Linux-Hardware Digest #467, Volume #12 Mon, 13 Mar 00 09:13:10 EST
Contents:
Re: Multiple CD Rom Drives (B'ichela)
Re: dual Celeron VS single K7 (Lee Sau Dan ~{@nJX6X~})
Re: COM1 or COM2 for the ext. modem; whats optimal? ("Roger Hamlett")
Newbie RH6.0 problems - LAN card, printer, VGA ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 1: Xvidtune, 2: fix freq monitor ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SB Live! & RH 6.1 (Paul Knowles)
Re: Real audio, /dev/mixer (Martin Booth)
OnStream SC-30 ("Tuxedo T. Penguin")
Re: is it true that all external modems are not winmodems? (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: vfs: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0) (dan the person)
Installing on compaq prosigna 300 (Richard Hornell)
[lan] intel etherexpress 10 isa(pnp enabled) (junghwa)
Re: Newbie RH6.0 problems - LAN card, printer, VGA (Phil Cowans)
Re: ati rage 128 pro (Terry Kovacs)
Re: ATA66 and Linux (Hal Burgiss)
Re: COM1 or COM2 for the ext. modem; whats optimal? (Johan Kullstam)
Re: ATA66 and Linux ("/Christophe")
Re: which hub? (John Edwards)
Please help ("Buchacher")
No X-Server for "Image Accel 2" card? ("Klaus Bosau")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B'ichela)
Subject: Re: Multiple CD Rom Drives
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 03:09:58 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 05:30:08 GMT, Brad Hedricks
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have a 40x (generic) as hdc and a Mitsumi 4x as hdd. Only the hdd cdrom
>is mounted. How do I get COL2.3 to see both? I am liking Linux so far
>but am not at all up to speed with the ins and outs yet, so all help is a
>plus.
>
>Thanks
>
>--
>Posted via CNET Help.com
>http://www.help.com/
Heres how I do it under Slackware 3.9 using a IDE Cdrom and a
Scsi Cdrom drive (its the same idea as yours)
theres lots of ways. but the easiest is do do this
lets create two mountpoints in / the first is cdrom1 and the second is
cdrom2 (you can use anyname you want, the choice is yours)
now lets mount hdc on /cdrom1 (makes sense right?
mount /dev/hdc /cdrom1 -t iso9660
Since your drive (hdc) is mounted to /cdrom1 you should be
able to read it. now to mount the second drive
no need to unmount the first.
mount /dev/hdd /cdrom2 -t iso9660
Now you have two cdroms mounted. you can confirm this by typing
mount
you will see two drives mounted to /cdrom1 and cdrom2
Now this is important. you cannot eject a disk from the
mounted drive. you need to unmount them. Lets say you want to change
the disk in /cdrom1
HINT you cannot be in /cdrom1 otherwise you will get a device
busy error
type
umount /cdrom1
you can eject the disk now. pop in a new one and after letting it spin
up for a few secs type
mount /dev/hdc /cdrom1 -t iso9660
this lets you continue with your new disk.
the next trick is just a shortcut and for this you will need to decide
which drive would be ideal. look in my /dev directory at this
ls -l /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jul 22 1999 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/sr0
Now I have a SCSI cdrom as my default drive as it works better than
my 32x IDE one. lets say your /dev/cdrom is a symbolic link to
/dev/hdd. you want to change it (many programs look for /dev/cdrom)
for default drive info)
for this I like to cd to /dev before doing the following
cd /dev
rm cdrom
ls -s /dev/hdd /cdrom
now if you do a ls -l /dev/cdrom you will see the following
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jul 22 1999 /dev/cdrom ->
/dev/hdd
the following was just a modified line from my Scsi info above.
now if you wanted to mount /dev/hdd you can either do
mount /dev/hdd /cdrom2 -t iso9660
or
mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom2 -t iso9660
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B'ichela
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Sau Dan ~{@nJX6X~})
Subject: Re: dual Celeron VS single K7
Date: 13 Mar 2000 17:37:25 +0800
>>>>> "drsound" == drsound <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
drsound> I was about to buy a new AMD K7 600 MHz + Asus
drsound> motherboard, when I saw a firm selling "ABIT DUAL BP6 + 2
drsound> CELERON 366 TEST. 522MHZ 2.0V" for fewer money! Is there
drsound> anyone who has experience with dual overclocked Celerons
drsound> running Linux?
I'm running kernel 2.2.13 on Dual-Celeron 300A, both overclocked to
450MHz (FSB=100MHz), at core voltage 2.0V. It runs without any
problems. Both CPU's are utilized when there are more than 1
processes ready for run (i.e. not sleeping).
I have had kernels 2.0.34, 2.2.5 and 2.2.9 kernels on that machine.
All performed well. (All kernels have SMP enabled, of course!)
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Lee Sau Dan $(0,X)wAV(B(Big5) ~{@nJX6X~}(HZ)
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From: "Roger Hamlett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus
Subject: Re: COM1 or COM2 for the ext. modem; whats optimal?
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 09:48:07 -0000
Keith R. Williams wrote in message ...
>On Sun, 12 Mar 2000 17:50:17, "Roger Hamlett"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Keith R. Williams wrote in message ...
>> >On Sun, 12 Mar 2000 12:34:33, "Wayne Monteath"
>> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >
>> >> COM2 uses IRQ3.
>> >> COM1 uses IRQ4
>> >>
>> >> IRQ3 gets serviced (has a higher priority) before IRQ4.
>> >
>> >This is backwards (which is why COM1 is on IRQ4 by default), but
>> >it doesn't matter in any case.
>> I agree it doesn't really matter, but the priority order given is
>> correct. The order on a PC is:-
>> 0 1 2 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 3 4 5 6 7
>> Com2, was assumed in the original PC, to be a higher data rate
channel
>> than Com1.
>
>Nope. It's backwards. The higher numbers had priority. Of
>course the high numbers (9-15) are spawned off IRQ2 so they are
>at a *lower* priority. I'be been doing this crap since the
>original PC1 (and before). I wish I kept my TechRefs, but I've
>moved inbetween and this stuff get jetisoned.
Fortunately, I have kept my technical references, and the order I
gave, is directly from page 1-13, of the IBM technical reference
manual...
Remember also that on the early PC's, there was no PS/2 capability,
and the second Com port was used in all their illustrations (section
8), for talking to various forms of Modem.
Best Wishes :-)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.install,linux.dev.newbie,linux.misc,linux.news.groups,comp.os.linux.setup,ucam.comp.linux,alt.os.linux,uk.comp.os.linux,uklinux.help.newbies
Subject: Newbie RH6.0 problems - LAN card, printer, VGA
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 18:26:52 GMT
I've just installed RedHat Linux 6.0 on my PC, I'm dual booting it
with Windows 98 SE. The installation at least completed, and I've got
a basic command shell going... but lots of my stuff isn't recognised.
The basic setup includes:
- AMD K6-2 500 MHz processor on a Commate S7SXB motherboard.
- 224 MB of RAM, of which 8MB is shared video memory.
- The video adapter is integrated into the SiS 530 chipset on the
motherboard.
- 3C905C-TX Fast Ethernet Card (3-Com)
- HP 895Cxi Inkjet Printer
... and the problem is, Linux wouldn't recognise my VGA adapter,
ethernet card or printer. Could someone please tell me what I have to
do to get Linux to recognise these... which programs to run, or
settings to change, or drivers to download... ?
I've crossposted this to loads of linux groups (apologies), if someone
can solve any of these problems could they please post on linux.redhat
so I don't have to search too hard!
Many thanks in advance,
Christian Gardner
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 1: Xvidtune, 2: fix freq monitor
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 10:41:05 GMT
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Sat, 11 Mar 2000 04:30:51 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >Thanks,
> > >
> > >I am going to save some BNC connector by salvaging a VGA cable from a
> > >broken VGA monitor and solder the ends to the HP 98785A(FF monitor).
> > >
> > >BTW, I need to be in console mode to login and startx. How can I go
> > >around this problem?
> > >
> > >Can I start the xserver 1st thing and login?
> > >
> > >Tim Foo
> <snip>
> > I don't know anything about what you are doing with the cable, but to
> > start linux in X, you edit /etc/inittab.
> >
> > Change the 3 to a 5 in this:
> >
> > id:3:initdefault:
> >
> > Above that line in my inittab is a list of numbers that could be
> > used. They are not the same in every distribution. I use RedHat; so
> 5 is
> > the number for X11 in mine.
>
> Thanks for the information.
> I am using RH5.2 with some updated from 3.3.3.1(the list below). Can I
> comment out the old statement with %?
>
> Tim Foo
>
> ------------------------------------Misc Info---------------------
> XFree86-100dpi-fonts-3.3.3.1-1.1.i386.rpm
> XFree86-3DLabs-3_3_3_1-1_1_i386.rpm
> XFree86-8514-3_3_3_1-1_1_i386.rpm
> XFree86-SVGA-3_3_3_1-1_1_i386.rpm
>
Don't comment it out. Just change the 3 to a 5.
Anita
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Subject: Re: SB Live! & RH 6.1
From: Paul Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 13 Mar 2000 11:50:36 +0100
"Hi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi, I've tried sndconfig tool. Though, it detected SB Live in RH 6.1, it's
> not supported...
> Is there anyway I could work around this.....
ftp://opensource.creative.com/pub/snapshots/emu10k1-20000313.tar.gz
(or whatever is the latest when you go...)
install as instructed and things should work.
The instructions that come with the emu10k1 driver should be
sufficient, but if not follow the hints on the page
http://www.euronet.nl/~mailme/index3.html
cheers,
.p.
email: Paul (dot) Knowles SHIFT-2 unifr (dot) ch
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From: Martin Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Real audio, /dev/mixer
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 10:55:39 +0000
That, unfortunately, didn't work. The main thing is then it would be in real audio
and I would want it as raw to put on a cd, so the main problem is intercepting the
data before it hits the sound card (since I haven't seen a real audio to raw
converter anywhere anyway). I thought by tinkering with either /dev/audio or
/dev/dsp might do it but to no avail.
Thanks for the help.
Martin Booth.
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From: "Tuxedo T. Penguin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: OnStream SC-30
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 12:15:31 +0100
Hi,
I've recently purchased an OnStream 30GB Internal drive, model SC-30.
Does anyone know if this model (SCSI) is supported under Linux and if
so, where I can find the driver for it?
TIA,
A. Eijkhoudt.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: is it true that all external modems are not winmodems?
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 08:04:48 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] () writes:
>On Fri, 10 Mar 2000 10:06:36 +0200, plato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>is it true that all external modems are not winmodems?
>>
>>
>Yes. Rs232 hasn't the bandwidth to drive a braindead winmodem.
This isn't quite correct. RPI modems, which you will not find to be
sold these days other than in a garage sale, will not work in a non-Win*
environment. And then, USB modems are presently still unsupported, but
that's going to change pretty soon.
Michael
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Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
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From: dan the person <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: vfs: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 00:25:06 +1300
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Ali A. Dadkhah" wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am getting following message repeatedly on my console. In addition
> every few houres, some items
> are being removed from my control pannel or some applications stuck. Is
> ther any thing that I can
> do to prevent this from repeating?
>
> vfs: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
>
> Thanks
I think it is caused by autorun (the little background proggie that auto
mounts disks)
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From: Richard Hornell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing on compaq prosigna 300
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 00:35:04 +1300
I am wanted to to know if anyone has had any success installing on one
of these machines?
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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 21:04:45 +0900
From: junghwa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [lan] intel etherexpress 10 isa(pnp enabled)
Hello, all!
I'm a newbie in linux...sorry if I ask stupid quetion... But I have no
idea about my problem with lan card.
*I have 2 HDD: One is running win98, the other is linux.(maybe 2.2.12 V.
I'm not sure.)
*lan card: intel EtherExpress 10 isa(pnp enabled.)
When I installed linux on slave HDD, I passed network configuration ,
because my card didn't appear on the list... and after installing the
linux, I can see x-window.
And I can't find the way to detect my lan card... So I've read linux
howto doc and document that I found on internet... They said that I
must disable the pnp of the lan card, so I downloaded driver of lan
card and run ex10set.exe on dos...(it's like softset2 program. be used
to disable pnp and set the io, irq...i think you'll know easily ) But,
that program said that they can't find adapter and detect lan card...
What does that mean?
They can't detect the lan card, but stil I can use internet on win98.
I've used isapnp tool and modprobe command, insmod... but didn't work at
all...
Could you tell me why this happen? In addition, I used the ex10set
program on dos and I'm sure I'm using right driver... then what could it
be a problem?
I can't imagine the reason..
If anyone know why, please tell me. I begging you.
bye and take care.
**Linux is difficult to me... but someday it'll be fun!! i hope.**
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From: Phil Cowans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.install,linux.dev.newbie,linux.misc,linux.news.groups,comp.os.linux.setup,ucam.comp.linux,alt.os.linux,uk.comp.os.linux,uklinux.help.newbies
Subject: Re: Newbie RH6.0 problems - LAN card, printer, VGA
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 12:22:05 +0000
OK - this is a general answer - I don't run RedHat, so I'm not too up on
it's configuration utilities.
One problem with Linux is that it often can't detect you hardware - you
have to tell it yourself.
1. VGA Adapter - You should be able to get away with using a generic SVGA
X-Server (try running xf86config as root if there isn't a better utility
included with the distribution), but if you wan't native support for the
chipset you apparently need one of the SuSE X-Servers:
http://www.suse.de/en/support/xsuse/index.html
2. Network Card - Try turning off plug and play.
3. Printer - Apparently this is supported in black & white only. Try
looking in the Printing HOWTO (eg at the LDP: www.linuxdoc.org). I can
warn you now though that setting up a non-Postscript printer in Linux is
one hell of a pain in the arse.
Phil
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From: Terry Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: Re: ati rage 128 pro
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 07:36:42 -0500
Release 4.0 knows how to handle this card! Don't use xf86config but
rather use:
"XFree86 -configure"
One glitch: my mouse would not "auto" detect properly so I needed to
edit the XF86Config file and change the mouse to "PS/2"
The new server seems to have even figured out what monitor I had! Now
if I could only figure out how to change the resolution from something
less than the max so I could read the text in the windows...
Terry Kovacs wrote:
>
> I have a Dell XPS T500 system with a card that is identified as an "ATI
> Rage 128 Pro" under windows 98.
>
> Does anyone know if the "rage 128 pro" card is significantly different
> than the "rage 128"?
> I have been trying to configure this card under linux/xfree86 3.3.6
> which has support for the rage 128 cards but have had no success. The
> XF86_SVGA server goes blank with every configuration I've tried. The
> XFCom_Rage128 server (from suse) usually just core dumps.
>
> Terry Kovacs
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: ATA66 and Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 12:53:10 GMT
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 07:53:48 GMT, Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"news-server.optonline.net" says he is 'very comfortable with
>computers'. BTW, what's an ATA-66 card again....? :) (some news for
>you... everyone is 'comfortable' with windows)
>
>Actually, I was thinking of upgrading my controller card to ATA-66...
>hmm... I have redhat 6.1, how complicated will this process be?(anyone
>comfortable with computers may respond)
You need a kernel patch. That is all. So if comfortable building
kernels, a no brainer.
>"news-server.optonline.net" wrote:
>
>> I have a dell 700mhz system with an ata66 controller card, and I am trying
>> to install redhat linux 6.1. When I get to the part where I select what
>> kind of installation I will perform, it says that it cannot find any media
>> to install to, and then leaves me hanging. What is an ata66 controller card
>> and how do I get it to work with linux (I am very comfortable with computers
>> in general, but only so-so with linux).
>
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: COM1 or COM2 for the ext. modem; whats optimal?
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 13:04:20 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith R. Williams) writes:
> On Sun, 12 Mar 2000 12:34:33, "Wayne Monteath"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > COM2 uses IRQ3.
> > COM1 uses IRQ4
> >
> > IRQ3 gets serviced (has a higher priority) before IRQ4.
>
> This is backwards (which is why COM1 is on IRQ4 by default), but
> it doesn't matter in any case.
if you care, irqtune can rearrange the priorities.
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Don't Fear the Penguin!
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From: "/Christophe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: ATA66 and Linux
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 14:10:17 +0100
> You need a kernel patch. That is all. So if comfortable building
> kernels, a no brainer.
Please, do you know where this patch can be found, and how to apply it.
Thanks.
/Christophe
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From: John Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: which hub?
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 08:16:07 -0500
Intel makes a 5 port hub that I have used in small offices. Check
www.pricewatch.com. Should be able to get it locally for <$50.00 USD.
Matt Garman wrote:
> I'm building a small home LAN to share a cablemodem between four
> computers. I was wondering if anyone could recommend a decent quality but
> affordable hub?
>
> I don't really need top of the line, as long as it's not junk and doesn't
> cost too much.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
> --
> Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> "I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_, and one of
> the guitarists said they don't play guitar solos because they've been
> done. Well, I guess that's true if you stick with what's been done.
> But you have to look beyond that; there's a lot more left to say on the
> guitar." -- Warren Haynes of Gov't Mule
--
John K. Edwards
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(301)470-4805
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From: "Buchacher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux
Subject: Please help
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 14:45:43 +0100
Please Help
My mouse doesn't react neither with gpm nor in X-Window
My story:
First I tried to connect the mouse to the PS/2 port and used /dev/psaux
--> failure
Then I connected the mouse with an adapter to COM1
I tried it with /dev/mouse (ttyS0)
I removed /lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/serial.o
In /etc/conf.modules I set the line
alias char-major-4 serial
to:
alias char-major-4 off
Nothing helped. Although I could start X-Window by inserting the following
line in the section "ServerFlags" of the file /etc/XF86Config:
AllowMouseOpenFail
The result:
Cannot open mouse - Continuing...
SuSE said I should then press Ctrl-Alt-F1 to go to any text console and then
immediately return to X-Window by pressing Alt-F7. The mouse still doesn't
react.
Thanks in advance
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From: "Klaus Bosau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: No X-Server for "Image Accel 2" card?
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 14:44:47 +0100
I am actually using a "Dualpage 120"-monitor in combination with the "Image
Accel 2"-graphics card of the american company "Cornerstone Imaging".
Because of certain limitations of my current operating system I am forced to
replace it by the more powerful "Linux 6.2" (SuSE). Unfortunately I failed
in configuring the accompanying "X-Server", which is part of the
"XFree86"-graphics system of "Linux 6.2".
Is there anybody out there in the great wide world who knows something about
my problem? I am grateful for any advice!
--
Klaus Bosau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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