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From: Kristin Utheim <badger@cray.sintef.no>
Subject: IDE disk question
Reply-To: badger@cray.sintef.no
Organization: The Internet
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 07:05:37 GMT



Hi Guys,

I don't want to tread on anybody's toes so I apologize in advance for
sending a PC hardware question to c.o.l. Without a news feed I don't
have a great deal of choice.

So - all replies by e-mail please (the fewer the flames, the less 
wasted bandwidth). Here goes:

I've got an old Western Digital IDE drive - 20MB, WD 93028-A, but no
info on configuration. Anybody know how to jumper this beastie to use
it as a slave. The configuration pins are (as far as I can tell) three
extra pin-pairs, next to the 40-pin IDE connection (there's also what
looks like an external LED connector at one end of the circuit board).

Any help v. much appreciated, and once again - e-mail only.

-Andy

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Problems with files at tsx-11
From: cvadr021@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu
Date: 23 Nov 92 09:38:53 PST
Organization: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Nntp-Posting-User: cvadr021

	I'm having problems uncompressing some files from tsx-11.  For
instance, pub/linux/sources/sbin/ps-0.97.tar.Z refuses to work.  If I try tar
with -z -x,  I get:
tar: skipping to next file header.
tar: child died with signal 11 (core dumped)

	It does create the appropriate subdir, and 1 file, but the file is
about 10 lines of code followed by a few pages of garbage.

	If I simply try to uncompress it, uncompress complains about a
segmentation fault, and I get a very small file created, and a core dump.

	Is this something I'm doing?  or is there something wrong with this
file?

 
---
						David Dhuyvetter
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tep@engr.uark.edu (Tim Peoples)
Subject: Re: X/ATI bus mouse problems
Reply-To: tep@engr.uark.edu
Organization: University of Arkansas
Organiztion: University of Arkansas, Dept. of Computer Systems Engineering
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:24:03 GMT

thomas@uni-duisburg.de (Thomas Scheunemann) writes:
>
>At least there may be a problem with your interrupt. In default the kernel
>uses IRQ 5 (with the kernel distributed with SLS). This interupt may be
>used by some other device (LPT2 for instance). If so the Kernel keeps track
>which interrupt is used and does not allow the mouse device to use the same
>interrupt when X is started. If this is your problem then you have to change
>the interrupts and to recompile the kernel.
>

   And if your busmouse is set to IRQ 2 then you need to set it to
IRQ 9 in busmouse.h.  IRQ 2 just won't work.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: nomad@watson.ibm.com (Lee `nomaD` Damon)
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux 0.98 pl5
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:30:43 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

In article <1992Nov18.002608.12410@leela.cs.orst.edu> lairdt@leela.cs.orst.edu (Tom Laird) writes:
>I just finished pulling SLS 0.98p5 off of tsx-11 two hours ago.
>I still have the same problem with SLS complaining that I've not changed
>the disk to a3. These are different disks than the previous set which gave
>me this problem. How can I install SLS0.98p5 with these disks?
>It seems as of the linux/DOS mount problem is alive and well in SLS.

I've noticed that sometimes doinstall doesn't correctly unmount /user
before starting the install, so when sysinstall checks for a successful
mount of disk3, it fails - as the system still thinks that disk2 is
there. You can force this issue by putting 
 umount $target    (where $target is whatever sysinstall calls the mount
		    point. I don't have sysinstall in front of my right
		    now or I'd fill this in.)
in the sysinstall script, just above the place where sysinstall does its
mount.

nomad
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
Subject: SLS update
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, CANADA
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 21:03:49 GMT

Announcing the new release of SLS that runs X11 on an IBM XT, 
and has a a WYSIWYG plus drawing pgm and TCPIP and NFS, installs,
administers and upgrades itself, and does all this in only 16K of ram, 
and with 1 floppy drive...

Only kidding :->  Really though, if you think everyone will every be satisfied,
guess again.   Most of the people most of the time is my goal...

On to business.  There are new binaries for mail and adduser in b5/zbfix.taz.

Also, on Wed, Nov 25th, at about 8:00 pm PST, I will be uploading the
official Softlanding version of SLS to tsx-11.  The z?fix.taz files 
will be saved in a new dir called SLS/fixes, so you will still be able
to upgrade after then.  This should just sync the two versions, and
make my life a lot easier, for a while anyways.

So beware, and don't download during this time.

Peter

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: shanea@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Shane Alderton)
Subject: Flopticals under Linux??
Organization: Sydney University Computing Service, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 09:23:26 GMT

Is anyone successfully using an Insite Floptical drive under Linux?

