That's a neat idea, putting OS9 on a flash drive. Was it hard? I think I'll have to do that, because with xvidtune doesn''t quite cut it. When I widen the screen and make it taller, the brightness goes down significantly. And I don't seem able to correct the crookedness.
Nicholas Chase > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 05:13, Gunther Furtado <gunfurt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Nicholas, > > 2010/4/14 Nicholas Chase <nick.nchas...@gmail.com>: > > Thanks for your answer, Gunther. I'm still new, could you (or anyone > for > > that matter) please make that a bit more user friendly? I understand > that > > I'll have to "hold some packages", but I don't know how to do that. I've > > tried editing the /etc/apt/sources.list before and it failed probably > > because I didn't hold those packages. I run > > $ cat /etc/apt/preferences > > > > You should take a look at http://wiki.debian.org/Aptitude an try to > understand how debian upgrading works. > > > > and it says "no file found". How do I hold packages? Where can I find > this > > in the documentation? > > I guess issuing > $ man preferences > at a terminal could give you some indication too > > > Thanks for your patience. This computer is my > > Grandma's old computer that I rescued from an early grave with Debian, > and > > I'm hoping to keep it as up-to-date as possible as long as possible. > > That's great! No problem at all. > > > I'm still hoping to find a way to adjust the monitor. It's really > crooked > > and doesn't use all the screen area. Any Ideas, anyone? > > For the screen area you could try > > $xvidtune > > but sometimes I have to boot into MacOS 9 to fix monitor geometry > before booting into linux. I managed to install MacOS 9 in a 256MB > pendrive justo to fix sound and monitor geometry by the way. > > > Nicholas Chase > > > > > > [...] > > -- > > "...agora, só nos sobrou o futuro...", visto em www.manuchao.net > > Gunther Furtado > Curitiba - Paraná - Brasil > gunfurt...@gmail.com > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/q2ue8a2deac1004150513x210f4a5i213e0d7800cf9...@mail.gmail.com > >
