HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: LEAVING X -> Corrupted Textmode WHY ??????
Date: 11 Jan 1993 13:30:45 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu
Keywords: X Textmode

viggo@diku.dk (Allan Kim Schougaard) writes:

>jansen@bruichladdich.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Thomas Jansen) writes:

>>Hi there ,

>>Leaving X  doesn't restore the Textmode .....
>>I know that this is a known problem but is this a know-solveable or a 
>>know-non-solveable-problem ????
>>Maybe there exists a program, which re-init the VGA - card to their
>>initial-values ....

>I have the same problem :-(.

>This is a know-solveable-problem. There once was a version, I seem to
>remember, haven't tried it myself, that worked.

>I wish the X-compiler-people would attend to this problem.

>Regards,

>Allan Schougaard
>viggo@diku.dk 

Yes this has a solution, get the latest version of XFree86. The 1.0Ya version
that people have problems with is an ALPHA release that never should have
gotten out to the general public. The latest version of X is
on tsx-11.mit.edu in the pub/linux/packages/X11 directory.

I have heard the 1.0Ya is still the version installed off of SLS, and I
wish this would change as that version had a lot of bugs.

James
From: kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Client/Server Coding
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 11:56:29 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Brandon S. Allbery's Personal System

zmbenhal@netcom.com (Zeyd M. Ben-Halim) writes:
> In article <BsR7wB5w165w@kf8nh.wariat.org> kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S.
> >Someone has done System V IPC for Linux.  This seems perhaps a bit silly to
> >me; I can write (have already designed in my head) a System V shared memory
> >emulator library that uses mmap() (the standard Linux shared memory
>                             ^^^^
> This is incomplete in Linux. You can only mmap /dev/mem (done so we can acces
> the screen).

?????  It was my understanding that the kernel-level mmap primitives
((*fs->bmap)()) were used to implement demand paging.  So what, aside from a
little bit of glue (and presumably some error checking) in the mmap syscall
itself, is missing?

++Brandon

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: dws@ineg2.uark.edu (David W. Summers)
Subject: Re: netstat for Linux?
Organization: University of Arkansas
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 23:09:53 GMT

Mike Stramba <stramba@zooid.guild.org> writes:

>Is there a 'netstat' or equivalent program for linux?
>
>Something very simple will do, i.e. showing what sockets have been opened, by
>whom, what their status is.
>
>Mike
>

Also it should print out routes, both static and learned.  Also is 'config'
the same as 'ifconfig' on SUNS?  If so, could we make it also print out
the ethernet, IP, and broadcast address, etc., like the SUNS do?  I would
love to know how to do this.....


    - David Summers

-- 
                         "Never under-estimate the bandwidth of a station-wagon
David Summers             full of tapes, hurtling down the highway."
dws@engr.uark.edu         - Tanenbaum, "Computer Networks"
From: devet@adv.win.tue.nl (Arjan de Vet)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Automatic update of /etc/issue file
Date: 5 Jan 93 16:02:34 GMT
Organization: Arjan's Home Linux 486 Box

In article <marcf.725761055@yorku.ca> marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier)
writes:

>	The login (getty) is not reporting 0.98p5...it is the /etc/issue
>file that is.  I don't think that Peter had gotten around to changing
>that :)

I use the following in my /etc/rc:

# set version
/bin/uname -a > /etc/issue
echo " " >> /etc/issue

Arjan
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: I need help on install and config for linux
From: trix@krypton.mankato.msus.edu (Dustin B Rogne)
Date: 6 Jan 93 14:39:22 -0600
Organization: Mankato State University

Help please, mail to trix@krypton.mankato.msus.edu.

This question is for a friend:

I need a Xconfig & X386 for the ATI I dont have any documentation &
clocks.exe locks up my machine (I tried 8154 mode) ;-)


My questions are: (NOTE: these come from reading the FAQ)


1. What is an extended partition? What kind and how big should I make it
for a great, but conservative linux setup? Should I make two partiions
for the swap drive also?

> Mount each of the disks in turn and run the install script on each
> of them.


2. What is the mount command to do this?

> QUESTION: I have the previous Linux version, how can I upgrade it?

