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From: ee89jje%ee.surrey.ac.uk (Ed)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: What *doesn't* work under linux
Date: 23 Dec 92 15:30:14 GMT
Organization: University of Surrey, Guildford, England
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Per Andersson (ppan@nobeltech.se) wrote:
: In article <1992Dec5.075701.4323@ugle.unit.no> agulbra@flipper.pvv.unit.no (Arnt Gulbrandsen) writes:
: >
: >I am _not_ game for a 68000 emulator, but if there's reasonable
: >interest in a Sinclair Spectrum emulator for Linux I'll do it.
: >
: If it would run games for the Speccy it would be a dream come true.
: ( I just need to get the games in from tape....)
: 
: Knightlore - now that was a game.
: 

There's a speccy emulator for DOS if you're interested, it's called jpp, and 
you can get it from wuarchive.wustl.edu somewhere under systems/sinclair.

On my 486, it runs speccy stuff faster than a speccy can!

Ed
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: wto@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (William T. O Connell)
Subject: Need to update non-shared stub version of shlib
Keywords: seyon,shared libraries
Organization: AT&T
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 07:50:23 GMT


This problem started with trying to get seyon to run under X.
I siffed through all the docs that I can find and am kinda stuck.

My machine locks up when seyon tries to display the "seyon command center"
window. I'm assuming (now weren't you told never to assume anything 8-) ),
that this is because seyon requires version 2.1 shared libraries
were I have 2.0.

I have 2.1 shlibs but, seyon is linked with 2.0. i.e.)
#ldd seyon-cmd
	/lib/XawVen.so.2.0 (Classic 2.0)	<-----  Wrong libraries
	/lib/libX11.so.2.0 (Classic 2.0)	<-----   (Need 2.1)
	/lib/libc.so.4 (Jump table 4.1)

I just installed the new shared libraries (version 2.1), but when I
build seyon-cmd, it's still using the old shared libraries.

I quess what I need to do is replace the stub libraries (libXaw.a &
libX11.a) so that they will now point to the new shared libraries?

This is were I am stuck. Any help on how to re-build them or on where 
I could locate the new ones would be appreciated.

If anybody knows of a different reason that would be causing X to
lock up (from the above scenerio) I would welcome you input.

I am using SLS .99p1.


- Bill        wto@ihlpx.att.com


BTW: Peter, SLS works great :-}, I'm REALLY impressed with what you
     put together!

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
Subject: Re: Offline Mail Reader for Linux?
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 08:02:04 GMT

Savio Lam (lam836@cs.cuhk.hk) wrote:

: Can anyone suggest an offline mail reader for Linux that supports
: the QWK format?

Yes.  ATP QWK 1.3 is what I'm running - apparantly, there is a 1.4, but I
don't have it.
-- 
Ed Carp			erc@apple.com, erc@saturn.upl.com	801/538-0177

Who and what would you be if you went beyond your deepest fears?
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan)
Subject: Re: Two queries
Organization: Vince and Suzie's Underpowered PC
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:02:20 GMT

tjrc1@cus.cam.ac.uk (T.J.R. Cutts) writes:
>2) To keep data files separate from others, last week I moved /usr/users onto a
>separate partition from the rest of the /usr tree.  Now when I try to log in as
>anybody other than root, most commands work, after giving huge numbers of
>'Permission denied' errors.  User and group ownership of the home directories
>are correct, and as far as I can see from logging in as a user (amongst the
>'Permission denied's'!) I have the correct read/write/execute permissions in
>directories such as /bin and /usr/bin.  What's going on?

make sure you have read privs all the way down the tree to the home directory.
In other words, if you have /u/username, you need to make sure that you have
read privs to /u.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: A discipline for packages 
Distribution: world
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 02:45:37 GMT
Organization: Crynwr Software

In article <725686556snx@crynwr.com> nelson@crynwr.com writes:

   You know something I've always hated about Unix (and people are
   starting to hate about Windows)?
   
   When you install a package, it inserts itself inextricably into
   various places in your system.

Apparently this is not a problem with SLS.  Its install routine keeps
track of which files went where and lets you delete them in one step.

