Re: color boot text

2002-06-01 Thread Tom Barnes-Lawrence
Hi, you wrote: > > If I remember correctly, a friend running red hat had color text > > while his machine was booting. Is there a howto on how to set this > > up? > > ...Red Hat's init scripts do some really bizarre things, but one of > the consequences of this is that they print output in a ~stan

Re: "mplayer -vo xvidix" problems with sudo

2002-06-01 Thread Tom Barnes-Lawrence
> > What do you mean? There's only one executable 'mplayer' and only one 'sudo'. > > He means that sudo sets a hard-coded $PATH (defined at compile time) and su > sets a potentially different one derived from any of several places. A similar alternative (to the original question) is that it could

Re: problem with my TVcard under woody

2002-06-01 Thread Tom Barnes-Lawrence
Hi! Not a bttv guru, but I used to use it (but nowadays it crashes my system, so not using it at the moment) You wrote: > I have compiled my kernel 2.4.18 with bttv support and have the following > /etc/modutils/actions: > > post-install bttv > /sbin/modprobe "-k" tuner > options bttv pll=1 radio

Re: [release+kernel] upgrade headache

2002-06-01 Thread Tom Barnes-Lawrence
Hi! Sorry, not got 24/7 net access, so I've not got any mail since this one. Either way, I eventually fixed it myself in the meantime. [snip] > If you are using a debian stock kernel, try adding the module for your > scsi card, scsi_mod, sg, etc. to /etc/modules. Check /boot/config-2.2.x > to see

[release+kernel] upgrade headache

2002-05-31 Thread Tom Barnes-Lawrence
does appear that the advansys.o, scsi_mod.o, sd_mod.o, ext2.o files *are* already in the image- but the kernel doesn't seem interested in loading them. In fact, I've not even seen reference to initrd in the messages when booting the 2.4 kernel. Also on this subject, what *exactly* is the