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From: miranda@suspicion.eng.uiowa.edu (Johann Miranda)
Subject: Re: Linux 0.99pl4
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 20:47:28 GMT
Organization: Department of Elect. and Comp. Engr., University of Iowa, USA.

In article <jahoward.727842837@help.cc.iastate.edu>, jahoward@iastate.edu (Jim) writes:
|> Good report.  99-pl4 compiled absolutely perfect first time.
|> Easiest compile ever.  If it runs as good as it compiled, we
|> could have something here :)
|> 
|> Jim
|> 
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|> One of the 'Help Room Guys'	 that I am, in fact, intelligent.

And  dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Philip Perucci) wrote before:

>>Just compiled 0.99pl4!  Works fine for me!

>>I sure hope all the beta-testers help out Linus NOW so version 1.0 
>>is problem-free.  
>>-- 
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>>  phil perucci                | "Any opinions expressed are my own views, 
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I compiled the following:

0.99-pl4
WD driver from  becker@metropolis.super.org (Don Becker)

Everything was rosy, I thought. My box died in the middle of the day ( I wasn't
there, I went home for some odd reason, like hunger pangs and red eyes :). I had
a NFS mount running, but today, after one more night, the problem was not
repeated!

Then from X I tried a command as su root and got a blank screen. Hitting return
brought me back to X. Next command gave me a blank screen for a second..Then it 
cleared. 

Today, I connected a printer to my parallel port. After printing a few things
and telneting a few places, something happened:

wd_block_input(cnt=4 offset 3700) addr 0xcb700 = ff 80 3821 42..

eth_if: Couldn't allocate a sk_buff of size 116
eth_if :Couldn' allocate a sk_buff of size 116
again and again and again........... Console irresponsive, no virtual consoles
eth_if Receiver overrun
bogus packet header


DUH?

Hit the big red button, reboot with a1,a2 efsck -r everything nominally OK....


I wonder if the printer port uses irq 5? that's where my WD hangs out at.

I will keep experimenting...... God, I love these puzzles!

Does anyone know the answer to:

1) How do you get your lpd to stay up and running?
2) How to configure sendmail daemon?
3) How to configure tcp/ip properly?

 I am using the _latest_ SLS, with all them fixes from last week.

  486/33,8megs ram, 8 megs swap partition, WD220C IDE drive (hdb1), extfs,
 Xfree86-1.0 WD card at irq 5 i/o 280h base (don't remember, whatever
 it's set on Space.c).

Actually, I don't think the culprit is pl4.... But then again, what do I know,
I am just a newbie, a newbie, a newbie, a newbie..........................

Hasta la vista, baby.				-JEM-
From: epstein@nubis.rutgers.edu (david epstein)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: PLEASE: info on OAK and X
Summary: what OAK cards work with X windows
Keywords: OAK X
Date: 21 Jan 93 17:54:27 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

Hello,

I have a 386sx with a 40meg HD and a TRIDENT 8900B (i think) that
I  wanted to run Linux on.  I have toyed with thoughts of getting
a brand new card with an ET4000 chipset, spending the money instead on a 
larger drive, or just trying to sell the thing and start from scratch.

my most recent idea was to possibly trade my card for my brother's.  He
does little with it and would be more than content with mine.  I know
it is an OAK but am not sure of the make yet.  I will be heading home
to MA from NJ this weekend and will check up on it.  Could someone
tell me what models are supported by X (if any) and what resolution
I could expect and what color depth.  Thank you for your time.

-david
From: kbj@po.CWRU.Edu (Kevin B. Jacobs)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Xconfig with interlaced monitor
Date: 25 Jan 1993 23:56:44 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: kbj@po.CWRU.Edu (Kevin B. Jacobs)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


I have an ATI XL24 with a Tatung CM 1498X monitor.  I can't get 1024x768
resolution by following either the X11 video mode tutorial or using VESA
values.  My monitor is supposed to support 8514A for 1024x768, but I have 
had no luck getting the vertical timings right.  I'm pretty sure the
horizontal values are close because the screen is just moved down a bit. 
Unfortunitly, I had to use an interlaced 44Mhz dot clock too.

Does anyone know of working values that I may be able to use?  

Kevin Jacobs

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: Rob_Prior@mindlink.bc.ca (Rob Prior)
Subject: Re: TVTWM >>>>>????
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 18:05:20 GMT

] dlaij@Bonnie.ICS.UCI.EDU writes:
]
] Msg-ID: <26130.727570088@bonnie.ics.uci.edu>
] Posted: 20 Jan 93 22:48:21 GMT
]
] Any body know where can I get TVTWM window manager for linux??
] Please send me mail to dlaij@bonnie.ics.uci.edu
]
] Thanks

Please include me in this mailing list as well... :)

Rob

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From: mirons@ccs.northeastern.edu (Michael A. Irons)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: SCSI Autodetect? Static table? (Was: ST01/02 and Syquest 5110)
Date: 27 Jan 93 00:28:20 GMT
Organization: Northeastern University, CCS Dept.


	How about this. BOTH! Have a table that explicitly assigns a
ID/LUN to a minor num, and anything that's not covered gets added as
before. ie it scans as before and checks to see if the combo is an assigned
location or not. If so, fine. If not give it the next available minor number.
You could even reserve the first n minors for future use, and start at n+1.
As someone said, there really arn't going to be that many disks/controllers
on the system.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: degrant@seq.uncwil.edu (DeGrant, Kenneth L)
Subject: Printer and Not-Printing
Organization: University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:28:20 GMT

I am having trouble getting my printer to print.  It prints about
3 letters in burst every 5 minutes.  I have heard that I need to do
some configuration to Linux itsself.   

   BUT WHAT???  

I have looked at the FAQ, and have not found how to do it...

Help out there???!!!???

Kenneth DeGrant 
(Yeah, the guy who has the YECCCCH PC-Brand Computer )

degrant@seq.uncwil.edu
degrant_kl@wl.corning.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
Subject: Re: gcc 2.3.3 problem
Organization: Linux
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:23:13 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.144702.4734@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk> a080700@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk (Stephen Wong S M) writes:
>I'm using linux 0.99pl4/SLS 1.0/gcc 2.3.3/lib 4.2 and I test the
>gcc compiler with the following program:-
[Program deleted]
>
>I use the following command line to compile:-
>gcc -lm -o test_sqrt test_sqrt.c
>
>but I got the following error message:-
>/usr/tmp/cca001331.o: Undefined symbot _sqrt referenced from text segment

No, it's not a bug in the compiler. The order of .o's, .c's, and -l or .a's
matters. Try the command
	gcc -o test_sqrt test_sqrt.c -lm
(note new placement of -lm switch).

>Then I tried another command line:-
>gcc -o test_sqrt test_sqrt.c /usr/lib/libm.a
>and succeed.

Right, you've effectively put libm on the end of the command, as above.

mdw

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mcallist@logdis1.SM.AFLC.AF.MIL (Ron McAllister)
Subject: HELP please with where i can get FAQ for GCC
Reply-To: mcallist@logdis1.SM.AFLC.AF.MIL (Ron McAllister)
Organization: The Internet
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:18:24 GMT

Hi.  I attempted to upgrade from gcc 2.2.2d to 2.3.3 and botched up
my libc library.   Can anyone email me with a FAQ or procedure for
upgrading the libraries , jump tables, and gcc???   There must be  
a FAQ somewhere.     Now I cant even use mv or cp. ;(((
From: murphy@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Michael L. Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Does Linux support VESA Local Bus Video?
Summary: What video cards should I be looking for?
Date: 27 Jan 93 22:59:51 GMT
Organization: Math Dept., University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign


	In this month's Computer Shopper (Feb. '93) there's an ad for
a FastMicro 486 DX/33 Mhz PC.  It includes a 212 Mb Connor IDE hard
drive, 8 Meg RAM, a 486 w/ 8k internal cache, 128K external static
write-back cache, and the monitor is 14" 1024x768 @72Hz SVGA.  The
price is $1999, which I thought was a good deal, especially since it
includes 2 choices of software packages + Windows, Microsoft mouse,
1.2 + 1.44M floppy drives, 2 serial ports, parallel port, game port,
etc.  It also has local bus video, which brings me to my question:

	I want to run Linux on this machine.  I know 8 Meg of memory
should be sufficient, and I should have enough disk space.  My question:
Is the video card Linux-compatible?  It's advertised as a VESA Local
Bus video card with Windows accelerator, and nothing more is said.
I know local bus video should be a plus point, but if I am unable to
run Linux+X11 at SVGA resolution, I'd rather not buy this PC.  I
haven't seen this video card on the hardware compatibility list
either.

	If anyone can tell me for certain whether this machine will
run Linux/X11, it would help me greatly.  It sounds like a great Unix
machine otherwise.  Thanks for any help.

	If you post an answer, make sure to mail me a copy - I might
miss it in this really high-volume newsgroup.
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From: dpn2@po.CWRU.Edu (Damien P. Neil)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: SLS not booting??
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 01:04:53 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
NNTP-Posting-Host: b63519.student.cwru.edu

In article <C1BxG3.FnG@iat.holonet.net> emelton@iat.holonet.net (Edwin Melton) writes:
>Hey there,
>	I have downloaded the SLS package, and have gotten it to work on
>my friends machines, but I cannot get it to run on mine.
>
>	Here's the problem:
>	When I boot the system from the floppy, I get the screen as follows:

[Stuff]

>	Then when I press the space bar, my computer cold boots, and
>repeats the previous scenario, until I remove the root disk, and boot to DOS.

Are you using rawrite2? I have had this problem when using it; rawrite (1) 
worked just fine for me, however.
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From: hedrick@geneva.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: KA9Q - Command to Receive Binary Files?
Keywords: ka9q slip
Date: 21 Jan 93 23:45:56 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

jmaclean@fox.nstn.ns.ca (James MacLean) writes:


>	I'm using KA9Q on Linux and it doesn't now the BInary command I'm
>using with KA9Q for DOS. What should I be using instead to switch from 
>ASCII ti BINARY?

Where possible, the FTP client in KA9Q uses the commands defined by
the FTP protocol.  In this case, you want "type i" (for image).
From: adam@owlnet.rice.edu (Adam Justin Thornton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Printcap / SLIP
Date: 25 Jan 93 17:38:42 GMT
Organization: Milo's Meadow

Two questions:

a) does anyone have a printcap for an HP Laserjet IIP?  I guess I
_could_ write one, but why reinvent the wheel?  Can someone please
either send me one or point me to where I can find it?

b) If KA9Q doesn't work with kernels > .97, then is there any way
to do IP over the modem?  How do I tell TCP/IP that I'm using a
serial line and not an ethernet card?

Adam
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: seidl@alw.nih.gov (Edward Seidl)
Subject: Re: lfs 0.6 --> "xfs"
Organization: National Inst. of Health, DCRT, CSL
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 11:33:38 GMT

In article <C1836z.Gww@ra.nrl.navy.mil>, eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil
 (Eric Youngdale) writes
|> 
|> 	Or better yet, "lefse".  The 'e' does not stand for anything in
|> particular, but given the scandanavian origins of Linux, it would seem a
|> fitting name.  More Norweigian/Swedish than Finnish I suppose.
|> 
|> -Eric
|> 

Yeah! and we could call the filesystem checker lutefsck :)

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seidl@alw.nih.gov                                 NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892  

I'm not paid enough to have an opinion, much less express one for my employer.
From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: .99.2 to .99.3 : getting it to boot
Date: 21 Jan 1993 17:53:36 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

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
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: qx@shire.math.columbia.edu (Qi Xia)
Subject: Re: xfs does not work for me 
Organization: Mathematics Department, Columbia University
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:31:30 GMT
X-Posted-From: shire.math.columbia.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

MfG, michael Will wrote
>Applying the xfs-patches to linux-0.99p4-source does not work,
>but with linux-0.99p3 it works, after this the patches
>from p3 to p4 work as well...

>Make config works.

>Make dep:
>In file included from init/main.c:16:
>/usr/include/linux/sched.h:15: linux/tasks.h: No such file or directory
>In file included from /usr/include/linux/sched.h:59, from init/main.c:16:
>/usr/include/linux/fs.h:156: linux/xfs_i.h: No such file or directory
>In file included from /usr/include/linux/sched.h:59, from init/main.c:16:
>/usr/include/linux/fs.h:225: linux/xfs_sb.h: No such file or directory
>make: *** [dep] Error 1
># 

>What now?

You used "patch < whatever" instead of "pathc -p0 < whatever". 
These files now in /usr/src instead the right place.
Either move the files to the right place or redo the patch.

BTW: xfs-0.6.1 is out. xfs-0.6.1 has seperate ctime/atime/mtime.
make sure you get l99.4-xfs6.1.fix.Z which fixed a bug in mkxfs
which may bite you if your disk has bad blocks.

-Frank










Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: chchen@stat (Ching-Hsiang Chen)
Subject: How to 'tar' w/o Broken pipe?
Organization: Florida State University
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 09:34:59 GMT

I usually use the tar command with sentence like 'tar cvf foo.tar bin/'.
This way I got a nice foo.tar backup of the bin directory. But when I
compress it by compress or gzip and then do a 
 
   gunzip -c foo.tar.z|tar xvf -

I always got a 'Broken Pipe' message when it's done. I notice that most
of the tar file from tsx11 have no such problem. Am I doing wrong
somewhere in my tar command?

Steve Chen
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jw_shin@quake.sylmar.ca.us (Jin woo Shin)
Subject: Where do I get Linux
Organization: Quake Public Access, Sylmar CA
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 00:36:03 GMT

I am a poor student who is just dying to get in hand with Linux.  I've 
heard so many good things about it in this conference and I can't seem to 
locate the source for Linux SLS. Is there anyone in Los Angeles or San 
Fernando Valley area (california that is) that has Linux SLS...latest 
version that I could get a copy of????
I do not have access to ftp nor do I have money to send for $100 for 
Linux SLS mail distribution. Anyhelp would be fine.
BTW, at the Linux support BBS lists, any board in 818 area are either 
down or someone posted wrong numbers.
Thanks.

From Desperate


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From: hagan@freya.cs.umass.edu (Craig I. Hagan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Booting a kernel built under SLS -- problems
Date: 25 Jan 93 01:37:23 GMT
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst

I have just in stalled SLS recently on my machine, and rebult the
kernel to reflect the amount of ram i have (>16mb)
however, i had many problems -- w and top didn't
work, likewise the floppy device doidn't work properly.

i then decided just to build a kernel with <=16mb of ram,
and, and give that a shot. SAME problem, so it isn't a dma
thing.

symptoms:

upon boot, the vga text screen is unreadable. i can get to X by knowing
what to type -- X does work, though.

anything that requires looking at /dev/kmem whines big time. (w, top)
and either doesn't work, or gives wacked out results.

any idea of a fix -- do i copy some other file (system.map ?)
to /dev/kmem, or do i rm it?

hagan@cs.umass.edu

-- craig
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds)
Subject: Re: GCC - matherr(), what about it ?
Organization: University of Helsinki
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:22:43 GMT

In article <1jmedsINNhpd@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> kk@cs.tu-berlin.de (Kolja Kaehler) writes:
>When compiling pov-ray, gcc failed for the symbols DOMAIN, SING, UNDERFLOW and
>OVERFLOW which were used in a function called 'matherr()'.
>(I wasn't able to find a prototype for this in math.h or any other place ...) 
>I don't *know* what this is meant to do, but I suppose one can use matherr()
>to trap math exceptions ? I removed the whole thing from the povray source,
>(still works - so far) but ... does gcc really not support it ? (using 2.3.3)

The current kernel does not support math state saving when encountering
an error: I simply didn't know what to do with the data, so I just
discard it.  The latest kernel versions do a "fninit" when a math error
occurs (as well as sending the SIGFPE, of course) to clear any error -
older kernels just did a fcnlex.  This essentially means that there is
no way to find out why the error happened unless you check the
operations before executing them. 

The reason is, of course, that it's not covered by any standard as far
as I know, and I haven't got a clue about how "normal" 386 unixes handle
it.  Just as well, mostly, as the way to handle FPU exceptions is either
to abort on them or use longjmps to restore the machine to some known
state and continuing from there.  That at least is portable. 

So don't blame gcc - while I don't know what matherr() is supposed to
do, I'd assume it needs help from the kernel in order to get at the FPU
state.  Sysv-i386 probably saves the math state somewhere on the user
stack or similar. 

		Linus
From: mfp+@CS.CMU.EDU (Michael Polis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: SLS: Additional problem & questions.
Date: 25 Jan 93 16:49:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.C1F5EF.4M1.2
Organization: Carnegie Mellon University

In article <1993Jan22.200436.7161@wuecl.wustl.edu>, ask1@cec2.wustl.edu (Andrew Scott Koransky) writes:
|> Peter "SLS" MacDonald writes:
|> >>Also, some remarks for Peter.  First of all, great work!  I can't imagine
|> >>the amount of time you spent getting all this together so nicely.  Second, a
|> >>suggestion:  Is it possible for someone or a group to test SLS releases so
|> >>that the bugs may be eliminated by the time the new release gets to the
|> >>public?  It may cause some delays, but I think it would be well worth the
|> >>wait.  Perhaps a "beta" SLS release?
|> >>Anyhow, keep up the good work!
|> >
|> >I do.  You are that group :-).  Seriously, when I announce an upgrade, I 
|> >expect people to respect it and wait a week unless you are intrepid
|> >(or just a good samaritan).
|> 
|> This is fine, but I believe this should be announced somewhere in the readme
|> maybe and when it is stable enough, modify the readme or something like
|> that...  just so we know.  The main problem here is simple communication.
|> Newbies to Linux SLS are downloading it unaware that a new "buggy" SLS has
|> been uploaded and suffer for it.

Yes, you should put something like this in the README:

This is the SLS Linux distribution, v 1.0, uploaded January 18, 1993.
New users should wait about a week until the release has been checked
for bugs.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: rbui@maccs.mcmaster.ca (Robert Bui)
Subject: help with X (no SIOCGIFCONF)
Organization: Department of Computer Science, McMaster University
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 07:28:29 GMT


Could anyone please explain what "no SIOCGIFCONF" means?  It appears