-russ <nelson@crynwr.com> What canst *thou* say?
Crynwr Software           Crynwr Software sells packet driver support.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier)
Subject: found answer to installing kernel question
Organization: York University
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 07:00:08 GMT

Hi...

	I just found the answer I was seeking about the kernel.

	Suggestion:  In the README file in /usr/src/linux, how
about adding the fact that the bootimage is on the floppy, not
on the Hard drive?  And that for the compilation to be effective,
you need to do 'make disk' to put the new bootimage onto the floppy.

	I finally found the answer by going through the archive site
and finding a file called 'kernel.notes'...it was in there :)

Marc
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jlaiho@ichaos.nullnet.fi (Juha Laiho)
Subject: Re: compiling kernel...found problem??
Organization: NullNet r.y.
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 11:19:09 GMT

In article <marcf.725751581@yorku.ca> marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier) writes:
>	I'm still playing around trying to find the source of
>the problem with compiling the kernel.  I'm doing everything as
>per instructions.
>

>	Now, in the make config stage, I say no to the iso9660 filesystem
>as well as SCSI support...why is it trying to use the iso9660 filesystem
>anyway?  How can I fix this?
>
I got this fixed by getting the patch1 to 0.99 kernel.

..Wolf
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: coizi01@convex.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (N. Zimmermann)
Subject: Re: 0.99 pl 0/1 fine, but breaks xdm -nodaemon
Keywords: kernel linux 0.99
Organization: Comp. Center (ZDV) U of Tuebingen, FRG
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 12:29:29 GMT

In <1h8rtsINNkir@golem.wcc.govt.nz> hamilton@golem.wcc.govt.nz (Michael Hamilton) writes:

>I've just built 0.99 pl1.  And so far things seem pretty good.  The
[...]
>doesn't work, so I rebooted the last kernel I used before 0.99 (0.98
>pl5) and everything works fine.  The X background comes up, but
>I think xdm fails to grab the console input, as I have to press
>a key to make it continue, and then when the login window appears
>I can't enter anything.

>One possibility is that something about my system is mis-configured,
>and 0.98 was more forgiving.  /dev/console and /dev/tty0 are

>		crw-rw-rw 1 root system 4, 0

>which seems correct.  Startx works fine.

>Can anyone else confirm this problem.

I got xdm working under 0.99pl1 with .../xdm -nodeamon </dev/tty1 
from Xdm script. Be sure commenting out the first getty in /etc/inittab.

Norbert


------------------------------------------------------------------------
Merry Chrismas and a happy new year to Linus and all Linuxers.
and commented out
From: hedrick@geneva.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: [FIX] PS FIX FOR 99p2 !!!
Keywords: ps fix 99 p2
Date: 2 Jan 93 19:28:38 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !) writes:

>Okay, in my quest to do something useful for the Linux community, here are 
>some patches to get ps up and running with 99p2..just a header file location 
>change and an already-used variable, but, well, it's handy to have it done
>for you, I guess...

I'd encourage people to try the ps and free based on /proc, which is
in BETA/procps/procps.tar.Z on tsx-11.  It works fine for me without
any recompilation under 0.99pl1, 0.99pl2, and 0.99pl2 with Tytso's new
serial code.  It's intended to do away with the need for a new version
of ps with each release.  I'd suggest that people who want to work
with ps and friends spend your time on that code, e.g. maybe adapting
top to use the new code.

There has been some question about which device should be used in
mounting /proc.  As far as I can tell, it's irrelevant.  Hlu's base
distribution has an fstab that mounts it on /dev/proc, but his /dev
doesn't have a /dev/proc.  It still works (though you can't unmount
it).

(By the way, there were two problems installing the new serial code.
The resulting serial.c was missing a semicolon, and setserial.c -- a
support utility for using the new features -- appears to be two copies
of the same thing concatenated.  The fixes are obvious: the compiler
will tell you where the semicolon is needed, and setserial.c needs to
be truncated after the first copy of main.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier)
Subject: sorry...but I need a little help
Organization: York University
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 21:31:41 GMT

Hi...

	I'm in a little panic'd situation here and could really
use a little help.

	I just took the plunge and installed this on my main
system.  I have an AST board on it for communications, and after
recomiling the kernel, it is recognized.

	Now, the problem.  It is recognizing it as:

	/dev/ttys8 -> /dev/ttys11

	but there are no such devices :(  

	Now, I'm presuming that I have to mknod them then?  I tried,
but seeing as I don't know much about mknod and major/minor numbers,
don't think I was successful :(  What I tried was:


	mknod /dev/ttys11 c 4 75

	to access the port with the 16550 chip on it, to no avail.
I got the '75' from just counting up from where ttys3 leaves off.

	If someone can help me with this, it would be muchly 
appreciated...or even give me an indication of how to figure out the
minor number.

Thanks...

Marc
From: dkyoon@alnitak.usc.edu (Dae-Kyun Yoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: libc.a errors with gcc 2.3.3
Date: 1 Jan 1993 02:42:06 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: alnitak.usc.edu
Keywords: gcc, 486

>>Also:
>>  Is it safe to delete /usr/lib/shlib/jump and nojump?
>>  I believe these are the gcc 2.2.2d directories for
>>  the jump libraries and have been replaced with
>>  lib*.ca and lib*.sa in /usr/lib. Is this correct?
>>

>Yes.

I doubt that just removing /usr/lib/shlib/jump is really safe, especially
if you have thoses libraries other than the standard gcc's.  I think
you'd better copy old libraries to /usr/lib/*.sa first before removing
jump/ directory.

BTW, H.J., could you tell us what jump-4.2.TZ is for, then ?

Thanks.

-- 
Dae-kyun Yoon
dkyoon@usc.edu, ..!uunet!usc!dkyoon
From: mcbeeb@atlantis.CS.ORST.EDU (Brian Mcbee)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: uugetty from getty_ps ... sort of works
Date: 1 Jan 93 20:33:32 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Outreach Services - Oregon State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: atlantis.cs.orst.edu

In article <marcf.725654628@yorku.ca> marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier) writes:
>	Next...after hanging up on that process, I try using Kermit
>to dial out so that I can post this :)  For some reason, my line
>is scrambled up.  Now, is that because the kermit I have is putting
>the LCK file in the wrong place?  As soon as I turn off the uugetty,
>it is fine (as I'm here now, eh?)

The kermit I got with SLS did indeed put the lock files in the wrong
place--it stuck them in /tmp.  I got the source and recompiled so
the lock files went in /var/spool/locks or /usr/spool/uucp or something
(actually they are linked on my system) and all is now hunky dory.  I
don't know if this has been fixed in recent SLS.

>Thanks for the help...
>
>Marc  
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: wonge@fraser.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong)
Subject: small tiny weeny mail annoyance, that I'm sure someone will know
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 06:40:18 GMT

  Hi there.  'tis me again.


  Another annoyance just cropped up and so I was wondering if
anyone can help me.   

  The situation is this.  I, as a user, write mail to another user.
Then I change consoles and log on as the other user.  Then it gives
me the message 'You have mail in /usr/spool/mail/<username>'.

  How do I change that and make it say 'You have mail' or something
like that?

  Any help appreciated... Thanks


  
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                               |  It is with failing, that one learns,
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: wonge@fraser.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong)
Subject: minicom w/ linux 0.98pl1-37 
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 04:07:23 GMT

   Hi, I've been having minor problems with minicom(that comes with
the SLS distribution) and the problems are of as follows:-

   1) Whenever I use minicom and change to a different console
      by the use of the (Alt-Fn) keys, and then change back
      a minute or so later, minicom sometimes FREEZES, and like
      after a few taps from the keyboard, minicom just kills
      the connection!

    2) When downloading 'linux-0.99.tar' with Kermit,
       it will go fine,  but like 20-30 minutes later, it
       would go crazy and say "Too many Retries" only
       to my horror that minicom actually HUNG up during
       the downloading...   I could have used rz, but
       rz doesn't work.  Under minicom, when I start the
       download with (Ctrl-A,R,zmodem) it will just
       give me a box in the middle of the screen momentarily
       and then it would disappear.  If I tried rz
       at the prompt, it keeps on saying :-
          "rz: can't load library '/lib/libc_v2_12c'
       Then it throws me back to the prompt.

   Can someone please help me?

  Any help  appreciated, and thank you in advance..

       but sz/rz 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hartnegg@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Klaus Hartnegg)
Subject: Re: SLS missing linux/*.h ???
Keywords: includes
Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Deutschland
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 19:51:26 GMT

estephen@whosnext.cad.gatech.edu (Eric R Stephens) writes:

>I'm trying to compile tvtwm, tcl, and Tk and I can't seem to find all the  
>necessary includes in SLS.

>/usr/include/sys/types.h etc.. ask to include "linux/types.h".  Where can these  
>files be found.

The include files for the compiler are in the package containing
the source of the linux kernel.

So get a file with name lx99.tz or similar and install it.

It will put itself in /usr/src/linux.
There will be subdirs include/linux and include/asm.
Link them to /include. Sorry, I forgot the exact names of
these directories and are running Mess-Dos right now, so
I can't look it up.

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Disclaimer: this text reflects MY opinion, not that of my employer!
From: Gary.Pfeffer@f1161.n261.z1.fidonet.org (Gary Pfeffer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Conner Crash
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 22:15:09 -0800

On Christmas Eve my $400.00 Conner decided to die.  As a result I lost
any messages that were sent to me in the last 2 days.  Just in case I
missed some replies, the last 2 concerns I had are as follows:


        TAYLOR UUCP BINARIES WITH 98.5SLS:

        When attempting to use uucp with a normal syntax, everything
        after the '!' mark is reported on an error message line as
        follows:

        EXAMPLE:
                        uucp filename btsci!/usr/spool/uucppublic

        RESULTING MESSAGE:

                        /usr/spool/uucppublic:  Event not found.

       I tried compiling the sources for Taylor 1.03a but ran in to
       snags.  Upon finally getting a successful compile, the same
       message resulted.  To find out what binary was generating this
       message I looked at each binary involved with a binary editor
       (uucp uucico and bin/sh) and found that this message comes from
       /bin/sh.  I don't know what 'Event not found' refers to and I
don't
       know why it is treating the string after the '!' as this
       so-called event.



       INTERNET:

       I would like some info on accessing internet systems via uucp or
       ftp.  I have no phone numbers and no contacts so I have no idea
       how to get into this network which has incredible resources.
       Could anyone let me know what is necessary to gain access?


Any help on either or both of these questions would be greatly
appreciated.  Thank you in advance.

Gary

-/> YaleBBS v1.09c [Nov 17, 1992]
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 * Origin: The Exchange BBS - (410) 529-1716 - Baltimore, MD  USA
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From: dingbat@diku.dk (Niels Skov Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: linux 0.99 patchlevel 1
Keywords: kernel, linux, 0.99 patchlevel 1
Date: 22 Dec 92 13:58:43 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

torvalds@cc.helsinki.fi (Linus Torvalds) writes:

[...]

>Patch 1 addresses the following problems:

[...]

> - keyboard patches (mainly changed initialization - hope the keyboard
>   lockups are gone). 

Well, it is still there. If I build a kernel with a pre-selected
text mode the keyboard locks up. This does not happen if I make 
SVGA_MODE empty in the top level Makefile. It then asks which mode 
I want and everything is normal.

I heard that the bug was in boot/setup.S but linux-0.99.patch1 didn't
contain a patch for that file.

Merry Christmas

Niels
From: karmonik@marvin (Christof Karmonik)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: X386 and Targa Win 32k
Date: 24 Dec 1992 02:15:21 GMT
Organization: Universitaet des Saarlandes,Rechenzentrum
NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.lusi.uni-sb.de
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

I have a problem with linux-0.98.5 and my new Targa Win32k Vgacard. Each time I
started startx, a screen with white an black patterns appears and nothing
happens no more. Does linux support my vgacard (et4000ax) and is their
something wrong in my configuration, or need I another vgacard ? Which card
do you use ? 
Thanks for answering

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: rla@nosc.mil (Rodney L Anderson)
Subject: xhost, server, client
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 20:29:57 GMT


I'm not able to get remote X-programs to run on my server.

I removed the -pn option in /usr/X386/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc to:
	exec  X
{I think -pn disables network support?}
When I attempt to inform my server of the new host, I get this msg:

/home/rla> xhost  + bartok
    bartok being added to access control list
    X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of 
          range for operation)
       Major opcode of failed request:  109 (X_ChangeHosts)
       Value in failed request:  0x4
       Serial number of failed request:  3
       Current serial number in output stream:  5

The following all work: NFS, TELNET, X11 {8514 server}
Here is my hardware: clone 486x50-16Mb, 1542b w/990Mb, SMC-16c,
			ATI Ultra Pro, NEC 5fg.

Thanks for your help.
Rod.....aka  rla@nosc.mil
From: opium@hardy.u.washington.edu (Just dance and move your body)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Nec 3fgx vs. 4fg (looking for good/affordable multi-sync 1024) HELP!!
Date: 24 Dec 92 02:59:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Dec24.025956.4028
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

I have been thinking seriously about mail ordering the Nec 4fg from USA Flex
at about 729 + shipping and handling.  I heard the 3fgx might have a bit of
a flicker at 1024 res. since its scanning freq is 50mhz (not sure on the
units, but that the 4fg is 60mghz and is less likely to be noticeable.
Are there any 15" FS monitors out there other than Nec that would be worth 
taking a look at?  I live in the boonies, and haven't seen many of them.
Somebody told me the ViewSonic 15FS was pretty nice picture and scans at 70mghz
But the pice is not sufficently lower than the Nec 4fg (which I've only heard
raves about) to consider.  Please any coments or reviews + prices and where
to get a 1024 multi-sync, I like the Idea of 15"FS but I know there are some
good 14" that expand out nearly as large as the 15s, please mail me
<opium@hardy.u.washington.euu>     Thanx for your time!!!!    8-)
 
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: wreillyi@libws4.ic.sunysb.edu (William J Reilly Iii)
Subject: getty problems on SLS .99 (fix included)
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 20:10:00 GMT

Just installed SLS .99 on my 386-40 with minor difficulties. One big problem
I had was with /etc/inittab. It seems that each tty that wasn't commented out
in inittab had /bin/getty called. The problem was that there was only a 
/etc/getty on the system. A quick change with an editor is all it takes to fix
this. 

One thing I haven't fixed yet is at boot time I see the screen that prompts 
for the SVGA screen, but it just flashes by and sets up in a very small text
size (100x80?). Anyone know how to get it to change text size after boot or
better to let me select what mode I want it to boot in?

Thanks in advance...

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: rrigby@sol.slc.mentorg.com (Rodney Rigby (LithoCAD))
Subject: Re: I'm an Xfree conehead
Organization: Mentor Graphics Corp.,  Murray, Utah
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 17:59:09 GMT

In article <1992Dec29.170231.9985@caeco.mentorg.com>, rrigby@sol.slc.mentorg.com (Rodney Rigby (LithoCAD)) writes:
> 
> After changing my mouse to com2 as suggested above, I get the color x screen and
> a clock and a bash window :^)  But, my mouse doesn't seem to work right :^(
> When I move the mouse, I sporadically get the cursor to move.  I have a logitech+
> version 2.12 mouse.  In my Xconfig file I've set the baud rate to 9600 and the
> sample rate to 150.  I've tried the mouse program in the tst directory of
> /usr/X386 with roughly the same results.  So now what?  I'm stuck again.
> 
> BTW, I remember reading that if you selected a com port for which the hardware
> didn't exist, you would lock up the machine.  I also figured out that com1 was
> /dev/ttys0.  Then I set the config file to (the nonexistant) COM3.  Sheesh.  I 
> really am a cone head.
> 

I got it working!!!!  (I'm just a teensy bit excited)  I told the XConfig it was
a microsoft mouse, and voila!  Thanks to all for the help.  Especially Peter
Hofmann.  What a great system!

Rodney (conehead) Rigby
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux