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From: ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: New serial drivers finding "bogus" devices
Date: 16 Oct 92 17:25:34 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

In <1992Oct16.154051.3539@primerd.prime.com> cummings@bbird8.Prime.COM (Kevin Cummings) writes:

>In article <1992Oct15.185831.28478@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>, ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold) writes:
>|> I added the re-written serial drivers from ALPHA/serial on tsx
>|> to my 0.98-pl1 kernel and now, it looks like the driver is
>|> finding bogus devices or is incorrectly determining port/irq
>|> information.
>|> 
>|> My machine has two serial ports at the standard addresses and
>|> ports. On boot up, they are recognized as ttys0 and ttys1
>|> on 0x3f8 (?) irq 4 and 0x2f8 (?) irq 3 both with 16450s.
>|> 
>|> The driver also recognizes one more device: ttys12 at 0x330
>|> irq 11 as a 8250... Now, I do have a Microsoft InPort mouse
>|> installed, but that's an 8-bit ISA card. I didn't think
>|> cards like that could have an irq as high as 11.
>|> 
>|> The disturbing thing is that the Adaptec-style SCSI host
>|> has an I/O port at 0x330 and uses irq 11... 
>|> 
>|> So, either the driver is misreading the port and irq from the
>|> InPort card, or it thinks my disk controller is an 8250... Not
>|> good.
>|> 
>|> Any ideas?

>Perhaps Ted knows for sure, but I have a Mouse Systems "Bus" Mouse
>which is the Mouse Systems serial mouse on a special serial card.
>Linux correctly tells me that my board (configured at 0x330 and IRQ 15)
>that it is on /dev/ttys13, but assumed IRQ 4.  I think that has

How do you get an 8-bit ISA card at IRQ 15?!?

>By the way, what IS the information on your InPort mouse?  Is it a
>serial adapter for a serial mouse (like my Mouse Systems), or is it
>a real Microsoft Bus Mouse?

The InPort mouse I have is a real Microsoft bus mouse. Still don't
know how to make it work with X, either...

-Chris

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: zahn@informatik.hu-berlin.de (Steffen Zahn)
Subject: Re: XDM problems
Reply-To: zahn@informatik.hu-berlin.de (Steffen Zahn)
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 07:55:56 GMT


Hello,

minyard@bnr.ca (Corey Minyard) writes:

|I have been trying to use XDM on my machine will little success.  I found
|that you had to disable all /etc/inittab entries going to local consoles
|or the keyboard would not work.  Anyway, whenever I start an xterm, it
|gives and error, that after searching for a while I discovered meant that
|it could not open "/dev/tty".

|XDM works correctly if I start it from a TTY, it will not work correctly
|if started from /etc/inittab or from /etc/rc.  What can I do to solve
|the problem?

some weeks ago I ported xdm for x11v1.1, linked -static. It is in a
file xdm.bin.tar.Z on tsx and sunsite.

I didn't test X11v2.0 yet, but with v1.1 a xterm doesn't start
if it doesn't inherit a controlling terminal( although it grabs an own
controlling terminal/pty then, very odd behaviour !).
Test it the following way:
start your version of xdm from /etc/rc, all consoles disabled in /etc/inittab.
Let x11emacs be your primary client. open a shell in emacs and start a xterm from
inside emacs. This way xterm inherits a controlling terminal.
If that xterm appears, you have the same problem as I had with x11v1.1 .
You may try xdm.bin.tar.Z , it includes also a patch against the X11R5 release, 
so you may recompile xdm with X11v2.0.

          Steffen

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: df@eyrie.demon.co.uk (Derek Fawcus)
ReplyTo: df@eyrie.demon.co.uk
Subject: Re: CMS Jumbo tape drives
Distribution: world
X-Mailer: cppnews $Revision: 1.18 $
Organization: None
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 18:42:31 +0000


In article <1992Oct6.010808.16939@netcom.com> ringgold@netcom.com (Thomas Essex) writes:

> : If Linux has a problem interfacing with the CMS Jumbo tape drives
> : because of the floppy-driver interface, then how about a program
> : that runs from DOS that read the Linux filesytem?  Of course it
> : means that you still have have DOS around (although you could
> : run from floppy), but at least you could USE the tape drive.

Reading the file system is very easy, I did it for my bootstrap program,
all you have to do is follow the blocks in the inodes and n-indirect blocks.

Writing is slightly more involved as free blocks have to be handled and
n-indirect blocks updated.

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Derek Fawcus (G7FVS)                                df@eyrie.demon.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mimir@stein.u.washington.edu (Al Billings)
Subject: Re: ANNOUCEMENT: Sail 5.2 (Wooden Ships & Iron Men) Ported to Linux
Keywords: SAIL GAME PORT
Organization: The Friends of Loki Society
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 04:16:34 GMT

In article <badger.718672179@phylo> badger@phylo.life.uiuc.edu (Jonathan Badger) writes:
>I've ported Sail (Wooden Ships & Iron Men) version 5.2 to linux. This
>is a game that was distrubuted with BSD 4.3. Basically, it is a strategy
>game in which you control an 18th century ship and try to blow other
>ships out of the water. The other ships can be controlled by any
>combination of real users or by computer players. If anyone is interested,
>I will upload it.

 Please do, I am interested.

Wassail,
Al


Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: minyard@bnr.ca (Corey Minyard)
Subject: Re: Is there a 'lpr' type command for linux?
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Richardson, Tx.
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 21:41:06 GMT

Oops, I forgot to mention the site (and I have been appropriatly flamed).
It is on nic.funet.fi in the directory:

   pub/OS/Linux/testing/beta/PLP

Again, sources only.  If people try it out and don't find any problems,
I will make binaries available.

Corey
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: radel@bach.udel.edu (Todd Radel)
Subject: Re: Writing Linux disks on Sun
Keywords: Sun disk drive
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 19:53:18 GMT

In article <1992Oct8.145854.12200@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu> retro@ldgo.columbia.edu (john webber) writes:
>=> Boris Burtin (cosmo@cs.ucsb.edu) writes:
>=>  I was just curious if someone had a solution to this problem.  It seems that
>=>  you can only write DOS disks on a Sun Sparc if you are root and can mount a
>=>  DOS floppy.  Does someone have an alternate solution?  Linux can't read a
>=>  disk tarred on a Sun, can it?
> 
>On our Sun Sparc (IPC), I've succeeded in writing/reading both raw disk images 
>and DOS style compressed tar files (the SLS distribution disks).  It's somewhat 
>tedious, since the version of 'all' we use (a home brew allocation program) 
>permits mounting only DOS format disks. 
> 
>To DOS format a disk on Sun Sparc:
>        all nm-floppy   /* allocates non-mounted floppy, allows you to format */
>        fdformat -d     /* formats the disk as a DOS disk */ 
>        deall floppy    /* deallocates nm-floppy  */ 
> 

It would be much easier, I think, to grab the latest version of mtools
and compile it on the SPARC.  mtools works just as well there as it did
under Linux, e.g.:

	fdformat -d		// format the floppy for DOS
	mcopy * a:		// copy all files to the floppy
	eject

Or, to write images directly to the disk (like rawrite):

	dd if=<filename> of=/dev/rfd0 conv=sync bs=18k



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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Subject: Re: 0.98 serial problems
Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Organization: The Internet
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 00:07:01 GMT

   From: tree@midget.towson.edu (Denise Tree)
   Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 20:35:55 GMT

   I have recently upgraded to 0.98 kernel but am now having
   serial problems..... AST FourPort ports do not function
   correctly.

Hmm.... I have an AST Fourport (and am using it right now), and I never
had the problem you described.  Have you tried taking my latest patches?
(They're available in TSX-11.MIT.EDU:/pub/linux/ALPHA/serial.)  They
might not solve your problem either, since I'm not sure what's going
wrong --- as I said, I have an AST FourPort, and the entire time while I
was doing the serial driver enhancements, I always made sure they would
work on my FourPort board.

						- Ted
From: jon@robots.ox.ac.uk (Jon Tombs)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Features: what are the status of these?
Date: 8 Oct 92 16:21:51 GMT
Organization: Robotics Research Group, Engineering Science Dept, Oxford, UK.
Originator: jon@lucrece.robots

In article <UeoueAK00awME9LUs5@andrew.cmu.edu> fl0p+@andrew.cmu.edu (Frank T Lofaro) writes:
>4. A way to boot Linux into single-user mode. (I.e, with init not
>running /etc/rc, or forking logins, just a root shell). Also, a way to
>boot into non-init mode (what Linux boots into when there is no
>/etc/init, would be also be nice). I guess one could have LILO pass
>options to the kernel, or run a single-user startup or multi-user
>startup kernel to do this.


I fsck my file systems in /etc/rc, and if it finds problems drop into a 
single user shell before mounting /usr etc. I use

if ...
  bash -i  < /dev/tty0 > /dev/tty0
fi

not really single user, but should give what you want.

--
 Jon                    <jon@robots.ox.ac.uk>
	I'm not playing with my computer, I'm working!
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: Peter MacDonald <pmacdona@tadpole.bcsc.gov.bc.ca>
Subject: SLS update
Reply-To: pmacdona@tadpole.bcsc.gov.bc.ca
Organization: The Internet
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 04:04:26 GMT

I have just finished a major update of SLS.  All of the "a" series has
been replaced (in particular, the sysinstall utility has been updated,
and includes a fix nomad@watson.ibm.com sent in to stop permission
problems when installing packages after a minimal install.  NOTE:
the initial .98 "sysinstall" will not install packages with the 
correct permissions.  The new one is in "menus.taz".

Other changes include upgrade of the kernel to .98p1, a reorganization
of most of the "x" series, and corrected permissions, in many of the
packages.  Read the history file for more info.  If you want to correct
the permission problems without downloading, cd to the root and execute
the following:

----------perms.fix---------------------------------------------------------------
chmod -R a+r,a-w usr/local/lib/menus/*
chmod -R a+r,a-w usr/lib/X11
chmod -R a+r,a-w usr/X386
chmod -R a+r,a-w usr/include
chmod -R a+r,a-w usr/g++-include
chmod -R a+r,a-w usr/man
chmod ugo+rwxt tmp
chmod ugo+rwxt usr/tmp
rm -f usr/src/linux
mkdir usr/src/linux
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The "x" reorg uses the "/install/doinst.sh" script facility in sysinstall
to prevent double compression which saves one whole disk.
From: jhelberg@nl.oracle.com (Joost Helberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: iostreams in libg++, NIHCL for linux?
Date: 15 Oct 92 15:26:32 GMT
Organization: Oracle Europe
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              at Oracle Corporation.  The opinions expressed are those
              of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

garyt@lgc.com (Gary Thompson) writes:
: I finally got my hands on a 386 box and just installed Linux for
: the first time using the new SLS package and everything went 
: smoothly.
: 
: However, I was unable to get anything using iostreams in C++ to
: successfully link.  It appeared that the iostreams were not part
: of the libg++ that came with the SLS distribution.  Is there a
: a complete libg++.a somewhere?
I had the same experience, 2.2.2d with jump tables, no problem
before, but no ostream now anymore.

I mailed hlu, but got no answer yet, he is too busy I guess. Some
other people any suggestion?

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From: tp@jet.uk (Tarang K Patel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: [Q] Comms, i.e ftp, kermit ... ?
Summary: I am interested in comms such as ftp, kermit, tcp/ip ...?
Keywords: Comms, kermit, ftp
Date: 7 Oct 92 10:15:54 GMT
Organization: Joint European Torus


  The question revolves around the following facts :

  1) I have MCC linux 0.97 pl2 installed.
  2) I am on a NETWORK (Banyan Vines v4.11 )
  3) One of the nodes on the NETWORK is a SUN sparc station, on which I have a
     userid.

 [Q] How do I best communicate between (3) and (1) or vis-a-vi ?
  
 [Q] Can I some how rlogin from linux to my userid on SUN ?

           Tarang
 
  
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: Ching-Hsiang Chen <chchen@stat.fsu.edu>
Subject: /etc/fdprm
Reply-To: chchen@stat.fsu.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 07:48:55 GMT

Can the gentleman who port fdformat to Linux post some information
about the terms in the file /etc/fdprm? E.g., Stve, gap, rate,specl,
fmt-gap. I used the DOS program fdformat to format my disks with
larger capacity but don't know how to make Linux know them. I used

fdformat a: /T:80 /N:18         to make 1.2M 5.25" 1.44M
fdformat b: /T:82 /N:21         to make 1.44M 3.5" 1.74M.

Thanks in advance.

Steve Chen            chchen@stat.fsu.edu
From: lairdt@storm.CS.ORST.EDU (Tom Laird)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: mouse problems with SLS0.98p1
Date: 16 Oct 92 22:29:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: CS.1992Oct16.222940.3983
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Oregon State University
Originator: lairdt@storm.CS.ORST.EDU

I have SLS 0.98p1 installed on my system. I have X configured for
my video card & monitor. The mouse I had running previously on a
different Linux version no longer works. I was told by someone to
add 'mouse.wait=NULL;' to all of the mouse init files and remake
the kernel. I did that and nothing is different. My system does not
work at all with either my Logitech busmouse (/dev/mouse c 10 0),
or a Microsoft serial mouse (on /dev/ttys2). I am very interested
in hearing from others who have working and non-working mice and
are running SLS0.98p1. I can boot up X, but I can't do a bloody 
thing with it without the mouse working! What's wrong, what patch is
there that I don't know about yet??
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: umisef@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Bernd Meyer)
Subject: Re: Xtrek ported for Linux
Organization: Point of Presence & MCS Hamburg
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 22:03:37 GMT
Keywords: xtrek

wyvern@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (The Wyvern) writes:

>I wasn't sure if anyone's already done this, so I "ported" (read: did minominor
>touch-ups) Xtrek for Linux. I haven't been able to really test it yet
>since I get the 'socket: invalid argument' when trying to run xtrek or xtrekd,
>but that's just because my tcpip stuff isn't set up right and I haven't
>messed with it since  I don't have an ethernet card anyway. I assume it works.
>If you're inclined to believe me, let me know and I'll upload the binaries.
>I'm using X11v1.1

Well, "not able to really test it" seems to be another way of saying
"I never had the program rnning". Which leads me to repeating my question:
Has ever anyone had X-stuff running with a -display option that uses tcpip?

In fact, I have set the local loopback device, had a hard time figuring out
how to set up, can now telnet to my machine, but whenever I do something like

xcalc -display linux:0

there is a certain number of requests that get handled, and then a fatal IO
error. Everything works fine with unix-sockets, but tcp is a loss.

So, if you have something going, please mail me information on how you did
it.

Thanks,
    Bernie

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: dugan@spider.wri.com (Jon Dugan)
Subject: Setting up SCSI
Summary: Need help setting up a SCSI disk for linux
Keywords: SCSI HELP
Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 17:24:54 GMT

I have a quantum 105M SCSI disk and a Western Digital WD7000FASST
controller, and I want to use them with linux. (I have linux up on my 120M
IDE drive, already).

Anyway what I specifically need to know is how to partition the drive and
then how to put a filesystem on it.  The normal fdisk and mkfs/mkefs do not
seem to work...  I can make a file system, but it is unreliable..  What is
the basic procedure for installing a SCSI disk?  

Any/all help is greatly appreciated!

Jon
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From: ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: New serial drivers finding "bogus" devices
Date: 15 Oct 92 18:58:31 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

I added the re-written serial drivers from ALPHA/serial on tsx
to my 0.98-pl1 kernel and now, it looks like the driver is
finding bogus devices or is incorrectly determining port/irq
information.

My machine has two serial ports at the standard addresses and
ports. On boot up, they are recognized as ttys0 and ttys1
on 0x3f8 (?) irq 4 and 0x2f8 (?) irq 3 both with 16450s.

The driver also recognizes one more device: ttys12 at 0x330
irq 11 as a 8250... Now, I do have a Microsoft InPort mouse
installed, but that's an 8-bit ISA card. I didn't think
cards like that could have an irq as high as 11.

The disturbing thing is that the Adaptec-style SCSI host
has an I/O port at 0x330 and uses irq 11... 

So, either the driver is misreading the port and irq from the
InPort card, or it thinks my disk controller is an 8250... Not
good.

Any ideas?

-Chris

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
Subject: Re: Any mail or fakemail available for linux ?
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 17:15:40 GMT

Eric J. Schwertfeger (maniac@cleanhead.cs.unlv.edu) wrote:

: is there a mail package available for linux?  I don't need it to
: send files accross the net, just so that users can leave messages
: to each other.

Yes.  Look for mailpak-1.3 on tsx-11.mit.edu.  It contains elm, mail, and
uucp.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz)
Subject: Re: BYTE asks, is UNIX dead?)
Organization: Mount Holyoke College
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 16:02:05 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.214535.10392@uoft02.utoledo.edu> billp@jupiter.cse.utoledo.edu (Bill Parquet) writes:
>I think Windows NT would really be nice if it ran on top of UN?X instead
>of completely on its own... So you could exit to csh [...]

Actually, you can.  Not in the developer release of this summer, but the
next one will come with the POSIX subsystem, which includes POSIX compliant
shells.  Of course this won't be "WNT ... on top of UN?X", it'll be "UN?X
on top of WNT."

- Jurgen
From: sward+@CMU.EDU (David Reeve Sward)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Xtrek ported for Linux
Date: 7 Oct 92 04:00:15 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.4eoh5De00WBLE1C3JR
Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.linux: 7-Oct-92 Re: Xtrek ported for Linux
by Gene Choi@netcom.com 
> Did you port the sources for the UDP version?...  Is UDP supported
> with tcp/ip .8?

That shouldn't matter since it doesn't open the udp channel until you
tell it to - it defaults to tcp at the start.
Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA