Linux-Hardware Digest #629, Volume #9 Thu, 11 Mar 99 07:15:41 EST
Contents:
Re: SiS 6326 and XFree86 3.3.3.1 ("Brian Stone")
Compaq Proliant 400 ("Daniele")
Riva TNT ("Kabal")
Re: Sound Blaster 128 PCI ??? (Jeremiah)
Re: Are you new to Linux? Thne read this ("Robert M. Taylor")
Re: HOW CAN I FORMAT DAT TAPES?? (Villy Kruse)
re: ifconfig showing lots of errors (Ying Zhang)
Re: Alien Hardware Port (**Nick Brown)
HP II with Printing System Cartdridge (Thierry Francais)
Re: Speed..Speed..Speed (Greg Lindahl)
Re: 3c905b-TX with Mandrake 5.3 (or any Linux2.2) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: oki printer and linux (Rolf Kjoeller)
Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing? (Tomasz Korycki)
Re: bad superblock? (Villy Kruse)
fat32 problem (mesut)
Re: 3c905b-TX with Mandrake 5.3 (or any Linux2.2) (eric)
Us Robotics Sporster Modem with V90 upgrade (Thierry Francais)
Re: Strange fdisk problem (Robert Nichols)
Re: fat32 problem (Greg H.)
Hardware choice (Claude Chaudet)
Sound Cards in Linux (was Re: Buying a new computer for linux) (Gerard Thornley)
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From: "Brian Stone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SiS 6326 and XFree86 3.3.3.1
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 13:12:11 +0800
I took the easy way out & downloaded the Scitech Display Doctor. I tried
for 3 or 4 days to get my system to run before SDD. SDD took about 3
minutes and it works.
Kurt Mehlhoff wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I have just installed Red Hat 5.2 on my system and most things are
>working well, but I cannot get X going. I read that the 3.3.3.1 version
>of XFree86 had support for my video card (SiS 6326 with 8MB) so I
>downloaded and installed it.
>
>I can run xf86config and that seems to work ok, but when I bring up X it
>looks hosed. My mouse pointer appears on the screen and I can control
>it, but the screen itself looks strange. Mostly black with a couple of
>dots and tiny images which look like the resize controls on windows.
>Junk.
>I can even move some of them around, but the system is not exactly
>usable.
>
>The X server complains about the amount of RAM on the card and claims
>there is only 1 MB.
>
>I also cannot get xvidtune to run.
>
>Any ideas?
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From: "Daniele" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Compaq Proliant 400
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 08:02:23 +0100
Hi all,
does anyone have try to install Linux on the new model Compaq Proliant 400
???
It have a onr unique board for video, network and SCSI controller.
The SCSI controller model is COMPAQ DDRS-3456W with chipset 53C895 (NCR
???).
I have not found the correct driver for "insmod".
Someone can help me ??
Thanks in advance.
Daniele Caimmi
Genesys HS srl
Ancona - Italy
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Kabal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Riva TNT
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 22:47:48 -0800
Hi,
I just got linux slackware 3.6 the other day. And now trying to set up X for
the 5th day. I have Clabs Riva TNT AGP 16mb card.
I installed X 3.3.3.1, selected Riva TNT from the card list, select modes,
monitor refresh rates, I tried em all... nothing works.
I tried selecting Riva 128 instead of TNT still XF86Setup either jumps to
text mode after i press done, and gives me errno 111. Wich i think might be
accuring because it can't find config file... It doesn't seem to create it
unless i don't specify any resolution, then it does. Next time i go to
XF86Setup and try to change res, it won't save config. (This is entirely my
theory i don't really know).
After i finish XF86Setup without settin my resolution it will display screen
with text runnin over the display limit saying 'You have successfully .... '
so i can't read the rest. I can also see half of the button saying 'okay'...
Basically i see top left 1/4 of the screen, everything else is over the
screen limits.
When i start up X (without setting res previously otherwise it will give me
errno 111) it will run same way... with only top left 1/4 of display on
screen.
I tried going to config file and manually settin everything to higher
resolutuons, and startX, it still ignores it.
I was told to use XF86Configure on efnets #linux.
I can't find /usr/X11R6/XF86Configure... its not there, even though i did
the default install of SlackWare.
Could someone pls help me out with this or send me their config file if u
have nVidia TNT.
I am completely lost and frustraited... thanks in advance
kabal
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From: Jeremiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster 128 PCI ???
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 17:41:03 -0500
Douglas H. Steves wrote:
>
> In article <$70xvg7Y#[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Michael Lee Yohe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Thus, both are
> >supported by the new 2.2.x kernel.
