Dello Darren. These debs, what are they? How do I use them? I'm a new ubuntu user and I'd love to be able to use xine (for vdr head) on ubuntu this without having to compile it myself.. Maybe I should be moving to whatever distro you work with? Mick On 12/13/06, Darren Salt <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I demand that Tony Houghton may or may not have written... > > > In <4E943BC299%linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Darren Salt wrote: > >> I demand that Tony Houghton may or may not have written... > >>> Is there any chance you could enable the DirectFB output in your libxine > >>> package? > >> It's too late for 1.1.3-2, but I've enabled it ready for whenever I next > >> decide to do a package update. > > > Thanks. I'll look out for that and try to do a big kernel- and dist-upgrade > > as and when. It's about time. > > dist-upgrade? Are you sure? > > > Speaking of kernel upgrades I'm still using a 2.6.17 kernel on that box > > because when I tried to upgrade to 2.6.18 my remote stopped working even > > though the patch still seeemed to apply OK. I think you're using the > > same remote as me (Hauppauge "grey") but with a more advanced patch that > > allows a keymap to be loaded, > > I _was_. My budget-ci patches have been modified somewhat since then [1] and > are currently in the v4l-dvb repository; they should be in 2.6.20-rc1 (I > think that they're already in 2.6.19-git*). > > > whereas I found a simpler patch which just hardwires a different set of > > keycodes. Have you used 2.6.18 or later OK? > > Not entirely - 2.6.18 didn't seem too good generally here, but 2.6.19 seems > fine (apart from, perhaps, a small problem which is manifest via apt > updates). Anyway, this is with different hardware, and I have a couple of > cx88 patches which need to be updated... > > > [1] http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2006-October/013302.html > > -- > | Darren Salt | linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon > | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army > | + Generate power using sun, wind, water, nuclear. FORGET COAL AND OIL. > > Knowledge is power. > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr >