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by announce-request＠lists.alug.org.uk 09 Nov '02

09 Nov '02

Send Announce mailing list submissions to announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to announce-request(a)lists.alug.org.uk You can reach the person managing the list at announce-admin(a)lists.alug.org.uk When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Announce digest..." --------------.--------------------------------------------.------------ alug-announce | Newsletter of the Anglian Linux User Group | Weekly(ish) --------------'--------------------------------------------'------------ ** Please send articles for this letter to announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk ** *** Please send replies to main(a)lists.alug.org.uk, not announce... *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Today's Topics: 1. Fwd: FSFE France enters Free Software Gaming (MJ Ray) 2. Syleham Meeting Report (MJ Ray) --__--__-- Message: 1 To: announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk From: MJ Ray <markj(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2002 22:51:24 +0000 Subject: [Alug Announce] Fwd: FSFE France enters Free Software Gaming From: Loic Dachary <loic(a)gnu.org> Subject: FSFE France enters Free Software Gaming Reply-To: loic(a)gnu.org Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 16:23:38 +0100 Hi, I attached the press release published a few minutes ago. Although it only concerns a french non profit with a french company, I though you'= d be interested to hear about it. If you think appropriate to publish it=20 somewhere I would not mind, on the contrary ;-) Cheers, --- [ An online version of this release is available at http://france.fsfeurope.org/news/article2002-10-27-01.en.html ] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media contact: Lo=EFc Dachary, loic(a)gnu.org FSFE France enters Free Software Gaming Nevrax, the video game company releasing NeL under the GNU GPL decided to outsource the Free Software community management to FSFE France. The fifteen developers working on NeL at Nevrax will continue to operate under high pressure to meet their deadlines while FSFE France will be in charge of connecting them with the Free Software world. NeL is an essential component of any 3D games. It provides the 3D graphics engine, networking and artificial intelligence that are necessary to develop multiplayer online games. It ultimately intends to compete with high end proprietary middlewares and largely intersects with Free Software libraries such as Crystalspace or Ogre. FSFE France first became involved in the gaming field by helping with the release of Blender under the GNU GPL. "We are now working to make sure games can be produced and distributed in freedom." says Lo=EFc Dachary, FSF speaker, "Game developers who have the courage to endorse Free Software as a moral principle should know about NeL". Since it is released under the GNU GPL, it guarantees the contributors and authors that it won't be abused by proprietary software vendors. People are welcome to use NeL and build on it as long as they are willing to participate to the Free Software movement. Nevrax's engineers have been developing NeL during the past three years. The company was seduced by the Free Software philosphy and acknowledged that a service based business model is compatible with it. "We are about to release our first game based on NeL." says Daniel Miller, Nevrax CTO, "We need to rely on the FSFE France to interface between our overloaded staff and the Free Software community." Nevrax decided to move the NeL CVS tree and the mailing lists to Savannah, the development hosting facility of the GNU project, so that the Free Software community benefits from an integrated contributive environment. Those interested in improving NeL are encouraged to subscribe to the NeL mailing list. For more information please visit http://nongnu.org/projects/nel/ About FSFE France The FSFE France is a non-profit organization dedicated to all aspects of Free Software. Access to software determines who may participate in a digital society. Therefore the freedoms to use, copy, modify and redistribute software - as described in the Free Software definition - allow equal participation in the information age. Creating awareness for these issues, securing Free Software politically and legally, and giving people freedom by supporting development of Free Software are central issues of the FSFE France. About Nevrax Nevrax is a specialist in the development of massively multi-user online worlds and a fervent believer in Free Software. It currently has teams developing a leading edge Free Software technology platform called NeL, and a state of the art massively multiplayer online role-playing game called Ryzom. Details on NeL can be found at www.nevrax.org. Details on Ryzom can be found at www.ryzom.com. --=20 Loic Dachary http://www.dachary.org/ loic(a)dachary.org 12 bd Magenta http://www.senga.org/ loic(a)senga.org 75010 Paris T: 33 1 42 45 07 97 loic(a)gnu.org GPG Public Key: http://www.dachary.org/loic/gpg.txt _______________________________________________ Friends mailing list Friends(a)fsfeurope.org http://mailman.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/friends --__--__-- Message: 2 From: MJ Ray <markj(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> To: announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2002 23:17:20 +0000 Subject: [Alug Announce] Syleham Meeting Report Well, despite my protestations, it was actually a remarkably nice day to go to Syleham, with the low autumn sun keeping us warm as we looked out over the fields from the village hall. It also dazzled us, but closing the curtains soon sorted that one out! Rather a surprisingly poor turnout (and where were you?), but quite a few pieces of kit to install, fix or experiment on and quite a lot of interesting discussion. Thanks to John, John, Colin, David and Brett for turning up. Two debian installations took place, including one "bend to fit" install onto a machine that just won't boot from CD and has a processor slow enough that the install didn't finish before the meeting... here's hoping it resumes neatly! Demonstrations of DemoLinux and Knoppix were run on a Dell Laptop. To some people's surprise, they both worked fine, although DemoLinux didn't autodetect the country it was in (should it?) and Knoppix complained bitterly about trying to start OpenOffice. Both of these CDs are available to take away now, if anyone wants them. The meeting concluded with handing out of AFFS information packs (www.affs.org.uk) the ceremonial filling of the beer glass and some coloured lights and beeping as we tried not to set off the alarms as we left. The next meeting is pencilled in for King's Lynn on 1 December, if that's OK for people? After Christmas, I'd like to try to run "Welcome to Linux" sessions, but there's no replies to the thread on the main list yet... -- MJR --__--__-- _______________________________________________ Announce mailing list Announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce End of Announce Digest

