Linux-Misc Digest #513, Volume #26 Sun, 10 Dec 00 09:13:02 EST
Contents:
simple network question ("controller")
Re: Need Help installing Linux Please! (Stanislaw Flatto)
Re: ISDN connection drops (Floyd Davidson)
Re: VCD player on Linux (Istvan Zsolt Kovacs)
Re: VCD player on Linux (Istvan Zsolt Kovacs)
Re: Can't install printer (Carfield Yim)
Re: accessing NTFS partition from Linux (Reinhard Karcher)
Re: Can't install printer (Carfield Yim)
Re: Activating the Multimedia keys (Istvan Zsolt Kovacs)
Applix 5.0 under SuSE 7.0 (Ted)
Re: Why PostgreSQL is not that popular as MySQL? (Derek Colley)
Re: /dev/loop7 forced check (Glitch)
Configurar Grabadora USB ("Vicpar")
Re: amd k6 - signal 11 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Help finding distro for laptop with 540M hard drive.
alsa and enlightenment, 2 separate questions (Glitch)
cdrecord and symlinks (Timo Benk)
Re: how to undelete files on ext2 ("Julian Gomez")
Re: Help finding distro for laptop with 540M hard drive. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: problems with .rhosts? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux (text) files to Win 98/2000 via floppy? (David Efflandt)
Where can I know more about files under /dev? (Carfield Yim)
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From: "controller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: simple network question
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 11:12:48 +0100
hi!
do I have to adjust my routing tables, even if the network I want to set up
only consists of two workstations (one linux, one freebsd)? or will changes
in rc.conf and /etc/hosts alone do the trick?
i just want to connect these two machines with each other, there are no
gateways, nothing, just 2 unix boxes with static addresses (192.168.1.1 and
2). what is required? the ethernet cards were detetced and configured
without a problem.
thanx
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need Help installing Linux Please!
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 21:12:53 +1100
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
Thanks Peter!
Would answer myself, you did it for me.
Don't tell him, I was electronic R&D engineer in I.A.I for 25 years and some of
my cirquits are still flying on various vehicles.
But as any profession we get what the unis can push trough.
Logic is no objection.
Do you know what is the difference between merchant and engineer?
"Merchant knows nothing about everything, engineer knows everything about
nothing."
Have fun.
Stanislaw.
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From: Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ISDN connection drops
Date: 10 Dec 2000 01:02:40 -0900
Aulne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello all,
>
> Just installed Mandrake 7.2, KDE 2.0. The ISDN connection drops after a
>short timeout. I have to maintain a ping at 30 seconds to keep the line up.
>There must be a config file somewhere that controls this. Any suggestions ?
You can read the documentation for pppd.
However, setup time with ISDN should be extremely short, and
hence allowing it to time out when not in use should not even be
noticable. 30 seconds is a bit short, but as little as a couple
of minutes might not be.
--
Floyd L. Davidson <http://www.ptialaska.net/~floyd>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Istvan Zsolt Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VCD player on Linux
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 11:06:13 GMT
On 9 Dec 2000, Mohd-Hanafiah Abdullah wrote:
> Hi:
>
> Is there a VCD player on Linux, free or commercial?
>
> Thanks.
Hi!
I found a while ago something like this (see below the README
file). Unfortunately I don't remember the www site but I'm sure you can
look for it on one of the major linux program sites.
readvcd version 0.2
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
What is readvcd?
================
It's a program for reading of the MPEG streams from VideoCD. It uses
the special ioctl call CDROMREADRAW that has to be compiled into Linux
kernel. Now it works with 2.x.x and 1.3.x kernels with IDE CD-ROM drives.
I hope it will work soon with SCSI too...
Several people has successfully tested the previous version and played
the MPEGs. It works well with Tristan Savatier's MpegTV.
Instalation:
============
In two steps.
1. kernel patch (in 2.1.18+ it's already done)
You must add the CDROMREADRAW ioctl into kernel. And recompile it.
