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Joined: 10 Jan 2009
Posts: 266
Location: Hamilton, Canada
Posted: Fri 08 Mar 2013, 00:30
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Hi Monsie
I was able to copy the ldconfig file to the sbin directory so then running the nvidia driver now results in the following message.
ERROR: Unable to find the system utility `ld`; please make sure you have the
package 'binutils' installed. If you do have binutils installed,
then please check that `ld` is in your PATH
Actually, i cheated - i had devx on the other machine and copied ldconfig from there. I checked that machine for the binutils file to no avail. What to they mean by utility 'ld'? Searching on ld leads to 500 items in the other machine, 137 in the target machine so i guess maybe i'll have to install devx which i was hoping to avoid.
Ok, that's done, now, trying to run the driver results in the following message.
ERROR: You appear to be running an X server; please exit X before
installing. For further details, please see the section INSTALLING
THE NVIDIA DRIVER in the README available on the Linux driver
download page at www.nvidia.com.
On the Nvidia page at
it said
Installation instructions: Once you have downloaded the driver, change to the directory containing the driver package and install the driver by running, as root, sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-310.19.run
One of the last installation steps will offer to update your X configuration file. Either accept that offer, edit your X configuration file manually so that the NVIDIA X driver will be used, or run nvidia-xconfig
So, i exited X. Instructions for noobs like me
cd ..
repeat until you see 'root' and 'mnt' listed
cd /mnt/home
enter the command given above -
sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-310.19.run
This resulted in the following message (also recorded in /var/log/nvidia-installer-log) ....
Unable to find source tree for currently running kernel
Make sure they are installed & properly configured.
ie for Red Hat, ensure 'kernel-source' or ' kernel-deve1' RPM is installed
You may specify the path with --kernel-source--path' command line option
Oooph, this is waaay beyond my ken, even with Nvidia's help details page
The FAQ and Problems section seem relevant but are written in geek!
I asked pfind to look up 'kernel' - 27 items returned, many in the /lib/modules/ directory but also many others.
No file called kernel-source found or kernel-deve1 so maybe this whole quest is hopeless?????
Well, maybe I'll try the command
sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-310.19.run --kernel-source-/lib/modules/ or
sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-310.19.run --/lib/modules/kernel-source
to see if that works but how can it when there's no kernel-source file?? Will the real kernel please stand up!!! Otherwise, can someone clue me in to the proper syntax for what they're asking? Or whatever you think i should do.
edit - if i have to give up on installing the nvidia driver, it looks like i'll have to go back to this page
although i suspect those aren't designed for dual screen but there is some discussion of kernel-source.
Thanks again.
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Posts: 633
Location: Kamloops BC Canada
Posted: Sat 09 Mar 2013, 03:58
Post subject: Dual Monitor setup for desktop .....Don't delay, step on up!
Hi canbyte,
You are on the right track... Just to confirm, you do have the
package installed?
Yes, you also need the kernel source headers, so that the nVidia driver can build a module for the specific kernel of your Operating System. See the initial post by
for the Lucid Puppy 5.2.8 thread
over here
and you will find a link to download the kernel source package.
Also, I know it's quite a bit of heavy reading, but you should try to go through the material you referenced that nVidia wrote on installing the driver for your video card... For instance, I found this in
Chapter 8 Common Problems:
You can specify the location of the kernel source tree (or headers) when you install the NVIDIA driver using the --kernel-source-path command line option (see sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-310.19.run --advanced-options for details).
This may be very useful information for you. I think that once the nVidia installer can find everything it needs: linker, path to kernel source, etc. then the driver build and installation should go okay --knock on wood
Hope this helps,
is pronounced: "mun-see". Derived from my surname, it was my nickname throughout high school.
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Posts: 266
Location: Hamilton, Canada
Posted: Tue 12 Mar 2013, 00:22
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..... getting somewhere!
loaded kernel source sfs
loaded devx sfs (but didn't run)
ran in terminal the .run driver from nvidia
all seemed to go properly with no error messages.
but I only have one screen and never saw the nvidia control panel, so
looking above, I ran in terminal the /usr/bin/nvidia-xconfig file
got the following output:
Using X configuration file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf".
Backed up file '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' as '/etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup'
New X configuration file written to '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'
Script completed hit RETURN to close window.
but no nvidia control.
I wonder if this is the problem -
the left monitor is a small unit that can only display 1024 x 768
so it only shows an error message - 'cannot display this video mode'
the right unit is larger and probably using the next higher resolution
the xorg.conf file isn't listing the usual settings section so I can't change the settings manually.
I know the nvidia card works ok because it displays properly under Windows XP
So where are the settings? Or how to bring up the nvidia control panel? Shouldn't there be a menu item to click on?
edit - trying to add ' Option "Xinerama" "True"' to xorg.conf as outlined in chapt 13 of the nvidia manual. No luck, still the same result.
Thanks again.
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Location: Ontario Canada
Posted: Tue 12 Mar 2013, 01:04
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canbyte wrote:
So where are the settings? Or how to bring up the nvidia control panel? Shouldn't there be a menu item to click on?
enter nvidia-settings in the terminal.
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Location: Hamilton, Canada
Posted: Tue 12 Mar 2013, 19:56
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Thanks Billtoo. I should have thought of that. Unfortunately, it's getting stuck and giving the following message.
You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X driver. Please edit your X configuration file (just run `nvidia-xconfig` as root), and restart the X server.
After running the nvidia-xconfig file in terminal, I get the following message.
Using X configuration file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf".
VALIDATION ERROR: Data incomplete in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
At least one Device section is required.
Backed up file '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' as
Backed up file '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' as '/etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup'
New X configuration file written to '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'
Script completed hit RETURN to close window.
Not sure what to do since the korg.conf file doesn't have the settings section auto written as usual. So yes, there's no Device section or anything else. Am I supposed to just paste in something like on the previous page (post 30)? I went back to Monsie's pets on the previous page but no luck there either.
So near and yet so far!!
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Location: Hamilton, Canada
Posted: Tue 12 Mar 2013, 21:23
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Success at last - even if i don't quite understand why!!
All i did was to exit to prompt, run xorgwizard/ probe and set the display to a resolution that the smaller display would accept. Then restarted x (xwin) and it just started with the display across both screens. Since I'd been fooling around with some commands like Monsie suggested on previous page, who knows if that triggered anything!
Now, when I open /etc/x11/xorg.conf I see that all of a sudden, Puppy has written the normal details that make everything work.
For the record, here they are:
#everything past here is auto-generated by Puppy's Xorg Wizard...
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
#Screen 1 "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
Option "XkbLayout" "us" #xkeymap0
# Option "XkbLayout" "dvorak" #xkeymap0
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" #mouse0protocol
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
#Option "Emulate3Buttons"
#Option "Emulate3Timeout" "50"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" #scrollwheel
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
HorizSync 31.5-48.5
VertRefresh 40-70
#UseModes "Modes0" #monitor0usemodes
Option "PreferredMode" "1024x768"
Section "Modes"
Identifier "Modes0"
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor1"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nvidia" #card0driver
VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName "G98 [GeForce 8400 GS]"
BusID "PCI:6:0:0"
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "ColorKey" # <i>
#Option "CacheLines" # <i>
#Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>]
#Option "DRI" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoDDC" # [<bool>]
#Option "ShowCache" # [<bool>]
#Option "XvMCSurfaces" # <i>
#Option "PageFlip" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card1"
Driver "intel"
VendorName "Intel Corporation"
BoardName "82915G/GV/910GL Integrated Graphics Controller"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 16
#Option "metamodes" "1024x768_60 +0+0" #METAMODES_0
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768"
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Card1"
Monitor "Monitor1"
DefaultDepth 16
#Option "metamodes" "1024x768_60 +0+0" #METAMODES_1
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768"
There's lots i don't understand such as why it mentions the onboard intel graphics which is supposed to be disabled in favour of the nvidia card and why this is quite different than my other machine per post 30 on the previous page. Anyway it works so I'm a happy camper.
Recap: Getting the nvidia GE Force 8400 working
* Load kernel source sfs file
* Load devx sfs file per above
* Get the nvidia driver (for my card it was here
* Exit to prompt, change directory (cd or cd ..) to where nvidia driver is (dir to check)
Install/ run nvidia driver using command: sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-310.19.run
* If not working it may be that the resolution is set too high so
Exit to prompt, run xorgwizard, probe and select the lowest resolution that will allow all monitors to run.
* see the following regarding changing settings if needed
- hint: on my 528, 'exit to prompt' was not offered on the mouse generated menu but only on taskbar 'menu'/shutdown menu, if you know what i mean.
Q: Somewhere I lost the numlock setting - how do i restore it so it starts up 'ON'?
A: found it under
Setup/setup Puppy/ Personalize settings
This also found the nvidia button which led to the nvidia xServer Settings window that Billtoo showed
Which also confirms the 'twinview' mode that Monsie mentioned
It would be really nice for a dual screen setup to move the taskbar to the side instead of bottom since there's a lot of horizontal real estate to play with. Any takers?
Thanks for the loads of help on this.
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Posts: 633
Location: Kamloops BC Canada
Posted: Wed 13 Mar 2013, 05:24
Post subject: Dual Monitor setup for desktop .....Don't delay, step on up!
Hi canbyte,
Way to go.... Just to confirm, you did install the
Pet I put together and it is working okay?
It would be really nice for a dual screen setup to move the taskbar to the side instead of bottom since there's a lot of horizontal real estate to play with. Any takers?
I think you should pose this question in the
section of the forum. As far as I know
JWM configuration
allows the tray to be placed only (aka taskbar, panel) at the top or bottom of the screen. It might be possible to adjust the values for
so that the tray could be placed in a vertical position along the edge of the screen. There have been a few attempts at modifying tray management in JWM by various members. Have a look at
this thread here
because it looks like it might be what you are looking for. If not, there are links to other related projects at hand.
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Posts: 266
Location: Hamilton, Canada
Posted: Wed 13 Mar 2013, 09:21
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Hi Munsie. In order to answer your question, I'll have to visit a local hypnotist! I certainly gave your pet a try but can't recall without said trance whether I went to xorgwizard after a reboot or not (i doubt it though). That was yesterday - 36000 seconds ago! I gave up trying to remember what I did yesterday some years ago so I can't be sure if that pet overrode whatever else was there or is now being used. At the time, I just gave a mighty whoop, saved the _save file, hung a mental 'do not disturb' sign and left it all alone!
I'm in Windows now so I can't see what might be remaining in the directories but I'll edit that in later on (~ this evening). Probably I can also try to erase any extra directories I find and see if the setup stops working.
That also brings up the question of whether the devx and kernel-source files are still in there somewhere since I haven't loaded them since or put them in the auto loading thing (but I'll check that too). In theory any unneeded stuff should be cleaned out but not if it causes a crash and I don't yet see any good reason to bother.
Thanks for the link for the desktop rearrange - it's not a big deal but would be nice if not too hard. I'd also like to get the time/date thing to also spell out the day which is easy if the taskbar is widened to an inch or so.
Mo' later....
..... edit -
Monsie. I thought the best way to answer your question was to try to start fresh w/o using the _save file and reinstall everything while I still remembered what to do. Or at least that's what I thought. Well, nothing worked, not your pet, not the nvidia driver (though there were no error messages). And I checked the resolution was ok for the small monitor. So I'm not sure what's going on. I may have got thrown off by the sfs loader wanting to save something in /dev/sda1 so I wouldn't let it copy anything to ensure the hard drive remained untouched. Shouldn't have made any difference. During the original effort, I remember just accepting it without reading. It must have been ok since I don't see anything in sda1 that looks like it was put there by Puppy, so maybe I'll try again as time permits. I'll let you know if i have any success.
EDIT 2: OK, i ran through again from beginning, at first with no success but then found the secret to success. When the 2nd screen failed to start, i tried your pet, i tried running /usr/bin/nvidia-settings and nvidia-xconfig in terminal with no success. Checking the /etc/x11/xorg-config file I saw there was no auto written section. Also there is no Nvidia button on the personalize setup window. Then I tried exiting to prompt and running xorgwizard. Starting xwin brought the dual screen to life. I guess what is necessary is for your pet to force the write to the xorg-config file, instructing users to change to lowest resolution and anything else they might get confused on. Hmm, i see this instruction in my list above so i wonder if i plum forgot it yesterday (1st edit)!!! My wife says 'probably'!!!
Thanks again.
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Posted: Tue 18 Jun 2013, 06:47
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I just bought a new acer laptop i will give a try to dual screen the laptop with my iiyama 26"...
Precise , Tahr
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Posted: Fri 30 Aug 2013, 10:10
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hi guys.
Can anyone offer any advice why this combo is just not working.
I am using Radeon R9800 pro dual head
VGA is connected to LG monitor 390 x 330
DVI is connected via adaptor to Viewsonic 300x230
I have followed god knows how many threads over the last 2 days and I am here.
By the way the OS is Lucid 5.28
I have figured out that the larger screen works fine and that the smaller Viewsonic when plugged up on DVI goes as far as Xorg, then it all goes wrong.
I get no signal.
Here is my modified Xorg.conf.
#Special base config file used in Puppy Linux.
# **********************************************************************
# Module section -- this section is used to specify
# which dynamically loadable modules to load.
# **********************************************************************
Section "Module"
# This loads the DBE extension module.
Load "dbe" # Double buffer extension
# This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables
# initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module.
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension
# This loads the font modules
# Load "type1"
# Load "freetype"
# This loads xtrap extension, used by xrandr
# Load "xtrap"
# This loads the GLX module (if present). xorg 7.4/5 need explicit disable to disable...
Load "glx" #LOADGLX
# This loads dri module (if present). 7.4 loads it by default, have to disable...
Load "dri" #LOADDRI
# Disable "dri"
# **********************************************************************
# Files section. This allows default font paths to be set
# **********************************************************************
Section "Files"
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (which are concatenated together),
# as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath
# command (or a combination of both methods)
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/TTF/"
# **********************************************************************
# Server flags section.
# **********************************************************************
Section "ServerFlags"
# Uncomment this to disable the <Crtl><Alt><Fn> VT switch sequence
# (where n is 1 through 12). This allows clients to receive these key
# events.
# Option "DontVTSwitch"
# Enables mode switching with xrandr
# There is a report that this can cause Xorg not to work on some
# video hardware, so default is commented-out...
# but i want to use it in xorgwizard so leave on...
Option "RandR" "on"
# With this, Xorg won't talk to HAL to add evdev devices and you'll be back
# with the old Xorg behavior (pre-7.4)...
Option "AutoAddDevices" "false"
# For no-Hal, kirk also suggests this...
# Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"
# Xorg 7.4, Ubuntu Jaunty, CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE is disabled by default...
Option "DontZap" "false"
#everything past here is auto-generated by Puppy's Xorg Wizard...