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ADSL
by Jamie French 08 Nov '02

08 Nov '02

Hi Guys, I wondered if u would mind helping me out. Basically have a Smoothwall firewall, which works great but I have to reduce the number of PC's I have, being kicked out of my office for my new son. Been looking at routers in the price range of £100 > £150 but they don't seem to provide the flexibility of Smoothwall, for example the Solwise SAR 715 does not really provide true DMZ functionality. A router with a firewall, ids, port forwarding, dmz and nat functionality would be great, thus wondered what u guys use with your ADSL?? By the way, ditched BTO today after three days of no service, again. Migrating to Nildram :) Take care and thank you, Jami

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Re: A tale about Mandrake 9 and a mouse
by David Howe 08 Nov '02

08 Nov '02

I have exactly the same problem with Mandrake 8.2 downlaod edition which I am running but only when the mouse is plugged in as USB - if I plug the same mouse in the PS2 port it doesn't happen. I have no idea why and desite paying money to join the spectacularly useless Mandrake Club thing for extra support nobody has come up with an answer yet. Dave

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mail@remartincomms.co.uk
by John Woodard 07 Nov '02

07 Nov '02

test

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hdds.
by Craig 07 Nov '02

07 Nov '02

On the same request someone else mentioned.. I need a spare hdd as well! 2gig to 4 gigs please! This 540mb is getting really bad on the router!! -- (o_ .----------------------------------------. //\ | Craig Butcher | http://www.wizball.co.uk| V_/_ | - Using Gentoo GNU/Linux - | `----------------------------------------'

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Any Spare Hard Drives....
by mtm＠sys.uea.ac.uk 07 Nov '02

07 Nov '02

I'm after a smallish (4-6 Gb), cheap hard drive. Anybody got one gathering dust that they could part with? Ideally Norwich area. -- >==============================================================< Michael Morton | Need a job! School of Information | (pretty please) Systems, University | http://www.sys.uea.ac.uk/~mtm/work of East Anglia, Norwich | >==============================================================<

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I have a serious problem with X (I think!) - Help!!!
by bsamuels＠beenthere-donethat.org.uk 07 Nov '02

07 Nov '02

I'm running Debian Testing and I did an update yesterday. I think one, or more, of the packages was X related. I really can't remember any more than that. One of the new packages was updated source code for my kernel which is 2.4.19. I compiled and installed that. When I rebooted and started KDE, my normal desktop, the whole machine froze after a short time. Absolutely nothing worked. I have the magic sysrq key option in the kernel activated but even that did nothing. Only a hard reset would work. I tried booting using my previous kernel with the same results so I've ruled out the new kernel. I have since tried Icewm,as it's less complicated than KDE, and it appears to work after a fashion. I am writing this with my normal email application running under Icewm. There is a 'but' of course. If I try to switch consoles using <ctrl><alt><Fn> the machine locks up immediately as before. If I try to exit Icewm the machine locks up even if I exit using <ctrl><alt><backspace>. I am assuming that this is an X problem. I have no idea where, or how, to start looking and some advice is sorely needed and would be very welcome. Barry Samuels XFree log appended below in case it means anything to anybody. ====================================================================== XFree86 Version 4.2.1 (Debian 4.2.1-3 20021016191246 branden(a)deadbeast.net) / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600) Release Date: 3 September 2002 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/) Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.18 i686 [ELF] Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Mon Nov 4 14:10:40 2002 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4" (==) ServerLayout "Default Layout" (**) |-->Screen "Default Screen" (0) (**) | |-->Monitor "Iiyama Vision Master 17" (**) | |-->Device "Matrox G400" (**) |-->Input Device "Generic Keyboard" (**) Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" (**) XKB: rules: "xfree86" (**) Option "XkbModel" "pc104" (**) XKB: model: "pc104" (**) Option "XkbLayout" "us" (**) XKB: layout: "us" (**) Option "XkbVariant" "uk" (**) XKB: variant: "uk" (==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled (**) |-->Input Device "Configured Mouse" (WW) The directory "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (**) FontPath set to "unix/:7100,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" (==) RgbPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" (--) using VT number 7 (WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such file or directory) (II) Module ABI versions: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.1 XFree86 Video Driver: 0.5 XFree86 XInput driver : 0.3 XFree86 Server Extension : 0.1 XFree86 Font Renderer : 0.3 (II) Loader running on linux (II) LoadModule: "bitmap" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a (II) Module bitmap: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.3 (II) Loading font Bitmap (II) LoadModule: "pcidata" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a (II) Module pcidata: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.5 (II) PCI: Probing config type using method 1 (II) PCI: Config type is 1 (II) PCI: stages = 0x03, oldVal1 = 0x8000582c, mode1Res1 = 0x80000000 (II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex) (II) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 1022,700c card 0000,0000 rev 11 class 06,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:01:0: chip 1022,700d card 0000,0000 rev 00 class 06,04,00 hdr 01 (II) PCI: 00:07:0: chip 1022,7410 card 0000,0000 rev 02 class 06,01,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:07:1: chip 1022,7411 card 0000,0000 rev 01 class 01,01,8a hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:07:3: chip 1022,7413 card 0000,0000 rev 01 class 06,80,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:07:4: chip 1022,7414 card 0000,0000 rev 07 class 0c,03,10 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:08:0: chip 1000,0020 card 1000,1040 rev 01 class 01,00,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:08:1: chip 1000,0020 card 1000,1040 rev 01 class 01,00,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:0b:0: chip 1102,0002 card 1102,8027 rev 08 class 04,01,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:0b:1: chip 1102,7002 card 1102,0020 rev 08 class 09,80,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:0e:0: chip 1002,4752 card 0000,0000 rev 27 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:0f:0: chip 10b7,9805 card 10f1,2462 rev 78 class 02,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:10:0: chip 10b7,9805 card 10f1,2462 rev 78 class 02,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 01:05:0: chip 102b,0525 card 102b,2179 rev 05 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: End of PCI scan (II) LoadModule: "scanpci" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a (II) Module scanpci: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.5 (II) UnloadModule: "scanpci" (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a (II) Host-to-PCI bridge: (II) PCI-to-ISA bridge: (II) PCI-to-PCI bridge: (II) Bus 0: bridge is at (0:0:0), (-1,0,0), BCTRL: 0x08 (VGA_EN is set) (II) Bus 0 I/O range: [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IX[B] (II) Bus 0 non-prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B] (II) Bus 0 prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B] (II) Bus 1: bridge is at (0:1:0), (0,1,1), BCTRL: 0x0c (VGA_EN is set) (II) Bus 1 I/O range: (II) Bus 1 non-prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0xea000000 - 0xea8fffff (0x900000) MX[B] (II) Bus 1 prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0xf8000000 - 0xf9ffffff (0x2000000) MX[B] (II) Bus -1: bridge is at (0:7:0), (0,-1,0), BCTRL: 0x08 (VGA_EN is set) (II) Bus -1 I/O range: (II) Bus -1 non-prefetchable memory range: (II) Bus -1 prefetchable memory range: (--) PCI: (0:14:0) ATI Mach64 GR rev 39, Mem @ 0xe9000000/24, 0xe8006000/12, I/O @ 0x2000/8 (--) PCI:*(1:5:0) Matrox MGA G400 AGP rev 5, Mem @ 0xf8000000/25, 0xea800000/14, 0xea000000/23 (II) Addressable bus resource ranges are [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B] [1] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IX[B] (II) OS-reported resource ranges: [0] -1 0 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B) [1] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B) [2] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [5] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [6] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B] (II) Active PCI resource ranges: [0] -1 0 0xe8005c00 - 0xe8005c7f (0x80) MX[B] [1] -1 0 0xe8005800 - 0xe800587f (0x80) MX[B] [2] -1 0 0x000dc000 - 0x000dcfff (0x1000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0xe8007000 - 0xe8007fff (0x1000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0xf0000000 - 0xf7ffffff (0x8000000) MX[B] [5] -1 0 0xea000000 - 0xea7fffff (0x800000) MX[B](B) [6] -1 0 0xea800000 - 0xea803fff (0x4000) MX[B](B) [7] -1 0 0xf8000000 - 0xf9ffffff (0x2000000) MX[B](B) [8] -1 0 0x00001880 - 0x000018ff (0x80) IX[B] [9] -1 0 0x00001800 - 0x0000187f (0x80) IX[B] [10] -1 0 0x00001c38 - 0x00001c3f (0x8) IX[B] [11] -1 0 0x00001c00 - 0x00001c1f (0x20) IX[B] [12] -1 0 0x00001400 - 0x000014ff (0x100) IX[B] [13] -1 0 0x00001000 - 0x000010ff (0x100) IX[B] [14] -1 0 0x00001c30 - 0x00001c33 (0x4) IX[B] (II) Inactive PCI resource ranges: [0] -1 0 0xe8006000 - 0xe8006fff (0x1000) MX[B](B) [1] -1 0 0xe9000000 - 0xe9ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B) [2] -1 0 0x0000f000 - 0x0000f00f (0x10) IX[B] [3] -1 0 0x00002000 - 0x000020ff (0x100) IX[B](B) (II) Active PCI resource ranges after removing overlaps: [0] -1 0 0xe8005c00 - 0xe8005c7f (0x80) MX[B] [1] -1 0 0xe8005800 - 0xe800587f (0x80) MX[B] [2] -1 0 0x000dc000 - 0x000dcfff (0x1000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0xe8007000 - 0xe8007fff (0x1000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0xf0000000 - 0xf7ffffff (0x8000000) MX[B] [5] -1 0 0xea000000 - 0xea7fffff (0x800000) MX[B](B) [6] -1 0 0xea800000 - 0xea803fff (0x4000) MX[B](B) [7] -1 0 0xf8000000 - 0xf9ffffff (0x2000000) MX[B](B) [8] -1 0 0x00001880 - 0x000018ff (0x80) IX[B] [9] -1 0 0x00001800 - 0x0000187f (0x80) IX[B] [10] -1 0 0x00001c38 - 0x00001c3f (0x8) IX[B] [11] -1 0 0x00001c00 - 0x00001c1f (0x20) IX[B] [12] -1 0 0x00001400 - 0x000014ff (0x100) IX[B] [13] -1 0 0x00001000 - 0x000010ff (0x100) IX[B] [14] -1 0 0x00001c30 - 0x00001c33 (0x4) IX[B] (II) Inactive PCI resource ranges after removing overlaps: [0] -1 0 0xe8006000 - 0xe8006fff (0x1000) MX[B](B) [1] -1 0 0xe9000000 - 0xe9ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B) [2] -1 0 0x0000f000 - 0x0000f00f (0x10) IX[B] [3] -1 0 0x00002000 - 0x000020ff (0x100) IX[B](B) (II) OS-reported resource ranges after removing overlaps with PCI: [0] -1 0 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B) [1] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B) [2] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000dbfff (0x1c000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [5] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [6] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B] (II) All system resource ranges: [0] -1 0 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B) [1] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B) [2] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000dbfff (0x1c000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [5] -1 0 0xe8005c00 - 0xe8005c7f (0x80) MX[B] [6] -1 0 0xe8005800 - 0xe800587f (0x80) MX[B] [7] -1 0 0x000dc000 - 0x000dcfff (0x1000) MX[B] [8] -1 0 0xe8007000 - 0xe8007fff (0x1000) MX[B] [9] -1 0 0xf0000000 - 0xf7ffffff (0x8000000) MX[B] [10] -1 0 0xea000000 - 0xea7fffff (0x800000) MX[B](B) [11] -1 0 0xea800000 - 0xea803fff (0x4000) MX[B](B) [12] -1 0 0xf8000000 - 0xf9ffffff (0x2000000) MX[B](B) [13] -1 0 0xe8006000 - 0xe8006fff (0x1000) MX[B](B) [14] -1 0 0xe9000000 - 0xe9ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B) [15] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [16] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B] [17] -1 0 0x00001880 - 0x000018ff (0x80) IX[B] [18] -1 0 0x00001800 - 0x0000187f (0x80) IX[B] [19] -1 0 0x00001c38 - 0x00001c3f (0x8) IX[B] [20] -1 0 0x00001c00 - 0x00001c1f (0x20) IX[B] [21] -1 0 0x00001400 - 0x000014ff (0x100) IX[B] [22] -1 0 0x00001000 - 0x000010ff (0x100) IX[B] [23] -1 0 0x00001c30 - 0x00001c33 (0x4) IX[B] [24] -1 0 0x0000f000 - 0x0000f00f (0x10) IX[B] [25] -1 0 0x00002000 - 0x000020ff (0x100) IX[B](B) (II) LoadModule: "GLcore" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a (II) Module GLcore: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1 (II) LoadModule: "bitmap" (II) Reloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a (II) Loading font Bitmap (II) LoadModule: "dbe" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdbe.a (II) Module dbe: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 Server Extension ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1 (II) Loading extension DOUBLE-BUFFER (II) LoadModule: "ddc" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libddc.a (II) Module ddc: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.5 (II) LoadModule: "dri" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a (II) Module dri: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1 (II) Loading sub module "drm" (II) LoadModule: "drm" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libdrm.a (II) Module drm: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1 (II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI (II) LoadModule: "extmod" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libextmod.a (II) Module extmod: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 Server Extension ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1 (II) Loading extension SHAPE (II) Loading extension MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD (II) Loading extension BIG-REQUESTS (II) Loading extension SYNC (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER (II) Loading extension XC-MISC (II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension (II) Loading extension XFree86-Misc (II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA (II) Loading extension DPMS (II) Loading extension FontCache (II) Loading extension TOG-CUP (II) Loading extension Extended-Visual-Information (II) Loading extension XVideo (II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation (II) LoadModule: "freetype" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libfreetype.a (II) Module freetype: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 1.1.10 Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.3 (II) Loading font FreeType (II) LoadModule: "glx" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a (II) Module glx: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1 (II) Loading sub module "GLcore" (II) LoadModule: "GLcore" (II) Reloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a (II) Loading extension GLX (II) LoadModule: "int10" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libint10.a (II) Module int10: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.5 (II) LoadModule: "record" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/librecord.a (II) Module record: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 1.13.0 Module class: XFree86 Server Extension ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1 (II) Loading extension RECORD (II) LoadModule: "speedo" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libspeedo.a (II) Module speedo: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 1.0.1 Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.3 (II) Loading font Speedo (II) LoadModule: "type1" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libtype1.a (II) Module type1: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 1.0.1 Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.3 (II) Loading font Type1 (II) Loading font CID (II) LoadModule: "vbe" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvbe.a (II) Module vbe: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.5 (II) LoadModule: "mga" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/mga_drv.o (II) Module mga: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 1.1.0 Module class: XFree86 Video Driver ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.5 (II) LoadModule: "mouse" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/mouse_drv.o (II) Module mouse: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 XInput Driver ABI class: XFree86 XInput driver, version 0.3 (II) MGA: driver for Matrox chipsets: mga2064w, mga1064sg, mga2164w, mga2164w AGP, mgag100, mgag100 PCI, mgag200, mgag200 PCI, mgag400, mgag550 (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:05:0 (--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device (--) Chipset mgag400 found (II) resource ranges after xf86ClaimFixedResources() call: [0] -1 0 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B) [1] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B) [2] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000dbfff (0x1c000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [5] -1 0 0xe8005c00 - 0xe8005c7f (0x80) MX[B] [6] -1 0 0xe8005800 - 0xe800587f (0x80) MX[B] [7] -1 0 0x000dc000 - 0x000dcfff (0x1000) MX[B] [8] -1 0 0xe8007000 - 0xe8007fff (0x1000) MX[B] [9] -1 0 0xf0000000 - 0xf7ffffff (0x8000000) MX[B] [10] -1 0 0xea000000 - 0xea7fffff (0x800000) MX[B](B) [11] -1 0 0xea800000 - 0xea803fff (0x4000) MX[B](B) [12] -1 0 0xf8000000 - 0xf9ffffff (0x2000000) MX[B](B) [13] -1 0 0xe8006000 - 0xe8006fff (0x1000) MX[B](B) [14] -1 0 0xe9000000 - 0xe9ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B) [15] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [16] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B] [17] -1 0 0x00001880 - 0x000018ff (0x80) IX[B] [18] -1 0 0x00001800 - 0x0000187f (0x80) IX[B] [19] -1 0 0x00001c38 - 0x00001c3f (0x8) IX[B] [20] -1 0 0x00001c00 - 0x00001c1f (0x20) IX[B] [21] -1 0 0x00001400 - 0x000014ff (0x100) IX[B] [22] -1 0 0x00001000 - 0x000010ff (0x100) IX[B] [23] -1 0 0x00001c30 - 0x00001c33 (0x4) IX[B] [24] -1 0 0x0000f000 - 0x0000f00f (0x10) IX[B] [25] -1 0 0x00002000 - 0x000020ff (0x100) IX[B](B) (II) resource ranges after probing: [0] -1 0 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B) [1] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B) [2] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000dbfff (0x1c000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [5] -1 0 0xe8005c00 - 0xe8005c7f (0x80) MX[B] [6] -1 0 0xe8005800 - 0xe800587f (0x80) MX[B] [7] -1 0 0x000dc000 - 0x000dcfff (0x1000) MX[B] [8] -1 0 0xe8007000 - 0xe8007fff (0x1000) MX[B] [9] -1 0 0xf0000000 - 0xf7ffffff (0x8000000) MX[B] [10] -1 0 0xea000000 - 0xea7fffff (0x800000) MX[B](B) [11] -1 0 0xea800000 - 0xea803fff (0x4000) MX[B](B) [12] -1 0 0xf8000000 - 0xf9ffffff (0x2000000) MX[B](B) [13] -1 0 0xe8006000 - 0xe8006fff (0x1000) MX[B](B) [14] -1 0 0xe9000000 - 0xe9ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B) [15] 0 0 0x000a0000 - 0x000affff (0x10000) MS[B] [16] 