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On Sunday 11 December 2005 4:44 pm, Julian Hall wrote: > Tried the Xandros CD with no joy.. says 'Press Shift for boot options' > but the Rescue option doesn't do what it says on the tin, not in my case > anyway, inasmuch as it doesn't give me the chance to reinstal LILO which > is all I need to do for a working system. You should be able to sort out that problem from any shell - that's all you really need. If any of these boots provide a shell, that will use root as your hard drive partition so login to the shell, su to root and type: # lilo You don't need to 'install' LILO in terms of the package lilo, you simply need to *run* lilo to reinstate the master boot record to overwrite the current (brain-dead) Windows one with a lilo version that can dual-boot. Can you get to any kind of shell from these rescue / live / install CD's? > >Few peripherals are guaranteed to work with GNU/Linux - you are asking for > > too much in that regard > > Fair enough, poor choice of words on my part. What I *should* have said > is "any card that LUG members use and know works with Linux" which is a > completely different animal. You're absolutely right :) :-) > My current card (as you may or may not remember) is a Pinnacle DC10+B... > the B being for Bendino, the onboard chip which Pinnacle refuse outright > to allow any developers to have the specs for. Boo! HISS! Bunch of brain-dead megalomaniacs probably. :-) However: Recording is supported for the Zoran based cards like the Buz (Iomega), DC10 (MIRO, Pinnacle), Matrox Marvel cards and the LML33 (Linux Media Labs). http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/ > As Windows has been a > pain for, IMHO, the final time I'm voting with my feet. I'd like a card > that caps in full DVD (720*576/25fps PAL) as the Pinnacle does, but > obviously known to work in Linux. From Rob's post I think I'm looking > for something using a Brooktree BT8x8 chipset. Tuner is not an issue as > I view through the cable box anyway. I could Google for it I know, but > that landed me with the Pinnacle card last time due to viewing a > misleading website that had not been updated. :-( Google would have been my recommendation. With a little tweaking, Google could provide some answers: Brooktree BT8x8 based tv-tuner cards (such as AverMedia TV Phone, LifeView FlyVideo98 and many others). Search for Brooktree BT8x8 linux -solaris -pinnacle and use Advanced Options to set English language. http://linux.microbsys.com/print.php?sid=44 (which mentions v1.6.1 when the home page: http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/ refers to v1.8.0) Looks like pinnacle could be supportable after all so you could drop the -pinnacle in the query above. > I'd prefer the opinion of > people I trust, you guys and gals :) Much appreciated, but we are a relatively small group, we can't cover the entire spectrum. ;-) -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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