Linux-Hardware Digest #600, Volume #14 Tue, 10 Apr 01 11:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Can't see hard disk (Markku Tikkanen)
Re: Intellimouse jumps to the upper left corner ("Elad Lahav")
no mouse cursor in winlinux ("Bill")
Re: Linux modems (Noble Pepper)
Re: Linux modems (Kenneth R�rvik)
Re: Linux on Intel Or Celeron? what is the best choice? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Spontaneous combustion (Nderoeck no spam)
Re: Sound cards for RH 7 ?? ("Cyberbear")
Re: A Linux emulator for Linux, does this exist? (Matan Ziv-Av)
Re: A Linux emulator for Linux, does this exist? (Gareth Jones)
Re: Spooky partition behaviour ("LittleFish")
Re: Intellimouse jumps to the upper left corner (Jason Kirk)
Re: hardware access (Nick Condon)
Two cd drives to configure?? (Tom LeTourneau)
AGP for Networking. (Hermann Samso)
Re: Spontaneous combustion ("Tauno Voipio")
Re: Spontaneous combustion (Christopher Wong)
See this for Hardware Help (in Danish) ("Black Widow")
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From: Markku Tikkanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.install,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit,alt.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Can't see hard disk
Date: 10 Apr 2001 10:28:16 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Lee Fuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have an Abit KT7Raid motherboard which has 4 ATA100 IDE channels on the
> raid controller in addition to the standard 4 ATA66 channels. I have an IBM
> 30G ATA100 hard disk on the secondary master of the ATA100 controller. On
> the standard channels I have a CD-DVD and ZIP100. The problem I'm having is
> in trying to install linux. Both fdisk and disk druid do not see the hard
> disk. The only partition shown is 95M ("hdd" or "hdd4") being the ZIP drive.
> (I have the same problem trying to install QNX) I have Win98 using 20G on
> the hd. Of course the Win98 fdisk sees it ok.
> What should I do?
> Thanks,
> Lee.
I had the same problem, that is, 2.2.xx series kernels don't support your
HPT370 RAID controller by default. You can either patch the kernel, build
2.4 series kernel, or use your HPT as a standard ide-controller. You need
to give kernel parameters when starting setup:
linux ide2=0x<number>,0x<number>
more info how to do this is in the section Enabling HPT366 without UDMA/66
support in this mini-HOWTO for HPT366 (same applies for HPT370 also)
http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~b6506063/hpt366/
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From: "Elad Lahav" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Intellimouse jumps to the upper left corner
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 16:41:41 +0200
Look at your XF86Config (or XF86Config-4 if you have it). If the protocol
option is set to "IntelliMouse", or something like that, change it to
"IMPS/2", and restart the X server.
Elad
"Jan Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9as7se$m8d$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hallo,
> I know this is a common problem (I found an article in the SUSE database,
> but without an working solution) :
> I use a MS-PS2-Intellimouse under SUSE 7.1.
> gpm works well, but when I start to configure XFree with SaX or
> xconfigure and xfree switches to graphicmode the mouse is in the middle of
> the screen. When I move the mouse the cursor jumps to the upper right and
> stays there.
> The same hardware configuration worked under SUse 7.0 a few monts ago
> without errors.
>
> Has anyone a solution for this problem.
>
> Thank you in advanced,
> Jan Peterson
>
>
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From: "Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: no mouse cursor in winlinux
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 06:52:58 -0400
ok this might just be the way things work or maybe I do have a slight
problem I know that winlinux isnt the best operating system to use but as a
linux newbe I wanted something I could learn on as I slowly weened my self
off of windows but one small problem has arose I cannot get a mouse cursor
to show in any form in winlinux is it something I have done wrong or is it
just the way the sytem works Im hoping that for some reason it isnt the
latter Im having quite a time figguring out where my mouse cursor is
supposed to be it will show up when I by some accident pass it over an icon
like the close button in a program but as for any thing on my desk top you
might as well forget you even have a mouse any help would be greatly
appreciated
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From: Noble Pepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux modems
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 06:22:32 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
William Rivera wrote:
> I am a linux newbie and I would like to know if anyone can recommend a
> modem that works with linux. I have a a system with Win95 and Mandrake
> 6.1. Everything works fine in my system but the modem. A million
> thanks. Bill
>
>
Just about any external, I have a ModemBlaster Flash 56 works great.