0 0 0x000b0000 - 0x000b7fff (0x8000) MS[B] [17] 0 0 0x000b8000 - 0x000bffff (0x8000) MS[B] [18] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [19] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B] [20] -1 0 0x00001880 - 0x000018ff (0x80) IX[B] [21] -1 0 0x00001800 - 0x0000187f (0x80) IX[B] [22] -1 0 0x00001c38 - 0x00001c3f (0x8) IX[B] [23] -1 0 0x00001c00 - 0x00001c1f (0x20) IX[B] [24] -1 0 0x00001400 - 0x000014ff (0x100) IX[B] [25] -1 0 0x00001000 - 0x000010ff (0x100) IX[B] [26] -1 0 0x00001c30 - 0x00001c33 (0x4) IX[B] [27] -1 0 0x0000f000 - 0x0000f00f (0x10) IX[B] [28] -1 0 0x00002000 - 0x000020ff (0x100) IX[B](B) [29] 0 0 0x000003b0 - 0x000003bb (0xc) IS[B] [30] 0 0 0x000003c0 - 0x000003df (0x20) IS[B] (II) Setting vga for screen 0. (II) Loading sub module "vgahw" (II) LoadModule: "vgahw" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a (II) Module vgahw: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.5 (**) MGA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32 (==) MGA(0): RGB weight 888 (II) Loading sub module "mga_hal" (II) LoadModule: "mga_hal" (WW) Warning, couldn't open module mga_hal (II) UnloadModule: "mga_hal" (EE) MGA: Failed to load module "mga_hal" (module does not exist, 0) (II) MGA(0): Matrox HAL module not loaded - using builtin mode setup instead (--) MGA(0): Chipset: "mgag400" (==) MGA(0): Using AGP 1x mode (--) MGA(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xF8000000 (--) MGA(0): MMIO registers at 0xEA800000 (--) MGA(0): Pseudo-DMA transfer window at 0xEA000000 (==) MGA(0): BIOS at 0xC0000 (--) MGA(0): Video BIOS info block at offset 0x07B20 (WW) MGA(0): Video BIOS info block not detected! (II) MGA(0): MGABios.RamdacType = 0x0 (==) MGA(0): Write-combining range (0xf8000000,0x2000000) (--) MGA(0): VideoRAM: 32768 kByte (II) Loading sub module "ddc" (II) LoadModule: "ddc" (II) Reloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libddc.a (II) Loading sub module "i2c" (II) LoadModule: "i2c" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libi2c.a (II) Module i2c: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 1.2.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.5 (==) MGA(0): Write-combining range (0xf8000000,0x2000000) (II) MGA(0): vgaHWGetIOBase: hwp->IOBase is 0x03d0, hwp->PIOOffset is 0x0000 (II) MGA(0): I2C bus "DDC" initialized. (II) MGA(0): I2C device "DDC:ddc2" registered. (II) MGA(0): I2C device "DDC:ddc2" removed. (II) MGA(0): I2C device "DDC:ddc2" registered. (II) MGA(0): I2C device "DDC:ddc2" removed. (II) MGA(0): I2C Monitor info: 0x849e440 (II) MGA(0): Manufacturer: IVM Model: 1700 Serial#: 181942 (II) MGA(0): Year: 1997 Week: 3 (II) MGA(0): EDID Version: 1.0 (II) MGA(0): Analog Display Input, Input Voltage Level: 0.714/0.286 V (II) MGA(0): Signal levels configurable (II) MGA(0): Sync: Separate Composite SyncOnGreenSerration on. V.Sync Pulse req. if CompSync or SyncOnGreen (II) MGA(0): Max H-Image Size [cm]: horiz.: 32 vert.: 24 (II) MGA(0): Gamma: 2.53 (II) MGA(0): DPMS capabilities: StandBy Suspend; RGB/Color Display (II) MGA(0): redX: 0.610 redY: 0.350 greenX: 0.307 greenY: 0.594 (II) MGA(0): blueX: 0.150 blueY: 0.065 whiteX: 0.283 whiteY: 0.297 (II) MGA(0): Supported VESA Video Modes: (II) MGA(0): 720x400@70Hz (II) MGA(0): 720x400@88Hz (II) MGA(0): 640x480@60Hz (II) MGA(0): 640x480@67Hz (II) MGA(0): 640x480@72Hz (II) MGA(0): 640x480@75Hz (II) MGA(0): 800x600@56Hz (II) MGA(0): 800x600@60Hz (II) MGA(0): 800x600@72Hz (II) MGA(0): 800x600@75Hz (II) MGA(0): 832x624@75Hz (II) MGA(0): 1024x768@87Hz (interlaced) (II) MGA(0): 1024x768@60Hz (II) MGA(0): 1024x768@70Hz (II) MGA(0): 1024x768@75Hz (II) MGA(0): 1280x1024@75Hz (II) MGA(0): 1152x870@75Hz (II) MGA(0): Manufacturer's mask: 0 (II) MGA(0): Supported Future Video Modes: (II) MGA(0): #0: hsize: 1280 vsize 1024 refresh: 60 vid: 32897 (II) MGA(0): #1: hsize: 1280 vsize 1024 refresh: 74 vid: 36481 (II) MGA(0): Supported additional Video Mode: (II) MGA(0): clock: 107.2 MHz Image Size: 300 x 225 mm (II) MGA(0): h_active: 1280 h_sync: 1322 h_sync_end 1426 h_blank_end 1667 h_border: 0 (II) MGA(0): v_active: 1024 v_sync: 1030 v_sync_end 1033 v_blanking: 1065 v_border: 0 (II) MGA(0): Supported additional Video Mode: (II) MGA(0): clock: 135.0 MHz Image Size: 300 x 225 mm (II) MGA(0): h_active: 1280 h_sync: 1312 h_sync_end 1456 h_blank_end 1712 h_border: 0 (II) MGA(0): v_active: 1024 v_sync: 1024 v_sync_end 1027 v_blanking: 1064 v_border: 0 (II) MGA(0): end of I2C Monitor info (==) MGA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) (==) MGA(0): Min pixel clock is 12 MHz (==) MGA(0): Max pixel clock is 300 MHz (II) MGA(0): Iiyama Vision Master 17: Using hsync range of 27.00-86.00 kHz (II) MGA(0): Iiyama Vision Master 17: Using vrefresh range of 50.00-120.00 Hz (II) MGA(0): Clock range: 12.00 to 300.00 MHz (II) MGA(0): Not using default mode "1280x1024" (hsync out of range) (II) MGA(0): Not using default mode "640x512" (hsync out of range) (II) MGA(0): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (hsync out of range) (II) MGA(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (hsync out of range) (II) MGA(0): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (hsync out of range) (II) MGA(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (hsync out of range) (II) MGA(0): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (hsync out of range) (II) MGA(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (hsync out of range) (II) MGA(0): Not using default mode "1792x1344" (hsync out of range) (II) MGA(0): Not using default mode "896x672" (hsync out of range) (II) MGA(0): Not using default mode "1856x1392" (hsync out of range) (II) MGA(0): Not using default mode "928x696" (hsync out of range) (II) MGA(0): Not using default mode "1920x1440" (hsync out of range) (II) MGA(0): Not using default mode "960x720" (hsync out of range) (II) MGA(0): Not using default mode "1920x1440" (hsync out of range) (II) MGA(0): Not using default mode "960x720" (hsync out of range) (--) MGA(0): Virtual size is 1024x768 (pitch 1024) (**) MGA(0): Default mode "1024x768": 94.5 MHz, 68.7 kHz, 85.0 Hz (II) MGA(0): Modeline "1024x768" 94.50 1024 1072 1168 1376 768 769 772 808 +hsync +vsync (**) MGA(0): Default mode "800x600": 56.3 MHz, 53.7 kHz, 85.1 Hz (II) MGA(0): Modeline "800x600" 56.30 800 832 896 1048 600 601 604 631 +hsync +vsync (**) MGA(0): Default mode "640x480": 74.2 MHz, 85.9 kHz, 85.1 Hz (D) (II) MGA(0): Modeline "640x480" 74.25 640 672 752 864 480 480 482 505 doublescan +hsync +vsync (++) MGA(0): DPI set to (100, 100) (II) MGA(0): YDstOrg is set to 0 (II) Loading sub module "fb" (II) LoadModule: "fb" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libfb.a (II) Module fb: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation, version 0.1 (II) Loading sub module "xaa" (II) LoadModule: "xaa" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libxaa.a (II) Module xaa: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.5 (II) Loading sub module "ramdac" (II) LoadModule: "ramdac" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libramdac.a (II) Module ramdac: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.1, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.5 (--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp (II) do I need RAC? No, I don't. (II) resource ranges after preInit: [0] 0 0 0xea000000 - 0xea7fffff (0x800000) MX[B] [1] 0 0 0xea800000 - 0xea803fff (0x4000) MX[B] [2] 0 0 0xf8000000 - 0xf9ffffff (0x2000000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B) [4] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B) [5] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [6] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000dbfff (0x1c000) MX[B] [7] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [8] -1 0 0xe8005c00 - 0xe8005c7f (0x80) MX[B] [9] -1 0 0xe8005800 - 0xe800587f (0x80) MX[B] [10] -1 0 0x000dc000 - 0x000dcfff (0x1000) MX[B] [11] -1 0 0xe8007000 - 0xe8007fff (0x1000) MX[B] [12] -1 0 0xf0000000 - 0xf7ffffff (0x8000000) MX[B] [13] -1 0 0xea000000 - 0xea7fffff (0x800000) MX[B](B) [14] -1 0 0xea800000 - 0xea803fff (0x4000) MX[B](B) [15] -1 0 0xf8000000 - 0xf9ffffff (0x2000000) MX[B](B) [16] -1 0 0xe8006000 - 0xe8006fff (0x1000) MX[B](B) [17] -1 0 0xe9000000 - 0xe9ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B) [18] 0 0 0x000a0000 - 0x000affff (0x10000) MS[B](OprD) [19] 0 0 0x000b0000 - 0x000b7fff (0x8000) MS[B](OprD) [20] 0 0 0x000b8000 - 0x000bffff (0x8000) MS[B](OprD) [21] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [22] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B] [23] -1 0 0x00001880 - 0x000018ff (0x80) IX[B] [24] -1 0 0x00001800 - 0x0000187f (0x80) IX[B] [25] -1 0 0x00001c38 - 0x00001c3f (0x8) IX[B] [26] -1 0 0x00001c00 - 0x00001c1f (0x20) IX[B] [27] -1 0 0x00001400 - 0x000014ff (0x100) IX[B] [28] -1 0 0x00001000 - 0x000010ff (0x100) IX[B] [29] -1 0 0x00001c30 - 0x00001c33 (0x4) IX[B] [30] -1 0 0x0000f000 - 0x0000f00f (0x10) IX[B] [31] -1 0 0x00002000 - 0x000020ff (0x100) IX[B](B) [32] 0 0 0x000003b0 - 0x000003bb (0xc) IS[B](OprU) [33] 0 0 0x000003c0 - 0x000003df (0x20) IS[B](OprU) (==) MGA(0): Write-combining range (0xf8000000,0x2000000) (II) MGA(0): vgaHWGetIOBase: hwp->IOBase is 0x03d0, hwp->PIOOffset is 0x0000 (--) MGA(0): 16 DWORD fifo (==) MGA(0): Default visual is TrueColor (II) MGA(0): [drm] bpp: 32 depth: 24 (II) MGA(0): [drm] Sarea 2200+664: 2864 drmOpenDevice: minor is 0 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: Open failed drmOpenDevice: minor is 0 drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such device) drmOpenDevice: Open failed [drm] failed to load kernel module "mga" (II) MGA(0): [drm] drmOpen failed (EE) MGA(0): [drm] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI. (II) MGA(0): Using 3328 lines for offscreen memory. (II) MGA(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA) Screen to screen bit blits Solid filled rectangles Solid filled trapezoids 8x8 mono pattern filled rectangles 8x8 mono pattern filled trapezoids Indirect CPU to Screen color expansion Screen to Screen color expansion Solid Lines Dashed Lines Scanline Image Writes Offscreen Pixmaps Driver provided FillMono8x8PatternRects replacement Setting up tile and stipple cache: 32 128x128 slots 20 256x256 slots 6 512x512 slots (==) MGA(0): Backing store disabled (==) MGA(0): Silken mouse enabled (**) Option "dpms" (**) MGA(0): DPMS enabled (II) MGA(0): Using overlay video (==) MGA(0): Direct rendering disabled (II) Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM (II) Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension (II) Initializing built-in extension XTEST (II) Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD (II) Initializing built-in extension LBX (II) Initializing built-in extension XC-APPGROUP (II) Initializing built-in extension SECURITY (II) Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA (II) Initializing built-in extension XFree86-Bigfont (II) Initializing built-in extension RENDER (II) Keyboard "Generic Keyboard" handled by legacy driver (**) Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" (**) Configured Mouse: Protocol: "ImPS/2" (**) Option "CorePointer" (**) Configured Mouse: Core Pointer (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" (**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" (**) Configured Mouse: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5 (**) Configured Mouse: Buttons: 5 (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Configured Mouse" (type: MOUSE)

