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From: spedpr@thor.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Problems with patchkit
Date: 16 Oct 92 13:14:09 GMT
Organization: University of Wales College at Cardiff
X-Mailer: Cardiff Computing Maths PP Mail Open News Gateway

In article <1992Oct14.164217.25816@pool.info.sunyit.edu> ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson) writes:
|In article <1992Oct13.173506.56549@qut.edu.au> csb960lanaga@qut.edu.au writes:
|>Is anyone having trouble the patch kit ? I have insttalled all of the
|>patches onto the srcdist files. 
|>
|>config GENERICISA works fine
|>make depend works fine
|>make falls over with a signal 11 (Segmentation Violation)
|>
|>The make stops when you get to the SYSTEM_LD line. I suspect that it has
|>got something to do with the added object vers.o. I have compiled the kernel
|>before on other machines with out too many problems, so it is one of the 
|>patches that is the problem but which one.
|>
|>Any help would be greatly appreciated
|>
|>Regards 
|>Michael Lanagan
|>csb960lanaga@qut.edu.au
|

Ok, I've got this error as well but not just on the kernel.

The latest is a signal 10 when trying to compile the patched ps sources.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: hand@spc9.jpl.nasa.gov (Kolin Hand)
Subject:  Mtools-mwrite failurE
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 02:21:35 GMT

Greetings.

Whenever I try to write to a floppy drive using Mtools-mwrite, I get
the error message "/dev/rfd0a is busy."  Could the "device busy" flag
have been set somehow and is now not able to be cleared?  Is this another
problem?

Thanks.

Kolin

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: peter@wiesel.cosy.sbg.ac.at (Peter Burgstaller)
Subject: Got Xfree86 1.1 finally working!
Organization: University of Salzburg / Austria
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 09:54:43 GMT

Hi dudes!

Here is the clue to my problems!

First (as many of you guessed) the fontpath was wrong!
There was a leading "/" missing in front of the 2nd path!

The xdm couldn't lock the pid file 'cause I mounted
the whole stuff via nfs from a workstation!

So I put the pid file in my local /tmp directory and
so xdm works now too!

Finally the mouse didn't work (Logitech). I tried to configure
it on com1 and then on com2 with all settings you can imagine!
(Emulate3Dbutton[on|off], BaudRate, Sampling Rate)
Finally I tried another mouse (microsoft) and this one worked.
So the mistake came from the mouse not from the server!

Now my logitech is also working (I'm using microsoft	"/dev/com1")

So I'm happy now, hope some of you too!!
- Peter 8-}
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: versto@cs.vu.nl (C Verstoep)
Subject: Weird Problem (50 MHz, SCSI)
Summary: new files sometimes show a few corrupted bytes on my system
Keywords: SCSI, file corruption
Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 10:23:55 GMT

Hi,

The last couple of days I have (as of now unsuccessfully) tried to install
386BSD0.1 on my new system.

My setup is as follows:
	- 50 Mhz local bus UMC mother board
	- 16 Mb memory, 70ns SIMMs
	- Adaptec 1542B scsi controller
	- Fujitsu 2624F 520 Mb scsi disk.

The problem is that newly created files sometimes have a few corrupted bytes.
It often happens when reading in the bin01.* floppies (40% of the files
will typically cause "extract" to complain).  I can also reproduce it
by just using the hard disk, so the floppy drive is not the problem.

When it happens, the file corruption is always of a fixed pattern:
7 or 8 alternate bytes somewhere in the file are replaced by a certain (fixed)
"error pattern".  I found this out by means of the following test:

- Create increasingly large text files consisting of lines "ABCDEF..."
  by "cat"-ing them.
- Copy around a few binary files to flush the file cache.
- Re-examine the test files created.  The ones bigger than a few 100Kb
  will typically have one or more of the error patterns mentioned above.

The odd thing is that the last couple of days it happened two times
that the problem did *not* show up.  I could read in all the floppies I had,
and perform the above tests without problems.  I find it hard to believe
that it is (just) a problem with the CMOS/controller/disk settings,
because when I restarted the system after the two "successful" tries,
the problem reared its ugly head again.

By the way, with **DOS5.0 I didn't have this kind of problems, but I guess
that doesn't say much.  A colleague of mine has the same system at home,
with similar problems.

Does anyone here have a clue about what could be the cause of all this?

Thanks,
Kees Verstoep (versto@cs.vu.nl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: zawada@softage.demon.co.uk (Mark D Simpson)
Subject: IDE hard disk prob installing 386bsd
Distribution: world
Organization: Softage Solutions
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 20:46:16 +0000

Trying to install 386bsd 0.1, I'm getting a problem. I've already
successfully installed it on one machine, but the other one is
proving a problem, so I messed around and tracked it to the
Hard Disk, by putting just the Hard Disk in the machine that
works.

The boot disk boots OK, and installs, but when the machine reboots,
it can't seem to find the disk label. 

It is literally just the Hard Disk, which is an ALPS DR312C IDE 202MB.

I've tried the cgd newbootable which fixes a register timing problem on
the hard disk control, but this has absolutely no effect, part
from it crashes earlier.

I've also tried mounting the installed disk from the fixit floppy, but
also it reports no disklabel.

Any ideas?

I get the following output  (the standard distribution boot disk)....


wd0 (ALPS Electric co LTD,. DR312C) at 0x1f0 irq 14 on isa
changing root device to wd0a
wd0: cannot find label (no disk label)
panic: cannot mount root

vm_fault(fe04c898, 0, 1, 0) -> 1
type c, code fe040000
trap type 12 code=fe040000 eip=fe012802 cs=8 eflags=10282 cr2 14 cpl 12
panic:trap

The opertaing system is saving a copy of memory to device 101, offset 0
....
system rebooting.

---------
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From: atsuo@harl.hitachi.CO.JP (Atsuo Kawaguchi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: IDE hard disk prob installing 386bsd
Date: 14 Oct 92 04:44:20 GMT
Organization: Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd
In-reply-to: zawada@softage.demon.co.uk's message of 11 Oct 1992 05:46:16 JST

In article <718764923snx@softage.demon.co.uk> zawada@softage.demon.co.uk (Mark D Simpson) writes:
> The boot disk boots OK, and installs, but when the machine reboots,
> it can't seem to find the disk label. 
> 
> It is literally just the Hard Disk, which is an ALPS DR312C IDE 202MB.
I am using a same drive just fine. If you are trying to coexit 386BSD
and DOS, then this problem is a FAQ (I think you can find FAQ at
agate). You should specify the real geometry parameters of the ALPS
drive in BIOS setup. Try the following: 

  No. of cylinders:       2108
  No. of heads:              4
  No. of sectors par track: 49


--
Atsuo, Kawaguchi
Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.
atsuo@harl.hitachi.co.jp
From: levinson@vax.sonoma.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: QIC 40
Date: 16 Oct 92 08:41:10 GMT
Organization: Sonoma State University

Does anyone have any QIC 40 compatibile drivers for BSD386 0.1?

Or is there a way I can get the drivers that are there to work?

I have a Colorado DJ-10 tape backup system that I am quite impressed with, but
it doesnt work with it.
 
Please respond to private -mail, levinson@vax.sonoma.edu or
moon.nbn.com!rcisnet2!root.

Thanks
--
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: chr@bio128.uni-bielefeld.de (Christian Bartling)
Subject: [X386]Keyboard locks
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 14:41:36 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Bielefeld
Keywords: X386,X,BSD

I have some problems to get the X386 binary kit running on my PC.

1) When I start the X-server with xdm (login: root), the keyboard reacts  
very slow, the mouse is running fine.

2) When starting with xinit (login: root), the keyboard locks up totally,  
the mouse is running fine.

3) When starting with xinit (login: user), a blank screen appears and I  
have to reset....

I every case I tried to start the server from the console. Some days ago  
someone wrote that one have to change one line in the /etc/ttys to get the  
server running. Could this concern my problem ???? By the way: I built a  
/dev/vga with mknod vga c 12 0....

