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From: ucosmo@mcl.ucsb.edu (Boris Burtin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Are the XFree archives corrupted?
Date: 7 Oct 92 05:15:01 GMT

I just downloaded the XFree distribution from tsx-11, and a strange thing
has happened.  Several of the files (xbina, xfontsb, xfontsc) don't want
to uncompress.  The rest of the files uncompress just fine, though.  Has
anyone experienced the same problem?

--
     - Boris
(cosmo@cs.ucsb.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: s0356514@let.rug.nl (H.H. Bergman)
Subject: Re: QIC/02 support
Organization: Faculteit der Letteren, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, NL
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 20:04:25 GMT

Jonathan Magid (jem@calypso.uucp) wrote:
: all the talk about tape support reminded me that there was a beta
: qic 2 driver for the .96 kernel, along with the common useful
: tape utilities such as mt; it was written by Hennus Bergman, who
: warned in the documentation he was soon losing his net access.
: 
: Has anyone continued work on these things or has Hennus found a new
: net connection?
I'm still working on improving QIC-02 support, but I'm pretty busy with
other programming stuff, so things have been progressing rather slowly.
Archive interface cards SC402 and SC499R should be supported too now
(thanks to Eddy Olk). There will be an announcement on the TAPE mailing
list after I finish testing and uploading. [Yes, a message on the TAPE
mailing list!]

: 
: If anyone is interested the files are available on sunsite.unc.edu
: in /pub/Linux/kernel/patches/tape.
They should also be on tsx-11.mit.edu in ALPHA/QIC02/tpqic02.tar or
something like that.

: 
: jem.
: -- 
: Jonathan Magid     jem@SunSite.unc.edu       SunSite Administrator
: Virtual pizza Delivery (tm)::faxed in 30 cycles or less or you get it
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-Hennus Bergman
email to: mod32@cs.rug.nl [Unless you want to risk your email being
wiped out by some ******** network **DOS variant..]
From: rzhwj@sbusol.rz.uni-sb.de (Wolfgang Johannes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Problems w OPTI-495WB 486er
Date: 7 Oct 92 09:57:53 GMT

I have problems in booting LINUX on my OPTI-495WB 486er with 
Ami Bios.

I 've tested Linux on my 386/33 and all runs well.

Can someone tell me where to find the error. 

bye
rzhwj@rz.uni-sb.de

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: d88-jwn@nada.kth.se (Johan Whlin)
Subject: Beware of MS-DOS fdisk
Originator: d88-jwn@schwarz.nada.kth.se
Keywords: fdisk, DOS
Reply-To: d88-jwn@nada.kth.se (Johan Whlin)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 13:22:56 GMT

The other day I wanted to split a Linux partition into two. I wanted
to add one partition for DOS.

 I first used the Linux fdisk. After that I thought (_clever_ me !)
 that I should use DOS fdisk also, as to make DOS happy. I therefore
 fired up DOS and used fdisk to first remove the newly created DOS
 partition and then add it again as an DOS primary partition.

 After that I tried to boot Linux (I use LILO to boot it from the HD).
 No avail the system told me - in swedish, so it must be the DOS fdisk
 that said it - to put in another diskette. This diskette is not valid.

I think fdisk.exe saw that the newly created DOS-partition was not
bootable and therefore put that code in the boot block.

I then tried to run /etc/lilo/install again, that did not help.

Well, now I was tired so now it all gets really nice:

I messed around with the bootsector so bad that I deleted the partition table.

So I now have a question as well as wanting to warn about DOS fdisk.exe

I suppose I can scan the HD for the start of each Linux partition. I'd
therefore like to know what pattern represents the start of an
extended file system. I need to find the start of at least one
partition where I (used to) keep rather important data.

-- 
/Johan W}hlin (.. where the } really is an a with a ring above it.. 8))
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: johnsonm@stolaf.edu (Michael K Johnson)
Subject: New stuff at tsx-11...
Reply-To: johnsonm@stolaf.edu (Michael K Johnson)
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 16:40:28 GMT

#define L tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux
#define B tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/binaries
#define BUB tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/binaries/usr.bin
#define BUBX tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/binaries/usr.bin.X11
#define S tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/sources
#define SUB tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/sources/usr.bin
#define SUBX tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/sources/usr.bin.X11
#define PAT tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/patches
#define DOCS tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/docs


L/packages/lisp/*
	Clisp implementation for linux, updated.  Requires libc.so.4,
	does not use setjmp kludge.  See README for more info.

DOCS/XllR5-docs.T.Z
	What you see is what I know.  If you want docs on XllR5,
	here's the source.  Note that this uncompresses to about
	4MB

B/sbin/fixkbd.tar.Z
	changes the keyboard on a pre-compiled kernel image.  Comes
	with documentation.


Please Note:

I help /maintain/ the archives at tsx-11.mit.edu.  These announcements
that I make are announcements that I have taken things that someone
/else/ has written, and made them available for public consumption at
tsx-11.mit.edu, somewhere in the hierarchy /pub/linux.

I am /not/, unless otherwise explicitly stated, the one to contact
about bugs in the programs -- Please look through the files that you
get for the name of the author.  If program X has bug Y under
conditions Z, either mail the author, or post news about it.  Stuff
sent to johnsonm@stolaf.edu about it will generally end up in the
great bit home in the sky, as I just don't have time to act as a
middleman and pass on bug reports.  Sorry, but that's the way it is.

I do not guarantee that this is either complete or correct.  I will
try to use, as I have used, the subject "New stuff at tsx-11..." to
facilitate WAIS and other searches.

When you upload files to tsx-11, please put them in the incoming
directory, using binary transfer mode when appropriate (almost
always), and then mail ftp-linux@tsx-11.mit.edu and tell us that the
file is there, and what it does.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ap@fys.ruu.nl (Alain Picard)
Subject: Problems with Kermit, .98pl1
Organization: ESTEC
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 10:16:32 GMT

I'm having problems with kermit5A (in /binaries in tsx-11).
It used to run fine with 0.96.  (so I *think* I know what I'm
doing, but... :-)

I recently upgraded to 0.98 with H.Lu's disks.  I then grabbed
the new kernel sources and recompiled.  

Now kermit says it can't initialize my modem.

Configuration:
486/33
8Mb ram
200 Mb IDE disk
2400 modem on com3
serial mouse on com1 (not detected by Linux, but that's another story)
trident card.

the permissions are ok on /dev/ttys2, and the /usr/spool/locks/LOCK..ttys2
file gets created ok.  when I issue a dial command, I get a timeout,
unable to initialize modem.

In my rc.local scritpt, I have a line chich does
cat modem.settings > /dev/ttys2
which  just writes ats0=2 (auto-answer after 2 rings)
This used to work fine with .96, so this is probably not it.

Also, I noticed compilation warnings, in particular in serial.c ...
sounds suspicious.

Any help kindly appreciated.
If via Email, use address below, please.


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From: zie@lte.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de (Thomas Ziegler)
Subject: X386mono not starting as non root user!
Organization: University of Erlangen
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 21:10:18 GMT

I'm using xfree3861.1. If I am logged in as root, X386mono works like expected. But 
if i try to start the mono-Server as a "normal" user, I get the following (redirected)
output from startx:

  giving up.
  xinit:  Interrupted system call (errno 4):  unable to connect to X server
  xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.
 
.xinitrc for root and nonroot are the same, the whole X386-tree has readaccess for world.

        Thomas
From: I.P.Morris@southampton.ac.uk (I.P.Morris)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: 0.98 kernel + 0.97.1 root mount goes bang - solution (?)
Date: 11 Oct 92 15:03:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: athena.1992Oct11.150306.4852
Reply-To: I.P.Morris@southampton.ac.uk
Organization: The Internet

I recently tried to use the 0.98 kernel and the 0.97.1 root disk. As we all
know the mount does not seem to work very well I.e. it core dumps.

The hack i have come up with is to use mount from the 0.95 root disk. This
is a hack in that the 0.97.1 mount supports much more ( I think - I can't try
it).

Anyway if all you want to do is mount Linux paritions it seems to work ok. 

Appart from the minor bugs linux is great. need a bit more disk space though!!
From: ka@planet.bt.co.uk (Khalids)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Help requested on booting linux on a PC with a SCSI disk.
Summary: Help needed, linux hangs when booting on a PC with a SCSI disk.
Keywords: SCSI linux
Date: 15 Oct 92 17:13:20 GMT
Organization: British Telecom Labs


I have tried to install linux on my PC and encountered the following problems, 
could someone help ?

I noticed from the installation notes that there were problems between linux
and SCSI disks, presumably I have encountered one of them.


Configuration:
=============

386S/33 Processor
SCSI Hard Disk ( Seagate Model 94161-9 ).
ST01/ST02 Controller

Problems:
=========

Seems to boot fine until it tries to read the SCSI configuration
info and then it hangs with versions 0.98 and 0.97. With version
0.96 I cannot run fdisk as fdisk is unable to read the disk info
required.

linux version 0.98 provides the following output:
------------------------------------------------

    .
    .
    .
scsi1: 1 hosts
	Vendor:CDC	Model 94161-9	Rev 0.38
	Type: Direct Access	ANSI SCSI revision 0.1
sd0 at scsi2, id 0, lun 0.
scsi: detected 1 SCSI disk 0 tape 0 CD_ROM drives total.
SCSI host 2 timed out - aborting command

...and then it just hangs.



linux version 0.97-p12-12 gives
------------------------------

    .
    .
    .
scsi: 1 hosts.
sd0 at scsi2, id 0, lun 0:
SCSI: DETECTED 1 SCSI disk 0 tapes total. 
SCSI Host 2 timed out - aborting command

...and then it just hangs.




linux version 0.96b-63 gives
---------------------------

    .
    .
    .
1 host adapters detected
Detected SCSI disk at host 1, id 0, lun 0
Detected 1 disk 0 tapes total.
Warning: scsi device at host 1, id 0  lun 0 failed READ CAPACITY
Sense not available
Block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
Cannot read partition table for sd0
Ram disk 532480 bytes, starting at 0x1a60c0
    .
    .
    .
This takes me to the root prompt, but I cannot use fdisk on 
/dev/sda since it cannot read the SCSI disk.


Question
=======

1. How do I get linux to recognise the existance of my SCSI disk ?

2. How do I get fdisk to recognise the existence of my SCSI disk ?




All replies appreciated.



Thanks,
   Khalid Akbar

EMAIL: ka@planet.bt.co.uk
From: djr48312@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (X X)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: HELP: binary transfers with KA9Q for linux
Date: 11 Oct 92 21:20:36 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.Bvz7AD.4rp
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

Hopefully  this can be one of my last questions and I can eventually
become a question anwerer.  I figured out to install, adn establish
a slip connection with ka9q.  I know how to do asciii transfers with
ftp.  Problem is i don't know what parameter it needs for binary transfers.
NOrmally on ftp I type bin or binary and it switches to binary mode.
How do I do this with ka9q
?

Dennis
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tree@midget.towson.edu (Denise Tree)
Subject: Re: New serial drivers finding "bogus" devices  
Reply-To: tree@midget.towson.edu (Denise Tree)
Organization: The Internet
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 14:39:54 GMT


Hi Activists,


 ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold) writes:
	

| I added the re-written serial drivers from ALPHA/serial on tsx
| to my 0.98-pl1 kernel and now, it looks like the driver is
| finding bogus devices or is incorrectly determining port/irq
| information.

| My machine has two serial ports at the standard addresses and
| ports. On boot up, they are recognized as ttys0 and ttys1
| on 0x3f8 (?) irq 4 and 0x2f8 (?) irq 3 both with 16450s.

| The driver also recognizes one more device: ttys12 at 0x330
| irq 11 as a 8250... Now, I do have a Microsoft InPort mouse
| installed, but that's an 8-bit ISA card. I didn't think
| cards like that could have an irq as high as 11.

| The disturbing thing is that the Adaptec-style SCSI host
| has an I/O port at 0x330 and uses irq 11... 

| So, either the driver is misreading the port and irq from the
| InPort card, or it thinks my disk controller is an 8250... Not
| good.

| Any ideas?

	I have this same problem.... I have an Adaptec 1542A and I am
	using an AST FourPort... the new serial drivers detect the same 
	bogus 8250 uart as ttys12 at IRQ11... Not Good. This device
	is reported instead of the 16550 at ttys4. The other ports
	on the AST are found correctly.  

| -Chris
______________________________________________________________________
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____________________________tree@midget.towson.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: n217cg@tamuts.tamu.edu (Scott Taylor)
Subject: Re: problem with GCC 
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Summary: "test" is a shell builtin
Keywords: test
Organization: Texas A&M  University
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 18:26:09 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.144006.16347@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> hayes@cpsin2.cps.msu.edu (Hayes John H) writes:
>I'm using gcc 2.2.2d and linux .98. Occasionally, when I run a small
>program created with gcc, function printf won't produce any output on
>the screen unless I specify the full path to the binary when I run it,
>e.g. #test will produce no output on the screen, however
>#/home/usr/jhh/test will produce output on the screen. To be honest,

In bash and sh, at least, "test" is a shell builtin that tests the truth
of the given expression and returns the result in its return code; hence,
if you name your program "test" and  type "test" to run it, the built-
in function test will be used instead of running your program.  Try naming
it something else (in AIX Tech Support I got in the habit of naming my 
short test programs and scripts things like it, this, that- short, easy
to type, and no conflicts with other commands), or invoke it with "./test".

I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one that's been bitten by this one!

>I've been logging in as root, as I'm having problems getting Xwindows to
>run for anyother user than root. I'm working on this also.

I've no idea; probably xinit or the X server needs to be setuid root
(chown root <filename>; chmod 4755 <filename>).

>
>If anyone can shed some light on my printf problem I'e appreciate it.
>
>Thanks, John Hayes 

No problem,
Scott Taylor
n217cg@tamuts.tamu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: rafal@utstat.uucp (Rafal Kustra (summer student))
Subject: Re: trashed virt. consoles and mkfs w/ extfs
Keywords: mkfs
Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 13:50:52 GMT

In article <6185@pdxgate.UUCP> moyerg@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (gary a moyer) writes:
>First, I am still getting trashed virtual consoles (you know, when
>you accidentally grep a binary and end up with all these escape codes
>and such on the screen..)  I cannot get back to a sane tty state.
>Any help?

I think Ctrl-V Ctrl-O will get you out of there.

>
>Secondly, I have a 300M hd here and am only using 160M of it.  I _tried_
>to run mkfs over an extended partition but it just dies.  Any docs, help,
>pointers, etc for using the extended file system?
>
>Thanks.
>-g.m.
>
For extended partitions (compulsory over 64 Mb) you need
efsprogs package which contains mkefs.
Follow the readme there. (this should be in FAQ if it
isn't , IMHO)
Happy Linuxing ;)

				Rafal
>==
>  Gary Moyer
>  moyerg@cs.pdx.edu


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From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: why "time a.out" does not work?
Date: 12 Oct 92 14:33:11 GMT
Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY

In article <9210054741@clifton.hobby.nl>, baron@clifton.hobby.nl (Wim `Blue Baron' van Dorst) writes:
| wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:
| > You need an external time command (i.e. /usr/bin/time or something).  I do
| > not know if one has been ported to or written for Linux.
| 
| It is a very straightforward program. I compiled the one for Minix without
| changing anything. Drop me a line if you want a copy.

I wrote one from scratch (with a few extensions) and uploaded it to
tsx11 (and banjo, RIP) but I don't think it's been moved to a public
area because there's a GNU version the moderator likes better. I don't
know if it's been ported yet, it wasn't a few months ago, or I wouldn't
have written one myself.

