Re: [uug] Making a bootable CD with linux

2005-04-20 Thread Scott Paul Robertson
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 04:35:02PM -0600, Trevan wrote: > I am looking to upgrading my BIOS on my system, but it doesn't have a > floppy disk drive. It only has a DVD/CD player. So, I was wondering > how I could make a bootable CD. All it needs to do is run the bios > upgrade that I get from DEL

[uug] Making a bootable CD with linux

2005-04-20 Thread Trevan
I am looking to upgrading my BIOS on my system, but it doesn't have a floppy disk drive. It only has a DVD/CD player. So, I was wondering how I could make a bootable CD. All it needs to do is run the bios upgrade that I get from DELL. Dell provides a BIOS executable file that I need to put on a

Re: [uug] Sound on Dell Dimension 2400

2005-04-20 Thread Trevan
> > I use archlinux, and it came in the package. Check out > http://www.alsa-project.org/. It appears that alsaconf is stored in > the utils directory. > Ok, I installed the alsa package from source, and then ran alsaconf. It found my card and modified modprobe.conf with: # --- BEGIN: Generate

Re: [uug] Sound on Dell Dimension 2400

2005-04-20 Thread Adam Findley
> I noticed that I don't have alsaconfig. It doesn't seem to be installed > on my machine. I have alsamixer and alsactl, but not alsaconfig. I > have yummed all the alsa packages. How would I go about and get > alsaconfig. It might help solve this problem. I use archlinux, and it came in the

Re: [uug] Sound on Dell Dimension 2400

2005-04-20 Thread Trevan
I made those changes in my modprobe.conf and rebooted my machine. This is what is in lsmod now (just the part that deals with sound): snd_intel8x0 34049 0 snd_ac97_codec 71097 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_pcm_oss51953 0 snd_mixer_oss 18241 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm

Re: [uug] Sound on Dell Dimension 2400

2005-04-20 Thread Adam Findley
Here's the output from my lsmod. snd_intel8x0m 19396 0 snd_intel8x0 34624 1 snd_ac97_codec 79224 2 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0 snd_pcm98564 4 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec snd_timer 27268 1 snd_pcm snd5

Re: [uug] Sound on Dell Dimension 2400

2005-04-20 Thread Trevan
> > > You can see that it's the intel 810 audio chip running, with the ac97 > codec running the card. Do you get sound under knoppix? > Knoppix does play sound. Here is something interesting that might have affect. I can't run knoppix unless I change my bios setting to 1MB of video memory, b

Re: [uug] Sound on Dell Dimension 2400

2005-04-20 Thread Adam Findley
Now that's rather bizarre. I can understand why you are frustrated. >From this > i810_audio 25048 1 > ac97_codec 11916 0 [i810_audio] > soundcore 3428 2 [i810_audio] You can see that it's the intel 810 audio chip running, with the ac97 codec running the

Re: [uug] MythTV Questions

2005-04-20 Thread Mark Gardner
On 4/20/05, Scott Paul Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 10:10:30PM -0600, Ross Werner wrote: > > Oh, another question ... on the "Weather" page, it's unable to download > > the Doppler radar image. I haven't really looked into it, but was > > wondering if it's a known

Re: [uug] MythTV Questions

2005-04-20 Thread Scott Paul Robertson
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 10:10:30PM -0600, Ross Werner wrote: > Oh, another question ... on the "Weather" page, it's unable to download > the Doppler radar image. I haven't really looked into it, but was > wondering if it's a known problem/easily fixable or something. When I get > a chance I'll do s

RE: [uug] xbox linux

2005-04-20 Thread Robert LeBlanc
I'm compiling the 2.6.11.7 kernel. I need to create my initrd image, but that will have to wait until tomorrow (er, today much later). Since Xebian already uses /dev/loop mkinitrd fails. I either need to hack the script, find a parameter that changes the loop back device index or just modify the ex