Sorry, this mail appearently bounced last night because I sent using my work 
account.  Alias now activated!

Anways.....

On Wednesday 22 October 2003 06:39 pm, Phil Barnett wrote:
> 1. I used to run an nvidia card in my machine, but had to give it up for a
> gaming machine. Now I have a Matrox G-450.
>
> I simply cannot get glx to work.
>
> In fact, I removed the nvidia modules and they want to come back. How do I
> find out what is calling them in?
>
> I noticed when I emerged xfree again, it switched to the nvidia glx
> drivers. This is just plain wrong. How do I stop it from doing that and
> make it see that I now have a Matrox card?
>

You might need to do a:

opengl-update xfree

That should reset things back to the XFree86 GLX modules instead of the nVidia 
ones.

> 2. I recently got a 128 meg thumb drive. When I plug it in, I can see it in
> /proc/bus/usb/devices, but I can not find a mount point for it. I have
> scsi-emulation running for ide. Do I need to do something special to get
> the scsi modules to mount the usb devices?

In my kernel config I have the following selected as modules:

*** Under "SCSI support" ***
CONFIG_SCSI���������������������"SCSI Support"
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD�������"SCSI disk support"
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR�������"SCSI CD-ROM support"
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG�������"SCSI generic support"

*** Under "USB support" ***
CONFIG_USB����������������������"Support for USB"
CONFIG_USB_STORAGE������"USB Mass Storage support"

.....and of course the appropriate USB host controller(s) which it sounds like 
you already have. �I don't have *any* low level SCSI drivers selected.  Also, 
I don't believe I have the SCSI emulation for IDE set.

Once you have all that make sure you've installed and started the "hotplug" 
package.  If not, do the following:

emerge hotplug
/sbin/depscan.sh
rc-update add hotplug default
/etc/init.d/hotplug start

This setup allows me to use, my pendrive, external hard drive, and external 
CD-R/RW drive. �They all show up as SCSI devices. �For example, my pendrive 
is /dev/sdb. �So to mount it I type:

mkdir ~/keychain
mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 ~/keychain

As you can see I've formatted part of mine as a MS-DOS drive so Windows 
machines will recognize it as well. �I also have a second encrypted 
partition.

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