How? His console's not logging him in!

Untar the xyz.tar file (tar -xvf xyz.tar).Now delve into the xyz folder generated and look for a 'readme' and 'install' for detailed instructions on compiling and installing.
Good luck.

Well try rpm -qf on a file installed by the package. For eg if there is a gaim binary in /usr/bin then try      rpm -qf /usr/bin/gaim .This should give the correct package name.Maybe you've already done this.
Could it be happening due to some dependency prob?

Hi,
Try this.Boot in single user mode(if using grub select the Linux entry and hit 'e'. Select the kernel.... line and hit e again for editing.Then at the end of the line append a 'single' .Then hit enter and press 'b' to boot.The system should boot into single user mode.)
Now at the shell prompt change the runlevel from 5 to 3 using vi on /etc/inittab.You could also type 'telinit 3' to be immedately switched to runlevel 3.There you can use 'startx' to start gui mode or to troubleshoot if X crashes or sth.

There is a driver for SunPlus's spca504 chipset(which I think is employed in your camera) here http://sourceforge.net/projects/spca50x/
And for mounting the CF or whatever memory of your camera please remove the /dev/sda1 device and create a new one(only sda1 and not sda) using the Makedev script.You could also try mounting a friend's usb pendrive just to confirm.

Here is what I found.Please try and see.

I use wvdial instead of the official client for connecting to the Net using the FWP. I have tried to use kppp for this purpose, and have got very little success. The rest of this section explains how to connect using wvdial.


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 I used stty /dev/ttyS0 115200 (replace the port with the one you are using) to set the speed of the port to be used. You might not need it.
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In /etc/ppp/options I have:

    lock
    asyncmap 0
    crtscts
    modem
    defaultroute
    usepeerdns
    name reliance
    noauth
    mtu 264
    debug
   
In /etc/ppp/pap-secrets I have:

     "XXXXXXXXXX"  reliance  "XXXXXXXXXX"
   
Where XXXXXXXXXX is my phone number in the form STD-code + phonenumber. e.g. a Delhi(STD code 011) phone number YYYYYYYY, should have 11YYYYYYYY in the place of XXXXXXXXXX above.

In /etc/wvdial.conf I have:

    [Dialer Defaults]
    Modem = /dev/ttyS0
    Baud = 115200
    Init1 = AT+crm=1;$LGPKT=3
    ISDN = 0
    Modem Type = Analog Modem
    Phone = #777
    Username = XXXXXXXXXX
    Password = XXXXXXXXXX
    Stupid Mode = 1
   
Remember to use the phone number in the format explaned earlier in place of XXXXXXXXXX in the file given above.
Run wvdial as root to connect to the net, or alternatively give sudo permission to specific users to run wvdial using their own accounts.

fdisk -l lists all the partitions.If you want to use fdisk for creating/deleting partitions etc then do a   fdisk /dev/hda   .You'll get a list of commands which you can use.
For solving your Mandrake problem plz give the output of fdisk -l like Ricky requested so that we may know which is the root part for Mandrake.
Thanks

You may use Visual Foxpro on any popular Linux distro (Fedora,Suse etc) through the windows emulator WINE.
http://openfox.org/openfoxwiki/HOWTO_3a_20Install_20Visual_20Foxpro_20on_20Linux/Wine?action=highlight&value=%2FWine

Or you may use the tools from Recital.http://www.recital.com/products_linux.htm

Yeah thanks Avo for the tip.

Hi Agent 007,
There are 2 ways.
1) Use ALSA drivers. If you are new to alsa try reading this :
    http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=Intel&card=i820&chip=i820&module=intel8x0

2)Use a newer distro like Fedora Core 2 or Suse 9.1 which supports your board out of the box.

Booted from win98 CD.... fdisk -MBR
"Parameter format not correct  -MBR"
Ricky are you sure it is fdisk -mbr and not fdisk /mbr?
Thanks.

Well Ricky thanks for keeping this thread alive.I don't think there is a 'fixmbr' in win98;there's one in XP though.But even if there was I don't think it would help because it would remove grub from the mbr and only win98 would be left but it wouldn't correct the boot sector of win98 partition.Like I said I accidently wrote grub to the 98 boot sector instead of the mbr.So even if the mbr is corrected by 'fixmbr' it wouldn't help as the job of the mbr is to read the partition table and load the boot sector of the appropriate partition into memory and pass control to it.This boot sector then loads the operating system.But I've lost this boot sector which now contains grub.The mbr and this boot sector are both different things.

Ricky,what I meant was that I accidently wrote to the boot sector of win98 partition INSTEAD of the mbr.So now I actually have the mbr in the 98 boot sector ie I get the grub screen with win and fc1 listed;fc1 boots fine but when I select win98 it executes the boot sector(first sector of 98 partition)and i get the same grub screen back again.Even if I do a fdisk/mbr,the problem remains as it's not the mbr but the 98 boot sector which is at fault.

I have win98 and FC1 dual boot.Now I accidently installed grrub in the boot sector of the win98 partition(hda1) instead of the mbr(hda).Of course 98 won't boot.Does grub keep a backup of the sector it is writing?Or is there any other way of restoring the boot sector?

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