Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category

Bypassing a cranky BIOS: boot from CDROM

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

After a major crash of our Acer Aspire 1642 the hard disk needed to be replaced. After booting from a life CD we successfully installed Ubuntu Gutsy on the new drive. Unfortunately, after reboot the BIOS appeared to be completely blind to it. A BIOS upgrade would not fix the ...

Pinnacle PCTV USB2 on Suse 10.x

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Retrieved from the old wiki: To get the Pinnacle USB2 device working you'll need the kernel module for the em28xx chipset. This module is not included in the Suse distribution, so obtain the video4linux package v4l-dvb from linuxtv.org. Note: You do not need the usbvision package. It only supports USB1. The sources of ...