Re: linux-wlan-ng/firmware loading

Matthias Leopold schrieb: hi this one is for those brave folks who know about the interiors of linux-wlan-ng setup and how it is handled the upstream way and in the available debian-packages. i'm trying to use a testing system with recent wireless software. so i use a selfcom

linux-wlan-ng/firmware loading

hi this one is for those brave folks who know about the interiors of linux-wlan-ng setup and how it is handled the upstream way and in the available debian-packages. i'm trying to use a testing system with recent wireless software. so i use a selfcompiled 2.6.12.5 kernel, compiled the linux-

2.6 and /dev/dsp

hi i compiled 2.6.1 on my testing system from the sources from kernel.org. seems to work so far (alsa sound module is loaded fine) but there are (not unexpectedly) some issues with devices. i compiled devfs support into the kernel and started devfsd (like in 2.4.x). result: no /dev/dsp. next t

wdm problem

hi i would like to use wdm instead of xdm, but on two out of three debian boxes it doesn't work. i can't login. i enter my credentials, wdm seems to log me in ...then the xserver restarts and there's wdm again. nothing about wrong password or anything. no logfiles (/var/log/wdm.log, /var/log/auth.

display manager problems

hi 1.) since xserver-xfree86 4.2.1-11 was introduced into testing i have the problem that after xdm (or wdm) starts, i have to wait some time (maybe 30-60 seconds) before the xserver responds to keyboard input while the mouse works fine. after that or when i start X via startx theres's no prob

screenshot of mplayer-movie?

hi although this isn't debian-specific, i hope someone can help me (i AM using debian). how can i make screenshots of playing videos(maybe fullscreen)? i've tried to do this using the import program from ImageMagick, but it obviously doesn't work. somewhere i read that i should disable the xvid

kernel compile problems with gcc 3.3

hi i tried to recompile my 2.4.20 kernel with make-kpkg (as i have successfully done before) incorporating the xfs and ck patches. this time the process stopped with the following error message: net/network.o(.text+0xe117): In function `rtnetlink_rcv': : undefined reference to `rtnetlink_rcv_skb i