HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ramirez@mcclb0.med.nyu.edu
Subject: Switching Video Modes in X (KEYS)
Organization: NYU Medical Center, New York, NY 10016, USA
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 00:38:16 GMT

Hello all,

	I am sorry to bother everyone with this, but I forgot what key sequence
for changing to the different video mode in XFree86 (X386).
	I could not find this anywhere.


Thanks a lot.
Edwin
ramirez@mcclb0.med.nyu.edu
From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: 0.97 patchlevel 5 available
Date: 13 Sep 92 10:30:27 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

In article <1992Sep13.085901.16695@klaava.Helsinki.FI> torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) writes:
>
>Also, there seems to be some problem with the extended fs patches:
>either Remy's patches or the changes I made to the inode setup.  So pl5
>still seems to have some irritating bugs.  I'll try to find it. 

Well, I also found out that at least named pipes got broken by my inode
reorganizations.  Hope nobody is using them - the fix is simple (it's
actually just a lack of proper wait-queue initializations), but I won't
make a patch available until I've found most of these kinds of silly
problems.  But if you know you are using named pipes, don't upgrade to
pl5 yet. 

		Linus
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: fredm@media.mit.edu (Fred Martin)
Subject: floppy bootstrap problem
Organization: MIT Media Laboratory
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 21:24:20 GMT

Hi all, I'm trying to get floppy Linux up and running on my group's
wonderful new IBM PS/2 Model 25-386sx machine.  Wait, don't shoot me
yet, this IBM has the standard AT bus architecture!  It also has 1.44
Mbyte floppy drive and 4 megs of RAM.

I'm using the 0.97 versions which I rawrote to floppies on this
machine.  Using the boot disk, things were going okay:

	serial port at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16450
	8 virtual consoles
	4 pty's
	lp_init: lp0 exists (0)
	No bus mouse detected.
	Linux version 0.97-11 Aug  1 1992 13:33:18
	Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
	floppy: FDC version 0x90
	sock_init: initializing family 1 (AF_UNIX)
	scsi : 0 hosts.
	scsi : detected 0 SCSI disks 0 tapes total.
	insert root floppy and press ENTER

But then I inserted the root floppy, pressed ENTER, and things went
bad:

	floppy I/O error
	dev 021c, sector 0
	floppy I/O error
	dev 021c, sector 2
	bread failed
	floppy I/O error
	dev 021c, sector 2
	bread failed
	floppy I/O error
	dev 021c, sector 0
	MSDOS bread failed
	Kernel panic: Unable to mount root

I tried rawriting the root disk again and tried the whole process over
a few times with the same result each time.

If anyone has any ideas, please post or e-mail to me.  Thank you.

	- Fred
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jblaine@fsu1.cc.fsu.edu (Jeff Blaine)
Subject: could someone mail me their .kermrc
Followup-To:  poster
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4   
Reply-To: jblaine@fsu1.cc.fsu.edu
Organization: Florida State University
Distribution:  world
Date: 12 SEP 92 03:57:21    

I have a 2400 baud modem connected to com2 and it is hayes compatible.
Could someone mail me their .kermrc with the 'set dial init-string'
and the 'set line /dev/ttys?'  I am using 0.96c and the MCC-interim.
I just recently (about 1 hour ago) installed Linux again on my system!
I had it up about 1 month ago and decided to check it out again.  
Please e-mail me the proper settings and suggested .kermrc

Thanks tons 
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From: eoi@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Chenmin Zhang)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Mount floppy problem
Keywords: Mount problem
Date: 6 Sep 92 04:55:54 GMT
Organization: Purdue University


    I just installed linux 0.97.1 version to my hard drive.  Right now I
boot linux from a floppy initially, then run linux from hard drive.  
I would like to install mtools on my hard drive.  I have already got
the file from tsx-11.mit.edu site in the ????.tar.Z form.  I used rawrite
to write the mtools.n.tar.Z to a new formatted, error free (no bad sectors)
3 1/2" disk.   After I logged in as root and run 
       "mount -t msdos /dev/fd1 /mnt"  (found in net news)
the system gave me:
       floppy I/O error
       dev 0201, sector 0
       msdos bread failed
       /dev/fd1 already mounted or /mnt busy

I know someone who posted news several days ago had the same problem.  I have
tried using both form of floppy (using rawrite and not using rawrite).
I have also tried using /dev/fd0 and /dev/fd1H1440, it failed.  I know at
that time, I switched my 0.97 boot disk to mtools source disk without using
any "umount" command.  I don't know if it makes any difference.  My system
just had one floppy drive (a:) and hard drive is partitioned as one DOS
primary partiton and three linux partitions (root, usr, swap).  

     Thanks advance !

