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From: roell@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Thomas Roell)
Subject: Re: ET3000
	<BxI493.Iu6@unios.rz.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE>
	<1992Nov11.074017.12335@athena.mit.edu>
Organization: Inst. fuer Informatik, Technische Univ. Muenchen, Germany
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 07:42:57 GMT

>>Hello
>>
>>I just have installed LINUX SLS 0.98. Everything works fine, only my 
>>>ET3000 VGA-Card makes trubble. The "640x480" and "800x600" modes work,
>>but the "1024x768i" mode does not :-(((((
>
>i would suggest getting the modegen package uploaded to tsx-11 (i think).
>it is absolutely wonderful.  in 5 minutes, it produced bizarre clock
>timing that propeeled my fixed-frequency monitor to 1008x788 interlaced
>resolution.  it's crazy, but it works!

But then again, 1024x768 need at least 768kBytes of video memory,
while the usual ET3000 card has only 512k. So it might be quite
understandable, why you cannot get 1024x768i to work ...

- Thomas
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From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: SLS update
Date: 7 Nov 92 04:17:59 GMT
Article-I.D.: sol.1992Nov7.041759.8096
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, CANADA

Micro update.  I added the "chmod a+r ." fix to b5/zbfix.taz.
This should fix the "shell-init" bug.  It looks like the offender
is the tcpip package.  The last time I updated it, root got in there.

Peter.
From: foustwf@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: CMS jumbo 250
Date: 6 Nov 1992 21:35:09 GMT
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Reply-To: foustwf@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: hydra.rose-hulman.edu

I posted earlier asking if there was any programs or device drives or 
something out there so that I can use my CMS jumbo 250 with Linux.
I got no response, so I am assuming that the answer is No. So, I have
contacted the QIC committee and will be receiving a copy of the 
QIC-80 specs next week. I will TRY to write something to make
use of the Jumbo 250. If anyone has any suggestions on how to do
this, or has done any work in the area, Please contact me with suggestions
etc.
		Thanks,
			Bill
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: kfogel@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Karl Fogel)
Subject: Proposal to help people w/out net access get Linux
Organization: Oberlin College Computer Science
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 19:24:08 GMT
Distribution: comp.os.linux
X-Posted-From: occs.cs.oberlin.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu


	Most Linuxers got their Linux by ftp, I would guess, and a few
from BBS's. Few have gotten it from one of the various vendors selling
it, although I have no hard figures on this. I think that our numbers
may now be high enough that a third way is possible, and that becomes
more and more feasible as the number of Linuxers increases, and that
is to get it directly from another person! (Many people have never
heard of the Internet, and may not be able to get access to a BBS).
Might I propose that anyone who has Linux, and is willing to help set
up other people with it, send me their name, address (email AND
Prehistoric Post addresses, for obvious reasons), and I will compile a
list of people by geographic location who are willing to be small-time
distribution centers for Linux? I will post this list periodically (in
plain text and maybe Latex too, so it can be printed out more
attractively) and this will give people who don't have net access a
source for Linux. Moreover, most of the people who send me their
addresses will be people who have net access (since they saw this) and
so will be goo distributors since they'll be able to keep up with the
most recent developments in the Linux world. 
	Agreeing to be put on the list means committing yourself to
copying Linux to disks that the soon-to-be-user supplies, and maybe
some help at install time, if they live near you and are afraid to try
it all by themselves (which would be understandeable). To be a good
distributor would also probably mean keeping the basic Linux documents
(FAQ, Install guides, GCC info, etc) on file to give to people as
well, but this should not be a problem as they don't take up much
space. I'll start, naturally, by putting my own name on the list :-) I
think that this could really help speed the growth of Linux, if enough
people volunteer (especially those at universities, since there are
likely to be people receptive to free PC Unix there). Axiomatic to all
this, of course, is that encouraging the spread of Linux is a Good
Thing... but I think we all agree on that :-) !!	
        Obvious Question: how will the people who need it most ever
see this list that I post and upload to various sites, since they
don't have net access? Well, that's a good question ... does anyone
have some ideas for making sure that this list gets to people who
don't have net access?
--

 Karl Fogel ("Leg of Lark") <>    Member, League for Programming Freedom
   kfogel@cs.oberlin.edu    <>
 fogel@antares.mcs.anl.gov  <>  Any opinions disclaimed are entirely my own.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: benvel@jupiter.Berkeley.EDU (Herve BENVEL)
Subject: Printing with Deskjet
Keywords: Problems occuring
Reply-To: benvel@jupiter.Berkeley.EDU (Herve BENVEL)
Organization: Universite Paris VI/Paris VII
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 17:11:15 GMT

Hi, ever growing linux family.

	As one of the many newcomers, I have lots of problems configuring my
own Linux version. 

	Most of everything is working quite fine, except the printer : after 
one line, everything goes down. The one-line led starts blinking
abnormally, and
the head goes from left to right, then stops.

	Can anyone tell me what to do, to be able to print my Readmes and Configs
from linux, instead of extensively using the mtools package ?

			Thanks in advance to any kind soul who would help.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: esaffle@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Ed Saffle)
Subject: Re: Has Anyone gotten Trident 8900C and SLS 0.98 to work
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 18:58:51 GMT

In article <1992Nov6.142612.20227@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> fh8n@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Frank Houston) writes:
>Hello World
>
>If anyone out there has gotten X to work  on a trident 89000C 
>from SLS, could you please mail me your Xconfig and and modification
>you did to SLS to get it to work.


I have that card...and a CTX NI monitor too.  I got all the required
stuff for xfree from tsx-11, and installed it and worked on the config
file a bit (don't know what I am doing though) but I still can't
get much out of it.  Everything loads, but is kind of fuzzy...and the mouse
won't move the pointer.  *shrug*  I think I need to dig up some docs
for X sometime soon... though I am not bombing out as early as you are.

Still looking,

Ed

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: kroeker@oc1.oc.chemie.th-darmstadt.de (Martin Kroeker)
Subject: Survey: Supported tape drives					
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 11:47:39 GMT
Distribution: world		
Organization: Technical University, Darmstadt, Germany
Keywords: QIC-02 streamers

Perhaps I am not the only one who finds it difficult to identify those
makes and models of tape streamers that comply with the QIC-02 interface (?)
standard. Could those of you who successfully use such a tape streamer with 
Linux please send me a short message stating the drive type (personal email 
please, I will summarize in this newsgroup) ?
Thanks in advance,
Martin

Martin Kroeker, Dept. of Organic Chemistry, Tech. Univ. Darmstadt, Germany
kroeker@oc1.oc.chemie.th-darmstadt.de or db7p@mvs.hrz.th-darmstadt.de
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From: kg@gnusys.GUN.de (Klaus Guhr)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: HELP  --  cpio for linux
Date: 4 Nov 92 19:17:26 GMT
Organization: GNUSYS // Private Linux Site
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Kuo-Chen Chang (harry@atlas.socsci.umn.edu) wrote:
: Greeting, netters!
: 
: 	Could some kind heart show me where to find the cpio for linux?
: 
use GNU cpio 1.5 or the new 2.1 ....

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From: maspab@gdr.bath.ac.uk (P A Broadbery)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Can I make/mount a filesystem in a file?
Summary: Yup.
Date: 10 Nov 92 12:48:56 GMT
Organization: School of Mathematics, University of Bath, UK

In the referenced article, rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller, Linux Device Registrar) writes:
>I think I remember this thread coming up before, but I don't remember if
>it was satisfactorily answered...
>
>Can I create a file (maybe with "dd if=/dev/zero of=filename count=$size")
>in which I could make a filesystem ("mkfs filename $size")
>and then mount that filesystem?

Try using the user_dd patches in the ALPHA directory on tsx-11. They
allow you to create block devices which talk to a user level program,
and a supplied client does just what you ask.

There is also a 'ramdisk' program which is a cool way of loading HJ's
{base,gcc,lib}disks without wasting a floppy (or uncompressing the
image). ramdisk in quotes 'cos it spends most its time swapped out...

BTW, is anybody maintaining this program?

Pete
pab@maths.bath.ac.uk
From: simonich@uservx.plk.af.mil
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: compiling ghostscript/view
Date: 5 Nov 92 21:21:26 GMT
Organization: Phillips Laboratory - Kirtland AFB

In article <michaelw.721002668@mcshh.hanse.de>, michaelw@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Michael Will) writes:
> I tried to compile ghostscript 2.5.2, and got:
> echo -lsocket -lm >>_temp_
> /bin/sh <_temp_
> ld: No such file or directory for libsocket.a
> make: *** [gs] Error 1
> # 
> Why this?
> 
> Someone told me it should "make" without trouble on linux.
> 
> Ghostview failed as well:
> # make
> gcc -fwritable-strings -fomit-frame-pointer  -O2 -m386 -DNO_ASM   -I/usr/X386/include  -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE      -Dlinux  -DFUNCPROTO=11 -DNARROWPROTO -DNON_BLOCKING_IO  -DSELFILE -DHOME_ON_DEMAND   -c misc.c -o misc.o
> misc.c:61: conflicting types for `sys_errlist'
> /usr/include/errno.h:8: previous declaration of `sys_errlist'
> make: *** [misc.o] Error 1
> 
> So what?
> 
> Greetings, Michael Will

I'm very new to the wonderful world of Imake et.al.  However, I did
compile ghostscript last night (and on the first try!).

I umpacked the gs252 directory, did a xmkmf to regenerate the Makefile,
did make, and went out to watch TV.  When I came back it was done.

I am using a very valnilla system consisting of HLU's base disk and
gcc disks under Linux 0.98p3+ (the + is Linus's emergency fix).

This is probably no help but at least you know that the problem isn't
in GhostScript 2.5.2.  Therefore, it must (?) be something in
your paths.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: satishc@microsoft.com (Satish Chittamuru)
Subject: Re: Swap speed - my machine is a potted plant!
Date: 05 Nov 92 02:58:04 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <Nov.4.11.16.57.1992.1608@gandalf.rutgers.edu> glenw@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Glenn Wasserman) writes:
 > Is there any way to make swapping more efficient under linux? I don't want to
 > make a swap partition, but when the system needs resources under X and resorts
 > to swapping, the speed of the system degrades to a point where it's almost use-
 > less. I have to simply wait until it's done swapping.

What type partition is your swapfile on? If it is EXTFS, you will get
lousy performance. I ran iozone on my system. And the results are:

  Writing a 15MB file
	486/33
	8MB ram & 12MB swap
	linux 0.98.1

  /dev/hda2 - 25MB MINIX partition
	read  - ~620000 bytes/second
	write - ~540000 bytes/second

  /dev/hda3 - 119 MB EXTFS partition
	read  - ~170000 bytes/second
 	write - ~140000 bytes/second

The worst part of this is that the EXTFS is the outer partition on
my drive (a multizone recorded drive). My old MINIX partition used
to show a noticeable increase on the outer partitions.
(obviously, I use a dedicated swap partition).

Also if you partition is badly fragmented, you will have a noticeable
drop in performance. Some one posted a frag.c program a while ago.
You can try running that on your swapfile and see how many fragments
it has. The fewer the better. See if you repack your stuff and create
an unfragmented swapfile.

 > Thanks,
 > Glenn


-- 
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=====
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jrs@world.std.com (Rick Sladkey)
Subject: Re: definition of fd_set is a trouble spot
Organization: The Internet
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 15:04:42 GMT

>>>>> On Sun, 8 Nov 1992 07:31:30 GMT, quale@spock.cs.wisc.edu (Doug
>>>>> Quale) said:

Doug> The definition of fd_set in <linux/types.h> is a bit of a
Doug> trouble spot.  BSD makes fd_set an integer array to allow more
Doug> open files/process than bits/word.  Linux allows only 32 open
Doug> files/process, so fd_set is made an unsigned long.

Doug> If I haven't bored you to death and you're with me this far, the
Doug> problem is that some programs expect fd_set to be an array, not
Doug> a scalar.  For example, BSD rshd.c has the code sequence

Doug> fd_set ready, readfrom;

Doug> ...

Doug> ready = readfrom;

Doug> The intent is that ready be an alias for readfrom, but this
Doug> won't work if fd_set is a scalar as in Linux.  (BSD documents
Doug> fd_set as an array in the man pages, so I would say that this
Doug> coding is legitimate.)

The intent is not for ready to be an alias for readfrom.  Let's say
fd_set is really an array.  Then the above assignment is illegal
because ready is not an lvalue.  In most select implementations,
fd_set is either a scalar (e.g. Linux, BSD 4.2) or a structure
containing a vector (e.g.  BSD 4.3, SunOS).  If it is a structure,
then the assignent causes the structure to be copied, so it is still
not an alias.  Either implementation is correct and does not cause
portability problems as long as programs only use the predefined
macros for manipulating them.
--
Rick Sladkey
jrs@world.std.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: drew@kinglear.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
Subject: Re: which(1) ? where-is-it : I-wrote-one
Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 14:49:32 GMT

In article <9211082953@gandalf.moria> u31b3hs@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Michael Haardt) writes:
>Hello,
>
>I just noted that the GNU shellutils don't include which(1).  If there
>is a version floating around, I would like to know where I can get it,
>otherwise I offer to make mine (including manual page) available.

Under bash, you can make it an alias - 

alias which='type -path'

Under tcsh, it is a built in.

If you are using ash as an interactive shell, I feel for you. 
Switch to bash for a Bourne shell or tcsh for a C shell.



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Boycott AT&T for their absurd anti-BSDI lawsuit.
From: ron@argus.lpl.Arizona.EDU (Ron Watkins)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Partitioning a new HD for Linux/DOS
Keywords: partition
Date: 12 Nov 92 16:19:26 GMT
Organization: Lunar and Planetary Lab, U of AZ

Im getting a new Western Digital IDE drive for my 386/20. I have decided that
I want to partition the 210Mb in a more-or-less traditional form (with the
exception of DOS).
I want to create a bootable DOS partition of about 25-35 Mb for stuff my wife
won't let go of. The rest of the disk is open for Linux.
I want to put root in it's own partition so that I won't screw it up if I goof
somthing up in one of my programs. I assume that this will be just bigenough
to hold the kernel and some root level stuff like /lib and /etc... Is this
correct? Does anyone know just how big this should be for 0.98pl3?
I wanted to set my /swap (b partition) to at least 2x my memory size of 4mb.
This would be 8mb but I might go larger because I develope image processing
software with large image data and I also play around with large multi-
precision math packages to play around with large prime numbers and such. I
plan on having several background jobs running at all times in addition to the
image processing software.
I was told that partiton c is the entire disk. Is there any problems with 
overlapping partitions?
/tmp will be small I guess and /usr will be where the user accounts and space
goes, right???
My question is: How large should / be? How about /tmp? I know about /swap and
/usr will be all that's left over from the rest. But / and /tmp I don't know
how to size these. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: davidn@cs.tamu.edu (David E Nichols)
Subject: Xwindows and Diamond Stealth works at 800x600
Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 22:24:42 GMT

Hello all.
I went throught the same torture of running X with the mono server on Linux
with my Diamond Stealth S3 card, thinking that there was no way to get color,
even with the S3 alpha server, due to Diamond's wierd secretive nature.
Well the good news is that I got the s3 server binary from ftp.robots.ox.ac.uk
in /pub/linux/s3 (about 450K file) and installed it.  After uncompressing all
fonts and doing a mkfontdir in the font directories I was able to getX running
in 640x480x256 with no problems (someone else already posted that they had done
the same thing).  Well I am typing this in now from an 800x600x256 xterm,
it seems to be working great!  I have not yet tried to mess with 1024x768 yet,
but using the xview3 package, especially with olwm gives X a really cool 3d
look!  I LOVE LINUX!  LINUS IS GREAT!
anyway here are the relevent lines from my Xconfig:

   Clocks 25 36 50

   Videoram 1024  #<- don't know if this is needed, never tried it without
   Modes "640x480" "800x600"

.
.
.
 "640x480" 	25	640  664  760  800	480  491  493  525
.
 "800x600"	36	800  824  896 1024	600  601  623  625
 "800x600"	50	800  856  976 1040	600  637  643  666

By the way, I almost get my S3 to work with the regular Xfree86 server using
the et4000 chipset option and 640x480x256 mode.  But the S3 server seems to 
be GREAT!  I have a Mag 15" monitor; the 800x600 screen was initially set off
an inch or so until I adjusted my monitor, so I suppose that the numbers could
be adjusted to a more ideal setup.  Please don't try these numbers if you are
afraid they might blow up your monitor or electrocute you or something because
I did not use any scientific method for arriving at the clock number (which is
the only number I came up with: the rest are VESA settings)- I just used the
old tried and true trial and error method.  Also I booted OS/2 and used the
card in every mode I could because I heard that this could set up the
programmable dotclocks on the card or something so this could have been the
trick (in other words, I really don't know exactly why it works but it does).
Anyway good luck and KNOW YE: X for Linux now works with Stealth in SVGA!
(and not with the commercial package OS/2 2.0!!!!!!!!!! this says something
about Linux I believe).

happy Linuxing
David Nichols
davidn@cs.tamu.edu
From: lennart@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Lennart Benschop)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: need help with permissions
Date: 6 Nov 92 08:41:09 GMT
Organization: MCGV Stack, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.

In article <1992Nov4.211420.27555@sctc.com> nichols@sctc.com (Vern Nichols) writes:
>Last night I compiled the l3 kernel and it went very well, then I played
>with the zafix.taz and zbfix.taz using sysinstall -install and now
>when I log in as anybody other than root I get
>
>   shell-init: Permission denied

Did you check the permissions of the root directory itself? I had the same
problems after such a fix. The root directory was no longer world-readable.
Try: 

chmod 755 /
From: dingbat@diku.dk (Niels Skov Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: xsetroot and color with S3 server???
Date: 7 Nov 92 00:09:02 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

I wrote:

>I can't make xsetroot color my root window. I have tried the
>-fg <color> -bg <color> but to no avail.

Ok, I overlooked the -solid option -- silly me!

Thanx

Niels