> The RedHat 5.2 kernel is 2.0.36. Others have reported that RedHat did
> upgrade the sound drivers in 5.2 to support the PCI 128, but this
> is apparently not correct, at least with vanilla 5.2. Maybe with a
> reconfigured/rebuilt kernel?
The stock RH5.2 kernel supports the Ensoniq AudioPCI 1370 (and
hence, should support the SB64/128). However, the drivers aren't particularly
good (I had some problems with warbly/distorted .au files and RealPlayer),
so using either ALSA or kernel 2.2.x is advised (by me, FWIW).
Brian
--
email to bmeloon <at} netscape {dot> net. evilquaker is a spam collector.
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From: "Robert M. Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Are you new to Linux? Thne read this
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 23:32:54 -0500
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I think there is a newer version of Running Linux than what you
mentioned. I know the thing was in Second Edition last I looked. Check
O'Reilly Books and click on the Linux button.
Bob
Enkidu wrote:
> Allen wrote:
> >
> > ...and I really need something in hard copy, so I can read it when
> > I CAN'T get the system to do what I want it to do, like get out of
> > vi, or change my rez in X, how to shut down properly, etc... I
> > literally rebooted and re-installed 3 times this weekend, because
> > of little things like not knowing how to escape out of vi or some
> > man page I'd gone to, and for once, I;d really like to have hard
> > copy docs that were up too date, so I could read them even when the
> > system is down.
> >
> Hmm, you are aware of alternate consoles, aren't you?
>
> When you hit a snag, try hitting alt-f2 or alt-f3 and login again
> at another console.
>
> Cliff
--
Bob Taylor @home with Janet, Katie, Anna and
Red Hat Linux release 5.2 (Apollo)
Kernel 2.0.36 on an i586
Peregrine Login:
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I think there is a newer version of Running Linux than what you mentioned.
I know the thing was in Second Edition last I looked. Check <A
HREF="HTTP://www.ora.com">O'Reilly
Books</A> and click on the Linux button.
<P>Bob
<P>Enkidu wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>Allen wrote:
<BR>>
<BR>> ...and I really need something in hard copy, so I can read it when
<BR>> I CAN'T get the system to do what I want it to do, like get out of
<BR>> vi, or change my rez in X, how to shut down properly, etc...
I
<BR>> literally rebooted and re-installed 3 times this weekend, because
<BR>> of little things like not knowing how to escape out of vi or some
<BR>> man page I'd gone to, and for once, I;d really like to have hard
<BR>> copy docs that were up too date, so I could read them even when the
<BR>> system is down.
<BR>>
<BR>Hmm, you are aware of alternate consoles, aren't you?
<P>When you hit a snag, try hitting alt-f2 or alt-f3 and login again
<BR>at another console.
<P>Cliff</BLOCKQUOTE>
<PRE>--
Bob Taylor @home with Janet, Katie, Anna and
Red Hat Linux release 5.2 (Apollo)
Kernel 2.0.36 on an i586
Peregrine Login:</PRE>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: HOW CAN I FORMAT DAT TAPES??
Date: 11 Mar 1999 09:15:38 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, david horner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I need to formatdat tapes . They are blank or mud.
>How can I do it in linux 2.0.3?
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Used date tapes for several years and never knew that they needed
formatting. They just worked.
Villy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ying Zhang)
Subject: re: ifconfig showing lots of errors
Date: 11 Mar 1999 07:22:56 GMT
Please disregard my previous post, I've found them problem.. The net-tools
package I was using doesn't work well with the 2.2 kernel series. I upgraded
it and now it reports better values (0 errors).
Sorry, hope this saves someone else some grief.
Ying Zhang
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From: **Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Alien Hardware Port
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 09:39:57 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
All alien spacecraft run Wintel... that's how Jeff Goldblum was able to
zap them with a virus in Independence Day. (A colleague of mine was
once seriously asked by a senior manager in our organisation if "it's
really possible to upload a virus to an alien spacecraft like that".)
Patrick Greer wrote:
>
> I recently recovered the wreckage of an alien spacecraft from a nearby
> medical facility. Among the parts I found a 200lb+ rectangular metallic
> object with a label (in english, oddly enough) stating NCR3450. This device
> bears an uncanny resemblance to our MCA PS/2 computers, although the
> components that appear to provide the processing and random-access storage
> functions are truly alien...
--
===============================================================
Nick Brown, Strasbourg, France (Nick(dot)Brown(at)coe(dot)fr)
Protect yourself against Word 95/97 viruses, free - check out
http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/Vineyard/1446/atlas-t.html
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From: Thierry Francais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP II with Printing System Cartdridge
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 08:53:17 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a HT Laserjet II with a Microsoft Printing System cartdrige ;-)
I would like to use this printer with Linux, but i don't have the
driver.
Is there somebody that can help me ?
