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From: hubler@galaxy.lerc.nasa.gov (Dale Hubler)
Subject: X/Sabine displays red lines in white colors only
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 11:34:51 GMT

We are having a problem with a model 550 running AIX 3.2 and
with a 24 bit Sabine adapter for the display.  The problem has
been with us for the past year ever since we got the system.  I
originally chalked it up to a software problem under X11R3 and AIX 3.1,
but that is far behind us and the problem remains.  As the warranty
is just about up we very much desire this be fixed.

What we have is vertical red lines about 1/8 " apart and only in
the white color.  IBM has replaced the adapter many times but the
problem always reoccurs (at random times).  A reboot will clear
it.  

This system was installed from a standard mksysb image used on many
other systems without this problem.  This is the only machine with
red lines.  The startup files for X (xinitrc, .Xdefaults, .mwmrc)
are standard also. The /usr/lpp/X11/lib/X11/rgb.txt file is the same
as anywhere else.  Only users on this system have the problems.  

The local IBM help has been unable to come up with any suggestions
other than replace the adpater, change the monitor, change the cable!,
reinstall the system.  I am just about ready for the latter and I
can accept this as a configuration problem with the X software if
I had a clue as to where to look.  

Has anybody else seen this problem and if so, do you know the solution?

Thanks kindly for your help.

Dale Hubler
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From: davidw@vista.atmos.uiuc.edu (David Wojtowicz)
Subject: X-server memory (was Ghostscript and paging space)
Organization: Atmospheric Science at Univ of Ill at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 23:27:03 GMT

In article <SEMBACH.92Sep8202943@oboe.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> sembach@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Frank Sembach) writes:
>We have the same problem with Ghostscript versions 2.4.1 and 2.5. The
>problem does not seem to be the -r switch, a similar behaviour can be
>seen without: The virtual memory size of the X-server is growing
>monotonously while viewing a multipage Postscript document using
>several fonts. The X-server size will never shrink afterwards. The
>next run of Ghostscript on some document will increase the X-server
>size further...
>
>The problem is not with Ghostsript running on RS/6000 as it occurs as
>well when Ghostscript is running on another (non-RS/6000) machine, but
>displaying on an RS/6000 X-server. (I am not sure about the other way
>round.)
>
>If anybody has a solution to this problem, I would be very interested.
>

Our RS/6000 X-server just grows and grows until it is too big and must be
killed.  This is most noticiable with programs that create large pixmaps
(basically anything that generates a large raster display)  Even though
the programs claim to free these pixmaps, the X server doesn't give the
memory back to the system.  Anyone else notice this?

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Atmospheric Sciences Dept, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
d-wojtowicz@uiuc.edu, davidw@vista.atmos.uiuc.edu
Organization: K.U.Leuven - Academic Computing Center
Date: Friday, 11 Sep 1992 17:14:16 +02
From: Wim Van Holder <FDBAQ03@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: HP Deskjet 500C (color) device driver ???

I'm looking for a way to fully exploit the capacities of an HP Deskjet
500C printer on an RS/6000 running AIX 3.2. Is this equipment supported ?


Wim Van Holder,
Systems Engineer at K.U. Leuven, Departement TEW.
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From: jf@edv6000.tuwien.ac.at (Josef Fritscher)
Subject: Re: PS Viewer
Reply-To: fritscher@edvz.tuwien.ac.at
Organization: Technical University of Vienna
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 09:30:18 GMT

In article <92254.121256P88036@BARILVM.BITNET>, Ephraim Vider <P88036@BARILVM.BITNET> writes:
|> In article <1992Sep10.080934.3339@meteor.wisc.edu>, mjo@snclib.snc.edu (Mike
|> O'Connor) says:
|>I'm sure that someone's filled his mailbox with "Ghostscript" and
|> >"Ghostview" -- if nothing else, I've mailed him.  What I wonder is
|> >why IBM ships Display Postscript and yet doesn't ship a tool to
|> >*view* Postscript!  DEC and Sun certainly don't have this problem.
|> >Any comments?
|> >
|> 
|> But they do.
|> AIX 3.2 has xpreview which can display postscript files if the server
|> has the DPS extension.
|> 
|> It took them a little time, but still, better late...
|> 
|>            Ephraim
|> 

yes, but xpreview claims to work only on nroff files and as I tried it out
it fails on man pages.

