HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: tuninga@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Alexander Tuninga)
Subject: fixed font
Originator: tuninga@suniams6.statistik.tu-muenchen.de
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 14:51:22 GMT



There were people ( including me) having problems with
Xfree86.
The errormessage: can't find default font fixed giving up

I solved the problem by editing the .../fonts/misc/fonts.dir file
and changing the *.Z stuff * whithout the suffix.

Maybe you should compress all the fonts in .../fonts/misc, I'm
not an X-wizard.

Still I hope I helped somebody

Alex
From: rick@ee.ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Ooops: compiled 98.3, now can't be root
Date: 9 Nov 1992 00:19:20 GMT
Organization: Just me.
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.2.33

Looks like another handy use for H.J.'s bootable root-disk, cxu ne?

Rick Miller   <rick@ee.uwm.edu> | <rick@discus.mil.wi.us>   Ricxjo Muelisto
Occupation:  Husband, Father, WEPCo. WAN Mgr., Discus Sys0p, and  Linux fan
From: dsimon@stipple.seas.upenn.edu (Derron Simon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Problems with CMOS after using Linux on my 486
Date: 10 Nov 92 18:07:45 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

Hi.  I recently purchased a 486DX33 and want to run Linux on a 50 meg parition.
My problem is that after loading Linux from the latest SLS disks (.98pl1, I
ftp'ed them 3 days ago) I get "CMOS checksum bad" errors after every reboot.
Usually the portion of CMOS that gets trashed is the Hard Drive information!

I've spoken with one other person who had the exact same problem, but he
unfortunately doesn't have news posting capabilties.  His address is:
	jerry_kaidor@engtwomac.synoptics.com
I think we both have the same motherboard.  My system setup is as follows:

	486DX33 Local Bus (with manual calling it a G486US)
	4 mb ram
	64k CPU cache
	Local Bus T4000 video board with Sierra RamDac and 1mb ram
	Maxtor 7120A 120meg IDE hd
	1 5 1/4" floppy
	1 3 1/2" floppy
	
Has anyone else had a problem like this?  I'd really like to run Linux,
and did have it running well on my Dell 320N+ (386 laptop) for about a
month, so I'm pretty sure I set it up correctly.  

Please reply by email, this newsgroup is impossible to keep up with!  Thanks
in advance,

Derron Simon
	
	
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From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Possible cause of keyboard lockups in XFree
Date: 6 Nov 1992 01:52:33 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

ins217t@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !) writes:

>Erm, I've found a possilbe cause of keyboard lockups in Xfree86...

>I got the new admutils and new poeigl and compiled...
>It linked /dev/tty1 to /dev/console (which was prev. linked to tty0)
>When I started X this afternoon, the keyboard wouldn't respond...
>Changing the link back did the trick...
><Just in case any of you out there in netland are having sim. probs>
>BTW, the new login didn't work when i compiled it
>- i had to delve for the emergency boot disk to put the old one back...
>(and it was 80K compared to 5K for the old one !!!)

>Enjoy !
>Cos !
>-- 
>Andrew J. Cosgriff !	ins217t@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au

This is why I suggest not making /dev/console a symbolic link. Just
do a mknod /dev/console c 4 0 and be done with it. Then you don't have
to worry about programs screwing with the links. Also, its generally a 
good idea to read the Makefile and see what the make install does before
actually doing it.

James
From: Greg.Naber@f34.n343.z1.fidonet.org (Greg Naber)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Net 343 and Node 34
Date: 7 Nov 92 01:30:40 GMT

Due to a glitch in the change over and reassignment of nodes under Hub
200 to Hub 300 within Net 343, some nodes have been dropped from this
week's node difference list.

The nodes that are not in it are 343/34, 343/94, 343/341 and maybe some
others I I am not aware of as yet.

This WILL affect any personal direct netmail to these systems.

This WILL affect any UUCP direct netmail to 1:343/94

This WILL affect any fidonet file requests to these systems.

This will NOT affect the gating of comp.os.linux <-> LINUX or
misc.emerg-services <-> FIRENET.

This will NOT affect netmail forwarded to any HUB, the NEC or the NC of
net 343.

This will NOT affect any personal mail from the internet to any fidonet
node.

This WILL be correct next Friday.

For those who wish to communicate with 94 or 34, here is the information
needed:

,34,S'Qually_Holler's,Renton_WA,Greg_Naber,
        1-206-235-0270,9600,XA,CM,HST,V32b

,94,remote.uucp,Seattle_WA,Ralph_Sims,
        1-206-292-9048,9600,CM,XA,PEP,V32,GUUCP

Pvt,341,Halcyon.com,Seattle_WA,Ralph_Sims,-Unpublished-,9600,MO

1:343/94 & 341, Ralph Sims memorex +1-206-955-1050
1:343/34 Greg Naber live 1-206-235-0189

 * Origin: S'Qually Holler's BBS Renton, WA. 206-235-0270 HST-DUAL
(1:343/34)
From: simonich@uservx.plk.af.mil
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Problem w/P4 and EMACS
Date: 10 Nov 92 10:04:03 GMT
Organization: Phillips Laboratory - Kirtland AFB

My configuration:

                 386SX/387
                 Adaptec 1542 SCSI I/O
                 0.98 + patch1 + patch2 + patch3 + patch4
                   w/o math, w tcp, C-A-D and num-lock disabled
                 logitec busmouse
                 trident 8900b VGA

The problem (under patch4 only):

            emacs

yields the results that emacs starts normally including displaying
the copyright screen but then immediatly fails leaving

           IOT trap/Abort

on the console.

Patch 3 and before work correctly.

Hope this is enough info to track the problem.

Thanks

Steve Harrington
From: ajt@doc.ic.ac.uk (Tony Travis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Good/bad 14.4 modems?
Date: 11 Nov 1992 23:17:59 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
Reply-To: ajt@rri.sari.ac.uk
NNTP-Posting-Host: swan.doc.ic.ac.uk
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

I'm using a Twincom 14.4 DF modem after years at 1200/2400 baud and
Linux 0.98.3 is qite happy talking to an identical modem on a Sun at
full whack with error correction and compression.

I've got it working with uugetty, but only if I set it to auto-answer.

	Tony.
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From: root@pooh.geophys.mcgill.ca (Steeve McCauley)
Subject: Re: broken pipe after reboot
Organization: McGill University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 16:56:29 GMT

Paul S. Kilroy (kilroy@ms.uky.edu) wrote:
: trumpet-user@tom.erib.uni-hannover.de (Default Trumpet User) writes:
: 
: |hello linux-users
: 
: |i have installed linux 0.98p3 on my system and a problem : 
: |when i type the reboot command, the message "broken pipe" occurs.
: |the same happens after typing shutdown. ps -U dosen't help.
: |now i have installed version 0.98p4 but nothing changed.
: 
: I also have this problem..
: But in addition(as mentioned on the mailing list today)
: I have the problem of shutdown spewing out lots of junk,
: along with the shutdown message..
: it goes somthing like this
: ``~~~~!!hhasd `` ``` System shutting down immediatly'
: ``~~~~!!hhasd `` ``` 
: ``~~~~!!hhasd `` ``` ... Resaon I shutk it down ...
: ``~~~~!!hhasd `` ```
: Broken Pipe
: /$
: 
: Broken pipe sometimes is replaced with the message, 
: You can now tturn off the power.
: 
   Me too me too!
   I was running 0.98p1 and no problem with reboot or shutdown.  After
I installed 0.98p3 I got this broken pipe message, even when I booted
with the 0.98p1 Image again.  I also tried the ps -U suggestion but
no luck.  I'm trying 0.98p4 now.

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From: rtkao@remus.rutgers.edu (Richard Kao)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: X11 problems
Date: 8 Nov 92 19:50:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: remus.Nov.8.14.50.16.1992.11641
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


I have the SLS release and I have noticed that when X creates a Xterm
it logins in the Xterm as a ttyp... but when you exit the Xterm the w
command still shows the ttyp... still logged in, but it doesn't appear
in ps.  Does anyone know why?  It seems that /etc/utmp is not being
updated when the Xterm is exited.  I can fix it by deleting utmp and
creating a empty file, but the problem reoccurs when I use X again and
open up multiple Xterms.

Another problem is why cann't I write to a mounted MSDOS filesystem as
a user.  I can only write to it as root.  I have tried serveral
different opotions...

1. mounting with mount -t msdos -w /dev/hdb5 /dose
2. mounting wiht mount -t msdos /dev/hdb5 /dose

on both I did a chmod a+rw /dose.
Does anyone know how to make it work properly?
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From: vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: UUCP/SMAIL/ETC.. Needed for Linux
Date: 6 Nov 92 21:21:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: victrola.1992Nov6.212125.543
Organization: Vince and Suzie's Underpowered PC

Esemi@polaris.utu.fi (Sami-Pekka Hallikas) writes:

>I need smail for Linux. Also I need some news reader like rn or nn.
>If someone have these or know where I can get it (via ftp), or he/her
>could send it to me uucoded.

try 'newspak' on sunsite.unc.edu
they get a little big but if you have ftp access you'll be ok.
Here's the sizes of the newspak1.1 I'm assembling:

-rw-------   1 root     root         3817 Nov  4 22:35 README.newspak
-rw-------   1 root     root       649147 Oct 15 20:18 cnew122291.taz
-rw-------   1 root     root        46299 Nov  4 22:46 newspak.tar.Z
-rw-------   1 root     root       579571 Nov  4 22:48 nn6.4.16.tar.Z
-rw-------   1 root     root      1177959 Oct 15 20:13 smail3128.taz
-rw-------   1 root     root       367263 Oct 15 21:39 tin1.1p4.tar.Z
-rw-------   1 root     root       468155 Oct 15 21:18 trn2.2.tar.Z

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     ---------- Vince Skahan --------- vince@victrola.sea.wa.us ----------
    Running Linux/C-news/trn/Elm/Smail - we don't need no steenkin' MS-DOS
From: geek+@CMU.EDU (Brian E. Gallew)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Can I make/mount a filesystem in a file?
Date: 10 Nov 92 05:07:11 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.Yezx0TK00VB3AO75Mb
	<1992Nov10.124856.629@gdr.bath.ac.uk>
Organization: Administrative Computing & Info Services, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

The problem with the user_dd patches/programs is that they haven't
been updated in *FAR* too long!  I have them installed at home, and
mess with them in my spare time, but they still don't work.  They
conflict with the CD-ROM device, and when you change block numbers,
they still don't work.  :-(  I don't know why.

                                  -Brian

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From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Mounting HPFS drive
Date: 6 Nov 92 15:20:35 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

glenw@remus.rutgers.edu (Glenn Wasserman) writes:
>Has anyone figured out how to mount an HPFS partition yet?

I don't think there is any problem.  You just write a filesystem driver
for HPFS and run mount... :-)

As far as I know, it is not currently possible to mount HPFS partitions.
Somebody needs to write some kernel code for it first.

--
Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi  (finger wirzeniu@klaava.helsinki.fi)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: djimenez@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Daniel Jimenez)
Subject: Re: GCC: what old libraries should I need?
Keywords: GCC, libraries, _setjmp
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 15:01:23 GMT

In article <BxHHF5.4z6@acsu.buffalo.edu> jmsimon@acsu.buffalo.edu (JMS) writes:
>[...]
>Trouble cropped up a week ago when I tried to majorly hack apart tip for a
>quick and dirty port to linux -- had all the compile bugs worked out, but
>during the link phase I got a bunch of '_setjmp undefined' and other _name
>undefined messages. All from libraries I'm assuming I either have, but
>installed improperly, or don't have. I upgraded from gcc2.2.2 to gcc2.2.2d
>about a month ago with the updated install scripts from H.J.

