Linux-Hardware Digest #412, Volume #9 Fri, 12 Feb 99 05:13:27 EST
Contents:
PS/2 Mouse not working. HELP (Aaron Mitchell)
Decent case? (j)
ide/atapi cd burner (Hashi)
Re: Printer Problem (Adam Juda)
Re: CDROM problems in Windows after Linux installed (Jason Kane)
SOUND: Yamaha YMF715E-S (on motherboard) (Tony Christie)
Re: Windows & Linux File Transfer ? (Klaus-Guenter Leiss)
Re: HP Scanjet 5100C (Roundeye)
Re: printing probs on Kernel2.2 (Michael Meissner)
weird hard drive problems (Juergen Fiedler)
Re: mouseman+ 4th button ("Ulrich G�nther")
AST PowerExec Laptop w/Linux? (John P. Raynor)
Re: Problems with soundcard es1371 (Mircea)
RH 5.1 and UDMA problem ("Paul Wilson")
Sparq 1.0 GB as backup drive (James)
Linux on a 586 PCI card in a PowerMac? (Thorolf Weisshuhn)
Re: 2 Graphic Card (Mathias Nickl)
Linux -Thinkpad 600 with 3Com 3ccfem556b Multifunction PCMCIA Card ("Roy Chiam")
linux network printing (Bernard van Biljon)
linux can't mount root fs (Frank Berwanger)
MODEM: how do I monitor PPP speeds? (Tony Christie)
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From: Aaron Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.answer,alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: PS/2 Mouse not working. HELP
Date: 12 Feb 1999 06:05:52 GMT
I am running slackware 3.6 on a Laptop computer. When I was using the
old 2.0.35 kernel my mouse worked perfectly with the psaux module. I
recently upgraded the the 2.2.1 kernel and now my mouse does not work.
The new kernel uses built in ps/2 support. I have checked to make sure
that it is enabled. I have compiled the kernel and installed it. All
of the other features, ie. cdrom, networking, modem, sound all work
perfectly. I just can not run X (because of no mouse) and I can not use
the mouse in the shell. Whenever GPM is run I get the mesg that the
device /dev/mouse is not found. or I try the /dev/psaux and still get
that it is not found. I do not know what else to do. Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
Aaron
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 18:52:33 -0700
From: j <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Decent case?
I am all set to build a linux box from scratch with a asus at
motherboard and an amd k2. All i need is a good case to put all of the
hardware in.
I know that I can buy a $25.00 special from one of the local computer
stores but I want a GOOD case so i can use soft boot options on the
motherboard.
Any stores online or otherwise?
any info is appreciated.
feel free to e-mail me.
j.
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From: Hashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ide/atapi cd burner
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 01:23:52 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hi,
haven't had much success in getting it recognized under RH5.2 2.0.36 -
i thought i had compiled my kernel correctly but since XCdRoast can't
find the drive i guess not.
i'd be grateful for any pointers and tips,
thanks,
Hashi.
ps
* though i would assume it wouldn't matter the drive is a Philips 3610
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From: Adam Juda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printer Problem
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 01:21:05 -0500
Well, I finally figured out the problem. All I had to do was turn OFF
plug and play compatibility though the computer's BIOS, and everything
was good from therein.
--Adam
Adam Juda wrote:
>
> I have an Epson Color Stylus 600. I am able to print to it (lpt1)
> from both Windows95 and directly to the printer port from within an
> ms-dos box. However, I am unable to print directly to it through
> Linux. I have tried with both Slackware 3.6 and Redhat 5.2 but neither
> one has allowed me to print. Are there any ideas about how to fix my
> printer at all?
> Below is what I typed to try to send a message to the printer, maybe I
> just made a Really dumb mistake?
>
> ~# echo "hello, world" > /dev/lp0
> ~# echo "hello, world" > /dev/lp1
>
> Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks in advance!
>
> --Adam
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Kane)
Subject: Re: CDROM problems in Windows after Linux installed
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 23:37:29 GMT
>Anthony Warren wrote:
>> I have two hard drives under one IDE controller. Windows is on the
>> Master controller with Linux on the Slave drive. My CD ROM is the on
>> the Master of my other controller . Windows tells me that there are
>> conflicts (but not very specifcally) with the controllers and my CD
>> ROM has been erased from existence.
>
>Maybe Windows is confused bacause it has lost a drive like D: which
>previously was partition with fat and now is no longer recognized. Then
>Windows might want to move the CDrom to become D:. Maybe it will be able
>to find the CD again if you do a "add new hardware".
>
I am having the same problem... here are the details:
Origional Setup (eide)
2 hard drives, (master and slave on chain 1)
1 cdrw (master chain 2)
I decided to setup Linux on the slave drive but I wanted to keep a bit
of a win partition, so: (using linux fdisk)
hda1 (bootable win98)
hdb1 (fat data partition)
hdb4 (linux swap)
hdb5 (linux root)
presumably hdc is the cdrw (I haven't checked).
Installing Linux went smoothly (RedHat 5.2), I haven't tried buring
anything under Linux yet but the CD mounts easily enough for reading.
(IE: Linux is working just fine).
BUT, if I boot to win98 (lilo installed @ masterboot hda) it now gives
me a IDE controller error and does not see the cdrw drive. It also
tossed both hard drives into compatability mode. I figured what the
hey, and added the dos cdrom device driver and mscdex calls to the
bootup. Win98 now displays the cdrw and seems to occasionally get the
volumn label but won't read cd contents. I haven't tried an audio CD
yet.
I had a similar setup with Win95 and Slackware 3.5 a few months ago
and it worked smoothly.
=============================
My guesses are:
a) Win98 is confused by Lilo?
b) Gremlins?
c) Buggy EIDE controller? (built-in IDE on M-Tech Mustang 524)
d) The one armed man?
e) PNP issue? (Hi-Val 24r/2w cdrw)
f) Spanish Inquisition?
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From: Tony Christie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SOUND: Yamaha YMF715E-S (on motherboard)
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 00:34:52 +0100
Hi
I am using the sound processor fon the montherboard. I have not
checked what it is visually yet, but the Win install disk that came
with my machine says it is a YAMAHA YMF715E-S.
I am using OSS 3.7 and have tried the generic WSS, generic MAD16 and
sb 16 drivers. The sb16 and WSS drivers almost worked, except the =
sound output was very patchy, like it was being interupted every half
second or so. I guess this means the drivers aren=B4t working?
Any ideas on a suitable driver? I=B4m fairly much a newbie at Linux,
so be gentle. I using the SuSe 6.0 release with kernel 2.0.36.
regards
tony
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Klaus-Guenter Leiss)
Subject: Re: Windows & Linux File Transfer ?
Date: 12 Feb 1999 07:04:14 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
... snip
>I don't know if it is possible for Windows to see your ext2
>partitions, though.
>
>--
>
>-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
If your windows is win95 then you could read them see the following
freshmeat entry ( http://www.freshmeat.net )
FSDEXT2
Sean P. Kane - October 14th 1998, 12:16 EST
FSDEXT2 is project to port of the second extended file system (ext2fs)
to Windows 95, albeit a read-only version. Using FSDEXT2 you can
transparently mount your Linux ext2fs partitions on Windows 95.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roundeye)
Subject: Re: HP Scanjet 5100C
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 05:48:19 GMT
Paul Goulart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Hi - I have an HP Scanjet 5100C parallel scanner. Does anyone have any
: ideas if there is a way to make it work with RH 5.2? I'm new to Linux
: but REFUSE to go back to Microshit!
Try looking for a SANE driver for the scanner. I haven't set up my
no-name scanner yet but I here that SANE is pretty easy to use.
Rick
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From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: printing probs on Kernel2.2
Date: 10 Feb 1999 08:46:57 -0500
"Bernhard Reski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> hi,
> on kernel 2.2 printing (canon bjc240 on magicfilter with ibmpro driver)
> doesn't work any more. On kernel 2.0.36 it did.
> Is anybody here, who can tell me why??? :(
If you compiled 2.2 with the Plug & Pray option, and previously your printer
was known as "lp1" or "lp2", it now will be known as "lp0". Either reconfigure
your printer via linuxconf, or edit /etc/printcap and change lp1 to lp0.
By the way, this is documented in the Documentation/Changes file:
Parallel Ports
==============
As of 2.1.33, parallel port support can now by handled by the parport
driver. Be aware that with Plug-and-Play support turned on, your
parallel port may no longer be where you expect it; for example, LPT1
(under DOS) was sometimes /dev/lp1 in Linux, but will probably be
/dev/lp0 with the new Plug-and-Play driver. If printing breaks with
the new driver, try checking your lpd configuration. A good source of
more information is the Documentation/parport.txt file included with
the kernel.
--
Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions (Massachusetts office)
4th floor, 955 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED], 617-354-5416 (office), 617-354-7161 (fax)
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From: Juergen Fiedler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: weird hard drive problems
Date: 12 Feb 1999 04:11:11 GMT
Hi,
I am running Slackware 3.6 with a hand compiled kernel and I'm running
into the following problem:
Sometimes when I try to access data on /dev/hda5, I get a bunch of
very weird errors. They look like this:
>-------SNIP-------<
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2776834, sector=1901826
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:05, sector 1901826
>-------SNIP-------<
This particular error occurred when I tried to compile a file that was
located on /dev/hdb5. I first saw it during the installation of
Slackware and thought I had bypassed it by formatting the partition
by hand. Well, obviously, I was wrong.
/dev/hda5 resides on an old 1.5GB Maxtor IDE drive. /dev/hda1 is 300MB in
size and contains the root directory. /dev/hda2 is 128MB and contains the
swap partition. /dev/hda5 takes the rest of the room (about 1.1GB).
That's all of the information I can think of at the moment.
Does anyone have any idea what went wrong?
TIA,
Juergen
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From: "Ulrich G�nther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mouseman+ 4th button
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 09:14:29 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kester Clegg wrote:
>
> anyone got theirs working? I use imwheel and can't seem to get it to do
> anything. I've tried every xmodmap trick known to me, and still no joy...
>
> Kester Clegg
I have a Logitech busmouse and can't get the wheel to work either.
It works fine as a 3button mouse.
--
Ulrich Guenther Marie-Curie-Str. 9
Inst. f. Biophysikal. Chemie 60439 Frankfurt
J.W. Goethe-Universitaet Tel. x49-(0)69-798 296 23
Biozentrum, N230 FAX: x49-(0)69-798 296 32
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John P. Raynor)
Subject: AST PowerExec Laptop w/Linux?
Date: 11 Feb 1999 00:47:14 GMT
I have been seriously considering buying a laptop and installing Linux,
and have an opportunity to purchase a 486/33-based "AST PowerExec" with
8 megabytes of RAM and a 510 megabyte hard disk drive. This machine has
pair of type-II PCMCIA slots (with an "Intel" chipset) and a
black-and-white monitor (with a "WD 90C26A" video chipset). Does
anyone have any experience with Linux and this machine? Does anyone
anticipate any special problems, given what I have described? My
apologies if these questions are stupid ones -- I am a newcomer to Linux
(indeed, I want to buy a machine to play with, and "learn by doing").
Thank you for your help.
- J. Raynor
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From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Problems with soundcard es1371
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 03:09:23 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have tried both. Kernel 2.2.1 is, IMHO, a better option than alsa.
Make sure to check, in menuconfig/xconfig, "show experimental options",
or you cannot select "es1371" in the sound section.
MST
Jeremiah wrote:
>
> You have two options:
>
> 1. Upgrade to kernel 2.2.x
> 2. Get the ALSA drivers at http://alsa.jcu.cz
>
> The drivers for the es1370/1371 chipsets that ship with RH5.2 are
> not particularly good. The other two options should work much better
> for you.
>
> Brian
> --
> email to bmeloon at netscape dot net. evilquaker is a spam collector.
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From: "Paul Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH 5.1 and UDMA problem
Date: 10 Feb 1999 21:19:13 GMT
Recently I've been upgrading a couple of my Linux mchines to Red Hat 5.1.
The elderly 486DX100 with a pair of 2 Gb SCSI drives goes like a rocket -
quite fast enough for database development.
The other, a Cyrix 166 MMX with an 18 month old motherboard *was* OK until
I put in a 5 Gb UDMA disc as part of the upgrade. Now it runs like a dog.
For example, a shell script which produces an HTML report on the machine
status (RPMs present etc) takes 2 minutes on the 486 and 23 on the 166 !
I understand that UDMA isn't completely supported in the 5.1 kernel, but
since the motherboard is way too old for the interface, I can't see that's
where the problem is. The BIOS is happy with the drive configuration,
although it only lets you configure the primary channel (which is where the
new disc lives). But the machine is still agonisingly slow.
Does anyone have any ideas or experience that may help ?
TIA.
--
Paul
(SF Writers Resource Encyclopedia :
<a href="http://www.iinet.net.au/~hooker/index.html">
www.iinet.net.au/~hooker/index.html</a>
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From: James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sparq 1.0 GB as backup drive
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 00:52:17 GMT
Does anybody know if I can use my Sparq 1.0 GB parallel drive as a
backup device with Rh 5.1?
Thanks in advance.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thorolf Weisshuhn)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.powerpc
Subject: Linux on a 586 PCI card in a PowerMac?
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 09:57:32 +0100
Hi!
Can I run Linux on Apple's 586 PCI card?
And if so, a standard distribution won't do, right?
Yours,
Thorolf
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From: Mathias Nickl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2 Graphic Card
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 09:11:58 +0100
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Yes I know,
it,s hard to hit the right keys, sorry!
Mathias Nickl
___________________________________________________
Mathias Nickl "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Institut of Robotics and System Dynamics
German Aerospace Center
Tel.: 08153/ 28-1301
Fax.: 08153/ 28-1134
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<pre> it,s hard to hit the right keys, sorry!</pre>
<pre>Mathias Nickl
___________________________________________________
Mathias Nickl "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Institut of Robotics and System Dynamics
German Aerospace Center
Tel.: 08153/ 28-1301
Fax.: 08153/ 28-1134
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From: "Roy Chiam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux -Thinkpad 600 with 3Com 3ccfem556b Multifunction PCMCIA Card
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 16:55:27 +0800
Hi All
Has anyone tried to use the 3ccfem556b PCMCIA card with Linux 5.2? I have
been trying for several day with no luck.
I downloaded the 3.0.8 PCMCIA drivers but the network portion of the PC card
still does not work though the modem portion works well.
When I run pnpdump this message appears:
eth0: Host error, FIFO diagnostic register 2000.
On and off this message appears:
eth0: Transmit timed out, Tx_status 00 status 2000 Tx FIFO room 1492
Below is a portion of the boot log taken from /var/log/messages, it looks
okay to me:
Feb 12 14:13:25 sniffer kernel: Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.0.8
Feb 12 14:13:25 sniffer kernel: kernel build: 2.0.36 #1 Tue Oct 13
22:17:11 EDT 1998
Feb 12 14:13:25 sniffer kernel: options: [pci] [cardbus]
Feb 12 14:13:25 sniffer kernel: Intel PCIC probe:
Feb 12 14:13:25 sniffer kernel: TI 1250A PCI-to-CardBus at bus 0 slot 2,
mem 0x20301000, 2 sockets
Feb 12 14:13:25 sniffer kernel: host opts [0]: [ring] [pwr save] [isa
irq] [no pci irq] [lat 168/176] [bus 1/3]
Feb 12 14:13:25 sniffer kernel: host opts [1]: [ring] [pwr save] [isa
irq] [no pci irq] [lat 168/176] [bus 4/6]
Feb 12 14:13:25 sniffer kernel: ISA irqs (scanned) = 3,4,7,9,10 status
change on irq 10
Feb 12 14:13:25 sniffer cardmgr[231]: starting, version is 3.0.8
Feb 12 14:13:25 sniffer cardmgr[231]: watching 2 sockets
Feb 12 14:13:25 sniffer kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x1000-0x17ff: excluding
0x15e8-0x15ef
Feb 12 14:13:25 sniffer kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding
0x220-0x22f 0x3b8-0x3df 0x4d0-0x4d7
Feb 12 14:13:25 sniffer kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
Feb 12 14:13:26 sniffer kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff:
clean.
