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From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
Subject: Re: ext fs question (.badblocks)
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Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 05:48:31 GMT

Remy CARD (card@masi.ibp.fr) wrote:
: In article <8120@lib.tmc.edu> dfenyes@thesis1.med.uth.tmc.edu (David Fenyes,Neurobiol/Anatomy,5705,7901935) writes:
: >In article <1992Dec14.163449.15147@aston.ac.uk> evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans) writes:
: >>Remy CARD (card@masi.ibp.fr) wrote:
: >>: 	mkefs now uses a reserved inode (inode #2) to store the bad blocks.
: >>: This inode does not appear in the filesystem tree any more because it was
: >>: leading to problems (root could delete the .badblocks file or save it during
: >>: a backup).
: >
: >Is there a way to easily read the bad blocks list to verify that all the
: >bad blocks have been identified? (or even to modify it after the fs has
: >been created?)
: 
: 	You can add bad blocks to the list with efsck.  'efsck -t' tests for
: bad blocks in a fs and adds new bad blocks to the list.  'efsck -b file' reads
: a bad blocks list from the file and adds them to the list.
: 
: 	Unfortunately, there is no way to print the bad blocks list.  Seems
: like I must add an option to efsck for the next release.

Unfortunately, this doesn't work - the kernel never reports read or write
errors, so efsck -t won't work.
-- 
Ed Carp			erc@apple.com, erc@saturn.upl.com	801/538-0177

Who and what would you be if you went beyond your deepest fears?
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ghenniga@NMSU.Edu
Subject: X problem for user.
Reply-To: ghenniga@NMSU.Edu
Organization: New Mexico State University - Electromagnetics Group
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 07:34:18 GMT


	Thanks to a few extremely helpful readers of this group I now have
Linux up and running on my hard drive. I'm having problems with X though.
	X works great, IF I'm logged in as root, when I log in as a user and
try "startx" it gives me the following errors:

+ xinit /home/hennigan1/gary/.xinitrc -- /usr/X386/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc
Setting TCP SO_LINGER: Protocol not available

giving up.
xinit:  Invalid argument (errno 22):  unable to connect to X server
xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.

	I believe I read in the documentation for my ALPHA S3 server that
TCP wasn't implemented yet, thus the TCP SO_LINGER error, but the xinit
errors only show up when I'm logged in as a user. As stated it works GREAT
when I log in as root!

Any ideas, again, are greatyly appreciated!
Gary Hennigan
---------
PhD Student, Computational Electromagnetics
New Mexico State University
email: ghenniga@NMSU.Edu
From: nselvara@Nimitz.mcs.kent.edu (Nagarajan Selvaraj)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: We need some work!
Date: 17 Dec 92 18:29:32 GMT
Organization: Kent State University

Hello out there!

Does anyone out there have any linux jobs that we could work on?

We are nselvara@mcs.kent.edu and keithf@mcs.kent.edu.
Next semester we could take six hours of independent study to work on linux
(three hours each).
We do not have pc's, but we have sun workstations here, so there are some
things we cannot do.
However, if someone has something that need to be worked on and we could do,
then send me a message!  

Have a nice day!


Nagarajan Selvaraj
nselvara@mcs.kent.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.announce
From: Simon Marlow <simonm@dcs.gla.ac.uk>
Subject: ANNOUNCE: port of Gofer
Keywords: GOFER LINUX
Organization: University of Helsinki
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 00:03:55 GMT


keiblin@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Alexander Keiblinger) writes:

>Has anyone informations of a version of GOFER for Linux.
>GOFER is a functional programming language from Mark P. Jones, Yale University.
>GOFER is an underclass of Haskell and as far i found out only SUN and PC ports
>are available.

I have a 'port' of Gofer (it was very simple, just had to rewrite the
stuff that uses sgtty). I have also linked it with the GNU readline
library, so you can recall previous commands with Ctrl-P and edit them, etc.

I'll put it up for ftp, together with source patches, on our ftp site tomorrow.
ftp.dcs.glasgow.ac.uk, in pub/linux.

We also have SML, a port of Chalmers LML/HBC (not the interactive environment),
and a port of GHC (Glasgow Haskell) that may be uploaded in the near future...

		Simon
From: erb@insu1.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de (Olaf Erb)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Question: Has anyone a port of GOFER for Linux
Date: 17 Dec 1992 11:06:23 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
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Olaf Erb (erb@insu1.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de) wrote:
: Alexander Keiblinger (keiblin@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de) wrote:
: : Has anyone informations of a version of GOFER for Linux.
: : GOFER is a functional programming language from Mark P. Jones, Yale University.
: : GOFER is an underclass of Haskell and as far i found out only SUN and PC ports
: : are available.
: : 
: : Thanks in advance ...
: : 
: 
: Ja, laeuft bei mir. Die Unix Version (fuer Sun) liess sich mit wenigen
: Patches unter Linux compilen.
: 
: Gruss
: Olaf

Sorry, I accidently posted in German :-(

I've gofer running under Linux; the Unix-Source for Sun with little
changes (only some termio-stuff).

Olaf
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From: jdelashe@jade.tufts.edu (James deLasHera)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: HELP! Can't get Linux to mount scsi HD
Date: 19 Dec 92 18:25:04 GMT
Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA

Hi, I have dowloaded the SLS distribution of LInux, and made
floppy images of disks a1 and a2 to boot from (the rest of
the floppies are on my SCSI hard drive, Adaptec controller)
I have tried to install Linux, and the boot works fine, but
Linux cannot find my hard drive!  What can I do?
I assume I can install from the files on my HD, once Linux finds
it!


By the way, will Linux support my TI based, 1280x1024 svga
card?  Hopefully, I can get Linux to work on my Eisa machine.
Please help, or else I'll be forced to purchase SCO!

Send replies to JLATEINE@PEARL.TUFTS.EDU -- I don't read 
news often, and a friend is posting this for me.
	Thanks,
	Josh
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: badger@phylo.life.uiuc.edu (Jonathan Badger)
Subject: FAQ: Yes, the Dimond Stealth works in 1024x768 
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:44:08 GMT

>   My Diamond Stealth works fine with 640x480x256, but I am unable to
>   get a higher resolution out of it. 

>Uhoh, the poor wretch is S***t Out of Luck. 

>The trick of getting the clock freq. right on Diamond Stealth is by
>doing some heavy, trade-secret, wizardry that the manufacturer won't
>talk about. This means that Linux won't support Diamond Sealth.

It is time to clear up this confusion. The Diamond Stealth works fine
in 1024x768x256 -- the trick is to run Windows first (in 1024x768). This sets
the clocks.

What we really need is a program that can set the clocks within Linux. I often
think the reason this hasn't been written is philosophical rather than
technical. Many people have the absurd belief that writing something like
this would send the wrong message to Diamond that their policies are OK. 
Diamond's policies are bad, I agree. But I can assure you that they could
not care less about the very small Linux user base -- refusing to support 
their cards is NOT going to bring about a change. 

Telling us "sell your Stealth" is obviously a pretty unrealistic solution.
Most of us can't afford to sell hardware every thirty seconds when some
piece of software or another doesn't support it.

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Subject: Re: Do we have a comm program that supports v32bis (14,400kb)?
Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Organization: The Internet
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 08:37:28 GMT

   From: alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu (M. Saggaf)
   Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 04:41:31 GMT

   Hmmm, I just took a look at the serial driver, and it seems that to
   set speeds above 38k, the termio B38400 bits of CBAUD have to be set
   along with another flag to substitute the desired speed for 38k.  It's
   not entirely obvious to me how that flag should be set via an ioctl
   from an application program. Ted, could you please post some hints on
   how to go about this?

The following is from something I sent to comp.os.linux a few months
ago.  When I have time (hah!), I'll write the short program myself to do
these things.

						- Ted


What you need to do is write a small program which does something
roughly like this

	ioctl(fd, TIOCGSERIAL, &sstruct);
	sstruct.fflag &= ~ASYNC_SPD_MASK;
#ifdef WANT_56KB
	sstruct.fflag |= ASYNC_SPD_HI; /* Use 56000 instead of 38400 */
#else
	sstruct.fflag |= ASYNC_SPD_VHI; /* Use 115200 instead of 38400 */
#endif
	ioctl(fd, TIOCSSERIAL, &sstruct);

.... where fd is a file descriptor which is open on the serial port; and
of course, you'll need to do error checking, which has been omitted in
this code fragment.  Also note that the Linux kernel as currently
configured uses 56000 bps for ASYNC_SPD_HI, instead of 56700, because
that's what's in the National Semiconduct Spec.  The rest of the world
seems to use 56700, so if you want, you can make that change in
baud_table[] in serial.c.  It actually doesn't matter, since whether you
use 56000 or 56700, you get the same baud rate divisor, which is what's
important anyway.

After you run this program, the serial port will be sent so that when
38400 is selected, the actual speed of the port will really be 56000 or
115200.  So all you need to do is tell kermit "set speed 38400";
depending on what kermit you are using, you may need to recompile it and
possibly modify it to force it to include support for the 38400 speed if
it doesn't support it already.

						- Ted
From: sadkins@bigbird.cs.ohiou.edu (Scott W. Adkins)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: SLS and TCP/IP in general.
Date: 15 Dec 92 02:29:22 GMT
Organization: Ohio University CS Dept., Athens


Ok, I have a couple of more questions that I think I will churn out on
you guys... The first one is really easy, and is kind of minor as well.

1)  We are attempting to get the TCP/IP stuff to work under SLS .98p5.
    Since the Ethernet card did not reside at Interupt 5h, we had to 
    recompile the kernel with the Interupt 10h set up for the card.
    We only had a few hastles, and tomorrow I will know if all of it
    actually works (heh, we forgot to plug the stupid thing in...).

    What I *did* notice was that after I completely compiled the 
    kernel and made the image, I found that the new Image was much 
    smaller (sorry, I don't have the figures) than the original.
    Something was definitely missing.  Well, I then booted with it.
    Of course the TCP/IP stuff didn't work (well, we hadn't realized
    that it wasn't plugged in yet...), but everything seemed kinda
    weird.  For instance, the keyboard had been remapped!  Also,
    the process (ps) command was no longer working.  I don't think
    I need to say much more, since I am sure other have already seen
    this problem.  

    What gives?  I would think that the binaries and the Image used
    to create the boot disk would be exactly as the Makefiles and
    sources should be as if I made *no* changes and just remade the
    files.  Did somehow the sources not get updated and the binaries 
    were?  I hope this is fixed with SLS .99 whenever it catches up
    with Linus and his new release...  Also, since I *do* have the
    problem described above, can someone describe was happened?
    (Don't worry, everything is back to normal now anyway... I had
    covered my tracks before I made any changes...)

2)  This is a real quick question for those who have done this.  
    Since the interrupt for our Ethernet card is at 10h, I had to
    recompile the TCP/IP stuff with that in mind.  I didn't miss
    anything, did I?  Just thought I would ask any of those people
    who had to also change the interrupts.

Thanks for any help you guys give me.  I find this newgroup a great vat
of knowledge, and I hope to give a little back of what I find with what
you guys provide for me!  :-)

-- 
         Scott W. Adkins           Internet: sadkins@ohiou.edu
         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~                     ak323@cleveland.freenet.edu
    Ohio University of Athens        Bitnet: adkins@ouaccvma.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: andersen@eis.cs.tu-bs.de (Kai Andersen)
Subject: HELP - How can I activate my middle mousebutton?
Organization: TU Braunschweig,Informatik,EIS,West Germany
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 09:39:35 GMT


I have a Targa-Mouse with 3 mousebuttons. It works in a microsoft (2 buttons)
and a pc - mouse - mode (with 3 buttons). The mouse does'nt have a switch, like some other mice. With MSDOS I have a driver, which works. But X11 only accept
the microsoft mode. What can I do?

Thanks in advance,
Kai Andersen.

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.windows.x,comp.unix.sysv386
From: fmn@nevada.edu (FRANK NEEDHAM)
Subject: Re: X on Enhanced VGA! (almost)
Organization: University of Nevada System Computing Services
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 23:13:26 GMT

In article <1992Dec12.200423.20521@nevada.edu> fmn@nevada.edu (FRANK NEEDHAM) writes:
>ok,
>
>With a lot of help, X is almost working on this card, YES! Thanks Scott.
>
>I have done the following, made sure the dir /tmp/.X11-unix exists, checked the
>paths in etc/profile (they seem ok),cp'd xserverrc and xinit to the dir / and
>used chown on them. 
>I then cp'd system.twmrc to /, renamed it to .twmrc. Does this file also need 
>to have the chown run on it?
>When X is fired up, a grey screen with a cross-hatch pattern happens and it
>stays. The <ctrl><alt><bkspc> sequence still doesn't kill the server.
>Can anyone share some ideas on what I might try from here?
>
>thanks,
>-frank
>
I know, I'm following up my own posts. As long as I know I'm stumbling around
in the dark, why should it matter if anyone else does too :-)?

The following is captured when 'startx 2> <file>'is run:
 
no SIOCGIFCONF
XFree86 Version 1.0Ya / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000)
Configured drivers:
  VGA256 (256 colour SVGA):
      et4000, et3000, pvga1, gvga, ati, tvga8900
VGA256: et4000 (mem: 1024k numclocks: 16)
VGA256:   clocks: 25 28 33 36 40 45 32 38 50 57 65 72 80 90 63 75

Fatal server error:
There is no defined dot-clock matching mode "1024x768"


giving up.
xinit:  Invalid argument (errno 22):  unable to connect to X server
xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.

Would someone be kind enough to explain what these errors mean please?
thanks,
-frank
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hiller@fzi.de (Thomas Hiller)
Subject: Re: InterViews possible bug
Organization: Forschungszentrum Informatik, Karlsruhe, FRG
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 08:47:55 GMT

There was a fix posted in May 92 (comp.windows.interviews), that handle this problem.
The fix is only valid for iv-3.0.1.

The fix is easy. Here is a diff:

*** iv/src/lib/IV-X11/xbitmap.c Wed May 13 17:39:19 1992
--- iv/src/lib/IV-X11/xbitmap.c.orig    Wed May 13 17:39:09 1992
***************
*** 313,319 ****
      int xmin, int ymin, int xmax, int ymax
  ) {
      XDisplay* dpy = Session::instance()->default_display()->rep()->display_;
!     Transformer t(&matrix);
      t.Invert();
  
      unsigned long lastdrawnpixel = fg;
--- 313,319 ----
      int xmin, int ymin, int xmax, int ymax
  ) {
      XDisplay* dpy = Session::instance()->default_display()->rep()->display_;
!     Transformer t(matrix);
      t.Invert();
  
      unsigned long lastdrawnpixel = fg;


Please note, that InterViews 3.1 is out and that in the near future (I hope)
it will be available for Linux.

Greetings Thomas
-- 
Thomas Hiller                                   email: hiller@fzi.de
Forschungszentrum Informatik
Abtl. Mikrorechnertechnik
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D - 7500 Karlsruhe 1                            Tel.: +49-721-9654-832
From: ail8070@tamuts.tamu.edu (Andy I. Liaw)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Prob. with xdvi and installing xview3.  Help!!
Date: 12 Dec 1992 17:57:19 GMT
Organization: ~/lib/organization
NNTP-Posting-Host: tamuts.tamu.edu

Hi All!

I ran into the following problems with X lately:

1. xdvi quit working and gives me "Segmentation fault (core dumped)."

2. When trying to run the Install script for xview3, get the following
   messages:

Installing the openwin directory
Installing header files
Installing libraries:
libxview.a
libolgx.a
Linking and installing binaries
gcc -O2 -c dummyrpc.c -o dummyrpc.o
dummyrpc.c: In function `svc_getreqset':
dummyrpc.c:10: incompatible types in assignment
gcc -o /usr/openwin/bin/olwmslave olwmslave.a -L/usr/X386/lib/X11/shlib/jump -L/usr/lib -lxview -lolgx -lXext -lX11
/usr/lib/libxview.a(ndet_loop.o): Undefined symbol _svc_fdset referenced from text segment
/usr/lib/libxview.a(ndet_loop.o): Undefined symbol _svc_fdset referenced from text segment
/usr/lib/libxview.a(ndet_loop.o): Undefined symbol _svc_getreqset referenced from text segment
Failed to link olwmslave, aborting

Can someone point out what was wrong?

Andy
aliaw@stat.tamu.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: schuster@isa.de (Thilo Schuster)
Subject: Re: Linux on a PS/2
Organization: ISA Gmbh, Stuttgart, FRG
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 08:09:43 GMT


Hello Linux people,

I've got a PS/2 Mod. 60 upgraded with a Kingston SX now 386 SX CPU 
replacement. Now I'am trying to get Linux working. I had a quick
look at the kernel sources and I saw some things which are not
fully compatible with the PS/2 architecture. There are actually
two types of PS/2 Mod. 60: Type 8560-041 equiped with a MFM controller
and 8560-071 comming with an ESDI controller (these are the 
configurations shiped in germany). I've got a 8560-041. One
problem is to compile a kernel (well, I could compile it with
a gcc under OS/2 which is capable to produce a.out format but
there are some problems to replace the kernel on the a1 disk). 
The main architecture problems which I have found so far:

1. PS/2 use level triggered int's, not edge triggered ones. In
   my view are level triggered int's a nice feature because it
   allows interrupt sharing. But: Each device has to release it's
   int request, no auto end of interrupt mode is possible.
2. The devices (like the MFM controller) are not fully register
   compatible which requires some minor patches.
3. Some patches have to be done to the keyboard driver (Eh, by
   the way: Why does Linux switch bit 7 on port 0x61, as far as I
   know this has only to be done on XTs. Please correct me... ? )
4. PS/2 mouse (but this is fixed so far)

All the information needed to get Linux running can be found in 
two books:

IBM PS/2 Adapters and I/O Technical Reference (for the Mod 50 and 60)
IBM PS/2 Technical Reference

The main prob: I've got not very much time to do the changes. Perhaps
after cristmas.

And, by the way: It requires only a few byte patch with debug in
llformat.com to get a non-IBM ESDI drive low level formatted. Ok,
not ALL drives will work because of the transfer rate, but...


greets,


    	    	Thilo





-- 
Thilo Schuster, ISA GmbH
E-Mail: schuster@isa.de
UUCP:   ...!{uunet!unido,pyramid}!isaak!schuster
From: jrc1@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (John Colton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: SLS99dies
Date: 17 Dec 92 05:06:56 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

I just installed SLS 0.99 - everything was cool until...
It wrote the boot disk & I booted.
It LOCKED the keyboard!!!
I cannot even login.
Any thoughts?

-- 


==============================================================================
| John Colton     | jrc1@lehigh.edu  |  Lehigh University  |                 |
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
Subject: Crossposting of Announcements
Organization: The Linux Inquisition, Propaganda Division
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 01:58:07 GMT

In article <1992Dec15.012306.22022@sfu.ca> rchen@fraser.sfu.ca (Robert Chen) writes:
>I read comp.os.linux.announce
>because I don't want to miss the announcement of any new toys.  Then I
>have to read the same damn articles again in c.o.l!  How can any sane
>person say this is an improvement?!

At the moment, this is my fault. I intentionally crosspost articles
between the two groups for those sites that don't get c.o.l.a (and for
FidoNet). We plan to change this soon once c.o.l.a is more widely
distributed (and once Fidonet can pick up the new group). This should be
soon. If you have problems with this, please let me know.

Thanks.
mdw

-- 
Matt Welsh     mdw@tc.cornell.edu     Cornell Theory Center
  "Go on, emote! I was raised on thought balloons!"
From: jepstei@afterlife.ncsc.mil (John Epstein)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: [PROBLEM]: completing booting linux-0.99 sequence
Date: 19 Dec 92 22:04:47 GMT
Organization: The Great Beyond

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: [PROBLEM]: Cannot get linux-0.99 to finish booting
Distribution: world
Organization: The Great Beyond
I can compile linux-0.99 with the two small patches without any problems.
Running on a 386.
Have freshly compiled poeigl-1.7 and after rescue with H. Lu's 0.98pl5 bootable
root to eliminated tty64 from /etc/inittab
which PREVENTED either linux-0.98pl3+ or linux-0.98pl5 from
operating as they got stuck in getty loop for non-existent serial port.
Have freshly made stuff from system-0.98.
Do not have freshly made swapon/swapoff --- where is source?

Booting 0.99 from floppy as have no free bootlin entries:
two vmlinux are 0.98pl3+ WORKS 100%
and vmlinux.alt 0.98pl5 WORKS except X runs except no mouse)

When boot 0.99 [from floppy] I see expected results through lines:
Partition Tables okay
Linux version 0.99-46 ...

I do not see swap stuff line NOR login.
I can type on VC1 with it being echoed to screen.
VC2 can toggle NUMLOCK but cannot type/echo to screen.

I have seen several other c.o.l users in this state on 0.99 plus one or two
users at work (with 386 machines) also with this problem.

BTW: mouse is on serial port (3 button) I made no changes when installed
H. Lu's root disk --- running patchlevel 5 except for when use X and
running patchlevel 3.

John
Linux user since 0.12 --- installation gets harder with every release
From: hdoshi@picasso.ocis.temple.edu (Hiren Doshi)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: SLS BOOT PROBLEMS
Date: 20 Dec 92 22:22:11 GMT
Organization: Temple University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

I just finished installing the SLS 0.99  `A' series disks on my PC.
Everything was going smoothly. The installation process created a 
boot disk for me and asked me to reboot. After rebooting a message 
showed up on the screen Loading...........At this point everthing 
went haywire. The text on the screen began shaking. I could see the 
login prompt but it was useless. I reinstalled the system 3 times
with the same results. If anybody has any pointers as to what might
be wrong, please post or send me an e-mail and I will summarize the 
responses.

Hiren Doshi
(hdoshi@129.32.1.21)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux