On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:26:04 -0800 Tim <[email protected]> dijo:
> > 1) I installed VLC 1.0.2 Goldeneye from the repos, but the display is > > scrunched up to the left 1/4 of the window. Someone else on the > > debian-user list reported the same problem, but no one can do much at > > the moment because the VideoLan wiki and forums are offline. They took > > them offline deliberately because of the high volume after releasing > > version 1.0. Luckily I don't need VLC often. > > For whatever reason I rarely use VLC, but when I do, I use the > packages from here: > http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ > > If you want all of his multimedia packages, just add the appropriate > line to your /etc/apt/sources.list and add his keyring package to > authenticate the package signatures going forward. > > While I can't guarantee you these packages won't be without problems, > I generally find these a lot better than those that come from Debian > (since they aren't nerfed due to rediculous DRM and patent > restrictions). That and they're a lot easier to keep updated than > having to build everything yourself. I already had the multimedia repo, and that is where I got VLC from. This morning Update Manager told me there were 36 upgrades available, and I noted that three of them related to VLC. I installed the upgrades, but VLC is still broken. I think I'll just have to wait until the VideoLan wiki and forums come back. > > 4) I have no wireless at home, so I need to go someplace to test the > > wireless. The installer found it and offered to set it up as the > > primary network interface, but I told it to use eth0 instead. And now > > ifconfig doesn't even report the existence of the wireless. > > I assume you're typing 'ifconfig -a' ? Of course not. :( Amazingly, when I typed ifconfig -a I got a list that included wlan0. So it's there after all. Probably all I have to do is be somewhere where there is wireless. In fact, from past experience, there are a couple of neighbors' wireless networks visible here. They just don't appear when I am connected to my home ethernet. I never knew the -a switch for the ifconfig command. I swear that just "ifconfig" used to show wlan0 back when I had Ubuntu. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
