PS/2 mouse problems, Solved!

2001-07-11 Thread Igor Khavkine
My problem has been solved. Turns out my mouse wasn't working becuase I was trying to connect a serial mouse to a PS/2 port (using an adaptor). But once I tried connecting a real PS/2 mouse, it worked. As for interrupt 12, turns out that my BIOS was in Auto mode for PS/2 auxillary device support,

xine and Xv

2001-03-03 Thread Igor Khavkine
I'm trying to play an MPEG file using xine (latest from unstable). However I cannot run xine without the -s option (that means: use a shared memory segment instead of the Xv extention for output). As a result I can't run it full screen. The output of xvinfo is: X-Video Extension version 2.2

iptables problem

2001-01-14 Thread Igor Khavkine
Hi, I'm running unstable with a custom built linux-2.4.0. I'm trying to setup a firewall rule with iptables the following way: iptables -A INPUT -i ppp0 -p tcp --dport 5865 -j REJECT The error message I get is: ipchains: Protocol not available If I chage REJECT to DROP everything works

potato disks

2000-01-22 Thread Igor Khavkine
I'm planning to install Debian on a computer and since potato is frozen I thought I'd just install the frozen dist right away and just update it until the release. But I was wondering about the boot disks in frozen. I've heard a lot of talk about them being broken. Are they now? and would I be