Re: Installing Debian Woody base on an Oldworld Mac.

2006-04-22 Thread Peter Rooney
Peter, yes, this is familiar. `libpcre' was my problematic package with old-world woody (7600). i had to re-start the package downloads 4-6 times on average. i even put a note to this effect in my installation log somewhere ("log every action taken as root " && "installation counts as a roo

Ignore accidental input

2006-04-22 Thread Børge Holen
Hi. In osX we got the opportunity to turn on the "Ignore accidental input". Is there a similar option in linux. The random input from the pad itself can be pretty annoying. I dunno if its hw or a sw bug, but sometimes the trackpad ... like right now.!. I cannot move the cursor more than an inch

Airport Extreme / Etch

2006-04-22 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
Hi, all. I've got Etch running on my iBook G4, and everything is good, excepting the Airport Extreme card. What's the best way for me to get this running (with WPA/PSK) under Etch? Is there a way to patch Linux 2.6.15 and get WPA support, or will I need to build a new kernel, 2.6.17 or thereabout

Re: [Formac Watchandgo DTV] is it supported on debian?

2006-04-22 Thread vinai
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Stefano Melchior wrote: On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 08:18:48AM -0700, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote: Dear all, [quoted text muted] using 'lspci' it displays that it has no information about the chipset :( Very bad! SteX Try 'cardctl ident' instead. the system displayed the foll

Re: vlc

2006-04-22 Thread caleb storms
ok after playing with some and manually putting my cd drive in vlcrc i get this VLC media player 0.8.4 Janus libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 0.1.9 from http://dvd.sf.net libdvdread: Encrypted DVD support unavailable. libdvdread: Can't stat /aÃxbOG No such file or directory libdvdnav: vm: faild to

Installing Debian Woody base on an Oldworld Mac.

2006-04-22 Thread petereasthope
The Woody, diskette based, PPC installer works well up to "Install the Base System" via the network. I used the default source. http://http.us.debian.org/debian Several files are delivered; then a snag with a report such as, "Couldn't download libgdbmg1". In another attempt, "Couldn't downlo

Re: How to disable 'rivafb_pan_display START' at boot ?

2006-04-22 Thread Manassypov, Igor
Title: Re: How to disable 'rivafb_pan_display START' at boot ? Whatch your kern.messages - that thing dumps these lines into syslog, your file will get huge. -ig Igor Manassypov, M.Eng., Network Architect CI Investments Inc. 151 Yonge Street Toronto, ON M5C 2W7 Tel:  (416) 364-1145 ext.

Re: vlc

2006-04-22 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > Try to set the correct device for the DVD drive - hda is your hard disk, > > the DVD ought to be on hdc then. > > He want to read a AVI or MPG from the Hardisk! I figured. > But choosen the wrong menu (File => Open Medium => Volume) > instead of (File => Open File) That's even possible for a