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from newcomer
From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: MicroGnu "Terminal too stupid" Error
Date: 12 Sep 92 09:04:41 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp) writes:
>Jonathan Badger (badger@phylo.life.uiuc.edu) wrote:
>
>: I've just installed the (excellent, by the way) MCC Interm Release of Linux
>: version 0.97p2. Unfortunately this now causes my copy of mg to abort when
>: started, claiming that "my terminal is too stupid" to run Micrognu. Any
>: ideas?
>
>It means that either it can't read /etc/termcap or your $TERM variable
>isn't set right for your terminal.

Or that the binary is compiled with an old version of the termcap
routines that don't understand the tc-directive, which works somewhat
like #include in C.  If the latter is the case, replace tc=foo in the
description for your terminal type with the contents of the description
for terminal type foo, or recompile the program (preferred).

--
Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi
From: duperval@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Duperval Laurent)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Installing gcc
Date: 11 Sep 92 05:05:15 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal

In article <pgr.140851.05Sep1992@prg.ox.ac.uk> pgr@prg.ox.ac.uk (Partially Grown Rhododendron) writes:
>In <bjl.715689694@freyr>, B.J.Lippolt@research.ptt.nl writes:
>> If you still use the minix fs, you can't have filenames > 14. But this is
>> not a problem when installing GCC. The kernel automatically chops off
>> all characters > 14. So even if your real filename is 2.2.2dmisc.tar
>> and in the install script it is 2.2.2dmisc.tar.Z there should be no problem.
>

Well... I'm not going to talk about the install script because before I had
time to realize what Ben mentioned, I hacked and chopped away, with great
conviction (the script, that is).  I successfully installed gcc so it's no big
deal.

The only reason the script works is because it uses zcat and/or tar -z????
(I've no brains so I don't remewmber what the options are).  Using uncompress
with 2.2.2dmisc.tar.Z would generate 2.2.2dmisc.tar

which causes a problem.  I just tried uncompressing a file
with 16 chars and I get a corrupt input error message.

Therefore, 

>I think the simplest solution would be to make sure that the next release
>of the files (2.2.2e, or whatever) keeps to under the 14 characters...
>it would certainly have cut down the amount of noise, and would probably
>have stopped some people's confusion...
>
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duperval@jsp.umontreal.ca
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From: mdr4@po.CWRU.Edu (Mark D. Rutherford)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: What does 'segmentation fault' mean?
Date: 9 Sep 1992 04:58:23 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: mdr4@po.CWRU.Edu (Mark D. Rutherford)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


It seems that any graphics program I try to run under
X11 gives me this error:
'segmentation fault (core dumped)'
I have gotten this error message with Xtetris, othello, Xviewgl,
and a few others.  

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

Mark

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk (Anthony Lovell)
Subject: Want to buy a linux PC... 
Distribution: world
Organization: The Home for Three Headed Canines
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 16:40:03 +0000


In article <bibhas.715456267@femto.engr.mun.ca> bibhas@pico.engr.mun.ca writes:

>
>I did some shopping again for the nth time to buy a 386 good for
>linux+X. My budget failed me once again :(
>I don't know if I ever will see X running on my own PC :(
>                                                        `
>Is there anybody out there who wants to sale a compatible PC for a
>reasonable price?
>Does anyone have any suggestions as to where can I buy cheap noname 386?
>Thanks...
>Bibhas.
>
>
I have a similar problem and decided to build my own, I get a piece when
funds permit all I now need is memory and FD the display can be borrowed
from my dos box

a friend with a 386sx16 and 4mb lets me shove my ide drive into his when
I want to play

While I'm on is there a list anywere of who owns what on a linux system

anthony

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: s_baumgn@irau26 (Fred Baumgarten)
Subject: Re: smail3.1.25 (or above) under linux?
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 09:02:38 GMT

Vincent D. Skahan (vds7789@aw2.fsl.ca.boeing.com) wrote:
: [...]
: 
: Has anybody gotten smail3.1.25 (or above) to compile
: under linux ? If so, would you be willing to either

yup - 3.1.25 works - but only up to 0.97pl2 - at 0.97pl4 it cores

: clue me in or kick me the config files for compiling
: it (and the transport config files for making it work) ?

humpf - an smail introduction ? would be too hard here...

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: genie@netcom.com (The Genie)
Subject: SLIP and X386
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 92 23:04:02 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 


Hi.
Now that tcp/ip is available for Linux, I'd like to know if
this combination is possible.

Is it possible to use SLIP and X Windows together?  With
packages like ka9q, is it possible to redirect all
tcp/ip packets to the serial modem?  A true SLIP
connection would allow things like xhosting, etc.

Actually, for SLIP, we would not even need the
new tcp/ip beta support, just the ka9q package?

Gene

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mrex@aix01.rz.fht-mannheim.de (Martin Rex)
Subject: "du" size off by factor 4 in >=pl4
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 15:35:35 GMT
Organization: Fachhochschule fuer Technik Mannheim
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

Hi,

I've noticed, that the output from the gnu-"du" is off by a factor
of 4 under the 0.97pl4 kernel.  It has been working fine under 0.97pl1.
Is there a new/adapted binary available (maybe on a new rootimage ?),
or is there a bug in the fs (kernel)?

-Martin

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Xref: sparky comp.os.linux:10574 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:24098
From: rohrer@fncrd6.fnal.gov (Keith Rohrer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: HD-timeout problems
Summary: Maxtor 7213As hanging
Date: 12 Sep 92 21:17:37 GMT
Followup-To: rohrer@math.grin.edu
Organization: Fermilab

In article <1992Sep5.201920.3244@afterlife.ncsc.mil> swaliff@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Steve Aliff) writes:
>I'm experiencing enough "HD-Timeout/HD-controller reset" messages to
[deleted]
>My hardware is a 386@33, no 387; a Technology Power Sonic-386
>motherboard (with 8 Meg RAM), a Kouwei KW-556A controller (multi-I/O
>card), a Quantum LPS-105 (master) and a Maxtor 7213 (slave), a
                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^
I've been having the same sort of problems, where sometimes the
hard drive will sit and spin with the drive activity light on,
then get a controller reset and work fine, under Linux.

I've seen the proposed kernel hack, and with a delay of 1000 the
timeouts happen only once in a blue moon, but the disk seems to be
significantly slower.

Here's the real bad thing: A friend of mine has a 7213A also, and
he's even getting drive hangs IN DOS!  This is a 386-25, with
a seagate 85-megger as master.  Mine is a 386-40, Forex chipset,
no way to change the bus speed, but the manual says it is 8 MHz
with a 386-40 in place.  He's also tried two similar but different
controllers, with no luck.

Anybody know anything about maxtor 7213A's hanging, especially
in DOS?

[deleted]
>Steve Aliff (swaliff@afterlife.ncsc.mil [144.51.1.1])

TIA,
	Keith
(mail to rohrer@math.grin.edu)

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman)
Subject: Re: Progress report?
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 00:10:34 GMT

One more question:  Can I run X on one VC, and use the others as text 
terminals?

-Joel
(joel@wam.umd.edu)
From: woody@cs.utexas.edu (James Woodgate)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Splitting comp.os.linux
Date: 8 Sep 1992 17:07:55 -0500
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: cash.cs.utexas.edu
Summary: Move Newbie questions to alt.os.linux
Keywords: alt.os.linux

I know that the FAQ and such says not to use to alt.os.linux,
but I still get news from there, so if it is still active
is there a reason why not to use it.  I've seen quite a few
posts about splitting this newsgroup.  Maybe we could direct
newbie questions to alt.os.linux.  This is not a very good
long term solution, but it may be a good way to try out having
more that one linux newsgroup, and it doesn't really require
any extra work.

Just a thought....


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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: Kevin W. Hammond <hammond@kwhpc.caseng.com>
Subject: Binary locations
Reply-To: hammond@kwhpc.caseng.com
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 02:13:26 GMT

It was recently posted that any binaries along your path will be found
and executed.  If a user is running the c-shell, this is not always the
case.  The c-shell keeps a "cache" of the files along your path to avoid
having to go to disk and find a binary every time you try to run a program.
Thus, your path could have /bin in it, and you place a file called "new.cp"
in /bin and then try to run new.cp.  The c-shell will not find the file
because it is not in it's "cache".  What you need to do is type "rehash"
to make the c-shell update it's internal hash table with the new files
that are along your current path.

-kwh-
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: u9050728@cs.uow.edu.au (Shane Kelvin Richards)
Subject: Modem probs continued
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Wollongong University, Australia
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 06:17:40 GMT


	I am still having problems setting up my modem so that people can dial
in. My modem is a 9600, so needs to be set to cts/rts handshakig in linux,
how is this done? My inittab entry is such:

ttys0:vt100:/bin/getty -hm 19200 ttys0

	Also, its kinda strange as I can't directly echo commands to the
modem from the shell (I checked to make sure the baud rate was correct
with stty), but kermit works fine with it.
	I can set my modem up so that the serial port can stayed locked at
19200 if this is any help.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: kg@gnusys.GUN.de (Klaus Guhr)
Subject: Re: Will ps0.97.2 work with 0.97.3 kernel -- mine won't!
Organization: Klaus Guhr Private // Featuring LINUX Site
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 19:41:05 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

William A Jones (bjones@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu) wrote:
: I just upgraded to the 0.97.3 kernel.  I made my usual patches (setting
                         ^^^^^^^^^^^

is this an official linux version?

