There are probably a million better ways to do these, but these are tricks that I keep using (I'm well on my way to becoming an old crusty unix guy :-( )

I purchased a Proxima DPP6850 off ebay. Because the projector is a few years old, it doesn't have any component video capability. It has composite, s-video and two rgbvh (VGA) inputs.

The Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) has many messages that are identified by a "type" field. I use the types to specify what actions to take in my custom iptables config.

Digital AV Out

To watch Gamecube games in progressive scan, you need to have a gamecube with digital out. Since 2004, Nintendo took the digital port off the gamecube. You can get your gamecube replaced with a model with the port directly from Nintendo.

  • Black/Blank Screen First time I tried it, kernel boots then nothing.

Sleeping

First problem, sleeping, the SATA bridge doesn\'t sleep properly and therefore doesn\'t come back after resume. The infamous SATA ACPI patch at http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/9/23/97 seems to have solved this for me. I added the patch to the latest FC4 rpm and renamed (to be polite).

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Famous last words
"Unless you can present a solution, I don't think it's a problem" - November 11, 2004


"Updates usually go very well" - September 9, 2006

We were specifically trying to get skype to work on a sunray. We got audio working by configuring kde.

When trying to add a Windows 2003 server to a 2000 domain, adprep would fail with this error: F:I386>adprep /forestPrep ADPREP WARNING: Before running adprep, all Windows 2000 domain controllers in the forest should be upgraded to Windows 2000 Service Pack 1 (SP1) with QFE 265089, or to Windows 2000 SP2 (or later). QFE 265089 (included in Windows 2000 SP2 and later) is required to prevent poten tial domain controller corruption. For more information about preparing your forest and domain see KB article Q3311 61 at http://support.microsoft.com. [User Action] If AL