-Joe
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From: woks4000@mailszrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Wolfgang Ksoll)
Subject: Re: 3.2 BSD Line discipline...
Organization: DATA SERVICE Berlin
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 17:08:13 GMT

In article <1992Sep2.051948.20575@awdprime.austin.ibm.com> konopik@konopik.austin.ibm.com (Brad Konopik) writes:
...
>I put a huge disclaimer in the "stty add bsd" example of the stty command
>in InfoExploder.  Most things on AIX 3.2 do NOT know how to talk to a bsd
>discipline.  Some bsd functionality was smashed into the posix (default)
>line discipline.  Have you tried to use your programs "as is" ?  I know
>cbreak is broken, I looked at the code about a year ago when someone on
>this newsgroup reported it...I sent him a note off-line telling him to
>call it in and even supplying the text for what needed to be fixed...he
>never did.  (Before someone jumps down my throat, saying I should have 
>fixed cbreak anyway, for a time in Austin we were operating in a mode 
>where internally reported problems had to be "stop ship" in order to be
>allowed to fix them...BUT, if a customer reported it I could have fixed 
>it).
Brad,
I am tired of hearing complicated stories about the serial port.
For more than a year we hear things like:
- you must issue an "stty add bsd"
- you must issue an "stty add rts" 
- but don't do it in rc.files, therefore you must write a little program
- outgoing and incoming calls are possible, but only with complications
  on the same port
- flowcontrol is possible, but only if you know the history of the last twenty
 years UNIX-development (BSD, POSIX, ...)

I found that it is easier to add communication over ethernet, token ring, fddi, serial optical link, than to add a recent modem from the market place.
Even to add X.25 facilities (X.29, TCP/IP, OSI, SNA) is easier.
Even to debug third party ISDN-drivers is easier.

I think it is not the right way to tell us how bugs have to be reported
through big blues channels. I think it is time that someone sits down and
redesigns the device driver for the serial ports so that it is useful
not only for terminals and printers but also for modern communication
equipment. She should be ready some ten weeks before 3.3 is released so that
some kind of quality assurance could be done.

What do you think about it?

Cheers,



Wolfgang Ksoll           woks4000@mailszrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de
DATA SERVICE Berlin, Ansbacher Strasse 16, W-1000 Berlin 30, Germany
Phone: +49 (030) 219 007 - 32 FAX: - 39
From: marc@yogi.austin.ibm.com (Marc J. Stephenson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: dbx and 'load'ed code
Date: 8 Sep 92 14:43:18 GMT
Organization: IBM, Austin

In article <MedW01O00WoiEsTkJ1@andrew.cmu.edu> rr2b+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert Andrew Ryan) writes:
>Is there any way to make dbx look somewhere other than the current
>directory for object files which the program loads with load?  The
>objects are loaded with an absolute path name, and no library path. 
>Whenever I run the program under dbx dbx dies unless the loaded objects
>are in the current directory.  Pointers to the relevant part of TFM
>welcome, I looked...
>
>Thanks for any info,
>-Rob

You've either run into a dbx bug or a loader bug.  There is no special
option to tell dbx where to pick up loaded code.  When dbx detects a dynamic
load, it asks the loader (through ptrace) where all the pieces of the program
are (some pieces could have been unloaded as well).  The loader gives back
the information in two forms - the name of the program (along with a library
name if it is part of an archive) and a valid open file descriptor.  If opening
the object file (to get symbolic information) by the default way fails (I think
that it tries to open by name first, not that it really matters), then it tries
to open the object by the other means.  If that fails, then dbx is sunk in 
trying to open the object file (barring invention of some other means).

So, either the logic in dbx is toast, or the loader is sending back wrong
information to dbx.  Call in a defect through your customer support.
-- 
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From: losburn@teal.csn.org (Lynn Osburn)
Subject: Maxtor drive on an rs/6k: anybody done it?
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 18:49:44 GMT

I have a Maxtor XT-8380S that used to live on an NCR tower...and I'd
like to, er, recycle it onto my RS/6000.

I don't know whether it's a SCSI-1 or  a SCSI-2 interface....nor do 
I know what the 6000 SCSI adapter speaks.

Advise/dissent?  Bad idea?

-oz
From: drake@drake.almaden.ibm.com (Sam Drake)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Loading device drivers under AIX 3.2
Keywords: device drivers
Date: 10 Sep 92 08:49:53 GMT
Organization: IBM Almaden Research Center

Try linking your driver with "ld" instead of "cc".  Linking a device
driver with "cc" gets references to libc.a stuck into the driver; naturally,
libc isn't available in the kernel.  AIX 3.1.x didn't notice, but AIX 3.2
does.


Sam Drake / IBM Almaden Research Center 
Internet:  drake@almaden.ibm.com    BITNET:  DRAKE at ALMADEN
From: ucap22a@ucl.ac.uk (Mr Alisdair R Davey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Odd shell behaviour ?
Date: 14 Sep 92 20:44:45 GMT
Distribution: comp.unix.aix
Organization: Bloomsbury Computing Consortium, London

Hi, I have just been trying to sort out a little problem . Machine = RS600
AIX 3.1

I had a csh script with the following line 

@ out1 = 0

Every time I tried to run this I got @ Syntax Error. By trial and error
I realised it didn't like having a number as part of the variable, but
I'm fairly sure this should be ok. Can someone tell me what is wrong with this
Thanks.
Alisdair
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From: jdr@sloth.mlb.semi.harris.com (Jim Ray)
Subject: X11 on 3.2.1 hanging
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 20:43:18 GMT
Distribution: us
Organization: Harris Semiconductor, Melbourne FL
Keywords: aix, X11

We are having problems with X11 hanging and locking up the console of
an RS6000  model 320h.  We are running 3.2.1.

When the console locks up, the clock appears to continue ( the ps
clock ).  Nothing short of rebooting appears to clear it up.

Anyone seen anything like this?


-- 
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Internet:  jdr@semi.harris.com         PO Box 883   MS 62B-022
Phone:     (407) 729-5059              Melbourne, FL  32901
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From: dedourek@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (John DeDourek)
Subject: problem with printer on diskless AIX 3.2
Organization: University of New Brunswick
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 15:27:43 GMT

Here I am working on the weekend again.  Call went in to IBM on Friday,
but meanwhile, anyone heard of this problem?

Several diskless 220's being served from a 320 RS/6000, all AIX 3.2.2.

There is a printer on the 320 server and a printer on one of the 220
diskless (actually dataless).

All machines can spool to the 320's printer no problem.  All machines
can spool to the dataless 220's printer no problem EXCEPT the 220 that
actually has the printer.  On that machine, spooling to its own printer
does print, but also gives a console error message indicating 
an "nfs write error 13".

My initial suspicion is some kind of permission problem.  We have tightened
up a little bit on IBM's standard distribution so I may have tigntened
up permissions somewhere where it's not acceptable.  Before a detailed
time consuming investigation, though, I would like to know if it is a
known bug in AIX 2.2.2.

Thanks for any help.

John DeDourek
dedourek@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca
From: ebh@lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com (Edw. B. Hill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: xman under AIX 3.2.0
Keywords: xman
Date: 15 Sep 92 17:51:13 GMT
Organization: Chevron Information Technology Company, La Habra


If you have installed xman under AIX 3.2.0, I would like
to hear how you did it.

I have run into several problems so far.  The first was a
memory allocation problem.  The second is an internal
error removing duplicate pages.  Thanks.

