Alrighty, here's the script I wrote up... I did get a lot of the code in parts 1 and 2 from dougfractal on ubuntuforums.org, but part 3 was me using the ideas I got from cassianoleal on wordpress.com...

ALRIGHT... The script I have is to enable drm support in the kernel. What that is, I don't know, but it ISN'T Direct Rendering, and if it is, it isn't all of it. I finally figures out how to pass...

Alright! I found a fix for the locking assertion failure (although I don't fully understand what happened, I wasn't paying all that much attention...).

It turns out that libx11-6 has a conflict...

Alrighty, here's the problem:

I am installing linux on a sony VAIO that has a:01:00.0 WGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64)
I have tried installing the...

Lol, well I got it to connect; and no, I didn't have a mac formatted ipod XD

Apparently I have 3 ports: 2 on the left that are 2.0, and one on the right that's 1.0. I thought it was the other way...

Well, I tried to tell it that sda1 was a FAT fs, but it said it wasn't. T_T *cries in waterfalls* thanks for the tip, but apparently there are more mysterious things working here...

You would think someone would've asked this question already, but I am having trouble getting GTKpod to recognize my ipod when I connect it. I know that GTKpod isn't the problem, it my system's...

alright, thanks. I'll take a look-see

Well, I determined that I need to recompile my kernel so I can install the module using the module-assistant package. However, when I rebuild the kernel, it makes a kernel with a name...

alright, well I apt-get installed it, and, for whatever reason, that worked without questioning me.

I got the driver installed, but now I have to modprobe ndiswrapper and that replys with FATAL:...

alrighty, let's give it a shot. Thanks again.

Just in case this doesn't work, Isn't there some way to get the drivers? does ndiswrapper work for any kind of driver?

Whenever I try to go to the site it sits there, loading, for like 15 minutes. I usually just close it down.

And the mouse prefs have my mouse sensitivity and acceleration all the way up. The...

Okee dokee... I really need just the source code to be in the usr/src/linux-2.6.16-2-amd64-k8/ directory. What format are the source code files in?

and, looking back, will this operation be making...

hold up, I need the modules...

Do I need just the source, here? or do I need the whole image?

Alright, I got ahold of the kernel source .deb file. Should I use dpkg --install file.deb to extract and install them properly? I assume that will put them in /usr/src/linux-2.6.16-amd64-k8/ which...

Alright, I can't get ahold of my version of the linux kernel, 2.6.16, would it hurt anything to upgrade it when I use the ndiswrapper?

Alright, I got that one from my neighbor.

Now I am having troubles installing ndiswrapper. The installation sites say you need to have the version headers. I can't get those. I can't connect to...

alright, well the site said I needed a wireless toolset, and I downloaded it, but I can't figure out how to install it. I know I have to use make install but I don't know how to use make

I just got Debian, and I kinda need it to have working wireless internet. I have a pressy r3k, and the wireless adapter is broadcom adapter.

I don't care how, I just want it to work.

Uhm... the prefs one doesn't work, I tried that first thing, and I can't get that site to work.

You mentioned X, that's terminal based, right? Because I really need to learn that kind of stuff if...

I just got into Debian Linux. I installed etch on my lappy, and I cannot get the sensitivity of the mouse pointer to go up. What file do I need to edit, and how, to put the sensitivity up?

I have...