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From: torsten@Techfak.Uni-Bielefeld.de (Torsten Kasch)
Subject: Re: novice questions
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 19:14:02 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Bielefeld, Technische Fakultaet

In article <q26-wc+@engin.umich.edu>, krueger@engin.umich.edu (Erick Krueger) writes:
|> Sorry about the upcoming 'novice' questions, but here goes:
|> 
|> 1 - I am trying to get the time set correctly.  I have used the date
|>     command to set it.  Each time I do, it stays correct until I reboot
|>     at which time the time is shifted ahead by an hour.  I then found the
|>     localtime link, which appeared to be pointing to the currect timezone,
|>     so I changed that to Eastern.  Now it is off by 4 hours.  If I set it
|>     to 3 am,  and reboot.  It now says it's 7.

Do you have the sources installed. If so, you may try to edit the config file
for your kernel. I changed the line which reads
	timezone        8 dst
into
	timezone	1 dst
(or was it -1 ??), rebuilt the kernel and after rebooting 'date' displayed
the time from my hardware clock.

Hope this helps,
	
	Torsten

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From: felawka@sitka.triumf.ca (Larry Felawka)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Problems with 386bsd and 3COM 503 ethernet interface
Date: 14 Oct 1992 01:56:12 GMT
Organization: TRIUMF, Vancouver BC
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: sitka.triumf.ca
Keywords: 386bsd 3COM ethernet

Help!  Is there anyone out there who has got the 3COM 503 ethernet interface
running with 386bsd?  I have had success with 386bsd and the Western Digital
ethernet interface (it works great).  When I rebuild the kernel with only the
3COM 503 i/f support, the system crashes after about 30 seconds after I do

   ifconfig ec0 inet nn.nn.nn.nn aui

with the 3COM 503 i/f. The "aui" parameter is recognized by the patched version
of "ifconfig" and is necessary to get the system working with external thicknet
ethernet transceivers (alas, for only for 30 seconds in my case).  I believe
that the driver is suspect, although possibly it works for the on-board thinnet
transceiver.  The system crashes with the messages

  vm_fault(fe103000,fe623000,3,0) -> 1
    type c, code fe070002
  trap type 12 code = fe070002 eip = fe0007f7 cs = 8 eflags = 10696 cr2

  panic: trap fe6230ed cpl 525a




					Many thanks,

					Larry Felawka
					TRIUMF
					Vancouver, BC
-- 
Larry Felawka
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: hd@world.std.com (HD Associates)
Subject: Where is the 386BSD bug list archived?
Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd
Summary: Where is the 386BSD bug list archived?
Keywords: 386bsd, bugs
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 15:17:57 GMT

I've checked the ls-R at agate  and poked around with archie, but I
can't find that bug list archived.    Back when it was posted I didn't
have 386BSD so I didn't save it.

I'm having two problems booting dist.fs:

1. Hanging after copyright (Sounds like that wd bug) on a Micronics
486VL;

2. "Trap 19" when an adaptec 1542B is installed on a NEC Powermate SX:
trap type 19 code=0 eip=fe001759 cs=fe430008 eflags=46 cr2 0 cpl 4840


The NEC boots fine without the adaptec installed.

Peter Dufault
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: krueger@engin.umich.edu (Erick Krueger)
Subject: novice questions
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 04:40:13 EDT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor

Sorry about the upcoming 'novice' questions, but here goes:

1 - I am trying to get the time set correctly.  I have used the date
    command to set it.  Each time I do, it stays correct until I reboot
    at which time the time is shifted ahead by an hour.  I then found the
    localtime link, which appeared to be pointing to the currect timezone,
    so I changed that to Eastern.  Now it is off by 4 hours.  If I set it
    to 3 am,  and reboot.  It now says it's 7.

2 - I am trying to configure com1 to 9600, 7E1.  How would I do this?  I
    have looked at stty in the man pages, and tried a number of things, but
    am now, totally confused.
 
Thanks ALOT for the help.

Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: tdphette@mke.ab.com (Thad Phetteplace x4461)
Subject: Re: Sun/386BSD Cross Compiler?
Organization: Allen-Bradley Co.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 15:17:48 GMT

I would like to thank everyone who sent me email about building a cross
compiler.  With the info I received I was able to compile gcc-2.2.2 to act
as one.  Basicaly all I had to do was the following...

1. Download and untar gcc-2.2.2
2. configure --target=i386-beta-bsd0.1 --host=sparc-sun-sunos4.1
3. make

I don't have a cross assembler or a cross linker yet, but the compiler
creates 386BSD assembly code with no problems.  If anyone has a cross
assembler or linker I would be interested in a copy, otherwise I'll post
mine when their done.  Richard Tobin commented that he had posted a
patch for ld about six monts ago to make it a cross linker.  Anyone
have a copy of that?  When I get a complete cross development kit put
together I'll make it available on my anonymous ftp server.  Thanks for
the help everyone.

--
Thad Phetteplace
Network Systems Analyst, Allen-Bradley Co.
Phone: (414)382-4461
Email: tdphette@mke.ab.com

The opinions expressed here are entirely my own and not that of my employer...
I am not a slob, I am simply doing an experiment in domestic entropy!
From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Problem with tar and XFree86 binary file
Date: 8 Oct 92 10:16:23 GMT
Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung
Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de
NNTP-Posting-Host: du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de

In <1992Oct7.075020.13103@burns.jpl.nasa.gov> hand@spc9.jpl.nasa.gov (Kolin Hand) writes:

>Greeetings.

>I am having a problem with the tar distributed with 386BSD.
>When trying to extract the XFree86 "core-bin-1.1.tar" file,
>I get a message after extracting  "xclipboard" saying:

>   "tar:  Skipping to next file header..."

>Immediately after this, tar exits with no more files
>extracted.  Am I missing something?  What does this mean?
>Do I have a corrupt file?

Yes.

>The file-size is 17786882 (uncompressed).

>Thanks for any help.

>Kolin

>+===========================================================================+
>+  "Guilt Trip:  The nuclear weapon of relationships."  -- K. Hand          +
>+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>+  Kolin E. Hand                              hand@spc7.jpl.nasa.gov        +
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Subject: Re: Could the passwd/crypt changes be included in the patch kit?
Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Organization: SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 18:42:41 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.161805.21244@rwwa.COM> witr@rwwa.com writes:
=In article <1992Oct6.152823.3185@sci34hub.sci.com>,
=  gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) writes:
=
=| The only bypass is for someone outside
=| the US to write the code, and make it available on a ftp site also outside
=| the country. 
=
=So then, if there were a patch that included a dummy module with comments
=pointing to such a place, a patch could be distributed, right?

As I understand things, correct. As long as there is no actual crypto 
code in there, or a description of the algorythm, it'd be legal. 

Not efficient, but legal. (I wish the govt would get out of the way
of a number of things, including prohibiting the export of things
readily available outside the country, but that would mean reducing 
their power somewhat...)


-- 
Gary Heston    SCI Systems, Inc.  gary@sci34hub.sci.com   site admin
The Chairman of the Board and the CFO speak for SCI. I'm neither.
"...I looked out my window, and saw Kyle Pettys' car upside down, then I
thought 'One of us is in real trouble'." Davey Allison, re: a 150MPH crash 
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: mark@student.business.uwo.ca (Mark Bramwell CS STAFF)
Subject: Re: /usr/X386/lib/X11/xinit/"files" not there in new X386.
Organization: University of Western Ontario
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 16:45:35 GMT

dinesh@pyramid.COM (Dinesh Jalisatgi) writes:

> 
>  Hi,
> 
>  As the subject line says there seems to be /usr/X386/lib/X11/xinit directory
> 
>  the new release. Wouuld some kind soul mail me the xinitrc and other files s
> 
>  successfully  start startx.
> 
>  Thanks.
> 
>   Dinesh.


I haved emailed to you my xinitrc file.  You may have noticed some # commented
out lines.  I run various window managers.  olwm is the OpenLook window manager.

I makes bsd look like a sun.  I grabbed it from ../xview3 directory on
nova.cc.purdue.edu

I have my background set to a nature scene using a gif file.  That is xgifroot.
If you do not have the program, email me.



mark@student.business.uwo.ca (Mark Bramwell CS STAFF)
Western Business School  --  London, Ontario
From: dcope@vtrm01.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: New scsi system beta3 (part 8 of 10)
Date: 7 Oct 92 08:28:10 EST
Organization: Vickers, Inc. - Troy, MI, USA

In article <1992Oct3.040233.14002@tfs.com>, julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer) writes:
> # This archive contains:
> #
> #	i386/conf/SCSITEST
> #	i386/isa/aha1542.c
> #
  [ The jury is still out on the beta3 scsi release deleted]
The problem is it does not find my tape device during the probe for
devices, which makes the tape device unusable.
 Granted it boots faster because it does not find any disk devices
but I still would like to use the tape.
I understand that a DEC TK50 may not be the best of tape devices but
for now it's all I've got.  BETA2 still in use here

Don.
email address (vtrm01!dcope@vela.acs.oakland.edu)  it's faster

Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: stripes@pix.com (Josh Osborne)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: .xinitrc&window manager for XFree86
Date: 13 Oct 92 16:41:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: pix.Bw2Jpy.Bqo
Organization: Pix Technologies -- The company with no adult supervision

In article <1992Oct13.113607.15615@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) writes:
[...]
>Any other window managers?

tvtwm, and gwm are the only (free) ones of note...

>What is the point of having the xdm?

Mostly to control xterminals.  However if everone who uses the box allways
uses X it is nice not to have to wait for the server to start each time you
login...
-- 
           stripes@pix.com              "Security for Unix is like
      Josh_Osborne@Real_World,The          Multitasking for MS-DOS"
      "The dyslexic porgramer"                  - Kevin Lockwood
We all agree on the necessity of compromise.  We just can't agree on
when it's necessary to compromise.       - Larry Wall
From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: X11R5 S3 server for 386bsd 0.1
Date: 16 Oct 92 22:54:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.1992Oct16.225430.23832
Distribution: comp.unix.bsd
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <1992Oct16.111333.11648@cotton.nc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> shin@nc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Shin Yoshimura) writes:
>>>>>> On 15 Oct 92 23:13:29 JST, fty@bizarre.rtpnc.epa.gov (Frank Terhaar-Yonkers) said:
>
>>> Amancio's S3 server is archived at: sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:~/pub/386bsd/X
>
>I've got it and tried.  But it doesn't work.  Error messages are as follows.
>
>---------------------------
>S3 0.0 / X Windows System
>(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000)
>
>
> clock value: 0 
>
> clock value: 0 
>
> clock value: 0 
>
At least the first three entries in Clocks field are 0!
meaning that probably you have not specified your hex code
for your dot frequency.

>Fatal server error: Mode couldn't be resolved: "1024x768"
>-------------------------- 
>
>My S3 VGA board is "ColorView" made in Taiwan, with 86C911 and 1MB
>memory.  It works well with the driver for Diamond Stealth in Win 3.0.
We do not use BIOS!
Additionally, if your clock synthetizer is not from Chrontel
I will not know the hex values for your clock synthetizer.
If your clock synthetizer happens to be the programmable
kind my server will not work for your card.


>
>--

You need to add the hex code which corresponds to your dot 
frequency in your Clocks field. Additionally, the hex code
for your frequency should be used in your modeDB entry.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad)
Subject: Re: X86mono driving Everex EV673 in 386BSD - possible?
Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 16:29:35 GMT

Warren Toomey (wkt@rodos1.cs.adfa.oz.au) wrote:
: I have an old non SVGA card, an Everex EV673, I'd like to run it in
: 640x480x2-bit until I can get a new card/monitor. I've installed XFree86
: under 386BSD (with kernel patches), and set up a basic vga2 Xconfig.
: When I start X386mono, it gives up immediately with a list of possible
: drivers, indicating that it can't recognise my card?! I force a chipset
: "generic", but that makes no difference. Does anybody have an idea on how
: to fix this problem. The card has 512K, not that it needs more than 128K.
: 
It will help if you enclose your error messages. I have just finished
configuring for a mono display. In fact I'm typing on a mono dispaly now.

The problem is that vga2 driver only uses 64K no matter how much RAM you
have. Actually the error messae tells you that.

The config shuld not exceed 800x600 virtual size, same thing with your
modes.

--
Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263.
Internet Email: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg
Bitnet Email: eoahmad@ntuvax.bitnet

Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: toreh@bootes.sds.no (Tore Haraldsen)
Subject: Booting DOS, NT & 386BSD from the same disk
Organization: Statens Datasentral A/S, SDS, Norway
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 13:40:22 GMT

... is it possible? How?

On my machine NT refuses to boot and reports a missing file when the
386bsd partition is present.

I think I have tried every trick in the book, including
leaving a master boot record with no 386bsd partiton on the disk &
booting from a floppy with mbr with 386bsd partition defined (failed
when 386bsd kernel tried to read the mbr on its own...).

I seem to remember someone telling he was booting, DOS, OS2, NT, 386BSD
from the same drive. Would the that person expand on how to go about
it?

-- tore
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 386BSD and DOS partitioning help.
Date: 9 Oct 1992 11:41:09 GMT
Organization: EUnet Backbone, Dortmund, Germany
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: walhalla.germany.eu.net

In article <Bvt7nr.BxD@acsu.buffalo.edu>, jones@acsu.buffalo.edu (terry a jones) writes:
> 
> 	I have checked through the FAQ and did not see this type of
> thing covered there.  I was hoping someone could outline the steps
> required to get DOS 5.0 and 386BSD to co-exist on the same drive
> without using the standard install procedure.  The setup works fine
> if you want to live with the partitioning scheme established by
> install.  I have not been able to manually disklabel a drive that
> already has a DOS partition, disklabel tends to wipe out the partition info.

... and vice-versa, I daresay. I fdisk'd a disk with 5.0 fdisk, installed
386BSD -> fdisk gone. INstalled DOS 5.0 on top -> 386bsd fdisk partition
gone :-(

-Bernard
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From: randyc@soda.berkeley.edu (Yen-Pang Randy Chou)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: mwm(Motif 1.2) hangs in 386bsd...please help me...
Date: 11 Oct 92 23:51:52 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association
NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu


I just compiled motif 1.2 in 386bsd and the only client/demo that does not
work is mwm (the one I need the most!).  All it does is hang  with a warning
message saying "locale not supported by C library.." or something
like that.  Has anyone successfully compiled mwm?  If you have, could you 
please send me a note?  

Thanx!


---Randy
From: alexk@otc.otca.oz.au (Alex Kowalenko)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Booting DOS, NT & 386BSD from the same disk
Date: 15 Oct 92 01:41:33 GMT
Organization: R&D, OTC Sydney, Australia

>I seem to remember someone telling he was booting, DOS, OS2, NT, 386BSD

What only those 4, come on he should be able to fit Linux, Minix, Coherent and Solaris as
well. :-).

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From: dlu@tfm.com (Doug Urner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: fax software for 386bsd?
Date: 16 Oct 92 10:40:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: tfm.1992Oct16.104048.14052
Organization: tfm Associates, Ltd.

gottloeb@eel.dsd.trw.com (Jeffrey R. Gottloeb) writes:

>I've got most of done and am testing it right now.  I am able to send faxes
>out via the spooler but I am having difficulty receiving faxes.  The problem
>seems to be a time-out problem after receiving the CONNECT message.

Netfax configures the modem to send numeric result codes.  Some modems must
"mix modes" and send "CONNECT" instead of "1".  The fix that I used was to
modify lib/libfax/response.c around line 222 to check if the numeric response
was a 1 and if so to handle it like a "CONNECT" (look at the code for the
"RESPONSE_CONNECT" case and add the appropriate parts to the "RESPONSE_NUMERIC"
case).

If the above doesn't make sense send me a note and I'll send you diffs.

Doug
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: jtsilla@damon.ccs.northeastern.edu (James Tsillas)
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster Pro driver (re-post)
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 14:20:04 GMT

Hi Kurt,

thanks for posting the Soundblaster driver to c.u.bsd. I am considering
buying a Soundblaster board and have been unable to find any review of
the boards. So far, browsing Computer Shopper I've come across four
variations:

        Soundblaster
        Soundblaster Basic
        Soundblaster Pro
        Soundblaster Pro (OEM)

Do you have any idea what the difference is among these? There is
certainly a price difference.

thanks,
-Jim.
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	*** "He is after me. Jim is after him."                  ***
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From: kevin.dawson@freddy.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Kevin Dawson) 
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: AUTO question in SCRIPTS.
Date: 9 Oct 92 11:15:00 GMT
Reply-To: kevin.dawson@freddy.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Kevin Dawson) 
Distribution: world
Organization: Freddy's Place BBS - Edmonton, AB - 403-456-4241

===========================================================================
 BBS: Freddy's Place
Date: 09-26-89 (04:42)             Number: 71
From: KEVIN DAWSON                 Refer#: NONE
  To: ALL                           Recvd: NO
Subj: Compress -P option..how??      Conf: (71) F-Unix
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Can someone please give me an example of how TAR internally uses
compress's -P option?

I need an example of what a command line would look like... The
Unix I'm using is 3.2.4.  The book does little to explain this
option; specifically, I get stuck on what they mean by a "file
descriptor" in the following sentence:

"If the -P fd option is specified, compress reads a list of file names
from the pipe association with the file descriptor fd."  (Taken from
page 75 paragraph 2)

I believe this command will help me store compressed files on a tape
without having to first compress the files. If I'm out in left field,
please suggest an alternate method. I do not want to store one big
compressed file.  I want to retain file names.

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===========================================================================
 BBS: Freddy's Place
Date: 10-09-92 (10:57)             Number: 71
From: KEVIN DAWSON                 Refer#: NONE
  To: ALL                           Recvd: NO
Subj: Auto Question in Scripts       Conf: (71) F-Unix
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
I want to add a twist to a question I have in a shell script.

Currently, it prompts the user for a Yes or No question.
I want to have the script resume in 5 miniutes if there is no response.

WHAT command or sequence will let me do this?
Please include an example.

Hopefully;
Kevin Dawson

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