=============================================================================

Edw B. Hill
Research Support Division
Chevron Information Technology Company
1300 Beach Blvd, La Habra, Calif. 90631
Mail P. O. Box 446, La Habra, California 90633-0446
Phone (213) 694-7336,  Fax (213) 694-7709
Internet ebh@chevron.com
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From: rice@rab.enet.dec.com ()
Subject: AIX documentation order #
Reply-To: rice@rab.enet.dec.com ()
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 18:22:28 GMT


Does anyone know the order number for the hardcopy AIX documentation?
Complete set if it exists along with cost if you have it.

Thanks
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From: tmcconne@sedona.intel.com (Tom McConnell~)
Subject: strip and active files
Originator: tmcconne@sedona
Organization: Intel Corporation
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 21:23:37 GMT


  I just noticed that the strip command is smart enough not to "strip" an active
program, but only if the program is not on an NFS mounted disk. If the program
is on the local disk, and is running, strip gives this message:

    thunder> strip fred
    strip: fred -- strip: 0654-402 Cannot write to file, permissions are not \
    correct.

Not a very informative message, but at least it did not strip the program.

  If you run strip on an active program from an NFS mounted disk, strip works
fine, and the program core dumps shortly afterwards.

  My question is: How does the strip command determine if the file is active?

    Cheers,

    Tom McConnell
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From: bengsig@dk.oracle.com (Bjorn Engsig)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX LVM Metadata Area
Date: 15 Sep 92 14:57:17 GMT
Reply-To: bengsig@dk.oracle.com (Bjorn Engsig)
Organization: Oracle Denmark

Article <1992Sep1.152635.8639@awdprime.austin.ibm.com> by julie@levell.austin.ibm.com (Julie L. Craft) says:
|Block 0 of the logical volume is used to store data about the logical
|volume that is not stored in the VGDA.  We call it the logical volume
|control block.  It's 1 512 byte block.  Most applications we have
|usually start at block 1 to avoid writing over this block.  The real
|importance of this block is for importing a volume group.  If you have
|a raw logical volume that is overwriting this block, I wouldn't worry
|about it unless you want to import it on another system, but even then
|you can just fix it up with chlv later.
I'm sorry but this information is both confusing and incorrect.  Rudy
Chukran and I have both given the correct information that basicly is:

- The entire Logical Volume is available as a raw device (/dev/lvXXX
  as a blocked device, /dev/rlvXXX is a true raw, direct access, device)

- Don't try to access the Volume Groups (/dev/XXXvg) or Physical Volumes
  (/dev/hdiskXXX or /dev/rhdiskXXX).  Neither are meant to be directly
  accessed.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
From: david@wal6000b.udc.upenn.edu (R. David Murray)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX Xserver question
Date: 10 Sep 92 15:08:54 GMT
Reply-To: david@penndrls.upenn.edu
Organization: University Data Center, University of Pennsylvania

In article <1992Sep10.072149.13133@aragorn.unibe.ch>, haedener@iacrs1.unibe.ch (Konrad Haedener) writes:
> In article <BuBq91.KLs@math.uwaterloo.ca>, mskucher@math.uwaterloo.ca (Murray S. Kucherawy [MFCF]) writes:
> |> When I type "xinit" without a .xinitrc file, it uses the stock one in
> |> /usr/lpp/somethingerother.  However, once I have told all of the clients
> |> to quit, including mwm, the server still hangs around, and I have to rlogin
> |> to the machine and SIGTERM the X server if I want to use the console again.
> |> 
> |> Is there a fix for this?
> 
> Kill the server with <Ctrl><Alt><Backspace> on hft or setup xdm on hft.

We've found that if you use

  open xinit

to start up x in a new virtual terminal then when you quit all the clients
including mwm the server does quit and then the open exits, as well.  I have
no idea why this makes a difference.  This is under 3.2.2, btw.
From: jmartin@cass.ma02.bull.com (Jay Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: JFS Superblock VS. BSD 4.3 Super..
Date: 11 Sep 92 15:29:24 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Bull World Wide Information Systems Inc.

