Linux-Hardware Digest #382, Volume #12 Wed, 1 Mar 00 15:13:12 EST
Contents:
Re: Driver for Video Capture Card using Bt878 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Hal Burgiss (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Advice on a system for high-end MPEG2 playback ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: More problems with ide cd writer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
ATX Power in suppend mode (Robert Woodworth)
Re: how can I tell how many CPUs? (Robert Woodworth)
Re: More problems with ide cd writer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Hal Burgiss ("Melissa Nelson")
Re: KDE SOUND PROBLEM ("Jarek \"Krusher\" Onuszko")
Re: LILO + HD 13 Gb (David C.)
Re: Overclocked Celery hangs! ("Richard Gaywood")
Re: Overclocked Celery hangs! ("Richard Gaywood")
Re: I miss my Scrollie!!!! (David C.)
Re: AMD and LINUX (David C.)
Re: 13gigs and no where to go...... (David C.)
minolta color pagepro l? (Pat)
problems with tv-tuner card (root)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Driver for Video Capture Card using Bt878
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 18:09:47 GMT
I forgot the acual URL but goto http://freshmeat.net and do a search for
'tv' look for the link named kwintv. Even if you do not use kde the page
has lots of links and information on the bt878. I have the hauppauge
wintv with hte same chipset and that is where I started at although I
know use xawtv-3.09
-Jayson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Wen-Siang Kuo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am working on a video capturing system based on Rockwell's Bt878 -
> Single-chip video and audio capture for the PCI bus. Is there any
Linux
> driver written for this chip? Or how can I communicate with the PCI
chip
> within Linux application (any samples out there)? Also how to setup a
DMA
> transfer, in particular, how to get a physical memory address for the
DMA
> contrller to work on?
> Any pointer or suggestion will be appreciated.
> Thanks and best regards
>
> --
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> http://www.help.com/
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: Hal Burgiss
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 18:33:24 GMT
On Wed, 01 Mar 2000 16:32:00 GMT, Melissa Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>ok i went to one of my old boxes and pulled out a Smc EtherEZ 8416
>drivers are at
>http://www.smc.com/smc/drivers/Drivers/8416/smc-ultra.c-1.2.13.txt
>
>how does he put it in his cpu to make the card work???
Hopefully that site has instrutcions. I am not familiar with that card.
A look thru the kernel docs turned up no exact hits for this card. Not
sure if that is bad or not really. Since the link above looks like C
source code, the driver (in Linux 'module') may need to be compiled.
This takes the raw source code and makes an executable binary that the
system can use. Hopefully again, there are some instructions.
Typically this would require doing something like:
$ configure
$ make
$ make install (as root)
But may be different, just depends.
Then,
$ modprobe <name_of_new_module>
to dynamically load the module. Then, put something like
alias eth0 <name_of_module>
in /etc/conf.modules, so it gets loaded on boot. This may vary a bit
depending on which distro of Linux he is using. There is an ethernet
HOWTO that may be useful:
[hal@feenix hal]$ locate HOWTO | grep -i ether
/usr/doc/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO
>
>and how does he config his route -n thingy
Which distro? With Redhat, the easiest way is with 'netcfg' utility. It
can be done from the command line too, but maybe easier if he finds a
GUI tool to get started with.
>feel proud of him he got windoze and Linux on the same box =l)
How old is he? Anyone who likes Linux is smarter than the average bear ;)
PS -- I don't mind you addressing this to me at all, but you will cast a
wider net by posting a general topic. There are many who know more about
this than I, and maybe someone with the identical hardware that could
give you more direct advice.
Good luck!
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Advice on a system for high-end MPEG2 playback
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 18:29:14 GMT
The lml33(mpeg encoder/decoder) is for linux. I have a dual 400PII 384Mb
all scsi, and no hardware mpeg decoder, I do have a bt878 tv card. and
software mpeg playback work fine. I have been useing xmovie for this.
-Jayson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> I need some advice on the system that can play 640x480 MPEG2 flics at
> 25fps 10Mbit/s
> As I see it, I have 2 choices:
>
> 1. Get an MPEG2 card (none seem to be compatible with linux)
> 2. Build a dual-P3 system
>
> I'd really like to go with No.1, so if there're any cards that can
work
> _reliably_ with Linux, I'd really like to know.
>
> If not, what kind of main board/cpu mix will be able to accomplish
this
> feat, while still leaving a few cycles to spare for other stuff?
>
> The system will be in production environment, so it has to be
> _absolutely_stable_
>
> TIA,
> Alex.
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: More problems with ide cd writer
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 18:30:39 GMT
unfortunately /dev/sr0-15 look fine as do /mnt/*. But thanks
P.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 20:22:01 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <<89h9p4$a47$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
> >problem that doesn't seem terribly normal. Under redhat 6.0 I had
both
> >my cdrom and cdwriter happily coexisting in /dev/sr0 and sr1.
Recently I
> >decided to trash the machine and rebuild with redhat 6.1, big
mistake.
> >I'm now in the rather strange positon where dmesg shows /dev/sr0 and
sr1
> >being assigned to the drives that I expect but when I come to mount
> >either /dev/sr0 or /dev/sr1, they bioth seem to point to the same
> >device. Having mounted /dev/sr0 on /mnt/cdrom, when I try to mount
>
> $ ls -l /dev/sr[0-1] should give:
> brw-r--r-- 1 root disk 11, 0 Apr 15 1999 /dev/sr0
> brw-r--r-- 1 root disk 11, 1 Apr 15 1999 /dev/sr1
>
> If not, then as root:
> # rm /dev/sr[0-1]
> # mknod -m 644 /dev/sr0 b 11 0
> # mknod -m 644 /dev/sr1 b 11 1
>
> Also make sure your /etc/fstab is like so:
> /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0
> /dev/sr1 /mnt/cdrw iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0
>
> And make sure /mnt/cdrw exists, of course....
>
> --
> Matt G / Dances With Crows \ In the MS-DOStrix,
> There is no Darkness in Eternity \----\ there is no fork().
> But only Light too dim for us to see \
> ===== Usenet: ceci n'est pas une guerre des flammes =====
>
>
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From: Robert Woodworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATX Power in suppend mode
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 11:01:30 -0700
Is ther any way to turn off the fan of an ATX powersupply in 'suppend'
mode??
I want the machine to be totally quiet in suppend mode.
Please reply to:
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
thanks
Rob Woodworth
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From: Robert Woodworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how can I tell how many CPUs?
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 11:06:45 -0700
At the command line:
# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 3
model name : Pentium II (Klamath)
stepping : 3
cpu MHz : 265.914042
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
sep_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca
cmov mmx
bogomips : 265.42
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: More problems with ide cd writer
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 18:46:59 GMT
You're a brilliant man, it worked perfectly, thankyou. I'd still be
mildly interested to know why during boot, it appears to assign sr0 and
sr1 though. Oh, and to get xcdroast to work properly, I ended up having
to link sro ans sr1 to scd0 and scd1
Thanks
Pat.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Ok, I've been through the howto and dejanews but I seem to have a
> > problem that doesn't seem terribly normal. Under redhat 6.0 I had
both
> > my cdrom and cdwriter happily coexisting in /dev/sr0 and sr1.
Recently I
> > decided to trash the machine and rebuild with redhat 6.1, big
mistake.
> > I'm now in the rather strange positon where dmesg shows /dev/sr0 and
sr1
> > being assigned to the drives that I expect but when I come to mount
> > either /dev/sr0 or /dev/sr1, they bioth seem to point to the same
> > device. Having mounted /dev/sr0 on /mnt/cdrom, when I try to mount
> > /mnt/cdrw, I get 'mount: /dev/sr1 already mounted or /mnt/cdrw busy'
(as
> > one would expect if they are the same device) I've checked /dev/sr0
and
> > 1 and they don't appear to be symbolic links. I've tried recreating
> > /mnt/cdrom and cdrw and I'm now at a bit of a loss...
> > I can post more detail but for the minute I'll just hope that the
above
> > rings some bells with someone.
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Pat.
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
>
> I think I had that problem when I switched to 6.1 from 6.0.
>
> Try using /dev/scd0 and /dev/scd1 instead of /dev/sr0
> and /dev/sr1
>
> --
> ---
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> Department of Mathematics (604)-822-6074 (Department FAX)
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From: "Melissa Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hal Burgiss
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 18:44:49 GMT
He is using RedHat 6.1
Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Wed, 01 Mar 2000 16:32:00 GMT, Melissa Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >ok i went to one of my old boxes and pulled out a Smc EtherEZ 8416
> >drivers are at
> >http://www.smc.com/smc/drivers/Drivers/8416/smc-ultra.c-1.2.13.txt
> >
> >how does he put it in his cpu to make the card work???
>
> Hopefully that site has instrutcions. I am not familiar with that card.
> A look thru the kernel docs turned up no exact hits for this card. Not
> sure if that is bad or not really. Since the link above looks like C
> source code, the driver (in Linux 'module') may need to be compiled.
> This takes the raw source code and makes an executable binary that the
> system can use. Hopefully again, there are some instructions.
>
> Typically this would require doing something like:
>
> $ configure
> $ make
> $ make install (as root)
>
> But may be different, just depends.
>
> Then,
>
> $ modprobe <name_of_new_module>
>
> to dynamically load the module. Then, put something like
>
> alias eth0 <name_of_module>
>
> in /etc/conf.modules, so it gets loaded on boot. This may vary a bit
> depending on which distro of Linux he is using. There is an ethernet
> HOWTO that may be useful:
>
> [hal@feenix hal]$ locate HOWTO | grep -i ether
> /usr/doc/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO
>
>
> >
> >and how does he config his route -n thingy
>
> Which distro? With Redhat, the easiest way is with 'netcfg' utility. It
> can be done from the command line too, but maybe easier if he finds a
> GUI tool to get started with.
>
> >feel proud of him he got windoze and Linux on the same box =l)
>
> How old is he? Anyone who likes Linux is smarter than the average bear ;)
>
>
> PS -- I don't mind you addressing this to me at all, but you will cast a
> wider net by posting a general topic. There are many who know more about
> this than I, and maybe someone with the identical hardware that could
> give you more direct advice.
>
> Good luck!
>
> --
> Hal B
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> --
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From: "Jarek \"Krusher\" Onuszko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KDE SOUND PROBLEM
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 19:21:13 GMT
> I had the same trouble, go to the site
> http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/gotchas/6.1/gotchas-6.1.html
> and you will find lots of stuff there including the workaround for
> KDE sound troubles.
>
> Here's what to do.
>
> ln -s /etc/sysconfig/soundcard /etc/sysconfig/sound
>
> Good Luck
>
>
>
> --
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> http://www.help.com/
heh, it's kinda funny but I haven't got /etc/sysconfig/soundcard either ?!
what to do ?
Krusher
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Subject: Re: LILO + HD 13 Gb
Date: 01 Mar 2000 14:43:17 -0500
Forrest Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> You only have to put the /boot partition below the 1024th cylinder.
> It only needs to be about 20MB. The rest can be above.
It can be much smaller than that.
The files required in /boot for a single kernel consumes a little more
than 2.5M. So, if all you need is a single kernel, you can get away
with a /boot as small as 3M. But you probably want to make it at least
5-6M - since kernel upgrades are easier when you've got free space in
/boot.
Of course, the size you pick must be quantized to the size of your
drive's cylinders. Depending on your drive's translated geometries, a
single cylinder may be quite large. (On my home system, the disk has a
cylinder size of 8M).
On my systems, I like to allocate enough room for four kernels, plus
extra "slack" space so future kernels (which are likely to be larger)
will fit. This means a /boot of at least 10M. Due to drive geometry,
this requires two cylinders - or 16M - which is what I made the
partition.
-- David
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From: "Richard Gaywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Overclocked Celery hangs!
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 18:59:26 -0000
> It really doesn't surprise me that it used to work, but now won't.
uh-huh.
> Sometimes overclocking a processor may not cause a problem today, tomorrow
> or even next year, but after a while, it can simply stop working. That's
why
> the chip wasn't clocked at that speed. Not to mention the fact that
> overclocking has been known to shorten the life of the processor.....
Well, the core temp has never exceeded 48degC (Intel max spec is 70degC) and
the voltage has never been raised above the default of 2.0V. It's only been
running at 541 for a month or so. All in all, I reckon permanent damage is
unlikely, although I'm not ruling it out ;o) I could to with an excuse to
get an Athlon anyway...
--
-=R=-
"Is this what you thought married life would
be like, Homer?"
"Yeah, pretty much. 'Cept we drove around in
a van solving mysteries."
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From: "Richard Gaywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Overclocked Celery hangs!
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 19:10:04 -0000
> You answered your own question. 83Mhz fsb has got to be
>about the worst oc going, short of boards that don't support
>a � pci divider at bus speeds just under 133mhz. Your system
>isn't/hasn't been stable at 541mhz. EG, I run a p3-450 on a
>Soyo 6ba+III. It boots and runs 99% of Winblows apps at 624mhz.
>It will also boot and run Linux at 616mhz, most all the time.
Yeah, I know. But, I have a Quantum & an IBM hard disk (both reputed good
for high FSB) and been running Win for, ooh, a month with *no* problems.
Even when I wrote a program to move a ~600Mb zip file back & forth between
disks to look for corruptions (I had no dedicated test software
available...)
>At 541 your's is 41+, an' way too fsck'n high. With 'cpuburn'
>runnin for a long time, my cpu's internal core temp never goes
>over 44C, your temp is ? I use a pci voodoo3 to avoid agp problems
>on agp buses over 80mhz, do you have an agp card?
My AGP TNT1 card is perfectly comfortable at 83MHz. I accidentally booted at
100MHz AGP once; it didn't like that much ;o) Onboard diagnostics (Abit ZM6)
report my CPU temp as ~45degC after 10(!) hours of Unreal Tournament.
Interestingly enough, I suddenly starting finding ext2fs errors yesterday -
mis-sized blocks and things. Reckon the 83MHz bus ain't as good as I first
though. Going to try 75 (=488) for a while, and see how that goes.
> Bottom line is you bought the wrong celery. You should have
>got the C366 and clocked it to 550 with good cooling. All your
>bus speeds, 100/33/66 (fsb/pci/agp) would then be in spec.
Yeah, but
(1) the 366s where getting rare when I bought this machine (only a month
ago)
(2) I didn't buy it to overclock - but when I found out it would do 541
(near-)stable with no over-voltage, seemed a shame not too...
I guess this just proves Linux is more demanding on hardware stability that
Windoze. Unsurprising, really... Que cera cera.
Any chance I could get some URLs for the testing software you mentioned?
--
-=R=-
"Is this what you thought married life would
be like, Homer?"
"Yeah, pretty much. 'Cept we drove around in
a van solving mysteries."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Subject: Re: I miss my Scrollie!!!!
Date: 01 Mar 2000 14:48:30 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> I have RedHat dual booted w/ Windoze95. I'm using a Kensington
> ScrollMouse, and all Linux can ID it as i9s a 3 button mouse. How do I
> set it up to use the scroll wheel? I miss my scrollie!
Current versions of XFree86 should automatically support it.
Add the line:
ZAxisMapping 4 5
to the "Pointer" section of /etc/X11/XF86Config. When you do this,
rolling the wheel will generate X button-4 and button-5 events.
Some apps (like xterm from XFree86 3.3.5) have built-in support for the
wheel and will scroll when they receive button-4 and button-5 events.
Some apps (like Netscape and Emacs) will need to be configured to make
this work.
-- David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Subject: Re: AMD and LINUX
Date: 01 Mar 2000 14:51:35 -0500
Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> Everywhere I see linux I can see Intel but never AMD and I would
>> like to know if it is possible to use linux without problem with an
>> AMD processor and if yes wich type of linux could you recomand to me.
>
> I have heard that there are some compatibility problems with the new
> Athlon processor, but I used to run Slackware on an AMD 486 DX2/80
> with no problem.
They're not Linux problems, but hardware problems. People have seen the
same problems (assorted random crashes) with other operating systems.
Certain generic parts (like RAM and power supplies) must be built to
tighter tolerances to work reliably with Athlon motherboards. If you go
to AMD's web site, there is information on this, along with a list of
vendors whose products have been tested and approved.
-- David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Subject: Re: 13gigs and no where to go......
Date: 01 Mar 2000 14:55:26 -0500
Kenn Madsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Use Fips which is a freeware program, running in DOS, and then
> partition your disk in to 8GB and 5GB. If you are using LILO as
> bootmanager, make sure the 5GB partition starts below Cylinder 1024.
Not quite. It doesn't matter where the 5G partition starts.
What is important is that the partition containing /boot is contained
_ENTIRELY_ below the 1024th cylinder.
Once the stuff in /boot loads and executes, your BIOS is no longer used
for anything, and all cylinder limits go away. So as long as /boot is
below cylinder 1024, your other partitions can go anywhere.
-- David
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Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 20:02:08 +0000
From: Pat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.periphs.printers
Subject: minolta color pagepro l?
I see plenty of talk about support for the pagepro ?l series printers.
Does anyone know whether the color pagepro l printer is supported before
I go ahead and buy a new PC for print/file serving (well, I have to
sneak Linux into the office somehow and this may be the perfect
opportunity :o)
TIA
Pat.
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problems with tv-tuner card
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 21:56:23 +0200
I have a TV-tuner card which uses the zoran drivers. The problem and how
I got there is as follows:
1. Kernel (2.2.14) compiles OK with video4linux and bttv as modules.
2. bigphysarea-2.2.13 -patch works fine. After booting I've got
[root@sulo bin]# cat /proc/bigphysarea
Big physical area, size 4096 kB
free list: used
list:
number of blocks: 1 0
size of largest block: 4096 kB 0 kB
total: 4096 kB 0
kB
which is fine.
3. zoran-0.6.3 driver package compiles OK.
4. all the modules needed are probed OK, as you can see:
[root@sulo bin]# lsmod
Module Size Used by
ppp_deflate 40800 0 (autoclean)
bsd_comp 3824 0 (autoclean)
vfat 9372 0 (autoclean)
fat 30656 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
zoran 25000 0 (unused)
videodev 2656 2 [zoran]
tuner 2188 0 (unused)
saa7110 2516 1
i2c 3456 3 [zoran tuner saa7110]
5. The grabber card driver has even an IRQ:
[root@sulo bin]# cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 168982 XT-PIC timer
1: 1799 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
4: 29112 XT-PIC serial
5: 1 XT-PIC soundblaster
8: 2 XT-PIC rtc
11: 0 XT-PIC zoran
13: 1 XT-PIC fpu
14: 509 XT-PIC ide0
15: 119596 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
So, what's the problem, you might be tempted to ask. Well, when I try to
run e.g. xawtv, I get
[root@sulo bin]# ./xawtv
This is xawtv-3.09, running on Linux/i686 (2.2.14-bigphys)
visual: id=0x22 class=4 (TrueColor), depth=24
x11: 1280x1024, 32 bit/pixel, 5120 byte/scanline, DGA
sh: v4l-conf: command not found
waitpid: No child processes
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
open /dev/video: No buffer space available
sh: v4l-conf: command not found
waitpid: No child processes
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
open /dev/video: No buffer space available
no video grabber device available
So, from my perspective everything seems to be OK, but it doesn't work
anyway. Does anyone have a fix?
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