On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 07:48:04PM -0500, Matt Waters wrote: > Anyway, as the subject of this post says, I wanna put some serious > distance between myself and windows. My two big concerns are that I am > badly addicted to World of Warcraft, and the fact that I have an iPod. I > have a subscription to Transgaming's Cedega, so I don't anticipate much > trouble there, however, the iPod issue is a serious one, as I plan on > using it to transfer my personal data to a new Linux installation, as > well as the fact that I am rather fond of it as a portable music player. > Any ideas or advice on getting either one, or both to work with Debian > (I used to run a functioning Debian mail server many years ago, so I'm > at least somewhat familiar with it) would be most appreciated. I had very few difficulties using my iPod on linux (Debian, natch) until its drive croaked on me. The interface to gtkpod takes a little getting used to, and I vaguely recall having some setup problems, but once I climbed those hills it was smooth sailing. Here are the links I accumulated in setting up my iPod (I can't vouch for the usefulness of any of these--it's been a while): http://austin.mit.edu/ipod/ http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1899332#1899332 http://neuron.com/~jason/ipod_archive.html http://people.csail.mit.edu/people/adonovan/hacks/ipod.html http://www.cs.duke.edu/~geha/ipod/ http://www.freedos.org/jhall/ipod/ http://www.gnu.org/software/gnupod/gnupod.html http://www.linux1394.org/view_device.php?id=652 Good luck! -- trammell at el-swifto.com 9EC7 BC6D E688 A184 9F58 FD4C 2C12 CC14 8ABA 36F5 Twin Cities Linux Users Group (TCLUG) Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota