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From: henkv@cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Henk Vandecasteele)
Subject: X and a Trident8900C
Organization: Dept. Computerwetenschappen
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 09:24:17 GMT

Hello to everybody,

As it seems to be difficult to set up X on a Trident VGA -card I'm posting
my Xconfig file.

Further information:
	I have a 386-33  with AMI bios,
	a 80M harddisk (IDE, WESTERN DIGITAL)
	4M memory, a cheap serial mouse,
	TRIDENT TVGA 8900C card with BIOS C2.11
	A cheap color monitor AOC (CM-335) 
	with a maximum horizontal frequence of 39.5
	I'm using the SLS-distribution v0.89pl1

This what I have been doing:
	I made the root readable for everyone
	I performed a mkfontdir in all the font directory's.
	I did not compress the font files.
	/usr/X386/bin/X a symbolic link to /usr/X386/bin/X386.
	set up the config-file wich will follow.
	Wondering how i can get my monitor in interlaced mode with X386

My Xconfig:

RGBPath		"/usr/X386/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath	"/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"

Keyboard
  AutoRepeat 500 5
  ServerNumLock

# Mouse driver (I have a cheap serial mouse on a com-port)
MouseSystems	"/dev/ttys1"
  BaudRate	1200

#
# The graphics drivers
#
vga256
  Virtual	1024 1024

  ViewPort      0 0
  Modes        "912x684" "800x600" "640x480" 


ModeDB
# name        clock   horizontal timing     vertical timing      flags
# First two Vesa standard modes:  
 "640x480"     25      640  664  760  800    480  491  493  525
 "800x600"     36      800  824  896 1024    600  601  603  625

# A quite high resolution mode with a reasonable refresh rate.
 "904x678"     45      904  936 1104 1136    678  678  684  712 

# This mode drives my monitor to the limit
 "912x684"     45      912  944 1104 1136    684  684  690  712 


Henk.


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From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: compression programs/filesystems
Date: 7 Nov 92 20:30:25 GMT
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, CANADA

I am almost afraid to bring up this bogey man again, but here goes.

Is anyone working on a block compression and/or a compressed filesystem?
If so, could you please drop me a line. 

Peter
pmacdona@sanjuan.uvic.ca
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.lang.tcl
From: nnhut@bnr.ca (Nhut Nguyen)
Subject: Tcl on Linux machines.
Keywords: Tcl, Linux, porting
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 16:32:39 GMT

Hello world,

Just curious, has someone tried to compile/port Tcl to Linux already ?
If so how much work involved ? Inquiring mind wants to know.

Thanks in advance for any info.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan)
Subject: Re: Linus and his virtual beer
Organization: Vince and Suzie's Underpowered PC
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 20:00:11 GMT

wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:

>df@eyrie.demon.co.uk (Derek Fawcus) writes:
>>Ok, I've got to ask... what is VIRTUAL beer? (beer that isn't really there?,
>>or is it just virtually beer -- that's it someone sent him home-brew)

virtual beer is indeed a sad thought.
kind'a like:
	management action
	military intelligence
	decisions in progress
	standard unix

:-)

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From: ngoh@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (NGO HIEN D)
Subject: Re: X-windows
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 00:05:56 GMT

There are a host of considerations when setting up your Xconfig file.
One glaring problem from your Xconfig that was posted was that the
clocks were using the exact values returned from (I assume) the 
clock.exe program.  Just round the numbers and make sure that
there is a corresponding clock associated with each video mode you
have listed.

I haven't had to really deal too much with some of the other
settings as I have a ET4000 based card, there should be some
guidelines to help you with the X package.

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From: Chris.Bugosh@f340.n226.z1.fidonet.org (Chris Bugosh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Mouse problems on Com 1
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 16:12:00 -0800

For those of you that are having problems with your mouse on COM1, (If I
remember correctly) in the older packages (.96x) Linus used ttys1 for
COM1, in .98pl1, it is now ttys0.  So, in Xconfig, all you have to do is
change the "/dev/ttys1" to /dev/ttys0" and you'll be all set.

