mplayer plugin for firefox

Hi, I also wanted to have the mplayer plugin for the Mozilla (more exactly Firefox) browser to be able to view quicktime movies and possibly listen to internet radios. However, installing the mozilla-mplayer package and trying to view the movie trailers on apple.com, my browser simply crashes gr

hibernate to disk on ASUS laptop

Hi, I am struggling to make hibernation work on my ASUS laptop (Unfortunately I do not know the exact model number, it was from the L series, I reckon). I've decided to use the suspend-to-disk method and use the swap partition (/dev/hda3) for this end. I use stock kernel version 2.6.22. Th

module-assistant with ipw2200

Hi, I am trying to build the ipw2200 package with module-assistant (as suggested on several forums), but when I do 'module-assistant -t build ipw2200-source' I get the following error message: " Bad luck, the kernel headers for the target kernel version could not be found and you did not spe

/etc/network/interfaces for ppp connection

Hi, I want to configure my eth1 interface to use ppp to the dsl provider on startup, so I wrote this in the /etc/network/interfaces file: auto eth1 iface eth1 inet ppp provider dsl-provider However it does not seem to work, below are the appropriate lines from syslog: Jul 12 21:19:26 lo

dhcpdiscover - is this needed?

Hi, I want to have my ppp connection to my ISP started on startup. I have tried several /etc/network/interfaces settings but seems that it only works if I have the auto eth1 iface eth1 inet dhcp lines in the interfaces config file. However, what these lines do is this: Listening on LPF/eth1

gtkpod 0.93.1-1 - not synchronizing

Hi, I have a 4 GB mini iPod which is mounted properly and has FAT32 and everything seems to work properly. I tried gtkpod to transfer mp3s to the iPod, successfully created the iPod's directories under the mount point added music files, clicked Sync which seemed to succeed, too (however, this

cdrecord won't work - kernel 2.6.10

Dear all, I have an ASUS M2437 laptop and I'm running Debian with kernel 2.6.10. One thing I haven't managed to sort out is to make the cd/dvd writer (TOSHIBA ODD-DVD SD-R6372 ATAPI) burn cd-s. I browsed several forums, mailing lists and howtos before turning to you but I have had no luck. I

Re: cdrecord + 'HL-DT-ST' 'RW/DVD GCC-4243N' '1.07' Removable CD-ROM

Hi, Yes, I went throught the same thing just some days ago and with the dev=/dev/hdc (or wherever your CD writer is) setting it works as it should. However, how do you make a front-end (namely xcdroast) use this setting? I keep getting scanbus errors using xcdroast and unable to even blank a

unable to rewrite DVD (The LUN appears to be stuck)

Hi all, I have a Toshiba DVD writer in my laptop which can burn CDs and DVDs perfectly. The only thing that I can't make work is the rewriting of DVDs. When I try to do that with: growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -r . I get the following error: :-[ RESERVE track failed with SK=5h/ASC=2Ch/ACQ=00h]: Inp

gnome upgrade - some icons disappeared

Hi, I've recently upgraded to gnome 2.8 (doing a regular apt-get upgrade) and found that all icons in the Applications menu have disappeared, replaced by the default 'folder' icon appears. In submenus all icons are ok, but also, in the 'main' bar on the very top of the screen I know I should

Re: gnome upgrade - some icons disappeared

oes give a huge amount of printouts, what does it mean? thank you, Balint Daniel Nilsson wrote: On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 10:03:40PM +0100, Erdi Balint wrote: Hi, I've recently upgraded to gnome 2.8 (doing a regular apt-get upgrade) and found that all icons in the Applications menu h