: /dev/ttys2 -- COM3 in the DOS world -- to IRQ 5 and setting the number
: of pseudo-ttys to 16) and had no problems compiling under GCC2.2.2d.
: I am noticing an improvement in overall speed over 0.97.1 which is
: what I used last.
: 
: But, when I recompiled ps0.97.2 and tried it, it failed with the error
: "/usr2/src/linux/tools/system: No such file or directory"
: Well, I tried to find where in the source to change usr2 to usr, failed
: and created a symlink from /usr2 to /usr.  Then running ps -U gave
: 
: 		symbol '_low_memory' not found
: 		trying to read invalid address
: 
: Did I make a mistake somewhere or is there an easy (or difficult) fix
: that needs to be made?  Thanks,

have you compiled the linux-source? ps depends on having systemisymbols in
/usr/src/tools/system because the linux-image is stripped.


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From: baron@clifton.hobby.nl (Wim `Blue Baron' van Dorst)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Distribution: world
Subject: Re: X Help
Organization: Minix Hobbynet Host
Date: Sat,  5 Sep 1992 18:26:42 MDT

Kevin W. Hammond <hammond@kwhpc.caseng.com> writes:
> Since I did get X "up", does this mean it will work with my card??  

It depends on how much "up" is your "up". If it is really "up" then you've
said: it works. It would have helped to have mentioned your type of card in
your article. 

I had an Oak Technology card that is not supported (yet) and will not run
properly with X. Yet I also had 'something' that looked like a block of
xterm, and other blurr. I would not call that "up", and indeed I had to
change to an other vga-card.

> In reading the vga.tutorial, they mention the
> clocks.exe program.  Where in the world can I get my hands on this?  Do
> you have any ideas where I should (can) go from here.

You already have enough of X to not need clock.exe. Just redirect the 
X error output to a file (startx 2> logfile), and included it gives a
line stating which clocks it did find. And X found 16 clocks on my new 
card, whereas clock.exe only found 4 (useless one too).

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From: eric@tantalus.dell.com (Eric Youngdale)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: 0.97pl4 breaks SCSI extended partition code
Date: 10 Sep 92 22:05:12 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Naval Research Laboratory

In article <716179383snx@prism.demon.co.uk> david@prism.demon.co.uk (David Metcalfe) writes:
>I've tried the patch out and it also cures my problem.  It's
>interesting that the extended partition could be read first time with
>0.97pl2 but not with pl4.  There must have been a small change in the
>timing.

	No, the problem is more insidious than that.  Drew kind of hinted 
at it when he swore at the bootstrap loader, but I will explain.

	Previously, the array sd_sizes was uninitialized, which means that
it was in the bss section.  A normal C program can count on data items
in the bss section as being initialized to 0, but this is not always the
case with the kernel.  It really depends a lot on the bootstrap loader.
It appears as if lilo is able to zero the bss section, but shoelace does not.
As I recall, if you boot your kernel from a floppy, then the bss is not cleared
as well.  I could be all wet on this, though.

	This being said, what was happening was that the sd_sizes array was
initialized with junk when the system was trying to read the partition tables.
If that junk happened to be 0, then you would be unable to read the partition
table for the extended partition, and if it was non-zero (and positive??),
then linux would be able to read the parition table.  A seemingly unrelated
change would shift things around in memory, and thus could lead to the
partition size apparently becoming 0.

	Note that once the partition tables have been read, then the data
is read out from the partition structures, and sd_sizes is set to the correct
numbers.

	The way the kernel is supposed to work, blk_size[8] should be NULL
until the partition tables have been read.  Just after sd_sizes is set to the
correct numbers, then blk_size[8] is set to point to sd_sizes.  As long as
blk_size[8] == 0, then the test in make_request() is skipped.

	I am beginning to wonder if there is a way for the kernel itself to
clear the bss section before anything really gets going.  This problem is a
fairly easy trap to fall into, and it can easily lead to spurious behavior.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jduncan@scott.skidmore.edu (john duncan)
Subject: qrecent copy.
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 16:50:04 GMT

Anyone know the answers to these questions?
	Where can I get a recent copy of Linux.(I don't know what the
recent rev is.)
	Is linux mostly compatible with SCO Unix/Xenix binaries. (Does
it need recompileing)
	Can I run X11R4/5 with EGA/VGA/SVGA/XVGA?
	Will linux support the Coconet online BBS system.(my
application for it)
Thanks.
	jduncan
(jduncan@skidmore.edu)
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