---
Christian Bartling
chr@bio128.uni-bielefeld.de

 
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: gottloeb@eel.dsd.trw.com (Jeffrey R. Gottloeb)
Subject: Re: The Compile from HELL!
Keywords: 386BSD GCC compiler Xview3
Organization: TRW, INC.
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 00:53:09 GMT

In article <1992Oct6.074223.615@coplex.com> chuck@coplex.com (Chuck Sites) writes:
>
>
>    Recently when trying to port XView3 to 386BSD and XFree, I ran into a
>brickwall of a performance problem.  There are some files which start 
>compiling but they just don't stop.  One file, attr_char.c, I let compile
>over the weekend only to come back and find the system apparently frozen.
>Frozen may be a misnomer though.  While trying to telnet into the system 
>during the early stages of the compile, I can access the system, but slowly
>the perfomace degrades to the point of printing 1 line/min for an ls, and it
>gets worse to the point of not responding at all.  I assumed it was swapping,
>but the severity that other process are excluded from thier share of the
>clock makes me think this is a kernel problem. 
>
>    Well in fairness, this may not be a kernel problem alone. GCC maybe
>partially to blame.  On large structure arrays I've seen it go 'all
>consuming' before on OS2 and SYSV,  but both resulted in an out of
>memory error at the user prompt after several hours. Neither had the
>multitasking performace degradation like I got with 386bsd.  (I was
>trying to port the fax portion of the TIFF package on uunet fyi.) 



I have seen this problem also.  On my system, I have 16MB of swap space
and set limit datasize 14m.  CC aborts with virtual memory exhausted while
processing g3states.h.  This is a hugh file that seems to only have data
initialization code in it.  I have noticed using the patched version of ps
that the vsz attribute of the compile process continues to climb to the 14MB
value causing the abort.  I am not sure if cc is working correctly and
trying to keep the arrays in memory as it is compiled or not.


Jeff Gottloeb
gottloeb@gumby.dsd.trw.com



>
>    So, my question is: has anybody seen this type of problem and is this
>symtom fixed by the latest beta patches?  Second, if the beta patches do
>fix this problem, could someone direct me to a site that has the collected
>binaries of the beta patchs.        
>
>
>Thanks,
>Chuck Sites         
>chuck@coplex.com    (502)-9688495
>
From: root@draco.bison.mb.ca (Dave Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Elm 2.4 & 386BSD [Problem]
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 17:09:10 GMT
Organization: The Draco Unix System, Winnipeg, Canada

Well thanks to root@lucpum.it.luc.edu, for submitting the
patch for 2.4, although I've run into a little snag when
compiling Elm 2.4.

Here is my error:

cd lib; /usr/bin/make all
cd src; /usr/bin/make all
cc  -O -traditional -fpcc-struct-return -I../hdrs    -c init.c
init.c:74: conflicting types for `getpwuid'
init.c:74: An argument type that has a default promotion
init.c:74: can't match an empty parameter name list declaration.
/usr/include/pwd.h:75: previous declaration of `getpwuid'
*** Error code 1

Stop.
*** Error code 1


Any help with this error would be greatly appreciated.

Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: wjones@halcyon.com (Warren Jones)
Subject: Re: The ultimate 386BSD machine? (FAQ fodder)
Keywords: 386BSD
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 08:19:42 GMT

earle@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Greg Earle - Gainfully Unemployed) writes:

>- Serial ports; more trivial, but can I assume nowadays that I don't have to
>  ask for NS16550AFN chips, and will get them by default?  (I will want to run
>  PPP at 38400 baud over them ... )

I can at least answer your trivial question.
I was recently shopping, like you, for a 386BSD system,
and was surprised to find that NS16550AFN chips are quite rare,
even in what I had considered top-of-the line name brand systems.
I don't think I ever found them in generic clones.
The question of replacing the 8250 with a 16550AFN turned out
to be a useful method for weeding out dealers.
(Quite a few didn't even understand the question.)
It you have a demo system running windows 3.1,
you can use MSD (the Microsoft Diagnostic utility)
to find out what kind of UART's it has.
-- 
Warren Jones
<wjones@halcyon.com>
Xref: sparky comp.unix.bsd:7517 comp.protocols.appletalk:3634
From: brendan@otago.ac.nz (Brendan Murray, OUCSC)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: [386bsd] Anyone made CAP run under 386bsd?
Date: 16 Oct 92 20:20:45 NZDT
Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Has anyone tried to get CAP (Columbia Appletalk Protocols) up under 386bsd.

I have spent a couple of days working on - now everything compiles , and
everything runs with core dumping, but not to any great purpose.

I have made it work with Ultrix 4.2a so I think all the configuration details
are correct, it just doesn't do what I want.

Specifically
	atis will run, but atistest times out
	atlook doesn't see the net.

Hardware:
	486/33 , 120MB drive, 4mb memory
	Acer ethernet card running NE1000 compatibility

All suggestions welcome.

__
 Brendan Murray, Systems Manager
 Computing Services Center	        Email:  brendan@otago.ac.nz
 University Of Otago     		Phone:  +64 3 479-8597          
 PO Box 56                      	  FAX:  +64 3 479-8577          
 Dunedin, New Zealand		          PSI:	PSI%0530124000016::brendan  
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: inpractutor@qut.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Installing ISODE on 386bsd
Date: 8 Oct 92 17:09:19 EST
Organization: Queensland University of Technology

Hi friends,

Has anyone succesfully installed ISODE package on 386BSD ?
I got a lot of errors that I can't work out.
I need to hear from you. Thank's.

Andrey Andoko
andrey@sleet.fit.qut.edu.au

Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: wjin@cs.uh.edu (W. Woody Jin)
Subject: XFree86 with an old 256K VGA 16 card ?
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 07:57:02 GMT


Would it be possible to run XFree86 on 386bsd
using an old 256K RAM VGA 16 card ?

I have an OAK Technology's VGA 16 card with 256K RAM,
and lib/X11/etc/*DB.txt doesn't have any entry with 256K
(the minimum was 512K).  Does this mean that with 256K
it is not possible to run XFree86 ?

Thanks, in advance.


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: venkat@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Venkat)
Subject: Time-of-the-day clock question !
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 16:50:51 GMT
Keywords: clock

Hi folks,

I have a question regarding the time-of-the-day clock on the motherboard. My
AT's clock runs a day behind if the machine is left powered-on for over two
consecutive midnights (this is a familiar problem in the pc world, right ?).
Well, I run TSR's when I use DOS to take care of this problem but is there a
fix in 386BSD ? I find that the system date falls behind by a day (in the 
situation described above) - I have to manually reset the date.

One possible solution (I *haven't* tried it yet - just thought of it now !) 
would be to run a cron job and every two days increment the date value  and
reset the date...

Any ideas ? 

My machine 
	- is a 386/25Mhz AT
	- has 4MB RAM/ 125 MB HD
	- can't even keep the time right :-)

Venkat

Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: umrose05@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Dave Rose)
Subject: Re: anybody uses IDE and SCSI in one PC?
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 05:02:42 GMT

In <16878D5C9.SCHLIGHW@dosuni1.rz.uni-osnabrueck.de> SCHLIGHW@dosuni1.rz.uni-osnabrueck.de (Hans Schligtenhorst) writes:

>Hi!
> 
>Simple question: Uses anybody SCSI-harddisk (perhaps with streamer?) and IDE-
>hd in one computer? On which hd is bsd installed? Are there any subject to look
>for?
> 
>Thanks in advance
> 
>Hans
>--
>Hans Schligtenhorst                     ! Hey, my computer is a musician.
>schlighw@dosuni1.rz.uni-osnabrueck.de   ! The hd squeaks in C-major ...

I do, 2 IDE's (120, 100) the 120 is my boot drive, and I have
2 scsi's on...a 140 rodime (as0) and a syquest 44 (as1) all works
fine with built in scsi drivers...had to patch the kernel for the
two drive ide system though...

