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From: chris@cj.in-berlin.de (Christof Junge)
Subject: install problems with 99.1
Organization: Christof Junge, Berlin
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 08:47:12 GMT

Hello,

I have successfull installed linux 99.1 with SLS. But there are some
questions left.
When I boot linux from disk I got this messages:

floppy: unexpectet interrupt
MINIX-fs magic match failed

my /etc/fstab:
/dev/hda2	/		ext	defaults
/dev/hda3	none		swap	sw	1	2
/dev/hdb1	/home/hdb1	ext	defaults

and mount says:

/dev/hda2 on / type minix ()
/dev/hdb1 on /home/hdb1 type ext (defaults)

fdisk says:

Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 210 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot  Begin   Start     End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *       1       1      82   41296+   6  DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hda2          83      83     194   56448   83  Linux extfs
/dev/hda3         195     195     210    8064   82  Linux swap

what is wrong ?

Hardware: 16 Mhz 386 SX, FPU, 8 MB
Harddisk: Priam V 185 with adaptec ACB-2372 RLL controler

	- chris

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From: lp@shlink.hanse.de (Lutz Petersen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re^2: UUCP 103 (taylor)
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 21:51:20 CET
Organization: 'shlink public site +49 4121 63587'

Im Artikel <1992Dec21.153625.4491@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu> schreibt keithc@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu (Keith Christopher):
> 
> Infile included from uucico.c:304:uucp.h:1180:conflicting types for 'strncasecmp'
> /usr/include/string.h:36: previous declaration of 'strncasecmp'
> 
> make *** [uucico.o] error 1

 No problem: Read the docs, start 'build' and there allways set the
 named functions to 'no'. You may need some compiles - every time
 you get the above message start again with 'build' and set this
 function to 'yes'.


Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: johnsonm@lars.acc-admin.stolaf.edu (Michael K. Johnson)
Subject: YAPPS
Organization: St. Olaf College; Northfield, MN  USA
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 20:04:54 GMT


Yes, it's
	Yet Another /Proc PS
brought to you by Michael K. Johnson, in concert with someone who
posted the same earlier hack that Ed Carp just re-vamped, and by
Branko Lancester, who wrote the original /dev/kmem-based ps.

However, this one uses the /proc interface to provide /everything/
that the kmem-based one did, except that I have not added textual
namelist searching yet.  I think I have removed most of the major
bugs, and it is available from
tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/BETA/procps/procps.tar.Z

To get all corect numbers, this may require a kernel patch, but I
don't remember.  If it isn't in .99.1, it will be in 1.0, at any rate.
If you get this, and find that the WCHAN numbers just don't match up
to the ones that the kmem-based one fives with the command-line one
gives withthe 'n' option, please email me, and I will get you the
patch as soon as I can.  Of course, by that time, I may have another
version ready ;-)

David Engel will be helping me complete a ps suite that does not need
to be suid or sgid anything to work.  All possible utilities that we
can think of that can be provided through the /proc interface will be
provided.  Well, perhaps that is an overstatement, but you get the
idea.

Hope someone enjoys this hack!  Source only, BTW...

michaelkjohnson
From: wolff@zen.et.tudelft.nl (Rogier Wolff)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux and OS/2
Date: 2 Jan 93 10:16:53 GMT
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering

sdw@meaddata.com (Stephen Williams) writes:


>"Current Intel 386/486 series cannot nest 'Ring 0' programs in
>hardware."

>Using other terms:
>This means that a 32-bit (Ring 0, priviledged) OS (like all full
>Unixes, OS/2, Windows NT, Windows in enhanced mode) cannot run
>underneath another with simple hardware modes.

>They could run unpriviliged and have the priviliged instructions
>emulated.

Nope. The problem is that the instructions to enter/leave priviliged
mode do not fault. This means that the controlling OS doesn't knoww
wether to handle the fault by emulation or by passing it along to the 
other OS.

>VM (On IBM compatible Mainframes) does this nesting, either in
>hardware or software (I don't know...).

You need basic hardware features to be able to  do this nesting. Intel
forgot to look at decade old IBM designs, and forgot the necessary features.

>What the world (at least the Unix world) needs right now is a 'virtual
>386 mode', where the 386-8086 part is emulated in software.  This
>would even allow a version of Unix to run under itself.  This would be
>great for debugging (kernels, startup, etc.).

>All it takes is some hard work.

Nope. You need intel to correct their specs on the 386, and then
get them to replace existing 386s. Good luck.

>Note that Soft-PC and Sun-PC both emulate at least a 286 in software,
>as that is what it takes to run Windows 3.1 (unlike 3.0 which would
>run on 8086).

Yes they emulate EVERY instruction in software. What we want here is
the hardware to run the instructions, and software to handle the
"too priviliged to be done automatically" things. 

>The Sun-PC 486 board even lets you run a full 32-bit application/os's with
>full vga mapped efficiently onto X windows.

This is a hardware solution which doesn't correspond with software solutions
on dos boxes.

					Roger
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier)
Subject: sysvinit...
Organization: York University
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 03:05:07 GMT

Hi...

	Just installed sysvinit...upon reboot, I get an error to the 
effect of:

	INIT: Warning: Invalid action field in line 4 of /etc/inittab

	which reads:

	id:4:initdefault

	Why?

Thanks...

Marc
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
Subject: Re: [FIX] PS FIX FOR 99p2 !!!
Keywords: ps fix 99 p2
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 02:31:00 GMT

hedrick@geneva.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) writes:

>andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !) writes:

>>Okay, in my quest to do something useful for the Linux community, here are 
>>some patches to get ps up and running with 99p2..just a header file location 
>>change and an already-used variable, but, well, it's handy to have it done
>>for you, I guess...

>I'd encourage people to try the ps and free based on /proc, which is
>in BETA/procps/procps.tar.Z on tsx-11.  It works fine for me without
>any recompilation under 0.99pl1, 0.99pl2, and 0.99pl2 with Tytso's new
>serial code.  It's intended to do away with the need for a new version
>of ps with each release.  I'd suggest that people who want to work
>with ps and friends spend your time on that code, e.g. maybe adapting
>top to use the new code.

Yeah, I second this motion ! (and third and fourth it !)
I just posted it for the benefit of those who haven't grabbed it yet
 - I'd certainly recommend any newcomers to use the proc-fs - based one instead
, as it saves LOTS of hassle every time you upgrade your kernel.

>There has been some question about which device should be used in
>mounting /proc.  As far as I can tell, it's irrelevant.  Hlu's base
>distribution has an fstab that mounts it on /dev/proc, but his /dev
>doesn't have a /dev/proc.  It still works (though you can't unmount
>it).

Well, you can just mount /proc onto /proc
ie.
mount -t proc /proc /proc
and it works fine
(it also umounts okay, unlike /dev/ram, etc)

Enjoy !

Cos !

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From: bribbeck@exucom.com (Bob Ribbeck)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: script for ttys modem call-in/call-out
Date: 28 Dec 92 07:15:55 GMT
Organization: ExuCom Multimedia Inc.
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  Since the Linux wizards can't seem to creat a uugetty that will work 
for callin and call out use this script.  It will check if uugety has a
lock, then kill the old uugetty & init, call kermit (or your favorite)
and when finished reinstall uugetty and reinit back to call in mode.
All it needs is a inittab.old in /etc which is just a copy of inittab
without the uugetty of your ttys?.  You may need to change the ttys0 in
the script to your ttys#.



if [ ! -s /usr/spool/uugetty ]
then
  cp /etc/inittab.old /etc/inittab
  kill -1 1
  ps > xx
  awk '/s1/ {print "kill "$1}' xx >yy
  chmod 777 yy
  yy
  rm xx yy
  kermit
  echo ttys1:vt100:/etc/uugetty ttys1 2400 >> /etc/inittab
  kill -1 1
else
  echo modem busy
fi
From: woody@cs.utexas.edu (James Woodgate)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: sls 99 user problems
Date: 23 Dec 1992 01:12:38 -0600
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
Distribution: world
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In article <1h8qqvINNfio@savoy.cc.williams.edu> 93jay@williams.edu (Jonathan Young) writes:


>   When trying a whoami they get the message "cannot find username
>for UID xxx"
 >
>   Only root seems to be able to use mail "username" without causing
>a segmentation fault
 >
>   Minicom tells anyone other than root that "you don't exist go away"
 >
>   Ls -l does not correctly identify ownership for these new accounts
>and reports them as owned by userid.


I had all these problems also, until I changed the permission bits
for /etc/passwd.

As root type:

> chmod og+r /etc/passwd


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From: dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes)
Subject: Re: XFree 1.1 with T8900; mixed results.
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 23:11:23 GMT

In article <1992Dec28.181842.21972@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> roell@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Thomas Roell) writes:
>>  2. why does the 256 color Trident display driver only support
>>     T8900C chips? What's this annoying difference between the
>>     T8900B and C?
>
>That's a very trivial reason. For some X stuff you need to have access
>to a source byte and a destination byte at the same time. If you deal
>with SVGA's which cannot map their whole 1MB video memory into the
>CPU's address space, you have to do banking. If you also have to
>fullfill the upper constraint, then you see that you need to have two
>banks which can be used independantly (since source and destination of
>the operation might not be in the same bank).
>
>The TVGA8900B supports only ONE bank, while the TVGA8900C supports TWO
>banks.

The XFree86 tvga driver actually uses the TVGA8900C in single-bank mode.
Apparently it benchmarked quicker in that mode than in the dual-bank
mode (don't ask me why -- I was suprised at the results).  We use a
different bitblt routine in this case.

For this reason I expected that our driver might work on the 8900B, but
it seems that it doesn't.  The only other difference that I know of
between the 8900B and 8900C is that some registers are read-only on the B
and R/W on the C.  If someone with an 8900B and X source on-line wants
to look into this, please let us know.

David
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: rafal@utstat.toronto.edu (Rafal Kustra (summer student))
Subject: [Q]: Is xdm workable with .99pl1 ?
Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 04:37:56 GMT


After hectic months in school, finaly got some time for
Linux. Wanted to upgrade from .98pl4 to .99pl1. Yes, this
includes a jump to non-writable-strings. Had to replace
few prgrams, but I thought xdm was pretty stable?
It doesn't work in .99pl1, and I could not find any new
binary( or linux sources). So has anyone got it to work
and I am the only stupid one, or there is a real problem ?
Needless to say I got it working in .98pl4. xdm-errors
mentions that it couldn't get XOpenWindow and had to
abort.

On other note. From those dark MS-Windoze times I
remember a cute comm program called UW (for windows).
This program had two parts - one on Unix host and one for
PS and MS-windoze. It let you have up to 7 sessions on
one line, all in different windows. Something like
screen, but packaged nicely in MSWindoze stuff. So you
could be editing a file in one window and compile it in
other. For record it also had other neaties like graphical
Zmodem selecteble fonts, few term emulations etc.
Has anyone done something similar for X11 ? I mean
different sessions in different windows over one line ?
I love Seyon, and that functionality seems to be the only
missing part (suggestion, suggestion -;).

Thanx to all guys in Linux.

			Rafal
				
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From: Travis.James@f851.n800.z3.fidonet.org (Travis James)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Ahead B 512K
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 15:54:28

Greetings.
        I'm considering getting ahold of LINUX for my 386 to help me with
my third year of a B.Sc(Ma & Comp Sc) .... but I've heard that LINUX will only
support some of the 'better' cards.

        As the subject said, I've got an ahead b video card with 512k and I
desparately want to be able to use LINUX.

        Can anyone out there suggest a way around this predicament or send me a
copy or give me an ftp address where I can procure one ???

        Thanx, TJ

 * Origin: Biz-Nice! S.Oz Business BBS! 4 Lines 08-269 7029/7809 (3:800/851)

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier)
Subject: Re: Question and Observations
Organization: York University
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 02:14:56 GMT

pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) writes:

>I have repeatedly asked someone to volunteer to write a script to set
>permissions, but no such luck.  A real problem is that there is no
>real agreement on what the correct permissions/ownerships should be.
>How about you Marc?  Care to put your money where your mouth (or fingers) are?

	Give me an idea of where to start, and I'll put time into
helping you.  :)  My experiences have been with Commercial Unix(s),
which have install scripts coming out of your ears.



Marc
From: estephen@whosnext.cad.gatech.edu (Eric R Stephens)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Xmono double take with Everex 678
Date: 30 Dec 1992 22:12:37 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, CAE/CAD Lab
NNTP-Posting-Host: whosnext.cad.gatech.edu
Keywords: X

I'm trying to get SLS's X to run with my video card.  
The video card is an old Everex 678 based card which supports TTL monitors as  
well as analog.

I'm using "chipset pvga1" and I get a slightly garbled picture until I start a  
second X and kill it then very looks great!

Any ideas.

I found an everex.doc which describes my card but I don't have the first clue  
as to how to integrate the new driver.
From: iarit@slate.mines.colorado.edu (ARIT ISMAIL)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Anyone get X working on ATI Graphics Ultra /Ultra Plus?
Date: 3 Jan 93 00:35:40 GMT
Organization: Colorado School of Mines

Hi Bryan,

I posted my Xconfig to this group for ATI Ultra Graphics(/pro) many times.
You can run X in 1024x768 256 color mode with 1Meg. look for 
'Xconfig for ATI Graphics Ultra pro ', if you cant find it, let me know .

iarit@slate.mines.colorado.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: palmj@marcus.its.rpi.edu (Jyri L. Palm)
Subject: More than 2 serial devices at a time
Summary: Edit kernel/chr_drv/serial.c
Keywords: Serial 2 Devices
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 05:03:43 GMT

I noticed a couple of articles about using more than 2 serial devices at
the same time. Well, here is my configuration and how I manage to use more
than 2 serial devices at a time.

486/33 8Megs
200 Meg Harddisk
Kernel -> 0.99.1
Mouse on /dev/ttys0
VT100 on /dev/ttys1
Int Modem on /dev/ttys3

I've always wanted to be able to use all the 3 serial devices at the same
time. When I tried using ttys3 and ttys1 at the same time, my system crashed
instantly, so here is what I did.

- Disabled the parellel port which uses interrupt 7 (I think lpt2 uses irq5)
- Using jumpers on the serial card, make com2 use interrupt 5 (default is 3)
- Modify /usr/src/linux/kernel/chr_drv/serial.c
	o around line 85 is :
		struct struct_ISR COM2_ISR = { 3, 0x2f8, UART_ISR_proc,0, };
	o change it to :
		struct struct_ISR COM@_ISR = { 5, 0x2f8, UART_ISR_proc,0, };
- Recompile the kernel.

I disabled my parellel port because I don't have a printer and I wanted to
be sure I didn't have any devices using interrupt 5. I believe you should
be able to use the 3 serial ports and a parellel device all at the same
time. 

Anyway, I have no idea how this would affect DOS programs (assuming you also
use your system for DOS). Also, I have no idea how this may affect other
linux operations (I don't know C, neither am I a unix guru). I'd really
appreciate any comments or suggestions ... send to palmj@rpi.edu thanks.
From: richb@jti.com (Richard Braun)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Compiling 'shadow'
Date: 30 Dec 92 22:12:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: jti.C03F1G.1I5
Organization: Jupiter Technology Inc. / Waltham, MA

Last night I downloaded the shadow password source kit from tsx-11 into
my 0.98pl5 system.  I use the gcc 2.2.2 H. Lu binary distribution.

After successfully compiling and installing this, I get two errors from
login:

	- ulimit() not support; please use getrlimit()/setrlmit()
	    (or some such thing)
	- Something about a "light" C library

Then it bombs out and throws me back to getty.  Any hints?  Is this
source code incompatible with the C library?

-rich
From: cs89rdb@brunel.ac.uk (Roger D Binns)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Die Die Die
Date: 21 Dec 92 12:51:44 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
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Is it possible to improve the console driver to accept a few more
keystrokes?  Try the following line, and see if you can get control
of your machine back.  I can't do anything except press the reset
button on the box.

while true ; do (ping 127.0.0.1 &) ; done

It doesn't run out of processes, but does run out of swap.  It would
be nice if there was a magical keystroke that could deal with this,
and kill the process with the highest pid for instance.  I suggest 
ctrl+alt+ins.

I have had similar 'lockups' while using X, for instance while running
xv, and a C compiler.  It swaps so much, there is nothing I can do.
Init doesn't even get scheduled so that it can handle the soft
ctrl+alt+delete.

Roger
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From: wyvern@gnu.ai.mit.edu (The Wyvern)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: fstat dead under 0.99.1
Keywords: ps
Date: 22 Dec 92 16:59:26 GMT
Organization: Free Software Foundation

The fstat/fuser programs from the ps package seem to be broken under
0.99.1 - an fstat gives this:
USER     COMMAND    PID    FD  DEV   INUM   SZ|DV MODE       NAME

and that's it. All the other programs in the package seem to work
without any problems. At first I thought that ps and family
might just need to be recompiled, as is the case so often, but
recompilation didn't seem to produce any results.
Anyone else having this problem?
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier)
Subject: Re: something screwy with mail...
Organization: York University
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 21:56:39 GMT

erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp) writes:

>This seems to be a bug in elm-2.3.  I think it's fixed in elm-2.4, which I've
>been trying to get done and tested in time for a New Year's Day release
>of mailpak-1.4 - I obviously missed it.  Soon, soon...

	I just downloaded mailpak-1.3 so that I could recompile it all on
my system and see what setting are used, and noticed something strange...
elm is configured to use /bin/rmail to send email out?  Once I changed
this to /usr/bin/smail, I am now able to send out email :)

	Now...to get uucico working *sigh*

Happy New Year folks...

Marc
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier)
Subject: two quick questions...
Organization: York University
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 00:22:37 GMT

Hi...

	1 - has anyone gotten talk to work?

	2 - well, this one is a little longer...

	I'm running on a 386-33 with 8meg of memory.  If I
do a 'free', it tells me I have something like 5Meg cache in
memory and 112k(?) in free memory...and it is dipping into swap
space because of lack of free memory.

	The questions are...what is the cache for? (disk caching?)  Why
so much?  Can I reduce it so that swap space isn't used so much?

Thanks..

Marc
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