It has been suggested that the drive would work on a compatible
SCSI controller, but I only have the Grassroots (bundled) controller
at the moment and would appreciate hearing from someone with a working
combination before purchasing a SCSI controller.

I have heard that there are several models of floptical and to my
recollection mine is a Model I.

Any responses appreciated.

Shane Alderton
shanea@extro.ucc.su.oz.au
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: dharry@cyclone.rice.edu (Dennis Harry)
Subject: X11 on Hercules Monochrome?
Organization: Rice University
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:19:49 GMT

Is there a driver floating around out there to run X11 on
a hercules monochrome card?

-- Dennis Harry            dharry@rice.edu
   Research Associate
   Rice University
From: Joe.Klemmer@p5.f615.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Joe Klemmer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Connection To Echo
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 21:23:00 -0800

RL=>All we've gotten of the LINUX echo in the last week is the
occasional messa
RL=>from a Canadian FidoNet site.  What's going on with the traffic?  Is
anyone
RL=>else experiencing this problem?
 
        I think the Fido <--> Internet gate is down.  :-(
 
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tagline

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(1:109/615.5)

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: Eric Scharff <eds2@cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: Where is Ghostscript
X-Xxdate: Sun, 15 Nov 92 15: 27:45 GMT
Nntp-Posting-User: eds2@cornell.edu
Organization: Cornell University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d7
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 21:24:30 GMT

In article <1e3lupINNs8e@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> James Michael Chacon,
probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu writes:
>From what I hear ghostscript compiles out of the box. So you can get that
>from any site that mirrors prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu directory. Try
>wuarchive first. As far as ghostview goes, it should also be on that site
>and should compile with very little problems.

Does ghostscript require its own set of fonts, or can it use X Fonts?
From: duty@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU (Duty Programmer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Installing new Type 1 fonts...?
Date: 17 Nov 1992 11:18:44 +1100
Organization: Information Technology Services, University of Melbourne
Reply-To: rab@tauon.ph.unimelb.EDU.AU
NNTP-Posting-Host: ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au

In article <ins217t.721905113@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au> ins217t@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !) writes:
>Anyone got any pointers on installing Type 1 fonts into X ?
>
>Instead of having .afm files (as well as .pfa or .pfb), they have .pfm
>files, or whatever...

Just a wild guess, but if you mean ".pcf", then the files are the new
X11R5 "Portable Compiler Format" format. These are portable, but made
for a particular system; i.e. they will work on any X11R5 system, but
will have to be converted on the fly if the binaries are not directly
compatible. This would explain the delay you describe.

This may be way off, it was the "or whatever" that made me wonder
if you meant ".pcf".

rab
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Date: Tuesday, 17 Nov 1992 16:57:40 CET
From: <K111114@ALIJKU11.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: ftpd (lx98p5)

Hi.
I seem to have problems with ftp-ing out of the machine, too...
Sometimes, when I type "dir" or "ls", I get:

ftp: bind: Invalid argument

allthough I have recompiled the ftpd just after installing lx98p5.
Do I need a new lib ? is my libinet.a old ? or do I need libc.so.5.0, and if
yes, where do I get it ?

thanks, Herp
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ajake@mits.mdata.fi (Jarkko Aitti)
Subject: lptalk prob
Organization: Microdata Oy, Helsinki, Finland
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 01:19:24 GMT

Hi there, it's me again asking some stupid questions....

Now i'm trying to compile lptalk (1.21 i believe?) to linux.
(kernel 0.98.5+tcp-patches1-3 (is there more?),gcc2.2.2d7,lib 4.1)

Problems is that it works otherwise just ok, but output is a bit late.
While i'm connecting a mud (loopback) last line of muds output is
missing until i write something and press return)

If i remember right, someone had a similar problem with telnet, what was
the solution to it?

I found out that text in lptalk are outputted with 2 routines:

First outputs lines which contained originally newline with puts().

Second prints 'incomplete' lines with fputs(texts,stdout) and i think that
this is making problems, it seems that output to stdout doesn't get flushed
soon enough. (not until theres new stuff printed with first method)

How should i handle this? Is it somekind term setting or do i need to add
flush or something there?

I also compiled it to ISC unix, and it works there..
--

  Name: Jarkko J. Aitti     Mail: ajake@mits.mdata.fi
From: Rob.Levin@p13.f217.n3802.z1.fidonet.org (Rob Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Connection to echo
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 07:17:24 -0800

All we've gotten of the LINUX echo in the last week is the occasional
message from a Canadian FidoNet site.  What's going on with the traffic?
 Is anyone else experiencing this problem?


Rob L.

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

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk (Anthony Lovell)
Subject: H.J.Lu's distribution and ELM in MailPak 
Distribution: world
Organization: The Home for Three Headed Canines
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:44:37 +0000


In article <1eb4crINN52e@uwm.edu> rick@ee.uwm.edu writes:

>
>I compiled the mailpak's ELM last night, and couldn't get it to work...
>until I found the bug in the /.bash_profile...
>
>MAIL=/usr/spool/mail/$USER      <--The problem is that $USER is undefined.
>
>Adding the line:
>
>        USER=`whoami`
>
>*BEFORE* the "MAIL" variable is set solves the problem nicely.
>
>

Or do what I did change $USER to $LOGNAME which is defined

anthony

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: schaik@cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl (Willem van Schaik)
Subject: Re: Terminal emulator Linux <--> DOS
Organization: Philips Communications & Processing Services, Eindhoven
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 23:29:27 GMT

rchen@fraser.sfu.ca (Robert Chen) writes:

>Hi.  I am looking for a good terminal emulator to run on an old XT beside
>my linux box (so that I can use it as a dumb terminal.)  I am
>not looking for anything extravagent (doesn't ever need to be able
>to dial a modem).  

>- Ken

I would suggest using kermit, it is a sound VT102 emulator. Don't
go for the MS-Windows emulator, it's rubbish.

Willem van Schaik
From: geek+@CMU.EDU (Brian E. Gallew)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: TERMCAP! (was Re: Joe won't go)
Date: 18 Nov 92 03:46:49 GMT
	<1992Nov17.224727.18521@sfu.ca>
Organization: Administrative Computing & Info Services, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

If you want a *real* termcap:
mv /usr/emacs/etc/termcap /etc/termcap
Works for me!

                                  -Brian

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From: bkuhn@cs.loyola.edu (Bradley " b " Kuhn)
Subject: Linux co-existing w/ DOS
Organization: Loyola College in Maryland
Distribution: comp
Date: 16 Nov 92 18:27:14

Can Linux co-exist w/ a DOS or a Coherent partition?  Are bootstraps provided
to choose between different OS's?
About how much disk space is taken up by the Linux OS and the common tools
(i.e. X11, GNU tools (emacs, gcc, etc.))?

Any help on these questions via E-mail and/or posts to this group would be
appricaited.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: lruppert@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Your worst nightmare...)
Subject: Re: vogl and X386
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 19:01:49 EST

In article <1992Nov12.215549.13416@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> djimenez@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Daniel Jimenez) writes:
>Anyone ported vogl (the package that lets you do GL stuff in X)
>to Linux/X386?

I thought it compiled pretty straight-forward.  I don't know, I have had it
compiled on my system for a few weeks now.  Someone posted to the net a couple
of weeks back saying that they had ported VOGL and had some apps they'd ported
that they were going to upload to tsx-11, but I never saw anything else from 
them.  (They were going to post a list of what was being uploaded).  Now the
question I have is if anyone has successfully ported the FORMS library.  If
anyone is interested, I can post libvogl.a and the associated include files,
but I seem to have misplaced my hershey font stuff.  (post=upload, not _post_ :>)


Louis Ruppert
lruppert@mailbox.syr.edu
From: sexonbd@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Benjamin David Sexson (Ben))
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Instilation of Linux, how do I find out how to do it?
Date: 18 Nov 92 06:58:12 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center

Hello, I have been to linux ftp sites and tried to figure out how
to install it , and get a lot more info about it, but I'm stumped
Is there some kind of FAQ for this group or other helpful file
article.
Thanx.
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From: jthomps2@bach.helios.nd.edu (james thompson)
Subject: xfree86 and ATI VGA Ultra
Keywords: ATI VGA ULTRA X XWindows xfree86
Organization: OUC, University of Notre Dame
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:21:21 GMT

I have tried and tried not to post here about this problem but I cannot
seem to find an answer anywhere else.  I am currently running a several
linux partitions on a AMI bios'ed 486/33.  As follows:

2 Seagate IDE 211meg H.D.
    - Drive 0 hda1 - 100 megs DOS
              hda2 - linux approx 65 meg
              hda3 - linux approx 30 meg etc....

    - Drive 1 hdb5 - 200 megs DOS

(not sure what thhis has to do with anything but, just in case I get
a "you should have told us.......")

1 ATI VGA ULTRA Card 1meg
1 Zenith Data Systems SVGA monitor 1024x768 non-interlaced
8 Megs Memory
(other stuff like CDROM and tape drive but that is un-important)

Anyway, my Linux system SLS .95p5 is working great.  However, I have had
no end of problems with Xwindows.  The x1-x8 disks loaded fine and after
reading the docs on how to install the color server, I decided I had better
just try the mono configuration before I waste all the time in Xconfig.
So, I did the stated cd /usr/X386/bin ....... mv Xconfig.mono Xconfig etc.
as stated in the SLS installation instructions.  (I even ln -s X386 to X). 
However, I keep getting a "none of the configured devices found" error
after startx.  Am I missing something?  Should it not try the "generic" driver
if it does not find any of the other ET3000, ET4000, etc drivers?  I would
really love to see the mono version work before I even attempt to get
the color on line.  Is anything blaringly obvious?

James
From: jstump@auntbea.austin.ibm.com (John E. Stump)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: SLS installation -- a suggested addition
Keywords: SLS, install
Date: 19 Nov 92 14:35:13 GMT
Organization: IBM AWD Austin, TX

In article <1992Nov16.190317.22896@midway.uchicago.edu> spcberto@psyche.spc.uchicago.edu (Robert Osterlund) writes:
>By now, I've gone through several Linux SLS installations, most of them
>troublesome, but lately they've gone quite well only because I have a
>specially prepared utilities disk running off my /dev/fd1 and offering
>just about any utility (including a customized sysinstall script) that
>might prove handy in an install emergency.
>
>Anyway, would it be possible for the administrators of the SLS package
>to include vi or even ed on the a2 disk?  (And cram other stuff like dd
>in there if there is still room?)  If things go wrong, it would be
>nice to have the option to go in and edit the sysinstall & doinstall
>scripts.
>
>Bob Osterlund
>berto@clio.spc.uchicago.edu
>SSPPCC--University of Chicago
>

I second this idea. I wanted to have hda2 as / and hda3 mounted as /usr,
but the doinstall script wanted to install everything on one partition.
So, all I had to do was edit the offending lines in doinstall, and...
Well, obviously I couldn't because there was no editor. I had to go
through quite a few hoops to get the file edited.

Great package, by the way

john
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: dhaliwa@ecf.toronto.edu (DHALIWAL BIKRAM SINGH)
Subject: Linux Speedup
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 04:51:44 GMT

MY computer is as follows:
386-40
4MB-70ns RAM
65MB ST-277R drive, 28ms access, 650kB transfer rate.
Monochrome running on a standard color VGA (8-bit card)

My problem is that I think that X is far too slow.  What Can
I do to speed the computer up???  When I type startx -np am
I not disabling TCP.  I would rather not have TCP at all and
use the Extra RAM instead of swapping it to disk.     
++ Can anybody help me with my monitor I have:
Card: 25 28 26 Mhz clock occilators on card 
Moniter: 31.5khz horizontal, 60-70khz vertical
(I figure the Monitor is the weak  link)
.


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From: berk@techsys.mcws.fidonet.org (Berk Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Problems with CMOS after using Linux on my 486
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 09:27:38 PST
Organization: Private for Now

> I have a similar problem with 386sx/16, Phoenix BIOS.
> From time to time, rebooting gives me the message 'CMOS checksum failure'.
> No CMOS info seems to be trashed, though.
> 
> ..Wolf

I had the same problem.. but it wasn't really a problem.  After that, it 
reset my 1st meg memory options (shadowing, etc) but after that ran fine.

Berk Walker                           berk@techsys.mcws.fidonet.org
From: doug@owl.isis.org (Douglas W Murray)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: AHA-1510 SCSI Controller
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 12:31:33 GMT
Organization: Quoi! me organized?

Hi All,

Would anyone know if Linux will support the AHA-1510 SCSI Controller?

Thanks,

Doug!



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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hyun@medici.ils.nwu.edu (Seungseok Hyun)
Subject: SLS: sysinstall -instdev works???
Organization: The Institute for the Learning Sciences
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 16:55:00 GMT

Has anybody had such luck? I've been trying to install files from
FDD B: after I booted the system with FDD A: 

When I type

	sysinstall -instdev /dev/fd1 
or
	sysinstall -instdev /dev/fd1h1440

I just got the help message showing the options of the command.
Mine is SLS .98 and only the minimal base system has been installed.

-Seungseok Hyun(hyun@ils.nwu.edu)
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