posting your question > to avoid repetition and save bandwidth. > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 05:08:51 -0500 > From: Soumyanath Chatterjee > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: [LI] RH6.1 passwd - bug? > > Sharad Joshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > >+ In my earlier version of Linux (RH5.2) I could > have some guest account > without > >+ any password. After I have upgraded to RH6.1 I am > not able to log into > those > >+ account. By giving null password. > > > >You can still do that. Delete the second entry in > the passwd file, > >whatever it is (like "sSFvdGFd12ssd", or "x"). > This will give a null > >passwd (not "enter"). > This was what I had in Rh5.2; 2nd field deleted for > some users so that when > they log in there is no password prompt. Now in > RH6.1 such thing do not allow > me to log in. > > > > >+ > >+ My effort to change the password was > unusccessful. In desperation I edited > the > >+ /etd/passwd file and put some junk in the > password field - now I can change > >+ the password. > > > >Great work :) I thought no mortal could compute the > encryption string > >which goes in the passwd field. You did it, but > missed that slightly :) > > > > Thanks for UR comments but actually it is this > version RH6.1 thinks any string > as a valid password => no CRC check > > >+ > >+ Is it a bug or I have done some mistake? > >+ > > > >The latter. > > > > I hope so!! > > >Sharad. > >~~~~~~~ > > - > ------------------------------------------------------------ > I Love Linux. Do U ? <URL: > http://www.bigfoot.com/~soumyac > > - > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > - > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > The Linux India Mailing List Archives are now > available. Please search > the archive at http://lists.linux-india.org/ before > posting your question > to avoid repetition and save bandwidth. > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 15:12:33 +0530 > From: Joy Sarkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [LI] SiS 6215c temp soln... > > >> > >>From: "Shalabh Choudhri." > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [LI] Prob. with X-configuration.... > > hi dude's, > been posting this mesg. for quite some time & have > got a reply or 2. But i > am more or less stuck till-date:-( > I hope this time someone out there(not up there) can > help me ;-) > I am using the linux6.1 from PCQ-nov issue, and am > not able to improve the > resolution to anything better than 640x480 using a > VGA16 server. When i link > X(both /etc/X11/X and /usr/X11R6/bin/X) to the SVGA > server the cusor appears > as a block. > While running win95 I am using 800x600 true color, > small font refresh rate > 60. The card is SiS6215C. > === message truncated === __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- The Linux India Mailing List Archives are now available. Please search the archive at http://lists.linux-india.org/ before posting your question to avoid repetition and save bandwidth.