Thanks
Thierry.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg Lindahl)
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Speed..Speed..Speed
Date: 11 Mar 1999 06:20:10 GMT
"Jeffrey J. Potoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> That's a big reason why we run DU and NT on Alphas instead
> of Linux. Why pay a premium for a faster CPU and then cripple (to the
> tune of 20-30%) with g77 ?
Because the price/performance is better? DU costs money. NT costs
money. Digital Fortran costs money. Do the math and see how it works
out for you.
-- g
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: 3c905b-TX with Mandrake 5.3 (or any Linux2.2)
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 09:25:27 GMT
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/ the filename is 3c59x.c
put it
/usr/src/linux/drivers/net/
(make sure you istalled kernel source)
recompile
make xconfig
(to choose things you want)
make dep; make clean; make modules; make module install; make install
(you'll find all this on kernel howto)
have fun with linux *s*
In article <36e65f90.14703682@news>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (eric) wrote:
> well,, i only have the CD for RH5.0,, now.. with that card.. how can
> i get the updated driver and use the FTP install.. is that possible?
> and if it isnt.. how can i put it in the kernel source code and
> recompile? i'm a newbie :)
>
> Thanks,
> eric
>
> On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 11:14:50 +0100, giangy
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I got that card working on redhat 5.1 and 5.2 (kernel 2.034 and 2.036)
> >but needed to get updated driver .. put it in the kernel source code and
> >recompile...
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rolf Kjoeller)
Subject: Re: oki printer and linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 19:00:16 GMT
Thanks a lot, I'll surf over there right away!
On Tue, 09 Mar 1999 15:35:03 GMT, T Stichelbout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>There is a page which reference some of the oki printer working under
>linux :
>
>http://picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi?make=Okidata
>
>including ol 410e, ol 610e, okipage 4w, 6e, 6c, 8c
--
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webpage: http://hjem.get2net.dk/rolf.kjoeller
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From: Tomasz Korycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing?
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 00:57:38 -0500
Philip Brown wrote:
> You made the mistake of using tabs. which in the world of USENET is a no-no.
> Especially when *your* system doesn't seem to have the nice standard
> 8-char-fixed-width tab to begin with.
>
> SO the diagram is a mess, unfortunately.
Err, sorry!
Applications
Applications
/ | |
Win32 | POSIX OS/2 DOS/Win16 |
======= | ===== ==== ========== |
| | User Mode |
===|=======|=========================================================|=================
| | Kernel Mode
|
======================================================================================
| System Services | | System
Services |
|-------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|---------- Process Management, I/O Mgmt, | |------------|
Process Mgmt, |
| Device | Memory Management,...... | | Device | I/O
Management, |
| Drivers | | | Drivers |
Memory Mgmt, |
--------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
| Harware Abstraction Layer | | Hardware
Abstraction Layer |
|-------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
+++NT+++
+++VMS+++
Hope it's clearer now and I may be forgiven....
;/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: bad superblock?
Date: 11 Mar 1999 09:13:23 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rick Luna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Is it, by chance, a FAT32 partition? AFAICR, Linux doesn't yet have FAT32
>> support, and cant read such filesystems.
>
>yup, FAT32. Since I have RH 5.0, maybe 5.2 has the support I need, and
>if so, how do i go about upgrading my Kernel? Were you speaking of linux
>in general doesn't have support for fat32?
>
It does now and has done for quite a while. The redhat needs to be upgraded
to 5.1 or 5.2, though.
Villy
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From: mesut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: fat32 problem
Date: 11 Mar 1999 07:32:21 GMT
I have two hardisk. one is 6.4 gb other is 1.7 gb. Redhat 5.2 is installed
on 1.7 gb hardisk. windows is insalled on other disk. i have tried to mount
windows drivers. i used;
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/disk
mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt/disk
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/disk
those command. but every time i took same mistake. i use 2.0.32 kernel.
if you help me i pleased.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (eric)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: 3c905b-TX with Mandrake 5.3 (or any Linux2.2)
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 10:04:50 GMT
sounds like fun :) i'll check out the HOWTO.. thanks for directions
eric
On Thu, 11 Mar 1999 09:25:27 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
>http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/ the filename is 3c59x.c
>
>put it
>/usr/src/linux/drivers/net/
>
>(make sure you istalled kernel source)
>
>recompile
>make xconfig
>(to choose things you want)
>make dep; make clean; make modules; make module install; make install
>(you'll find all this on kernel howto)
>
>have fun with linux *s*
>
>
>In article <36e65f90.14703682@news>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (eric) wrote:
>> well,, i only have the CD for RH5.0,, now.. with that card.. how can
>> i get the updated driver and use the FTP install.. is that possible?
