HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: fmg@alpha.smi.med.pitt.edu (Filip Gieszczykiewicz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: FDFLUSH [was Re: Leaving light on mounted removable devices]
Summary: hardware solution?
Date: 22 Jan 93 06:46:02 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Organization: Medical Informatics, Pittsburgh, PA USA


	Greetings. Two things:

	1) I wouldn't mind drilling a small hole in the face-plate of
	my floppy drive and putting in a LED that the kernel would
	somehow flash... I've done similiar things in the past (NMI
	would be pulse-stretched and the "Turbo" LED would blink :-)
	So, anyone know any place (hardware connection) that the
	kernel could blink? (maybe on the drive cable itself?)

	2) I replied to someone but neither of us knows if this is
	possible: Since we're only interested in allerting the user
	to the fact that there is a disk in the drive (and we don't
	have to be reading it all the time) how about reading it
	every .5 second for .25 seconds? It would get the LED going
	but I don't think that the drive would have a chance to make
	any revolutions... BTW, blinking lights attract MUCH better
	than continously lit ones :-)

	Take care.

	P.S. Life sucks: I install the "current" version of Linux,
	get a few days to fine-tune it and have to get back to
	Real Life(tm)... then, come back and see that you folks
	are 2 levels ahead and have to reinstall... arghh! Yup, it's
	that time again: got 98.5 and 99.3 is out [sound of head exploding]
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From: glenn@cs.utexas.edu (Glenn G. Lai)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: free and ps Don't Work under SLS 1.0
Date: 27 Jan 1993 10:26:37 -0600
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: paducah.cs.utexas.edu

I've not seen others complain about this, but this happened to me with two sets
of SLS files downloaded by two different people.  The error messages I got are

	/# ps
	/proc must be mounted
	ps.c:read_globals:uptime: No such file or directory
	/# free
	cat: /proc/meminfo: No such file or directory
 
The "/proc" directory of course doesn't exist (yet).  Suggestions appreciated.


Glenn
glenn@cs.utexas.edu
From: sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: gcc 2.3.3 problem
Date: 26 Jan 93 19:42:20 GMT
Organization: University of Edinburgh Dept. of Computer Science, Scotland

In article <1993Jan25.144702.4734@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk>, a080700@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk (Stephen Wong S M) writes:
> I use the following command line to compile:-
> gcc -lm -o test_sqrt test_sqrt.c

> but I got the following error message:-
> /usr/tmp/cca001331.o: Undefined symbot _sqrt referenced from text segment

> Then I tried another command line:-
> gcc -o test_sqrt test_sqrt.c /usr/lib/libm.a

> and succeed.

> My question is, is it a bug in gcc 2.3.3/lib 4.2 (libm.a), or something
> I misunderstand?

This is a feature of most (if not all) unix C compilers.

The compiler command (cc or gcc) does not compile your program, but
rather just invokes the preprocessor, compiler and linker as
necessary.  It passess the appropriate command line arguments and
options to each sub-program.

However, it uses the position of an option on the command line to
determine which options to pass to which program.  Linking is done
after compilation, so linker options should come after compiler
options and arguments on the gcc command line.

Hence, if you have -lm at the start of a gcc command, that option will
never reach the linker, and so the linker cannot locate the symbol
_sqrt from the math library.

Placing all the library requests at the end of the gcc command line
will solve the problem; ie, use "gcc -o test_sqrt test_sqrt.c -lm".

Cheers,
 Stephen Tweedie.
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Stephen Tweedie <sct@uk.ac.ed.dcs>   (Internet: <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk>)
Department of Computer Science, Edinburgh University, Scotland.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: darin@infograph.com (Darin Wayrynen)
Subject: Vega Vram II text geometry
Organization: Informative Graphics
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 12:44:48 GMT

Hi...

I have a Vega Vram II video card hooked up along side an ATI 8514
Ultra video card.  I am running X8514 so I'm not terribly bothered by
this problem, but there are times I would like to use Text mode in
other than 80x25 or 80x50 geometry.

When I compile Linux to ask for which resolution I would like to use,
It always defaults to another video card other than mine.  I once
spent a few minutes trying to move the init code that test for my
video card to the top of the code, but was not so successful in doing
so, because even though I was given a proper list of geometries to
chose from, I was not able to switch ot any of them.  This is probably
do to the fact that the last video card checked for is the Vram II, so
I was not successful in cutting and pasting the code elsewhere...

Someday when I have time, I am going to go in and try to figure out
why it doesn't work, but before I do, I would like to hear from others
who may have, or may not have similiar problems with configurations
similiar to mine...

Thanks in advance for your responses...


-- 

Darin Wayrynen
Paragon Consulting Group

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: dommi@tu-clausthal.de (Thorsten Domsalla)
Subject: Linux for IBM PS/2 and MCA
Reply-To: catd@rz.tu-clausthal.de
Organization: Rechenzentrum der TU Clausthal
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 10:02:01 GMT

Linux works fine but not on my PS/2 model 80 A31. It's not the SCSI but the
Microchannel. I can't afford a new computer (a 8580 is veeery expensive for a
student...), thus I look for a version of Linux running on MCA machines. 
Who's doing the port and what are the problems?
May I help?

-dommi
     
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From: v119matc@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Claus Schwinge)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Specific Hardware Compatability Question:
Date: 28 Jan 93 22:01:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

I'm planning on installing Linux on a computer I'm buying, but I'd like to 
know if teh graphics accelerator will be usable by Linux, it is:

32-Bit STB VL-Bus Viper S3-805 graphics accelerator.

Please reply by mail, and thanx in advance.

-Claus Schwinge
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: remmons@iat.holonet.net (Robert Emmons)
Subject: Re: Internet Access
Organization: HoloNet National Internet Access BBS: 510-704-1058/modem
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:30:28 GMT

You can get dial up Internet 1200- 9600 bps for as little as $2 to $12
per hour depending on time and your location. Includes email, newsgroups,
ftp, telnet.

Call 1-800-NET-HOLO with modem set for 8N1 to try it.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: baltes@cpsc.UCalgary.ca (Hansjorg Baltes)
Subject: Linux 0.99.[34] hangs my system
Organization: The University of Calgary
Distribution: comp.os.linux
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 02:37:05 GMT

Hi,
I have been running linux for a while now and have never had any problems
with compiling a new kernel. (Well, at least none that weren't mentioned
on the net within the next 24 hours). Therefore, I am quite stymefied
at the behavior of my system when upgrading to 0.99.[34].

Problem: 0.99.2 works without problems.

Both 0.99.3 and 0.99.4 boot up okay and seem to work fine. However, after
running for anything from a couple of minutes to half a day my machine
simply locks up. I have no idea what does it and can't reproduce the
error. The keyboard doesn't work any more and the whole system is halted.

Symptoms: 0.99.4 seems to hold out longer than patch 3. It happens even
if I don't touch the keyboard for a long time. The only activity of the system
is running UUCP and calling up my feed. Could it be the serial driver?
What does the new keyboard flag mean? I just use the default for it?

Thanks,
	Jacky
From: Greg.Naber@f34.n343.z1.fidonet.org (Greg Naber)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: SLS problems (bug? report on getty/init)
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 10:39:44 -0800

I recently installed the latest SLS on a freinds machine, I also have an
older version of SLS installed on my own machine to compare with, (both
are now at 0.99.4 kernel)

I was having a problem with minicom contained in comms.tpz, which I
installed on both machines.

Seems that on mine, I could edit the minicom -s modem strings and other
items properly, but on the latest SLS version I could not. (The
backspace key would freak out an transfer all kinds of crud to the
minirc.dfl file, if saved).

Well after swapping video cards and moitors to ascertain if it was a
confilct between them, I decided to investigate the software...

After putting the getty and init programs from the new SLS onto the
older machine, (and associated gettydefs, gettytabs) I duplicated the
problem on my older SLS version machine (which didn't have a problem,
before)

getty dates and sizes:

New SLS: Dec. 30 25604
Old SLS: Dec. 2 33817

init dates and sizes:

New SLS: Jan. 11 17408
Old SLS: Sep. 17 3292

I am not sure which program is causing the problem, but there is a
problem associated with one or the other, I had to install all of the
programs and config's for getty to get the older system to boot.

It possibly could have something to do with the way that the consoles
are defined in the different gettydefs, of in the init program.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: etldncn@paddington.ericsson.se (Duncan Cameron)
Subject: Linux Boot Question
Organization: Ericsson Cellular Division
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:41:40 GMT




Help! Does anyone know how to bypass the inital loader for linux
where it askes you for a video mode? So that it boots into the right
mode without asking.

Or perhaps there is a way setting a different default value.

Thanks as always
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: drew@lethe.uucp (Drew Sullivan)
Subject: Re: gzip will be used in gcc/libc distributions
Organization: Systems Software
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 08:22:57 GMT

In article <1993Jan15.090510.2389@serval.net.wsu.edu> hlu@luke.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu) writes:
>I decided to switch to gzip (GNU zip), which can handle old
>compress. You can get gzip 0.7 from your favorite GNU ftp sites.

I too have added it to my tool set.  This means that I have it running
under SCO Unix 3.2.4.1.  I had no problems building it.
-- 
  -- Drew Sullivan, <drew@lethe.hades.gts.org>  -- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
From: neal@ctd.comsat.com (Neal Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: apropos broken cause not readable!
Date: 25 Jan 93 22:08:09 GMT
Organization: COMSAT Labs
NNTP-Posting-Host: neal.ctd.comsat.com
X-Md4-Signature: 7e10275c45494fd712082d03b05bbd5e

As shipped, apropos only works for root.  After saying chmod +r, it
works for anyone.  I'm sure I don't know why it need reads (in
addition to execute) permission.  Does anyone know?  Will I need to
make this change to other files in /usr/bin?

Thanks.
From: jregehr@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (John David Regehr)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: renders & linux
Date: 22 Jan 1993 12:54:39 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu
Keywords: render

In article <1993Jan22.161808.6001@ghost.dsi.unimi.it> santange@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (antonio santangelo) writes:
>I'm interesting to all render programs working under linux
>I know dkb (do you know where I can find bin for 387)
>       povray (the best I think but where I can find it binaries or how to compi         le it
>Do you know any other programs ?
>I'm interesting on cad programs too if you have any information please send me
>a mail at   rosa@ghost.sm.dsi.unimi.it
>
 
PoV compiles pretty much out of the box under linux; if I remember right,
all you need to do is get the unix version of the source, comment out the
body of the matherr function, and type make.
Dkb is what PoV was based on, there is no reason to mess with it.

                                              - John Regehr
From: kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Printcap / SLIP
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 18:38:28 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Brandon S. Allbery's Personal System

adam@owlnet.rice.edu (Adam Justin Thornton) writes:
> b) If KA9Q doesn't work with kernels > .97, then is there any way
> to do IP over the modem?  How do I tell TCP/IP that I'm using a
> serial line and not an ethernet card?

WAMPES NOS (ucsd.edu:/pub/hamradio/tcpip/wampes/wampes-921129.tar.Z, or
something along those lines) works under current Linux kernels, does SLIP,
and even interfaces to a limited extent with kernel TCP/IP.  The
documentation leaves something to be desired, but that's normal for
KA9Q-based packages.  :-)

The KA9Q .7 package should also work with the current kernel, as long as you
don't try to attach an Ethernet card.  (Don't install the kernel patches,
either.  If all you're doing is SLIP, there's no point in it.)  For SLIP it
should be okay, if a bit daft (read: out of date).

Kernel TCP/IP doesn't do SLIP.  There is a SLIP driver under development,
but it's being kept under close wraps because too many people insisted on
treating the pre-alpha driver as finished code and then wondering why their
systems kept dying....

++Brandon

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: gleasokr@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Kris Gleason)
Subject: Re: [Q] Compressed Filesystem? Interest?
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 01:00:17 GMT

>According to joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman):
>>The idea is that the anti-compressed file system would work in tandem
>>with an ordinary file system.  For most uses, you would mount the
>>system as, say xfs.  But for backup purposes, you would umount the xfs
>>system, and remount >the same disk partition< as xfs-anti-compress.

I think that this is way too much code to put in the kernel for backup
purposes only.  To implement it, you would have to write an anti-compressed
filesystem for every normal filesystem.  There are three now, with two
or three more on the way.  Why not instead, just write a program designed
to do multi-volume compressed backups, or better yet, a program that 
creates multi-volume gnu-tar archives, with the individual files compressed
(and a .Z or whatever tacked onto the filename).  In fact, it might be
really trivial to hack an `input compress' option to gnu tar that is 
compatible with the multi volume system and does not risk total loss at
the corruption of a single byte.

Ideas?  

Kris

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: minyard@crchh7b9 (Corey Minyard)
Subject: re:Patch 1 to Sony CD I/F
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 10:06:56 GMT
Organization: BNR, Inc.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

Don't apply the patch I just put on sunsite.  It has some serious things
wrong with it.  I will be putting a new version out tomorrow, as soon as
sunsite it back up.

Corey
wf-rch.cirr.com
From: estephen@whosnext.cad.gatech.edu (Eric R Stephens)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Adding Video driver information to X
Date: 22 Jan 1993 14:14:45 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, CAE/CAD Lab
NNTP-Posting-Host: whosnext.cad.gatech.edu

I am running Xmono on an Everex video card using chipset pvga1 (I  
think) and I get 640x350.  I found an Everex.doc along with a number  
of other video driver oriented docs in a linux X anonymous ftp.  How  
can I use this information to take advantage of the higher  
resolutions available on the video via DOS?
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: eeron@techunix.technion.ac.il (Ron Daisy)
Subject: SLS 99.2 problem: /dev/proc isn't mounted.
Reply-To: eeron@techunix.technion.ac.il (Ron Daisy)
Organization: Technion, Israel Inst. of Technology
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 10:01:33 GMT

I use SLS 0.99.2.  I noticed that I can't use ps because
the proc device is not mounted.

How cat I fix this problem?
 
Thanx !
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: remmons@iat.holonet.net (Robert Emmons)
Subject: xinit Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Organization: HoloNet National Internet Access BBS: 510-704-1058/modem
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:30:04 GMT

What is a "Segmentation fault (core dumped)"? I would appreciate any hints
anyone can give me. When I run xinit, all I get is that error message, a
core file, and the UNIX prompt. The core file says: 
 
    warning no client init file
    warning no server init file
    Server error
    Client error
    Xserver to begin accepting connections
    giving up
    wating for %s. no server %s in PATH
 
and a lot of other stuff. "X" is in my PATH, linked to "X386".
 
My setup is: a Diamond Speedstar VGA board with a Tseng ET-4000AX
chip and a MAG Computronics 1448 monitor. My system is a TriStar
386/33MHz. I know there's a FAQ item that says X doesn' work with
Diamond, but other docs and postings say it does. I'm using Linux
v0.97p2. I was hoping to avoid upgrading until v1.00 since it is
difficult for me to download megabyte files.
 
I would appreciate any hints you can give.

Xref: sparky comp.os.linux:25844 comp.unix.bsd:11975
From: wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 386BSD vs. Linux
Date: 28 Jan 1993 23:00:26 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association
NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu
Keywords: pari, ushort

In article <C1KzwK.EC6@inews.Intel.COM> dvanbibb@td2cad.intel.com (Dwaine VanBibber) writes:
>Hello,
>    This is most likely an FAQ...but here goes. I'm interested in acquiring
>a free/inexpensive Unix for my 486 PC at home. After following the DDJ
>series on 386BSD I am somewhat interested in it; however, I've been
>following the Linux as well. Which to choose? Maybe someone on the know
>can tell me the relative merits of each. Thanks.

Why not get both and try them out? Both 386BSD and Linux fit into
partitions on your PC disk -- you even have room for MSDOS and
something else, if you have the disk space.

You can get a copy of 386BSD from agate.berkeley.edu (and it's mirror
sites) via anonymous ftp. It is also available on CDROM from Austin
Code Works (info@acw.com) [Note -- this is unpatched 0.1 -- you should
get the patchkit in /unofficial on agate, and also the FAQ]. 

While the "Porting" series ended in July, we still write feature articles
for DDJ -- our December issue article discussed the 386BSD ISO-9660 filesystem 
format. I'll be detailing Rock Ridge extensions (with code) in the March 
[tent.] issue.

Lynne Jolitz.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: kfisher3@mach1.wlu.ca (kevin fisher U)
Subject: [Q] Upgrading Linux?
Summary: question
Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 04:06:23 GMT

Hello World!

	From someone's recent post I have deduced that upgrading my version
of linux (.98pl5) to .99p3 or greater is going to be a 'big problem.'

	Can anyone give me any advice on how I can make it as painless as
possible?  I don't have any kind of tape backup unit or anything, but can
anyone suggest a (CHEAP!) one that will work with linux?

	ALSO: I want to install OS/2 with linux-->can anyone give me some
advice (yes, I've read the FAQ).

Thanks in advance (e-mail please!)


-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: shanea@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Shane Alderton)
Subject: Re: Floptical From Iomega
Organization: Sydney University Computing Service, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 14:05:07 GMT

fhchua@athena.mit.edu (Fei Hai Chua) writes:

>Has anyone got the floptical drive to work on Linux? It came with a
>controller which I think is a SCSI card, but when Linux booted up, there
>were no SCSI devices detected at all.

I don't know if it is the same drive, but I have an Insite floptical drive
working under Linux off an Adaptech SCSI controller.  The controller which
came with my drive was a Grassroots controller which is not supported
by Linux and I doubt will ever be.  I do know of someone else with an
Insite drive who is having trouble getting it to work, so don't get your
hopes too high.  Mine works fine however, so don't give up either!

Note again that you MUST use a supported SCSI controller, then all
should be fine (given my limited knowledge of SCSI)

Regards,
Shane Alderton
shanea@extro.ucc.su.oz.au
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
Subject: Re: kernal error(?) 99p5
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:38:15 GMT

I didn't know Linus had gotten to p5 yet.
-- 
Ed Carp			erc@apple.com, erc@saturn.upl.com	801/538-0177

"It is your resistance to 'what is' that causes your suffering."   -- Buddha
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ggerard@alex (Greg Gerard)
Subject: patching the kernal
Followup-To: ggerard@tusol.cs.trinity.edu
Organization: Trinity University, San Antonio TX, USA
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 05:41:47 GMT

when patching the kernal, say from .99p2 to .99p4, does one apply p3?  Also,
is SLS a standard kernal or modified?

greg
ggerard@tusol.cs.trinity.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: Mario Guerra <MGUERRA%UCRVM2.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
Subject: Drivers for NE2000
Reply-To: MGUERRA%UCRVM2.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 14:44:46 GMT

HI, I'm a new member of this list.

I'm interested in developing the drivers for NE2000. Now, this would be
my first project of this kind, so I want to make some questions:

- There is code for the Crynwr packet drivers. Is this useful in some way
  for developing the Linux drivers?.

- How can I develop ANY packet driver in Linux?.

- How a packet driver works in Linux?.

I would love to be useful to LInux people from the beginning.

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From: Rob.Levin@p13.f217.n3802.z1.fidonet.org (Rob Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Token Ring (Again)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 12:32:18 -0800

Replying to a message by Demian A. Johnston of 1:343/94@fidonet, Jan 21
19:49, to All:

 DAJ> Any work yet done for an IBM token ring network adapter device 
 DAJ> driver for TCP/IP???

 DAJ>     (Someone could make a lot of people at CMU very happy.)
 DAJ>     Demian  <daj+@CMU.EDU>   <dj1l+@andrew.cmu.edu>

Somebody at *CMU* could do it!  :-)  You might want to ask around and
find someone who has the background and would get excited about having
token ring....  ;-)


Rob L.

 * Origin: Via the Annex in Victoria, Texas (1:3802/217.13)

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: pm2@aries.demon.co.uk (Paul Ma)