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From: vpham@cs.ulowell.edu (vinh)
Subject: X386 for Trident TVGA 9000A
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Lowell Computer Science
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 04:57:19 GMT

hi,
Is there a X386 server that supports the Trident TVGA 9000A?
Is there a generic gray scale server?
Thanks
vp
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: g88d4938@giraffe.ru.ac.za (MR GE DOYLE)
Subject: [386bsd] automatic bootup
Keywords: bootup
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 14:24:23 GMT

Hi all
 I've got a slight problem(s):

1) During the automatic bootup I get the follow message:
   a)  lpd[46] : /dev/lp: no such file or directory
       it does not help if I create that directory. I also cannot print 
       anything.

   b)  ./.X11: no such file or directory - in fact that directory is in
       /tmp - but the system does not look there.

2) if, during the automatic bootup and off the flags are cleared or 
   information salvage, when the system is fixing things, setting things 
   right - it gives the following:
                      bash#
                      
                      login
                           386bsd (Amnesiac) (vga)
                      login
                           386bsd (Amnesiac) (vga)
                     . 
                     .  
                     . another 3 or 4 times then it reboots again and the
                       automatic bootup then goes through its steps and I
                       can login ok.

  What's the problem? How can it be fixed? Any help will be appreciated.

 Thanx in advance
  Greg


(By the way I've got a SCSI hard disk with and Adapter card and also a
 DOS partition on the same disk as the 386BSD partition)
From: ljo@r2d2.eeap.cwru.edu (L. Jonas Olsson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: lgamma is missing
Date: 24 Jan 1993 23:52:53 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve Univ. Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: proteus.eeap.cwru.edu
Keywords: Octave, mathlib, lgamma, signgam

I'm trying to compile Octave (a Matlab clone) and it uses the function
lgamma. 386BSD comes with a man page for it and it is also mentioned in
<math.h>. In the man page is is described to return ln|gamma(x)| and
the external integer signgam returns the sign of gamma(x).

In the mathlib-2.1-386bsd package there is a function lgamma, but it
does not set the external variable signgam, and therefore doesn't
work with (unmodified) Octave.

	Jonas Olsson
	ljo@po.cwru.edu

Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.windows.interviews
From: zxmsd01@studserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Gunther Schadow)
Subject: Re: InterViews doc problem
Organization: Comp. Center (ZDV) U of Tuebingen, FRG
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:39:01 GMT

In <93019.195956ACPS7221@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca> <ACPS7221@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca> writes:

I noticed an other problem with doc as we can find it at ref.tfs.com:
The menu selection doesn't work right. The (nice little red) hook in
front of the selected feeld won't move to the new selection, and I
cannot figure out when that new selection will take effect and when it
does not. Amancio, have you noted this? Any Idea?

cheers
-Gunther

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: jl@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Joshua Lackey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Location of gcc-2.3.3 binaries for 386bsd
Summary: Can't find the binaries for gcc-2.3.3
Keywords: location, find, help, binaries, gcc2.3.3
Date: 26 Jan 93 19:29:11 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson

The news article that mentions the location of binaries for gcc-2.3.3 (386bsd)
seems to have expired here.  Would someone mind telling me where I can find
them?

Thanks-

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From: kim@dde.dk (Kim Andersen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: How does 386BSD implement a virtual file system switch (VFS)?
Date: 21 Jan 93 19:30:40 GMT
Organization: Dansk Data Elektronik A/S

terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:

>In article <1993Jan19.222140.12508@informix.com> johng@informix.com (John Galloway) writes:
>>
>>  The docs mention multiple file systems, but not how this is
>>  accomplished (and I have yet to be able to get cpio to read
		  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>  the source files on my Quadra-A/UX system, and have yet to purchase
>>  my 486 box).  Is a virtual file system switch used like that from
>>  BSD 4.3 and SYSV.4 or is it something different? thanks.

>Yes, a VFS interface is used... not that this statement actually tells you
>a lot: read on.

[ lines describing the wonderful standard world deleted ]

Regarding your problems reading 386bsd cpio files.
There is some "minor" differences between cpio and cpio.... (another standard)

Get the source to cpio (from ref.tfs.com or agate.berkeley.edu),
and compile it on your Quadra-A/UX system.



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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: fontenot@ravl.rice.edu (Dwayne Jacques Fontenot)
Subject: 386BSD work with Compaq Fast-SCSI-2 controller ?
Organization: Rice University
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 07:23:28 GMT

hello,

Does 386BSD work with the Compaq Fast-SCSI-2 controller as available in
the new ProSignia server?

thank you for your time,

Dwayne Fontenot

Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: tictac@wam.umd.edu (Shake it to the Left)
Subject: Vesa Local Bus and Companies (please read)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 05:06:42 GMT

Ok, now I am very confused.  I bought a machine from
Zenon which is ok except for the fact that I cannot
get the SB to work in it (its a 50 mHz machine), and
I have Memory Parity Errors.  Now then, I was flipping
through the computer shopper and my eyes came to rest
on 'The Hard Edge' which talks about technical information.

On page 780 of the January 1993 edition it says that
VESA's specification for its local bus interface 
defines a bus speed no greater than 40mHz.  
Then WHY does Zenon sell 486/DX50's claming to have
3 VLB slots in them?  I would very much appreciate
it if someone could quickly take the time to mail me
sorting out the details of VESA's VLB specifications,
and why Zenon can be justified in advertising a 486/DX50
(not Dx2 50) with 3 local bus slots.  I have one sitting
on my desk, hehe, and Im beginning to think...... hmm,
maybe THIS is why I'm having some of the problems I
am experiencing (which include the strange 'Memory
Parity Error').

Basically, if you could email me explaining
a) VESAs VLB specifications and limitations
b) why Zenon is advertising a DX50 with 3
    VLB slots when VESA supposedly said the
    limit (bus speed) is 40 mHz
c) what is the cause, and the solution for
   a Memory Parity Error.

Please send comments, suggestions, or thoughts to:
tictac@wam.umd.edu


Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: [386BSD] What ist the state of XS3 ?
Keywords: 386BSD, XS3
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 05:12:07 GMT

In article <1993Jan28.023813.4635@zip.eecs.umich.edu> dmuntz@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Dan Muntz) writes:
>In article <scott.728179123@pita> scott@pita.cns.ucla.edu (Scott Burris) writes:
>>kehr@rs3.hrz.th-darmstadt.de (Roger Kehr) writes:
>>>- how stable ist XS3 for 386BSD ?
>>
>
>I was using XS3 with an Orchid F1280, but had to switch back to XFree86 and
>my ET4000-based Orchid PD IIs.  I've had problems with fonts in some
>cases, and xtroff was unusable (and I needed to use it).
>
On my system with my Actix GraphicEngine32(S3 801), I have not been able to
reproduce the font problems nor the xtroff problem.

Amancio



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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 08:45:43 -0500 
From: "Alex R.N. Wetmore" <aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: kernal switcher?

Is there any sort bootstrap for 386bsd that will let me choose which
kernel to boot up (so it would boot 386bsd by default, but I could make
something like 386bsd.x if I wanted to run X).  I would like to run the
pcvt console driver, but I also use X sometimes (rarely, but enough that
I don't want to trash it).  So, it would be nice to have two kernels
compiled, one that runs pcvt, and one that doesn't so that I can run X.

Otherwise I guess I could write a shell script that just linked the
appropriate kernel to 386bsd and rebooted, but this would be nicer.

alex

Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu (Mark Tinguely)
Subject: my init.c
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:37:06 GMT
Organization: North Dakota State University

 I put the sources for my version of /sbin/init in pub/386BSD/mft-vga-init.c
 on plains.NoDak.edu (134.129.111.64) for anyone interested. If you do NOT
 have the X kernel patches compiled into the kernel, change the occurrances
 of "dev/vga" back to "/dev/console"

--mark.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: schuler@shell.portal.com (Carlos Alejandro Schuler)
Subject: [386BSD] Jemini 486 tower panics booting dist diskette 0.1 and patch 0.2
Summary: it finds a trap 19 condition
Keywords: 386bsd, panic
Organization: Aerometrics, Incorporated.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 22:17:30 GMT

this is the message i get,

trap 19 code = 0 eip = fe000771 cs = 8 eflags = 2 cr2 0 cpl ffffffff
panic: trap
hit reset key

Any clues? The same disk boots fine on other 386 and 486 machines.
Carlos.

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From: kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Can I boot from 3.5" 1.44 MB disks?
Date: 27 Jan 1993 19:03:59 GMT
Organization: I.Physikalisches Institut RWTH-Aachen
Distribution: world
Reply-To: kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de
NNTP-Posting-Host: acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de
Keywords: boot bootables 3.5" floppy 386BSD


I tried - to no avail - to produce a booatble 3.5" floppy
because one of the next system I will feed with 386bsd only has 3.5" drives.
Also I wanted to build a disk a la fixit.fs containing necessary 
programs to bootstrap the rest of the system from a running node via
rrestore (if anyone has a better idea how to automate and speedup
remote installation of 386bsd in a network his/her ideas would be heartly welcome)

Anyway - the essential question: Why does my 3.5" disk not boot? I make a disklabel and newfs on it and put a kernel and some stuff to live on it,
but I would at least expect, that the bootstrap is entered - I tried with 
both versions of fdboot (the original and Julians)

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From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: [386BSD] Reliability of GNU LIBC 1.05 ??
Date: 27 Jan 93 06:10:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: serval.1993Jan27.061001.3597
Organization: School of EECS, Washington State University

In article <59173@dime.cs.umass.edu>, doyle@freya.cs.umass.edu (Jim Doyle) writes:
|> 
|> 	Has anyone used gnu libc.a to recompile the Unix distribution in
|> 386BSD? I would like to know of any problems in compatibility or difficulties
|> that people have encountered. 
|> 


There are a few 386/non-386 bugs in 1.05. I have fixed them when I took
part of 1.05 to Linux. I have made my fixes available to the FSF. I hope
they will make into 1.06.

H.J.
Xref: sparky comp.unix.solaris:504 comp.sys.sun.misc:6574
From: eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert)
Subject: Re: Imake problem with gcc on Solaris 2.1
Keywords: Imake, Make, gcc
Organization: Twin Sun Inc, El Segundo, CA, USA
X-Newsreader: NN version 6.4.19
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 06:13:48 GMT

fjs@athena.lkg.dec.com (F. J. Shields) writes:

>Does anyone know of a way to get the gcc preprocessor to stop
>complaining about this type of comment in an Imakefile?

Yes.  Get GCC's source code, find and remove the offending complaint,
and build a preprocessor more to your liking.  It should be a simple change.
You can FTP the latest source from prep.ai.mit.edu in pub/gnu/gcc-2.3.3.tar.Z.
Xref: sparky comp.unix.solaris:503 comp.protocols.tcp-ip:6131
From: jwabik@uc.msc.edu (Jeff Wabik)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: SL/IP for Solaris 2.x?
Date: 28 Jan 93 07:30:18 GMT
Organization: Minnesota Supercomputer Center

Does anyone know if there is a version of SL/IP available for
Solaris2.x?   (I'm running 2.1)  Will the normal sysv4r version work?
(I'm new to sysv.  It still looks ugly to me.  :-)

Any info appreciated.. Thanks!

	-Jeff

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Xref: sparky comp.unix.solaris:499 comp.unix.sys5.misc:114
From: rdorich@jade.tufts.edu (Rob)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.sys5.misc
Subject: ioctl() portability from SunOS 4.x to Solaris 2.1?
Date: 28 Jan 93 02:22:03 GMT
Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA

Okay, so I am trying to port ile (Input Line Editor for those unfamiliar),
from SunOS 4.x to Solaris 2.1.  At fisrt I tried to avoid all kind of
problems by just using the ucb compatible libraries, which got the 
program to compile, but wouldn't run (error: no access to tty (inapropiate
ioctl for device)) and would just sit there and freeze.  Later I was
told not to use the bsd libraries since they tend to crash.

	So now I'm trying to do all the changes by hand, but after
trying to make several times, I still get undeclared type errors
(which should've been #defined).  I have read the man pages all
around, but I can't find any equivalencies to those 'requests'
accepted by ioctl in both systems.  Can somebody give me a hint on
this?  A partial list of compilation errors follows.

	Thank you very much in advance,

		Roberto Dorich


PS: Oh, if anyone has a patch for a working ile (which runs fine in 4.0 BTW),
a copy of it would be very much appreciated!

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
/local/cygnus-sol2-1.1/bin/gcc  -o ./ile ile.c 
ile.c: In function `change_window':
ile.c:344: `TIOCGWINSZ' undeclared (first use this function)
ile.c:345: `TIOCSWINSZ' undeclared (first use this function)
ile.c:347: `TIOCGPGRP' undeclared (first use this function)
ile.c:465: `TIOCGPGRP' undeclared (first use this function)
ile.c:471: `TIOCSETC' undeclared (first use this function)
ile.c:472: `TIOCSLTC' undeclared (first use this function)
ile.c:473: `TIOCLSET' undeclared (first use this function)
ile.c:519: `TIOCSETN' undeclared (first use this function)
ile.c:2349: `TIOCGETD' undeclared (first use this function)
ile.c:2350: `TIOCSETD' undeclared (first use this function)
ile.c:2354: `TIOCGETC' undeclared (first use this function)
ile.c:2355: `TIOCSETC' undeclared (first use this function)
ile.c:2359: `TIOCLGET' undeclared (first use this function)
ile.c:2360: `TIOCLSET' undeclared (first use this function)
ile.c:2364: `TIOCGLTC' undeclared (first use this function)
ile.c:2365: `TIOCSLTC' undeclared (first use this function)
ile.c:2369: `TIOCGWINSZ' undeclared (first use this function)
ile.c:2370: `TIOCSWINSZ' undeclared (first use this function)
ile.c:2387: `CBREAK' undeclared (first use this function)
ile.c:2413: `LNOFLSH' undeclared (first use this function)
ile.c:2413: `LDECCTQ' undeclared (first use this function)
ile.c:2413: `LLITOUT' undeclared (first use this function)
ile.c:2549: `TIOCNOTTY' undeclared (first use this function)
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Xref: sparky comp.unix.solaris:487 news.software.nntp:1844 comp.sys.sun.admin:10641
From: mederic@cix.cict.fr (Claudine Mederic)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,news.software.nntp,comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: INN under Solaris
Date: 22 Jan 93 09:58:45 GMT
Reply-To: mederic@cix.cict.fr (Claudine Mederic)
Distribution: world


I shall trying to install the soft inn (InetNetNews) under Solaris on an SS10.
Has anyone been able to do this?
If so, can you tell me if you had many problems?

 Thank's for your help
Xref: sparky comp.unix.solaris:505 comp.sys.sun.apps:3125
From: schmidt@liege.ics.uci.edu (Douglas C. Schmidt)
Subject: different semantics for listen(2)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.sys.sun.apps
Reply-To: schmidt@ics.uci.edu (Douglas C. Schmidt)
Organization: University of California at Irvine: ICS Dept.
Date: 28 Jan 93 21:49:00 GMT
Distribution: inet


Hi,

	I just finished porting the TCP benchmark test program "ttcp"
to Solaris 2.1.  As a result of this, I learned an interesting and
subtle difference between the semantics of the BSD listen(2) system
call in both systems.  It is worth remembering in case you are porting
old BSD socket code to Solaris, so I'd like to share it.

	In the ttcp source there is the following comments and code:

----------------------------------------
	  /* otherwise, we are the server and
           * should listen for the connections
           */
	  listen (fd, 0);	/* allow a queue of 0 */
----------------------------------------

	In Sun OS 4.1.x this idiom seems to work fine.  However, with
Solaris 2.1 having a 0-sized listen queue causes the server to reject
client connection requests.  Changing the value to 1 fixes the
problem...  After reading the manual page it is unclear which is the
"correct" behavior.  Although it certainly seems plausible that Solaris
is doing it "right" there is an issue of backwards compatibility here!

	Hope this helps someone out someday!

		Doug
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.sys.sun.admin
From: marc@aai.com (Marc Cohen)
Subject: dial in/out modem under Solaris 2.1
Keywords: modem Solaris
Organization: Amerinex Artificial Intelligence
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 20:04:43 GMT


I'm trying to set up a modem to dial in or out on an IPC running Solaris
2.1.

I followed the Answerbook and set up the port monitor with the following
commands:

# sacadm -a -p ttymon0 -t ttycom -c /usr/lib/saf/ttymon \
  -v `ttyadm -V` -y "comment"

# pmadm -a -p ttymon0 -s b -i root -v `ttyadm -V` -fu -m \
  "`ttyadm -b -d /dev/cua/b -l conttyH -m ldterm,ttcompat -s \
  /usr/bin/login`" -y "dial in/out on port b"

Above commands were actually entered on one line.

My /etc/uucp/Devices file looks like:

 ACU cua/b - Any hayes
 Direct cua/b - Any direct
 ACU term/b,M - conttyH hayes

I have tried different entries from /etc/ttydefs instead of "conttyH" but I
always get the same behaviour.  I can dial out OK, but when dialing in the
modem never goes "on hook" and both the transmit and receive lights stay on
and the machines begins to crawl.  The only way out of this is to reset the
modem (and this sometimes crashes the machine).  I have also been unable to
configure the system for dial in only.  The modem works fine under SunOS
4.1.2.  Has anyone successfully set up a dial in/out modem and would you
please let me know if I'm missing something here?

-Marc
From: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Problems with top from gatekeeper
Date: 25 Jan 93 17:55:19 GMT
Organization: University of California, Irvine

In article <1993Jan25.143012.15057@cognos.com> maklinm@cognos.com (Max Maklin) writes:
>I picked up the top program from gatekeeper last week and I am getting some
>interesting results on a DEC System 5500.  The problem lies in a large
>number of processes starting that I do not see in the usual ps command.
>
>For example, I see this:
>
>...
>1053 processes:90 sleeping, 3 running, 943 starting, 5 zombie, 12 stopped
>...
>
>Where is all these starting processes coming from.  Is there some other
>command I can use to verify this?

It's a bug in top.  Find the line that looks like this in m_ultrix4.c (line
427 in my copy):

	*  status field.  Processes with SSYS set are system
	*  processes---these get ignored unless show_sysprocs is set.
	*/
	if (pp->p_stat != 0 &&


Change it to:

	*  status field.  Processes with SSYS set are system
	*  processes---these get ignored unless show_sysprocs is set.
	*/
	if (pp->p_stat != 0 && pp->p_stat != SIDL &&



Mike
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: frank@croton.nyo.dec.com (Frank Wortner)
Subject: Re: POP Server for ULTRIX?
Reply-To: frank@nyo.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:11:04 GMT


In article <1k4j5s$c9e@spool.mu.edu>, mort@spool.mu.edu.uucp (Martin Wiedmeyer) writes:

|>
|>We are using WNQVTnet at our site and would like to use the POP client.
|>
|>But.... ULTRIX has no POP server :-(
|>
|>Would someone be so kind as to point me in the right direction?
|>

4.2: 	/etc/popd
4.3:	/usr/lib/mh/popd

Does this help?

					Frank
From: jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: ULTRIX .or. OSF?
Date: 27 Jan 1993 18:57:55 -0500
Organization: Mount Holyoke College
NNTP-Posting-Host: slab.mtholyoke.edu

In article <1993Jan26.151700.9709@lth.se> mats@rigel.efd.lth.se writes:
>I have heard a rumour that DEC is going to sack
>OSF for MIPS.....
>That means no shared librarys among other things.

This rumor is more than a half year out of date.  ;-)
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: schemers@leland.Stanford.EDU (Roland Schemers)
Subject: Re: strange path hardwired in awk
Keywords: awk
Organization: Distributed Computing Group, Stanford University
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 22:33:01 GMT

In article <1993Jan28.121515.3498@black.ox.ac.uk> mbeattie@black.ox.ac.uk (Malcolm Beattie) writes:
>While looking through a more than usually verbose audit log,
>I noticed that awk attempts to open /crp/pjw/awkhist/awkhist.
>`strings /bin/awk' shows that this path is hardwired into
>the binary. Does anyone know why or what this is?
>

Its hard to believe thats still in there! (well, maybe not)
"pjw" are the initials of one of the creators of awk (the "w"). I'd
spell his name but I know I'd get it wrong.

I found this string a while back (4/5 years) while on a Mascomp Real-Time
Unix system at an old job (I was bored and string'ng everything in site :-).
If you create this file it then every time you run awk it will store stats
(I think the actual program that was run) in that file. 

Roland




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