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From: mrd@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Mark Dobie)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Telling gcc to use shared/jump libs
Keywords: gcc jump
Date: 8 Nov 92 11:23:59 GMT

In <1d8mu9INNfk6@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon) writes:

>This should be in the FAQ, but I haven't read that in a while so here goes.
>You need to symlink each of the file in /usr/X386/lib/jump into 
>/usr/lib/shlib/jump. This is so ld can find them from the default lib path
>gcc sends it. Gcc should default to the jump table stuff now, and to get
>the other ones to work you use a -static or -nojump flag respectively.

Or compile with debugging options (-g). I sat for half an hour
wondering about the shared libraries until I realised I still had the
debugging enabled :-)

				Mark.
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University of Southampton		M.R.Dobie@ecs.soton.ac.uk (The World)
From: Conrad_Nobili@Harvard.EDU (Conrad C. Nobili)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: anyone running linux on altima 433
Date: 8 Nov 92 23:57:04 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Organization: Harvard University Office for Information Technology

In article <GRATER.92Nov8155616@ra.me.wisc.edu>, grater@ra.me.wisc.edu
(Juergen Graeter) wrote:

> I am looking into buying a altima 433 notebook. 

> has anyone the same machine and is running linux (successfully) on it?

I think this is a Twinhead SlimNote, in which case it is available from
several companies.  I got mine from Compudyne.  It is exactly as you listed
above, except I got 8MB RAM with mine.

Linux runs wonderfully on it.  X works using Xmono.

Conrad C. Nobili  N1LPM  Conrad_Nobili@Harvard.EDU  Harvard University OIT
From: stern@amath.washington.edu (L.G. "Ted" Stern)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: X-windows (+Trident 8900c)
Date: 9 Nov 92 20:51:49 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov9.205149.6661
Organization: University of Washington, Applied Mathematics, Seattle

In article <Nov09.200531.18496@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>, mc499424@longs.lance.colostate.edu (Amine chouicha) writes:
|> --------
|> 
|> 
|>   Hi
|> 
|>  I can't figure out what is wrong with my Xconfig file (new to X-window). My
|>  PC characterictics is:
|> 
|>  486 with 8MB of RAM
|>  monitor ViewSonic 15"  31-60KHz microprocessor   1024x768
|>  card TRIDENT  TVGA
|>  Microsoft mouse
|>  
|>   When ever a run startx, I get
|>
|>   [ stuff deleted ....]
|>    Any help will be appreciated in setting my Xconfig. Thank you
|> 
|>    Amine.

I have a similar configuration, only an AMD386/40 with 128k cache.  
And not surprisingly, the same problem!  If anyone has figured out how
to handle Trident video cards, could you please tell me how to do it?
I am using the SLS distribution as of 11/7/92.

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|Programmer peon, Mostly a Grad Student  |                                 |
|peon . . . just joking, professor!      |                                 |
|stern@amath.washington.edu              |       -- Sandy Bradley          |
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: lcd@ais.org (Leon Dent)
Subject: Re: tip  and  cu  for  linux
Organization: UMCC
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 08:05:21 GMT

If there was a mailpak directory, instead of a "file", all the pieces
that are ready could already be made available.  Then just new and 
updated programs could be uploaded/downloaded.

Leon Dent
lcd@ais.org
From: mrd@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Mark Dobie)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Help getting TCP/IP going wanted
Date: 13 Nov 92 16:10:35 GMT


I have the SLS 0.98pl1 distribution on a 486 machine connected to an
ethernet using a Western Digital card.

I recompiled the kernel according to the quick and dirty readme.
I had all the stuff in /etc/inet and I edited install.net and rc.net
to refer to this location (instead of /usr/etc/inet). I have
configured rc.net with all the right IP addresses.

The loopback and WD devices seem to initialise correctly when the
kernel boots up. When rc.net runs all three config commands fail with
"Socket: Protocol not supported".

I have edited net/tcp/Space.c to set the initial parameters for the
board. This didn't help. The board is set to use soft parameters, if
that helps.

I suspect I am missing something or the config program is broken. I
haven't found anything useful on the ftp sites.

Could somebody please point me in the right direction?

				Mark.
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University of Southampton		M.R.Dobie@ecs.soton.ac.uk (The World)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
Subject: Re: TCP/IP w/ ethernet wd8003
Organization: Aston University
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 10:10:48 GMT

K111114@ALIJKU11.BITNET () writes:
: hi.
: finally i got config to say something other than "socket: Protocal not supp..."
: still i have problems. *:-)
: our university is the net 140.78 in Austria. the pc where i want to install
: linux is on a subnet at this university, 140.78.4, and the pc itself should
: be assigned the ip-number 140.78.4.41.
: The gateway is (that is the ROUTER, from the /usr/etc/inet/rc.local ???)
: 140.78.4.31.
: 
: I try to startup the device now:
: 
: > #!/bin/sh
: > config loopback 127.0.0.1
: > config -r 140.78.4.31 -n 140.78.4.0 -d eth0 140.78.4.41
: > inetd
: 
: okey. when I try to telnet outside, i get "wd8003 timeout ...", and telnet
: into doesn't connect either (doing a ps on the linux host I c that telnetd is
: never started)

The code for the ethernet card assumes that it uses IRQ 5, either change
the card (which is likely to break any non Linux networking software you
may also be running on the machine) or change the software line 17
of net/tcp/Space.c
: 
: I may or may not add
: 
: > config loopback 140.78.4.41
: 
: this line simply doesn't matter ...
: 
: Somewhere in the source i have read "No need for a net-mask", well, i trust
: the source :) Also, I am not sure about the -n value.
: Should I use the subnet (140.78.4.0) or should I use the whole local-net
: (140.78.0.0) ..... (Tried both, none worked, or, well, i'm just to confused
: about having to boot every 10 minutes or so ....)

As for your net mask you will need to know how your local network is set up
to do this.
: 
: Also, in /usr/etc/inet/resolv.conf i have entered: domain-name & 2 name servers
: But named cannot find named.boot. Where is this file ? Couldn't get it in the
: distribution ...

If you have a network connection then there is little point running named
(except as a caching server)
Find a BIND GURU for help with named it is not directly a linux problem
(comp.unix.questions or such like is probably a better place to ask about
BIND)
: 
: Who has connected the wd-card using linux/tcpip to the net successfully ?
: Please help me !!! :-)))

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From: oreillym@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Michael O'Reilly)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,rec.games.mud.lp
Subject: Re: Can't get LP-Mud 3.1.2 to work well under Linux...
Date: 8 Nov 1992 22:01:24 +0800
Organization: Home
NNTP-Posting-Host: tartarus.uwa.edu.au
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Dr Algirdas Avizienis (aviz@lanai.cs.ucla.edu) wrote:
: Hello there!
: 
: I am using Linux 0.98pl3 w/TCP/IP compiled in on a 386/25
: with 8 megs of RAM.  For the last few days i've been
: trying to get LPmud 3.1.2 to work, but to no avail.

First a quick fix. Try and get the latest TCP patches.
 
: I've gotten it compiled, and it runs and all, but
: if I log onto the MUD, it crashes usually in about
: 10 minutes.  
: 
: I usually get the message:
: dev_rint: dropping packets due to lack of memory
: and then I get the message:
: accept: out of memory
: 
: and an IOT trap/Abort (core dumped).
: 
: However, when this happens I usually still have at
: least 5 megs left!  I thought it might have been
: a problem with smalloc.c, so I tried gmalloc.c,
: but I had the same problem.

The problem is that accept() doesn't properly free inode's when it
fails.
	 
: I've tried linking with the -static option on gcc,
: because someone previously had mentioned that
: if you linked dynamically, there would be problems
: with smalloc, but it didn't help either.
: 
: Can someone PLEASE give me some advice? I
: am quite stuck.
: 
: Thanks a lot.


Another fix.
Modify comm1.c to select() on the socket, and only try to accept() if
select() returns true on the socket. If you don't know what this
means, then just go look hard for the patches. Sorry, I don't have
them. Subscribe to the NET mailing list.

Michael 
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: steve@rama.demon.co.uk (Steve Entwistle)
Subject: Re: Xconfig & Trident - The Solution? 
Distribution: world
Organization: None
Reply-To: steve@rama.demon.co.uk
X-Mailer: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.18)
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:08:56 +0000


In article <1992Nov10.103853.20328@ifi.uio.no> davidre@ifi.uio.no writes:
>
>I have followed the thread concerning Linux and the Trident 8900C
>videodriver with great interest. I have a tvga8900 myself, but I have
>so far not succeeded in making it cooperate with X11. I read somewhere
>that a TVGA bios of 4.0 or newer was needed, but I have so far not
>seen any confirmation on this fact.
>
>My bios is reported to be C3.0, and hence apparently not the one that
>works. Could ANYONE please tell me if this is a fact, or just rumors?
>

I just rebooted my machine, and at the top of the screen it displayed :-

TRIDENT TVGA BIOS C3.0

Now, Xfree86 works fine on my machine (apart from not restoring the text
mode on exit), so I leave you to draw your own conclusions....

Steve
From: pacman@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Robert Todd Pack)
Subject: PS/2 and LINUX
Followup-To: pacman@vuse.vanderbilt.edu
Summary: Can we make it work
Originator: pacman@irl1
Keywords: Kernel, Microchannel, PS/2
Organization: Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, Nashville, TN, USA
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 06:02:14 GMT

Hello Netlanders,
	I just installed Linux 0.98.3 on a system and I was very impressed
with its features and completeness. I used the SLS distribution. I love
LINUX, but I have one small problem. I really want to run LINUX on my
poor old PS/2 80-111. If I wasn't stuck with the damn thing I'd go out
and get a real LINUX machine, but...

	Needless to say the SLS bootdisk gagged on my PS/2, so I got
the kernel sources for 0.98.3. I'd love to spend a little time and make
the modifications needed for LINUX to work on PS/2's. I'll probably
regret this, but how different can a PS/2 be? With enough #ifdef PS2
statments in the kernel code it should be possible.

	Have any of you been able to boot LINUX on PS/2's?
	Has anyone started trying to make a PS/2 tolerant LINUX?

I would love to hear from you via email. Thanks for your time and
effort... and praise the Lord if you can make LINUX work on PS/2's.

				Robert Todd Pack
				pacman@vuse.vanderbilt.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
Subject: Re: Linus and his virtual beer
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 18:44:46 GMT

Vince Skahan (vince@victrola.sea.wa.us) wrote:

: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:
: 
: >df@eyrie.demon.co.uk (Derek Fawcus) writes:
: >>Ok, I've got to ask... what is VIRTUAL beer? (beer that isn't really there?,
: >>or is it just virtually beer -- that's it someone sent him home-brew)
: 
: virtual beer is indeed a sad thought.
: kind'a like:
: 	management action
: 	military intelligence
: 	decisions in progress
: 	standard unix

I thought virtual beer was like, when it's already been, uh, "processed". :)
-- 
Ed Carp			erc@apple.com, erc@saturn.upl.com	801/538-0177

"There is nothing to seek and nothing to find.  You're already enlightened, and
all the words in the world won't give you what you already have.  The wise
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: lash0002@student.tc.umn.edu (tim)
Subject: Re: Problem w/P4 and EMACS
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 05:16:36 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.100403.36440@uservx.plk.af.mil> simonich@uservx.plk.af.mil writes:
[Deleted stuff about hardware config...]

>The problem (under patch4 only):
>
>            emacs
>
>yields the results that emacs starts normally including displaying
>the copyright screen but then immediatly fails leaving
>
>           IOT trap/Abort

Linus said something about changing select() in 0.98.4 and breaking
emacs because of it. I guess this would be the problem? I get the same
error wth emacs and 98.4. I think the solution is to recompile emacs.

I am looking for an example of configuration files for emacs. I would
greatly appreciate it if someone could tell me where i can get a 
config.h, m-linux.h and s-linux.h for GNU emacs, any version will do.

I also got some messages about using an old stat() when i tried 98.4.
They told me to recompile. Does that mean the for now the old stat
still works? Are the programs giving me the warnings actually broken 
or can i still use them safely while updating?

thanks,

tim
From: mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: (append) Does someone port ImageMagick to Linux yet?
Date: 13 Nov 1992 22:55:37 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc5.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, eoi@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Chenmin Zhang) says:

>but I failed to generate a makefile for my xfree86-1.1 of linux version.
>When I run xmkmf command I got the following message:
>
>    % mv Makefile Makefile.bak
>    % imake -DUseInstalled -I/usr/X386/lib/X11/config
>    % In file included from /usr/X386/lib/X11/config/Imake.tmpl:892, from :3:
>    % /tmp/IIf.a00169:11: invalid preprocessor direction name
>    % /tmp/IIf.a00169:15: invalid preprocessor direction name
>    % imake: exit code 33. stop.

remove the # comment lines from the Imakefile or change them to XCOMM

good luck

-- 
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cyber-mercenary       to tell you/I love your precious heart/I/I was
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From: jnelson@plains.NoDak.edu (Jim Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: MAXTOR
Date: 6 Nov 92 05:36:47 GMT
Article-I.D.: ns1.BxA4xC.Awx
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

In article <Bx8uFz.1p8@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com> krouth@slee01.srl.ford.com (Kevin Routh) writes:
>jrsellec@socs.uts.edu.au (91066720 j r selleck) writes:
>:  was wondering if Linux gets along with a 213 Mb Maxtor Hd.
>: 
>:  Any way I was looking at getting a MAXTOR HD  it is 213 Megs and has
>:  a 15 ms access time..`
>:  Thats about all I know about it, but I was hoping someone who uses
>:  both could tell me what they think..
>: 
>I have heard that the Maxtor 213 does not get along with other IDE
>drives.  You cannot mix it with a Seagate or a Conner IDE and have
>them work together as master/slave.  I know two cases where it didn't
>work.  Be careful!  It is tempting with the price of the Maxtor drive.

Say what?  I have one, and have used it with a ST-1127 and another
brand name that I have never heard of, and it worked nicely with both
of them.  Now, I have two generations of the 213 (one of the old 1/2 
height and one new slim line version) working.  

Not with Linux, however.  I did test it on them, but eventually I put 
linux on the ST-1127.  But it did work.

-- 
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ObQuote: Do Not Meddle in the Affairs of |   opinions.  I'm probably not
          Wizards, For You are Crunchy,  |   supposed to have any.
          and Good with Ketchup.         | Blessed Be!
From: Esemi@polaris.utu.fi (Sami-Pekka Hallikas)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: UUCP/SMAIL/ETC.. Needed for Linux
Date: 5 Nov 92 18:01:53 GMT
Organization: University of Turku, Finland

I need smail for Linux. Also I need some news reader like rn or nn.
If someone have these or know where I can get it (via ftp), or he/her
could send it to me uucoded.
			        	Thanx for reading me :-D...
From: pr@umiacs.umd.edu (Jesus Rodriguez)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: IBM PS/2 57 486SLC2
Date: 12 Nov 92 19:28:19 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Originator: pr@fnord.umiacs.umd.edu


I have read the FAQ list and it talks alot about the 386/486 AT-bus but
doesn't rule out MCA machines.  SO will LINUX run on an IBM PS/2 MCA 386 or
higher?

Jesus M. Rodriguez
pr@umiacs.umd.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: keith@ksmith.uucp (Keith Smith)
Subject: Re: Some interesting Novice Questions (not found in FAQ)
Organization: Keith's Computer, Hope Mills, NC
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 92 05:13:33 GMT

In article <Conrad_Nobili-061192163037@nobili.harvard.edu> Conrad_Nobili@Harvard.EDU (Conrad C. Nobili) writes:
>In article <1992Nov5.183453.19306@serval.net.wsu.edu>, hlu@eecs.wsu.edu
>(H.J. Lu) wrote:
>
>> Please never, ever do this to yourself. Give you a hint. I had one of my fs,
>> /users, was trashed a week ago. But I could still manage to recover from my
>> / and /usr fs's. Think about you have /, /usr and /users in one fs and that fs
>> is trashed.
>
>The obvious trade-off though is that you must make some decision early in
>the life of your system about the sizes to which these partitions will each
>grow.  It is very difficult, and sometimes even impossible, to resize
>partitions later, when you have a better idea how much space you need
>(yeah, like when you've just reached 99% on one file system ;-( ).  For me
>this sort of trouble is much more painful than backing up.  Besides, I
>think H.J. will admit that having a backup of his /users file system would
>have been a good thing, regardless of whether it was his *only* file
>system....
>
>I don't want to diminish H.J.'s advice -- just give another perspective on
>what is often a frustrating decision for the newcomer.  I know *I* would be
>very unhappy now with any size decisions I would have made early on about
>separate file systems for my linux machine....

I'll ditto the latter.  I started out with Xenix and we routinely
installed new sites with 2 partitions of about 30 Meg each.  Worked out
fine until the root partition was totally full and /u was not.  Trying
to make a decision on this is a pain in the butt.  With 1 large
filesystem it's pretty easy to back it up, and shove it on a bigger
disk, or add another disk.  1 disk with 2 or 3 filesystems, and you'll
*NEVER* have the free space on the filesystem you need it on.

Go ahead with efs *BUT* *BACK IT UP* if it's important.
-- 
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Digital Designs      BBS 1-919-423-4216            Hope Mills, NC 28348-2201
Somewhere in the Styx of North Carolina ...
Organisation: European Space Operation Centre (E.S.O.C)
Date: Thursday, 12 Nov 1992 05:38:44 CET
From: BARRY TITMARSH <BTITMARS@ESOC.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: help compile 0.98.4 odd errors

this is the result i get from just typeing make in the /usr/src/linux
dir


gcc -DKERNEL -E -DMAX_16M -traditional -DSVGA_MODE=NORMAL_VGA boot/setup.S
 -o boot/setup.s
as86 -0 -a -o boot/setup.o boot/setup.s
00416 0184           3D        0000  	cmp	ax,#NORMAL_VGA
*****                                              ^unbound label
00418 0189           3D        0000  	cmp	ax,#EXTENDED_VGA
*****                                              ^unbound label
00420 018E           3D        0000  	cmp	ax,#ASK_VGA
*****                                              ^unbound label
00704 0401           3D        0000  	cmp	ax,#ASK_VGA
*****                                              ^unbound label
00706 0406           3D        0000  	cmp	ax,#NORMAL_VGA
*****                                              ^unbound label
00866 0624                     0000     modesave:	.word	NORMAL_VGA
*****                                                           ^unbound label

00006 errors
00000 warnings
make: *** [boot/setup] Error 1


at this point i have used boot/setup.S from 0.98p1  just to see what happens
then i get the start of even more errors..
even a make clean make dep fails

So whats wrong ????
thanks barry,,,,



gcc -DKERNEL -Wall -O6 -fomit-frame-pointer -DMAX_16M -c -o tools/version.o
 tools/version.c
kernel
gcc -DKERNEL -Wall -O6 -fomit-frame-pointer -DMAX_16M
 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -c sched.c

sched.c:47: structure has no member named `task'
sched.c:47: structure has no member named `task'
sched.c:47: structure has no member named `task'
sched.c: In function `__sleep_on':
sched.c:212: warning: implicit declaration of function `save_flags'
sched.c:216: warning: implicit declaration of function `restore_flags'
sched.c: In function `interruptible_sleep_on':
sched.c:203: warning: `flags' may be used uninitialized in this function
sched.c: In function `sleep_on':
sched.c:203: warning: `flags' may be used uninitialized in this function
sched.c: In function `show_task':
sched.c:507: structure has no member named `kernel_stack_page'
make[1]: *** [sched.o] Error 1
make: *** [linuxsubdirs] Error 1





sed '/\#\#\# Dependencies/q' < Makefile > tmp_make
for i in init/*.c;do echo -n "init/";gcc -DKERNEL -E -DMAX_16M -M $i;done >>
tmp_make
cp tmp_make Makefile
for i in kernel mm fs net lib; do (cd $i && make dep) || exit; done
sed '/\#\#\# Dependencies/q' < Makefile > tmp_make
gcc -DKERNEL -E -DMAX_16M -M *.c >> tmp_make
cp tmp_make Makefile
for i in chr_drv blk_drv FPU-emu; do (cd $i && make dep) || exit; done
sed '/\#\#\# Dependencies/q' < Makefile > tmp_make
gcc -DKERNEL -E -DMAX_16M -M -DKBD_UK -DKBDFLAGS=0 *.c >> tmp_make
cp tmp_make Makefile
sed '/\#\#\# Dependencies/q' < Makefile > tmp_make
gcc -DKERNEL -E -DMAX_16M -M *.c >> tmp_make
ll_rw_blk.c:15: linux/locks.h: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [dep] Error 1
make[1]: *** [dep] Error 1
make: *** [dep] Error 1



Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
Subject: Re: MICROCHANNEL, ANYONE?
Organization: Aston University
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 10:07:41 GMT

chrisopj@acfcluster.nyu.edu writes:
: One finds it hard to speak softly enough when asking dumb questions to
: hudres of people, but I really must:  I am one of the unfortunate PS/2
: owners cursed with micro-channel architecture (my father works for IBM,
: so he conned me into it), and wonder if there are any possibilities of
: Linux making the (sideways/backwards??) leap from ISA to MCA...?  I read
: the FAQ, and I know it isn't supported right now...

Any chance of conning your father into telling you how the thing works.
i.e. how do you talk to the disc controller in MCA slot 4?
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