3. Can you just get the most recent linux code, compile it, and not have to
get the full SLS release aagain. (ALL the old programs will work?)



> QUESTION: How can I be sure I won't be writing over anything important?  I
> have to use DOS on my machine, and I don't want to lose any files. 
>
> ANSWER: Back up everything. Just in case. Then, write some easily
> recognizable pattern to the partition you have reserved for linux, using
> some DOS tool. You can then use "cat /dev/hdX" under linux to examine
> which of the partitions you used. 

4. I have no comprehension of what and why this was put in the FAQ?

-- 

Thanks,

 -Dustin
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: djr48312@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Dennis Robinson)
Subject: Re: Getting talk, telnet, ftp to work
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 08:34:37 GMT

Here are my symptoms:


Ok finanlly I played with the FAQ and tcpip.  Still I have nothing going.
I am running .99-2 with the tcpip option and no network card.  i

I try to telnet to  myself and I get:
Trying...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Network is unreachable

If I simply type "telnet" and try to display the operating paramters
I dump core.  

I created/edited the files the FAQ mentioned and also ran the install.net
script.  I have the files that were specified in /etc and softlinks from
them to /usr/etc/inet just in case.  I have the following files in 
etc,/usr/etc/inet:

README.tcpip    hosts           mtools          rc              telnetd*
bak/            inetd*          named*          rc.local*       termcap
config*         inetd.conf      named-xfer*     rc.net          termcap.bak
dead.letter     init*           named.hosts     rc.net.orig     ttytype
disktab         inittab         named.local     rc.new*         update*
fdprm           install.net*    named.reload*   securetty       utmp
fstab           issue           named.restart*  services        uugetty*
getty*          lilo/           passwd          shadow          wtmp
getty.script*   login.defs      printcap        shadow-
gettydefs       magic           profile         shells
gettytab        motd            profile.edit    startcons*
group           mtab            psdatabase      talkd*

The talk/talkd, telnet/telnetd were sources I must have grabbed a month
back.  

One more thing, when I try to talk to myself on another tty I get:

[Error on write to talk daemon: Network is unreachable (101)]

I really don't know where to go from here, I followed the faq word for word
twice.
From: probreak@sam.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Possible bug in 99.2 - file table overflow
Date: 9 Jan 1993 02:01:16 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: sam.ksu.ksu.edu

I was compiling X in the background on oone connection as root, and attempted
to configure gcc in another window.

These are on two different hard drives, and it bombed out of the configure 
with the errors:

pipe error: File table overflow
pipe error: File table overflow
pipe error: File table overflow
pipe error: File table overflow
pipe error: File table overflow
pipe error: File table overflow

This could be a problem, as only 3 users are even logged into my machine, and
the limits start getting reached. These have got to be increased somewhere.

James
From: kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: linux FAQ in LaTeX
Keywords: Linux FAQ, LaTeX
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 17:55:22 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Brandon S. Allbery's Personal System

paula@bronte.boeing.com (Paul Allen) writes:
> The GNU people are really bad about distributing most of their documentation
> in texinfo format and then saying "Well, just use emacs!".  Fortunately,
> they also provide the texi2roff program to decrypt the texinfo stuff into
> a more widely useable format.  Is there a similar decrypter for LaTeX that
> doesn't require a full-up LaTeX installation?

Sorry, but there are quite a few of us who don't have [nt]roff available.
And at least some of us can't get g++ working either, so there's no groff
available either.  TeX was trivial to port, so I ended up writing a script
(changed for every individual document, d*mmit!) to convert manpages, troff
-ms output, etc. to LaTeX-able output.

The worst is the ps output (ghostscript also doesn't work on these systems)
and "troff -me" (which is completely indecipherable, so I trash anything
that uses it instead of a STANDARD document format).

++Brandon

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From: bryanw@rahul.net (Bryan Woodworth)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: MPEG viewer??? Where is it?
Date: 5 Jan 93 20:36:26 GMT
Organization: a2i network

In <1i66juINNf26@news.cerf.net> andras@cyber.net (Andras Radics) writes:

>It's on toe.cs.berkeley.edu, in pub/multimedia/mpeg (or some such),
>available via anonymous ftp.

Yep, /pub/multimedia/mpeg/mpeg-1.2.tar.Z, I think.

I've compiled it and it works, albeit slowly, on my 386-25 with 8megs.
MPEG sucks for quickness, heh..

I also have some other animation utils on my ftp site:

ftp.rahul.net

See the next post.

-- 
Bryan Woodworth <bryanw@rahul.net>
From: johnsonm@amcl13.StOlaf.edu (Michael K Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: [HELP] X11 clients don't display
Date: 11 Jan 93 00:56:01 GMT
Organization: St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN USA


I finally broke down and installed X, and got nearly everything
working, except for one problem.  I am probably missing something
stupid, but I'd appreciate help finding out what.  If this is
non-linux specific and I should be posting this in the X group, I'd
like to know that too, but it appears to me that this may have to do
with a mis-configured linux...

I modified my .twmrc and .xinitrc from the school computers, and when
I do a startx, X comes up and twm comes up, and my menus work, but no
clients will display.  My display is set correctly, /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
is created, and *the processes are started*.  When I exit X, the
processes are sitting there, stopped, and I have su up to kill all the
ones like xterm that were suid root.

However, *nothing but the mouse curser and menus ever display*.  The
clients do not print out any error messages unless I intentionally
start them with bad arguments (like -display :42), in which case, when
I exit X, the correct error message is showing.

If anyone would be willing to help me, I'd appreciate it.  I'd be more
than happy to provide any more information that you need.
Unfortunately, I my serial terminal has a few pins unconnected, so I
can't use it for debugging.

Thanks a lot for any help,

michaelkjohnson
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: djr48312@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Dennis Robinson)
Subject: HELP: xview under .99-1
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 08:39:19 GMT

Xview does not work under linux .99-1.  It did work under .98-5..
What do I need to do?
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: s0356514@let.rug.nl (H.H. Bergman)
Subject: Re: Who is maintaining QIC-02?
Organization: Faculteit der Letteren, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, NL
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 19:44:06 GMT

Chip Salzenberg (chip@tct.com) wrote:
: Good news: I have QIC-02 support (tpqic02-2c) working under 0.99.2.
: 
: Bad news: I can't find the author of the QIC-02 drivers.  He seems to
: have fallen off the face of the earth.
Nothing quite so dramatic, I've just been rather busy lately...
: 
: Request: If anyone knows where he is, please let me know, so we can
: work on making a QIC-02 driver that fits better into the 0.99 scheme.
: 
I've just uploaded a version (2d) for 0.99.1 to tsx-11. 
I haven't got 0.99.2 yet.
This version corrects some exception reporting problems, but there aren't
any major changes, other than the config support stuff and some cleanups.
Archive drive users may still have problems reading near EOF. A fix for
that is being worked on.

: Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT  <chip@tct.com>, <73717.366@compuserve.com>

-- Hennus Bergman
s0356514@let.rug.nl	
(csg279@wing.rug.nl)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: Alex Kambis <kambis@asdsun.larc.nasa.gov>
Subject: Linux on a ZEOS 486DX ???????
Reply-To: kambis@asdsun.larc.nasa.gov
Organization: The Internet
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 13:25:20 GMT

a friend of mine is looking into buying a Zeos 486DX box.  Naturally, he
will want to run linux.  If you've got any Zeos 486DX configuration running
linux, pls send me your success story.

Thanks in advance,
		Alex.
kambis@asdsun.larc.nasa.gov
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale)
Subject: Re: KBDFLAGS=0x80 doesn't seem to work in 0.99pl2 (possible bug)
Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 13:23:25 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.082618.24831@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> bogstad@gauss.cs.jhu.edu (Bill Bogstad) writes:
>	I've been looking at the keyboard drivers thinking about some
>enhancements and trying to figure out what is going on.  The root directory
>Makefile for 0.99pl2 has comments in it about how you can set KBDFLAGS to
>certain values in order to cause various things to happen.  I was interested
>in the 0x80 value to change the action of the Alt key.  However from
>examining the code, I couldn't figure how this was supposeed to work.  I
>decided to try building a kernel and see what would happen.  Well, it didn't
>work for me.  I'ld like to find out if anyone else has tried this with a
>recent version and can verify that it works for them.


	I (used) to use it quite a bit, and I noticed that it broke about 0.99.
My current guess is that the bit got renumbered, and the correct flag is 0x200
instead of 0x80 (based upon a reading of keyboard.h.  I have not tried this
yet).

-Eric
-- 
Eric Youngdale
From: thblob@ente.RoBIN.de (Thomas Blob)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Hello Test
Distribution: world
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 93 16:40:11 GMT
Organization: Die Ente vom 8.8.88 fuer 8.888,- Mark.

This is a Test

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mark@snark.itc.gu.edu.au (Mark Hessling)
Subject: SLS - zsh has disappeared from distribution
Keywords: SLS,zsh
Organization: ITC, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
Date:  4 Jan 93 09:12:49 GMT

zsh appears to have disappeared from the SLS distribution recently and I
also can't find any mention of zsh on our local linux ftp site. Does anyone
know where I can get hold of a copy ?

Thanks in advance. Mark
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: steidl@platon.uni-passau.de (Heinrich Steidl)
Subject: database (SQL)
Organization: University of Passau, Germany
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 09:54:22 GMT

Hi folks,

has anyone a (SQL) database system running under linux?

Please post to Thomas Wetzler (wetzler@kirk.uni-passau.de)!

Thanks 

Thomas. 
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: becker@super.org (Donald J. Becker)
Subject: Re: 3Com 3c503 support for linux?
Keywords: 3Com 3c503 linux support
Organization: IDA Supercomputing Research Center
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 05:14:26 GMT

In article <1993Jan7.021402.15970@netcom.com> newmont@netcom.com (Michael Skerl) writes:
>
>Does anyone know of a 3Com 3c503 support package for linux? If so, where
>could I ftp it from?
>


I have an ethercard driver in ALPHA test that supports the 3c503,
3c503/16, NE2000, NE1000, and 8390-based Cabletron products.

Remember, alpha test means that the driver may crash your machine,
erase your disks, and wash your cat (if your computer is hooked to
your washing machine).  You have to know how to make kernels, isolate
bugs, report problems accurately, and fix the bugs for me:->.  And
keep a hair dryer handy -- cats don't like being put into the drier.

That said, potential alpha testers can get the README file from
super.org or usra.edu in ~ftp/pub/linux/README.


-- 
Donald Becker				       becker@super.org
Supercomputing Research Center
17100 Science Drive, Bowie MD 21114		   301-805-7482
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: nnhut@bnr.ca (Nhut Nguyen)
Subject: Re: Ctl-Atl-Del and Linux 0.99 patchlevel 2: SOLVED
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 01:06:15 GMT

eichin@athena.mit.edu (Mark Eichin) writes:
>That patch works for me (AMI BIOS, used to boot, with 99.2 it doesn't

It works for me also. I should check about interrupt in keyboard.c :(.
Thanks.

--
+=============================================================================+
| Nhut Nguyen                  |    Internet:   nnhut@bnr.ca                  |
| BNR Ltd., Ottawa, Canada     |    "Oogawa oto wo tatezu..."                 |
+=============================================================================+
From: richb@jti.com (Richard Braun)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Signal handling in elm/emacs
Date: 8 Jan 93 19:23:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: jti.C0Jv6J.IyM
Organization: Jupiter Technology Inc. / Waltham, MA

If I press control-G while composing a message in emacs under elm, I
get a prompt from elm.  Both programs then try to capture characters
from the keyboard (the signal gets transmitted to both processes, and
elm thinks emacs terminated), and the only easy way to clear the
problem is to terminate both and start over.

Bug in Linux (0.98pl5)?  Bug in elm (2.4pl17)?  Bug in emacs?  Has
anyone else noticed this?

-rich
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd
From: bob@amscons.amscons.com (Bob Amstadt)
Subject: Re: 386 BSD
Organization: Amstadt Consulting Group
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 10:04:44 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz) writes:
: I hope this clarifies matters. I urge you to vote to establish the
: 386bsd newsgroups, so we can better meet people's needs and interest.
: 
: We are always open to feedback from all users of both 386BSD and Linux,
: in the hopes that both groups can encourage creativity and exploration
: of new ideas. 
: 
: Thank you for your time.
: 
: Lynne Greer Jolitz
: 386BSD Development
: ljolitz@cardio.ucsf.edu

Thank you for your, response.  After seeing the development of this thread
I felt that I should also contribute.  Currently I am running Linux.  I
have no great attachment to it.  I could just as easily have picked 386BSD.
The reason I didn't was that in the weeks that I had been watching the net
before deciding between the two operating systems, I never saw a FAQ or
any other posting which described how to obtain 386BSD.  On the other
hand, the volume of information regarding Linux in the newsgroups is
almost deafening.

I don't know which is better for what purposes.  Perhaps we could see
more periodic postings from you and the other developers of 386BSD.

The other good way to pass information and reduce ftp traffic is the
formation of user's groups.  Is there a Linux and/or 386BSD user's
group in the Silicon Valley area.  If not I'd gladly organize them.  It 
would probably be inappropriate for me to run a 386BSD user's group since
I don't currently use it, but I'm willing to give it a shot.
-- 
Bob Amstadt
bob@amscons.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: kfisher3@mach1.wlu.ca (kevin fisher U)
Subject: Gcc 2.3.3
Summary: Upgrading
Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 12:29:32 GMT

Can anyone out there who has successfully installed gcc 2.3.3 e-mail me how
they did it?  I'd like to upgrade, but from the looks of things, people are
having trouble getting it to work right..


-- 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Kevin Fisher  ><> 	|  "Thank you.  You can't believe everything you
kfisher3@mach1.wlu.ca   |  see and hear, can you?" - Hendrix, 'EXP'
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From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: libinet.a for linux?
Date: 6 Jan 1993 21:06:43 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

sbw@naucse.cse.nau.edu (Steve Wampler) writes:

>Where can I get libinet.a (or sources, or shared library version of same)?
>-- 
>	Steve Wampler
>	{....!arizona!naucse!sbw}
>	{sbw@naucse.cse.nau.edu}

This stuff is compiled into libc.a. You can get the full sources for libc.a
from tsx-11.mit.edu in the /pub/linux/GCC directory. Its called lib-4.2.TZ
I believe.

There was talk of separating them once, but they seem to have reintegrated.

James
From: craig@mintir.new-orleans.la.us (Craig Johnston)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: SLS, etc
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 93 18:21:07 CST
Organization: Minas Tirith BBS (Public Access Usenet for New Orleans)

Peter, thanks for all the work on SLS...I flamed a bit earlier about
things not working, so now I would like to be a bit more constructive...
I personally, and I would think a lot of other people as well, are prob-
ably more interested in a distribution on which everything works than
a 'cutting edge' distribution with bells and whistles but broken 
binaries.
        What would be the possibility of 2 distributions, one on which 
everything def. works, and one "latest 'n greatest" one?  Is there 
perhaps something like this on some FTP site other than tsx-11?  It's
very depressing to download megs of stuff at 1200 baud and find that the
same things are broken or perhaps more things break.  
        Anyway, Linux is great, without it I'd be in a constant state
of depression over the state of OS's for my machine.  Thanks Peter and
Linus and all others for all the work. 
 
Craig Johnston
From: root@slave.uwe.ac.uk (Operator (Phil/Dylan))
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: NFS query
Date: 11 Jan 93 00:09:48 GMT
Reply-To: p_copela@csd.uwe.ac.uk
Organization: The New University in the West of England, Bristol (WEB)

I should really be posting this (not followup) but i can't 'cos
my smtp server (csd) won't recognize me (hummm) anyway
I have a query about NFS. Has anyone else experienced a problem
when transfering files to an NFS mount, in that occasionally
it will throw up an error about the NFS file handle being stale
in which case it will forget about the file entirely leaving
only a 0 length file entry on the NFS mount. This appears to
happen with cp rcp ftp tftp so I think the problem is burried
in the NFS code

comments? fixes?

Phil
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux