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RE: [suse-amd64] Upgrade to 9.2 - please help
by Patrick Freeman 11 Feb '05

11 Feb '05

<big snip> I have a similar problem. I have a dual opteron s2882 with 16GB RAM which I am trying to install 9.2 on via a USB DVD drive. The boot loader comes up fine, but when I select any of the install options I get no video and a hang. Thanks Patrick W. Freeman Systems Specialist O: (949) 330-7699 DATAllegro, Inc ... Data at the speed of business

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suse 9.2 + amd64 + inel ipw2200 wireless
by Len Zaifman 10 Feb '05

10 Feb '05

I have a Eurocom/Clevo D470K athlon64 laptop with ipw2200 wireless builtin. I am running the latest Suse 9.2 Pro + IPW drivers available by YOU (see details below). using my pcmcia 802.11b card i can connect to wireless networks without issue. However, I cannot get the builtin ipw2200 to connect to the network. details Linux genetraveller 2.6.8-24.11-default #1 Fri Jan 14 13:01:26 UTC 2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux lsmod | grep ipw ipw2200 120084 0 firmware_class 11264 1 ipw2200 ieee80211 32484 1 ipw2200 ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet addr:192.168.10.33 Bcast:192.168.10.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 iwconfig eth0 eth0 unassociated ESSID:off/any Nickname:"genetraveller" Mode:Managed Channel=0 Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00 Bit Rate=0 kb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:on I assigned the ip address to take dhcp out of the loop and allow no encrypted access so that I can verify the card can connect. Still no go. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks. -- Len Zaifman Systems Manager, Supercomputing Systems Centre for Computational Biology Hospital for Sick Children Toronto, Ont. M5G 1X8 leonardz(a)sickkids.ca (416)813-5513

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Upgrade to 9.2 - please help
by rkimber＠ntlworld.com 10 Feb '05

10 Feb '05

I'm trying to upgrade from 9.1 to 9.2, but have got stuck. Although there were a few minor-looking problems on the way (it would not install from the DVD and I had to start with CD1 and then insert the DVD when it complained about 32 vs 64 bit, and 6 packages failed to update: libgcj, libidu, libmikmod, screen, acroread, and java2-jre), the main installation seemed to complete properly. When it rebooted, however, it failed with a message saying that fsck had failed and that I should repair manually and reboot. However, e2fsk showed no errors when run manually on all partitions. Irritatingly, maintainance mode also crashes (at "Searching for info file ...") when run from the DVD and I've been using the CD. Where do I go from here? (I paid money for this .... ) Thanks, - Richard.

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RE: [suse-amd64] Problem with telnet on SLES8 x86-64 [SOLVED]
by Black, Alain 10 Feb '05

10 Feb '05

I found the solution. It appears that a patch that was applied through YOU added an extra line to /etc/pam.d/login which was causing the problem. bsiarc1:/etc/pam.d # cat login #%PAM-1.0 auth requisite pam_unix2.so nullok #set_secrpc auth required pam_securetty.so auth required pam_nologin.so #auth required pam_homecheck.so auth required pam_env.so auth required pam_mail.so account required pam_unix2.so password required pam_pwcheck.so nullok password required pam_unix2.so nullok use_first_pass use_authtok session required pam_unix2.so none # debug or trace session required pam_limits.so #AMB session required /lib/security/pam_limits.so <---- This is the line that I commented to make it work. bsiarc1:/etc/pam.d # -Alain. -----Original Message----- From: Black, Alain [mailto:ablack@bloodsystems.org] Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 9:37 AM To: suse-amd64(a)suse.com Subject: [suse-amd64] Problem with telnet on SLES8 x86-64 I'm running SLES8 SP3 on a dual opteron system. We need to have telnet available for a couple of internal users (all root level login is done through ssh). We used to have telnet working, now however when we attempt to telnet to the machine we get the following error. Welcome to SuSE SLES 8 (powered by UnitedLinux 1.0) (AMD64) Kernel 2.4.21-212-smp (3). bsiarc1 login: p103saab Password: Module is unknown Connection to host lost. Is anyone familiar with this error or know where I should start looking? -Alain -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com

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Problem with telnet on SLES8 x86-64
by Black, Alain 10 Feb '05

10 Feb '05

I'm running SLES8 SP3 on a dual opteron system. We need to have telnet available for a couple of internal users (all root level login is done through ssh). We used to have telnet working, now however when we attempt to telnet to the machine we get the following error. Welcome to SuSE SLES 8 (powered by UnitedLinux 1.0) (AMD64) Kernel 2.4.21-212-smp (3). bsiarc1 login: p103saab Password: Module is unknown Connection to host lost. Is anyone familiar with this error or know where I should start looking? -Alain

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Re: [suse-amd64] PCMCIA
by jm macip 10 Feb '05

10 Feb '05

Thanks a lot!!!!! You have been very helpfull!!! The second method you stated ( adding the PCI bridge memory map) worked great. I jut try killall cardmgr and cardmgr again and it Worked!!!! Now im able to see my Compaq Wl110 identified with cardctl info >>> <patheve2(a)tele2.fr> 10/02/2005 1:42 >>> Hello Josep, hello Matt Welcome in the team of the people who have some problems with PCMCIA and Linux 64 bits :-)) !!!! Well, as Matt wrote it, you can find in this mailing list some informations that can help you, in particular my two messages : http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-amd64/2005-Jan/0204.html http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-amd64/2005-Jan/0205.html in which there are a solution. But I can explain how I could get my cards working fine after several tests with the help of Matt and David Hinds the "father" of the PCMCIA kit for linux. So my laptop : an Asus of the L5D series, the first one of Asus with Athlon 64. It is built with nVidia chipsets. On it : Win XP Pro SP2, SuSE AMD64 9.0 (kernel 2.4.21) and SuSE AMD64 9.1 with kernel (a 2.6.8-24.10 one) and PCMCIA package of the SuSE AMD64 9.2. What are your PCMCIA cards you want to use ? My cards are a Com One modem card (Platinium 56k), a Netgear ethernet FA411 card and a Hayes modem card (Optima 288). Accordind to "lspci -vv", hereafter the data about the PCMCIA port : 0000:02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev ab) Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.: Unknown device 1854 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 168 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9 Region 0: Memory at fd200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Bus: primary=02, secondary=03, subordinate=06, sec-latency=176 Memory window 0: fba00000-fc5ff000 (prefetchable) Memory window 1: fc600000-fd1ff000 I/O window 0: 0000c000-0000c7ff I/O window 1: 0000c800-0000cfff BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- ISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- 16bInt- PostWrite+ 16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001 0000:02:01.1 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev ab) Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.: Unknown device 1854 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 168 Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: Memory at fa200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Bus: primary=02, secondary=07, subordinate=0a, sec-latency=176 Memory window 0: f8a00000-f95ff000 (prefetchable) Memory window 1: f9600000-fa1ff000 I/O window 0: 0000b000-0000b7ff I/O window 1: 0000b800-0000bfff BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- ISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- 16bInt+ PostWrite+ 16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001 As you can see, it is different from your PCMCIA device ... but the problem seems the same :-). So with a full SuSE 9.2 AMD64, the basis is correct : kernel and PCMCIA package. At first, verify that your card is defined in the /etc/pcmcia/config file. If not, go to the next step, we will see after. Now, have a look on I/O windows and memory window above. These datas are required in the config.opts file in the /etc/pcmcia directory under this form : # range of port addresses : ##################### include port 0xb000-0xb7ff include port 0xb800-0xbfff include port 0xc000-0xc7ff include port 0xc800-0xcfff # range of memory addresses : ######################## include memory 0xf8a00000-0xfd1ff000 Take the min and max of the memory for defining one range and take all the ranges of port. Accordind to your "lspci -vv", it should give this : # range of port addresses : ##################### include port 0x3000-0x33ff include port 0x3400-0x37ff # range of memory addresses : ######################## include memory 0xd0200000-0xd03ff000 Copy the original config.opts and rename it, modify the config.opts by suppressing all datas concerning port and memory and add this above. Reboot your PC. Insert a card and see the results with "dmesg" and tell us what you get. I think you can see at this level an improvement :-). No ?? Then with "/sbin/cardctl info", see the character strings after "PRODID_1" and "PRODID_2". With this, make an entry in the /etc/pcmcia/config file. If you don't know how to do, tell it us. If an entry is already defined, forget this step. Go to the following. Now, see what give /sbin/lsmod. Are there some loaded modules such as "pcmcia_core", "yenta_socket", "ds" and the module depending on the type of PCMCIA card (for example : serial_cs if modem) ? If a modem card, see if you have in /dev directory a symbolic link modem --> ttySYx where x = 0, 1, 2, ... it depends. If yes, perharps the problem is solved. If modem card, try "wvdial". If OK messages, it seems good !!! If wrong, don't worry, try this : with /sbin/lspci -vv, find the datas about PCI bridge with secondary=02. In my cas, here what I get : 0000:00:0a.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 PCI Bridge (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR+ <PERR- Latency: 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=04, sec-latency=128 I/O behind bridge: 0000b000-0000dfff Memory behind bridge: f8a00000-feafffff Expansion ROM at 0000b000 [disabled] [size=12K] BridgeCtl: Parity+ SERR+ NoISA+ VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B- Take the min and max of the memory behind brigde and put them in the config.opts file. Reboot your PC and see the results. Verify all the above steps after boot. Better or not ? If not, I thing that the solution should only come from .... Windows XP !!! Sorry :-). This is the first time that Win XP can help Linux !!!!! In my case, I took the datas given by Win XP for PCMCIA port and used them as following in the config.opts file : # range of port addresses : ##################### include port 0xcc00-0xccff include port 0xd000-0xd0ff include port 0xd400-0xd4ff include port 0xdc00-0xdcff # range of memory addresses : ######################## include memory 0xfa200000-0xfeafcfff As you can see, there is a significant differente between my previous and actual config.opts files. With such a file, under SuSE 9.0 and SuSE 9.1, I can use my Com One modem card (not the Hayes and I can't explain why) and the FA411 card. So, if Win XP is not installed on your laptop, well try do it in order to get the right date for PCMCIA port. If you can try a dual installation, Win XP and SuSE 9.2, the boot being managed by Win XP (lilo for linux on the boot partition). Perhaps with Grub. Well, it's up to you : try and tell us what you get. Regards Pascal ============================================= Message-Id: <s20936cc.003(a)mail.gsei.net> Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 22:01:35 +0100 From: "jm macip" <jmmacip(a)gsei.net> Subject: [suse-amd64] PCMCIA I recentlly installed suse 9.2 pro 64 on my Acer Aspire 1513lmi laptop and I'm unable to get any pcmcia card working, it always says memory_cs not found. Any help will be apreciated. Thanks in advance. Josep Maria Macip -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help(a)suse.com

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RE: [suse-amd64] Upgrade to 9.2 - please help
by Kevin Wilson 10 Feb '05

10 Feb '05

I upgraded from 9.1 to 9.2 using the x64 dvd on a AMD Opteron SMP machine with no problems at all, breezed right through it. (Since you gave us zero details about the target hardware) I suggest returning back to 9.1, ensure your CDs/DVDs are pure and that your are installing the correct format for your hardware config. -----Original Message----- From: Andreas Jaeger [mailto:aj@suse.de] Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 9:33 AM To: rkimber(a)ntlworld.com Cc: suse-amd64(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] Upgrade to 9.2 - please help rkimber(a)ntlworld.com writes: > I'm trying to upgrade from 9.1 to 9.2, but have got stuck. > > Although there were a few minor-looking problems on the way (it > would not install from the DVD and I had to start with CD1 and then Why would it not install from the DVD? It really should... > insert the DVD when it complained about 32 vs 64 bit, and 6 packages If you start from the CD, then you get a 32-bit system. > failed to update: libgcj, libidu, libmikmod, screen, acroread, and > java2-jre), the main installation seemed to complete properly. > > When it rebooted, however, it failed with a message saying that fsck > had failed and that I should repair manually and reboot. However, > e2fsk showed no errors when run manually on all partitions. > Irritatingly, maintainance mode also crashes (at "Searching for info > file ...") when run from the DVD and I've been using the CD. > > Where do I go from here? (I paid money for this .... ) And we worked hard to get it working on our test systems;-) Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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Re: [suse-amd64] PCMCIA
by patheve2 10 Feb '05

10 Feb '05

Hello Josep, hello Matt Welcome in the team of the people who have some problems with PCMCIA and Linux 64 bits :-)) !!!! Well, as Matt wrote it, you can find in this mailing list some informations that can help you, in particular my two messages : http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-amd64/2005-Jan/0204.html http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-amd64/2005-Jan/0205.html in which there are a solution. But I can explain how I could get my cards working fine after several tests with the help of Matt and David Hinds the "father" of the PCMCIA kit for linux. So my laptop : an Asus of the L5D series, the first one of Asus with Athlon 64. It is built with nVidia chipsets. On it : Win XP Pro SP2, SuSE AMD64 9.0 (kernel 2.4.21) and SuSE AMD64 9.1 with kernel (a 2.6.8-24.10 one) and PCMCIA package of the SuSE AMD64 9.2. What are your PCMCIA cards you want to use ? My cards are a Com One modem card (Platinium 56k), a Netgear ethernet FA411 card and a Hayes modem card (Optima 288). Accordind to "lspci -vv", hereafter the data about the PCMCIA port : 0000:02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev ab) Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.: Unknown device 1854 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 168 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9 Region 0: Memory at fd200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Bus: primary=02, secondary=03, subordinate=06, sec-latency=176 Memory window 0: fba00000-fc5ff000 (prefetchable) Memory window 1: fc600000-fd1ff000 I/O window 0: 0000c000-0000c7ff I/O window 1: 0000c800-0000cfff BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- ISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- 16bInt- PostWrite+ 16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001 0000:02:01.1 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev ab) Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.: Unknown device 1854 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 168 Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: Memory at fa200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Bus: primary=02, secondary=07, subordinate=0a, sec-latency=176 Memory window 0: f8a00000-f95ff000 (prefetchable) Memory window 1: f9600000-fa1ff000 I/O window 0: 0000b000-0000b7ff I/O window 1: 0000b800-0000bfff BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- ISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- 16bInt+ PostWrite+ 16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001 As you can see, it is different from your PCMCIA device ... but the problem seems the same :-). So with a full SuSE 9.2 AMD64, the basis is correct : kernel and PCMCIA package. At first, verify that your card is defined in the /etc/pcmcia/config file. If not, go to the next step, we will see after. Now, have a look on I/O windows and memory window above. These datas are required in the config.opts file in the /etc/pcmcia directory under this form : # range of port addresses : ##################### include port 0xb000-0xb7ff include port 0xb800-0xbfff include port 0xc000-0xc7ff include port 0xc800-0xcfff # range of memory addresses : ######################## include memory 0xf8a00000-0xfd1ff000 Take the min and max of the memory for defining one range and take all the ranges of port. Accordind to your "lspci -vv", it should give this : # range of port addresses : ##################### include port 0x3000-0x33ff include port 0x3400-0x37ff # range of memory addresses : ######################## include memory 0xd0200000-0xd03ff000 Copy the original config.opts and rename it, modify the config.opts by suppressing all datas concerning port and memory and add this above. Reboot your PC. Insert a card and see the results with "dmesg" and tell us what you get. I think you can see at this level an improvement :-). No ?? Then with "/sbin/cardctl info", see the character strings after "PRODID_1" and "PRODID_2". With this, make an entry in the /etc/pcmcia/config file. If you don't know how to do, tell it us. If an entry is already defined, forget this step. Go to the following. Now, see what give /sbin/lsmod. Are there some loaded modules such as "pcmcia_core", "yenta_socket", "ds" and the module depending on the type of PCMCIA card (for example : serial_cs if modem) ? If a modem card, see if you have in /dev directory a symbolic link modem --> ttySYx where x = 0, 1, 2, ... it depends. If yes, perharps the problem is solved. If modem card, try "wvdial". If OK messages, it seems good !!! If wrong, don't worry, try this : with /sbin/lspci -vv, find the datas about PCI bridge with secondary=02. In my cas, here what I get : 0000:00:0a.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce3 PCI Bridge (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR+ <PERR- Latency: 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=04, sec-latency=128 I/O behind bridge: 0000b000-0000dfff Memory behind bridge: f8a00000-feafffff Expansion ROM at 0000b000 [disabled] [size=12K] BridgeCtl: Parity+ SERR+ NoISA+ VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B- Take the min and max of the memory behind brigde and put them in the config.opts file. Reboot your PC and see the results. Verify all the above steps after boot. Better or not ? If not, I thing that the solution should only come from .... Windows XP !!! Sorry :-). This is the first time that Win XP can help Linux !!!!! In my case, I took the datas given by Win XP for PCMCIA port and used them as following in the config.opts file : # range of port addresses : ##################### include port 0xcc00-0xccff include port 0xd000-0xd0ff include port 0xd400-0xd4ff include port 0xdc00-0xdcff # range of memory addresses : ######################## include memory 0xfa200000-0xfeafcfff As you can see, there is a significant differente between my previous and actual config.opts files. With such a file, under SuSE 9.0 and SuSE 9.1, I can use my Com One modem card (not the Hayes and I can't explain why) and the FA411 card. So, if Win XP is not installed on your laptop, well try do it in order to get the right date for PCMCIA port. If you can try a dual installation, Win XP and SuSE 9.2, the boot being managed by Win XP (lilo for linux on the boot partition). Perhaps with Grub. Well, it's up to you : try and tell us what you get. Regards Pascal ============================================= Message-Id: <s20936cc.003(a)mail.gsei.net> Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 22:01:35 +0100 From: "jm macip" <jmmacip(a)gsei.net> Subject: [suse-amd64] PCMCIA I recentlly installed suse 9.2 pro 64 on my Acer Aspire 1513lmi laptop and I'm unable to get any pcmcia card working, it always says memory_cs not found. Any help will be apreciated. Thanks in advance. Josep Maria Macip

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installing 32-bit Xine/Mplayer on 64-bit system
by Klaas Hofstra 10 Feb '05

10 Feb '05

In order to play .wmv files and other windows multimedia formats I've used the wincodec RPM on my 32-bit machine. I'd like to use those same windows codecs on my 64-bit machine. It is my understanding that 64-bit Mplayer/Xine can't use 32-bit dll files. Therefore, I've tried to install a 32-bit version of those players. I've tried to install a 32-bit version of Xine by selecting a 32-bit packman version of xine-ui and libxine using Yast (I added packman to Yast sources). The install went OK and all dependencies should have been OK. But when I tried to run xine it reported that the shared lib libcurl could not be found. A 64-bit version of libcurl is installed but I was unable to install a 32-bit version without removing the 64-bit version (using Yast). Next, I copied libcurl from a 32-bit system to /usr/lib on my 64-bit machine. When i started xine, my machine crashed, hardly the result I was looking for. Does anyone know a way to get the 32-bit codecs working on my 64-bit machine? Thanks in advance, Klaas P.S. Is there a way to search the list archives? Browsing the archives is just not very efficient...

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FYI VMWare
by Brad Bourn 09 Feb '05

09 Feb '05

Hey all, I was approached by a rep from VMWare about employment. I LOVE my job and would never leave by my own choice. He asked me if I would mention that they are looking for some programmers. Since I see VMWare comming up in all of these lists I'm on, I didn't see a problem with forwarding his request. <quote> <snip> > > Actually I'm not trying to sell you anything, I'm just looking for > > referrals to any good 3D graphics systems programers. > > Vmware is looking to hire a few. <snip> > Yes, in fact I need to find an OpenGL systems developer, or at least a > graphics systems programmer with alot of OpenGL. <snip> Do you think you could maybe just mention on your discussion boards that vmware is looking for a systems level graphics programmer with Open GL experience? that would be cool, thanks, Brendan Moran Vmware, Inc. bmoran(a)vmware.com 650-475-5000 x706 www.vmware.com/news </quote> B-) P.S. Don't kill the messenger!

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