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/dev/console points to tty0?
I've been trying to understand the /dev/console device, but there are a few things I'm not clear on:
What is the purpose of this device? From what I can gather it's just a place for the kernel to ...
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PCI configuration registers problem
I'm trying to get my new Realtek RTL-8169 NIC (over CardBus) to work, but I'm having this weird problem. My lspci -x output looks like this:
[root@comp]# lspci -x -d *:8169
07:00.0 Non-VGA ...
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A drive changes device file name after resuming from suspend (Linux Mint 14)
I'm running into a very odd problem: When I resume Mint 14 from suspend, one of my drives (/dev/sdc) changes letter / device file name (to /dev/sdd). fdisk -l shows that it has the same partitions, ...
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Can I use a parallel port as a CUPS input device?
I have an old piece of a hardware that does diagnostics on medical equipment. It prints out results over a parallel port. Is there any way to have CUPS accept jobs from a parallel port and redirect ...
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How do I find out the device node corresponding to my device in SuSE 8?
I'm forced to work with a bunch of point-of-sale systems running SuSE 8. They are my client's computers. We are stuck dealing with these old systems until they get to upgrade their whole fleet to SLE ...
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How to know when a device is ready
I have firewire mixing console and I wrote an udev rule which calls a script to set up the whole audio chain (alsa -> pulseaudio -> jackd -> firewire) as soon an the console is switched on.
Now I ...
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Webcam Device Driver to support H.264
I have a Creative Live Cam Connect HD (id: 041e:4093) and this webcam has an on-board H.264 encoder. Unfortunately v4l2 only inputs the feed as MJPG.
$ v4l2-ctl --list-formats
ioctl: VIDIOC_ENUM_FMT
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How to route one video device to multiple programs
I'd like to direct the output of a single capture card (Hauppauge PVR-150) to two programs: VLC (for streaming on LAN) and MythTV for scheduled recording. I think it's possible to do this with the ...
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Connected Android device - brings the network down?
I have dealt with sensitive development under Android, and have recently decided to switch to Linux now sit under (Mint 13 - KDE).
But strangely, when the Android device is connected, my network goes ...
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How do I let an SDL app (not running as root) use the console
I want to use an SDL-based program to display graphics on the console, without having to log on from the console, and without running the program as root. For example, I want to be able to run it via ...
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How to know the event by looking at /dev/input/by-id
I want to access the keyboard device driver. I usually accesses it by looking at
/dev/input/by-name but the event provided by it gets changed every time I log in.
After searchin on the Net, I found ...
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Debian USB automount
Got my USB flash automount broken after reboot.
Using Debian 6, GNOME 2
My NTFS hard-disk is still mounting correctly.
When i connect my Anrdoid smartphone (with SD and local drive) my messages log ...
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What are the differences between the current Linux kernel and the Unix SVR4 kernel in terms of device drivers+i/o and virtual files systems?
Yes I realize that Linux supports many more file systems and recognizes more devices than Unix SVR4. I'm interested in what the differences are in the abstraction on top of an actual file system, or ...
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Block Devices & Partitions
I partitioned a microSD card (mmcblk1) into two partitions mmcblk1p1 and mmcblk1p2.
If use a dedicated card reader I am able to see the entire SD card and its partitions using various disk management ...
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Is it possible to use a PS3 controller to emulate an xbox controller?
I have my PS3 controller connected through USB and while that works fine, no applications seem to support its keymap. So my question is whether it's possible to make it emulate an xbox controller ...
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Limiting write rate of a device
How does one go about limiting the write/read rate of a device, E.G., USB drive, SD card?
Motivation behind this question is covered here (superuser.com).
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programming an Atmel Board with a USB to Serial converter, in Eclipse
I am actually trying to program an Atmel Evk1100 board directly from Mac OSX.
My MCU is UC3A0512
I used to use Atmel32 Studio on Windows, but It looks like there no Mac Version.
So, from what I've ...
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How to install driver for my Intel series PC
I installed Linux on an Intel Panel PC. Jockey cannot detect any drivers. I do not know how to install my graphics driver first so that I am be able to install touch screen.
Here's some info from ...
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problem exporting /media as an nfs share: why does it happen?
I've got two netbooks. One netbook has two installed Linux systems: openSUSE 11.04 and Debian testing. By default, in Debian, gnome mounts the /home filesystem for openSUSE, which shows up in gnome's ...
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Silicon Wave USB Bluetooth Adapter doesn't work
I have been trying to use my usb bluetooth adapter(silicon wave) on ubuntu 11.10 server, it appears in the lsusb list but it doesn't work
Bus 005 Device 003: ID 0c10:0000
root@i5-PC:/home/john# ...