I'm having the same problem with gcc2.2.2d.  When trying to link tcsh,
elvis, or anything else that uses setjmp(3), I get that weird _setjmp undefined 
error message.  What's going on?
-- 
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"I've so much music in my head" -- Maurice Ravel, shortly before his death.
"                             " -- John Cage
From: grater@ra.me.wisc.edu (Juergen Graeter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: anyone running linux on altima 433
Date: 8 Nov 92 20:56:16 GMT
Organization: /usr/users/grater/.organization


I am looking into buying a altima 433 notebook. 
procesor: 80486dx 32bit, 33mhz, 8kb cache
4 mb ram
120 mb hd

has anyone the same machine and is running linux (successfully) on it?

thanks

juergen
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: stephand@htsa.aha.nl (Stephan Dasia)
Subject: Re: TCPIP: Source for ftp-Daemon, etc. ?
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:40:54 GMT
Organization: Algemene Hogeschool Amsterdam, The Netherlands

FRed van Kempen has done some ports of BSD programs to LINUX,
including Ftpd.  His address is <waltje@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org> .

Stephan.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hartnegg@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Klaus Hartnegg)
Subject: Re: Help Please! -> TCP/IP
Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Deutschland
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 92 12:28:09 GMT

root@pooh.geophys.mcgill.ca (Steeve McCauley) writes:

>: Couldn't please the people who put together these packages
>: redo this and this time include all needed files? It's
>: really VERY hard for a newcomer to get a system up and
>: running.

>	That's half the fun! ... Isn't it? 

Well, yes, I didn't expect a perfect system and indeed wanted
to learn more about unix instead of just using it.

However if we want linux to have a future (with sun solaris
coming to 386 computers in march), then linux should already
have quite a good distribution by this time. Currently for
newcomers it's really difficult to set everything up.

At least there should no vital files be missing in the
standard distributions and dangerous files (fstab, lilo/map, 
mtab) not be there twice on different disks. 

If I have some time when I have linux running with tcpip,
I will possibly write a short introduction how to install it
with the currently available packages. What to do and what 
not to do. I don't know yet if I will find time for it but
I will try very hard.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu (M. Saggaf)
Subject: Re: Anyone compile gwm-1.7 with Linux ?
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 22:52:46 GMT

>>>>> On 5 Nov 92 08:37:50 GMT, andre@maties.sun.ac.za (ANDRE SKARZYNSKI) said:

AS> Hi All!

AS> I have trouble getting gwm v1.7 to compile. The problem seems to occur with
AS> flex. There seems to have trouble getting the lex stuff processed correctly,
AS> it might aslo have something to do with bison as well. I am afraid this is 
AS> rather sketchy, but I am not near my linux machine. I did use bison -y, so 
AS> the simple stuff is no problem, it is just when one compiles the proccessed
AS> code it complains about yytext and other things not been defined.

AS> Any help or suggestions will be much appreciated.

If you want to compile gwm, you have to use lex and yacc. Flex and
bison won't do. 

--
/M. Saggaf
 alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu


Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: Esemi@polaris.utu.fi (Sami-Pekka Hallikas)
Subject: Re: UUCP/SMAIL/ETC.. Needed for Linux
Organization: University of Turku, Finland
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 22:54:57 GMT

>I need smail for Linux. Also I need some news reader like rn or nn.
>If someone have these or know where I can get it (via ftp), or he/he
>could send it to me uucoded.

Thanks for all, But I don't need any of these, because I heard those can be
downloaded from sunsite.unc.edu.



Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ramesh@utdallas.edu (R. Ramesh)
Subject: Phone numbers needed and INFO about ATI boards.
Reply-To: ramesh@utdallas.edu
Organization: The University of Texas at Dallas, ACC
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 18:34:10 GMT

Hi:

  I am looking for phone numbers of Orchid (maker of S3 based Farenheit 1280)
and Actix (maker of Actix GraphicsEngine) to find out what is the trend of S3
based cards before I loose some money on a new card. 

I am interested in
running Xv2.1 under linux at 1152x900x256 at least with XS3 (I know that
current version of XS3 can only do 1024x768x256 and this is supposed to be
changed in the future).