Chris

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Organization: Ryerson Polytechnical Institute
Distribution: na
Date: Friday, 6 Nov 1992 14:07:09 EST
From: <ACPS7221@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: WYSIWIG AVAIL.

I have gotten some response for the older interviews version of doc, so I
will post it to sunsite (/pub/Linux/Incoming) over the weekend. Remember that
this version probably does have bugs, but you will get a chance to see what
it does. I will post a notice once it is there.
                              Join the INTERVIEWS channel!
                                             michael.
       BTW A newer version should be avail next week so you might want to
         hold on till then.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: kilroy@ms.uky.edu (Paul S. Kilroy)
Subject: [WANTED] Printing Program
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 02:04:32 GMT
Organization: Big, Dangerous Ideas, Inc.

Hi all


	I need a program to look at my /etc/printcap so 
   I can print ghostscript files correctly to my printer
   Does any one know a program (or alias/macro) that will
   do this... Here is my printcap also..



	laser|lp|Canon LBP4|my laser printer:\
	        :lp=/dev/ttya:sd=/usr/spool/lpd:lf=/dev/console:sh:1:\
	        :br#9600:ms=cs8,-onlcr,ixon,decctlq,-parity:mx#10000:
		
thanks..
paul

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: scottwa@carex.forests (Scott Warner)
Subject: Re: SLS update
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 18:40:23 GMT
Reply-To: scottwa@carex.forests
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.

I just installed the brand new SLS release last night.
The problem with the shell-init takes place in the b-disks of the distribution
for some unknown reason.  I noticed the problem after I installed all the
b-disks so I think it might be in the zbfix.  I just located the shell script
zafix in /install/scripts and reran it and everything was fine.

A couple of other problems I had were: 
		The all the man pages are not world readable
			The directories I remember that had problems
			were cat1, cat8, and man1(?).  I believe there
			was at least one more directory that needed fixing.
		The other major problem I had was that the X11 font files in
			/usr/lib/X11/font/75dpi and /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc
			need to be compressed before I could get X to work.

All in all the problems were minor and just took a little head scratching to 
figure out.  

The SLS release of Linux is just the thing to expose it to the masses.
I knew about Linux long before I installed it.  The only problem was that I have no
system administrator experience and so installing a complete unix system from scratch
was intimidating to say the least.  When I found out about SLS I went out and 
grabbed it off the net and in about 3 hours have unix and X-windows running
on my PC.  Please keep up the excellant work.  		



			Scott Warner



Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: harry@atlas.socsci.umn.edu (Kuo-Chen Chang)
Subject: what happened to cpp
Keywords: cpp 
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 14:26:14 GMT

Forgive me if it'sa stupid FAQ! 

	I was compiling a program and received an error message:

	/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.2.2d/cpp: y.tab.c: No such file or ...
	make: *** [OBJ]/y.tab.o] Error 1

	Of course there is no such subdirectory "../gcc-lib/i386....".  We
	might be able to find that in old gcc compiler.  But what happened
	to cpp?  I could not find it!  We don't need it any more?

--Harry

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: farrow@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (J. Scott Farrow)
Subject: Re: Problems with Linux and 486/33 Mhz (486/50 MHz) ?
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Distribution: cu
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 12:08:41 GMT

stoehr@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Peter Stoehr) writes:


>Hi folks,

>I plan to work linux. Because I know, that Unix in general loves memory and
>CPU-speed, I plan to buy a 486/33MHz (or a 486/50 MHz) system. But it seems to
>me that this maybe a bad idea. The FAQ from 5th october says, that it might
>gives some problems.
>Is this true or are the problems solved ?

>    Thanks in advance
>	Peter

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Huh?

I've been using Linux since July on my Packard Bell 33 Mhz 486DX with no
problems whatsoever. 

Oh, now I remember some vague reference from an old FAQ about 486's, but 
nothing ever happened to me. Anyone know what that's about?

Where's that FAQ again.....

Scott

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Computing & Network Services, Boulder, Colorado, USA, phone: (303) 492-4428
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From: djr48312@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (X X)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: What is xview3
Date: 5 Nov 92 04:58:59 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.Bx88ID.B8B
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

I picked up xview3.tar.Z from tsx.  Thinking it was 'xv' I installed it,
allit looks like is olwm, but menutions something of application building
or something of the sort.  What exactly is it?
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From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: fig2dev
Date: 5 Nov 1992 08:50:04 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

wunder@dfv.rwth-aachen.de (Marcus Wunderlich) writes:

>Hi Linuxers,

>during the last weeks I saw some of you looking for the binary
>fig2dev which translates fig-files into latex- or postscript-format.
>Some days ago I compiled it and if some of you are interested I try
>to make it available as a binary.

>Marcus

Also, the source is in the X11R5 contrib stuff under the transfig
directory if anyone wants to compile their own. I know that I compile
everything myself for my system just to be sure I have all the defaults
the way I want them

James
From: lukasz@wlheye.jsei.ucla.edu (Lukasz Salwinski)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: TCPIP w/ ethernet wd8003 (contd)
Date: 10 Nov 92 17:50:56 GMT

I've got net access with wd8003 . Our net is 149.142.138.x
so my -n is 149.142.138.0 It seems to be working fine...
Nearly.... I cannot get into any VAX system.... They do not
accept my username (after I type it in there's no password prompt)


But otherwise everything is working fine. Even nameserver access :-)


 
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From: canau@muttley.fc.ul.pt (Carlos.Canau)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: tip  and  cu  for  linux
Keywords: tip, cu, modem, uucp
Date: 5 Nov 92 18:12:28 GMT
Reply-To: Carlos.Canau@ul.pt
Organization: PUUG - Portuguese UNIX Users Group


  Hello.

  I'm looking for the programs tip and cu for linux.
  Can anyone guide me to a site that have them ?

  Thanks in advance,
  Please e-mail me at  canau@ul.pt
  by(e) khanau


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From: bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us (Bob Kirkpatrick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Errors after memory incident
Date: 12 Nov 92 18:17:11 GMT
Organization: Dog Ear'd Systems of Spokane, WA


I've run into some confusing errors. (0.98pl1 SLS)

All was going smoothly until I compiled an X program (xv). The system
reported 'out of memory' and went to sleep. On reboot, it came back
and told me something like 'two blocks free' but allowed normal login.
My machine is a 40mhz 386 clone with 8mb of ram. So I repartitioned
my second harddisk to give me a 16mb swap space.

Since then, I get odd readings from the free command --like most of
my memory is assigned to cache, and I'll have 52k unused. I also get
errors which appear to be disk related --I got these before changing
the harddisk-- Kernel panic: assigned block not in data zone.' This
causes the system to drop dead, requiring a hard reset.

Anyone know what this is all about?

Also, is there a utility for linux which identifies bad blocks and
marks them so they won't get used? Low level formats with readchk and
marking, along with full fsck diag/fix operations aren't fixing a few
areas on my harddisk. (this is NOT related to the above). Different
system.

Thanks!

--- 
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Dog Ear'd Systems of Spokane, WA 
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux Documentation Project
Date: 12 Nov 1992 19:21:26 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: almaak.usc.edu

mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh) writes:

>The following is a summary of the status of the Documentation work being
>done on the DOC channel of the linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi mailing list.

I just wanted to thank the guys involved in writing the documentation.
It's not as glamorous as writing code but incredibly valuable to the
Linux community.

        -ans.
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From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux user listserver
Date: 10 Nov 92 23:16:30 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

DEPIN@target.com (Robert Depin) writes:
>Could someone give me the proper address of the linux server so I can
>subscribe to that list.

If you are talking about the Linux mailing lists, there are several.
>Their addresses are included in the FAQ.

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From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale)
Subject: New scsi drivers now in public alpha testing.
Keywords: SCSI NEW FROBOZZ
Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 00:16:58 GMT

	The new scsi drivers are now in public alpha testing.  Anyone who wants
to try them out should sign on to the SCSI channel, because I will not make
many announcements here.  Contact me for more information.

-Eric


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From: cteague@ra.cs.umb.edu (Charles F. Teague II)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: X11 w/ 2Mb --> Don't bother...
Date: 6 Nov 92 07:25:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1992Nov6.072532.13203
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston


  This is a quick note to anyone who is interested enough at the idea
of being able to run Xwindows on their PC, but who only has 2Mb of RAM:

  "Don't Bother."

  I saw the messages that said you should have at least 4 Mb (some said at
least 8 Mb) to run X11 effectively, but through a lack of strong wording,
and (admittedly) my hope that I could get by w/ 2Mb, I decided to try
anyways.  So, 7 disks * 1.2 Mb * 2400bps == about 1.5 weeks later, and I
have the SLS (0.98) x disks.  I install it last night, and after playing
around for a bit, setting up Xconfig, I finally run X tonight.

  Ouch!  I never heard my HD swap so much!  X functioned, but with hideous
delays! (and all I had running was xclock + xterm...).  Plus, since twm is
smart enough to wake up windows when they are under the mouse, simply moving
the mouse around while waiting for it to finish loading something can result
in it waking up (+ therefore swapping in) and then putting back to sleep (+ 
therefore swapping back out) other applications, slowing it down even worse!

  This is not to put down X...  What I saw looked pretty good.  It's just that
2Mb is TRULY NOT ENOUGH MEMORY!

  Hopefully, this message will save anyone who is in the position I was in
2 weeks ago the trouble of transfering 7 disks worth of X files.

	Sincerely,
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mark@student.business.uwo.ca (Mark Bramwell CS STAFF)
Subject: linux and > 64meg partitions?
Organization: University of Western Ontario
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 06:00:13 GMT

I have been using 386bsd at work (very stable) and want to install something
at home.  I have a 200meg scsi drive at home.  I would like to setup
a 160meg partition.  Can linux handle large partitions yet?

I know there is/was an EFS, but 2 months ago, people were complaining it
was unstable.

Also,  I have TCPIP running at home with a few other machines, so I would
want ftp/telnet and nfs.


mark@student.business.uwo.ca (Mark Bramwell CS STAFF)
Western Business School  --  London, Ontario
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: pjs@raster.Kodak.COM (Patrick Sweeney)
Subject: SCSI problems
Reply-To: pjs@raster.Kodak.COM (Patrick Sweeney)
Organization: The Internet
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 15:10:23 GMT

Hi,
	I am posting this for a friend. He is currently running Linux 0.98.3
on a 486/33 Gateway 4M ram with a SCSI Maxtor 340M hd using and Adaptec
controller. Running anything on the machine that uses heavy disk io is
sllloooowwww (e.g. it took him 4 hours to compile the kernel).
Swapping is disabled. Anybody else had this sort of problem and any ideas
for solution outside of buying a new machine ;-)
tnx
	if you have anything specific please send mail to
		bmt@raster.kodak.com

- pjs@raster.kodak.com
From: donadio@orville.psu.edu (Beaker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: lex and yacc from 386BSD
Keywords: lex, yacc, flex
Date: 7 Nov 92 18:20:09 GMT
Organization: Penn State Center for Academic Computing
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

Has anyone had success using lex and yacc from 386BSD under Linux?  
Both seemed to compile fine, but I get compile errors from stuff that
uses lex.  I know the problem isn't the source because I then compiled
the source on a Sun, and everything went well.  Could the problem be 
that I had to use flex to process one of the files for lex?

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From: kranz@cs.tulane.edu (Barry Kranz)
Subject: Re: (append) Does someone port ImageMagick to Linux yet?
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-19933]: amor
Keywords: ImageMagick, X, linux
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 20:39:18 GMT

I have successfully compiled Imagemagic alone and with the JPEG libraries,
which is a little trickier.  The key is to simply modify the standard
Makefile which comes with ImageMagick.  Assuming you have gcc swap that
for cc, add your include file location to the flags by typing -Ilocation.
(no space after the I) Also change the file to show your true X11 library
location by typing -Llocation before the -l on the library line.  Also
change the location of where you want the command make install to put your
finnished program on the suitable line.

Good Luck
Kranz@thor.cs.tulane.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux