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From: tfoley@camaro (Tim Foley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Tape Drives, Archive sc400
Summary: Can the 5945c and Sc400 work with Linux?
Date: 19 Dec 92 22:43:43 GMT
Organization: camaro


Will the following drives work with linux:
 
Archive 5945C with SC400 Controller card
 
I also have a Genoa QIC-02 card, that is alot smaller than the SC-400
but has almost no chips (pal city?), anyone know if that card is usable?
 
I tried email to Hennus Bergman, but all mail gets bounced back.
 
Hey Hennus, drop a line, if this drive will work with 0.99...
 
						Tim

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From: zmbenhal@netcom.com (Zeyd M. Ben-Halim)
Subject: Re: Problem(bug?) when running background jobs with X windows
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 11:04:21 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.070424.5950@tc.cornell.edu> mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh) writes:
>In article <1992Dec16.053232.19524@eng.umd.edu> yjwu@eng.umd.edu (Yu-Jen Wu) writes:
>>I found a problem(maybe a bug?) when I try to do some background jobs under X.
>>If I send the job to the background and then exit X, that job would be killed.
>>This does not(and should not) happen for Sun Unix---all background jobs under
>>X would be still running even if you exit X.
>
>If you put them in the background with a command such as
>
>	foo &
>
>Then they should be killed, as the parent shell that spawned the process is killed
>when you exit X. If you don't want the processes to go away, try using 'nohup' 
>or fork and orphan the process by hand.

doesn't this behavior depend on the shell being used? I seem to remember that
csh'ish ones do not need a nohup, but sh'ish ones do (or was it bsd vs. usg ?)

>
>mdw
>-- 
>Matt Welsh     mdw@tc.cornell.edu     Cornell Theory Center
>  "It's a Katana, ya Midwestern Computer Geek." --Tom Payne

Zeyd
From: mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
Subject: Re: Oops (Re: ALPHA Kernel patch: Fixes and enhancements to floppy code.)
Organization: The Linux Inquisition, Propaganda Division
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 08:05:48 GMT

In article <If_Lboy00WB_4gfmg_@andrew.cmu.edu> fl0p+@andrew.cmu.edu (Frank T Lofaro) writes:
>    This shouldn't have gotten to comp.os.linux, since I posted it to
>both comp.os.linux and comp.os.linux.announce, and it hasn't yet been
>approved by the moderator. 

It's okay. The only reason I didn't approve it right off was because I
felt it needed some background information, such as what version of the
kernel the patches were for. It wasn't obvious from the original posting. 
Just resend the article with that information and I'll post it. :)

Thanks,
mdw
your friendly neighborhood moderator-type person

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From: barstad@plains.NoDak.edu (Dwayne Barstad)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: X and Orchid Designer Pro II -- compatibility / ??worth it??
Date: 16 Dec 92 07:15:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: ns1.BzCC6F.CB9
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network


Super VGA board supports high refresh rates (72Hz) with resolutions up to
1024x768.  It has the Sierra Hi-Color RAMDAC installed to get 32,000 colors in
normal vga mode.  It has 1 meg of memory installed.

I also will have a set of Winspeed Windows 3.1 drivers for the board.  These
drivers are VERY GOOD.  The Orchid uses the Tseng E-4000 chipset and the
Winspeed drivers for this chipset speed the board up by (my guess) a factor of
about 3.

My question is, is this card a good card for X.  Will the Windows 3.1 accerator
drivers help in any way or will they be useable when I run Win 3.1 only?  Is the
Tseng E-4000 chipset ok/good/excelent...

Sorry to waste the bandwidth.. PLEASE reply by mail only so others don't have to
put up with my ignorance more than once.  I will mail information to anyone that
may also want such information upon request and depending on other replies.

Thanks

Dwayne
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From: jgrape@coos.dartmouth.edu (Johan A. Grape)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: various: ps, time, lpr, xdvi
Date: 16 Dec 92 14:29:38 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Originator: jgrape@coos.dartmouth.edu


Hi y'all.

I have been running linux since 0.98.3 (SLS), and have been having
minor problems:

xdvi:
	I know there is a simple fix for this.  I get a floating
	point exception and a core dump (I use mathemu) whenever
	I invoke.  I tried getting new sources, but make chokes
	on FS_SYNC undefined.  Anyone have a fix, or tell me
	where I get whatever lib or include that defines FS_SYNC?
	(I apologize for the lack of detail - I had an article
	made up at home, but my floppy got trashed on the way to 
	work)

I upgraded tyhe kernel to 0.99-45 just three days ago, and got new
binaries for usr/bin from the latest SLS distribution.  However,
these two errors still occur:

ps aux
USER	PID	CPU	MEM	SIZE  RSS TT STAT START TIME COM
error reading kmem (offset = 0x4010000)
adm	32768	0.0	799.9	4     131068a0 S   21:13 0:00

I tried to fix this with ps -U, but the net result was that 
ps simply didn't try to display processes at all.

time:
warning: time using old stat() call. recompile (but I got the latest usr/bin)

Finally, I have been making no progress with getting lpd, lpr to work.
I got the ported BSD that resides on tsx-11.mit.edu in the form of
binaries, installed it, was surprised about some of the paths (but I guess
that is the porters discression), and changed the GID of the binaries
to daemon, and the spool directories to UID & GID daemon.  I also changed
the GID of /dev/lps (serial printer) to daemon.  I setup the printcap and
away we go:

lpr fubar.txt
lpr: connect: invalid argument
jobs qued, but cannot start daemon

The same thing happens if I try to use lpc to start and stop
printers.  Any ideas?

________

My deepfelt gratitude to all, and especially Linus for the amazing
contributions to the world.  I think it is easy to loose sight of
what an amazing contribution this OS is.  When I discovered linux,
I promptly sold my Mac due to various grievances concerning their
policies, and seriously overpriced hardware.  Linux has set me free,
free from hardware woes, free from cost woes, and free to finally
do something interesting with computers I can afford.  I am, of course,
also set free to spenmd long evenings trying to figure out why lpr won't
work - but at least I didn't pay money for the privelige of trying
to figure it out.  Happy holidays and thanks again.

Regards
Johan
 
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From: st1mb@jane.uh.edu (Supernaw-Issen, Daniel A.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: This is a repost: WHAT THE %^$*(^&* is libX11.1.1 ????????
Date: 14 Dec 1992 15:27 CST
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: jane.uh.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

HELP.
SOS.
ANY OTHER EYE CATCHING PLEA.

I grabbed gwm and when I fired it up, it died saying that it couldn't find
libX11.1.1 .  What is this thing? I have the SLSl.98pl5 distribution and in it
is a libX11.a but when I sym-linked libX11.a to libX11.1.1.a it still died.
I'd dearly love to get a look at this gwm thing, but I seem to be stuck.  
please post reply for a number of people have emailed me in reply to my first
posting, asking me to keep them informed of anything I learn.

Daniel

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From: fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus James HENDERSON)
Subject: Re: Suggestion Spliting Group
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 16:34:57 GMT

wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:

>cyberman@exucom.com (Stephen R. Phillips) writes:
>>This is a suggestion perhaps it's not worth doing but I can't keep up
>>with 152 threads and 192 articles (per DAY).  
>
>Use a threaded newsreader, if you aren't doing that already.  Use
>kill-files.  Skip threads with uninteresting subject lines.  Read
>comp.os.linux.announce.  Read Linux News.  Don't add to the noise if
>you can avoid it.
>
>I guess I could read everything that comes to c.o.l daily in about 15
>to 30 minutes using the above techniques.

Which is fine, as far as it goes, but some days I don't read news.
If you miss a couple of days, then all of a sudden you can have 1-2 hours
worth of news to read, just in comp.os.linux, which is only one of the
many newsgroups I read.

Anyhow further discussion is of course pointless. I'm going to put a
5-month kill on "split" in comp.os.linux :-)

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From: berk@techsys.mcws.fidonet.org (Berk Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux on a PS/2
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 05:52:22 PST
Organization: Private for Now

Jeff-Randall@uiuc.edu (Jeff Randall) writes:

> rszeto@wc.novell.com (Ron Szeto) writes:
> 
> >I learned from the FAQ that Linux would not work on a PS/2.  Can someone tel
> >me why?  Thanks for any help.  --Ron       
> 
> Nobody has the specs to get Linux to talk to the Harddrive in the fourth
> port on the MCA bus.. get that info to someone (linus perhaps) and the
> probably that Linux will support MCA bus machines will increase greatly.
> 
> until that info is in the proper hands, don't be holdin' your breath waiting
> for Linux to run on MCA machines... 
> -- 
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> jar42733@sumter.cso.uiuc.edu (NeXT mail)      If It were, It would've had a
> wi.6580@n7kbt.rain.com (anon)                  more important name on it. =)


Or.. someone could send Linus a PS2 box, eh?  (I probably would if I had 
1 or 2.)

Berk Walker                           berk@techsys.mcws.fidonet.org

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: timp@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Tim Posney)
Subject: Re: 0.99 boot problems (was Re: sls install problems)
Organization: Sydney University Computing Service, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 21:40:54 GMT

gabrius@herman.gem.valpo.edu (David Gabrius) writes:

>>>It found all three of my serial ports.
>>>8 virtual consoles
>>>lp_init: lp0 exists(0)
>>>scsi: 0 hosts
>>>scsi: detected 0 disks 0 tapes 0 cd-roms
>>>memory 7168k/8192k available 540k kernel 384k reserved 100k data
>>>Floppy drive(s) fd0 is 1.2m    (should it have found my 1.44m floppy)
>>>floppy: FDC version 0x90
>>>sock_init: initializing family 1 (AF-UNIX)
>>>sock_init: initializing family 2 (AF-INET)
>>>Loopback device init
>>>Warning WD8013 board not found at i/0 280
>>>hda
>>>  my primary partition dos
>>>  my extended partition
>>>   5 my logical dos drive
>>>   6 my linux filesystem
>>>   7 my linux swap
>>>    (* all number are correct for these partitions*)
>>>partition table ok
>>>general protection 0000
>>>EIP: 0008: 0000B6C4
>>>EFLAGS: 00010286
>>>fs: 0017
>>>base: C0000000, limit 000A0000
>>>pid: 1, process nr: 1
>>>8b 13 85 dZ 74 27 83 3a 02 74
>>>
>>>

As one of the many people got by this. The definitive fix is to make the
patch so promptly posted by linus. I am sorry I have not got it in front
of me but I promise it was posted.

regards tim
From: ccasted@prism.gatech.EDU (Edward Deering Boykin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: SLS is up-n-running
Date: 20 Dec 92 17:45:30 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

FINALLY.I got the latest SLS version of linux up and running on my 486.
I have the full veersion with xwindows working. I will now attempt to use
kermit with my telepath modem and try to install xconquer,xfishtank and a couple
o other programs going.I do have a couple of questions:
Is there a workking xload allready proted to linux?
My microsoft mous only has menues on the left mouse button. Can I set up my
twmrc file to handle both buttons? PLease let me know

Thanks to all who helped me with my installation. I am finally in the world
of Linux!!!!

A
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From: bribbeck@exucom.com (Bob Ribbeck)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Where do I find libc.so.4
Date: 12 Dec 92 06:44:07 GMT
Organization: ExuCom MultiMedia Inc.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]


  I just tried gcc2.2.2d and it wants the libc.so.4 library.  Every
new thing I try needs libc.so.4.  I've looked everywhere on tsx-11 but
can't seem to find it.  HELP!!!!!!!
From: genie@netcom.com (gene choi)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Wish list for Christmas
Date: 15 Dec 92 14:38:44 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)


Wow, 0.99 works perfectly.  Not one hitch going over from
0.97p6.  Now the only problem is that a good amount of all
the binaries hate me.  But I expected that..

The thing I want/need most now is a working binary of tcsh.
I just can't get used to standard bash.  If anyone is working
on porting tcsh for 0.99 please let me know!  Thanks.

Gene
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: shanea@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Shane Alderton)
Subject: Re: Insite 21MB Floptical and Linux
Organization: Sydney University Computing Service, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 19:44:46 GMT

ramirez@mcclb0.med.nyu.edu writes:

>Hello all,

>	A couple of months ago I read that someone was attemting to get the
>Floptical drive from insite to work with Linux.  What is the status of this?
>And will it be incorporated into the kernel when done?

Eric Youngdale has added an unlock sequence to the SCSI code which is
said to be required before a floptical drive will respond to commands.

I am currently running a floptical on an Adaptech 1542B controller without
any trouble, other than a few timeout messages (I don't think the SCSI
drivers ever expected to see such a slow disk-type device!) :-) and a
couple of error messages due to the floptical door not accepting (or
being able to action) doorlock requests.

Other than these slight problems, things seem to work fine.  You can either
format the floptical as one big filesystem, or partition it.  Mtools and
mount -t msdos will both access flopticals written under DOS.

I will post more info in a couple of days.

(And thanks again to Eric for all the time he spent answering my stupid
questions.)

Shane Alderton
shanea@extro.ucc.su.oz.au 
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.announce,comp.windows.x.i386unix
From: feinmann@cs.mcgill.ca (Richard JHANG)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: TO ALL THOSE WHO THINK THE VOLUME IN comp.os.linux IS TOO HIGH
Date: 18 Dec 92 11:33:03 GMT
Organization: SOCS - Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada

In article <2933251479.2.p00192@psilink.com> "William L. Mullica" <p00192@psilink.com> writes:
>I've asked a number of questions on comp.os.linux and almost always get 
>replies/answers back by mail. I think this is good in order to keep the 
>number of news articles to a manageable level. However, once "the 
>answer" has been tested and proven to work, I think that the person who 
>asked the original question should post "the answer" to the news group. 
>This would, hopefully, prevent others from asking the same question over 
>and over and would further reduce the volume in comp.os.linux.
>
>Comments?
>
>Bill, N6CKM
>

I agree! I cannot keep up with hundreds of Linux News everyday...
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: vds7789@aw2.fsl.ca.boeing.com (Vincent D. Skahan)
Subject: Re: mailpak success and question
Organization: none
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 14:35:45 GMT

craig@adikia.sccsi.com (Craig Groeschel) writes:

>I got mailpak 1.1's mail and rmail to compile under 0.98.5 / gcc 2.2.2d7
>by adding -fwritable-strings to the CFLAGS.

>Question: how do I set everything up to recognize Internet addresses?
>Or is that what I need smail for?

you can recompile elm to use domainized headers or else grab the 
recompiled version that's now in SLS0.98-5 .  You might get away with
just installing smail3.1.28 (also in SLS) and setting your visible name
to hostname.domain in the /usr/local/lib/smail/config file.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hollan@INRS-Telecom.UQuebec.CA (Rene Hollan)
Subject: Musings on "Where is Linux Going?"
Keywords: Linux, support
Organization: INRS Telecommunications
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 15:51:55 GMT

The recent rash of posts regarding the "future of Linux" indicates (to me
anyway), that some people have a vested interest that Linux indeed have a
future. Others suggest that this can't happen unless it becomes a commercial
product. Still others point out that no one ever really unleashed a "free"
operating system with significant applications that runs on machines produced
by "zillions" of companies. Some claim it is nothing more than a kernel
hackers' toy. (Sorry for not including references, I'm stuck reading mail
on one machine and posting on another - it's a pain to include posts).

Well, I've been called a hacker (kernel and worse), and I love Linux, but
the greatest *value* it offers me is that I can use my 486DX2 at the office
as an X-terminal, as well as run emacs and TeX locally, without having to
justify the purchase of commercial versions of these or of a UN*X for the
486 to port them to. This might be considered trivial by some, given the
constant clammor of queries regarding the port of some application or other
to Linux, but being able to run X, emacs, and TeX for *free*, needing only
the hardware to run them on represents significant value. I tell people
that I have "X-terminal software, with local emacs, TeX, and most of a UN*X
built in as an extra" and they say, "Wow, great X! How much?.... FREE??!!"
(ah yes, marketting!).

I know of commercial organizations that have recently recognized the high
quality, stability, and *support* avalilable for gcc/g++. Some are seriously
considering using it as the compiler of choice. Some concerns over support
remain, but the *unofficial* use has demonstrated that the pros far outweigh
the cons of this type of product.

I have a small consulting business on the side, and plan to offer timely
distribution and support of Linux on magnetic media for those who do not
have net access, as an alternative to UN*X, as well as part of an integrated
software solution to a client's problem. (Right now, my only net connection
is via my employer so I'll have to make other arrangements for net access
when I use it for other than the sole benefit of said employer).

The world is changing, and people are starting to recognize the value of
"free" software. It won't happen overnight, to be sure, and things like
Linux may face a chicken and egg problem, but I predict (he said, knowing
he was sticking his neck waaay out), that the value of "free" software will
finally be realized.

Remember, never say that a task is impossible to the people that are getting
it done. Also, don't waste your time trying to convince non-believers, they
have as much of a right to their opinion as you have to yours.

I'll close with a suggestion: If Linux gets real popular, we'll want some
control over the use of the name. Eventually looking into a trademark might
not be a bad idea.

Rene Hollan
hollan@inrs-telecom.uquebec.ca
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu (M. Saggaf)
Subject: Re: rz / sz cute version?
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:08:21 GMT

>>>>> On Mon, 14 Dec 1992 08:45:09 GMT, jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan
JM> Magid) said: Nntp-Posting-Host: sunsite.unc.edu

JM> In article <1992Dec14.060746.7021@cc.gatech.edu> ammo@cc.gatech.edu (Ammo Goettsch) writes:
>does anyone have a "cute" version of rz, that for example uses curses
>or
>X to display decent download status messages, rather than the standard
>one-line-per-packet messages?
>
>Ammo Goettsch

JM> there were patches written to give zmodem a nice X interface...
JM> they are available on sunsite.unc.edu as
JM> /pub/Linux/X11/xutils/Xrz3D*

And another I just put yesterday for text-mode that uses curses. As
Incoming/graphic_rz.diff. Has to be applied to a fresh copy of rzsz
(e.g. from oak.oakland.edu at pub/unix-c/xyzmodem) and the modem
device has to be specified at the top of the make file.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
Subject: Re: 0.99 boot problems 
Organization: The Linux Inquisition, Propaganda Division
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 07:00:38 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.045348.8785@netcom.com> zmbenhal@netcom.com (Zeyd M. Ben-Halim) writes:
>I just upgraded to 0.99 from 0.98.1. After spending two days upgrading all the
>binaries broken on the old stat call I can't get the console to behave.
>My default mode is 132x43 but the console only uses 25 lines.
>
>Any clues?

	stty rows 43

mdw
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: cac@iear.arts.rpi.edu (Christopher A. Cox)
Subject: Re: SoundBlaster CD-ROM
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 05:09:28 GMT

	This does lead me to a question:  How does one go about writingf
a driver for something like this?  I have one of those cheapo Mitsumi
CDROM drives which is NOT SCSI - some forty pin controller setup - and I
wonder how one even starts to tell Linux it exists.

						Chris

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: kuan@dms.agames.com (Frank Kuan)
Subject: please help newbie with SLS, ati-ultra, and X
Organization: AGC
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:30:56 GMT

I'm a newbie. Just got the new 25 disk distribution SLS release of
Linux. I have an ATI ultra with 1 meg vram, 16 meg ram, 200 meg maxtor.

I installed linux successfully on a 50 meg partition. I then ftp'd the
8514.new driver, and followed the instructions in readme.2 to the letter.
When I try to start X, it recognizes the driver immediately, but the
screen just goes black. I did the installment of the other font set
too... What am I doing wrong? I even unplugged my soundblaster in case
that was conflicting with my video card.  

I have dos as a 50meg hda1, os2 as a 50 meg hda2, and linux as a 50 meg hda3.
I have boot manager set up for os2, and I created the linux partition with
fdisk under os2, as the faq recommended. 

- Frank