Linux-Hardware Digest #198, Volume #9 Sun, 17 Jan 99 07:13:38 EST
Contents:
Re: Shutting Down (joern nettingsmeier)
Re: Help still needed please, please, please... (Mircea)
Re: things I'd pay to have developed for Linux... (Peter Samuelson)
Re: Want Linux bogomips numbers for Intel PII-450 ("Moshe Bar")
Re: Travan NS20 tape drives? (Stephan Loescher)
Re: How to install ATI 3D RAGE PRO AGP 2X on RH50 ("Steven R. Currie")
Re: Mounting CDROM ("Jürgen Exner")
SiS6326 and ViewSonic E771 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 19 inch monitor recommendations sought (David Fox)
Re: Sound problems with OPTi 82C930 (Andreas Jung)
BOCA Vortek VL and X11 (newbie) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Winmodem or no?? (Mike Stewart)
Re: My partition choice (Frank Hale)
Re: soundbalster live or other good card (Linux) ? ("Bill Jones")
Re: LILO trashes Toshiba portable IDE drive (Dominick Samperi)
Re: Q: RedHat 5.x, 2940U2W ? (BL)
Redhat 5.2 Install with BOCA Vortek VL Video Card (newbie) ("Rich Snow")
Boot PC without video card (son)
Re: Linux and Teac 8* 6 cd changer? (Piniek (aka Piotr Ingling))
System Beeps (Ashley Drees)
Re: My partition choice (Floyd Davidson)
Installing an INFOTREND 2101U PCI RAID/CACHE controller (H. Dijkstra)
HP CDRW (Lyle Ainsworth)
Mouse problems in X (Steve Atkinson)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (joern nettingsmeier)
Subject: Re: Shutting Down
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 14:33:30 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
G.M.Trias wrote:
>
> Darryl Cain wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know of a way to shutdown Linux and then automatically turn off
> > (use of ATX Power) as in Windows.
>
> Oh god!! please! "shutdown -h now" then click the power button!!!
I guess this feller does now about his power switch !
Dear Darryl !
Recompile the kernel (mine is 2.0.36, not sure if it works on earlier
releases) and select APM support. There is an option that will suit your
needs. If you activate Suspend mode, be sure to have the APM demon apmd
running, or else your system clock will play havoc.
See man apmd for details.
Regards, Jo"rn
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From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Help still needed please, please, please...
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 08:37:52 -0500
Reply-To: stNOamasdATexSPAMciteDOTcom
Reply address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - please remove the obvious.
Mircea wrote:
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Samuelson)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: things I'd pay to have developed for Linux...
Date: 16 Jan 1999 07:36:04 -0600
Reply-To: Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[Leslie Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]
> I'd like to see a filesystem that let your logical mount point be a
> read/write overlay of a read-only mount, possibly NFS or CDROM.
I saw a patch for this once. Don't remember what it was called, maybe
ovlfs or something. Look around places like linuxmama. I don't
remember if it was a generic VFS thing or if it was specific to CDROMs
(or isofs, to be exact) since that is what it was designed for.
--
Peter Samuelson
<sampo.creighton.edu!psamuels>
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From: "Moshe Bar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.intel,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.arch,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Want Linux bogomips numbers for Intel PII-450
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 10:34:20 +0200
Hi
My 400Mhz has a bogomips of 378.
You may or may not know that Bogomips is NOT a measure of processor speed,
it is just a calibration loop to measure how long it takes the processor to
do NOTHING (no-op).
So, careful with those Bogomips figures.
Moshe Bar
Bjorn Lindgren wrote in message <77rd13$f2c$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi, anyone run Linux on Intel PII-450 that can post the
>bogomips number from /proc/cpuinfo
>
>Want numbers from as many diffrent ppl as possible.
>
>Thanks.
>
>--
>Bjorn Lindgren
>bjorn(e)chiba.cx
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From: Stephan Loescher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Travan NS20 tape drives?
Date: 16 Jan 1999 12:14:59 +0100
A E Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi!
> I have an Aiwa TD20001 NS20 drive which I run under Linux. Cost about
[...]
Thanks for your detailed information!
Stephan.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.leo.org/~loescher/
Try the LEO-archive: http://www.leo.org/archiv/archiv_e.html
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From: "Steven R. Currie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How to install ATI 3D RAGE PRO AGP 2X on RH50
Date: 16 Jan 1999 13:47:56 GMT
Johnny El wrote:
>
> Hi all
> I cant install the display adapter ATI 3D RAGE PRO AGP 2X on RH50.
> anyone have an idea how this can be done?
> TIA,
> Johhny El
I use a Rage IIc and had similar problems with my Intranet Server on
my network. All you have to do is visit xfree86.org and download the
latest X Server for the Mach64 chipset. This new X Server contains the
support you need to run your card.
Steven R. Currie
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From: "Jürgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mounting CDROM
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 11:59:42 GMT
DWheaton wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I just upgraded form RH Linux 5.1 to 5.2. I never had a problem mounting my
>cdrom with 5.1
>
>After upgrading, when I attempt to mount with:
>
>mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
>
>I get the error message:
>
>fs type iso9660 not supported by kernel.
>
>My currently installed kernel is 2.0.34.
>
>Indeed, a browse of /proc/filesystems indicates that the only fs types
>supported by the kernel are ext2 and msdos.
>
>Searching /lib/modules/2.0.34-0.6 yields NOTHING.
>
>Where do I go from here? How do I get my cdrom up and running?
Pretty simple: Recompile (and install) your kernel with support for is09660
enabled.
For details see /usr/src/linux/README.
jue
--
Jürgen Exner; microsoft.com, UID: jurgenex
Sorry for this anti-spam inconvenience
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Subject: SiS6326 and ViewSonic E771
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 08:34:20 GMT
Hi All,
I just installed RH 5.2, and XF86_SVGA update for my SiS6326 based
video card. It worked fine, except at all 640x480, 800x600 and
1024x768 resolutions the display only filled about 70% of the
screen(ViewSonic E771). I tryed to tune the dot freq. , other
resolutions, and other parameters but it didn't seem to help.
I also ran win98 on the same machine from different HD partition on
the same machine, and I could get full screen display at 800x600.
I know I can just tune the monitor to have the display fill up all the
screen, but just wondering if there's any configuration I can change
to do the same.
Thanks!
Charles
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From: d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox)
Subject: Re: 19 inch monitor recommendations sought
Date: 16 Jan 1999 06:01:23 -0800
Christopher L Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> get a
>
> Sony Multiscan 400 PS currently I'm running 1600x1200 @ 85 hrz.. however the
> monitor will cost you big bucks
> they start at 900.00
Is that the same as the Sony GDM-400PS that www.buycomp.com has for $625?
--
David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD
UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
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From: Andreas Jung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound problems with OPTi 82C930
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 19:43:15 +0100
Hi Hans,
I got a HOT-247 (PnP with OPTi 82C933) and did not succeed in getting
this card into the Linux kernel, just as you. After spending hours
having no success I finally decided to spend 20 US$ to OSS and =
therefore having my sound work. Sorry that I do not have any better
recommendation
Regards
a.
"Hasse H=E4ljeskog" schrieb:
> =
> Hi everybody!
> =
> I can't my HOT-235 sound card (with OPTi 82C930 chip) to work with Linu=
x
> kernel 2.0.34. It is supposed to be compatible with Windows Sound Syste=
m,
> Soundblaster Pro, AdLib, MPU-401, OPL-3 etc..
> =
> Does anyone have a clue what to do? I've tried the OSS/Linux trial pack=
age
> and that works fine but I want the driver to be compiled with the kerne=
l.
> =
> Thanks
> /Hans
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: BOCA Vortek VL and X11 (newbie)
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 15:15:06 GMT
Hi folk,
I have successfully installed RedHat 5.2 on my 486/100, 20MB, 1G-HD
system. The system is VESA Local Bus and so is my incarnation of the
BOCA VORTEK Video. Since the default drivers for the BOCA do not
seem to work, I am looking for suggestions where to explore for a
driver; or anyone who has mastered the proper incantations to bring
this one to life!
Regards,
-Rich Snow
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Stewart)
Crossposted-To: comp.modems,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Winmodem or no??
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 15:56:39 GMT
On 15 Jan 1999 16:23:14 -0800, Darin Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Stewart) writes:
>
>> Don't get too comfortable. IEEE 1394 (Firewire, iLink) is coming up
>> fast in serial's mirrors, boasting enough bandwidth (spec in progress)
>> for *uncompressed* 1080i HDTV (4Gbs, I think), along with hot-plug
>> capability. Serial cables may be around, but you may not have anything
>> to plug them *into*...at either end.
>
>What about low speed serial devices? Mice, battery backup systems,
>controlling office phones, etc. Of course, the big thing to worry
>about is legacy hardware - it's absurd to think that most people will
>just abandon everything they have and only buy brand new hardware.
>Why should hardware die quickly when crufty software survives forever?
I should think that these devices would work just fine on USB. 1394
and USB are complementary technologies, just as plain-old serial and
parallel are. Use USB for low-rate devices like mice, keyboards,
UPSes, etc., and 1394 for high-rate devices like scanners, HDs, and so
forth.
I don't expect everyone to immediately discard all their old
peripherals any more than you do. Eventually, however, one must
succumb to progress. The PC99 spec includes USB, serial, and parallel
ports, but not ISA slots. If you're even in the middle of the
technology curve, a lack of ISA slots is not terribly
depressing--you've had several years to buy PCI cards. I wouldn't
expect USB and 1394 to completely supplant plain-old serial and
parallel for a similar time period from the point where both new buses
are generally supported in hardware and software (meaning,
realistically, whatever the current flavor of Windows is).
Regards,
Mike
(NOTE: there's no 'X' in my real email address)
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From: Frank Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: My partition choice
Date: 17 Jan 1999 07:31:11 GMT
Floyd Davidson wrote:
>
> Frank Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >I have 128 megs of ram and I have never got it to use the swap and I
> >usually a ton of apps opened.
> >
>
> Play around with editing images a little, and watch it go to work!
>
> Gimp or Imagemagick are both quite capable of checking out your swap
> for you. Xv probably won't do anything that goes over 100Mb though,
> so you could use it all day long and with 128Mb of RAM and probably
> not start swapping unless you view a dozen images at once.
>
Works great for what I do and I do grafix on Gimp all the time. You
should see my NT box at work I swear that stupid things HD just spins
all day long swapping data. Well it spins until I have to reboot it
cause it crashed. But thats another story......
--
From: Frank Hale
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ: 7205161
Homepage: http://members.xoom.com/frankhale/
Jade: http://jade.netpedia.net/
"Excuse my english I went to a US public school"
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From: "Bill Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.soundcard.sblive
Subject: Re: soundbalster live or other good card (Linux) ?
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 10:47:10 -0500
Linux is slowly catching on because of Microsoft BS. If you insist on Linux
I would look elsewhere for a card that will work in it.
Yves Dorfsman wrote in message ...
>
>Hi !
>
>I got a soundblaster live value with my pc, but browsing through dejanews
>I found that there is no driver for it for linux.
>
>It is not clear if a driver will become available (and if it does that
>would be q2 99, from rumour in dejanews). Does anybody know for sure that
>a driver is been (will be) worked on ? There is a rumour that creative
>live won't release enough information to make it feasable.
>
>Yet, I understand that this card is one of the best on the market...
>Should I buy a cheap sound card and wait for the drivers for this one, or
>get it exchange for a currently supported card ??
>
>What are the good high quality, supported card ?
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>Yves.
>----
>Yves Dorfsman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~dorfsmay
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From: Dominick Samperi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: LILO trashes Toshiba portable IDE drive
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 11:00:18 -0500
"M. Buchenrieder" wrote:
>
> Dominick Samperi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >I recently installed Linux and Windows NT 4.0 on a Toshiba 4025CDT and
> >they both seemed to run, provided I boot Linux from a floppy. Then I
> >ran the Slackware 3.1 CDROM install (the only CDROM I had) and made the
> >mistake of asking the setup program to place LILO in the master boot
> >record. After this no OS would boot, and the drive was inaccessible,
> >even by fdisk. The drive was effectively destroyed.
>
> [...]
>
> Does it say "unable to open /dev/hda" ? If so, try booting with a DOS
> system floppy or a Win95 boot floppy and run "fdisk /mbr" .
>
> Michael
> --
> Michael Buchenrieder * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.muc.de/~mibu
> Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
I tried that. If I boot dos and type fdisk I got the message "error
accessing device" and it terminated. fdisk /mbr did not help. I had to
replace the machine. I installed everything on the new machine and
NT and Linux now work, but I have to start Linux with a floppy. I did
not touch the MBR this time, of course.
If I try to start Linux by making its partition active this does not
work.
I get the message "no operating system". I have to use Toshiba's
companion diskette to format a partition that the MBR will sucessfully
jump to. I guess when Toshiba said they do not support dual boot
configurations this was not simply a way to make life easier for their
technical support people.
My best guess is that all of this headache is due to a subtle copy
protection scheme for Windows98 (which I delete!).
Dominick
--
Dominick Samperi
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: BL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Q: RedHat 5.x, 2940U2W ?
Date: 16 Jan 1999 16:12:24 GMT
Reply-To: no.spambots.please
download the latest kernel (at least 2.0.36) and rebuild, mentioning the
driver you want. install the kernel, reboot and enjoy.
Markus Pilgrimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Does anybody install Adaptec 2940U2W under RedHat 5.x
: Where can I get drivers
: Thanx
: CU
: Pille
--
AntiSpam: For email, change all 'zero' chars to letter 'o' chars.
bryan, http://www.Grateful.Net/
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From: "Rich Snow" <rich@#shore.net>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: Redhat 5.2 Install with BOCA Vortek VL Video Card (newbie)
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 11:09:43 -0500
Hi folks,
Just successfully installed RedHat 5.2, but... The default install option
for
the BOCA Vortek does not work for moi. My system: 486/100, 20Mb RAM, VESA
LOCAL BUS.
My version of the BOCA card is VESA Local Bus, herein lies the definition of
evil.
Looking for anyone who has conquered this particular dragon.
This life or a previous one, doesn't matter.
TIA,
Rich Snow
rich@shore#.net remove # to reply, tnx
PS Aplogize in advance if there is a duplicate post out there. Deja-news
hasn't come through in more than an hour, so it's back to the trusty
ISP!
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From: son <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Boot PC without video card
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:40 +0900
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I need to build a special PC LINUX server.
I wish to build the system without a video card.
Anyone on the net knows or tries to boot a LINUX system without
video card installed in a PC?
Thanks in advance,
Changwon Son
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Piniek (aka Piotr Ingling))
Subject: Re: Linux and Teac 8* 6 cd changer?
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 17:25:46 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dnia 15 Jan 1999 08:21:44 GMT, Bill Broadley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
napisa³(a):
>Can anyone confirm that linux works well with the Teac 8* 6 cd changer?
>
>Part Number: CD-C68E/KIT
>
>I'm hoping to play audio, install software, and of course get the
>changer to change.
>
>Any experiences? Or suggestions for a similiar <= $150 changer?
I have this model - works without any problems. For changing disc get
cdchanger-1.1 or something similar. The only drawback (but it's a problem with
all changers I suppose) is that you cannot switch to/from an emtpy slot.
Piotr Ingling
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Ashley Drees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc
Subject: System Beeps
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 10:31:18 +0000
Hi.
I am trying to build a new system, I have FIC VA-503+ M/B and a AMD K6-2
chip with 64 Meg Mem. The Bios is an Award Bios (1997).
When I try and run the system all the fans start, the CPU gets warm and
the system beeps continuously.. about one a second between each beep..
and does not stop at 11. The only thing left in the case (now) is the
M/B and the VGA card, (I have tried three VGA cards, two keyboards and
two mice).
I have searched for beep sequences on the net, and the only reference I
have to continues beeping is bad power supply, I have replaced that and
no change.
Before I go mad and have to take all this stuff back to the shop, is
there anyone who can enlighten me on what the beeps mean.
Yours in confused anguish.
Ash
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Floyd Davidson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: My partition choice
Date: 17 Jan 1999 09:38:35 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Frank Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Floyd Davidson wrote:
>> Frank Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >
>> >I have 128 megs of ram and I have never got it to use the swap and I
>> >usually a ton of apps opened.
>> >
>>
>> Play around with editing images a little, and watch it go to work!
>>
>> Gimp or Imagemagick are both quite capable of checking out your swap
>> for you. Xv probably won't do anything that goes over 100Mb though,
>> so you could use it all day long and with 128Mb of RAM and probably
>> not start swapping unless you view a dozen images at once.
>>
>
>Works great for what I do and I do grafix on Gimp all the time. You
>should see my NT box at work I swear that stupid things HD just spins
>all day long swapping data. Well it spins until I have to reboot it
>cause it crashed. But thats another story......
Then you probably *have* had it start swapping with Linux too. But
the difference is that Linux works, won't crash, and you won't even
be aware that it's been using swap space.
Floyd
--
Floyd L. Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pictures of the North Slope at <http://www.ptialaska.net/~floyd>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H. Dijkstra)
Subject: Installing an INFOTREND 2101U PCI RAID/CACHE controller
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 11:18:00 GMT
Hello,
Just got a INFOTREND 2101U PCI RAID/CACHE controller.
Is there any way to make this thing work on LINUX/REDHAT?
If you have any suggestions, please let me know!
Harry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lyle Ainsworth)
Subject: HP CDRW
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 12:19:18 -0600
I have a question about the HP 7200 series CDRW. I have read in some
documentation somewhere (can't remember where) that HP CDR's aren't
supported under Linux. Is this true? If its not, where would I be able
to find a HOWTO and some writing software?
TIA
Lyle
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Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 12:27:45 -0600
From: Steve Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mouse problems in X
I am a newbie. I have the following problem with the mouse. In XF86
with fvwm, after a while the mouse clicks no longer work to change
window focus or operate the control buttons (minimize, maximize,
close). However, the left button will select menus in a window, will
interact with dialog boxes and select links on web pages.
I have tried 3 different mice:
Old ('92) MS dove bar serial mouse
MS serial/PS2 ver 2.0 (tried as both PS2 and serial)
MS Intellimouse PS2
I have tried various settings in mouseconfig for each of these. The
behavior is corrected by exiting and re-entering fvwm, but then occurs
again after a period of time ranging from 1 to 15 minutes.
Any suggestions would be appreciated, and email would be nice. Thanks.
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