-- 
bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
    Keyboard controller has been disabled, press F1 to continue.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: BYTE asks, is UNIX dead?)
From: billp@jupiter.cse.utoledo.edu (Bill Parquet)
Date: 7 Oct 92 21:45:35 EST

phd85@seq1.keele.ac.uk (D.H. Holden) writes:
: > After reading this months copy of Byte (October) Windows NT looks more like
: > unix with a Windows API all the time
: 
: 	  From this same issue it also seems to require a heck of a lot of
: 	  memory (~ 16M) 

I think Windows NT would really be nice if it ran on top of UN?X instead
of completely on its own... So you could exit to csh or open some sort
of equivalent to an xterm whenever you want to get some real work done!
-- 

billp@jupiter.cse.utoledo.edu
---
# rm -r /msdos /os2 /windows.nt
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hpa@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin N9ITP)
Subject: Re: Xfree86-1.1, the ALTGR key and norwegain (european) keyboards
Reply-To: hpa@nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin)
Organization: You must be kidding!
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 08:51:47 GMT

In article <1992Oct13.010146.20348@klaava.Helsinki.FI> of comp.os.linux,
  hyvatti@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Jaakko Hyvatti) writes:
> In article <1992Oct12.135518.21221@ifi.uio.no> janl@ifi.uio.no (Jan Nicolai Langfeldt) writes:
> >The norwegain keybard has some characters on the key-front (as opposed
> >to key-top). We usualy get to them with the help of ALTGR. This worked
> >with my Xmodmap.no (same as the one you find on the linux ftp sites)
> >for the old X386 (X11v2.0 i think). Now all ALTGR does is set the high
> >bit.  Can I configure this somewhere? Or do I have to get some source
> >and fiddle?
> 
>   As the documentation provided with 2.1 describes, this is exactly
> what has been changed in the default modmap. To get it right I use:
> 
> keysym Alt_R = Alt_R Mode_switch
> clear Mod1
> add Mod1 = Alt_L
> add Mod2 = Mode_switch
> 

Excuse a dumb question, but I would like to know the syntax of Xmodmap.  I
was able to modify Xmodmap.no into a Swedish keyboard, using Latin-1.
However, I am still stumped at the syntax of what comes after the keysym.

For example:

	keycode 3 = 3 numbersign sterling

How does X knows that the keys are none, Shift, AltGr respectively?

This is not only an academic question, since I would like to make Ctrl-8,
whose keysyms are "9 parenright bracketright" to return ^].  I don't like
having to type AltGr-Ctrl-9 for this.

If there is an obvious pointer for the modmap, please tell me.  The xmodmap
manpage did not help, nor did xmodmap -grammar.

Sincere thanks,

	/hpa
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From: Upholder@uiuc.edu (THE Upholder of Truth)
Subject: Re: Extfs stable ?
Reply-To: Upholder@uiuc.edu (THE Upholder of Truth)
Organization: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 03:41:31 GMT

s9100786@sg04 (Matthew Jackson) writes:
>I remember reading that the format was going to change so that all 
>filesystems would have to be remade. Has the change happened ? I am 
>using 0.98p1 and want to know how I should partition a new disk I 
>am likely to get tomorrow. I don't really want to repartiton later. 

The last I heard, the extended partition was still going through some fairly
major changes in format (to bitmap allocation) but that there would be
a program made available to convert existing filesystems to extended
filesystems in place (non-destructively).

NOTE: i just use the extfs.. I have no hand in developing it and all the
	above might have changed...  however the version I'm using (the
	latest available) is stable enough for my uses (never had a problem).

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: peterc@suite.sw.oz.au (Peter Chubb)
Subject: X and my SVGA card
Organization: Softway Pty Ltd
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 92 06:19:58 GMT


Has anyone created a driver for an MXIC 860X0 chipset yet?  If not,
does anyone have any information on that chipset so that I can write
one?

I have an MXIC svga card; it's capable of 1024x768x256colours, with
dot clock up to 65MHz, but I can't get X to use it (yet).


			Regards,

				- Peter Chubb

Softway Pty Ltd, P.O. Box 305, Strawberry Hills, NSW 2012, AUSTRALIA
Phone: +61 2 698 2322;       Fax: +61 2 699 9174;     Telex: AA27987
Internet: peterc@softway.oz.au	   UUCP: ...!uunet!softway.oz!peterc

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: dperry@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Dave Perry)
Subject: Man pages on SLS
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 01:55:56 GMT

The title says it all... Did I just miss out on it?  I *thought* I got 
all the disks!! :(  

-Dave

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