On Wednesday, June 29, 2011 at 5:45:55 PM UTC-4, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:

Sorry for shouting in the subject, but the C64 shouts by default. ;-)
I installed a new Linux (Debian Squeeze) and with it the VICE
version. No, I not want to compile a newer version. ;-)
As usually on Debian some firmware files are missing, like kernal or
basic, so I transferred them from my other computer. While at least Ubuntu came (? not sure anymore) with it. Why?
How ever, while attaching tape images works, it does not work with disk images. In Vice (in the C64, the blue screen :-) it says "DEVICE NOT
PRESENT ERROR", and when I go to to menu to the option to configure what
type of drive there is only "None" and the rest of the menu grayed
out. But it lets me attach disk images otherwise.
I already copied the content of the directory "DRIVES" from my old
computer to the new VICE installation.
What is missing?

Hello from 12 years in the future. ;-)

I had the same error message again - and found this 12 year old discussion.

Besides VICE's config file destroying itself when saving after a Debian distribution upgrade (I'll send in a bug report via the Debian bug tracker if this persists after the next VICE update), this time I also had to add:

DosName1541="/usr/lib/vice/DRIVES/dos1541"
Drive8Type=1541

to the ~/.config/vicerc to get the 1541 running.

All good. Just wondering, because before the major distribution upgrade it worked.
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Andreas

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