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S3 Savage support on XFree86 4.x

I noticed this long-desired software at an Italian’s website: Debian GNU/Linux on Acer Aspire 1300 series Unofficial Support Page.

S3switch is a comand line tool that allows switching from LCD to an external (maybe-CRT) monitor. With this I will easily connect my notebook to a project at seminars.

Following are the manpage of s3switch:

S3SWITCH(8)

NAME
s3switch – manage the output devices on an S3 Savage chip

SYNOPSIS

s3switch [-q] [crt] [lcd] [tv] [both] [ntscj|ntsc|pal]

DESCRIPTION
The S3 Savage chips have the ability to send their output to a variety of different devices. The Savage3D can display to a standard CRT or to a TV. The Savage4 and Savage2000 can display to a standard CRT or through a digital interface to an LCD panel. The Savage/MX and Savage/IX can ship to any two of those three.

The s3switch utility is used to select the devices to be used, and the format of the TV signal. When invoked with no parameters, s3switch displays the devices currently attached, and which of those devices are currently active. Supplying one or more of the words crt, lcd, or tv makes those devices the active devices. The word both is a shortcut for the combination of crt and lcd.

To change the format of the TV signal, specify either ntscj, ntsc or pal. These words will be silently ignored on systems where a TV is not attached or not possible.

The case of the keywords is unimportant; LCD and lcd are equivalent.

S3switch always displays the current state of things just before it exits, unless the -q option is given, in which case, it operates quietly. Note that only the Savage4 and Savage2000 are able to detect the presence or absence of the various devices; the rest just assume everything is attached. S3switch must be run as root.

S3switch will not allow you to activate devices which are not connected, on those chips that are able to detect this.

AUTHOR
Tim Roberts (timr@probo.com)

SEE ALSO
X(1x), Xserver(1x)

S3 Savage Utilities

软件包：texmf-zh
New: 是
状态: 已安装
Automatically installed: no
版本号：0.1-6
优先级：可选
部分：tex
维护者：Zhan Jian
未压缩尺寸：106k
依赖于: gbkfonts, tetex-bin
建议: cjk-latex
描述：TEXMF for CJK-LaTeX including Chinese fonts installer.
install-gbkfonts: convert TrueType fonts in GBK encoding into Type1
format and generate config files.
update-gbkfonts: update fonts cache and regenerate config files.
remove-gbkfonts: remove installed fonts for texmf-zh.

All Chinese fonts and config files will be installed into /usr/share/texmf-zh

David Wheeler found that the effort would be closer to $612M (US) to redevelop the Linux kernel.

Fourth Birthday of OO

“OpenOffice.org is the most important open-source project in the world.”

Today is the fourth birthday of OpenOffice.org, which has become an great office suite and gain more and more user attention. Read it current community manager Louis Suarez-Potts‘s editorial on this, and you can go to NewsForge for their interview with Louis Suarez-Potts.

OOo Off the Wall: Macros and Add-ons

In this article, a few macros of OpenOffice.org were introduced. Two of them are great: ReferenceManager and ExtendPDF. The first one is something must need for any writing in academic fields and the second what everybody likely to have.

By the way. OpenOffice.org just released 1.1.3 version.

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mcwolf@wen:~$ aptitude moo
本程序中没有复活节彩蛋。
mcwolf@wen:~$ aptitude -v moo
本程序中确实没有复活节彩蛋。
mcwolf@wen:~$ aptitude -vv moo
我不是已经告诉您本程序中没有复活节彩蛋了吗？
mcwolf@wen:~$ aptitude -vvv moo
停下来！
mcwolf@wen:~$ aptitude -vvvv moo
行，行，如果我给您一个复活节彩蛋，您会走开吗？
mcwolf@wen:~$ aptitude -vvvvv moo
好吧，您赢了。

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高兴了？mcwolf@wen:~$ aptitude -vvvvvv moo
What is it? It’s an elephant being eaten by a snake, of course.
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Above is what you see under the locale zh_CN

超級牛力是 Debian 系統中一股神秘的力量。

具体内容可见 超級牛力 / Super Cow Powers。看看不同的locale的区别。

Have fun on Debian.

I reported earlier that Librarian is a great PDF mananger for the biologists, but I encountered some trouble to make it work initially. After installing a few more packages it did. Here I listed below the packages I installed for it.

apache php4 php4-mysql mysql-server mysql-client

And then you need to configure httpd.conf file:
Add ‘index.php index.php3′ to ‘DirectoryIndex’ and uncomment following lines:

#AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
#AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

restart Apache service and now follow the install instructions of Librarian

Boing Boing: GPL court challenge in English

Netfilter group succeeded in upholding GPL by a German court ruling.This was the first court decision in which the enforceability of the GPL was upheld. The court ruling in English can be accessed at here and others’ comments or another one on this is also available.

Librarian – PDF article organizer for bioscientists

This software creates a library for your PDF files, it is easy to install and input data.