>> and if it isnt.. how can i put it in the kernel source code and
>> recompile? i'm a newbie :)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> eric
>>
>> On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 11:14:50 +0100, giangy
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> >I got that card working on redhat 5.1 and 5.2 (kernel 2.034 and 2.036)
>> >but needed to get updated driver .. put it in the kernel source code and
>> >recompile...
>>
>>
>
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From: Thierry Francais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Us Robotics Sporster Modem with V90 upgrade
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 09:40:07 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I would like to use my Us Robotics V90 modem with the high speed mode.
How can i setup my linux system to use a 56 Kbits/s PPP connection.
Thanks
Thierry.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Nichols)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Strange fdisk problem
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 04:41:47 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:Has anyone ever seen anything wierd like this? Fdisk reports the right
:space on the drive, but "df" shows only about half as much. Take a
:look at the sizes of sda6 and sda7 in fdisk vs what their sizes are in
:"df".
[SNIP]
:Command (m for help): p
:
:Disk /dev/sda: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 8715 cylinders
:Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes
:
: Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
:/dev/sda1 1 1 1001 1025008 83 Linux native
:/dev/sda2 1002 1002 8715 7899136 5 Extended
:/dev/sda5 1002 1002 1128 130032 82 Linux swap
:/dev/sda6 1024 1129 2129 1025008 83 Linux native
:/dev/sda7 2048 2130 3130 1025008 83 Linux native
:
:Command (m for help): q
:[root@norad /home]# df
:Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
:/dev/sda1 991995 353364 587381 38% /
:/dev/sda6 496627 60418 410559 13% /var/lib/pgsql
:/dev/sda7 496627 176192 294785 37% /home/ftp
Yes, it's rather bizarre. All I can suggest is that it is entirely
possible, though generally pointless, to make an ext2 file system that
is smaller than the partition it resides on. You can do this by giving
'mke2fs' an explicit block count. You can also get a similar effect by
'dd'-ing a file system from a small partition to a larger one. Perhaps
whoever created the file system thought that 'fdisk' was reporting a
sector count and that 'mke2fs' needed to be told a count that was half
that number.
I presume you are also aware that you currently appear to have only
about 35% of the space on this 9 GB disk allocated to partitions.
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg H.)
Subject: Re: fat32 problem
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 11:19:24 GMT
mesut ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I have two hardisk. one is 6.4 gb other is 1.7 gb. Redhat 5.2 is installed
> on 1.7 gb hardisk. windows is insalled on other disk. i have tried to mount
> windows drivers. i used;
> mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/disk
> mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt/disk
> mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/disk
> those command. but every time i took same mistake. i use 2.0.32 kernel.
> if you help me i pleased.
Did you create the "disk" directory in /mnt ? If not, enter
mkdir /mnt/disk
and then try mounting the drive.
Greg H.
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From: Claude Chaudet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Hardware choice
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 11:42:13 +0100
Hello,
I am planning to buy anew PC soon. I would like to be sure I can use linux
with it. So I wonder if there exist drivers for the hardware I am planning
to buy. If anybody had an experience with some of these, could you telle
me how good it works and what I should do to install it ? (URLs to d/l
drivers etc...)
Monitor : IIyama vision master pro 450 (19")
Mouse : Logitech USB wheel
CD-Rom : Plextor 40x SCSI
SCSI adapter : Adaptec 2940 UW2
Video card : ATI fury AGP (ATI 128 based)
Sound card : SB 128 PCI
Network adapter : NE2000 - PCI
Hard drive : IBM 4.5 Go UW2
I am quite a newbie in the PC world. I don't know if a SCSI-only PC can
support Linux...
Thanks.
Claude.
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From: Gerard Thornley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound Cards in Linux (was Re: Buying a new computer for linux)
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 11:36:42 +0000
On 10 Mar 1999, Greg Yantz wrote:
> Gerard Thornley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Is there any driver that would work with a Sound Blaster Live? - I don't
> > mind using an old driver that doesn't make full use of the facilities,
> > because I will be using sound mostly from win95.
>
> No, none at the moment. Creative has promised Linux support, and claims
> to be working on a driver, but there is no support available now.
Ok, thanks everyone for all the help so far.
Just one last (I hope :-) question.
Is the Sound Blaster Live compatible with old Sound Blasters. i.e. Could I
use it as if it was e.g. a sound blaster 16.
If not, could someone recommend a cheap (my budget is about 50 UK pounds)
sound card that will give me good sound quality.
I'll be using it for producing sound effects for plays, so I want a very
clean sound output.
With luck, I'll be able to order the parts sometime tonight.
Thanks everyone...
--
Gerard Thornley
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dur.ac.uk/~d7249y
or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or http://www.bigfoot.com/~g247
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