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From: bussmann@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (lucas bussmann)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: VGA Card with Dotclock >= 100 Mhz or Genoa 7900
Date: 21 Jan 1993 08:52:47 GMT
Organization: TU Darmstadt
Distribution: world
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Keywords: VGA Dotclock Genoa 7900

I'm looking for a VGA-Card supporting dotclocks above 100 Mhz. 
I like to use it with XFree 386 and a MAG 17inch monitor. 

1. I've seen a posting about a GENUA 7900 VGA-card with that 
   dotclock. Is that true?

2. If you know a supplier for that or another VGA-card please send the 
   address and the specifications for this  via e-mail to 

bussmann@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de

Thanks a lot for every information!

Lucas Bussmann
From: arnd@phoibi.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Arnd Gehrmann)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Mirror out of order !
Date: 28 Jan 93 08:04:52 GMT
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik - RWTH Aachen
NNTP-Posting-Host: phoibi.informatik.rwth-aachen.de

The linux-mirror:

ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de:/pub/Linux

is out of order!

ARND GEHRMANN	Lehrstuhl fuer Informatik II; RWTH Aachen; Germany
Tel/Fax:	(+49/0) 241 80 21205 / (+49/0) 241 80 21229
email:		arnd@zeus.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jyelon@cs.uiuc.edu (Josh Yelon)
Subject: Re: Safety Belt / SLS
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:22:15 GMT

In <ePaRXB4w165w@kf8nh.wariat.org> kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:

>Moreover, quite frankly "Unix is semi-cryptic" is a flaw that should be
>fixed, that (I do hope!) is BEING fixed in the commercial Unixes, and that
>the Linux Doc Project is trying to fix for Linux....

Well, good docs certainly help, but the basic complexity is still there.
Until the system itself is simplified, I'm afraid that writing docs is
rather a band-aid solution.

I don't expect the system to actually be simplified, that would involve
breaking some traditions, and people generally refuse to do that -
occasionally with good reason, but more often out of habit.


Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: richb@jti.com (Richard Braun)
Subject: Re: 3c501 driver
Organization: Jupiter Technology Inc. / Waltham, MA
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 02:30:17 GMT

"Brian E. Gallew" <geek+@CMU.EDU> writes:
>I have *suddenly* come into desperate need for a 3C501 Ethernet
>driver.  I also kinda need it in the near future.  I have someone who
>needs a print server and understand that linux can do it.
>Unfortuantely, *every* Ethernet card in the department is a 3C501
>(unless an Etherlink card is a 3C502?).  Kernel version isn't
>important.  I don't even care if it drops packets left and right, just
>as long as it get enough to function.  Thanks!

(I sent a similar comment to Brian by email, but maybe it'll be helpful
for the rest of the group.)

It seems to me that writing a 3c501 driver shouldn't be all that hard.
All the information is out there on the Internet.  The first step would
be to make sure you can reliably build the Linux kernel, and study carefully
the other Ethernet drivers it has (especially the 3c503).  Next get the
crynwr DOS packet driver source code from omnigate.clarkson.edu or wherever
your favorite archive is.  Then use the info from the crynwr 3c501 driver
to write a Linux one.  Maybe this could be done in a similar standardized
way to provide the kind of universal Ethernet support represented by
crynwr and by ODI.

Not having written a Linux driver yet, I can't guess the amount of work
this is for a novice, but an expert should be able to handle it in short order.

-rich
From: Nathaniel.Muller@f806.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Nathaniel Muller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: XDM?
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:31:18 -0800

    I had a problem with XDM also, in Xfree 1.0. If you get Xfree 1.1, 
the XDM works fine. There is a directory, I believe with 1.0, 
/usr/X386/lib/? which has commands to add to your profile, one of which

changes your display to :0... I think 1.1 is available on tsx-11...
Good luck...
 
nmuller@up.tjhsst.edu
.

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From: sbw@naucse.cse.nau.edu (Steve Wampler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: SLS 1.0 (1/18/93) and X11 fonts?
Date: 22 Jan 93 18:14:07 GMT
Organization: Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff AZ

I'm trying to get X11 running again after installing SLS 1.0.
(I had been using SLS with lx99p2 installed on my own before...)

When I try to start up X with 'startx', I get a fatal error that
it cannot find default font.

What might I have done wrong?  I have (I think) all the fonts from
the x series installed, and the paths in Xconfig look correct.

Incidently, the program '.../lib/X11/tst/mouse/mouse' has to
be recompiled for the new SLS distribution - the current run unit
expects the wrong shared libraries...

Thanks for any help!
-- 
	Steve Wampler
	{....!arizona!naucse!sbw}
	{sbw@naucse.cse.nau.edu}
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: Alex Kambis <kambis@asdsun.larc.nasa.gov>
Subject: SLS
Reply-To: kambis@asdsun.larc.nasa.gov
Organization: The Internet
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 13:16:17 GMT


Hello all,

	A couple of questions:
I d'ld SLS from tsx-11 on 1-19.

   1) Xwindows works great! (but if I xlock as anyone but root,  it
      won't recognize my password.  My only? option is to reset.)
   2) <stupid> how do I get ps to work?

Many Thanks,
		Alex.
From: ghod@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: .99.2 to .99.3 : getting it to boot
Date: 22 Jan 93 19:16:52 -0500
Organization: Carnegie Mellon Computer Club

In article <1jnd20INNluc@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>, probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon) writes:
> pete@introl.com (Pete Ikusz) writes:
> 
>>I have .99.2 working nicely, so I applied the kernel patch to bring me
>>up to .99.3. From this I built a kernel, (which of course doesn't work(knowing me)).
> 
>>I have: 486-33, 8 meg ram, 0 swap, IDE disk.
>>The errors are : 
>>---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>Serial driver version 3.8 withirq.c:bad bottom half of entry.
>> no serial options enabled.
>>ttys0 at 0x03f8 ( irq = 4 ) is a 16450
>>ttys1irq.c: bad bottom half entry.
>> bad bottom half entry.
>> is a 16450
>>8 virtual consoles
>>general protection: 0000
>>EIP: 0008:0000CFB8
>>EFLAGS: 00010286
>>fs: 0017
>>base: C0000000, limit: 000A0000
>>pid: 0, process nr: 0
>>ff d0 83 C4 04 C3 90 90 90 90
>>task[0] (swapper) killed: unable to recover
>>kernel panic: trying to free swapper memory space
>>In swapper task - not syncing
>>---------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>>Do I need a newer version of gcc? I am running 2.2.2d.
> 
>>Can anyone offer any advice?
> 
>>Thanks.
>>-Pete
> 
> You might try upgrading, since a lot of the include files changed from
> 2.2.2d to 2.3.3. While the kernel doesn't use any standard library calls,
> the difference in the include files may be making it have problems booting.
> 
> You can get 2.3.3 from tsx-11.mit.edu in the pub/linux/GCC directory.
> 
> James

For the record, I'm still using gcc 2.2.2d and my 0.99.3 kernel compiled and
works just fine. This may run your phone bill up, but I suggest downloading
the complete 0.99.3 source and trying that rather than applying the patches
to 0.99.2. Now, I don't mean to imply that using the diffs is what's causing
the trouble, but when weird stuff like that starts happening to me, my first
instinct is to start over with a nice fresh copy of everything. And the easiest
way to do that is to get the complete source. At the very least, this 
eliminates the possibility of the patches being applied incorrectly. Hope
this helps.

-Bill
From: bush@ecs.ox.ac.uk (Mark Bush)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Safety Belt / SLS
Date: 21 Jan 93 11:05:10 GMT
Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory
Originator: bush@thom5.ecs.ox.ac.uk

In article <1jiq8pINN9r4@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon) writes:
#creacy@yuppie.enet.dec.com (Chet Creacy) writes:
#>I second this idea!  I did the exact same thing.  I was trying to install linux
#>on the 2nd disk; cranked up fdisk (forgetting to specify /dev/hdb); deleted
#>partition 1; did a write; and, voila "DOS IS HISTORY".
#
#>Good suggestion!
#
#>Later,
#
#>Chet
#
#Thats why unix is not for the faint hearted. There are plenty of warnings 
#in the various README's and FAQ's about this sort of thing. For one, I
#would always back up completely before mkfs'ing a new drive or repartitioning.

No reason why Unix should stay this way.  It's one of the things that puts
off a lot of people.  Adding some stupidity checking would be nice.  I've
been dealing with UNIX systems for about 4 years now and every time I do
something like newfs a partition or recursively remove a directory, I get a
horrible queezy feeling until I'm able to convince myself that I haven't
done something really silly.

Mark
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: buchanan@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (BUCHANAN TIMOTHY E)
Subject: request uucico help
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 05:10:48 GMT

I got uucico to dial a system for me, after realizing that SLS comes with
sample Systems, Devices, and Permissions files, but no sample Dialer file.
Now, uucico dials, exchanges some data w/ the system, meanwhile setting
LCK files, then hangups w/o sending the files in /usr/spool/uucp that were
put there by elm and uucp.

I might be able to figure out where the problem is if I could turn on 
debugging for uucico. I tried -x2, -X2, -x9, -X9, -x2>/usr/lib/uucp/debug
produces a zero length file of that name. 

Could someone tell me, is the binary uucico dist w/ SLS have debugging
disabled? If enabled, how can I turn it on?

My Dialers file is so-
supra =,-, "" \dATQ0V1E1\r\c OK\r \ATDT\D\r\c CONNECT
As I said, uucico will dial for me.

Systems entry is so-
csn Any ACU 9600 PHONE_NUMBER "" \r\d\r name:--name: USER_NAME sword:
PASSWORD annex: ruucp
except this is all on one line. Using Kermit, I can call csn, walk through
this chat script, and get the Shere=csn which precedes the uucp protocol.
So why is this script failing?

The main thing is how can I get uucico to spill its guts for me; how can I
turn on debugging so I can see what is going wrong?

Thanks,
Timothy.
csn
Xref: sparky comp.os.linux:24953 comp.unix.bsd:11637
From: liesche@byron.u.washington.edu (Jochen Liesche)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: How many MB to run XFree?
Date: 21 Jan 1993 08:26:37 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
NNTP-Posting-Host: byron.u.washington.edu
Keywords: XFree

In article <1993Jan20.092405.1272@ghost.dsi.unimi.it> colombo@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (Marco Colombo ("TheMule")) writes:
>I'd like to have XFree running on my machine ( Am386/40 with 4MB of RAM ).
>Now I'm running 386BSD and i wonder if it's possible to run XFree 
>with only 4 MB if RAM.
>I've read that Linux/XFree can run with 4MB. Is that correct?
>( Please don't tell me that 8MB would be better, I know that B-) )

Yes.  I run it(at 800x600x256) on a 386sx20 with 4 MB RAM and 80 MB HDD.  How's that for bare minimum?  Oh, the CPU does have a cache, so I guess it's so much faster...:-).  The only reason I run it at 800x600 is that my card only has 512k.  Sometimes it swaps a great deal, and sometimes hardly at all...it depends on the phase of the moon...
From: albion@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Craig T Manske)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Extended File System
Date: 27 Jan 1993 06:56:10 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4
Originator: albion@csd4.csd.uwm.edu


Does the extended file system support more than 14 character file names?
I have a few programs for Unix that have longer names and it's causing 
trouble..

Albion (stranger@TMI-2)
From: oreillym@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Michael O'Reilly)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Multiplexing terminal
Date: 21 Jan 1993 10:33:08 GMT
Organization: Home
NNTP-Posting-Host: tartarus.uwa.edu.au
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Rick Miller, Linux Device Registrar (rick@ee.uwm.edu) wrote:
: 
: 2.) Then there's "term-0.99p", which will multiplex the connection
:
: 		[ Nice description of term deleted. ]
:
:      One thing I haven't *seen* done yet is a port-redirected MUD.
:      The big complaint that system administrators have about MUDs is
:      the disk/memory/cpu load that they put on their systems... but
:      if you run the actual MUD on your Linux box with the Inet port
:      redirected through an Inet-connected machine, all that remote
:      machine will see is the traffic load...  No more complaints about
:      disk/memory/cpu-hogging!  Yet, to the rest of the world it would
:      appear that the MUD was running on that remote host.

This is fine if you can maintain a 24 hr dialup. :) You admin's might
look at you a little strangely if you are logged on 24 hrs a day.

I have heard of someone does do this on an intermitted basis. Not a
permenant mud, just an experimental one.
 
:      I see the potential here for some *serious* Linux inter-networking.
:      For those who have user-access accounts, but can't get a SLIP account,
:      "term" seems to be the next best thing.

I think so. But then I wrote it. :) "I like it so much, I went out and
wrote it!".

: 	I can't remember the anonymous ftp site to get it from, but
: 	you can get that and more info on the linux-activists TERM
: 	channel.  Send mail to linux-activists-request@niksula.hut.fi
: 	with the FIRST LINE being:
: 
: 	X-Mn-Admin: join term
: 
: 	You will then be added to the list, and you'll receive more info
: 	on how to post to the list as well.

Term you can get from nic.funet.fi:pub/OS/Linux/BETA/term099q.tar.Z
also from tartarus.uwa.edu.au:/pub/oreillym/term/term099q.tar.Z

BTW. Term just got re-named. Term 1.0.0 will be released soon, and
from tell, all new version will go under the name "SLAP". (Serial Line
Access Protocol). Name was selected mostly for the puns it produces.
:) Thanks to Carl Von L. for suggesting the name.
 
: Rick Miller   <rick@ee.uwm.edu> | <rick@discus.mil.wi.us>   Ricxjo Muelisto
Michael
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: root@rshark.mixcom.com (Brian Kapitan)
Subject: Re: 2 files with the same name in single directory, 0.99pl3, extfs
Organization: Secret Sound
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 11:48:26 GMT

ig25@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig) writes:

>I just had a very strange thing happening to me while trying to get lpr
>to work.  In my spool directory, I suddenly had two files called ".seq"
>It was possible to remove them with a single rm - command.

You think that's strange--- i've had two copies of a certain man page
in cat1 forever....it's on a linux/minix file system. does any one know
how to get rid of one without the other, and without possibly damaging
the file system...cause obviously something is wrong....i was thinking of
trying rm -i <file>....
-- 
"If you wait long enough, a car will come." -- anon
Brian Kapitan, root@rshark.mixcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: root@umibox.hanse.de (Bernd Meyer)
Subject: Re: InterViews for Linux?.
Keywords: InterViews, has <X> been ported to Linux
Organization: Linux Box standing around in Hamburg, Germany
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 14:19:33 GMT

bhahn@sw.stratus.com (Bill Hahn) writes:

>In article <1993Jan14.191441.18399@cs.wisc.edu>, djansa@mersem.cs.wisc.edu (Dean Jansa) writes:
>> Has anyone ported the complete InterViews Package to Linux??
>> I have noticed a few messages in passing in comp.windows.interviews
>> regarding Linux.  Has it been ported, or should I give it a try
>> myself?
>> 
>> Dean

InterViews3.1 compiles close to cleanly after applying the generic
gcc-patches (that linger around with the source itself). All that is left
are a few misnamed constants in handling fd_sets (Linus, the best thing you 
ever did, changing this :-))), and the old script-problem that could be
cured by just rmeoving a lot of newlines.

I tried to diff my cleanly compiling version against the original code, but
due to changed Makefiles and such, the diffs got enourmous, and I have no
real way to upload to ftp-sites.

Still, not everything will work. Doc still doesn't seem to like the
cursor-keys, and in ibuild every slider has a natural width of 0 (Arghhhh!).

Bernie
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From: kfisher3@mach1.wlu.ca (kevin fisher U)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: curses?
Summary: maybe I'm stupid..
Date: 24 Jan 93 16:17:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: mach1.C1D99F.3nH
Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University

Ok, I've been trying to learn the ins-and-outs of curses, and I've run into
a slight problem.  On linux, I've made a simple program that moves a cursor
around the screen (using curses, of course).  It works okay, except that if
I move it vertically up or down the screen, it will always jump over to the
left side of the screen.  Horizontal motion is fine.

