Linux-Hardware Digest #400, Volume #14 Sun, 25 Feb 01 17:13:05 EST
Contents:
Anyone using a Viewsonic PT795 Monitor? (Doug Lutterloh)
D-Link DFE-650TX (WarpKat)
2.4.2 and VooDoo3 (root)
Re: Problems with sound on Gigabyte GA-7ZX Motherboard (Seve)
Re: OnStream SC50 with new driver (alexander sixt)
Re: OK I quit (Martin)
Re: Could Linux be used in this factory environment ? (Monte Milanuk)
difficulty mounting ATAPI zip (mougs)
video capture card, bttv question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Please visit my 3D graphics site ("Robert Francois")
X Window Display Problem ("Paul Batchelor")
SB live, *has* to be module? (win)
I search the Linux-Driver for the EUMEX404-PC ("MBen123")
Linux partitioning question ("Gregg Black")
Install LINUX on ATA/100 Promise ("Sabbia")
Re: Linux partitioning question (Seve)
Re: lilo -or- installing to a Mylex controller (John in SD)
Re: what kind of motherborad is this? (Tim Moore)
Re: Linux partitioning question (Doug Lutterloh)
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From: Doug Lutterloh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Anyone using a Viewsonic PT795 Monitor?
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 18:17:16 GMT
My Viewsonic PT795's mainboard broke, so I sent
it back and got a replacement monitor. This one seems
to have the same problem (screens blanks out suddenly with a click,
progressively gets worse over about 1 year's time until monitor
unusable).
I run Linux with X11. I tried 2 different graphics cards because at
first
I thought the card was the problem.
I'm wondering if Linux is destroying this monitor, so I'm searching for
someone else who uses it and has had similar problems or good luck. I
really
think the monitor just has a flawed mainboard (and Viewsonic probably
knows
it) but I wanted to check here. The monitor has good specs and is
fairly
high-end. 30-110 kHz horizontal, 50-180 Hz vert. Capable of 1280x1024
@ 101 Hz, but
I run Linux at only 1280x1024 @ 85 Hz. I'm wondering if some hardware
probing
code in the RedHat install procedure is destroying this monitor.
Doug
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From: WarpKat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: D-Link DFE-650TX
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 17:51:37 GMT
PCMCIA Card Services v3.1.8 shipped with RedHat 6.2 will not work with
this card.
This may be untrue for other variants of this card, however, following
instructions found at the distribution site for pcmcia-cs, upgrading to
pcmcia-cs-3.1.24 will correct issues regarding this card.
http://download.sourceforge.net/pcmcia-cs/pcmcia-cs-3.1.24.tar.gz
Regards
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 2.4.2 and VooDoo3
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 12:04:40 -0600
I have a 1998 Gateway PC with an on-motherboard graphics device and a
Voodoo 3 PCI board. In the bios, I set the PC to use the Voodoo card and
ignore the onboard device. Mandrake 7.2 works fine with the voodoo, but
I am attempting to use a new 2.4.2 kernel (for a TV tuner card.)
The machine boots properly, except that it does not use the voodoo
device (i.e. I see a blank screen.) Also, xwindows runs properly, that
is, I can specify a default run level 5 and do useful stuff, except I
cannot work at the console level.
When I installed the new kernel, I also copied the new SYSTEM.MAP file.
How do I get the new boot image to use the voodoo device? My LILO.conf
file contains the same options for this kernel as the Mandrake 7.2 one.
A related problem is that sound with the new kernel is very faint,
unlike with the 2.2.17 kernel that came with Mandrake 7.2. I use the
ensoniques 1371 driver.
Thank you for your help.
John Zbesko
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From: Seve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems with sound on Gigabyte GA-7ZX Motherboard
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 10:23:31 -0800
Michael Horwitz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have installed a Redhat 7.0 system on a 1 GHz Athlon based system, and
> am having problems getting the sound to work under Linux (it works fine
> under Windows). The motherboard has a builtin Creative CT5880 sound chip,
> which is meant to work as a Soundblaster 128 PCI card. Both the bios and
> lspci pick up the card just fine.
>
> In configuring the card I have tried both the built-in and the Alsa sound
> drivers. The builtin es1371 driver loads without problem (it reports no
> errors) but whenever I try to play a sound file to either through cat *.au
> > /dev/audio or using the player that comes with socks, everything simply
> locks up.
>
> I also tried sndconfig which detects the card as an 'Ensoniq|5880' but
> claims it is not supported. I have seen other reports of this problem
> where loading the es1371 driver cured the problem.
>
> Both the ens1371 and ens1370 Alsa drivers complain that the sound device
> could not be found or is busy.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
> Michael Horwitz.
>
>
Let's hope you'll have better luck than I did. I tried just about
everything and then some; but to no availe. In the end, I just picked up a
PCI SB soundcard.
Goodluck
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From: alexander sixt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: OnStream SC50 with new driver
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 19:41:17 +0100
Hello,
If you have compiled onstream support and
the module osst.o exists, you can user your
normal backup software.
All you have to do is add -b 64 (blocksize =32k)
for example:
tar cvf /dev/osst0 * -b 64 saves everything
If you have the programm buffer installed (i think it is
in ap under Suse) alternatively to have it smoother:
tar cvf - / | buffer -s 32k -m 24 M -B -t -o /dev/oost0
to restore
buffer -s 32k -m 8M -B -t -i /dev/osst0 | tar xvf -C /
Good luck
Alex
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> got trouble getting my OnStream SC50 to run with linux (SuSE v7.0). I
> am using the newest driver which is basically a linux /dev device and
> OSG some control program (don't know what to do with it...).
>
> Driver from:
>
>
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.0/zq1/onstream-0.9.13_0.8.6.1-0.src.rpm
>
> The module is loading without errormesages. But if i try to backup using
> something like
>
> tar cpf /dev/osst0 /bigdisk
>
> the backup fails with the message:
>
> tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
> tar: /dev/osst0: Cannot write: Input/output error
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting
> now
>
> Syslog:
>
> Feb 12 16:29:57 intraix kernel: osst0: Write (10240 bytes) not multiple
> of tape block size (32k).
>
> Now my question:
>
> Has anybody a working ONSTREAM SC50 using Linux (2.2.16 krnl). If so i
> would like to know what my fault is.... Cos i'm starting to think, that
> this damn drive won't work under linux.
>
> Thanx already.
>
> Guy
>
> --
> ---
>
> http://www.raptus.com
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
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From: Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: OK I quit
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 19:07:15 GMT
The dlink dfe530tx is a pci card
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have been trying to install a Dlink DFE530TX NIC under Peanut Linux
> ( what an unfortunate name)..and have been totally unsucessfull.
> All I get is error messages on booting.
> ISAPNP > /etc/isapnp.conf
> The part inbetween about editing isapnp.conf I don't understand at
> all. The file seems to be full of unrelated information.
> PNPCONF /etc/isapnp.conf.
> I have aliased eth0
> etc etc etc
> When the system boots I get INSMOD error messages that the resource is
> busy. The card operates perfecting under Windoze 95/98.
> Can anyone give me step by step instructions on how to get this card
> recognized?
> I would hate to go back to Gates folly.
> Thanks
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From: Monte Milanuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Could Linux be used in this factory environment ?
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 11:13:12 -0700
This is why they make the industrial 'enclosures' and terminals that are
designed to protect the computer from the environment. I worked at a
steel mill as a motor control tech, and every computer that wasn't
inside an air-conditioned room was in a shielded enclosure to provide
EMI protection, plus had filtered air, since there was literally steel
dust and what not glittering in the air constantly -- not good for the
guts of a PC. Additionally, they make special terminals that have the
membrane type keyboards and either joystick or arrow button controlled
mice. The downside? They are definitely not cheap. But then, neither
is downtime on the production line because a commodity off-the-shelf
monitor or keyboard just failed.
Monte
"Brett I. Holcomb" wrote:
>
> Use an industrial mouse - they last a little bit longer <G>.
>
> --
> Brett I. Holcomb
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Microsoft MVP
> AKA Grunt<><
>
> "Paul Repacholi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > "Adam Warner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > > Of course the workers would have to access the system to enter data,
> > > > etc, so the user interfaces can't be too complicated (GUI?).
> > >
> > > Your workers would know how to use a web browser, so why not make the
> > > inventory system accessible through any web browser? The MySQL database
> >
> > Never worked in afactory have you? How long will the mouse keep working
> > after it has been grabbed by a paint/glue/oil... covered hand?
> >
> > --
> > Paul Repacholi 1 Crescent Rd.,
> > +61 (08) 9257-1001 Kalamunda.
> > West Australia 6076
> > Raw, Cooked or Well-done, it's all half baked.
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From: mougs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: difficulty mounting ATAPI zip
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 19:30:07 -0000
I've had no luck mounting my Zip100 under RH6 with kernel 2.2.14-5.0.
At start up it says that my Iomega Zip is linked to /dev/hdd.
I make a directory /mnt/zip.
When I enter:
mount -t vfat /dev/hdd /zip
I get:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdd,
or too many mounted file systems
I've tried this with couple of PC100 disks with no success. I've read all
the how-to's and can't get beyond this point.
Any thought on what I could be doing wrong?
--
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http://www.help.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: video capture card, bttv question
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 11:34:38 -0800
Trying to get video capture card working.
The card is listed in KDE's control panel in infomration, pci.
Downloaded and installed an rpm of bttv.
When I type /usr/X11R6/bin/xtvscreen I get the following messages:
Symbol '_xmStrings' has different size in shared object, consider
relinking.
Sound mixer initalized !
Using Lesstif
Using Visual TrueColor
set frame buffer: Operation not permitted.
The speakers begin hissing but that is it.
Have to reboot to stop hissing.
Any ideas on what to do and how to do it?
--
cedric
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From: "Robert Francois" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Please visit my 3D graphics site
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 19:31:20 +0100
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Thanks for your reaction. But what's the problem exactly? Maybe you =
don't have the flash5 plugin installed (-> http://www.macromedia.com).
14,12 % of the visitors of my site use linux 2.2 and 22,11 % uses linux =
2.2 so it isn't because you have linux.
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From: "Paul Batchelor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: X Window Display Problem
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 19:29:35 -0000
I have recently installed mandrake 7.2 on my lap top. All OK except graphics
card. I have a trident CyberBlade i1 (8520-83). I have treid many
combinations of the LCD screens with the trident cyber card. Still no luck.
Do I need to download a driver for this or am I doing something wrong.
I would welcome any help as I would like to see what all the fuse about
Linux is all about.
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From: win <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SB live, *has* to be module?
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 19:39:24 GMT
Hi,
I compiled a new kernel with the SBlive support, emu10k1, compiled
into it.
I do get the messages that it's found on boot..
Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.6, 21:37:35 Sep 4 2000
emu10k1: EMU10K1 rev 5 model 0x8040 found, IO at 0xb400-0xb41f, IRQ 11
But i can't get it to work...as in..i don't get any sound..
What am i missing here?
Been doing some reading on the net and see a lot of SBlive installing
as module.
Does it only work when it's a module?
running debian with 2.2.18pre21 kernel...
Thanx and cheers
Wim
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From: "MBen123" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: I search the Linux-Driver for the EUMEX404-PC
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 21:13:15 +0100
I search the Linux-Driver for the EUMEX404-PC !!!!
Where can help me??? E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Gregg Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Linux partitioning question
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 12:32:56 -0800
I'm reading up on setting up linux, and it states that many will setup
separate partitions for /usr and /home besides ones swap space. I would
like to ask you how you usually setup your partitioning. I was a little bit
confused on it, for you at least need a mounting point of root. This is how
I did it, but I'm not sure if it's how it should be done. I set one
partition for about 3/4 of the drive as '/'. I thought that would cover my
separate partition for /usr as well as the mount point. My second partition
and about 1/4 of the drive (not all, as the last is for swap) I set as mount
point /home. Then of course the remaining 256 megs I set for swap.
At first I was going to create a 7 meg partition just for mounting root,
then the larger 3/4 approx for /usr, and then the last primary for /home but
I thought it just made more sense to make just a / and /home partition.
Maybe I'm just not thinking about this correctly. Any suggestions would be
appreciated!
I'm running Mandrake 7.2
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From: "Sabbia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Install LINUX on ATA/100 Promise
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 20:56:39 GMT
I am trying to install Linux on my computer...I have a 30 gig ATA/100 hd and
can't get linux to pickup my drive....anyone know of a way around this or of
a version that supports it?? I am trying to larn Linux so I don't know much
about compiling.
thx
Sabbia
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From: Seve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux partitioning question
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 13:23:51 -0800
Gregg Black wrote:
> I'm reading up on setting up linux, and it states that many will setup
> separate partitions for /usr and /home besides ones swap space. I would
> like to ask you how you usually setup your partitioning. I was a little
> bit
> confused on it, for you at least need a mounting point of root. This is
> how
> I did it, but I'm not sure if it's how it should be done. I set one
> partition for about 3/4 of the drive as '/'. I thought that would cover
> my
> separate partition for /usr as well as the mount point. My second
> partition and about 1/4 of the drive (not all, as the last is for swap) I
> set as mount
> point /home. Then of course the remaining 256 megs I set for swap.
>
> At first I was going to create a 7 meg partition just for mounting root,
> then the larger 3/4 approx for /usr, and then the last primary for /home
> but I thought it just made more sense to make just a / and /home
> partition.
> Maybe I'm just not thinking about this correctly. Any suggestions would
> be appreciated!
>
> I'm running Mandrake 7.2
>
>
Well, sometimes one can argue on how to approach this partitioning. I'll
just show you how I do it. From your posting, your drive must be 1GB in
size. It's a bit small for a full install of LM-7.2
Let's just say you had a HD of sufficient size: I'll break it up into the
following partitions. Also I tend to do it in this order with hda5 being
"/boot" and Swap being hda13:
/boot - 0.1GB
/usr - 3GB (2.6gig minimum for full LM-7.2 install)
/usr/local - 0.5GB (dependant on quantity of non-LM installs)
/usr/src - 0.2GB (higher if U like playing w/ the Kernel)
/var - 0.5GB
/tmp - 0.5GB (should be more if Taper b/u huge files)
/ - 0.2GB (only for /root & SuperUser)
/home - Whatever remains of your HD
+swap - 0.5GB (higher for heavy Gimp usage & low RAM)
But since you have a 1GB drive, at least have one of the partitions being
/home because that's where your personal settings will reside. And as long
as you don't format the /home partition on a subsequent install, you keep
your settings.
Seve
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From: John in SD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lilo -or- installing to a Mylex controller
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 21:37:00 GMT
If this controller is on a unique major drive number in /dev, then LILO will
require modification before it will recognize the controller.
One new controller was added to the latest version of LILO (21.7) by a
contributor. Offhand, I don't remember which controller it was, but it is
major device 80(decimal).
--John
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:44:52 -0700, "Steve Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> We're moving a few of our machines over to Mylex AcceleRAID 170's, and
>I've run into a few very annoying problems... first, the RedHat 6.2
>installation won't load the driver for the RAID card, and secondly, I can't
>get LILO to get things working with the RAID controller.
>
> As far as installation, if I start the RedHat installation, it won't
>install the DAC960 driver. If I switch to another terminal and try to
>insmod it, I get "device busy". But, the DAC960 driver with the regular
>kernel runs the array just fine. How can I get RedHat 6.2 to install to the
>array?
