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From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale)
Subject: Re: Xwindows Virtual Desktop Size
Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:44:55 GMT

In article <19879@mindlink.bc.ca> Rob_Prior@mindlink.bc.ca (Rob Prior) writes:
>I was at a local computer fair recently and saw a display of 486's running (I
>beleive) SCO Unix and Xwindows.  The neat thing was, as you moved the mouse
>pointer 'past' the limits of the screen, the whole picture would scroll to
>follow it.  It was like having twice the space, but using a small window to
>scroll around on it.  Can this be implimented in Xfree?  I looked in all of
>the docs that I have and couldn't find anything...

	Yes XFree does this.  I have a 1024x1024 virtual screen on my machine
at home, even though the screen itself can only display 1024x780.  If I move
the mouse up to the top or the bottom, the screen automatically scrolls up or
down.

-Eric
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is busy, hung or dead................................Eric Youngdale
From: ansgarr@rama.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Ansgar Radermacher)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Some problems with SLS, X8514
Date: 21 Jan 93 21:40:13 GMT
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik - RWTH Aachen
NNTP-Posting-Host: rama.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
Keywords: SLS, X8514, Mouse



	Hello !


I have a small problem with the latest SLS distribution (thanks for the
good work). After installing the a3 disk, umount fails because of less
diskspace: the problem seems to be that the file reboot is installed
to /usr/bin on the ramdisk (!) instead to the specified partition
of the harddisk.
A simple fix is to make a link to the disk before using doinstall:

	ln -s /root/etc/reboot /usr/bin/reboot 
	doinstall ...

I also have a problem with the mouse under X8514 (x8514new from Oct.20),
which didn't occur under 0.98p5. After I do a reset my serial mouse hangs
when I use startx or xdm the first time. This is normally not the case
after switching on the computer the first time, so this might be an
initialisation problem.
After a second start (e.g. by pressing ^C within xdm) everthing works just
fine. During the time the mouse doesn't work, I can still use the mouse test
program. So this doesn't seem to be a problem of the serial drivers.

Apart from this minor problem X8514 works very fine (thanks), though a
support of compressed fonts would be nice. 

Another *very small* thing: sysinstall -help still reports the wrong 
option -special C instead of -series c


	Ansgar
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: spierce@wam.umd.edu (Stephen Pierce)
Subject: Re: How about Compaq hardware for Linux?
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 00:50:44 GMT

In article <1993Jan28.132440.19096@dxcern.cern.ch> roberto@dxcern.cern.ch (Roberto Bagnara) writes:
>  I've read and appreciated the list of hardware components that have
>successfully been tried with Linux. My feeling is that a list of hardware
>pieces that hav been UNSUCCESSFULLY tried with Linux would be very useful.
>
>I'm very much interested in knowing if anyboudy out there has tried
>Linux with a Compaq machine, and wat was the result.
>Any info/pointer will be gratly appreciated.

  I have linux running on my compaq 386-16. It works ok, with
some slight problems involving interrupts..

Steve


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From: oreillym@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Michael O'Reilly)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Using TERM on Linux
Date: 27 Jan 1993 05:04:40 GMT
Organization: Home
NNTP-Posting-Host: tartarus.uwa.edu.au
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Matthew R B Conway (blevins@athena.mit.edu) wrote:
: 
: 
: Has anyone gotten TERM working on Linux yet? 
: ("term >/dev/ttyS2 </dev/ttyS2 &" where ttyS2 is my modem) 
: then I run trsh.
:I get a shell which sortof works, but after only a couple of seconds, it locks
:up on me, and I cannot type anything.  I did have time to type ls once, and it
: worked, but then it locked up.  If anyone has gotten this to work, let 
: me know exactlty what you did, so I can see if I can duplicate it. Do you
: think it might have to do with the fact that I connect to my Workstation from
: a modem on another server?

Add the 2 lines 'escape 0-31' and 'ignore 0-31' to your ~/.term/termrc
on both sides. Try reading all the docs, and run linecheck. Try
upgradeing to term 1.0.2 if you haven't done so.

The notice is posted for two reasons.
1) To say, DON'T post term questions the newsgroup. Instead, read all
the docs, and if you still can't get it working, mail me. Be warned
that I will be rather short with you if you mail me before reading all
the docs... :)

2) Term is no longer actively being developed. Instead, it has gotten
re-named to slap, and we (Jeff and I) as useing the re-nameing as an
excuse for a fairly major re-write. It should come out of it a lot
more flexable and reliable.

: Matt Conway
: blevins@athena.mit.edu
Michael
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: surovi29@snybufva.cs.snybuf.edu (STUDENT)
Subject: Linux 0.98 Install HELP!
Organization: J. Random Misconfigured Site
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 18:12:00 GMT
X-Posted-From: snybufva.cs.snybuf.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

 Is there anyone that could give me step by step intructions on how
to Install Linux 0.98 onto my Hard Drive.... There is NOTHING but DOS
5.0 on my drive at this time ( I had a system crash ) I have the Install
docs for 0.95 but they dont help me one bit... I did manage to get 
the file copied over to my DOS partition, but then my C drive will
not boot up anymore?  I am lost any help would be greatly appreciated!.

Thanks!

Scott Surovich
surovi29@snybufva.ca.snybuf.edu


Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: root@umibox.hanse.de (Bernd Meyer)
Subject: Re: Safety Belt / SLS
Organization: Linux Box standing around in Hamburg, Germany
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 17:32:18 GMT

probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon) writes:

>creacy@yuppie.enet.dec.com (Chet Creacy) writes:


>>I second this idea!  I did the exact same thing.  I was trying to install linux
>>on the 2nd disk; cranked up fdisk (forgetting to specify /dev/hdb); deleted
>>partition 1; did a write; and, voila "DOS IS HISTORY".

So you are a converted, too :-)
It was your unconscious that made you do this, not a bloody mistake. You
hated DOS, I'm sure, and now you are free of it :-)

Bernie
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From: cnc@sweep.bt.co.uk (Colin Crist)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Linux on a portable
Date: 26 Jan 93 16:04:31 GMT
Reply-To: cnc@sweep.bt.co.uk
Organization: British Telecom

I'm interested to know if anyone has installed Linux on a portable PC, and
what the specifications and brand of the machine where.

Unforunately I cannot yet afford a tadpole SPARCbook and would like a
UNIX machine on the move !

Cheers,
	Colin.

PS Where is the FAQ ?

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: cfs@cowpas.waffle.atl.ga.us (Charles Stephens)
Subject: Re: Looking for the working Xconfig file for ET4000 + SONY 1304.
Organization: COW Pastures
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:06:21 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

dkyoon@alnitak.usc.edu (Dae-Kyun Yoon) writes:
: My friend bought a nonmae ET4000 board w/ 1M, recently.  He wants to
: run X windows in 1024x768x256c mode, but we failed to set the clocks
: properly.  640x480x256c ran fine just out of the box, but we could not
: make it work in 800x600 1024x768 mode. 
: 
: Does anybody have a working Xconfig file for ET4000 board + Sony 1304 in
: 1024x768 *non-interlaced* mode(Vertical 60Hz) ? 

	You would be surprised how easy it can all be if you have the 
ET4000 Data Book.  Try setting your clocks like with 60 and 65.  I have
only tested this 65MHz.  Check your monitor's specs about maximum Bandwidth.

 "1024x768"  65    1024 1072 1328 1344    767  776  786  806

	"767?!?"  "767!!!!"  Yes, it's seems weird, but that's the only
way to get my Tseng card to talk to my Monitor.  It works, it really does.
I spent 30 hours with the various spreadsheets and "how-to's", but they
were all WRONG!  The Tseng manual help a bunch.  Enjoy!

-- 
Charles Stephens
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: anuj@fwi.uva.nl (Anuj Dev)
Subject: xview
Summary: programming on XVIEW, how??
Keywords: xview X11 
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 10:30:58 GMT

In the xview readme it says that one needs an extra package for
compiling ones apps.
What to do with the additional package, link it or so??

Any help from people who were able to compile their xview apps
would be great

thanks 
anuj@fwi.uva.nl

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From: mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
Subject: [comp.os.linux.announce] Welcome to comp.os.linux.announce!
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: intro announce
Organization: Jim's Burger Hut 
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 03:53:52 GMT


Archive-name: linux-faq/announce/intro
Last-modified: 1 Jan 93

WELCOME TO COMP.OS.LINUX.ANNOUNCE!

Comp.os.linux.announce (which has a nifty acronym: "c.o.l.a") is a 
newsgroup for announcements, important information, and software patches
for the Linux operating system, a free UNIX clone for i386 and i486 based 
machines.  This group is a moderated companion to comp.os.linux, which is 
the group for discussions, questions, and general information about Linux. 

This group has been created to provide a seperate group in which to crosspost
important information about Linux, since these postings are often lost in
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gateway and other non-USENET sources.

The moderators for this group are myself (Matt Welsh, mdw@tc.cornell.edu) and
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duty, and backing each other up to make sure that postings to this group will
be approved as soon as possible after they're submitted.

Submissions to this group should be mailed to the address:
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If you have any problems or questions about c.o.l.a, please send mail to the
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Or simply mail us directly. 

A seperate posting details the guidelines for submitting to this group.
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Plans are in the works for having this group archived at one or more of
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There is a mailing list gateway of the comp.os.linux.announce newsgroup;
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With the line
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From: sdw@meaddata.com (Stephen Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: DOS emulation
Date: 25 Jan 1993 17:04:18 GMT
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
NNTP-Posting-Host: bugatti.meaddata.com
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Rogier Wolff (wolff@liberator.et.tudelft.nl) wrote:
..
: 
: At first video emulation need only be at 80x25 textmode. In the end it 
: shouldn't be too hard to detect "going into graphics", and emulate that
: too. It might become a little slow, but it should at least work....
Interactive's console device driver has a call to memory map video
memory into a process's space.  I think that X does this.  How does
Linux X get to video memory?

I think this is also used in VP/IX to get high speed graphics,
although certain things are way too slow.
: 
: >Rewriting a stand-alone version of MS-DOS is probably less difficult than
: >making a hack for linux.  At least then you don't have to worry about the
: >hardware compatibility.
: 
: No comment.
: 
: 						Roger
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hpa@merle.acns.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin N9ITP)
Subject: SLS disk series: ABCDSTX = ?
Reply-To: hpa@nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin)
Organization: You must be kidding!
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 23:18:24 GMT

Hi there!

Could some kind soul please specify for me what the different disk
series in SLS are for?  I have counted A(4) B(7) C(3) D(2) S(1) T(3)
and X(6), and I believe that

A = kernel and essential utilities
C = compiler and libraries
T = TeX
X = X-Windows

Could someone that knows SLS better than I do please confirm or
correct this and tell me what the other series are for?  I have been
signed up to maintain a server of PD/Freeware/Shareware PC software
here at Northwestern, and of course I'd like to add Linux, so I'm
working on a "duplication station" program: you supply it with disks
and it will format and copy them for you.

	/hpa
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From: ludwig@wefunk.rent.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: X11 FAQ
Date: 24 Jan 93 10:41:15 GMT
Organization: WEFUNK, The Mothership Connection - Franklin Park, NJ

Please don't make this into a flame . . .:-)

I've just gotten the X distribution from a friend who was kind enough
to ftp it (I have no direct FTP access) and now I've gotten it all
installed.  What next?  I assume that there is a FAQ/Installation
guide for it, but silly me, I didn't ask for it.

Could someone point me to a place where I can get it through a mail
server?  If not, how about having someone mail it to me?

And, so as not to waste bandwidth twice, I've got an Orchid
Prodesigner VGA card with 512k of memory, will X work?  If so, what
config's do I need to do...

Thanx in advance.

Mitch


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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus James HENDERSON)
Subject: Re: Booting linux from dos??
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 06:22:37 GMT

erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp) writes:

>Mike Christiansen (christia@latenite.ssc.gov) wrote:
>
>: What I would really like is a dos application which would boot linux
>: off of the scsi, trashing dos in the process. I could reboot to dos at
>: any time. Sounds good. So..can I do it???
>
>Get bootlin.  It boots an Image file from msdos.  Of course, you have to
>have the Image file on your msdos partition, but that's a small price to pay.
>I use bootlin all the time.  My machine automatically boots to msdos, then
>bootlin is run from my autoexec, allowing me to ctrl/c out if I want to
>(shudder) run msdos.

When I try using bootlin at the start of my autoexec.bat, it happily proclaims
"Booting Linux.............................................done"
and then does a cold reboot :-(
If I try running bootlin at a DOS prompt, then I get a message
"Bootlin loaded too high in memory" and then it hangs.
(I have about 580k free memory according to MS-DOS 5.0's mem command)

Fortunately, however, I have been able to get bootlin to work correctly by
putting SHELL=BOOTLIN IMAGE in my config.sys. Then I use a program called
"mboot" to select the appropriate config.sys file at boot time.
But it would be quite convenient if I could just run bootlin from a DOS
prompt, because it would be considerably faster than having to reboot.
Any ideas?

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hank@informatik.uni-essen.de (Hendrik G. Seliger)
Subject: rlogin, talk
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 10:36:21 GMT
Organization: Uni-Essen
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

Hi Linux-world!

I'm looking for a working version of rlogin and the talk stuff.
Currently the last rlogin and talk/talkd from SLS are lying brake
on my HD. rsh works fine in and out of my Linux-box. rlogin works
into it, but I don't get out (rlogin: connection closed). I DO have
a .rhost file (otherwise rsh would have complained). Someone out there
got it working??

Then there is the talk/talkd. Talk gives me a  "[No connection yet]" (quite
normal), then
: [Checking for invitation on caller's machine]
: Alarm clock
And that's it. No ring on the other machine.
When someone tries to get into my machine, there is no
alarm clock (might be a local configuration) and nothing happens. My inetd.conf
file looks like

telnet  stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/etc/inet/telnetd   telnetd
ntalk   dgram   udp     wait    root    /usr/etc/inet/ntalkd    ntalkd
ftp     stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/etc/inet/ftpd      ftpd -l
finger  stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/etc/inet/fingerd   finger
shell   stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/etc/inet/rshd      rshd
login   stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/etc/inet/rlogind   rlogind
tftp    dgram   udp     wait    root    /usr/etc/inet/tftpd     tftpd
talk    dgram   udp     wait    root    /usr/etc/inet/talkd     talkd

Some hints??

	Cheers,
		Hank.

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jacek@dapp.cs.ualberta.ca (Jacek Krolikowski)
Subject: Re: Byte order problems in X
Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 18:50:50 GMT

Hi,
I have exactly the same problem with xv-2.21. Byte order is reversed.
My configuration:
Plain VGA (Trident 02)
Linux 0.99.3
Mono server X386mono from tsx-11.

Jacek. (jacek@cs.ualberta.ca)

David Fox (fox@cs.nyu.edu) wrote:
: I have installed X on my Toshiba T4400C notebook, and when running
: the mono server X386mono, I find that xmag gets the byte order
: reversed.  That is, if I have the pattern on the screen

: 11111111000000001010101011001100

: in the xmag window I get

: 11001100101010100000000011111111

: Has anyone else seen this?  I am using the current SLS distribution.
: (Also, does anyone know how I can get X running in color?
:  I don't know which chipset to specify.)

: thanks in advance,

: -david
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: chchen@stat (Ching-Hsiang Chen)
Subject: remove LILO?
Organization: Florida State University
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 09:33:42 GMT

I am going to have a new 200mb IDE drive next week and my old 105mb IDE
will be in my wife's PC. I had installed LILO before I saw the backup
MBR caution in the LILO documentation. I am 99% sure that LILO had taken
over DOS MBR. Is the only way to remove LILO and Linux from my old IDE
to destroy all partitions setup (including my DOS partition)?

Thanks in advance
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: arumble@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Anthony Rumble)
Subject: Re: FidoNet software
Organization: Sydney University Computing Service, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:46:57 GMT

guentbru@hercules.cs.uregina.ca (Bruce Guenter) writes:

>Does FidoNet compatible software exist for Linux (or any other *NIX for
>that matter)?  I am currently running under DOS, but would much rather
>use Linux.  I've heard of a .QWK editor for UNIX, what I need is the mailer
>and echomail processor.

There is rfmail which I believe is a FTSC1 mailer

And nixmail, which is a EMSI mailer. (nxm)

I am still looking for something decient that will toss fido
to C-news and back again..

-- 
Anthony Rumble
aka SmilieZ
"Anything is possible.. If there is enuf money in it"
From: gt9922a@prism.gatech.EDU (KD4APQ)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: ELM problem
Date: 27 Jan 93 02:24:37 GMT
Organization: North Avenue Trade School

As root I can run elm with no problems.  But if I login as another user, it
tells me I have no password entry.  Does anyone know what this means?  Can
it be resolved by re-compiling the source to it and make a minor change to 
the source?  Any help would be appreciated.  Either post the this group
or send responses to gt9922a@prism.gatech.edu.  Thanks.

Scott

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