R and R#

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:19:54 +0000

Work on my media box continues. While in bed this morning I decided that I wanted to use it to play Stunt Car Racer - since I have an ADF image and a Kickstart 1.3 ROM image lying around (entirely legal! I think, anyway. I seem to be on the Cloanto mailing list for something or other, I'm pretty sure it was for buying Amiga Forever some time in the past), this should be dead easy, right?

No. Despite having SDL support, UAE doesn't work with the vesafb console SDL driver. I think this is because said driver misreports the screen size. Eventually I found that it does work with radeonfb, but this is of limited use because mplayer doesn't. So my eventual conclusion is "screw this, let's install an X server - at least there's a reasonable chance more than four other people in the known world will be using the same configuration then"

W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz  Hash Sum mismatch

This is the single most fricking annoying thing about live-helper. Every time you change what's going into the image you need to run lh_clean, and then it goes off to download everything again (from, in this case, a squid cache - apt-proxy seemed to have troubles of its own) with the result that in the approx 8 hours out of every 24 that the mirror network is in some way broken you can't do anything.