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Synergy?
by Keith Watson 07 Nov '02

07 Nov '02

Anyone on the list ever used Synergy <http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/doc-user.html> ? I've just read a short write up <URL tba - sorry> on it and it looks interesting. Keith ____________ A leader is not the leader, therefore he is called leader. D.T. Suzuki (par)

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Sharp Zaurus for less than 300 quid
by Adam Bower 07 Nov '02

07 Nov '02

Hi all, I just ordered myself a Sharp Zaurus from http://www.expansys.com/ less than 300 quid including delivery, the best price before this was about 350 quid online and you also get 50 quids worth of free accessories atm... although this may be perhaps a stock clearance, or maybe a new model is just around the corner. I have used Expansys before and they seem quite good. Anyhow will report back with how good the Zaurus is soon, although I am going to most likely replace the Sharp Linux OS with a free one based on Debian =) Adam -- "Step away from the Cathedral, This Bazaar is loaded" jabberid = quinophex(a)jabber.earth.li

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GPRS on Debian
by Andrew Savory 07 Nov '02

07 Nov '02

Hi, I finally took the plunge and went for GPRS, and thought I'd share my linux configuration experiences in case anyone else has to go through the same pain as I did! * Why would you want to do this? - Faster connection whilst on the road (up to 5x the speed of a dialup connection over a GSM mobile connection) - The geek factor * Why wouldn't you want to do this? - On most networks a GPRS connection is more expensive per mb than a dialup connection (call charges work out less than per mb charges!) - Super high latency link: don't expect to be IRCing from it, but fine for email downloading etc. * What do you need? - A computer running linux (Debian in this example) - A mobile phone with GPRS support - A mobile phone service provider, with GPRS enabled on your account I'm on O2, using a Sony Ericsson T68i over infrared to my Debian laptop. These details should be more or less the same regardless of distribution, network or phone: the only things you need to check are the "APN" (access point name, eg "mobile.o2.co.uk"), username and password, and dial string. * How? Configuring a successful computer-phone connection is beyond the scope of this. Get that working first! Once you have a working connection to your phone (eg you can set up a normal dialup connection using it), you need to configure a new ppp connection with the following two files: - /etc/ppp/peers/o2gprs - /etc/chatscripts/gprs-connect-chat File /etc/ppp/peers/o2gprs: --- begin o2gprs --- # o2 GPRS settings debug hide-password noauth connect "/usr/sbin/chat -f /etc/chatscripts/gprs-connect-chat" # The next line is the port you talk to your phone on, and may need editing /dev/ircomm0 115200 noipdefault ipcp-accept-local ipcp-accept-remote local novj novjccomp noccp default-asyncmap nomagic # The next line is your telco's username: it may need editing depending on your provider user "web" defaultroute persist disconnect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/gprs-disconnect-chat" remotename o2gprs ipparam o2gprs --- end o2gprs --- File /etc/chatscripts/gprs-connect-chat: --- begin gprs-connect-chat --- ABORT BUSY ABORT 'NO CARRIER' ABORT VOICE ABORT 'NO DIALTONE' ABORT 'NO DIAL TONE' ABORT 'NO ANSWER' ABORT DELAYED '' ATZ OK-AT-OK 'AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","MOBILE.O2.CO.UK"' OK-AT-OK 'AT+CGQREQ=1,0,0,0,0,0' OK-AT-OK 'AT+CGQMIN=1,0,0,0,0,0' OK-AT-OK 'AT+CGATT=1' # The next line is your dial string: it may need editing depending on your phone OK-AT-OK 'ATD*99#' TIMEOUT 42 CONNECT \d\c # prelogin # ispname # isppassword # postlogin --- end gprs-connect-chat --- Finally, edit /etc/ppp/options and comment-out lcp-echo-interval and lcp-echo-failure. Test the connection using pppd call o2gprs and watch /var/log/syslog for details. (eg use tail -f /var/log/syslog) * Other useful details You'll need to tweak your MTA to send outgoing mail via smtp.o2.co.uk (or similar for other providers, check with them for details). * Closing remarks I'd welcome any feedback from others trying to do this ... I'll eventually put this on a page somewhere (eg the ALUG site). And yes, this email is coming to you via GPRS (hopefully!). Andrew. -- All views are my own .... who else would want them?

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