Feb 12 14:13:26 sniffer cardmgr[231]: initializing socket 1
Feb 12 14:13:26 sniffer cardmgr[231]: socket 1: 3Com/Megahertz 3CCFEM556
Ethernet/Modem
Feb 12 14:13:26 sniffer cardmgr[231]: executing: 'insmod
/lib/modules/preferred/pcmcia/3c574_cs.o'
Feb 12 14:13:26 sniffer kernel: 3c574_cs.c v1.08 9/24/98 Donald Becker/David
Hinds, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Feb 12 14:13:26 sniffer cardmgr[231]: executing: 'insmod
/lib/modules/preferred/pcmcia/serial_cs.o'
Feb 12 14:13:26 sniffer kernel: eth0: 3Com 3c574 at I/O 0x340, IRQ 9, MAC
Address 00:00:86:31:E3:ED.
Feb 12 14:13:26 sniffer kernel: eth0: No acceleration memory window.
Feb 12 14:13:26 sniffer kernel: 64K FIFO split 1:1 Rx:Tx, autoselect MII
interface.
Feb 12 14:13:26 sniffer kernel: MII transceiver at index 32, status 7809.
Feb 12 14:13:26 sniffer kernel: tty02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 9) is a 16550A
Feb 12 14:13:26 sniffer cardmgr[231]: executing: './network start eth0'
Feb 12 14:13:27 sniffer kernel: eth0: MII #0 status 7809, link partner
capability 0000, setting half-duplex.
Feb 12 14:13:27 sniffer cardmgr[231]: executing: './serial start ttyS2'
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From: Bernard van Biljon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux network printing
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 11:05:57 +0200
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Greetings,
Can someone please explain to me how to set Linux up to print to a
HP Directjet EX plus 3 print server
Also lpr keeps giving me the message : unable to get official name for
local machine
how do I fix this ?
Thank you ,
--
Bernard van Biljon
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Greetings,
<p>Can someone please explain to me how to set Linux up to print to a HP Directjet
EX plus 3 print server
<p>Also lpr keeps giving me the message : unable to get official name for
local machine
<p>how do I fix this ?
<p>Thank you ,
<pre>--
Bernard van Biljon</pre>
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From: Frank Berwanger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux can't mount root fs
Date: 12 Feb 1999 08:26:39 GMT
Hi!
I've got a boot problem.
During the boot process linux writes:
VFS: Cannot open root device 30:2b
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 30:2b
The interesting part is, that I can boot, when I use the root
disk, I#ve made under dos via setup. I click through the linuxrc-program
and enter /dev/hda2 as root filesystem to boot.
I use Suse linux 6.0 with kernel 2.0.36. Linux was installed on an existing
Linux partition, but I had to install /usr on an SCSI Drive (don't ask).
What's the problem??????
Please mail to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Ciao,
FRANK:-)
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* Who's the man who kills for fun? *
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From: Tony Christie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MODEM: how do I monitor PPP speeds?
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 00:44:14 +0100
Hi
Can I monitor the speed of my PPP connection in any way? The transfer
rates reported by Netscape are very low (150-600bps)!!! =
I get the following message in chat from the ISP when logging in (from =
/var/log/messages) :
chat:[8260]: 9600/ARQ/V34/LAPM/V42BIS^M
As I have a 56K modem (v.90 TI) I was hoping for something more than
9600!!
Is this a problem within my modem? Or is this just a =B4gotcha=B4 =
message?
Any help appreciated.
Tony
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