hi guys. i haven't been able to post to the list, though i receive
posts fine. if you wouldn't mind replying to this email to let me know
you got it, that'd be awesome.
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Hi guys. I have a 15 MBPro C2D running Debian Etch. I've put
applesmc into /etc/modules , but when I boot up, lsmod doesn't list
applesmc; I have to manually modprobe it. Any thoughts on why it's not
automatically being loaded?
Below are the contents of /etc/modules:
loop
sbp2
psmouse
appletouch
Hi list. I've just noticed that reading one of my temperature sensors
gives an error:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sys/devices/platform/applesmc cat temperature_*
3700
5950
5200
5700
3850
4900
cat: temperature_6: Input/output error
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sys/devices/platform/applesmc
Is this normal?
Also,
On 06/03/07, Sven Anders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sheer El-Showk schrieb:
Could the ATI power throttle be a Gentoo thing since you're running
gentoo and the gentoo website claims it works but it certainly doesn't
on Ubuntu with a C2D MBP. Perhaps gentoo has some custom kernel mods
that
On 26/03/07, Ken Mandelberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Will the Apple Bluetooth keyboard and mouse run under Linux on an Intel
Mac Mini? If so what does it take to get it going?
i haven't used Apple's bluetooth keyboard or mouse, but i would imagine that
you'd set'em up just like any other
i've been following most of the threads relating to ATI's POWERplay
and have talked to a few people in OFTC #mactel-linux. several people
have said that switching to a lower power state using POWERplay does
*not* reduce battery consumption. if that's the case, what's the point
of POWERplay?
-Nick
On 28/03/07, Matt Kraai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Howdy,
I have a MacBook Pro running Debian sid. When it's idle, the backlight
stays on. Is there a way to fix this? If not, which part of the system
is usually responsible for turning it off?
--
Matt
hey Matt. did you receive any
On 15/04/07, Florian Knobloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello!
Can anybody confirm that a Macbook Pro C2D 15 2.16 Ghz is running
cooler (draws less energy) when using the vesa driver with xorg compared
to the ati-drivers?
With ATI-8.35.5 my fans are spinning with ca. 4000-5000 rpm,
with vesa
On 16/04/07, Sven Anders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael Gangolf schrieb:
Hi
just found this tool:
http://websupport.sk/~stanojr/projects/atipower/http://websupport.sk/%7Estanojr/projects/atipower/
Perhaps people could try it where 'aticonfig --lsp' is not running.
For me it has the
hi guys. i've got a 15 MBP C2D running Debian Etch. i just recompiled
my kernel (2.6.18.7 with mactel patches), rebooted, and found that
appletouch is no longer being loaded automatically. i know appletouch
needs to be loaded before usbhid.
first, i blacklist appletouch, usbhid and tsdev:
[EMAIL
hi again guys. i have a 15 MBP C2D running Debian Etch and am using
kpowersave to suspend. when i suspend to disk and then resume, the
touchpad works. however, when i suspend to RAM and then resume, the
touchpad doesn't work.
what software and corresponding configs are you guys using to
On 17/04/07, Thomas Perl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello, Nick!
On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 21:12 +1000, Nick Hoffman wrote:
hi again guys. i have a 15 MBP C2D running Debian Etch and am using
kpowersave to suspend. when i suspend to disk and then resume, the
touchpad works. however, when i
On 18/04/07, David Spreen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hey there,
I got suspend2ram working on my macbook1,1 but occasionally it would
wake up with the backlight switched off. Also the resume only works if I
suspend with s2ram -f -p -m.
The backlight issue is annoying because none of the linux
On 18/04/07, Thomas Perl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello, Nick!
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 13:21 +1000, Nick Hoffman wrote:
On 17/04/07, Thomas Perl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello, Nick!
On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 21:12 +1000, Nick Hoffman wrote:
hi again guys. i have a 15
On 17/04/07, Sven Anders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nick Hoffman schrieb:
On 16/04/07, *Sven Anders* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael Gangolf schrieb:
Hi
just found this tool:
http://websupport.sk/~stanojr/projects/atipower/
http
On 27/04/07, Jon Grosshart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey all... Has anyone adjusted the automatic backlight variables to their
liking via pommed.conf? I've been tinkering around but can't get it to
behave properly. 'out-of-the-box' gives me opposite behavior of what you
would expect. I'll sit in
On 27/04/07, Jerome BENOIT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello List,
my current hard drive of my mac mini make a mechanical tiny noise,
but after a while, I get head aches: so I plan to replace it soon.