>
> Or.... right now, the machines are still booting from a single drive.
>Try as I might, it seems like no amount of fiddling with "boot=", "disk=",
>and "bios=" will get LILO to put the right boot stuff on the array. One
>combination got it to boot far enough to say "I have no root and I want to
>scream....", and THEN a few seconds later, the DAC960 driver found the
>logical drive.
>
> Arg. What can I do better?
>
>steve
>
>
LILO version 21.6.1 (16-Dec-2000) source at
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/boot/lilo
patches at ftp://brun.dyndns.org/pub/linux/lilo
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From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: what kind of motherborad is this?
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 21:29:00 GMT
> Anyway I like to juice as much as
> possible out of my server... I
> have now 2.4.2 on the server and
> it has an quantum ide drive. /sbin/hdparm
> VIA82CXXX chipset support (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX) [N/y/?]
^
Change this to 'Y'. Also try passing kernal parameter at boot time,
usually in /etc/lilo.conf: append="ide0=ata66". Your dmesg output
should look something like this:
...
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
VP_IDE: chipset revision 16
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VT 8371
Chipset Core ATA-66
VP_IDE: ATA-66/100 forced bit set (WARNING)!!
Split FIFO Configuration: 8 Primary buffers, threshold = 1/2
8 Second. buffers, threshold = 1/2
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide0: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config Success
VP_IDE: ATA-66/100 forced bit set (WARNING)!!
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
ide1: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config Success
hda: IBM-DTLA-307020, ATA DISK drive
hdb: YAMAHA CRW4416E, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdc: IBM-DTLA-307020, ATA DISK drive
hdd: HP COLORADO 20GB, ATAPI TAPE drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: IBM-DTLA-307020, 19623MB w/1916kB Cache, CHS=2501/255/63, UDMA(66)
hdc: IBM-DTLA-307020, 19623MB w/1916kB Cache, CHS=39870/16/63, UDMA(66)
...
--
timothymoore
bigfoot
com
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From: Doug Lutterloh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux partitioning question
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 21:56:59 GMT
I have never agreed with the suggested partitioning scheme in most
install docs for Linux, at least not for the home user. I usually set up
with 3 partitions on my machine. One for windoze because I dual
boot, one for Linux swap, and one for Linux. Why confuse the issue?!!?
Why do I want to guess how much I will need for /home and /usr when
I can just lump them together in one big partition and use all my
space as efficiently as possible.
You might hear some nonsense about the system running faster with
the ten-gillion partition setup because it checks over the file system at
bootup and a few other reasons. My experience has been that having
one big partition doesn't hurt anything. I've also heard that multiple
partitions make updating easier. I don't know about that for sure. Usually
when I update I format the whole drive and start over anyway, or get a new
machine, or whatever. Even so, I'm guessing Linux is smart enough to
do a proper update when you don't use the traditional partition setup.
Well, that's my 2 cents. If I weren't dual booting with windoze (and I'm
starting
to wonder why I even bother) my machine would only have 2 partitions.
One for Linux swap and one for Linux.
Doug
Gregg Black wrote:
> I'm reading up on setting up linux, and it states that many will setup
> separate partitions for /usr and /home besides ones swap space. I would
> like to ask you how you usually setup your partitioning. I was a little bit
> confused on it, for you at least need a mounting point of root. This is how
> I did it, but I'm not sure if it's how it should be done. I set one
> partition for about 3/4 of the drive as '/'. I thought that would cover my
> separate partition for /usr as well as the mount point. My second partition
> and about 1/4 of the drive (not all, as the last is for swap) I set as mount
> point /home. Then of course the remaining 256 megs I set for swap.
>
> At first I was going to create a 7 meg partition just for mounting root,
> then the larger 3/4 approx for /usr, and then the last primary for /home but
> I thought it just made more sense to make just a / and /home partition.
> Maybe I'm just not thinking about this correctly. Any suggestions would be
> appreciated!
>
> I'm running Mandrake 7.2
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