Re: [64studio-users] Need some help!

2009-11-04 Thread Gustin Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Kevin Donnelly wrote: >> I'm not sure if .avi works on a DVD - I >> think you have to use .mpg files. >> > > !!! IMPORTANT > > I don't know too, if AVI works for "regular" video DVDs, but I guess > some DVD players can hand

Re: [64studio-users] [64studio-devel] upgrade kernel to *31 series

2009-11-04 Thread Gustin Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin Donnelly wrote: > On Wednesday 04 November 2009 13:57, rosea grammostola wrote: >> But will the drivers for the Yamaha products also be fine? e.g. are the >> yahama products still working likely after the force? > > Call me a scaredy-cat, but I

Re: [64studio-users] [64studio-devel] upgrade kernel to *31 series

2009-11-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Kevin Donnelly wrote: > On Wednesday 04 November 2009 13:57, rosea grammostola wrote: > >> But will the drivers for the Yamaha products also be fine? e.g. are the >> yahama products still working likely after the force? >> > > Call me a scaredy-cat, but I would be very dubious about force-i

Re: [64studio-users] [64studio-devel] upgrade kernel to *31 series

2009-11-04 Thread Kevin Donnelly
On Wednesday 04 November 2009 13:57, rosea grammostola wrote: > But will the drivers for the Yamaha products also be fine? e.g. are the > yahama products still working likely after the force? Call me a scaredy-cat, but I would be very dubious about force-installing a kernel. If your main aim is

Re: [64studio-users] [64studio-devel] upgrade kernel to *31 series

2009-11-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
rosea grammostola wrote: > But will the drivers for the Yamaha products also be fine? e.g. are the > yahama products still working likely after the force? I don't know. My read is, that the ALSA firmware will be replaced by the force option. I don't know if the ALSA drivers will have some additi

Re: [64studio-users] [64studio-devel] upgrade kernel to *31 series

2009-11-04 Thread rosea grammostola
Ralf Mardorf wrote: > rosea grammostola wrote: > >> Ok, I did manage to build a kernel. But I had to force install it cause >> it shared some drivers with the alsa packages. >> >> Do you normally build the alsa packages with or against the kernel or >> something? >> > > "Usual" I don't c

Re: [64studio-users] add passwd to sudo

2009-11-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> I believe that the password is cached for 15 minutes. > "Decrease the cache timeout: You can set sudo to expire its password cache sooner than the default 15 minutes, by setting the timestamp_timeout option to something else in /etc/sudoers." (http://www.wlug.org.nz/SudoHowto) If I remem

Re: [64studio-users] [64studio-devel] upgrade kernel to *31 series

2009-11-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
rosea grammostola wrote: > Ok, I did manage to build a kernel. But I had to force install it cause > it shared some drivers with the alsa packages. > > Do you normally build the alsa packages with or against the kernel or > something? "Usual" I don't care of such things, but when I compiled my

Re: [64studio-users] Need some help!

2009-11-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Kevin Donnelly wrote: > I'm not sure if .avi works on a DVD - I > think you have to use .mpg files. > !!! IMPORTANT I don't know too, if AVI works for "regular" video DVDs, but I guess some DVD players can handle formats, that not every player can handle. Even if AVI should be fine for some

Re: [64studio-users] [64studio-devel] upgrade kernel to *31 series

2009-11-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
rosea grammostola wrote: > So you can compile a 65bit kernel on a 686 computer? Just changing it > in menuconfig? > Hi :) sorry for my late reply. Dunno. On Debian based distros I never had any trouble, but I compiled for the architecture of my machine only. I also tried to compile a kernel