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Subject: Re: Linux modems
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth R�rvik)
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 11:22:24 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Rivera) wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>I am a linux newbie and I would like to know if anyone can recommend a
>modem that works with linux. I have a a system with Win95 and Mandrake
>6.1. Everything works fine in my system but the modem. A million thanks.
>Bill
Get an external modem, and stay clear of anything internal :)
--
Kenneth R�rvik 91841353/22950312
Nordbergv. 60 A [EMAIL PROTECTED]
0875 OSLO home.no.net/stasis
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on Intel Or Celeron? what is the best choice?
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 11:29:26 GMT
Bastiaan Schaap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Actually I did check the tests and benchmarks.....
>> Then you didn't look very hard!
> Let's not get philosopical here, but 'hard' varies from person to person I
> guess.... I think I've looked hard enough, but probably in the wrong
> places... (me just being a simple chemical engineer and all...) ;-)
Well, that's nearly a chemist, which is nearly a physicist, which is
nearly a ....
>> > Please remember the cpu's are meant for a working environment. I don't know
>> I don't know of any other environment.
> So what do you do in your weekend? I meant that computers are often used
Work.
> the point I am making. Most hardware bought by companies for professional
> use is sealed. If I open up my case and set the processor to operate on a
> speed higher than originally was specified by the manufacturer, I can make
> no claim on warranty anymore. I don't know too many bosses that actually
You certainly can. That kind of restriction is probably in contravention
of trade descriptions laws. The whole spec of the IBM PC revolves around its
expandability via add-on cards and other peripherals. If they supply
you with a sealed unit to which you cannot add on peripherals (and you
can't if you can't open the case), then they are not selling you a PC
that meets the industry standard description of a PC.
> like that. I also don't know of any companies that sell their systems with
> 'overclocked' cpu's (except cryo offcourse..). So if we forget about setting
Most companies sell you a cpu. The clock speeds are something you set
when you go into the _bios screen_, or, if it isn't controllable from the
bios (rare nowadays), via jumpers on the MOBO.
> cpu's to run at higher speeds than they were rated, you do have to agree
They are not "rated".
> with me that we're still looking at P4 and Athlon, wheter we like it or
The P4 is not a competitor in the high speed stakes. It is about 40%
slower than a P3 of the same clockspeed. You seem to have trouble
grokking this fact ... Adding 1 on to the marketting name does not give
you a faster cpu. In this case the design roadmap went wrong. Look at
the reference I supplied (I would have supplied more, but you can go to
google and serach on "pentium 4 analysis" as well as I). Marketing is
selling a chip that has been put out when it doesn't work. To get
_something_ out they've had to hack off two of the designed three
instruction decoders, and reduce the L1 cache to 8KB and get rid of the
L3 cache altogether. Since the original design already got rid of the
optimization logic in favour of relying on compiler-based optimization
(which doesn't exist yet) the result is a turkey. It does not work.
It's bottlenecked in at least two areas. It goes 40% slower than a P3.
Can I put it any clearer to you?
> not...
>> > fond of warranty and stuff. Offcourse you're right about the
> performance,
??
> From that point of view: yes, you're absolutely right... But look at it this
> way: What if the brochure says you're going to Niagara Falls, and you end up
> in the Bahamas? So you could be in for a nice surprise. Yeah, I know this
Look at the references I supplied. In particular this one which
you clearly haven't read:
www.emulators.com/pentium4.htm
> will never happen ;-) If the processor turns out to be worse than the
> original specs that sucks, but generally speaking changing specs does not
> automatically have to imply a change for the worse (although I agree with
You have not read the references you have been given. Tut tut.
> you that it mostly does)..
Peter
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Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 13:51:10 +0200
Subject: Re: Spontaneous combustion
From: Nderoeck no spam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I experienced the same behaviour with one of my machines (Duron 700 on ABIT
KT7A) a few weeks back. The machine was used as a samba server (never
shutdown) and when checking the logs I could see a lot of reboots (daily)
and fschk errors (resulting in fs corruption).
I didn't know where to look for the problem (was it the tape, the scsi, the
software, the processor, the hdd's ???). So as a test I replaced the
Duron/Abit with a Pentium III/Assus and the system is runnning rock stable
ever since (with all the other exact same components).
I didn't debug/test enough (don't have the time either) to make any solid
conclusions about all of this, but in your case I would certainly suspect
the Duron/Chipset.
regards,
nick
ps. Do you any see 'kernel: Oops' messages in the log ?
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From: "Cyberbear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound cards for RH 7 ??
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 12:14:53 GMT
Thanks for the info. I am leaning toward the SB PCI128 but sure would like
to have MIDI ability.
"Dances With Crows" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:3ad25bb2$0$42870$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Mon, 9 Apr 2001 15:15:39 -0600, Ron Bellomo staggered into the Black
> Sun and said:
> >Anyone have any recommendations for a good PCI sound card for RH 7 ?? I
> >am not an audiophile, so I don't need the absolute best card out there,
> >just one that is reliable and supported by Red Hat.
>
> ITYM "Linux". RedHat != Linux ; Linux != RedHat. Anyway, the card I've
> been advising people to get is the Ensoniq AudioPCI, otherwise known as
> the Soundblaster128-PCI, and probably several other names besides. This
> uses an ES1371 chipset and is pretty cheap ($30 or so). Its main
> problem is that it doesn't have hardware MIDI. The SoundBlaster Live
> may also be a good choice, though that's more expensive and the emu10k
> drivers, while they work for most people, are not quite as mature as the
> es1371 drivers. HTH,
>
> --
> Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to
see
> Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
> http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
> -----------------------------/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matan Ziv-Av)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: A Linux emulator for Linux, does this exist?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 11:21:44 GMT
On 9 Apr 2001 19:51:14 GMT, Hermann Samso wrote:
> I am searching for a Linux emulator for Linux. Does such
> a beast exist? I think this could be useful for System
> developement, without needing to have more than 1 powerful
> computer for programming and testing.
User-mode linux might be useful for you. You can find links in lkml
archives.
--
Matan Ziv-Av. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Gareth Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: A Linux emulator for Linux, does this exist?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 12:39:01 GMT
Hermann Samso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am searching for a Linux emulator for Linux. Does such
> a beast exist? I think this could be useful for System
> developement, without needing to have more than 1 powerful
> computer for programming and testing.
vmware
Gareth
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From: "LittleFish" <littlefish_au[SPAM ME AT YOUR OWN RISK]@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Spooky partition behaviour
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 23:49:52 +1000
Windozer isn't smart enough to see linux partitions thats all. It is good
becase unless a windozer user knows what to look for they wouldn't even know
that Linux is on the machine! This feature keeps my linux system from
unwelcome eyes.
Littlefish
"Nick Condon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I got a second hand HDD, an 8Gb Maxtor something or other, and connected
it
> up as part of a new system. Now, the partioning scheme that I inherited
> went like this:
> 1: Primary. (Win32, 3.4Gb)
> 2: Extended. (for all the remainder)
> 3: Logical (Win32, 2.3Gb)
> 4: Logical (Win32, 2.3Gb)
>
> So I wiped out the old filesystems and repartitioned it to:
> 1: Primary. Win32 1Gb
> 2: Extended (for the remainder)
> 3: Logical (Win32, 1Gb)
> 4: Logical (Linux swap 128Mb)
> 5: Logical (Linux ext2)
> 6: Logical (Linux ext2)
> 7: Logical (Linux ext2)
> 8: Logical (Linux ext2)
>
> I went on to install Win98 and SuSE 7.0. Now here's the spooky bit, when I
> type 'fdisk' under Win98 I see a single 3.4Gb primary partition, with no
> extended partition. But, my C: drive is only reporting a 1Gb filesystem,
> and under Linux 'fdisk' I see the 8 partition arrangement above.
>
> So, my Linux 'fdisk' and Win98 'fdisk' are reporting *completely*
different
> things. How the hell did that happen and how do I fix it?
> --
> Nick
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From: Jason Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Intellimouse jumps to the upper left corner
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 15:04:32 +0100
I've been having a similar problem with a clean install of Red hat 7.0 and
neither editing XF86Config-4 to Protocol IMPS/2 or killing gpm seems to fix it.
Has anybody actually found a explanation of why this happends.
-Jason
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Elad Lahav wrote:
> Look at your XF86Config (or XF86Config-4 if you have it). If the protocol
> option is set to "IntelliMouse", or something like that, change it to
> "IMPS/2", and restart the X server.
>
> Elad
>
> "Jan Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:9as7se$m8d$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hallo,
> > I know this is a common problem (I found an article in the SUSE database,
> > but without an working solution) :
> > I use a MS-PS2-Intellimouse under SUSE 7.1.
> > gpm works well, but when I start to configure XFree with SaX or
> > xconfigure and xfree switches to graphicmode the mouse is in the middle of
> > the screen. When I move the mouse the cursor jumps to the upper right and
> > stays there.
> > The same hardware configuration worked under SUse 7.0 a few monts ago
> > without errors.
> >
> > Has anyone a solution for this problem.
> >
> > Thank you in advanced,
> > Jan Peterson
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
================================================================================
WWW: www.geocities.com/jason.kirk
================================================================================
"No try! Do.. or do not. There is no try." - Yoda, SW: ESB
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick Condon)
Subject: Re: hardware access
Date: 10 Apr 2001 14:23:56 GMT
Leon Majewski wrote:
>Hopefully _this_ is the right place to pose this question.
>
>I have been asked about the posibility of porting a code base
>from a dos machine to a linux machine.
>
>Parts of the code accesses hardware ports via <dos.h>:
>inport, inportb, outport, outportb
>
>I was wondering what comparable functions are available when
>dealing with a linux box (gcc)
So you're trying to write a driver? Or are you trying to open an existing
driver?
Technically, you can't write directly to the bare metal - only drivers and
can do that - but if we're talking about a standard piece of hardware,
rather than something you built yourself, your system probably already has
a low-level driver that's close enough.
I'm not familiar with DOS. What do those 4 functions you mentioned do?
--
Nick
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From: Tom LeTourneau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Two cd drives to configure??
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 10:24:22 -0400
I'm starting to follow advice by Mandrake Support (for 7.2) via email,
and it seems I'm still unable to read data cd disks for cdrw in shell
(input/output error) or in KDE (lock on folder). I would like to confirm
with any knowledgeable person the supermount -i disable advice Support
gave me. I assume that I must then manually mount flops and cds in the
future? Also, please kindly look at my entries below (I in fact have TWO
cdrom drives) and advise me on exact procedure to edit scd0 links in
/dev/cd* and in fstab file. I'd like to be able to actually use my cdrw
to burn cds :)
My CD burner and regular cdrom are detected on bootup on hdc and
hdb... and /mnt shows:
# cd /mnt
#ls
cdrom/ cdrw/ disk/ floppy/ win_c/ win_d/
Listing my /dev/cd* entries:
#ls -l /dev/cd*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root <date> /devcdrom -> hdb
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root <date> /dev/cdrw -> hdc
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 15, <date> /dev/cdu31a
brw-r----- 1 root disk 24, <date> /dev/cdu535
My /etc/fstab looks like below (I deleted a line with info realted to
cdrom2, and inserted the last line per Support's instructions:
/dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hda6 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
/mnt/cdrw/ /mnt/cdrw supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrw 0 0
/mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
/dev/hde1 /mnt//win_c vfat user, exec, umask=0 0 0
/dev/hde5 /mnt/win_d vfat user, exec, umask=0 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrw supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/hdc 0 0
Thanks for your technical know-how. Forgive me if I seem slow/ignorant.
I have discovered one must be precise when stating a problem before
following advice. Thanks very much!
--
Tom LeTourneau
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]<
http://home.maine.rr.com/tletourneau
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From: Hermann Samso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.comm,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.network,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: AGP for Networking.
Date: 10 Apr 2001 14:33:11 GMT
Wish to know to the experts community, if there are any
projects or implementations of network (ATM, Ethernet, Fibre...)
over the fast AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) of todays
PC systems.
I think, that clustered systems (Beowulf, ...) would benefit
of this speed improvement, and normally this port is left
free in these clusters.
Saludos,
SoLo2
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From: "Tauno Voipio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Spontaneous combustion
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:37:42 GMT
"Christopher Wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I wonder if anyone can give me a hint as to how to diagnose and/or fix
> my problem. My Red Hat 7 system reboots spontaneously from time to time,
> and fsck runs because the filesystem was not cleanly unmounted. There
> are usually fsck errors. It is as if someone pressed the reset switch on
> the PC. It always happens on some sort of user input: a mouse click,
> usually, or a page up keystroke.
>
> I have run memtest86 for hours. I have tried different X servers (4.0.1,
> 4.0.2 and 3.3.6), different keyboards, different mice (PS/2 and USB) and
> still see this problem. It occurs when using various X apps (Opera,
> Applix, Netscape, Gimp), regardless of X toolkits (Qt, Gtk, Motif). I
> have installed various Red Hat updates (glibc, kernel) and different
> versions of KDE, to no avail.
>
> Hardware: BC133KT motherboard, Duron 700 CPU, 128MB Ram, ATI XPert98 PCI
> video, 2 Netgear FA310TX PCI network adaptors, one internal ISA
> modem. Software: Red Hat 7 with a whole bunch of fixes, KDE 2.1, XFree86
> 4.0.2 (from Raw Hide) and 3.3.6 Mach64 X server. I'm just about out of
> ideas. Anyone?
>
Quite often unexpected hardware resets come from the power supply. Is it
*surely* sturdy enough?
Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio @ iki fi
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Wong)
Subject: Re: Spontaneous combustion
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:52:55 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <WUEA6.4324$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tauno Voipio wrote:
>
>"Christopher Wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> I wonder if anyone can give me a hint as to how to diagnose and/or fix
>> my problem. My Red Hat 7 system reboots spontaneously from time to time,
>> and fsck runs because the filesystem was not cleanly unmounted. There
>> are usually fsck errors. It is as if someone pressed the reset switch on
>> the PC. It always happens on some sort of user input: a mouse click,
>> usually, or a page up keystroke.
(...)
>
>Quite often unexpected hardware resets come from the power supply. Is it
>*surely* sturdy enough?
Well, this is not a heavily loaded system. Besides, wouldn't power
issues be too far removed from user gestures? The system never blows
up when unattended, even when running cron jobs like backups with my
CDRW. It only reboots on user activity from a mouse or keyboard. This
is usually unpredictable, but there is specific user/GUI activity that
reliably cause a reboot.
I have tried disabling power saving, apmd etc to no avail. While I
doubt if power is the issue here, I will keep your comment in
mind. Please keep the speculation coming. At this point, I'm on the
verge of getting a new motherboard. Thanks for your suggestion.
Chris
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From: "Black Widow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: See this for Hardware Help (in Danish)
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 17:03:00 +0200
www.linux-forum.dk
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