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Randy Barlow wrote: |
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> Dale wrote: |
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> >> USB sticks are virtually worthless nowadays, for a couple tens of |
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> >> dollars you should be able to get one with a capacity of a few gigs. |
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> >> There's also the possibility of writing directly to the cmos |
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> >> with /dev/nvram, isn't there? It's a character device driver in the |
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> >> kernel. |
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> > I didn't know they were that cheap. Don't they require a OS though? I |
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> > don't have windoze around here. ;-) |
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> They work just fine in Linux! |
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> R |
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Oooops, let me rephrase that. To update the BIOS, does it have to have |
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a OS on that stick? |
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On the other thingy: |
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> root@smoker / # ls -al /dev/nv* |
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> crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 0 Apr 10 02:17 /dev/nvidia0 |
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> crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 255 Apr 10 02:17 /dev/nvidiactl |
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> root@smoker / # |
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That's all the nvidia stuff I saw. Maybe I need to check on that kernel |
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or a newer one may help. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) :-) |
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Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part. |
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