Re: Newbie

[Jimmy Kaplowitz <jimmy@kaplowitz.org>]

I should answer honestly here; this is over my head. I sincerely hope that
someone on this list will have some idea. I am not familiar with TV tuner
hardware for Linux, since I don't own any.

I wish you good luck. Stick with it, these things usually do get worked out! :-)

- Jimmy Kaplowitz
jimmy@kaplowitz.org

On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 08:38:01AM +0800, #KUNDAN KUMAR# wrote:
> Thanks Jimmy,
>  Did the same as you asked. It worked fine, except for I had to give the
> aptget command with -f option, quite a few times.
>  However, now I am having some strange problems, the monitor (under X)
> suddenly freezes. Even the keyboard doesn't work. And after sometimes, it is
> alright.
>  Is it that my krenel is not well compiled? the kernel version is
> 2.2.18pre21. Some interesting things,  get in dmesg are:
> 
> ..
> CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 01
> Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.  
> ..
> PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device f9, VID=8086, DID=2411
> PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
>     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
>     ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
> ..
> PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device f9, VID=8086, DID=2411
> PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
>     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
>     ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA 
> ...
> 
> -------------------------------
> for my modules.conf, I have
> 
> # The BTTV module does not load the tuner module automatically,
> # so do that in here
> post-install bttv insmod tuner
> post-remove bttv insmod tuner
> 
> pre-remove serial /etc/init.d/setserial modsave  > /dev/null 2> /dev/nulll
> 
> ### update-modules: end processing /etc/modutils/setserial
> 
> ### update-modules: start processing /etc/modutils/arch/i386
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> alias char-major-10-144 nvram
> alias binfmt-0064 binfmt_aout
> alias char-major-10-135 rtc  
> 
> 
> 
> -----------------------------------
> Everything on the system is very slow, including telnet etc..
> 
> Help!
> Kundan 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jimmy Kaplowitz [mailto:jimmy@kaplowitz.org]
> Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 6:51 AM
> To: #KUNDAN KUMAR#
> Cc: Debian-User (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: Newbie
> 
> 
> First change all references to "stable" in your /etc/apt/sources.list to
> "woody". Then
> type:
> 
> apt-get update
> apt-get dist-upgrade
> 
> All this is to be done as root. You could also upgrade to unstable instead
> of
> woody/testing by substituting "unstable" for "woody" above.
> 
> If you have any questions, write back to the list and if I can help I'll try
> to
> do so.
> 
> - Jimmy Kaplowitz
> jimmy@kaplowitz.org
> 
> On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 06:28:05AM +0800, #KUNDAN KUMAR# wrote:
> > Greetings to all!
> >  I have just Installed Debian Potato. Delighted to see that it could be
> > done. I am extremely new to apt-get and the other debian package
> managaement
> > tools. Had heard a lot of apt-get and thus I came to debian. apt-get is
> > cool.
> >  I have a small dumb problem. How can I just upgrade to woody. I could not
> > figure out the exact command??
> >  apt-get distupgrade woody??
> >  thanks for help
> > Kundan
> > 
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