Text 5177, 79 rader
Skriven 2006-02-05 00:36:04 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38.9)
   Kommentar till text 5173 av James Bradley (1:134/77.0)
Ärende: udev -NOT
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Hey James!

Feb 05 03:53 06, James Bradley wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 JB> They call their packages "RPMS", so I'll assume you are right. I'll 
 JB> take
 JB> another spin for 'libsound', although I've more resigned myself to 
 JB> getting the
 JB> src somehow.

Personally I'd get the app source and forget about the lib.  Why hang onto an
abandoware dependancy?

 MK>> out 'mga_vid' wrt the g400.  I want my console back where
 MK>> it was gosh darn it!!!

 JB> "vga16" in the kernel, right? No "vesafb". See my post from the 
 JB> Gentoo box
 JB> about the grub quandry. Maybe some of my ignorance might spark 
 JB> something. <?>

No I had matroxfb working on the console for graphics.  Now I just get a green
box with no video in it.  The sound is good but without the video it may as
well be radio.  :-/

 JB> I read today that "Maven" needs to be compiled in too to run the 
 JB> tuner.

Right.  I have that as modular and as we speak it is locked and loaded. 
'lsmod' shows;

matroxfb_maven         19468  0
i2c_matroxfb            6528  0

Those two are needed to pull it off.

 JB> Regarding the resolution in X, I'm pretty sure I'm at 1024x768-24. 
 JB> Like you
 JB> say, that should leave enough even *with* 16M autodetacted.

Yes.  I redid my X configuration without the dri module and everything is good.

I think in my case this is the problem;

00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo MVP3/Pro133x
AGP]

 MK>> Heh, heh.  Nevermind vi, how about emacs instead?  ;-)

 JB> Same monkey, different playpen. <L>

:-)

 MK>> I once wrote a Mex - or was it Mecca? ... or both? - door to fake out
 JB> Never herd of Mex, besides in Mexico.

I think that was what the internal scripting thingy was called.  It was a long
time ago.

 JB> L! I've a suitcase of 6250 9-track tapes your welcome to browse 
 JB> through. Might
 JB> be some toys in there worth a chuckle. 

I'd prefer those over floppies.  There is a better chance something on the
tapes could be recovered, despite whether anything is worth recovering, whereas
on the floppies I seriously doubt it is possible given their age etc.

Besides that, I don't even have a floppy drive and haven't for years now.  Mind
you I don't have a tape drive either.

Oh well.

Backwards compatibilty?!?!?!?!  What the heck is that?

Life is good,
Maurice

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