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Xinerama Screen"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb" #xkeymap0
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" #mouse0protocol
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
#Option "Emulate3Buttons"
#Option "Emulate3Timeout" "50"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" #scrollwheel
Section "Monitor"
#DisplaySize 380 300 # mm
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "GSM"
ModelName ""
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 30.0-83.0
VertRefresh 56.0-71.0
#UseModes "Modes0" #monitor0usemodes
Option "PreferredMode" "1280x1024"
Section "Modes"
Identifier "Modes0"
Section "Monitor"
#DisplaySize 300 230 # mm
Identifier "Monitor1"
VendorName "viewsonic"
ModelName ""
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 30.0-60.0
VertRefresh 50.0-85.0
#UseModes "Modes0" #monitor0usemodes
Option "PreferredMode" "1024x768"
Option "LeftOf""Monitor0"
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>]
#Option "Dac8Bit" # [<bool>]
#Option "BusType" # [<str>]
#Option "CPPIOMode" # [<bool>]
#Option "CPusecTimeout" # <i>
#Option "AGPMode" # <i>
#Option "AGPFastWrite" # [<bool>]
#Option "AGPSize" # <i>
#Option "GARTSize" # <i>
#Option "RingSize" # <i>
#Option "BufferSize" # <i>
#Option "EnableDepthMoves" # [<bool>]
#Option "EnablePageFlip" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoBackBuffer" # [<bool>]
#Option "DMAForXv" # [<bool>]
#Option "FBTexPercent" # <i>
#Option "DepthBits" # <i>
#Option "PCIAPERSize" # <i>
#Option "AccelDFS" # [<bool>]
#Option "IgnoreEDID" # [<bool>]
#Option "CustomEDID" # [<str>]
#Option "DisplayPriority" # [<str>]
#Option "PanelSize" # [<str>]
#Option "ForceMinDotClock" # <freq>
#Option "ColorTiling" # [<bool>]
#Option "VideoKey" # <i>
#Option "RageTheatreCrystal" # <i>
#Option "RageTheatreTunerPort" # <i>
#Option "RageTheatreCompositePort" # <i>
#Option "RageTheatreSVideoPort" # <i>
#Option "TunerType" # <i>
#Option "RageTheatreMicrocPath" # <str>
#Option "RageTheatreMicrocType" # <str>
#Option "ScalerWidth" # <i>
#Option "RenderAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "SubPixelOrder" # [<str>]
#Option "ShowCache" # [<bool>]
#Option "ClockGating" # [<bool>]
#Option "VGAAccess" # [<bool>]
#Option "ReverseDDC" # [<bool>]
#Option "LVDSProbePLL" # [<bool>]
#Option "AccelMethod" # <str>
#Option "DRI" # [<bool>]
#Option "ConnectorTable" # <str>
#Option "DefaultConnectorTable" # [<bool>]
#Option "DefaultTMDSPLL" # [<bool>]
#Option "TVDACLoadDetect" # [<bool>]
#Option "ForceTVOut" # [<bool>]
#Option "TVStandard" # <str>
#Option "IgnoreLidStatus" # [<bool>]
#Option "DefaultTVDACAdj" # [<bool>]
#Option "Int10" # [<bool>]
#Option "EXAVSync" # [<bool>]
#Option "ATOMTVOut" # [<bool>]
#Option "R4xxATOM" # [<bool>]
#Option "ForceLowPowerMode" # [<bool>]
#Option "DynamicPM" # [<bool>]
#Option "NewPLL" # [<bool>]
#Option "ZaphodHeads" # <str>
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "radeon" #card0driver
Option "Monitor-VGA-0" "Monitor0"
Option "Monitor-DVI-0" "Monitor1"
VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
BoardName "Radeon R350 [Radeon 9800 Pro]"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
Monitor "Monitor1"
DefaultDepth 24
#Option "metamodes" "1280x1024_60 +0+0" #METAMODES_0
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768"
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Posted: Sat 31 Aug 2013, 05:41
Post subject: Dual Monitor setup for desktop .....Don't delay, step on up!
The solution is posted by
on page 3 of this thread. You could just copy and paste his
into a new file, then modify the
, and
sections to match your hardware.... Given that suggestion is a bit tedious, and doesn't explain much, I will pinpoint some recommended changes for you to make in your current
file. You should also look at the
file posted by
anyway for better understanding of the changes I refer to...
In the
Section "ServerLayout"
, you
to add this line:
Option "Xinerama" "True"
You could actually just copy and paste that whole section into your file. This option actually turns on dual monitor support for ATI card driven displays only (nVidia cards use the "Twinview" syntax)... and after Xserver has identified there is a dual monitor configuration available --very important.
In the
Section "Monitor"
pertaining to your Viewsonic model, change this line:
Option "LeftOf""Monitor0"
to read instead:
Option "RightOf" "Monitor0"
and note the space between
This is an important change too. Since you are using a DVI connection for your Viewsonic monitor, in the same Section just above the line I asked you to modify, you can also add in this line :
Option "Display" "DFP"
This stands for
Digital Flat Panel
and as an option is only recognized when your monitor uses the DVI connection. So, for example if your monitor has dual connections: (DVI and Analog) and you used the Analog connection instead, then the DFP option is not recognized and Xserver will log an error. Anyway, I don't think this last Option is absolutely necessary, but it can't hurt... and I see your monitor is listed as DVI in
Section "Device"
From what I can tell at this point, that should do it...
Post back to confirm if you've managed to get your dual monitor setup working or not. If not, I may have some other ideas, but I will leave that for now...
Hope this helps,
is pronounced: "mun-see". Derived from my surname, it was my nickname throughout high school.
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Posted: Sat 31 Aug 2013, 05:54
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Hi Thanks for the help.. But its not good news
I changed those lines as you suggested and added the other.
It remains the same.
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Posted: Sat 31 Aug 2013, 05:58
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by the way, I have 14 different Xorg.conf bak type files all ending with assorted extensions, obviously only the one real Xorg.conf..
Would it be wise to remove those and just leave the Xorg.conf only, and do you want to see a copy of it now (with your suggestions added in)
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Posted: Sat 31 Aug 2013, 06:18
Post subject: Dual Monitor setup for desktop .....Don't delay, step on up!
wirwav wrote:
Hi Thanks for the help.. But its not good news
I changed those lines as you suggested and added the other.
It remains the same.
Did you remember to restart Xserver after making those changes?
You can leave the multiple backup copies of xorg.conf as is... it won't matter in terms of whether you can get the desired X configuration or not.
Beyond that,
/var/log directory and post your copy of Xorg.0.log file. You will need to archive it and add it as an attachment to your post. I will look at it to see if I can help you further. However at the moment, it's 3:30 AM for me, so I am signing off for now...
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Hi, sorry for delay, got tied up on phone. went back to th other post on page 3 and read, re-read, and re-read again.
Found a couple of extremely subtle things which were different, so I changed them.
Hey it working..
I changed colour depth to 16 from 24.
And I commented out the line
Option "Display" "DFP" in the Section "monitor" (relating to the smaller screen"
So that and your suggestions and it works fine.
Only, I get both screens the same, I wanted to have 1 program running on one display and another on the other display.
So I guess Xinerama is not the right mode for that.!!
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Claire Zingarelli of Montgomery, NY passed peacefully into the Lord's hands on Monday evening, February 25, 2013 with her son Dennis and daughter-in-law, Carolann at her side.
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Saint Laurent by Hedi Slimane Embellished Leather Boots ($8,000)
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Glue approximately ten studs to the toe of each boot. We used Lucky Brand's Nolan Boots ($129).
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I have an Edward Bawden bapt 1751(my 4x great grandfather) married to Mary Walters, I know these are my ancestors. Working backwards I get confused as I thought Edward's parents were Edward Bawden and Jane Harvey and they had 4 children Catherine bapt 1750, Edward bapt 1751, Jane bapt 1752 and Cordelia bapt 1755. Through the research I found these people in a lot of other peoples research but some have 3 children and some have 4, then some of the bapt dates are different. Also they have different parents for Edward bapt 1751. I thought maybe his parents were Edward Bawden and Cordelia Davyes as there being a child named Cordelia. Maybe there are people on here who could possibly help clear these records for me.
I have a Thomas Bawden b1836 and bapt in Breage. His parents were John Bawden and Elizabeth Williams. He is living with his parents in the 1841 census at Perran Downs, Perranuthnoe. I cannot find him in the census past 1841. I think he may have died between those years but I'm having a problem finding a death for him. There are a few Thomas's in the census but I really don't think any of them are him.
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Khalid the Jihadi
"...After Khalid spent a week in prison (in the UK) they let him out, just like they always did. They didn't have enough evidence to keep him. When he was released, his next-door neighbors, mostly white Britons, were there to welcome him home. "I might doubt my own son," one old man said, "but I'll always believe Khalid." Most of the Yemenis and other Muslims who had been Khalid's friends had deserted him when he was arrested, fearing for their own safety. When he saw his British neighbors standing by him, Khalid couldn't help bawling..."
The Insurgent's Tale
A veteran foot soldier reveals his role in the jihad -- and why he's having second thoughts about a holy war that seems to have no endBy TOM DOWNEY
After the attacks, however, Khalid and the other fighters were confined to safe houses in Mosul and Haditha -- dark, dank places with no hot water or electricity. The biggest problem was the Iraqis, the very people he was there to help. Sometimes it seemed as though there were double agents everywhere, checking him out on the street, trying to overhear him speaking the Yemeni dialect that would betray him as a foreigner, all so they could pick up their cell phones and call in the Americans, maybe even collect a reward. That made this jihad more dangerous and unpredictable than the other wars Khalid had fought in -- Afghanistan, Bosnia, Somalia, places where they were often treated like heroes. When they weren't out on missions in Iraq, he and the Saudis were forced to stay in the safe house, the shades pulled down, with only a well-thumbed copy of the Koran and five prayer sessions a day to break the monotony.
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was a pillar of strength to the insurgents. Khalid knew him from a decade and a half ago, when they were fighting the Soviets and their proxies in Afghanistan. But now, meeting al-Zarqawi in Mosul, he was amazed at the changes in his old comrade. Back then al-Zarqawi was an ordinary foot soldier like Khalid. Now, flanked by two bodyguards and barking orders with fiery determination, he was the most wanted man in Iraq, an Islamic militant with a $25 million price on his head. He had been hailed by Sheik Osama bin Laden himself as "the prince of Al Qaeda in Iraq," but al-Zarqawi still had time for a word with someone from the old days. He and Khalid chatted for a few minutes, recalling their time together in Afghanistan, before al-Zarqawi rushed off to make arrangements with an ally in Kurdistan to try to send some insurgents off to Iraq's northern mountains to fight.
That was more than two years ago, when the insurgency had been looking for fighters like Khalid, veteran soldiers who could be relied on to attack foreign troops with skill and precision. Now, back in Yemen, Khalid heard that they were looking for suicide bombers only. He would watch kids he knew signing up to go to Iraq, unaware that they were being recruited to kill themselves. It made Khalid glad he wasn't in Iraq anymore. Not that he had anything against that kind of mission -- it was a noble calling -- but he thought that a person willing to fight and die should know what he was meant to do before he left home.
At thirty-two, Khalid was beginning to have serious reservations about the course of the insurgency in Iraq. They are overkilling there. Fighting foreign soldiers was one thing -- he had been doing it all of his adult life. But did his faith really sanction killing civilians in their own country? The blood of people is too cheap. Fifteen years in the jihad, fighting in five foreign wars, imprisoned in England and Yemen, enduring the death of a close friend on a mission in Iraq -- enough. The cost was just too high. Although he was proud of all the fighting he had done in the past, Khalid wanted to settle down to an ordinary life as a father, husband and son. He was a soldier fighting a war. But what if the war had no end?
Khalid, who agreed to recount the story of his jihad on the condition that his identity not be revealed, is a Yemeni from the ancient city of Sanaa in northern Yemen. The country is one of the most lawless and drug-addicted places in the world. Despite a recent government crackdown, hand grenades are laid out alongside fresh produce at street-side markets, and sources estimate that there are at least 10 million guns in circulation in a country with a population of 20 million.
Social life revolves around qat, a leafy, reddish-green plant that contains amphetamine-like substances. Eighty percent of adult men in Yemen chew regularly, and important political and business decisions are routinely made in the mafraj, a room in many homes specially designed for chewing sessions. The leaf combines the talkative affability of pot with the drive of speed. First comes euphoria and intense sociability -- not ponderous, marijuana-induced ramblings, but a deep appreciation of the flow of conversation. In this stage, five hours can pass in what seems like ten minutes. Next comes reflective quiet -- a comfortable silence descends as people look inward, contemplating the contents of their minds. The final stage is depression and insomnia -- it's not uncommon to see solitary cloaked figures roaming the streets at night, waiting for the effects of the drug to pass. On average, Yemeni men spend about a third of their income on qat, and commerce in the leaf accounts for a third of the nation's GNP.
I met Khalid at a qat chew in the mafraj of a friend. The room was hot and stuffy, the way chewers like it, and each man in the room was identically posed: left knee up and right arm resting on a cushion. Cold bottles of "Canada" -- the Yemeni term for water, based on the market dominance of Canada Dry -- were distributed all around. The room was clean, but people were already beginning to litter the floor with leaves or stalks too thick or firm to chew. After a few hours, the middle of the room would be blanketed with a thick green carpet of discarded qat.
Qat sessions usually begin with a raucous flow of conversation. But Khalid was quiet, smiling at jokes, carefully pruning his stalks, venturing little. When he finally spoke, he told me that he had just been let out of a Yemeni prison. I asked him why.
"I was arrested as a terrorist," he told me in English, with a trace of a working-class British accent.
Late one night, he went on, an undercover anti-terrorism squad had dragged him away from his family's home in a comfortable, middle-class neighborhood of Sanaa. He was locked up and questioned repeatedly by Yemeni police in the presence of American agents. To curry favor with the Bush administration, Yemen's president, Ali Abdullah Salih, has arrested hundreds of suspected terrorists, imprisoning almost everyone who returns to Yemen with a Syrian or Iranian stamp in their passport -- prima facie evidence that they fought in Iraq. Khalid was released after thirty days when a family friend posted a large bond to ensure that he would stay out of trouble.
At this point, a friend at the qat chew hissed at Khalid in Arabic: "Why are you telling him this? Don't talk about these things."
"I have nothing to hide," Khalid told him. He then proceeded to recount the extraordinary story of his fifteen years fighting as a foot soldier in the jihad. Although it is impossible to independently corroborate every detail of his tale, other Yemenis confirmed Khalid's long, frequent absences from Yemen, his presence at training camps in Afghanistan and his imprisonment in Yemen by the anti-terrorism police. His passport contains entry stamps to Syria that match the dates he said he had gone to Iraq, and the account he gave of his arrest in England mirrors one reported by police in the U.K. around the same time. Moreover, the details Khalid gave of fighting in relatively obscure battles in Bosnia, Somalia and Afghanistan match events that actually took place. In the broad strokes of his story, at least, he appears to be telling the truth.
Khalid is not an ultraorthodox, unbending Muslim. Although he meets to chew qat wearing his Yemeni dress cut midcalf, in the style of an Islamic purist, he also wears button-down shirts and European hiking boots. He has lived in England for years and has befriended Westerners. Slight and handsome, he has the quiet charisma and modesty of the guy who is elected class president based on his low-key appeal. In short, he is not the kind of enemy we have been led to believe we are fighting. He harbors some of the same doubts that our own soldiers have about what brought them to fight and, perhaps, to die, in a place so far from home. To hear a polite and thoughtful man talk casually about his friends in Al Qaeda is to have the whole enterprise reduced to a more fragile, human scale. It is to see this war for what it is: a battle between men filled with contradictions, inconsistencies and weaknesses -- not a mythic struggle between our supermen and their ghosts.
Khalid's jihad began with a videotape he viewed at a mosque in Sanaa in 1989. He can still remember the anger he felt when, at the age of sixteen, he watched that footage of Muslim brothers and sisters being slaughtered in Afghanistan. A friend of his had died fighting there -- a martyr promised the rewards of paradise. Khalid didn't think much about his own decision to follow his friend into battle; it was the natural, instinctive thing to do. He had seen what the Russians were doing to the brothers, as Khalid calls his fellow soldiers in the holy war. His best friend had stood up to them and died. Now it was his turn.
Yemen is pious and militant, and it has supplied many thousands of the young men who have filled the front lines of jihad, fighting for their faith from Afghanistan to Iraq. The country is the ancestral home of bin Laden, whose father was a one-eyed Yemeni dockworker, and among the few people successfully prosecuted by the Bush administration on terrorism charges were the "Lackawanna Six," Yemeni Americans from Buffalo, New York, convicted of attending an Al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan, and Sheik al-Moayad, a cleric from Sanaa convicted of conspiring to support terrorism.
There was nothing in Khalid's childhood to suggest that he would wind up joining the jihad. His father was a moderate Muslim with a steady job as a civil servant in the Yemeni government. Khalid worried that he wouldn't be able to get a passport or leave the country without his father's permission. But the recruiters for the Afghan war were acting with the support of the Yemeni government, and within a few weeks, whether or not his father liked it, Khalid had a brand-new passport stamped with a visa for Pakistan.
The final hitch was that a close relative of Khalid's worked at the Sanaa Airport. Khalid feared that an airport clerk might recognize him and alert his family. The recruiters got around that by driving him directly onto the tarmac. Khalid climbed aboard the plane to Pakistan without even passing through immigration.
The reality of jihad, Khalid quickly discovered, was very different from the images presented on the videotape. When he finally made it into Afghanistan, he spent his first night near the front. That evening, a soldier who had been killed was brought back for burial by the mujahideen. Khalid didn't know the man, but seeing his body terrified him. "I'm scared," he told a friend. "I just want to go home."
"Everybody feels like that at first," his friend said. "But soon you won't be scared."
Khalid fought in Afghanistan for two years. He learned to use his weapon, to fight, and to pray with the precision and punctuality of the Salafis, the Islamic purists who were driving the holy war. It was a harder, less forgiving kind of Islam than he had known in Yemen, but its rigidity gave him the strength and discipline he needed to survive as a homesick kid at war in a foreign land. He had arrived in Afghanistan at a pivotal moment. The war against the Soviets was giving birth to a new breed of Arab fighters known as "Afghan Arabs." It was there that the seed of allegiance was planted for the thousands of young men who had flocked to the mountains of the Hindukush to help fight the communists. Afghanistan represented the birth of the global struggle. By helping defeat a superpower, the jihadists showed the world the power of Islam. And in the decade that followed, they would spread that war to the rest of the world.
In 1993, after Khalid had returned home from Afghanistan, he began to hear about a war in Europe where Christians were slaughtering Muslims. Stirred by the stories, he went to join the fighting in Bosnia. Again, as in Afghanistan, he was on the side the world viewed as the good guys -- the Bosnian Muslims who were the victims of relentless "ethnic cleansing" at the hands of the Serbian nationalists led by Slobodan Milosevic. The combat was much more intense than the action he had seen in Afghanistan, where the Soviets used superior firepower to bomb them from a distance. In Bosnia, the enemy was right in front of you, and you had to kill or be killed each day. Khalid fought alongside a group called the Green Berets, named not after the American Special Forces but after the color of Islam.
One day, after a year at war in Bosnia, Khalid was on the front line between Tuzla and Zenica, battling Serbian snipers who were shooting into Muslim villages from a nearby mountain. Suddenly, he came face to face with a Serb. The Serb got the jump, firing seven bullets into Khalid's stomach. Bundled up in heavy winter clothing, Khalid at first couldn't even tell how badly he was hit. When he started to peel off the layers around his stomach, part of his guts leaked out into his hands. He stuffed whatever he could back in and lay down on the ground. When a Saudi brother managed to drag Khalid beyond the reach of the Serb snipers, it took three injections of morphine to quiet his screaming. "You must be a heavy drinker," said the medic from Bahrain who administered the shots.
"No," Khalid said. "I chew qat." The medic, who had never heard of the plant, thought Khalid was hallucinating.
It took hours to carry Khalid down the mine-covered trail. When he finally arrived at a triage area at the base of the mountain, he was put with a group of those too far gone to save and left to die.
Soon after, the medic who had given Khalid the morphine arrived and began searching for his patient. He found Khalid lying among the rows of the dead and ordered a Bosnian army helicopter to speed Khalid to a hospital, where he woke up in pre-op. For six months he lived off an IV tube, his intestines hanging outside his body in a sterilized bag. He shrank to skin and bones -- under seventy-five pounds -- until he looked like "an African famine victim." The hunger was so intense, he would claw at his own stomach.
On his way to Saudi Arabia for further surgery, Khalid stopped home in Yemen. When he arrived at the airport in a wheelchair, his father slapped him across the face. "This is all your doing -- tell Sheik Zindani to help you now," he said, referring to a firebrand cleric who had urged Khalid to go to Bosnia. But Khalid received a warmer welcome in Saudi Arabia, where people from all over the country visited him in the hospital, leaving gifts of flowers, perfume and money for a man they considered a hero.
It took Khalid several years to recover from his wounds. In 1996, he joined a group of Arab fighters going to Kosovo, where Christian Serbs were once again menacing a Muslim minority. By the time he arrived, however, the Serbs had already sealed off the country, making it impossible for him to enter. Unable to join the jihad, Khalid decided to move to England, where many of the brothers had settled.
England is the home of one of the largest concentrations of Yemenis in the world; parts of Yemen were long ruled by the British, and thousands of Khalid's countrymen have settled there. When Khalid arrived, he went to see a Palestinian cleric he knew, who helped connect him to the Yemeni community. Khalid settled down to work at a corner store, chewing qat all day while manning the register. The leaf is legal in England, and Khalid's store stocked and sold qat to Yemenis in the neighborhood.
Khalid was twenty-three. For the past seven years, he had been fighting in battles all over the world. He had never been on a date, never kissed a girl, never really talked to a female who wasn't a close relation. So he did what many a lonely guy does when he's stuck in a city he doesn't know very well: He fell for the waitress at the coffee shop.
She was of Irish descent, and she smiled every time she brought him his coffee. Khalid went to a Yemeni friend and explained his quandary: He was in love, but he didn't know what to say.
"No problem," the friend told him. "I'll ask her out for you."
The waitress was receptive but confused. "I like him," she told the friend. "But why doesn't he just talk to me himself?"
Things were rocky from the start. On the first date, she wanted to go to a disco, but Khalid refused. Outside a restaurant, he grew angry when a passing man looked at her. "What are you going to do if I walk on the street with you?" she asked. "Fight everybody in the city?"
A couple of dates later came the gifts: three bottles of pricey perfume and a ring -- the ring. He could barely get the words out in English: "I want to marry you." "Marry me?" She was surprised, amused even. "What's my name?"
"It's hard for me to remember it," he stuttered.
He gave her a week to decide. His gallantry must have won her over, because they were married within a month.
Right after that, the misery began. Khalid tried to control her and force her to wear the hijab, the head scarf worn by devout Muslim women. Their arguments were so loud that neighbors knocked on the door and banged on the walls. He realized the way he treated her was wrong, but he didn't know any other way. They separated, and Khalid got a British passport out of the marriage.
Khalid returned to the only life he knew. This time, his destination was Somalia, where a radical Muslim faction was attempting to impose strict Islamic law, known as sharia, on the entire country. Posing as a Red Crescent worker, Khalid bribed a pilot to fly him from Nairobi to the Somali town of Luuq, where he delivered $40,000 in cash to a Somali warlord allied with the Islamic faction. The money was from Arab backers, mostly Saudis, who were using their disposable income to influence the many conflicts that plagued Africa and the Middle East. Their cash not only advanced the cause of Islam -- it also bought allies who might help the struggle in the future.
There were forty Arab fighters in Luuq helping to fight the Ethiopian army, which regularly attacked from across the border. The longer Khalid stayed, the more dire conditions grew. At times the insurgents survived only by eating pure sugar. The brothers eventually organized a counterattack and retook the city. Khalid fought for two days straight, until he and his men ran out of ammunition. Reduced to throwing stones, most of the Arab and Somali fighters were killed. At one point the few remaining survivors were so desperate, they started to dig their own graves.
Khalid escaped, badly shaken but alive, with neither the money nor the means to get home. What do you do when you're on jihad, all the money's run out and you just want to leave? For Khalid and his remaining men, their only chance was to try and get a piece of the forty grand that Khalid had already delivered to the warlord.
"I can't help you," the Somali leader told him. "We need all that money for our fight."
Khalid wasn't a high-school debater; he was a holy warrior, so he did what came naturally: He put a loaded gun to the man's head. "I'll kill you or you'll help us get out of here," he said. "We brought you $40,000. Now you need to help us." The warlord was convinced. Khalid and his fellow insurgents eventually escaped to Yemen by crossing the Gulf of Aden on a dhow packed with goats.
When Khalid finally arrived home, his father was furious. "What the hell happened to you?" he demanded. "Where did you come from?" To calm him down, Khalid promised to stop fighting and start a normal life. But whenever the call came, he answered. In 1999, Khalid traveled to Tbilisi, in Georgia, and tried to get into Chechnya, where the Russian army was slaughtering Muslims. But many mujahideen, he learned, had died trying to walk across the mountains to Chechnya. Khalid was willing to die fighting for his cause, a gun in his hand, but freezing to death on a mountaintop was no way for a soldier to give up his life. He headed back to England, returning to his job as a clerk at the corner store, chewing qat to keep himself alert, always on the lookout for the next opportunity.
In 2001, he got a call from Afghanistan. The brothers wanted him there.
When Khalid arrived in Afghanistan early that year, the Taliban had unified most of the country under the strict banner of sharia law. The ragtag bands of foreign jihadists who had fought the communists were gone. In their place was a sophisticated network of training camps run by Al Qaeda. This was a new age of jihad, a well-organized, well-financed struggle led by Osama bin Laden. Jihad, Khalid discovered, had been institutionalized.
At first, Khalid ran a sort of hostel in Mashhad, deep in the rugged Iranian frontier. The 600-mile-long border between Iran and Afghanistan is difficult to police because of its steep mountains and many trails, and Al Qaeda was taking advantage of the covert passageways, sheltering jihadists at Khalid's hostel before sending them over the mountains into Afghanistan.
That summer, on a trip into Afghanistan, Khalid met bin Laden at the leader's camp near Kandahar. They talked about the course of jihad and the situation in Yemen, a country for which bin Laden had a special fondness -- his father and one of his wives were born there, and Yemen had always supplied some of the best and bravest mujahideen, men bin Laden relied on as his most trusted fighters and bodyguards. Khalid thought jihad should be extended to Yemen, but bin Laden disagreed, saying it would stretch his forces too thin. "There is no justice in Yemen," he told Khalid, "but we can't fight there now."
By the summer of 2001, there was a palpable feeling in the camps that something big was about to happen. Around that time, Khalid ran into an old friend from his days in Bosnia: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a Pakistani who had risen to prominence as an operational chief of Al Qaeda. Mohammed asked Khalid to volunteer for a mission to the United States or Europe -- his British passport would enable him to slip in and out of a Western country. But Khalid refused. He was willing to fight foreign soldiers invading Arab lands, but he wasn't ready to take the war to America or Europe.
On September 11th, Khalid was near Kabul when a Libyan cleric announced that the World Trade Center had been destroyed. Everyone in the camp exploded in jubilation -- the mood was exhilarating, insane, like Mecca at the height of the hajj. As Khalid remembers it, it was the moment when everything changed. The mujahideen had struck a blow against the West that would never be forgotten. And in the process, they had made themselves the target of the world's only remaining superpower.
When the United States invaded Afghanistan, Khalid saw his most intense fighting in and around Khost. Even with help from a local sheik, the foreign fighters couldn't do much against the American onslaught. One night, Khalid was sleeping in a car near Khost with three other fighters. When he woke up and walked away to relieve himself, the car was blown to bits. Khalid later helped to bury a body he believed to be the wife of Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden's second in command. The woman had been killed in a school where many Al Qaeda families had sought shelter from the American bombings.
After a few weeks, as the relentless bombing continued, a message arrived from bin Laden: Any mujahideen who could still travel should return to their home countries. There was no point in dying in Afghanistan. "There was no way to fight a decent war there with the Americans," Khalid recalled. "We hardly ever saw a soldier to fire at." Though the Bush administration believed it had routed the Islamic forces, the mujahideen, in fact, had beat a strategic retreat. American commanders, reluctant to expose ground troops to danger, had relied on a strategy of bombing from above that allowed many Al Qaeda members to slip away, ready and willing to fight again another day.
In late 2001, Sheikh Mohammed, the Al Qaeda operational chief, ordered Khalid to guide a group of fifty women and children to safety in Iran, over the same mountains he had crossed to enter Afghanistan. "You know the route," Mohammed said. "Take some families with you." He gave Khalid thousands of dollars to pay for Afghan guides and to take care of the Iranian border guards.
The journey to Iran took two weeks. They trekked across high mountains -- a string of women and children wandering through a remote corner of the world, eating dates, plants and whatever animals they could kill along the way. When they reached Iran, pro-Taliban allies were waiting to shuttle them to safety. For weeks after the trip, Khalid's shoulders ached from carrying so many children on his back.
In the years before September 11th, Khalid and his fellow mujahideen could move around the world with relative ease -- creating fake passports, bribing border police, claiming that they were Iraqi dissidents fleeing the tyranny of Saddam Hussein. Immigration officials were a nuisance, but there was always a way around them. Now, returning to England from Afghanistan in 2002, Khalid discovered that even a real British passport couldn't protect him from scrutiny. When he changed planes in Abu Dhabi, the police stopped him, suspecting that his passport was fake. A well-dressed supervisor came out to question him. "What's Marks and Spencer?" the man asked.
"A big British department store," Khalid said. "Look, I'm a British citizen, from Yemen. I'm Shiite. Why would I want to go and help the Taliban? They hate Shiites. I was on a pilgrimage to holy places in Iran." After a few hours they let him go, and he boarded a plane to London.
At Heathrow, he was detained again. British officials asked for his luggage and he told them he had only hand baggage. Strike one. They examined his ticket: one-way from Tehran. Strike two. As he sat on a hard bench in a glass-paneled interrogation room, deathly afraid, he could see officials leafing through his passport in the next room. They kept coming back to one page -- a page that had been doctored in Afghanistan to remove a Pakistani visa. He claimed he had accidentally left it in his pants and then ironed them, but they didn't buy it. Strike three. At midnight the agents handcuffed him, shoved him in the back seat of an unmarked car and took him to a maximum-security detention facility.
They questioned him for five days. As the interrogation continued, however, Khalid came to see that he was safer in England, protected by the country's due-process laws, than many of his brothers detained by the Americans in Afghanistan. Realizing that the police had nothing on him, he denied everything. They finally let him go, unable to hold him without further evidence.
The incident communicated something important to Khalid: The jihadi's life had changed after 9/11. Not long ago he could travel all over the world with impunity; now they were hassling him at Heathrow just because he was flying in from Tehran on a one-way ticket with a piece of hand luggage.
Khalid lived quietly in England for a year and a half, working at the corner shop and praying at a local mosque. Around that time, he befriended a fellow Yemeni who would come to share his passion for jihad: Wa'il al Dhaleai, who was well known in England as a leading tae kwon do instructor and Olympic hopeful.
In 2003, when the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was clear to Khalid where he would next do battle. Getting into Iraq from Syria was no more difficult than dressing up like a farmer and walking across the border with phony papers in the middle of the night. But the fighting was a different story. In the early stages of the war, there weren't many foreign fighters like Khalid in Iraq; the bulk of the insurgency was comprised of native-born Sunnis who simply wanted to drive the Americans from their country. They welcomed the foreigners -- they weren't in a position to be choosy -- but they weren't interested in jihad's broader goal of imposing Islamic law on Iraq.
Khalid quickly discovered that it was impossible to blend in -- Iraqis tend to be bigger than Yemenis, and their body language and dialect are hard to imitate. Shiites were especially quick to report foreign Sunnis to the authorities. Khalid and his Arab brothers had the same problem as the American forces they were fighting: They didn't know which Iraqis they could trust.
Most of the foreign fighters in Iraq were very young. At thirty-two, Khalid felt like an old man. Stuck in their safe houses, the mujahideen had to rely on Iraqi insurgents to report on the movement of American convoys, scouting for an opening that would allow them to attack. Months after President Bush declared "mission accomplished" in Iraq, Khalid was ambushing U.S. forces in the northern city of Mosul. Around the same time, Saddam Hussein's sons died in a fierce gun battle there. That October, Khalid's friend Wa'il also died, fighting the Americans in the town of Ramadi.
After three months in Iraq, Khalid returned to England through Syria. But jihad seemed to shadow him everywhere. One evening, after returning home from work, Khalid heard a helicopter overhead. Seconds later the police kicked in the door, handcuffed him and arrested him on suspicion of terrorism. People on his block couldn't believe that the friendly guy who sat behind the counter at their corner store was an Al Qaeda fighter.
The agents interrogated Khalid about his past. They knew he'd been in Syria. Business, he explained. They knew he'd been detained in 2002 after returning to England from Iran. Shiite pilgrimage. I've never been in Afghanistan. I don't want to go. They knew there were Yemeni fighters being held in Guantanamo who said Khalid had recruited them to train in Afghanistan. Liars. They knew he had spoken on his cell phone to Wa'il, shortly before his friend had died in Iraq. Just a chat.
After Khalid spent a week in prison they let him out, just like they always did. They didn't have enough evidence to keep him. When he was released, his next-door neighbors, mostly white Britons, were there to welcome him home. "I might doubt my own son," one old man said, "but I'll always believe Khalid." Most of the Yemenis and other Muslims who had been Khalid's friends had deserted him when he was arrested, fearing for their own safety. When he saw his British neighbors standing by him, Khalid couldn't help bawling.
After the arrest, Khalid returned to Iraq for two more months in 2004, in part to honor the memory of Wa'il. Living in safe houses, he once again went out on raids against the Americans. The heaviest fighting he saw was in Al Qa'im, where thirty Arabs and more than a hundred Iraqis fought for a week against the Americans. Khalid saw seven brothers killed, mostly from Syria and Saudi Arabia. He believed the insurgents killed about ten soldiers from the other side.
By this time, however, the nature of the insurgency had changed. Al-Zarqawi had succeeded, for the moment, in taking over the homegrown resistance. Many of Saddam's former secret police and Republican Guard were now integrated into cells with jihadists like Khalid. The leadership of Al Qaeda had financial resources and strategic expertise that the Iraqis lacked, and the foreign fighters were more willing to die than the local Sunnis -- and more willing to kill civilians.
Disturbed by the killings, Khalid began to rethink the role of jihad in his life. Would his faith really justify killing his British neighbors in their own country? Would he ever be able to live a normal life? Hearing about Yemenis he knew who had disappeared into the gulag at Guantanamo, he feared he could end up in prison for life, a fate he considered worse than death.
The doubts intensified after he returned home to Yemen and was arrested earlier this year. "Enough is enough," his father implored. "It's time to settle down and stop this stuff." After Khalid was released from prison, he and a group of other Afghan Arabs -- the blanket term for those who fought or trained in Afghanistan -- were summoned to a meeting with Ali Abdullah Salih, the president of Yemen, who was trying to contain the jihadists. In private, Salih called them "my sons" and said he had been pressured by the Bush administration to crack down on them. He also did something seldom acknowledged in the war on terror: He offered to pay them off to stop fighting.
"We will help you get jobs, get married," Salih told the men. "Write down your name and what you want."
Khalid didn't take the money, but he was tempted by the offer. He wanted out of jihad. On a trip back to England in late 2004, he had proposed to a Muslim woman he met through friends. In August, his fiancee and her family visited him in Yemen. He was visibly excited about the prospect of settling down and starting a family. He and his betrothed would go on heavily chaperoned picnics to a park outside Sanaa with their extended families, or visit the home of a close relative. They have never been alone together, and he has never seen her face.
But Khalid can see no way to escape from his past. Like many veterans, he looks back on his years of fighting with nostalgia -- the thrill of battle, the feeling of brotherhood, the steadfast devotion to a cause. But on some days, it feels as if he has no place in the world. He lives in Sanaa, but it no longer seems like home. Every few days he walks down to a storefront calling center and phones his brother in England. He doubts he can ever go back to the life he knew there. He often visited the mosques frequented by the London bombers, and he fears police will arrest him if he tries to return. But if he stays in Yemen, the brothers will keep trying to draw him back into the struggle.
These days, when they come over to his house and try to rally him for a mission to Iraq or Sudan, Khalid looks bored and says that he can't go anywhere now, that it would put his family in Yemen at risk. Even his fiancee's younger brother tried to enlist his aid to join the insurgency in Iraq. Khalid told him he couldn't help. He doesn't want any part of the fighting, but uncertainty might be seen as betrayal. So he keeps silent, and waits, and imagines the day when the war, and all that comes with it, will finally end.(Posted Dec 05, 2005)
This item is available on the Militant Islam Monitor website, at http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/1351


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MACON, Ga. (April 15, 2006) - The ETSU women's tennis team captured the A-Sun Tennis Tournament Championship with a 5-0 win over the No. 2 seeded Stetson Hatters on Saturday afternoon at the John Drew Smith Tennis Center. The Lady Bucs also garnered the first women's conference title since joining the Atlantic-Sun.
The day's action began with ETSU winning the doubles point. Masha Ilina (
With a 1-0 lead, the Lady Bucs would then take four straight points to sweep Stetson. Senior Sandie Knight started things out defeating Marina Levin, 6-1, 6-0 and Olya Batsula defeated Maja Miladinovic, 6-1, 6-3 to give ETSU a 3-0 lead. Vita Moskaliova (
"It's just a big honor that we're able to compete in the A-Sun. We're really excited and to have these new rivalries. We had a good time the whole way out. We've worked really hard all year and the goal was to come to this tournament. It's been a great ride and we're looking forward to competing in the A-Sun year in and year out. Overall, I'm just real proud of the effort today," said head coach Steve Brooks.
By winning the tournament, the Lady Bucs receive an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament and will wait for the announcement their first round opponent. This year's tournament will be hosted at
ETSU 5, Stet 0
No. 1- Masha Ilina (ETSU) def. Mili Milovanovic (Stet) 6-1, 6-4
No. 2- Olya Batsula (ETSU) def. Maja Miladinovic (Stet) 6-1, 6-3
No. 3- Sandie Knight (ETSU) def. Marina Levin (Stet) 6-1, 6-0
No. 4- Elena Volobueva (ETSU) vs. Anna Leonenko (Stet) DNF
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No. 6- Vita Moskaliova (ETSU) def. Samantha Lange (Stet) 6-2, 6-1
No. 1- Ilina/Ziolkowska (ETSU) def. Leonenko/Canady (Stet) 8-5
No. 2- Batsula/Byrne (ETSU) def. Lange/Mollman (Stet) 8-2
No. 3- Volobueva/Knight (ETSU) vs. Milovanovic/St. Claire (Stet) DNF


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The Islamic Society of North America is one of the principal actors among the unindicted co-conspirators named by the government in the government's prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation. The Holy Land Foundation provided financial support to Hamas until the government shut it down in the aftermath of 9/11. This weekend, however, the Department of Justice will be sponsoring a booth at the ISNA convention in Rosemont, Illinois. The HLF prosecution is one of the government's most important prosecutions since 9/11, yet the Justice Department's participation in the ISNA convention effectively undermines the the work that of the United States Attorney's office in Dallas. Unlike the bogus scandal involved in the firing of eight United States Attorney, this is the real deal. Yet the silence is deafening.
We learned of the Justice Department's participation in the ISNA convention earlier this week thanks to Audrey Hudson's page-one Washington Times story. The Justice Department pushed back with a few whispers to Daveed Gartensein-Ross at the Counterterrorism Blog that were shot down by Doug Farah and Steve Emerson at the same site. This morning Jeffrey Imm explains why the Justice Department's fraternizing matters.
Although no organ of the mainstream media has to my knowledge taken note of this story, a few Republican congressmen have. Audrey Hudson reports:
n a letter to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, Reps. Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and Sue Myrick of North Carolina called the Justice Department's involvement a "grave mistake."
"In light of the threat that our nation … is currently facing from radical jihadists, and because of the president's commitment to fighting the war on terror on all fronts, we believe it is a grave mistake to provide legitimacy to an organization with extremist origins, leadership and a radical agenda," the lawmakers said.
Rep. Peter T. King, New York Republican and ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee, said he agrees that Justice officials should not attend the conference.
"It is absolute insanity for the federal government, especially the Department of Justice, to be giving any credibility at all to a group like the ISNA, which has such strong links to Islamic extremism," Mr. King said.
Justice Department spokesman Erik Ablin said in an e-mail that the department has "received the letter, and we will respond to Reps. Hoekstra and Myrick." He went on to note that the Civil Rights Division and other government agencies


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DefinitionsWhen used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires—
"Person" includes an individual or a corporation.
"Corporation" includes any corporation, joint-stock company, partnership, association, business trust, organized group of persons, whether incorporated or not, receiver or receivers, trustee or trustees of any of the foregoing, but shall not include municipalities as hereinafter defined.
"Municipality" means a city, county, or other political subdivision or agency of a State.
"Natural gas" means either natural gas unmixed, or any mixture of natural and artificial gas.
"Natural-gas company" means a person engaged in the transportation of natural gas in interstate commerce, or the sale in interstate commerce of such gas for resale.
"Interstate commerce" means commerce between any point in a State and any point outside thereof, or between points within the same State but through any place outside thereof, but only insofar as such commerce takes place within the United States.
"State commission" means the regulatory body of the State or municipality having jurisdiction to regulate rates and charges for the sale of natural gas to consumers within the State or municipality.
"Commission" and "Commissioner" means the Federal Power Commission, and a member thereof, respectively.
"Vehicular natural gas" means natural gas that is ultimately used as a fuel in a self-propelled vehicle.
(11) "LNG terminal" includes all natural gas facilities located onshore or in State waters that are used to receive, unload, load, store, transport, gasify, liquefy, or process natural gas that is imported to the United States from a foreign country, exported to a foreign country from the United States, or transported in interstate commerce by waterborne vessel, but does not include—
waterborne vessels used to deliver natural gas to or from any such facility; or
any pipeline or storage facility subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission under section 717f of this title.
(June 21, 1938, ch. 556, § 2, 52 Stat. 821; Pub. L. 102–486, title IV, § 404(a)(2), Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2879; Pub. L. 109–58, title III, § 311(b), Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 685.)
2005—Par. (11). Pub. L. 109–58 added par. (11).
1992—Par. (10). Pub. L. 102–486 added par. (10).
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Gabriel Guzman
After missing the 2011 season with an injury, Guzman went 4-0 - all pins - to win the 167-pound championship of the Rebel Classic in Anaheim. After pinning Kendall Ruesing of Riverside-La Sierra, who finished fourth at the state tournament last year, Guzman pinned Courtney Tompkins of Santa Maria-Pioneer Valley in the finals. Tompkins was sixth at state last year.
The 103-pound freshman won the championship at the Folsom High Girls Wrestling Tournament, leading three Bruins to medals.
The senior fullback finished with four touchdowns, three in overtime, and ran for 140 yards in the Cougars' 42-35 quadruple-overtime win over Los Banos in the Division IV semifinals.
The Lincoln senior posted the area's best time at the CIF State Cross Country Championships, finishing 77th in Division I in 19 minutes, 15 seconds.
The senior quarterback threw three touchdown passes, his last a 13-yard swing pass to Nathan Chunn in the fourth overtime that held up as the winner in the section semifinal victory.
The Manteca junior knocked 46 seconds off her section championships time to finish 45th in Division III at the state meet, posting the area's best time (19:15) among girls.
The senior guard made a 17-foot pull-up jumper with 2 seconds remaining to give the Wolf Pack a 64-63 season-opening victory over Johansen. Saar finished with 17 points.
The 154-pounder finished second at the Folsom High Girls Wrestling Tournament.
The 98-pounder finished third at the Folsom High Girls Wrestling Tournament.
The senior receiver caught two of Kimble's three touchdown passes, including one in overtime, and had two sacks in a dramatic win that sends the Cougars to the finals for the 14th time.