Look at the file kernel-patch for changes in the file ide-cd.c and
try to copy them to you kernel.
2. readvcd
Run make. If you don't have ncurses you can disable it in the Makefile.
Usage:
======
The program sends the MPEGs to stdout so it's more than likely that you
will pipe it to some MPEG player or you write it to the file.
It should now find the beginning of the MPEG stream and start to play it.
If you turn on the verbose mode it will also display TOC informations and
position where it plays.
If you compile it with ncurses (default) you will be able to skip forward
and backward by pressing 'B' and 'F' keys ('b' and 'f' will make smaller
jump). If you press 'space' it will display MSF address of the actual sector.
After pressing 'q' it will terminate.
You can chose which track should be played. Usually the 1st track holds
some kind of info and copyright informations. The 2nd (and following)
are the MPEG streams to be played. You can also start at any sector
on disk with -a option. It's useful when you want to continue after the
interruption. You only have to know the latest MSF address.
Options:
========
-v verbose mode
-a M:S.F address of the starting sector in MSF format
Examples:
=========
readvcd -v -a 00:50.00 | mtv -
It will turn on verbose mode and it will read from sector 00:50.00 and pipe
data into mtv.
readvcd 2 > track2.mpg
It should write data from track 2 into file.
License:
========
This program is free. You are using it at you own risk. You can use it for
your personal use only. It can be redistributed only in the original form.
Author:
=======
Ales Makarov
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Istvan Zsolt Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VCD player on Linux
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 11:31:20 GMT
Hi!
On 9 Dec 2000, Mohd-Hanafiah Abdullah wrote:
> Is there a VCD player on Linux, free or commercial?
You can also try at http://www.mpegtv.com for a better, fullscreen
general format player.
It didn't work for me, though :(
Istvan
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From: Carfield Yim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't install printer
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 03:36:23 +0800
Bryan Hoyt wrote:
> Who ever said Carfield Yim couldn't write what follows?:
>
>> If I put the following line at terminal, it will print the directory
>> tree at printer:
>>
>> ls > /dev/lp0
>>
>> But after I config my printer in X with mandrake config, it don't work,
>> do anyone know why? I am using cup, where can I find more information?
>>
>
>
> If your CUPS installation is like mine, then look in /usr/share/doc/cups/,
> otherwise try places like /usr/doc/, or /usr/local/doc, or
> /usr/local/share/doc.
>
> Load the file called "sam.html" in netscape or other browser, and it has a
> pretty extensive guide to installing cups. You could also print the file
> called "sam.pdf", but I suppose that would be no use to you till you got the
> printer actually working. :-)
>
> After having done this, the files "sum.html" and "sum.pdf" are a guide on
> using cups.
Thx a lot, I now know how to get document to solve problems -- not only
printer, but many other, thx
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Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2000 22:26:29 +0100
From: Reinhard Karcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: accessing NTFS partition from Linux
sreeni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have installed Linux and NT in one machine. Is there any way, I can
>access the Ntfs partion from Linux system.
You need a kernel with ntfs-support enabled. But use it read-only,
the writesupport is experimentel (buggy).
Reinhard
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From: Carfield Yim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't install printer
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 03:40:03 +0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
David Efflandt wrote:
> On Sat, 09 Dec 2000, Carfield Yim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> If I put the following line at terminal, it will print the directory
>> tree at printer:
>>
>> ls > /dev/lp0
>>
>> But after I config my printer in X with mandrake config, it don't work,
>> do anyone know why? I am using cup, where can I find more information?
>
I am using Epson Style Color 600, and now I have solve my problem :)
>
> You might get some help if you said what printer and what settings you
> made with the printtool (or entries it made in /etc/printcap) and if it
> works when you test it in the printtool. What is 'cup'?
'cup' is a printing assistant from http://www.cups.org/
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.x
From: Istvan Zsolt Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Activating the Multimedia keys
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 11:47:23 GMT
Hi!
>On 9 Dec 2000, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> > In comp.os.linux.hardware Istvan Zsolt Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> > These keys DO NOT generate any scancodes (checked with showkeys and xev)!
> They DO GENERATE scancodes. (at least for my Logitech Cordless)
> You didn't use showkey -s, right ?
My keyboard is Chicony KB-8993 and no, the multimedia keys are not
'active' they DO NOT generate any scancodes (showkey -s)! This is my
problem!
Once I can 'convince' the keyboard to generate scancodes I have a kernel
patch which can map them to different actions (based on the Rapid Access
Keyboard demon built for a similar IBM keyboard, www.surmount.com).
It all looks like the controller _in_ the keyboard (Chicony 6868A) needs a
special initialization sequence. I might be wrong here. This is of course
implemented for Windoz but I was wondering if somebody already did figure
out the Linux implementation.
Thanks for the input ayway!
Istvan
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From: Ted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Applix 5.0 under SuSE 7.0
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 11:49:37 +0000
I have installed Applix 5.0 under SuSE 7.0, but it is highly unstable. I have
done what the Applix setup wanted, and have upgraded the libraries that it
wanted. Is it possible to run Applix 5.0 under SuSE 7.0? At the moment I
can't use it for more that two minutes before Applix exits.
Ted
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From: Derek Colley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why PostgreSQL is not that popular as MySQL?
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 12:05:07 +0000
Raymond Chui wrote:
> I am just start look at PostgreSQL for our Redhat Linux.
> I am wonder why most of people choose MySQL in Linux
> world rather than PostgreSQL? PostgreSQL has 15 years
> history (I never know that before) which is much longer
> than MySQL. Also PostgreSQL supports a lot of things
> which MySQL has not support yet.
>
> --
> Why we want to teach our babies to talk and walk,
> then later we tell them "sit down!", "be quiet!" ?
>
> Democracy is not a better way for a solution,
> it is just another way to spread the blames.
This article may help to put things in perspective.
http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/tim20000705.php3?page=1
--
Regards,
Derek Colley
http://www.netsimple.co.uk
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Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 07:15:35 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: /dev/loop7 forced check
how do u expect help w/o providing us with information?
maybe it's not being unmounted properly?
we aren't mind readers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Having a problem with a forced check of /dev/loop7. any idea why that
> would be? I'm trying to use Armed Linux. any help would be
> appreciated.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: "Vicpar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: es.comp.os.linux.instalacion,es.comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Configurar Grabadora USB
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 12:31:27 GMT
Me puede indicar alguien como debo configurar el fstab para que pueda
utilizar mi grabadora para USB. El kernel 2.4.0-test11, ya esta configurado,
pero no se que debo poner en el fstab(/dev/hda,hdb...). Gracias.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: amd k6 - signal 11
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 13:16:13 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> : Well, my old machine has an amdk6 -233 and I get signal 11 when doing
> [...]
>> I bet your CPU is becoming too hot!
> I second the heat suggestion, however, when I've had this problem, it's
Well, here's what I did it get the machine to work.
1. I lowered the cpu mhz from 233 to 200.
2. I lowered the cpu voltage from 3.3 to 3.2.
It runs great now...I've compiled the kernel, gcc, glibc and no more
signal 11s.
Kurt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Help finding distro for laptop with 540M hard drive.
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 13:19:35 GMT
On Sat, 09 Dec 2000 22:24:23 GMT, Harold Stevens ** PLEASE SEE SIG **
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kevin Croxen: > >
[Snip...]
> >|> apparently exists a compatibility problem with the current version
of >|> pcmcia card manager services (found in Slack 7.1) and some older
486 >|> laptops. > >
I think I just got bit by this...I'm using tomsrtbt
(Linux on a floppy) on a >Gateway Handbook 486; it apparently has no
qualms starting a Linksys PCMLM56 >combo modem/ether card, and the
ethernet stuff is fine. But miterm (tomsrtbt >minimalist terminal
emulator) is extremely slow; it reminds me of a BBS link >20 years ago at
300 baud or worse. On the old 486 desktop, both ethernet and >miterm
dialup with tomsrtbt seem to run at top speed. Version is PCMCIA Card
>Services 3.0.12 on this rollout of tomsbtrt. I'm off to try to run down
info >on Google later, and other suggestions for 486 laptop PCMCIA are
welcome. >
Not quite the same problem as with card services 3.1.16 which
ships with Slack 7.1. (Current is 3.1.20). Loading card services from
Slack 7.1 on a Thinkpad 701C, for example, produces a kernel panic and
hangs everything. Versions of card services from Slack 7.0 (3.1.14) and
earlier are fine on the 701C. Haven't tried the currentmost 3.1.20 version
of cs on this older machine yet to see if the problem persists beyond
3.1.16 --since it works now, why screw around with it?
Cheers,
--Kevin
>[Snip...]
>
>--
>
>Regards, Weird (Harold Stevens) * IMPORTANT EMAIL INFO FOLLOWS *
>Pardon the bogus email domain (dseg etc.) in place for spambots.
>Really it's (wyrd) at raytheon, dotted with com. DO NOT SPAM IT.
>Standard Disclaimer: These are my opinions not Raytheon Company.
>
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Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 07:26:51 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: alsa and enlightenment, 2 separate questions
hi,
first, does alsa 5.10 work under kernel 2.4? I had alsa 5.9d working
under the 2.2.13 kernel that came with suse 6.3 but recently i
downlaoded and compiled a 2.4 kernel and when the new alsa version came
out i downloaded it, b/c my current driver for my chipset had bugs in it
and was hoping this new version fixed the bugs, and when i tried
compiling the drivers for the new kernel i got a lot of errors.
Some things I was able to fix but even booting with the old kernel and
telling the configure script for alsa to use the 2.2.13 directories i
still got errors. There are too many errors to list but it seemed to me
that with the new kernel headers some things are defined differently
possibly and b/c of that the alsa code didn't compile right.
To fix some of the errors I copied over some of the headers i got errors
about from the /include/asm/ directory and /include/linux directory of
the original source code to the corresponding directories for kernel
2.4. Did i not copy the headers to the right directory or something for
2.4 correctly or maybe I didnt notify alsa in enough places that i'm
using kernel 2.4?
if more info is needed just let me know. i'm guessing the actual error
messages are needed but i hope they aren't. If they are i can supply
them, but it will be a pain getting them.(not on this computer)
second question is that I started using enlightenment today and i love
it. Faster and better looking than KDE however I want to make shortcuts
to some apps like GTKYahoo and AxyFTP. I made the links easily in KDE
but can't find the option to do so in E. IS it possible and if so how?
Maybe I missed the option in the menus.
thanks
brandon
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timo Benk)
Subject: cdrecord and symlinks
Date: 10 Dec 2000 13:25:52 GMT
Hi,
Is it possible to make a cd image with symlinks and attributes like an
ext2fs.
-timo
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From: "Julian Gomez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to undelete files on ext2
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 21:41:07 +0800
Alex,
Undeletion is possible, but at the moment, I think the only tool which can
be used to do it is in Dan Farmer and Wietse Venema's TCL suit. I haven't
tried it out yet. You can do it manually, you will have to open the
filesystem
for write permissions, go through the list of deleted inodes and retrieve
the
inodes you are looking for.
Depending on how long its been deleted and such, you might not be able to
retrieve it because ext2 has the habit of trying to reuse the same old inode
numbers whenever it has the chance, at least it did the last time I fiddled
with
undeletion 2.0 kernel. If you've installed the full HOWTOs and such, try
looking
in /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/ or thereabouts, I think there is a document called
Undeletion-Ext2 or something to that effect.
Alex Fitterling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello.
>
> since I unfortunately deleted my /etc/X11 (I just couldn't remember
> anymore, that I replaced it recently with a link, instead of keeping
> its whole contents in a separate dir) I felt like a fool...
>
> unfortunately I catched my self of beeing unable to undelete these
> files, too... :) because of the fact, I got know clue how to do
> that... In Midnight Commander I found some hints... but not as clear
> as I was thinking it has to be stated to me...
>
> Can someone of you give me a short introduction (or a link to a recent
> web-document) how to undelete files correctly ?
>
> Especially I want to know if it is possible to restore deleted files
> exactly to the original state.. with name, etc. (?)
>
> Thank you in advance.
> Alex
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Help finding distro for laptop with 540M hard drive.
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 13:37:07 GMT
Bryan Hoyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For a window manager I use Sawmill (now Sawfish). It is small, fast, cool,
I've bee using fvwm on my laptop, it's pretty lightweight. Recently
I've started using vnc to connect to systems at work over a modem (we
only have 28.8 modems in out modem bank at work, sigh...), and the
documents suggested avoiding heavyweight window managers for that as
well. I tried icewm, which is pleasant and modern-looking, and seems
fairly light weight. So far I'm happy with it, and might try it on the
laptop as well. I do like the fvwm pager though.
> I would advise not to install Netscape. Using Kfm, you can view pages nearly
I can't recommend it because it's a beta, and sometimes locks up on
my, but the beta 3 of Opera for Linux is very nice when it runs, at
least once you get used to the way it opens all new windows inside its
main window. It can display some sites that Netscape 4.x chokes on,
and is much smaller than Netscape. I have high hopes for it.
--
Jim Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
=================== http://www.buchanan1.net/ ==========================
"Trying to learn to hack on a DOS or Windows machine or under MacOS is
like trying to learn to dance while wearing a body cast." -Eric Raymond
========================================================================
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: problems with .rhosts?
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 13:38:45 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I was just fighting the same problem with a new machine (password
> required on remote host). It turned out I had a double entry in
> /etc/hosts. I am surprised it worked at all.
I had the same problem, it was keeping me from using NIS netgroup
entries in /etc/exports. Drove me crazy for a while.
--
Jim Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
=================== http://www.buchanan1.net/ ==========================
Of age there is no question, Death's shadow is undone
We only need each other, And shelter from the sun -Sandy Pearlman (BOC)
========================================================================
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Linux (text) files to Win 98/2000 via floppy?
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 13:51:45 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Potter Wickware <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Anyone know how to do this? I copy the file to the DOS-formatted floppy
>& it's OK, but when I put the floppy in the DOS machine it says the disk
>is not formatted. What should I do?
Maybe you did not mount it properly.
Format /dev/fd0 with mkdosfs or on a DOS/Win box and mount it with:
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
However, Unix text ends lines with just a linefeed and DOS/Win uses
carriage return, linefeed pairs, so they would not look right in Notepad.
Following is a Perl script that could convert the text:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# txtconv - convert text to or from other OS
# Symlink or rename to: tounix, todos, tomac
# follow with list of files on commandline
while(@ARGV) {
my $file = shift @ARGV;
unless (open(FILE,"+< $file")) {
warn "Can't open $file: $!\n"; next; }
flock(FILE,2); seek(FILE,0,0); binmode FILE;
print "$file before ", -s $file;
my @lines = <FILE>;
seek(FILE,0,0); truncate(FILE,0);
$end = "\012" if $0 =~ /tounix/;
$end = "\015\012" if $0 =~ /todos/;
$end = "\015" if $0 =~ /tomac/;
foreach (@lines) { s/(\015\012|[\015\012])/$end/g; print FILE $_; }
close FILE;
print " after ", -s $file,"\n";
}
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/ http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/
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From: Carfield Yim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Where can I know more about files under /dev?
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 22:11:03 +0800
As title, I would like to know more about the hardwares of my system.
Now I only know sdX is my scsi HDD but know nothing about other device.
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