BTW, all those who read my earlier message about "ATI Graphics ultra cannot do
1152x900" I have news. I talked to folks in ATI and they say you can if you
program Mach 8 directly (i.e, not 8514 no SVGA mach 8 direct). Documents about
mach 8 is freely available for $50. Docs about Mach 32 (the new processor in
the ultra+ and pro) are available after signing nondisclosure agreement :-(
But the guy I talked to said that it is only matter of time before this
restriction is taken off. He also said using SVGA registers instead of Mach 8
or Mach 32 directly can lead to as much as 50% penalty in speed. So the folks
with LocalBus ultrapro who bought it for sheer speed should work on X servers
with Mach 8 (or Mach 32) before they realize the full potential of the card
:-(

If anybody feels that the content of this message does not belong here please
inform me by e-mail and I will stop posting such messages.

Ramesh

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: becker@super.org (Donald J. Becker)
Subject: Re: Informal Linux Bof at IETF
Organization: IDA Supercomputing Research Center
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 03:05:20 GMT


I'm not going to the IETF, but I live in the DC area and would be
interested in doing "a thing" with other Linux developers.

Random background note // who's-who-and-what:

Locally we have about 10 Linux systems running.  I bought a 486 system
just to run Linux (after buying a 386 motherboard upgrade for a
housemate's sytem to try it out -- wwc@super.org was trying it out and
suggested that it was a better bet than my original intention of
getting BSD).  I then put together a purchase of identical systems for
five coworkers..  I've converted one of the research
systems running BSDI at work to Linux, and hope to move a few others
over from BSDI someday soon. That, along with three laptops
conversions (two purchased just to run Linux!) and a few others just
about convinced to convert their MS-DOS systems should make a
reasonable local user community.

My current work is on NE2000, NE1000, and 3C503 ethernet device
drivers.  They still in the pre-alpha stage (ie the bugs are obvious
enough that I can find them) but it should be ready before v1.00.  I also
have written a Linux audio/generalized-character-device driver that is
suitable for experimental work.  And I think my old NFS server is the
basis for the currently Linux NFS server.

My future work (once the ethernet drivers are working) is likely to be
tuning the TCP/IP implementation, implementing an MEther NFS server
(probably from scratch under the GPL rather than extensions to my old
NFS server), and maybe playing with a log-structured file system.

				Don Becker (becker@super.org)
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Supercomputing Research Center,  Institute for Defense Analyses
17100 Science Drive, Bowie MD 21114		   301-805-7482
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: lucy@lehre24.informatik.Uni-Bremen.DE (Holger Burde)
Subject: [Q] on X-programming 
Organization: Universitaet Bremen
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 10:43:09 GMT


Hi

Im looking for X programming toolkits available for linux to do a larger
Project on an graphics based Editor. I`ve played around for some time with 
InterViews 3.0.1 (slow and real big Binnaries !) and started to try out xview3.0.
From sun i know the OLIT Widget Library. Has this been portet yet or are there
any other Libs i can use (don't like the idea to use Xt ..).
any suggestions an this ??

h.b.


PS LINUX is a great OS. Thanx to all peoples who contributet to this !

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hpa@eecs.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin)
Subject: Announcement: Linux latin-1 patches
Organization: EECS Department, Northwestern University
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 22:11:05 GMT

This is a semi-offical announcement that alpha latin-1 patches for the
Linux kernel are now available on sunsite.unc.edu.

The filename is:  /pub/Linux/Incoming/latin1.tar.Z

The file includes a set of patches for the Linux 0.98-pl3 kernel, a patch
for LILO version Alpha.6, a DOS-hosted font editor, a font "compiler", and
a program called VDATA that determines the characteristics of your special
video modes (if any).

In order to make use of the latin-1 functions, you need an EGA, VGA or SVGA
video board.  If you have an SVGA board that is not an ATI or Tseng, you
will currently only get Latin-1 in "SuperVGA mode 00", which is 80x25.  If
you mail me the results of the VDATA program, you will soon see all modes
on your card properly supported.

If you are getting this package I strongly urge you to join the NORMAL
channel on the mailing list, as I do not intend to post to the newsgroup
anything but major developments.

	/hpa