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Unclaim a device
So I am using Ubuntu and trying to use some hardware which I had some problems with before.
The problem before was that the company who made my hardware sold their internal parts to another company ...
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What is the mknod command used for?
I just started using Ubuntu as my main OS and I wanted to learn about things I should not do, and learn by the bad things people have done in the past. I came across these email about horror stories ...
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How to be notified when a USB device was plugged?
My system have to auto-mount for usb devices, how can I be notified when a usb device is plugged? Where can I read more about?
I would like to treat that using shell script or C.
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Manipulating `/dev/video`
I'd like to take the video stream from /dev/video0, apply some effects or changes and make the result available on /dev/video1.
/dev/video0 ---> Apply Effects ---> /dev/video1
For example, mplayer ...
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Can I share a device from under /dev across hosts?
Here's the situation. I have a video device /dev/video0 on a VMware Server and I want to access this device from within a virtual machine. However for whatever reason I can't connect the device ...
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Shell command to read device registers?
On a single-board computer running Linux, is there a way to read the contents of the device configuration registers that control hardware? I think it would be a wrapper for inw(), more or less.
I'm ...
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How do I find out what hard disks are in the system?
I need to know what hard disks are available, including ones that aren't mounted and possibly aren't formatted. I can't find them in dmesg or /var/log/messages (too much to scroll through). I'm hoping ...
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Why do my SATA devices show up under /proc/scsi/scsi?
I have 3 SATA devices on my system. They show up under /proc/scsi/scsi, although these are not SCSI devices. Why do my SATA devices show up under the SCSI directory?
$ cat /proc/scsi/scsi
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