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by detroit
Mon Sep 22, 2003 7:06 pm
Forum: Q & A
Topic: Plz help ! I need VGA
Replies: 12
Views: 8896

btw-- the above approach yielded color output in text console.

I think I will make two separate kernels-- one for vga and one for TV.
I need to think of best way to allow selecting the kernel when launching gentoox.xbe
by detroit
Mon Sep 22, 2003 3:42 am
Forum: Q & A
Topic: Plz help ! I need VGA
Replies: 12
Views: 8896

here's what I did: cd /usr/src/linux make menuconfig Scroll in menuconfig to Console drivers and enable [ ]VGA text console. Then scroll down to and enter 'Frame-buffer support'. Disable 'nVidia Riva support (EXPERIMENTAL)'. Exit menuconfig, save your changes. Then type: make dep && make cle...
by detroit
Mon Sep 22, 2003 3:35 am
Forum: Q & A
Topic: external usb drive
Replies: 8
Views: 5177

thanks, glad to see you've made some progress on this too,
by detroit
Sun Sep 21, 2003 6:49 am
Forum: Q & A
Topic: external usb drive
Replies: 8
Views: 5177

i finally got this to work on 2.1:

modprobe usb-storage
modprobe scsi_mod
modprobe ide-scsi
modprobe sg
modprobe sr_mod
mkdir /mnt/usb
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb
by detroit
Sun Sep 21, 2003 4:22 am
Forum: Q & A
Topic: external usb drive
Replies: 8
Views: 5177

if you bothered to read my post, you would see that I wasn't talking about cd burning, but mounting an external usb drive, which has still not been acheived or demonstated.
by detroit
Fri Sep 19, 2003 8:05 am
Forum: Q & A
Topic: external usb drive
Replies: 8
Views: 5177

still hasn't been done.
it's possible to record to usb cdrom, but not to actually mount a usb drive.
by detroit
Mon Aug 25, 2003 7:47 pm
Forum: Q & A
Topic: external usb drive
Replies: 8
Views: 5177

anyone tried this in 2.1?
It's amazing that one of the most seemingly useful features has been impossible for so long. Mounting a USB drive seems like it should pretty basic-- has no one in the history of xbox development really never succeeded at this?
by detroit
Wed Aug 13, 2003 5:32 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Home v2.1
Replies: 11
Views: 7586

Two things that I would really like to see.... 1) ability to mount usb drives without kernel recompiles, etc --- this has never been possible under xbox before. 2) better support for people using VGA --- if 2.1 can make it easier to use VGA such that the boot messages are visible and x11 can work wi...
by detroit
Mon Aug 11, 2003 10:41 pm
Forum: Q & A
Topic: external usb drive
Replies: 8
Views: 5177

external usb drive

Has anyone been able to connect an external usb drive to the xbox with gentoox v2? If so what were the exact steps that you took to mount the drive, and what custom configuration (if any) did you do to the default setup?