So, thinking I made a mistake, I re-compiled on our school mainframe, and
voila--it works fine!

My question is this:  is there a bug in the Linux curses library?  I
remember some time ago someone posted something about the latest curses
version being put on some ftp site...

Any help would be appreciated,,
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: fhchua@athena.mit.edu (Fei Hai Chua)
Subject: Floptical From Iomega
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:03:48 GMT

Has anyone got the floptical drive to work on Linux? It came with a
controller which I think is a SCSI card, but when Linux booted up, there
were no SCSI devices detected at all.

I am a new to Linux and UNIX admin in general. Any helpful hint or
suggestions appreciated. 

Thanks!

-Fei

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From: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: new ka9q (version 8) uploaded
Date: 27 Jan 93 09:49:58 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

A couple of people have said things that imply that KA9Q as now on
tsx-11 doesn't work with kernel 0.99.  I'm not sure why that would be.
But I've uploaded the version of KA9Q I'm currently using.  It works
(at least for me) with 0.99pl2, including with the experimental tty
driver.  Note that the binary is linked static, so it doesn't matter
which sharable libraries you have.  The next time I'll probably build
it dynamic, but at the moment I wasn't sure what to assume that people
had.

There is one minor change in functionality.  It's possible to have
several sessions active at once.  But only one is current.  I now
output a message if input arrives on a session that's not the current
one.  This is intended to alert you that you probably want to look at
that session to see what's going on.  The message looks like

  [Telnet: Input from session %d]

I noticed that somebody has a recent NOS release of KA9Q running on
Linux.  That's a newer version of KA9Q than this one.  I haven't had a
chance to look at it yet.  I'll try to do so.  I should note that
while the version of KA9Q I started from is fairly old, I've done a
certain amount of my own work on telnet and compressed SLIP.  I have
spent a lot of time getting CSLIP and telnet to the point where I get
as good interactive response via KA9Q as a simple Kermit connection.
I'd like to verify that NOS has equivalent performance and features.
(There may also be a difference in style.  I currently model the
telnet after Cisco's terminal servers, which I think have a better
user interface for telnet than the Berkeley code that's more commonly
used as a model.  But I haven't seen what NOS looks like for a couple
of years, so it could well be as good.)  If so, I see no reason for me
to continue supporting an old version of KA9Q.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: pfau@coffee.enet.dec.com (Thomas Pfau)
Subject: Re: Installing Linux & DOS Hard drive Partition
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 15:46:55 GMT


In article <727748701.AA34907@remote.halcyon.com>,
Jon.Nials@f110.n382.z1.fidonet.org (Jon Nials) writes...
>Recently, while trying to install Linux SLS .98PL5, we trashed the hard
>disk.  Each time we installed linux (as /dev/hda2) the hard drive would
>not successfully come back up under dos.  Once we would get DOS up then
>the Linux partition was hosed.  The DOS partition was of 100 M on a 230M
>IDE drive, and we made a 60M Linux partition.  Running DR-DOS 6.0 as the
>OS, on an 386-40 with 4M of ram.

I have heard that DR-DOS doesn't like the linux partition number.  It
strips off the low order bits of the partition number and see's the linux
partition (type 0x81) as a dos partition (type 0x01).

Try choosing a different type number for the linux partition.  I think
linux won't care what the actual number is as long as the contents are
properly formated as a minix file system.

tom_p
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From: hank@informatik.uni-essen.de (Hendrik G. Seliger)
Subject: Re: HELP: shell-init: Permission denied
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 07:36:19 GMT
Organization: Uni-Essen
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

sadkins@bigbird.cs.ohiou.edu (Scott W. Adkins) writes:
: >pwd, dir etc. will work fine. I recommend to use USERADD(8) because 
: >initialization and perms setup will be done automatically.
: 
: Again, I found this not to be true.   The only thing the useradd program 
: did was add the user to the passwd and shadow (password) files.  It did
: nothing else.  I thought it would create a directory, but it didn't.  So,
: I did it myself.  

You will have to use the option "-m" with useradd to create the
directory and copy all necessary files into it (use -k to specify
the skeleton directory; might be /etc/skel).

Hendrik.