I have a question regarding the difference between the BSD 4.3 superblock
and the superblock in the AIX filesystem.  Does the AIX filesystem support
multiple superblock ala BSD4.3?  How does the AIX superblock differ from
BSD 4.3 superblock in this respect?  Or are they the same?

Thanks!

Jay Martin		Internet:  J.D.Martin@bull.com
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From: scotte@cdsac.uucp (L. Scott Emmons)
Subject: Re: AIX Xserver question
NntpPostingHost: cdsac
Date: 11 Sep 1992 17:27:41 GMT
Organization: CableData (U.S. Computer Services), Sacramento, CA

In article <9209102136.AA05936@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> VRBASS@ATLVMIC1.VNET.IBM.COM writes:
>ng@nrccsb19.di.nrc.ca (Kai Ng) writes:
>> ...  (Is AIX the only Unix to allow more than one session
>>on the same terminal?)
>
>I believe that SCO has added this feature also.


Amiga Unix (SVR4) also supports this feature...

 
			   L. Scott Emmons
		      CableData  Research Center
		     csusac.csus.edu!cdsac!scotte
				KC6NFP
From: scotte@cdsac.uucp (L. Scott Emmons)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Getting the load average
Date: 10 Sep 92 15:29:01 GMT
Organization: CableData (U.S. Computer Services), Sacramento, CA
NntpPostingHost: cdsac

In article <1992Sep9.154751.21635@cs.yale.edu> kaminskydavid@CS.YALE.EDU (David Kaminsky) writes:
>	I need to get the load average of an RS6000 running AIX.
>I have a procedure now that makes an RPC call to
>the rstatd to get the load.  However, the rstatd seems 
>undependable (it fails periodically).  Parsing the 
>output from (e.g.) uptime is too slow since I must
>get the load repeatedly.
>
>	Is there another way to get the load average?
>How does rstatd get it?

Try taking a look at the "xload" source, which is hopefully on your
system in "/usr/lpp/X11/Xamples/clients/xload". The file you are
interested in is "get_load.c". It shows how to get the 'real' Unix
load average from the kernel, not the silly one returned via
{r,}uptime with 1.00 as a maximum.

Best of luck!

 
			   L. Scott Emmons
		      CableData  Research Center
		     csusac.csus.edu!cdsac!scotte
				KC6NFP
From: kenc@kedeng.UUCP (Ken Cornetet)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: per-process table on RS6000
Date: 10 Sep 92 20:47:22 GMT
Organization: Kimball Electronics, Jasper IN

How does one read the per-process (user) table under aix on a RS-6000 ?
Given a PID or proc table entry address, I need to retrieve the "user"
information for a process.  The proc structure doesn't seem to provide
any pointers (no pun intended).  The user.h file also doesn't shed much
light.  Is there a (relatively) easy way to fetch this info from
/dev/[kp]mem ?

Also, how does one find out memory statistics (max swap, free swap, max
mem, free mem) ?

AIX doesn't appear to follow any of the normal SYSV 3.2 (or 2.3 for that
matter) internal conventions.

Please respond by email.  I don't recieve this group.  If responses shed
sufficient light, I'll post a summary.
-- 
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From: mskucher@math.uwaterloo.ca (Murray S. Kucherawy [MFCF])
Subject: AIX Xserver question
Organization: Math Faculty Computing Facility, University of Waterloo, Canada
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 18:34:12 GMT

This is a FAQ probably, but I haven't seen it answered yet...

When I type "xinit" without a .xinitrc file, it uses the stock one in
/usr/lpp/somethingerother.  However, once I have told all of the clients
to quit, including mwm, the server still hangs around, and I have to rlogin
to the machine and SIGTERM the X server if I want to use the console again.

Is there a fix for this?

-- Murray S. Kucherawy ----------------------------------------+--------------
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