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From: rla@nosc.mil (Rodney L Anderson)
Subject: prob w/Xlinux.8514 & ATI Graphics Ultra
Keywords: Xlinux.8514, ATI, Graphics, Ultra
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 21:50:19 GMT

I am still having problems get the 8514 server working with my Graphics Pro.
I downloaded the new 8514 server from TSX-11, uncompressed both 75dpi & misc
file directories, and ran mkfontdir in both directories.  But no go.

I do have X386mono working (@800x600).

My monitor is a NEC 5fg. (486-50, 16Mb, 1542b w/990 Mb)

Here are the output errors:

  %rla> startx
  X386 Version 1.2 / X Windows System [linux v1.1 8514/A alpha]
  (protocol Version 1.1, revision 0, vendor release 5000)

  ibm8514

  Fatal server error:
  Attatched monitor not capable of displaying 8514!

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


Here are the links & protection bits:

  /usr/X386/bin:
  lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           22 Dec 19 13:24 X -> /usr/X386/bin/Xlinux.8514*
  -rwsr-xr-x   1 root     root       943681 Sep 23 02:32 X386*
  -rwsr-xr-x   1 root     root       745536 Sep 23 02:32 X386mono*
  -rwsr-xr-x   1 root     root       694362 Oct 18 23:30 Xlinux.8514*

  /usr/X386/lib/X11:
  lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           12 Dec 19 13:17 Xconfig -> /Xconfig.ATI
  -rw-r--r--   1 root     root          822 Dec 19 13:16 Xconfig.ATI
  -rw-r--r--   1 root     root         1644 Dec 16 09:45 Xconfig.mono
  -rw-r--r--   1 root     root         3101 Aug  6 23:54 Xconfig.orig

  /dev:
  crw-r--r--   1 root     root      10,   2 Dec 17 17:23 msmouse


Here is my Xconfig file:

  # $XConsortium: Xconfig,v 1.2 91/08/26 14:34:55 gildea Exp $
  #
  # Copyright 1990,91 by Thomas Roell, Dinkelscherben, Germany.
  #
  # Author:  Thomas Roell, roell@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
  # modified by obz for easier linux porting
  #
  # some nice paths, to avoid conflicts with other X-servers
  #
  FontPath	"/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"

  Keyboard
    AutoRepeat 500 5
    ServerNumLock

  Busmouse	"/dev/msmouse"
    SampleRate	150

  #
  # The graphics drivers
  #
  vga256
    Virtual	1024 768
    ViewPort      0 0
    Modes	"1024x768"
    Clocks	25 28 57 72 78 68 50 62
    Videoram	1024

  ModeDB
  # clock  horzontal timing      vertical timing
   "1024x768"  62    1024 1092 1220 1344    768  786  791  810

----------------
rla@manta.nosc.mil
From: pdp@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU (Paul Douglas Page)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: gcc 2.3.3
Date: 30 Dec 1992 14:48:27 +1100
Organization: University of Melbourne
NNTP-Posting-Host: ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au

Hi there,
I was wondering if anyone has tried compiling gcc 2.3.3 for linux ?
The tar file for the source is over 7 mb long so I thought I'd check
to see if it worked ok befor I downloaded it.

thanks in advance.

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Organization: Ryerson Polytechnical Institute
Distribution: na
Date: Sunday, 20 Dec 1992 23:23:49 EST
From: <ACPS7221@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Any problems with doc

  Hello fellow Linuxers:
  I would like anyone who downloads the latest doc (IVdoc3.1.tar.Z) to e-mail
me and let me know if it works O.K.
  I already know that it might need a math coprocessor to work properly. But I
have also got some reports of other problems.  I don't want lots of people to
download it and have hassles with it.  H.J. will release a official version of
GCC soon anyways, with shared libs for g++ and the executable will be a lot
smaller too.
                              Michael.
From: pgf@cayman.com (Paul Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: IMPORTANT [BUG in 0.99] Re: [ANNOUNCE]: linux version 0.99
Date: 23 Dec 92 00:14:39 GMT
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

Lars Wirzenius (wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI) wrote:
: >Just curious - I haven't got the .99 sources yet, but why is an explicit
: >initialiser needed here. A static pointer ought to be initialised to
: >NULL in the executable already? 

: In normal C programs, yes, but the kernel is a bit special.  Like, for
: instance, who is going to do the initialization?  Normally it is the
: kernel (which zeroes out all memory before it is given to a user
: process), the linker (which loads the pre-initialized variables from a
: file, i.e. those variables which are given an explicit initializer),
: and possbily the C startup code.  Trouble is, none of these are active
: when the kernel is booting...

Wait a minute -- it's not that special.  I realize the following code
relies on .bss immediately following .data, but if it doesn't, it's easy
enough to guarantee that some "start_bss" symbol is always first in bss to 
use in place of the linker-defined "edata":

main()
{
	extern byte edata[];
	extern byte end[];

	bzero (edata, end - edata);
	.
	.
	.
}

Obviously you'd want to keep this pretty early in main().  :-)


		paul fox, pgf@cayman.com, (617)494-1999
		Cayman Systems, Inc., 26 Landsdowne St., Cambridge, MA 02139
From: tjrc1@cus.cam.ac.uk (T.J.R. Cutts)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Kernel build benchmark
Date: 22 Dec 92 14:31:45 GMT
Organization: U of Cambridge, England

Sorry to make you vomit, lads, but my 486DX/33 with 8Mb RAM did a complete 0.99
compilation in the background in 11 minutes, whilst running X! :-)

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier)
Subject: Re: Question and Observations
Organization: York University
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 18:33:42 GMT

whit@Tymnet.COM (Kendall Whitlatch) writes:


>I just wanted to extend to Peter my thanks for compiling the SLS package.
>If it wasn't for him I think the spread of Linux would have been VERY
>limited.  I personally am not interested in combing through all the FTP
>sites trying to find code that I can run on (much less port to) Linux.

>Peter takes a pretty good beating here on C.O.L. every time any minor
>flaw in the package is found.  I think he needs a little applause for
>even attempting the task in the first place.

	Here here...I do apologize, again, for coming across like I was
giving Peter a 'beating'...it was not intended as such, but, looking
back on it, I realize that it came across as such :(

	Sorry Peter :(

Marc
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: koenig@nova.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de (Harald Koenig)
Subject: Re: SED is buggy (library bug ?)
Organization: TAT (Theoretical Astrophysics Tuebingen), U. of Tuebingen, FRG
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:11:20 GMT

In <BzoEwL.6Jr@shrdlu.kwnet.on.ca> gdm@shrdlu.kwnet.on.ca (Giles D Malet) writes:

>I got the `sed' from the GCC disk about 3 weeks ago, and noticed it made a
>mess of a couple of cnews' reports. So, a couple of days ago, I got the
>SLS one, to find it is also buggy. In fact, it is the same `sed' :-(

>$ echo xxxfooyyy | sed 's/x*\(foo\)y*/\1/'

>should print just `foo' (ie substring 1 in the left part of the pattern) -
>instead it prints the whole lot.

>This is gcc 2.2.2d, jump libc.so.4.2, and its static libs.
>OS is v0.99 with tcp patches, but this failed on 0.98P5 as well.

I had the same problem using sed and libc.so.4.2 (newest version).
I switched back to libc.so.4.1 and the sed problem is gone!

Still running  libc.so.4.1,
Harald
--
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		"#define no_bdev_def()	dev_disk_init(0)"
 Congratulations!  If AT&T wins its suit against BSDI, you've guaranteed that
  you can never write OS software again, just by reading the previous line!
From: erwin#m#_mike.ast_-_tac_mail_server@msgate.corp.apple.com (Mike Erwin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux and OS/2
Date: 30 Dec 92 17:43:52 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.


In article <RwciwB1w164w@uuisis.isis.org> Evan Champion,
evanc@uuisis.isis.org writes:

>I would like to run Linux and OS/2 together on the same machine.  Is it 
>possible to boot linux in a virtual DOS machine?  If not, could someone 
>direct me to a free unix that I could do that?  What I really want is 
>something that I can boot to do UUCP and maybe a few other things with that 
>there are no good OS/2 version of and porting is somewhat difficult because 
>of the platform-specific nature of the programs.  Any help would be greatly 
>appreciated!

Linux will not boot in a virtual DOS machine.  Linux is an operating system
unto itself.  By running a VDM you assume that DOS will be the Operating
Control Platform, not Linux.  Linux must be booted from its own partition. 
You can't run another whole operating system inside of another; the only
reason why OS/2 runs virtual DOS sessions is that it was designed to be a
"multi-user front-end for  DOS & Windows apps."  

Linux, DOS and OS/2 will all boot from a single drive, and Linux can mount a
DOS filesystem.  Also, there are some emulators which allow you to run DOS
programs from within Linux (although they aren't quite perfected yet, they
are coming along nicely).  Information concerning the usage of OS/2 and Linux
Boot Partitions from the same device is available in the FAQ.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: danubius@halcyon.com (Joseph R. Pannon)
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: linux 0.99 patchlevel 1
Keywords: kernel, linux, 0.99 patchlevel 1
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 11:01:29 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.233646.16236@klaava.Helsinki.FI> torvalds@cc.helsinki.fi (Linus Torvalds) writes:
>Linux-0.99.1 is now available on nic.funet.fi, and will probably show up
>
>Patch 1 addresses the following problems:
> - configuration. Hope there are no silly problems left..

Can somebody tell us newcomers to Unix just how what those two 0.99-1
files are each, and how to use them to fix the 0.99 we installed?

Thanks,
Joe Pannon
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: Alex Kambis <kambis@asdsun.larc.nasa.gov>
Subject: boot_b.exe
Reply-To: kambis@asdsun.larc.nasa.gov
Organization: The Internet
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:00:32 GMT

I heard boot_b.exe mentioned, and looked for it in INSTALL/dosutils as
directed, but couldn't find it.  Has it been replaced by anything?
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: danubius@halcyon.com (Joseph R. Pannon)
Subject: That annoying msg at shutdown!
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 08:45:14 GMT

Could somebody explain why I am getting this as the last message in a
shutdown sequence?

"Cannot exec /etc/umount, trying umount."

Thanks,
Joe Pannon
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hymowitz@circle.cs.jhu.edu (Hymie!)
Subject: elvis 1.6, vile 3
Reply-To: hymowitz@cs.jhu.edu (Hymie!)
Organization: Creative Sensualities dept, Jacquie's House of Underwear
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 21:31:44 GMT

hello again.

i had been using vile 3.11 with no problem until 0.98.6 came, and i kept
getting the ''recompile'' messages, and the screen editing wasn't quite
right.  the closest source i could find was vile 3 on prep.ai.mit.edu.

vile 3 seems to work, except that when i vile filename, i get two
buffers - one of them (the primary one) is the .vilerc file.  this isn't
a drastic error, just an inconvenience.  i also get a lot of out of memroy
errors.

question 1: is there a copy of the source for vile3.11 somewhere? i ddn't
see it in the usual places.

so i tried the source for elvis 1.6 from tsx-11 (i think). i had to patch
(from the elvis.patch post) by hand because the patch had absolute
paths, and my system didn't like it. anyway, elvis doesn't handle scrolling
down correctly, similar to the 25th-line problem that minicom has.

question 2: is this a common problem? is there a mistake in my termcap?
is there an easy fix?

question 3: is there a 'standard' vi clone that was written specifically
for linux?  one that a moron like me can just download, untar, and make?

thanx in advance.

--hymie
hymowitz@cs.jhu.edu                                         hymie@jhuvms.bitnet
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: joergp@gmd.de (Joerg Prust)
Subject: BUG in 0.99[p1] kernel config script and Re: Serial driver issues
Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 21:20:25 GMT


The config.in file of the 0.99 kernel sources contains a small typing error:
I think CONFIG_AUTOIRQ should be CONFIG_AUTO_IRQ, otherwise this stuff will
never be included (Linus, do you hear me?).

Second, NEW_INTERRUPT_ROUTINE is #undef'ed in kernel/chr_drv/serial.c by
default, is this intended? (The comments state that it should be okay for
most people!?)

I came across these because I have two simple serial cards which I want to
use simultaneously:

As far as I read from recent news, these cannot share the same IRQ-lines.
The last weeks there have been some postings regarding multiport cards,
but with a little soldering, you can use IRQ's 10 to 12 with every
off-the-shelve short (8 bit) card! I read about this in the German
computer magazine c't (jan '93) and intend to try that for Linux.
You "just" have to disconnect the IRQ3/4 lines of one card and connect
them to the pins D3 and D4 of the upper part of the slot connector, which
drive the IRQ10 and IRQ11 lines (i.e.).
To do this, you only need a card which fits into the 16-bit-part of the
AT-bus-slot and a few inches of wire (I will recycle an old CGA card...).
The only problem might be to find the IRQ lines on the serial card, but most
of them have jumpers to set the IRQ's. These can be left open and will be
the points where the new connector has to be attached to.

Of course this should ONLY be done if you are not afraid of
hardware-hacking and know what you are doing!!!

Tsch"uss
      J"org

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: wto@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (William T. O Connell)
Subject: groff: Failed assertion at line 2921, file 'node.c'
Organization: AT&T
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 23:12:30 GMT


After using groff, I got the following message.

$groff -man uucp.1
groff: Filed assertion at line 2921, file 'node.c'
/usr/bin/groff: gtroff: IOT trap/abort
$

This was happening whan using 'man' also (since man calls groff).

After seeing this error, I rebooted, then the problem appeared
to go away. This happened after updated to Linux .99 Patch 2.

Anybody else see this?
Does anyone know what is happening?

- Bill O'Connell     wto@ihlpx.att.com

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: stuart@bfsun1.eglin.af.mil (stuart shapiro)
Subject: X386 on Northgate 386-20 and NEC 2A
Reply-To: stuart@bfsun1.eglin.af.mil (stuart shapiro)
Organization: The Internet
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 20:09:01 GMT

Hi,

My Northgate 386-20 has a video board built on the motherboard.  It has
256k of video ram.  I also have a NEC 2A monitor.  Is it possible to run
X386 on my machine ?  If so can someone send me a Xconfig and any other
hints.

I'm thinking of upgrading my video card.  What is a good card for under
$200.00 ?

I'll summarize.

Thanks
Stuart
From: bribbeck@exucom.com (Bob Ribbeck)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: lpd needs listen & accept NOT IN SLS
Date: 31 Dec 92 01:47:20 GMT
Organization: ExuCom Multimedia Inc.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]


  The man page for lpd says it uses listen and accept to operate.
They are not in the sls package and I can't find them anywhere at 
tsx-11.mit.edu .  The print queue is working but the daemon won't
stay running.  If the daemon does need these files I suspect this is
the reason I and others can't get the lpr package to work. Can anyone
supply these or help get lpd to stay running.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier)
Subject: Re: something screwy with mail...
Organization: York University
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 22:12:17 GMT

pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) writes:



>to set up user1 for mail try

>	touch /usr/spool/mail/user1
>	chmod 600 /usr/spool/mail/user1
>	chown user1 /usr/spool/mail/user1

>Someday soon, a real adduser script will be crafted, to do this.
>Do not use the old adduser.  Discard it now.

	Cool...thanks.  I'll add that to my current script :)

Later...

Marc
From: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: The 3c503-ALPHA-DRIVER (WAS: [NET]: Problems with 0.99) 
Distribution: world
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 19:02:46 GMT
Organization: Crynwr Software

In article <EWERLID.92Dec19032033@ida.docs.uu.se> ewerlid@ida.docs.uu.se writes:

   The probe that detects the 3c503 card fails to properly check
   the shared memory.  This means that shared memory is
   detected and given an address even though it is disabled by the
   onboard shared memory jumper.  There are MSDOS 3c503 drivers that can
   use a 3c503 card with the shared memory disabled.

Yeah, but it's real fussy to get right.  You have to bunch your I/O's
in blocks of 16, then wait for the board to get ready for more.  It's
really icky.  Much better just to set the board to shared memory mode.

-russ <nelson@crynwr.com> What canst *thou* say?
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: wonge@fraser.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong)
Subject: Re: Anyone have a BBS that runs on Linux?
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 03:09:39 GMT

In article <725031421.AA27249@remote.halcyon.com> Joshua.Lee@p3.f247.n271.z1.fidonet.org (Joshua Lee) writes:
> JL> There is a package called rfmail that will get and 
> JL> process FidoNet packets to a newsgroup format. I've 
> JL> heard it's primative, but it's probably the best 
>
> DD> If you happen to know where it's available at 
> DD> (binaries or even better--source) I'd love to take a 
> DD> whack at it.  
>
>Dunno if this includes source, but RFM0310.ZIP is available for XA file
>request from 1:343/33 and 1:343/34. The sources are probably available
>elsewhere if not in this archive, and I've seen the package around
>elsewhere. (Ask questions on the Fido backbone UNIX conference, several
>people use it there, and the author occasionally posts an
>announcement.)

   Sorry to butt in but, I was wondering if you know a Unix(linux)-
based BBS system and if you know where I can find rfmail, as stated
above.  Coz right now, I've got a BBS(remote Access) and I've installed
Linux on my 486, so like I figured, why even bother about DOS, when
I can run Linux, PLUS a Unix(linux) based BBS system, that can ALSO
process Fidonet-type packets and also INTERNET stuff.

   So, generally to all who reads this:-
   
     1) Where can I find a Linux-based BBS package?
     2) Where can I find a 'echomail' processor that can
        process Fidonet-type packages as well as Internet
        mail?

    And if I remembered quite correctly, the above two questions aren't
mentioned in the FAQ...  :)

>
  Thanks..for any help..
>


-- 
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From: awb@ed.ac.uk (Alan W Black)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Error...NMI received?
Date: 26 Dec 92 10:57:40 GMT
	<BzsCpn.4v1@citrus.SAC.CA.US>
Organization: Dept of AI, Edinburgh University, UK

In article <BzsCpn.4v1@citrus.SAC.CA.US> ianj@citrus.SAC.CA.US ( Ian Justman ) writes:
> marc@r-node.gts.org (Marc Fournier - Admin) writes:
> : Hello...
> : 
> : 	As it says...I get an error, well, I got it twice so far, that
> : goes to the effect of:
> : 
> : Uhhuh. NMI received. Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
> : 
> : 	What does this mean? :)

> I wouldn't mind knowing, too.  With my full setup, I _ALWAYS_ get it,
> but otherwise, everything seems to be in order.

> -- 
> Born to void warranties!	ianj@ijpc.UUCP

I'm not sure if this is related but we used to have a similar
problem of spurious NMI's under 386bsd.  After much guessing
and little hindsight we found the problem to be that our
386 board (which is rather old) would get memory parity errors
when the processor was halted (HLT instruction) this happens 
in the 386bsd kernel idle loop.  We removed this instruction
and let the processor simply loop rather than halt, and we've
never had NMI's since.

It appears that some older boards do not refresh memory properly when
the processor is halted.  I don't know if the Linux kernel halts
but it could easily do so.  If it does remove that instruction
replacing it with a loop and see if it makes any difference.

Alan

Alan W Black                          2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, UK
Centre for Cognitive Science          tel: (+44) -31 650 4627
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: honglin@apmaths.uwo.ca (HONGLIN YE)
Subject: How to update if it is really necessory?
Organization: Applied Mathematics, U.W.O
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:41:12 GMT


Hi, all,

    I am interested in installing linux on my machine. Before
    I start to do that, I want do know the answer to the question----
    How to update if there is a new release or there is a bug that
    bother me. Do I have to take off all the files from 
    system and rebuild everything again? Or it is only necessary
    to do a small operation on the stuff I already have. 
 	I want to try linux, but I want a bit stable, not to keep
    changing all the time. 
       I hope I can get a answer before Xmas.
    Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year!
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
Subject: What do you linux dudes use for csh?
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 03:51:17 GMT

I've got some csh scripts I need to execute, and bash just doesnt' like them.
What do all you linux guys do when in a situation like this?  Is there
a shell for linux which is very cshish?

Thanks!
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.windows.x.i386unix