Xref: sparky comp.unix.bsd:7518 comp.protocols.appletalk:3635
From: brendan@otago.ac.nz (Brendan Murray, OUCSC)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: [386bsd] Anyone made CAP run under 386bsd? (Corrected version)
Date: 16 Oct 92 20:22:50 NZDT
Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

With some corrections to my tying.
> Has anyone tried to get CAP (Columbia Appletalk Protocols) up under 386bsd.
> 
> I have spent a couple of days working on it- now everything compiles , and
> everything runs without core dumping, but not to any great purpose.
> 
> I have made it work with Ultrix 4.2a so I think all the configuration details
> are correct, it just doesn't do what I want.
> 
> Specifically
> 	atis will run, but atistest times out
> 	atlook doesn't see the net.
> 
> Hardware:
> 	486/33 , 120MB drive, 4mb memory
> 	Acer ethernet card running NE1000 compatibility
> 
> All suggestions welcome.
> 
__
 Brendan Murray, Systems Manager
 Computing Services Center	        Email:  brendan@otago.ac.nz
 University Of Otago     		Phone:  +64 3 479-8597          
 PO Box 56                      	  FAX:  +64 3 479-8577          
 Dunedin, New Zealand		          PSI:	PSI%0530124000016::brendan  
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad)
Subject: Re: Starting XFree861.1
Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 04:08:16 GMT

Richard Murphey (rich@Rice.edu) wrote:
: 
: Make sure you have the paths set up correctly in your Xconfig file:
: 
: RGBPath         "/usr/X386/lib/X11/rgb"
: FontPath        "/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
: 
: If the FontPath includes non existant directories the server will exit
: without any error messages which would give a clue.  Rich
The default XConfig in the XFree86 distribution has the wrong setting for
FontPath. Delete the Speedo directory which does not exist.
	People responsible for distributing XFree86 for 386bsd should take 
note of this. It caused a lot of head aches for me, and I'm sure many
beginners will make the same mistakes.

I got a picture but it rolls. Vertical frequency error, too high.

Tseng Labs DMODE does not help much. Clock.exe gives too many clock frequencies,
do not know which one to select.
	I read somewhere in the manuals that we must tell Xconfig about all
the clocks. I chose the smallest, 25.175 as recommended by DMODE.

clock.exe and startx reommends 25,28,33, etc.

How does this ET4000 select the clocks . Does X386 know how to program the
clocks?

--
Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263.
Internet Email: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg
Bitnet Email: eoahmad@ntuvax.bitnet
From: spedpr@thor.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: fsck problems
Date: 11 Oct 92 21:50:56 GMT
Organization: University of Wales College at Cardiff
X-Mailer: Cardiff Computing Maths PP Mail Open News Gateway

When trying to install 386bsd on a new machine I ended up with a
corrupted filesystem. No problem I thought, fsck will fix it.

So I rebooted, fsck failed and dropped into single user mode.

I then ran fsck manually and it detected a corrupted directory. When I
tried to get it fixed I got an I OUT OF RANGE error and fsck core
dumped. 

I couldn't find any way of getting a clean filespace so eventually I
started from scratch with a newfs. There's only one place in fsck that
generates this message, pass2.c, and it calls reply("REPLACE"), I think
from memory. This machine has to be in use tomorrow so I didn't have
time to investigate further but it seems like there may be certain
conditions which cause fsck to die.

Just though I'd report the problem.

-- 
  Paul Richards at Cardiff university, UK.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: rcb@ncsu.edu (Randy Buckland)
Subject: [386BSD] What time is it anyway?
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 17:09:19 GMT

I am having trouble getting the system time on my 386BSD system 
working correctly. I am trying to set it as EDT and getting PDT. 
My config file has the following line:

timezone	5 dst

All the samples use "8 dst" for PDT time. Where is this information 
used so I can check if there is some nasty hardcoding

--
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North Carolina State University               in a group when you're
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