Linux-Hardware Digest #555, Volume #12 Sun, 26 Mar 00 19:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: SB Live Works but... ("Jarek \"Krusher\" Onuszko")
HP LaserJet 5L Printer Prints Blank Pages ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
USB->ethernet (linksys) and 2.3.99-pre3 kernel (Bryan)
Re: True requirements for Lexmark Optra Color 40 SIMMs? (Grant Taylor)
Athlon kernel compile (Janet)
Re: Autodetecton of /dev/lp1 (Pawel =?iso-8859-2?Q?Moszuma=F1ski?=)
Re: Sound : no sound with Ensoniq pc1371 and Mandrake 6.1 (Michael Kelly)
Re: True requirements for Lexmark Optra Color 40 SIMMs? (Scott Alfter)
Re: Corel or Turbo Linux? (Scott Alfter)
Driver for EtherExpress 100A (Oliver Folini)
Re: Matrox Millenium G400 (John Hart)
Re: $5 hardware-controller modem at CompUSA (Jim Jerzycke)
Re: Problems Shutting Down Linux (Jim Jerzycke)
Epson 1200 Driver (John Hart)
RH6.1 and VIA KX133 based motherboards (Thayer Andrews)
video resolution changing automatically & messing up X (Mjd440)
Software RAID dilemma (Magnus Svensson)
sound programming in linux (Vlado Stefanovski)
PCMIA sound card install (GARBO)
Re: Zip IDE & Red Hat 6.0 (ervf)
Re: True requirements for Lexmark Optra Color 40 SIMMs? (Vincent Fox)
Re: RH6.1 and VIA KX133 based motherboards (nina)
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From: "Jarek \"Krusher\" Onuszko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SB Live Works but...
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 20:20:04 GMT
I know :))) I found out that you can create manually /etc/sysconfig/sound or
soundcard. This file should contain one line CARDTYPE=anythingyouwant (I
have aureal3d card but I wrote CARDTYPE=SB16 or GUS or ADLIB etc. always
WORKED the same)
--
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Jarek "Krusher" Onuszko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.vwclan.prv.pl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://q2.kawiarenka.com.pl
UIN: 13305122
> I used the sndconfig tool to install my SB Live. It found the SB Live
> card but said it was not supported. I went to opensource.creative.com
> and downloaded the emu10k1 driver. I installed that just fine and my
> sound works (plays CD's, wav's, and MP3's), but I can't get the system
> sounds to work in KDE. Apparently, when the sysconfig tool installs the
> sound card, it makes a directory /soundcard or /sound. I have neither
> so I can't to the ln thing and point to /sound. Is there a fix to this
> or am I just stuck? Any ideas or help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Josten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: HP LaserJet 5L Printer Prints Blank Pages
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 20:07:22 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello.
Would very-much appreciate any "straight-up" advice, from any
benevolent/generous Linux users, that might bring my subject-printer to
life!
Cannot get my HP LaserJet 5L b/w printer locally configured properly.
"Goes through the motions", but output pages are completely blank; no
printed chars. whatsoever.
I am a Linux newbie, with SuSE Linux 6.3 installed on my pc (has an AMD
K6-2 450MHz with 32MB PC100 SDRAM and a 4.3GB UDMA ATA/33 hard drive).
I've attempted configurations via YaST, and apsfilter. I've setup as a
device at /dev/lp0 and /dev/lp1 (... separately; not both active
configs., at same time). Printer drivers attempted thusfar, as a
'Postcript'-type printer, include ljet4; as an 'Other'-type printer,
include (? spelling not necessarily correct on my part. Sorry!):
ljet5gray, ljet5mono, ljet4mono, ljet4gray, pxlmono, pxlgray,
ljet4Lgray, ljet4Lmono, lj4dith.
However, upon command 'tunelp /dev/lp0' (altern. 'tunelp /dev/lp1'), I
get the following stdout: "/dev/lp0 [sic. /dev/lp1] using IRQ -1."
When I attempt to data-print directly to my HP LaserJet 5L, via command
'cat /var/log/boot.msg > /dev/lp0 [sic. cat /var/log/boot.msg >
/dev/lp1]", my HP LaserJet 5L does process, ...but again, all output
pages are blank pages. What am I doing wrong?
Sincerely,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USB->ethernet (linksys) and 2.3.99-pre3 kernel
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 20:32:41 GMT
just tried the 2.3 kernel for the first time (I needed usb/ethernet
for my new i-opener) ;-)
it does work! very cool..
but I'm not sure why the linksys adapter doesn't show LINK on its led.
the switch I connect the cat5 cable to shows link and I can ssh (etc)
to and from the box just fine. is the link light at all software
controlled? sounds unlikely but I'm not sure why a brand new usb
adapter would have a broken link led.
(as an aside, I was very surprised how easy it was to get usb/ethernet
working with this very new [to me] device; I know the 2.2 kernel and
its net.devices pretty well; and I was able to get the usb/ether
device up and working without reading ANY docs - just running 'make
menuconfig', taking good guesses at things, then make bzdisk and
reboot. wow. that was friggin' EASY <g> )
--
Bryan, http://Grateful.Net (ANTISPAM: email is my name at my web's domain)
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: True requirements for Lexmark Optra Color 40 SIMMs?
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 20:37:23 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vincent Fox) writes:
> Newsgroups are so incredible for this kind of thing. And the kids
> these days think they can find everything on web-based forums. Long
> Live UseNet!
Quite. Those web forums are all so horribly klunky...
> Anyone in this thread know of any other inkjet printers with
> PostScript capability? I don't mind doing an Optra 40 for myself or
> a friend, but a business will want something a little beefier, but
> not at the pricetag perhaps of units like the HP 2500.
The Optra 40 is a bit of an anomaly; it never sold very well because
Lexmark carefully marketed it by storing a pile in a warehouse and not
mentioning it to anyone. The ones we're all buying are closeouts
being liquidated by buy.com.
Hopefully Lexmark will catch on to this market opportunity and
postscript-ify another engine from the Color Jetprinter line so that I
can have a new product to suggest to people.
> Epson makes some nice inkjets, but damn if I can find of them with a
> PostScript option.
There are a few for which you can get a host-based RIP from Epson.
For most of them, you can also use Ghostscript as a host-based RIP
with somewhat variable results.
Postscript inkjets are few and far between. Businesses tend to prefer
faster, cheaper printing technologies since they have larger volumes
and less worry over up-front cost. There are a fair number of
Postscript color lasers out there, for example...
I did a "inkjet and postscript and color" search on my database of
printers, and got only these:
HP |DeskJet 1600Cm |http://www.hp.com/cposupport/prodhome/dj1600m.html
HP |DeskJet 1200C/PS|http://www.hp.com/cposupport/prodhome/dj1200c.html
Lexmark|Optra Color 45 |http://www.lexmark.com/printers/inkjet/OptraColor/45.html
Lexmark|Optra Color 40 |http://www.lexmark.com/printers/inkjet/OptraColor/40.html
The 1200C's Postscript option has been discontinued. Furthermore,
HP's postscript implementation has never been accused of being really
good. (To be fair, it varies wildly from printer to printer; some use
Adobe, some use a clone, etc; the Postscript inkjets are just so far
out of the HP mainline that I'm skeptical).
There are probably a few others out there for which there is a
Postscript option; if you find any, please let me know so I can keep
an eye on them!
--
Grant Taylor - gtaylor@picante<dot>com - http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/
Linux Printing HOWTO: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/
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From: Janet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Athlon kernel compile
Date: 26 Mar 2000 12:45:46 -0800
Hi,
I'm about to compile kernel 2.2.14 for my athlon box and was wondering
whether to enable MTRR (there have been a lot of posts about needing to
disable it in earlier kernel versions; what about this one?). Also, which
processor type should I choose?
Thanks,
Janet
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pawel =?iso-8859-2?Q?Moszuma=F1ski?=)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Autodetecton of /dev/lp1
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 20:56:45 GMT
Antoine Hugueney Napisa�(a):
>I have /dev/lp0 autodetected with my Linux Mandrake 7.0 but that doesn't
>help because no byte seems to be flowing either way (no light flashing,
>not to mention the absence of page printing). But the autoprobe still
>correctly detects a Lexmark 3200 (cat /proc/parport/0/autoprobe). I found
>at /proc/parport/0/hardware and /proc/parport/0/interrupt that no
>interrupt was configured for printing. Could anyone help me for that,
>please ?
>
echo 7 > /proc/parport/0/irq
:)
--
Pawe� Moszuma�ski
Hotel Jan III Sobieski
Pl. Artura Zawiszy 1
02-025 W-wa
tel.+48 22 5791030
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From: Michael Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound : no sound with Ensoniq pc1371 and Mandrake 6.1
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 15:59:29 -0500
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000 13:59:59 +0000, david dubois
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>but I can't find the file Readme.linux.
>
>So, can somebody tell me where is exactly the problem?
What's the output from lsmod?
Mike
--
"I don't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member."
-- Groucho Marx
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Alfter)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: True requirements for Lexmark Optra Color 40 SIMMs?
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 21:17:59 GMT
In article <8blpeu$u7h$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Vincent Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Anyone in this thread know of any other inkjet printers
>with PostScript capability? I don't mind doing an Optra 40
>for myself or a friend, but a business will want something
>a little beefier, but not at the pricetag perhaps of
>units like the HP 2500.
The HP DeskJet 1200 and 1600 were available in PostScript versions (1200M
and 1600M, perhaps?). They're both long-discontinued, though. One option
might be to dust off an old 486, throw Linux and Ghostscript on it, and
combine it with whatever non-PostScript printer you like. (I considered
doing that with my DeskJet 682C, but decided instead to snag an Optra 40
when buy.com was blowing them out at $100.)
_/_
/ v \
(IIGS( Scott Alfter (salfter at (yo no quiero spam) delphi dot com)
\_^_/ http://salfter.dyndns.org
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Alfter)
Subject: Re: Corel or Turbo Linux?
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 21:11:53 GMT
In article <38dd6d2a$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Toolman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I want to try (for the 3rd time in a year) to remove windows from my
>vocabulary. Can anyone tell me which is the most user friendly to install
>Corel or Turbo Linux?
I just installed Corel Linux 1.0 on my main workstation last
night...probably the easiest Linux install I've ever seen, even easier in
some ways than the average Win9x install. I had to recompile the kernel for
sound (es1370) and SCSI (aha152x) support, but it auto-detected everything
else (even the (ISA non-PnP) tertiary IDE controller I use with my CD
burner...Win98 requires it to be added manually). Having used Linux for
about six years, recompiling kernels is no big deal.
In the short time it's been up, I've gotten ssh installed so I can log into
my server (which runs SuSE 6.2), and VMware is up and running...and in the
middle of a Win98 install (gotta have pcAnywhere for my job, and Internet
Explorer is a better browser than Netscrape...but now, when Windows eats
itself, it won't knock out whatever is running under Linux).
I was going to install SuSE 6.3, but 6.4 is supposed to be out Real Soon Now
(damn, and I just installed 6.3 on my company's new mail server). Besides,
I had a Corel Linux CD from back when it first came out that I had never
used, so I figured it was worth a shot. So far, it's worked really well.
Hopefully I'll get better uptimes from it than I had been getting lately
with Win98 (had trouble getting Win98 to stay up more than three or four
days, while my Linux server is at three weeks and counting).
Can't say anything one way or the other about TurboLinux as I've never used
it (I've used SuSE, Slackware, and (going waaay back) SLS).
_/_
/ v \
(IIGS( Scott Alfter (salfter at (yo no quiero spam) delphi dot com)
\_^_/ http://salfter.dyndns.org
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Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 22:38:47 +0200
From: Oliver Folini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Driver for EtherExpress 100A
i'm looking for a driver for my etherexpress pro 100A with i82556 chip
on it. does somebody know if a driver exists?
thanks
oliver
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From: John Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Matrox Millenium G400
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 16:59:24 +0930
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Two questions in serial:
>
> Does anyone have the G400 working in Linux? I have SuSE 6.3 and will
> probably be using KDE if not X11.
>
> Iff you have the G400 can you adjust the vertical refresh rate to
> something (anything) other than 60Hz? 72Hz or better would be optimal,
> IMO.
>
> Thanks,
> Duane
>
> --
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Duane A. Bielling
> http://www.datasync.com/~bielling
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Matt. 6:33; John 3:16; Rom. 8:1
> -----------------------------------------------------------
I am a new user to Linux, I have installed Mandrake 7.02 without a
hitch, Red Hat 6.1 will detect Matrox G400 as well.
John
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From: Jim Jerzycke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.dcom.modems,alt.comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: $5 hardware-controller modem at CompUSA
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 05:57:52 +0000
Geeeezzz.....I thought I was the only one that got burned "Best" Data
JUNK!
tnx, Jim
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From: Jim Jerzycke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: Problems Shutting Down Linux
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 06:13:36 +0000
Which Epox mobo are you using? I just picked a pile of EP58-MVP3C-M,
brand-new in the wrapper, and I'm going to (TRY!) and build a Beowolf
cluster.
Thanks, Jim
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From: John Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Epson 1200 Driver
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 17:26:37 +0930
Is their a driver that will allow me to install my Photo 1200 in Linux ?
John
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From: Thayer Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH6.1 and VIA KX133 based motherboards
Date: 26 Mar 2000 22:26:11 GMT
Does anyone out there have any experience with this setup?
Specifically I'm looking at the EpoX EX-7KXA (I think I got
that right) motherboard with an Athlon 700. I've read quite
a few good reviews of this board (and the KX133 chipset) but
none of them mention Linux compatibility.
Any info you could provide would be much appreciated.
-Thayer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mjd440)
Subject: video resolution changing automatically & messing up X
Date: 26 Mar 2000 23:10:14 GMT
I'm running a typical dual boot (WinDoze98 & RedHat 6.1) machine with a SiS5598
video card. Everything works great except that my monitor (HP-M50) goes from
800x600@60Hz to 700x400 for some strange reason. Once it changes over to the
bizzare 700x400 mode, my Xwindows session becomes unreadable. Reinstalling
linux gets it working again, but then this problem will rear it's ugly head
again. X is still set up for 800x600, but I can't get the monitor to get away
from this 700x400 mode. Any idea what gives? If it helps, the monitor mode
seems to change while LILO loads (I have the same resolution for Win98... if I
hit the mode button on the monitor, it pops up as 700x400 as soon as the linux
is chosen for the OS. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks
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From: Magnus Svensson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Software RAID dilemma
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 00:59:02 +0200
I've gotten myself into a jam here...
The hardware that I want to use is essentially two IBM 34GXP 34GB
Drives and an ASUS P3B-F motherboard. Here is the problem...
The IBM drives refuses to work on anything less than 2.2.14 kernel.
There seems to be some UDMA incompatibility there. But there's only
kernel patches for raidtools up to 2.2.11.
What to do?
Does anybody know why there's been no raidtools work done since aug99?
Does any of the recent Alan Cox pre-patches have raidtools support?
If someone have some opinions/suggestions _please_ help!!
Running RH6.0 distro.
Regards,
/Magnus
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Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 01:23:19 +0200
From: Vlado Stefanovski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sound programming in linux
What's the easyiest way to program the sound card in linux?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: GARBO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PCMIA sound card install
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 23:30:04 GMT
how do install a PCMIA sound card, i'm pretty knowledgeable about linux,
but am still just getting started and don't want to royally screw up my
kernel. Thank you.
--
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http://www.help.com/
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From: ervf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Zip IDE & Red Hat 6.0
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 15:31:51 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jason Byrne wrote:
> ok... you just need to figure out where you have it attached (first/second
> master/slave)
>
> first master is probably your hard-drive - /dev/hda
> first slave - /dev/hdb
>
> secondary master - /dev/hdc
> secondary slave - /dev/hdd
>
> ---
>
> *Normally* a zip disk is mounted on the 4th primary partition (/dev/hdb4,
> /dev/hdc4, etc...)
>
> ----
>
> Assuming you have the zip fat16/fat32 formatted... create a mount point...
> and try the manual mount before you stick something in /etc/fstab.
>
> mount -t vfat /dev/hdc4 /zip
>
> (replace /dev/hdc4 with whatever you determined was the correct drive
> location)
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:8b70ua$jui$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hey, I just want the thing to work. I'm really a newbie, so as much
> > detail into telling me how to get it up and running would be most
> > helpful. I know it's not a ZIP+, just an IDE. If you need any more
> > info, I'll be glad to provide it.
> >
> > Jake
> >
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
Hi, I tried to add my zip this way but I get a code 32 error . I'm a newbie
and having a heck of a time trying to add a zip and even access the floppy.
Your help would be greatly appreciated.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vincent Fox)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: True requirements for Lexmark Optra Color 40 SIMMs?
Date: 26 Mar 2000 23:49:29 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott
Alfter) writes:
*snip*
>The HP DeskJet 1200 and 1600 were available in PostScript versions (1200M
>and 1600M, perhaps?). They're both long-discontinued, though. One option
>might be to dust off an old 486, throw Linux and Ghostscript on it, and
>combine it with whatever non-PostScript printer you like. (I considered
>doing that with my DeskJet 682C, but decided instead to snag an Optra 40
>when buy.com was blowing them out at $100.)
I'm doing the Ghostscript solution at one site for an Epson Stylus 800
right now. The results of the Ghostscript run are not as good in terms
of quality as printing directly to the printer from a PC. Colors are
a bit wrong even after considerable diddling with the gs commands and
using a gamma.ps file to lighten the image. Ghostscript is a very good
little program for looking at things on the screen, but it's definitely
Not Ready For Prime Time versus a real Postscript printer implementation
in terms of using it as a raw color printer engine.
My main interest right now is for an office where I've replaced their
NT file server with a Linux/Samba server. Fast and FABULOUS. But while
I was at it, I wanted to handle printing better. So they all spool
through the Linux/Samba server, but the GhostScript to Epson conversion
is less than perfect and they are complaining about quality. Keep in mind
this is an office with a bunch of Windows PC's, can't have things
be too complicated on their side of it. Also I'd rather have the PostScript
engine back where it belongs in the printer and not on my Samba server.
I am putting an Optra 40 in as a cheap stopgap fix until I find something
better. My ideal would be if the Epson 900 or something similar had a
PostScript option for it. ~$500 is in their price range. The HP 2500
is a bit of a hard sell at over $1300.
--
"Who needs horror movies when we have Microsoft"?
-- Christine Comaford, PC Week, 27/9/95
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From: nina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH6.1 and VIA KX133 based motherboards
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 00:50:06 +0200
Hi!
Thayer Andrews wrote:
>
> Does anyone out there have any experience with this setup?
Yes, I have got the NMC-7VAX (a german epox-7kxa clone) with the via
kx1333 chipset, an athlon 650mhz, apacer (infineon chips) 128mb pc133
ram, and an elsa erazor III pro graphics card running with RHL 6.1 since
friday,
everything works fine.
that thing really flies compared to my old pentium90 :-)
nina
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