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From: aa@info.ucl.ac.be (Andre April)
Subject: problem with X386 1.2 and et4000ax
Organization: Computer Science Department, Catholic University of Louvain
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 15:38:52 GMT


I try to use the X386 1.2 server on a stock USL SYSV386 Rel 4 Version 4.
My video card is an Expert VGA based on the ET4000AX chip. The cristal is 
14.31818 and the various clocks seem to be generated by a chip numbered
ICS2494N. My monitor is an AOC CM-326 (specs follows). 

I can't get a stable image even with the Standard VGA mode.
I looked at the synchro signals with an oscilloscope and I was surprised !
With the standard clock of 25 MHZ ("640x480" 25 640 672 786 800 480 490 492 525)
the hsync is 2 micro sec large (in place of 4) and the horizontal frame length
is 16 micro sec (in place of 32) !

It looks like the oscillator is 50 Mhz in place of 25. I doubled the number of
dots horizontally ("1280x480" 25 1280 1544 1572 1600  480 490 492 525) and the
image was stable. I checked the number of dots on the screen : it was realy
1280 and not 640 ! I made some other test with different clock frequencies.
The conclusion was always the same the frequency is twice the selected one.
I also used the VDIAG.EXE program and chek the synchro signals for 640x480,
600x800 and 1024x768i. The results were good. Here they are

Resolution |  horiz frame (us) | hsync (us) | vertical frame (ms) |  vsync (us)
-----------+-------------------+------------+---------------------+------------
640x480    |         32        |      4     |        16.8         |    64
800x600    |         26        |      4     |        17.0         |    52
1024x768i  |         28        |      3.5   |        11.4         |   112


I also tried the Master VGA (also ET4000AX) with the same results.

How can I have true 640x480 to use it with an 640x480 LCD display for
retroprojection ? In other words how can I get the good frequencies ?
If VDIAG.EXE can do it X386 should too.


VGA card : Expert VGA  ET4000AX
     clocks reported : 25.2 28.4 32.7 36.2 40.2 45.1 31.6 37.8

Monitor : AOC CM-326
     synchro horizontal : 15 Khz to 38 Khz automatically
     synchro vertical   : 50 Hz to 80 Hz automatically
     Pixel Rate         : 40 Mhz


Thanks in advance,

         Andre.



Andre April
University of Louvain
Belgium
E-mail: aa@info.ucl.ac.be



Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Subject: Re: Problem w/Solaris 2.0
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc.
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 11:50:01 GMT

andy@awds.imsd.contel.com (Andy Moskoff) writes:

>BTW, I thought this problem would not exist since SunSoft bought Interactive.
>Why don't they just port all the software from Interactive to Solaris? Hmmm...

Perhaps this is because the OS' are quite a bit different and the drivers
do not port easily?  Another issue could be that some of the drivers may 
not have been written by ISC and the license agreement may limit SunSoft's
ability to take it an put it into Solaris.

Then you have to add on the fact that all this stuff needs to be tested
together in as many configurations as you can test.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.sys5.r4
From: hc05@rexago8.uucp (Beirne Konarski)
Subject: Re: uucp g protocol tuning parameters -- help cutting phone bills!
Reply-To: beirnek@summitis.COM
Organization: Summit Information Systems
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 13:42:19 GMT

john@jho.com (John Ho) writes:

>>In article <1992Oct3.072415.19296@weyrich.UUCP>, orville%weyrich@uunet.uu.net (Orville R. Weyrich) writes:
>> 
>>> but I am only getting about 500 cps out of my [long distance  -- I pay  for
>>> it!] link to uunet. I get about  900 cps out of a local link.

>You should be happy that you are getting 500 cps from UUNET because I am 
>getting only 176 cps from PSI and this is the average thru put over a period 
>of six months - their marketing seems to be doing a marvelous job getting 
>customers but their hardware is way overloaded; Not to mention the 
>news is sometimes 48 hours late.  The only advantage I have with PSI 
>is that they charge a flat rate and it is a local call for me. :( 

I tinkered with our uunet connection a while back when we got new 9600 baud
modems and am able to get throughput of about 850 cps with Paradyne Hayes
compatible modems.  I do two of things that may be important here.
I set my port speed to 19200 to help the port keep up with the modem although I
admit this may be superstition.  I also try to avoid using MNP error correction
and compression as this confuses UUCP's lack of flow control.  When I would use
MNP compression I got throughput in the 500 cps range because the data came in
bursts that UUCP couldn't handle so packets had to be retransmitted.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: ice@skynet.uucp (Ice)
Subject: Re: Interactive Unix
Organization: Industrial Cybernetics
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 23:36:10 GMT

In article <BuzBKr.3BB@maxed.amg.com> ed@maxed.amg.com (Ed Whittemore) writes:

>In article <bonnie.717087147@earth.njit.edu> bonnie@rat1.njit.edu (Bonnie MacKellar) writes:
[...]
>>Do I have to buy from them or can I ftp that stuff
>>from somewhere?  How about C and C++ compilers?
>>I am used to Suns, where I just ftp what I need.
>>Now, I am worried that I can't do that in the
>>PC world.
>>Is GNU software available for PC Unixes?
[...]
>
>I don't know why it's nasty to exclude development stuff from non-
>dev. packages, but you do need a dev. package from ISC, even if 
>you are going to use GNU C and tools, since there is no complete set
>of libraries and headers otherwise. 
>

You can get the binaries and headers for GCC 2.0 (probably a little
behind) from watserv1.waterloo.edu with anonymous ftp. Directory is
/pub/gnu/ISC or some such.

Hope this helps.

Ice()

Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: kdenning@portal.hq.videocart.com (Karl Denninger)
Subject: Re: Wangtek or Archive??
Summary: Archive and DC6250 tapes
Organization: VideOcart Inc.
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 12:40:28 GMT

In article <718087496.10660@zooid.guild.org> vid@zooid.guild.org (David Mason) writes:
>>The SCSI drives are all compatible with SVR3.2 and SVR4 for i386/i486. 
>>Be aware that 525M drives use a 1K physical block size whereas the
>>150/250M drives use 512 byte blocks, so your drivers need to support
>>variable block sizes or the drive will only write 250M on a 525M tape. 
>>(The tapes are the same length, but have different coercivity.)
>
>Hi,
>
>Maybe you or someone can answer a question for me. I recently bought a 150MB
>Archive Viper SCSI tape drive, along with a 3M 250MB tape to start off. Inside
>the tape package was a note stating that using 250MB tapes with some 150MB
>drives can cause problems down the line. I bought this drive used, and
>although I don't know how old it is, it seems to work very well. Is this
>something I need to worry about?
>
>Thanks for any answer (just about).

Go for it.

I have used an Archive VP150s with 6250 and 6150 tapes interchanged for over 
two years, and have had ZERO problems with it.  This drive gets >heavy< daily
use, on the order of 2 or 3 hours daily average.  It has no discernable
problems after all of this.

I figure that there are something like 3,000 hours on the transport now.  It
works like new.

I believe the issue is with head wear; some drives will have the tape "ride"
slightly differently on the heads with the longer media and this can cause
some head wear problems if you use 6250 and 6150 tapes both on the same
drive.  I doubt you'll ever see a problem on the Viper series.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: arndt@infko.uni-koblenz.de 
Subject: symlinks and ISC 3.0
Organization: Universitaet Koblenz (GHRKO)
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 14:04:24 GMT

Hi,

with the new release of INTERACTIVE UNIX 3.0 nfs (V2.2) came the automounter. 
This program can create symbolic links.

Now my question is, can I use this feature too?

I've found a symlink call in libc, but that gives me used within an nfs-mounted
filesystem or not allways "invalid argument". In some headerfiles You can 
find information about symbolic links ("/usr/include/sys/{namei.h,inode.h}").


Thanks
	Uwe
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: tomh@wes.on.ca (Tom Haapanen)
Subject: Re: Wangtek or Archive?? (and 60 MB tapes)
Organization: Waterloo Engineering Software
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 15:59:22 GMT

> vid@zooid.guild.org (David Mason) writes:
>> I assume you aren't writing to the 60MB tapes?

larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
> When we write to a 60 meg tape we get 120 megs - so it must be possible :)

So is it really OK to use 60 MB tapes in a 150/250 MB drive?  Are the 
warnings about premature headwear really bogus?  120 MB is enough for
a lot of things I want to put on the tape, and I have a lot of old
60 MB tapes kicking around...

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat)
Subject: Re: Am I the only one with these Dell Svr4 Issue 2.2 problems ?
Organization: AT&T
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 14:22:48 GMT

In article <1992Sep27.181759.29061@unixland.natick.ma.us> bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser) writes:
> jennings@lhotse.stortek.com (Jeff Jennings) writes:
> 
> >: Does X386 under SVR4 allow for a "console window" like on a Sun or
> >: other "real" workstation?
> 
> >X386 1.2E doesn't seem to allow a console window, i.e. xterm -C doesn't 
> >grab the console and xconsole gives an error about not being able to
> >open the console.  maybe i'm just doing something wrong, i haven't really
> >tried very hard to make it work.
> 
> That's too bad .. it's not any better than SVR3 in that respect then.
> 
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He's doing somthing wrong.  xterm -C does not work, but xconsole DOES work.
Check the permissions on /dev/osm and make sure it's world-readable.  This
captures all the relevent OS messages.  It's being used by dozens of people
(or more, I don't know), on all versions of SVR4 on Intel.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: philipr@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Philip Rhoades)
Subject: Re: ftp site needed for SCO v3.2.2 binaries
Organization: Sydney University Computing Service, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 07:30:09 GMT

cooper@plains.NoDak.edu (Jeff Cooper) writes:

>Does anyone know of any sites that have SCO v3.2.2 binaries?  I'm
>looking for GNU tar specifically and since I don't have the developers
>edition of the OS, I need binaries...

>Thanks for any pointers offered!

There must be lots of us in this situation - I have been looking for a
site or info about binaries for ages - biz.sco.binaries is always empty!
Occasionally, friendly netters will allows ftp access or send a prog but
this is really not enough.

>-- 
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>selling something."		|  NeXTMail: cooper%midkemia@plains.nodak.edu
>    - The Dread Pirate Roberts	|  (701) 298-0893

Was it Wesley or DPR?

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From: vid@zooid.guild.org (David Mason)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Wangtek or Archive??
Date:  3 Oct 92 04:44:56 GMT

>The SCSI drives are all compatible with SVR3.2 and SVR4 for i386/i486. 
>Be aware that 525M drives use a 1K physical block size whereas the
>150/250M drives use 512 byte blocks, so your drivers need to support
>variable block sizes or the drive will only write 250M on a 525M tape. 
>(The tapes are the same length, but have different coercivity.)
>

Hi,

Maybe you or someone can answer a question for me. I recently bought a 150MB
Archive Viper SCSI tape drive, along with a 3M 250MB tape to start off. Inside
the tape package was a note stating that using 250MB tapes with some 150MB
drives can cause problems down the line. I bought this drive used, and
although I don't know how old it is, it seems to work very well. Is this
something I need to worry about?

Thanks for any answer (just about).

Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: bernie@metapro.DIALix.oz.au (Bernd Felsche)
Subject: Re: HELP! Need advice moving site to Unix
Organization: MetaPro Systems, Perth, Western Australia
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 92 05:01:19 GMT

In <3443@huedv.hu.sub.org> thu@huedv.hu.sub.org (Thomas Huppertz) writes:

>alanlb@bethesda.cs.vt.edu (Alan L. Batongbacal) writes:

>>I should have been more precise.  The worst case would be all 70-80
>>users running Progress DBMS.  On the average, I expect about 40-50

>When working with Progress you should think about a client-server
>concept, because Progress is a very excellent solution for distributed
>datamanagement. (we work of course with Progress, too :-).
>The best is, to contact your local Progress-Guru's.

And make sure that the local gurus know how *not* to write
Progress code to avoid bracketing causing network
saturation. (At least until Version 7 is generally available.)

>The other thing about the Terminal-Connections:

>If you want realy only poor terminal-connections, I think that
>telnet'ing or an Ethernet-Terminalserver isn't the best, because each
>keystroke sends a complete TCP-packet to the net. So the load on the
>ethernet might be very high.  ....

Depends on the TermServer. Anyway, the load is far less than
pumping un-necessary megabytes of records through the wire,
because some turkey's done an intteractive query which does
not bracket well.

Don't get me wrong. Progress isn't unsuitable for networks:
it's the programmers ;-).

In my opinion, intelligent terminal servers appear a better
option. They allow you to connect to multiple hosts in
future, and provide you with future-proofing when you find
that the original machine just won't cope.

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From: jxv3790@hertz.njit.edu (Jake Vogelaar)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Trident cards with X11 ?
Date: 6 Oct 92 14:10:16 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.






I've been trying, unsuccessfully, to configure X11 revision 4 for 

my hardware.  I just have he compiled binaries for SCO XENIX 2.3.3.  

In its Xconfig database the Trident 8900C card is not listed.  

Is there any way at all to configure it for the Trident card given

what I have?



Otherwise do I need new source code (with patches) or a new video card?



I'd appreciate any help,



Jake Vogelaar

jxv3790@hertz.njit.edu
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From: marc@r-node.gts.org (Marc Fournier - Sys Admin)
Subject: Irwin 110 CLASS Tape Drive on ISC386
Organization: /usr/lib/news/organzation
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1992 23:48:54 GMT

Help!  Excuse the cross-post but I figured I would try and hit
all the possibilities...

	I just got a 10MB Irwin Tape drive from a friend except
he had it on a Xenix machine, which supposedly has the drivers
built into it.  I'm wanting to put it in an Interactive system,
which doesn't have the drivers built in.  

	One gentlemen (Roger Abrahams) told me that he can be
done by setting the proper jumpers as well as configuring the
Irwim 'mc' driver into my kernel.  Well, this is all and fine, 
but how can I get ahold of the 'mc' driver?  Since he had it in
a Xenix box, he doesn't have the driver diskettes anymore, nor
a manual.  

	Is anyone using this tape drive?  Is there a place I can
call about this brand of tape drive to get the drivers? find out
what jumpers I need to set?

Thanks for any help...

Marc
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From: bob@ht2.me.umn.edu (Bob Hain (Sysop))
Subject: Re: cu, console, and 8 bits
Keywords:  cu, console
Organization: Dept. Mechanical Engineering, Univeristy of Minnesota 
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 14:15:19 GMT

Some of the new cu's get their idea of the number of bit to use
from the terminal that is running cu.  On the console you can
"stty cs8" to get cu to use 8 bits.  I don't really understand
why you cannot place the call the way you want but this has
been a solution for me.

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From: colin@integow.uucp (Colin Smale)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: SCO NFS Traumas
Date: 5 Oct 92 14:21:07 GMT
Organization: Integrity BV, Woerden, Holland

Hi,
	I've just installed SCO NFS on our 486 running SCO Unix
System V 3.2 V4 with SCO TCP/IP V1.1.3. The clients are PC's running
FTP Software's PC/TCP V2.05 With Interdrive V1.1 pl5. It all seems to
work in principle, but every now and then (several times per day)
portmap and/or pcnfsd simply die. Portmap leves a core dump, but
the executable is stripped so that doesn't help much. 
The only evidence I have found so far as to why, is that pcnfsd
prints an error message when attempting an NFS mount:

	Assertion failed: line 509 of pcnfsd.c: "ex"

This message also appears in the debug output from pcnfsd.
Comparison with the pcnfsd.c source code provided by FTP Software
is not useful as the code has been modified by SCO. I cannot use the
FTP version as I cannot find out how to validate a password (we are
outside the USA, hence no crypt!)

It is possibly unrelated, but the rwho daemon (rwhod) also
dies randomly leaving no trace.

The streams buffers are sufficient (verified with crash using strstat).

Does anyone have any idea what might be going wrong here?
Does anyone know how to validate a user/password combination on
SCO UNIX without crypt?
Does anyone know how I could gather more information about what's
happening?

I'd be most grateful for any and all information!

Colin Smale (colin@integow.uucp)

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: sl@wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne)
Subject: Re: ftp site needed for SCO v3.2.2 binaries
Organization: BC News and Mail
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 03:12:22 GMT

In article <philipr.717924609@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> philipr@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Philip Rhoades) writes:
>cooper@plains.NoDak.edu (Jeff Cooper) writes:
>
>>Does anyone know of any sites that have SCO v3.2.2 binaries?  I'm
>>looking for GNU tar specifically and since I don't have the developers

>There must be lots of us in this situation - I have been looking for a
>site or info about binaries for ages - biz.sco.binaries is always empty!
>Occasionally, friendly netters will allows ftp access or send a prog but
>this is really not enough.

Well it was a busy summer. But I've just finished off the news posting scripts.
So look for stuff in biz.sco.binaries as early as next week. Just waiting
for some feedback from a few people on how well the proposed format works.

I have a fair amount of stuff that I can post once I start. Most of which
is (and has been) available from here by ftp for sometime. Anonymous uucp
to if you're really desparate.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.protocols.tcp-ip,biz.sco.general
From: Dean.Roth <Dean.Roth@mixcom.mixcom.com>
Subject: ka9q for SCO UNIX 3.2?
Organization: Milwaukee Internet Xchange BBS, Milwaukee, WI U.S.A.
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 16:14:35 GMT


Is a version of ka9q TCP/IP software available for SCO UNIX?

I have found several version of ka9q for "UNIX" and "UNIX SYS 5",
but they do not compile under SCO.

Thank you.

Dean
From: jfw@technix.mn.org (Jerry Wallace)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Everex STEP display driver
Date: 1 Oct 92 02:31:56 GMT
Organization: Private System - Saint Paul, MN

Craig Macbride writes:

>I once saw mention that someone had written a kernel driver to access the
>display panel on Everex STEP machines. If anyone has such a driver for
>SCO Unix and/or SCO Xenix, or knows anything about it, please let me
>know.

I would also be interested in how to get a copy of this.  Thanks.
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From: robsch@robkaos.GUN.de (Robert Schien)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Can't access modem in ISC 2.0.2
Date: 2 Oct 92 19:29:50 GMT
Organization: Private Site, Essen, Germany
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Philippe N. Tempel (tempel@sun490.fdu.edu) wrote:
: I'm trying to use the modem on COM2 in ISC 2.0.2 UNIX.  The /dev/tty01
: device gives me a "cannot create" error when I try to echo a text string
: to the port.  What's going on?  Do I have the right device or am I way
: off in left field.
: 
: Thanks for nay help
: Philippe

Do you have the /dev/tty01 really in the kernel?
Look at /etc/conf/sdevice.d/asy. There are lines like
asy  	Y  ..............
asy  	N  ..............

Change this N to Y and generate a new kernel (with kconfig).
Then it should work.

Robert
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