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From: kennu@mits.mdata.fi (Kenneth Falck)
Subject: X11 problems restoring text mode
Organization: Microdata Oy, Helsinki, Finland
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 20:24:30 GMT
Keywords: UNIX

I figured I might report this in public, though it might be that
this is already known... I installed a copy of MCC-interim Linux
at my school and also X11, but when I boot Linux using some of
the SVGA text modes, everything works ok until I exit from X,
at which time the screen gets garbled. (Seems like the monitor
can't synchronize to the card's output or something..)

With the standard 80x25 text mode everything works fine. I don't
spend much time at school, so I haven't really got much interest
to start debugging this, but the SVGA card in use is a Tseng Labs
ET4000 and the monitor is some GoldStar, can't remember exactly which.

If I can borrow one card home from school, I'll check it out closer..
Could be I've misconfigured Xconfig, too, though I doubt it, somehow
I suspect the X code has a problem with restoring the extended
SVGA text modes properly. Haven't tried the 2.0 version yet though...

Anyway, I was going to ask something else about X, too. I've
noticed an exceptionally large amount of cryptic abbreviations
like "xv", "xdvi", "tvtwm", "gwm" etc... I know some of these,
but would there happen to be a dictionary of some sort to
explain all these to a beginner, so I'd know what people are
talking about?... :-) if this interests no-one else, then how about
some X-guru emailing me a list of the most frequent abbrevs..
Or can you find this kind of stuff in some hacker jargon clone?

Thanks,

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jonathan@nova.next.nd.edu (Jonathan Bradshaw)
Subject: Re: Porting MUDS
Organization: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 00:08:44 GMT

In article <1992Sep27.061734.3344@u.washington.edu> mimir@milton.u.washington.edu (Al Billings) writes:
> Has anyone successfully ported and compiled a Mud or Muck over to Linux
>and got it to work on their system?

Well, I have ported (nearly) a MOO to linux. It worked with only minor
changes including one LONG filename (too long for linux) problem and a few
minor things. The only thing I'm now waiting for is TCP/IP!

(I thought that was meant to be released this weekend?)
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From: ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: BYTE asks, is UNIX dead?
Date: 2 Oct 1992 13:02:31 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: almaak.usc.edu

system@kryton.UUCP (Scott Beckstead) writes:

>This months Unix Review compares FSF Gcc to several major SPARC vendors
>C compilers.  It didn't do well I'm afraid. 

They used gcc 1.4 when 2.2 is out, and made many other mistakes.

That "review" got major flames on many newsgroups.

        -ans.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ketil@spurv.ii.uib.no (Ketil M. Malde)
Subject: Re: BYTE asks, is UNIX dead?
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Reply-To: ketil@ii.uib.no
Organization: student of computer science at the University of Bergen, Norway
Date: 28 Sep 92 21:05:08

In article <3725@eastman.UUCP> talley@ashleigh.Kodak.COM (Brian K. Talley) writes:

   [...]
   >                                                     A closer scrutiny
   >of the article proved it's just the otherwise.

   Interesting. I didn't buy Byte this month, partly because of the crap on
   the cover.  As such, I wasn't aware of the contents of the article.

Well, did it now?  My impression was that, sure, NT has (will have)
some advantages over UNIX, while UNIX also has some advantages over
NT. (Mostly networking, I think).  That most Unices probably will run
Ms-DOS and Windows apps long befor NT runs at all, wasn't mentioned,
(as far as I remember)

   Propaganda?  Hell, yes!  Look at IBM!  Look at Microsoft!  They didn't get
   where they are by creating great software and selling it cheap! Of course,
   there's often a fine line between "Quality Marketing" and propaganda. :}

   And yes, these folks are smart, in their own weird, twisted way.

Yeah.  And they're the havyweights that rule the market.  If MS wants
Byte to proclaim Unix dead, Byte will do so, or be squashed to death,
I am afraid.  I suppose that's what they call 'business' in the Real
World(tm)

   Let's put it this way: when I saw the cover of Byte, I mumbled to myself
   "...of course it's not dead, you f*ckhead...".  My assumption was that many
   a brain-dead executive would read that and think "Hmmm...once NT comes out,
   that'll mean the end of Unix!"

What worries me most, is that NT doesn't even *exist* yet!  While Unix
is already up and running in several different incantations(?) *today*

Money rules, and it is the scourge of all free software.
Unfortunately. I mean, how much coverage have you seen in serious
magazines about Gnu, FSF, and several of your favorite free software?
Sure, they've been mentioned occasionally, but never realy taken
seriously.  Ever seen gcc compared to other C's in the market?  I
haven't.  An all because it is *free* (and thus most value for money,
beating everything else, thus leading the other C manufacturers down
the drain, magazine lose ad money..*sigh*)  I'll stop now. :-)

BUT: Perhaps we could start letter campaigns to get more coverage for
free software?  Mail a letter to Byte or whatever, ask for reviews etc
of Gnu stuff, and other free software.  Perhaps it would be possible
to get hardware manufacturers on our side?  Now that Dell issues their
own Unix, how about getting Gateway or someone to give out a
'commercial' (that is stable and polished) version of Linux, or
something?

I'll stop *now* :-)

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From: S_WIEZORKE@iravcl.ira.uka.de (Hans B. Wiezorke)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Who will handle publicity for Linux 1.0?
Date: 1 Oct 92 12:01:58 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe (FRG) - Informatik Rechnerabt.
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another $0.02 on this thread...  :-)

In article <1992Sep30.190556.851@debet.nhh.no> si0_tb90020@debet.nhh.no writes:
> Still 100$ is a lot of money to charge for advertizing and media.

That depends on what you get for it. Disks cost money, postage & packaging
do the same, and if you have to make a living from distibuting PD/freeware/
shareware, you just have to charge some money. I think 2-3 dollars/disk is 
a fair price.

By the way, using the internet isn't free either. Many people don't have
to pay directly, but the taxpayers (we all), or the institutions we work at
have to.

So I don't think you can blame distributors for charging for their services.

Another great way to get LINUX to the people (who don't have net access)
would be a user club, where you can copy for free, but as long as we don't
have such a club, it's a good thing to have distributors carry LINUX.
(as long as they keep their distribution up to date [the biggest problem
by now])

keep linuxing ;-)

opus


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From: tl@etek.chalmers.se (Torbj|rn Lindgren)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Problems with 0.98 and serial ports
Summary: Internal loopback of UARTs
Date: 3 Oct 92 19:44:03 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

>   I am having the same problem.  I upgraded from 0.96c pl2 to 0.98
>   (with SCSI), and now during bootup the serial code doesn't report
>   my internal modem (Zoom somthing-or-other, 2400 baud, IRQ 5, 
>   port 0x3e8)..... maybe some of the more refined 
>   serial port detection code in 0.98 isn't fooled by the modem's
>   serial chip (it's not a regular UART; it used to get reported as
>   a 16450).  
>
>Yup, that sounds like it.  The new code uses the loop-back device to
>make sure that there's really a UART at that location (as opposed to a
>SCSI controller ---- which turns out to be a problem since there is a
>port conflict between the Accent Async board and Ultrastor SCSI
>adaptors.  Fortunately, (once a minor bug was fixed) the serial driver
>can figure out that there really isn't a UART there and not screw
>anything up.

You should NOT use the internal loopback mode to test if there is an
UART at an address, many internal modem doesn't emulate that.

It is a well known problem, and it is indeed one of the most common
mistakes in serial routines!
From: n9044398@henson.cc.wwu.edu (Eric Munson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: mboot doesn't work?
Date: 27 Sep 92 08:44:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: henson.1992Sep27.084451.7364
Organization: Western Washington University


   	I am having problems getting mboot to work with linux.  When I
go in with fdisk and change the boot partition lilo works fine.  What do
I need to do to dual boot with mboot?  thanks.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: cummings@tiger1.prime.com (Kevin J. Cummings)
Subject: Re: Modems etc.
Organization: Prime Computer, Inc.
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1992 17:47:07 GMT

In article <19snu8INN46@spool.mu.edu>, buchholz@studsys.mscs.mu.edu (Jacob S. Buchholz) writes:
> With all this talk of serial cards and '450s vs '550s, I'm wondering if
> there would be any difference to use an internal modem...  Would an internal
> modem worry about buffering, or would it need to?

Your internal modem probably has a uart on the board to interface it to
the system bus.  Same problem exists as for an external modem.  You will want
the 16550 to be the uart that your PC talks to (on your serial board for
an external modem, or on your modem card for an internal modem).  This is the
uart that your serial software talks to.  Since your system software programs
the uart, there had better be one to program on an internal modem.  Make sense?

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From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: BYTE asks, is UNIX dead?
Date: 5 Oct 92 01:45:23 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Naval Research Laboratory

In article <NiR5RB1w165w@gizmonic.UUCP> csthomas@gizmonic.UUCP (shane thomas) writes:
>Amen, Bro! Like I try to tell my boss, just because Microsoft has a
>bigger ad budget don't mean they make a better compiler. Computer
>software in one case where, the best things in life are free.  A
>problem that reamins, however, is that without access to FTP or a
>*serious* BBS you gotta rely on your buds to get at this stuff.  But

	Actually, I have the GNU/X cdrom, and it contains *unpacked* sources
for all GNU utilities, plus the complete X11R5 sources (it also contains
binaries for Sparc machines).  I am finding that this is probably the disk that
I use the most, because I can browse the sources for programming ideas (the GNU
stuff is usually well documented), or I can quickly transfer the contents to
the HD to rebuild something.  There is no need to keep bulky tar.Z files
around, but I just copy the customized Makefile to an archive directory, and
delete the rest.

>if Joe Computerdoode ever catches on to this stuff, it could get
>gloomy - a lot of folks (me for one) make their livin's writing s/w
>which other people try to sell.

	I do not feel that this will have to be the case.  The idea is that
you can make money *supporting* free software (i.e. Cygnus), and actually do
quite well with it.

-Eric


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From: "Louis J. LaBash, Jr." <A200%SIUEMUS.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
Subject: QIC-40/80, CMS Tape drives, Info
Reply-To: A200%SIUEMUS.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 18:21:18 GMT

Hi,

From the latest issue of INFO WORLD, 28 SEP 92, "Hewlett-Packard Co.
is acquiring Colorado Memory Systems, a Loveland Colo., manufacturer
of quarter-inch tape products for PCs."

Now, maybe the necessary info for programming these beast will be made
available.  With the advent of larger (>100 Meg drives) in the PC arena,
backing up the traditional way, floppies, isn't feasible.  I expect the
sales of QIC drive to soar, and prices to tumble; all the more reason to
seek support for this drive.

  -=Vote with email Colorado Memory Systems 71621.3022@CompuServ.com =-

I did. -ljl-

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From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
Subject: Re: Videorecorder interface ? (Re: Gnu hardware)
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 04:38:26 GMT

David L. Miller (dmiller@dragon.tricity.wsu.edu) wrote:

: It has been a while since I have investigated VCR backups, but from what 
: I remember, you don't get any better performance/density than, say, DAT.

: What I would like to see is a DAT-based audio/backup system.  Maybe a DAT
: audio deck with a SCSI interface?

The point of a VCR-based backup is cost.  VCRs are dirt cheap - DAT stuff
isn't.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo)
Subject: need help with curses (libcurses)
Originator: rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca
Keywords: curses
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 06:18:51 GMT


Anybody working on curses (libcurses.a) ?
I am missing some functions :
- keymap()
- wattrset()

Missing defs :
- KEY_UP
- KEY_DOWN
- KEY_LEFT
- KEY_RIGHT
- KEY_F0
- and others ...


Thanks
-- budi
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From: sh0002@porsche (Scott Hou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: HELP, Cannot boot DOS on hard disk after LINUX installation
Date: 2 Oct 92 19:21:31 GMT
Organization: Medtronic, Inc.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

The same thing happened to me when I upgraded to 0.97pl6 floppy boot disk.
Don't know if that was the problem or if it had to do with using DOS
FDISK to look at the partition table.

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From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Great marketing (Was Re: BYTE asks, is UNIX dead?)
Date: 6 Oct 92 15:24:45 GMT
Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY

In article <KETIL.92Oct1012409@spurv.ii.uib.no>, ketil@spurv.ii.uib.no (Ketil M. Malde) writes:

| Yes, yes, but be careful with what you're saying here.  There can be
| no doubt that risc cpus beat cisc hands down nowadays.  Never say
| never.  But I agree that the 486 probably will be in use, say 5 to 10
| years from now.  Hopefully without the atrocities of MS-DOS haunting it.

Yes, it's a pity that Intel never shipped the 586. It would have made
the RISC vs CISC comparison pretty interesting. However, they supposedly
will be shipping by 1994, in time to compete with the next generation of
RISC.

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From: ecktons@sirius.byu.edu (Sean Eckton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: .98 doesn't ask about video modes!  A REAL problem!
Reply-To: ecktons@sirius.byu.edu (Sean Eckton)


I just got .98 and made the boot and rootimage disks from nic.funet.fi.  On  
older versions, it would ask me if I wanted to choose a SVGA mode and I could  
bypass that and stay with 80x25.  Well, my card is an ATI VGA Wonder+ with  
256K ram.  It doesn't seem to work in any SVGA mode.  On earlier versions, if  
I tried to choose one of the listed SVGA modes (132x55 or 132x44) it would  
continue in 80x25 mode but when it got to the bottom of the screen, it  
wouldn't scroll and therefore loose everything that should be scrolling off  
the screen.

Now, my problem with .98 is that it gives me the options (132x25 or 132x44)  
and says:  Choose mode by pressing the corresponding number.
I never press anything because it doesn't let me.  I guess it just assumes  
one of those modes and the same thing happens.  I get nowhere!  The last line  
on my screen is:

scsi : 0 hosts.

There is more, I know, but it is off my screen because it thinks I am running  
more than 25 lines.  Can anything be done about this?  I really would like  
linux to work on my machine, especially with tcp/ip since that is what I do  
here at school (Network Support).

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From: oreillym@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Michael O'Reilly)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: [Q]: BEST solution to Partitioning Large DOS Drive
Date: 1 Oct 1992 15:45:10 +0800
Organization: Home
NNTP-Posting-Host: tartarus.uwa.edu.au
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

umlippen@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Rick Lippens) writes:
: I've been reading this group, the FAQ's on the site, and wherever
: else on Linux and am ready to install it on my hard disk.  I am
: familiar with DOS and UNIX, but not with partitions and boot sectors,etc.
: Is there an EASY to use program with a fairly comprehensible set of 
: instructions available?  I would like to do the following:
: Partition my 180MB Hard Disk into 80MB LINUX, and 100MB DOS.

The efdisk program is generally fairly good. You will obviously need to
backup all your dos stuff, as it will get erased when the re-partition is
done. Your best bet it to grab one of the very good root disks around,
as most of them have a nice 'hold your hand' approach to installing linux.

: I understand that MKFS only allows for up to 55MB on a partition...

The minix fs can be a maximum of 64megs. The extended file system has no
pratical limit, but is slower and probably has more bugs. (theretically it
is still in beta test).

: Also, it would be nice if I could boot up and choose either DOS or 
: LINUX.  I'm really searching for the simplest yet best solution without
: having to experiment and re-install new partitions every time something
: does not work out.  Has anyone had successful experience without any
: difficulties on an easy-to-use program?

Use LILO. Grab it from tsx-11 or somewhere similar. 
LILO has a fairly complete explaination of what it's all about.
V nice docs from what I recall.

READ ALL THE DOCS BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING!!!!!!!

: I presume that OS/2's Boot Manager may be of assistance as well.
Only if you don't use LILO.

: Rick
: | Rick Lippens, Year IIIB (Honors) [Co-op] Computer Science 
Michael
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From: badger@phylo.life.uiuc.edu (Jonathan Badger)
Subject: Destiny?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 23:13:48 GMT
Keywords: DESTINY OS 

Not really a linux question, but what IS Destiny? I take it is some operating
system, but of what sort? Mail me -- no need to clutter up comp.os.linux.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: axi0349@ultb.isc.rit.edu (A.X. Ivasyuk)
Subject: xxgdb uploaded to sunsite and tsx-11
Originator: axi0349@ultb
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 02:20:44 GMT

I uploaded an xxgdb archive (.a) file compiled for Linux, along with cdiffs
against the origival v1.06 sources, to sunsite and tsx-11.  You can get it
immediately on sunsite, and soon on tsx-11, because it's still in incoming.

This is a X11 front end to gdb.  It shows source while you're stepping through
and all that.  Let me know if you have any problems.

-Anatoly
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                  You say you haven't heard of CSH?  You will...
From: thssgxd@iitmax.iit.edu (Gautam Das)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Xega Font problems & work-arounds
Date: 5 Oct 92 16:51:24 GMT
Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology

Hello Linuxers!!

I want to thank everybody for the help they offered to get the Xega font
problem taken care of. I was wrongly thinking that it was a termcap or
stty problem. 
>In article <1992Oct2.183411.14538@iitmax.iit.edu> I wrote:
>Anyway I got Xega to come up. Twm and the menus come up fine. Xterms can be 
>brought up -- no problem. But heres the snag. Whatever I type in xterm is 
>echoed back properly. But output to commands are partially echoed e.g.
>ls on / produces something like this:
>
># ls
>  ail	bin	dev 	etc 	ome 	mnt 	nux 	usr   var
> cup	     tmp 
>#

The solution for this
> - kennu@mits.mdata.fi writes:

>I think I have the same problem, but I tried to switch fonts
>(by pressing Ctrl-<RightMouseButton> in the xterm), and some
>of them seem to work alright, although most of them 

Thanks  kennu@mits.mdata.fi.

The problem was with fonts. Apparantely Xega does not work with all fonts.
The solution is to press <CRTL-RightMouseButton> and select a font that
works.  For me the tiny, large and huge fonts are working. I can live with
that for a while. The default, small, and medium fonts are not working.

gautam
(thssgxd@iitmax.iit.edu)
(gautam@tellab5.tellabs.com)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jem@vipunen.hut.fi (Johan Myreen)
Subject: Re: X386.ega
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
	<1992Sep23.232256.10915@u.washington.edu>
	<MMH.92Sep24083756@mercury.analog.com>
Date: 26 Sep 92 22:19:17

In article <MMH.92Sep24083756@mercury.analog.com> mmh@mercury.analog.com (Marc M. Hoffman) writes:

>   I have a Genius mouse(I think that's the same as Mouse Systems) and if 
>   I hold down the button on the mouse while booting it is supposed to be
>   equivalent to Microsoft mice.

This may not be relevant, but you have to cycle the power while
pressing the mouse button to make it act like a Microsoft mouse. Just
booting isn't enough.

>   Either way, while running the mouse test
>   I get no response.  Any ideas?  I have the mouse plugged into Com port2.
>   (ttsy2?)

COM2 might also be called /dev/ttys1, depending on where you got your
root disk.

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