I want to get one which is fully Linux compatible
--- it would be nice if it is cheap and big
hi guys. i installed Debian Etch on my 15 MBP C2D a couple of months
ago using these 2 guides:
http://wiki.debian.org/MacBookPro
http://wiki.debian.org/MacBook
i'm wondering if it's possible to switch from using LILO to GRUB. if
so, is it as easy as uninstalling LILO then installing GRUB?
hi guys. i spent a bit of time looking into what elilo is, and have a
couple of questions.
1) why is rEFIt + lilo recommended in most how-to guides rather than
just using elilo?
2) what problems exist for using elilo on a MBP C2D?
3) are there any reasons to stick with rEFIt + lilo/grub rather
On 29/04/07, Soeren Sonnenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 12:01 +0200, Florian Knobloch wrote:
hello!
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/batteryupdate12.html
maybe this fixes acpi issues with battery charge display?
well instead of 34Whrs I am now back to 49Whrs
On 28/04/07, Jonas Petersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Raphael Wimmer wrote:
On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 05:13:37 +0200, Nick Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
i'm wondering if it's possible to switch from using LILO to GRUB.
GRUB is working on my MBP C2D, Debian Lenny.
I think I installed it during
On 30/04/07, Scott L. Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nope. I still lost mine. It just took longer.
Scott =)
hi Scott. what do you mean by it just took longer?
-Nick
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On 07/05/07, Sheer El-Showk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
Has anyone been able to repartition their drive from Linux? I have an
MBP C2D with a journaled HFS+ partition, an ext2/3 linux partition and
a swap partition. I want to setup a new unjournaled HFS+ partition
from which I can share
hi guys. sometimes after i've watched one or more videos in VLC,
logging out of my KDE session causes the screen to go black and the
keyboard to be unresponsive. neither the capslock nor numlock keys
work, and the system seems to be completely unresponsive. the fans
keep whirring though. the only
so last night i started hearing some mechanical grinding noises coming
from my laptop. it's a 15 MBP C2D and is only 2-3 months old. i'm 90%
sure it's fan0, as i can make the noise louder by manually increasing
the speed of fan0.
i'm going to have it repaired, but i'm curious as to what steps,
On 09/05/07, Michael Gangolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://vizzzion.org/?blogentry=709
Intel has a nice tool to analyse userspace misbehaviour. It's called
ticktool
and tells you which applications keep the CPU from sleeping. Having
identified those, stracing the process in question can give
On 16/05/07, Sheer El-Showk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Nick,
So I started trying this last weekend but I got a little scared and
stopped half-way. The disk utility in the boot up disk seems to let
you resize your hard partitions but it didn't seem to put any
constraint on size or know
On 28/05/07, mike dentifrice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi there,
Is it possible to get a higher screen resolution in console with the
Intel Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express that's in MacBooks?
Though I quickly escape the ugly boot display by jumping into X, I'd
love to be able to work in
hey guys, i've been wondering what the advantages are for using elilo
rather than lilo or grub. any comments?
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On 26/05/07, David Spreen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hey there,
the sound on my macbook _works_ great. I just wonder if you guys found
a mixer config with which the sound does not suck. Either, the sound on
the outputs (I tried both, headphones and speakers on the phone output
and the line-in) is
On 03/06/07, Sheer El-Showk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've submitted Mobility Feedback on AMD/ATI's webpage for this
several times with no apparent success. AMD seems ot have a policy of
not direclty supporting laptops because they say manufacturers should
but I'm sure apple won't help with
hi guys. after switching to 2.6.21+mactel in Debian Etch on my 15 MBP
C2D, i noticed that audio didn't work. after fiddling around and
reading this page:
http://wiki.debian.org/MacBookPro
here's what i've found...
screenshots of my kmix settings can be found here:
when i was using 2.6.18.7+mactel , suspended to disk and then resumed,
the touchpad no lnoger worked. however, i could revive the touchpad
with this command:
sudo modprobe -r usbhid appletouch; \
sleep 1; \
sudo modprobe appletouch; \
sudo modprobe usbhid
i'm now using
On 06/06/07, Ottavio Campana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm wondering how Nvidia drivers work with efi. In order to use the ATI
drivers bootcamp was necessary because they relied on BIOS. How do
Nvidia drivers work? Do they still need the BIOS and therefore bootcamp,
or can we get rid of it?
On 06/06/07, Jon Grosshart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oh.. Out of curiosity... You guys should pop out your battery and take a
look at the circuit board underneath it. You'll see some white dots.. Mine
are brown due to heat issues. God I love my macbook... I'm so glad Apple
sold me a quality
On 06/06/07, Joel Beaudoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Most people think that bootcamp provides the BIOS functionality. It is
actually the firmware update that does that and is independent of bootcamp.
hi Joel. which firmware are you referring to?
-Nick
On 06/06/07, Ottavio Campana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
really? I'm buying a mbp in the next days and therefore I haven't tried
yet, but reading some pages I always found that ati drivers require a
legacy bios.
For example, here http://modular.math.washington.edu/macbook/ I found
| I
On 05/06/07, Ortwin Glück [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nick Hoffman wrote:
when i was using 2.6.18.7+mactel , suspended to disk and then resumed,
the touchpad no lnoger worked. however, i could revive the touchpad
with this command:
sudo modprobe -r usbhid appletouch; \
sleep 1
On 07/06/07, Scott L. Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My touchpad resumes 95% of the time with the following Xorg config:
Section InputDevice
Identifier touchpad
Driver synaptics
Option SendCoreEvents true
Option Device /dev/input/mice
btw, this is before suspending:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ ll /dev/input/touchpad /dev/input/event3
crw-rw 1 root root 13, 67 2007-06-07 15:39 /dev/input/event3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2007-06-07 15:39 /dev/input/touchpad - event3
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ grep -i touchpad
On 07/06/07, Ortwin Glück [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nick Hoffman wrote:
hi Ortwin. i read through the URL you sent me and googled around for
additional information, but i'm afraid i don't really understand what
you mean by use hotplug of XInput correctly. would you mind being a
bit more
On 08/06/07, Steve Finkelstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for the reply Jon and everyone else.
My main concern was will I be able to get a linux on it without much
hassle? It seems that it won't be too much of a problem. I should
refrain removing OS/X for the occasional software updates
On 08/06/07, David Spreen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hey there,
just wondered if anybody has successfully used linux-phc to
reduce power consumption and fan interaction on their first
generation macbook as outlined here:
http://www.lionclan.org/?p=78#kernel
bye,
david
hi David. how does
On 07/06/07, Ortwin Glück [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i've followed the instructions on your site
As if that's a guarantee for anything :-) I am just describing my setup
there. There's always room for improvement.
hahahh. to be honest, i was under the impression that what you posted was a
On 12/06/07, Jon Grosshart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'll underclock in Windows and report back. The Omega drivers I use
already come with ati tray tools so it's no big deal. Usually these types of
things are loaded with the OS so I doubt It'll stick under Linux. We'll see.
The vmware idea is
hi guys. Intel's PowerTOP utility suggested this:
Disable 'hal' from polling your cdrom with: hal-stop-polling /dev/scd0
'hal' is the component that auto-opens a file browser when you plug in
a CD but disables SATA power saving from kicking in.
so i googled around to figure out how to do this,
On 24/06/07, Jon Grosshart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 6/23/07, Nick Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi guys. Intel's PowerTOP utility suggested this:
Disable 'hal' from polling your cdrom with: hal-stop-polling /dev/scd0
'hal' is the component that auto-opens a file browser when you plug
On 24/06/07, Jon Grosshart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I ran that command awhile back. The one powertop suggests. It wrote the
attached file to:
/etc/hal/fdi/information/media-check-disable-storage_model_DVDRW_GWA4080MA.fdi
See attached file for contents. It's just a generic xml file. I'm
On 24/06/07, Jon Grosshart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No. I never notice a change in power consumption. I just do it so it quits
waking up my procs all the time (which doesn't necessarily translate as
power saved). The hal devs even say that you really shouldn't be polling
devices and that
On 25/06/07, Jon Grosshart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 6/24/07, Nick Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
30 minutes of battery time in GNU/Linux? wowzers,
that's...wellhorrible. are you using Linux From Scratch, or have you
built your own OS another way?
-Nick
Yea, it's DIY Linux via
On 29/06/07, Jon Grosshart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey guys, where do we see the screen brightness level in /{sys,proc}? Been
playing around with it and that is a big power hog. I can lower power
consumption by a couple watts and still have a readable screen (that puts me
about even with what
On 29/06/07, Samuli Seppänen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been thinking of updating the MacOS X part just for the fun of it.
Being paranoid that I am, I was wondering if any of you had any issues
with OSX (firmware) updates and Linux device drivers? I'm especially
worried that iSight and/or
hi guys. i've been having a lot of problems with the touchpad on my
15 MBP C2D. it's actually 2 problems:
1) sometimes when i boot, the touchpad doesn't work at all. when this
occurs, the symlink /dev/input/touchpad that this udev rule is
supposed to make doesn't exist:
SUBSYSTEMS==usb,
On 02/07/07, Jon Grosshart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Udev should do it's job without any extra rules. I use standard event*
nodes that should already be set up on any distro.
KERNEL==event*, MODE=0644,NAME=input/%k
From sys.log:
Jun 30 01:09:58 jaguar kernel: appletouch Geyser 3 inited.
On 30/06/07, Nicolas Boichat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Nicolas Boichat wrote:
Alistair John Strachan wrote:
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 16:38, Nicolas Boichat wrote:
Alistair John Strachan wrote:
[ 45.424240] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20060119 on minor 0
[ 512.551353]
On 04/07/07, Thomas Perl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello, all!
hi Thomas. are you using event for the Protocol?
Section InputDevice
Identifier Touchpad
Driver synaptics
Option CorePointer
Option Device
On 05/07/07, Clive Saldanha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I downloaded the i386 DVD-iso fpr FC 7 . After partitioning the drive
using boot camp when i restart my computer to install FC 7 it goes on to a
screen where it asks me for language and keyboard type etc. But i get stuck
at this one screen
On 06/07/07, Clive Saldanha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
I installed Fedora core 6 on my MacBook Pro Core2Duo using the 5CD's. I
tried connecting to the internet and it doesnt work. I checked network
manager and it seems like fedora doesnt detect any network device. So I
tried adding one under
On 07/06/07, Matteo Buferli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have same problem to with
kernel: 2.6.21.1 + mactel-patch rev 127
alsa: 1.0.13
amixer sset 'Input Source' Mic; command is impossible for me, return:
# amixer sset 'Input Source' Mic
Simple mixer control 'Input Source',0
Capabilities:
On 05/06/07, daniel g. siegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
please patch your kernel to use
macmini_pin_configs instead of macbook_pro_v2_pin_configs and it'll
work ;) (sound/pci/hda/patch_sigmatel.c)
daniel
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hi Daniel. i've modified
On 23/07/07, Tino Keitel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maybe your kernel requires a module to use the keyboard, which isn't
loaded with init=/bin/bash.
Regards,
Tino
hi Tino. i don't think that's the problem, simply because the keyboard works
when vga=773 is set. i don't change anything else..
hi guys. have you had more success with 2.6.21 or 2.6.22 for
suspending a MBP C2D? i'm using 2.6.21.1+mactel and haven't had any
success yet, so i'm wondering whether i should plod on, or upgrade to
.22 .
cheers,
Nick
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On 24/07/07, Soeren Sonnenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
from what I can tell it works with both on a mbp c1d... however it
cleanly works only from console (display will not come back on resume /
only if you use s2ram -f -p).
From X + fglrx module loaded the s2ram options need to be different
On 24/07/07, Erik Osheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was able to get suspend-to-ram working for both. I basically followed
Ortwin Glueck's guide:
http://www.odi.ch/prog/macbookpro/index.php
I don't actually use it that often though.
-- Erik
hi Erik. i'll give Ortwin's scripts a go in the
On 24/07/07, Erik Osheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, I do have a C2D MBP.
Also, I do unload the fglrx module-his newer script doesn't do that,
but I have not tried the new method yet.
-- Erik
if you unload the fglrx module, won't that kill X?
-Nick
On 24/07/07, Soeren Sonnenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
if you don't use the fglrx module it will definitely always crash with
recent kernels (2.6.22)...
why is that?
I suggest you first try to get it to work using just
echo mem /sys/power/state
from console (no X, booting in single user
On 24/07/07, Erik Osheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also, if i may ask you a question:
What X settings are you using to run without the fglrx module? I
haven't been able to get even unaccelerated X working without the
proprietary ATI driver.
-- Erik
i *think* i'm not using the fglrx kernel
On 27/07/07, Jorge Salamero Sanz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi there,
i've a macbook core 2 duo with properly patched 2.6.22.1-mactel
when i try to record sound from line in or mic i just record noise
$ amixer sset 'Input Source' 'Line'
Simple mixer control 'Input Source',0
Capabilities:
On 27/07/07, Thomas Besser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just recognized that I do not have an alsa control named 'Digital'.
Do you have such a controller?
Does anybody know if I miss perhaps a kernel config option, to get this
controller?
hi Thomas. i'm using 2.6.21.1+mactel and don't have a
On 25/07/07, Gabriel Rodríguez Alberich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I had a hard time getting the microphone to work on my MBP C2D, but
finally got it. At the end, it wasn't a kernel matter, but a mixer
one. I'm using a 2.6.22 kernel from Ubuntu. This is my configuration
in natural language (I
ahoy list. after upgrading from 2.6.21.1+mactel to 2.6.22.1+mactel and
getting suspend-to-ram working, i've noticed that i no longer have any
battery info/stats. any suggestions on how to get them back?
thanks!
-Nick
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state
present:
hi Pat.
(Sorry for my... english?)
no worries, mate. your english is great; way better than a couple
people i work with =)
- Suspend-to-ram is now working when I use klaptop_acpi_helper. I don't know
why this tool works when common approaches doesn't...
which arguments do you use with
hi Patrick.
I've configured klaptop to suspend when I close the lid. I don't know which
arguments are used.
and you don't need to use Ortwin's mbps2ram or acpi-power scripts?
Anyway, I made a little test and the command klaptop_acpi_helper --suspend
works.
thanks, i'll try that out.
how
i feel like such an idiot =P on the weekend when i was trying to get
the iSight to work, i deleted /lib/modules/2.6.22.1/ and reinstalled
the kernel...and forgot to reinstall the fglrx kernel module.
suspend-to-ram's working now.
thanks for your help with everything, Pat. i really appreciate
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 08:07:41 +0200, Pierre Maziere wrote:
Suspend to RAM may work, but I'd rather like to use the suspend to disk
hi Pierre. i'm curious to know why you prefer suspend-to-disk rather
than -to-ram.
-Nick
hi guys. any idea how to make the terminal/console bell ring on our
laptops? i can't seem to do it on my MBP C2D. i've tried all sorts of
things, like:
echo -e \b
echo -e \a
echo -e \\33[10;50]\\33[11;1000]
echo '\007\c'
echo -e '\007\c'
as well as a perl script that supposedly should've worked.
On 02/08/07, Magarto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi. i have a shell script of Ortwin Glück and modified by Nick Hoffman to
s2disk and s2ram a MB Pro.
I have a MB C2D but i use Gnome instead KDE and this script is for KDE.
Can anyone modify it?? My shell knowledge is very simple a basic
On 03/08/07, Magarto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Nick Hoffman. My MB is normal, not Pro, then i have and intel. In the
script you sent me i have disabled fglrx and now, it only needs to work on
Gnome (i tried it) because it is for KDE only :(
Thanks a lot
hi Mario. i don't have a MacBook
On 07/08/07, Jeffrey Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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For what it's worth...
I've been using the kernel and madwifi-ng-svn from my overlay,
http://overlays.gentoo.org/dev/je_fro/browser
with no trouble at all. No wifi dropouts, no mouse
i saw that you asked a couple of questions in the #mactel-linux IRC channel:
genelisp does anyone have a working synaptics config? I've tried
various 'example' configs, but they make the cursor fly round the
screen...
back on June 3rd, i sent an email to the Synaptics configuration
thread on the
On 07/08/07, Magarto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have trying a lot of things since then, but we do not need any module, but
we do need lircd and it needs the config file (which i have) and the dev of
the event, but the event is already used. I have tried enabling and disabling
On 08/08/07, Sven Anders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello!
After upgrading I have problems with the isight. Which driver are you using?
Please send me an URL or the driver itself, please...
Regards
Sven
hi Sven. when replying, please make sure to send to the mailing list too.
i'm using
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