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Re: [PLUG] near total kablooie
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I cannot comment on refurb monitors since I just started
using one last week :-)
For a KVM I use a Belkin OmniView SE 4 port. I use their
cables too so it was a tad expensive setting it all up.
approximate: $125 + 4($20) = $205
The OmniView SE has trouble with some keyboards like the
Microsoft "natural internet" keyboard. It worked randomly.
How can Microsoft screw up HARDWARE???
Eric
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 11:40:04PM -0500, jeff wrote:
> It was going along too smoothly there for a while.
> Then the monitor blows up.
>
> Reboot with crappy monitor to find a much different set of messages, as if
> I wasn't running the same setup or linux. Uh-oh. Won't let me
> startx. Ok, I get the message... reinstall. GUI installer makes crappy
> monitor go haywire until I remember the ctl-alt-+ trick.
>
> `apt-get update' runs then produces this:
>
> E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
> E: Error occured while processing libwww-perl (NewFileVer1)
> E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
>
> What I'm failing to get is that the install went beautifully the first
> time. I didn't do anything different yet I'm getting all sorts of
> failures. The system found the NIC but didn't set it up as eth0 (or much
> of anything else).
>
> Bloody hell.
>
>
> Willing to purchase monitor or at least KVM switch (assuming linux doesn't
> mind). One cannot find a KVM switch at a store on Sunday (although one can
> find plenty of doofuses who have no concept of a KVM switch). KofP
> computer show is next weekend - are refurb monitors safe?
>
>
> Thanks for any input,
> Jeff
>
--
# Eric Allan Lucas
# "Oh, I have slipped the surly bond of earth
# And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings..
# -- John Gillespie Magee Jr.
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