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From: jstump@auntbea.austin.ibm.com (John E. Stump)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: ST01/02 and Syquest 5110
Date: 8 Jan 93 19:02:42 GMT
Organization: IBM AWD Austin, TX

In article <1993Jan08.142417.1962@gold.sub.org> Eckehard.Stolz@bbs.gold.sub.org (Eckehard Stolz) writes:
>Hi Linuxer !
>
>I've a Problem with the Syquest 5110 (88MB) and the Seagate St01/02
>Controller. I managed Linux (99p2) to detect +0the drive and to fdisk it. I
>tried some Head/Cylinder/Sector values and it seemed to work. I was also
>able to mkfs the disk, but when I tried to copy data to the mounted disk,
>the system is rebooting.
>
>Any Hints ???
>
>If there is anyone, who got the Syquest 5110 running under Linux, please
>tell me and give me the values for Head/Cylinder/Sectors.
>
>Eckehard
>
>ps.: efdisk didn't work (bad magic number in superblock)

This has been a problem for quite a while now. Unfortunately, I'm too
ignorant of SCSI workings, so all I can do is whine about it. Would
somebody PLEASE look into this problem? (Note: I can READ syquest DOS
filesystems just fine. I imagine I could read minix file systems as
well, except I can't write to it. It's just writes to blow it up.)

If it helps, I am running a 486DX. Eckehard, do you too?

Thank you SCSI gods

john

-- 
John Stump (jstump@netftp.austin.ibm.com)
From: hamilton@hydra.gmr.com (Bill Hamilton CS50 CS/50)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Getting Linux
Date: 6 Jan 93 17:00:30 GMT
Reply-To: hamilton@gmr.com
Organization: GM Research Labs, Warren, MI

I know almost nothing about linux, except that it appears to be a fairly
complete unix-like os which runs on 386 machines and there are quite a few
enthusiastic users, judging by the volume on this newsgroup. Anyway, you've
piqued my interest, so

What machines does linux run on?

How do I obtain it?

How is it supplied? (i.e. is it supplied in object form only, or
can you get source for it?)

Thanks

Bill Hamilton
From: ludwig@wefunk.rent.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: test
Date: 7 Jan 93 01:26:18 GMT
Organization: WEFUNK, The Mothership Connection - Franklin Park, NJ

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From: jliddle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Jean Liddle)
Subject: Re: Kernel FP Math bug?
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 22:48:46 GMT
Organization: Illinois State University

In article <1993Jan9.144510.9590@walter.cray.com> rsocia@alberti.cray.com (Rick Socia) writes:
>I compiled the following program:
>
>main(int argc, char *argv)
>{
>  double f;
>
>  f = atof(argv[1]);
>  printf("The answere is %f\n", f);
>}
>
>The core dumps.  (passing an argument of "0.50").
>

I am running gcc 2.3.3 with all the new libs (gcc 486 binaries) and the
new binutils, on an i486/33.  I compiled the same program and also
experienced the "core dump" problem.

Also, my kernel is compiled without math emulation, if that helps in
narrowing down the possibilities ...

Jean.
-- 
Jean Liddle                                 
Computer Science, Illinois State University  
e-mail:  jliddle@ilstu.edu                  
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From: robertj@munch.uni-paderborn.de (Robert Juhasz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Where is libX11.so.2.1 ???
Date: 10 Jan 1993 20:55:04 +0100
Organization: Universitaet Paderborn, Germany
Distribution: world
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Stefan Walgenbach (walgen@hera.informatik.uni-dortmund.de) wrote:
: Hi Linuxers,
: 
: running epoch4.2 with SLS .99 ends with libX11.so.2.1 not found.
: 
: Could someone tell me where to get or how to make this lib ?
: 
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:          \+++V+++/***/ /    GB IV, R307a, PF 500 500 , D-4600 Dortmund 50   \
:           \+++++/***/  \  E-mail : walgen@kairo.informatik.uni-dortmund.de  /
:            \+++/***/    \ Voice : +49(2 31) 756261 Data : +49(2 31) 656783 /
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: 
: 

	You' ll find it in the TeX package.
From: atristan@galaxy.ucr.edu (Andrew Tristan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: rzsz: missing library?
Date: 8 Jan 93 09:05:09 GMT
Organization: University of California, Riverside

I recently installed the SLS package, so far I have had few problems,
at least none that I couldn't solve.

I tried to install zmodem (I used the binaries at tsx), but I seem
to be lacking some shared libs: rz complains about not being
able to find /lib/libc_v2_12c.  I also have not been able to 
find this file.  Anyone know how to solve this problem?  I tried
compiling rzsz from the source files with no success.

Thanks in advance.
-- 
Andrew Tristan            | Truth, far from being a solemn and
atristan@ac.ucr.edu       | severe master, is a docile and
atristan@ucrvms           | obediant servant.    - Nelson Goodman
From: iarit@slate.mines.colorado.edu (ARIT ISMAIL)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: TERM076
Date: 6 Jan 93 23:36:21 GMT
Organization: Colorado School of Mines


you have to compile TERM076 at remote machine too..then, run term
at both ends and you should be able to login to remote computer
multiple times(in any direction; remote to home or home to remote
machine).read README file one more time. You should run xconn on remote
computer to use X(before doing this, you should set your env. variable
DISPLAY to remote machine's 9th display, i think).
Here is what I do;

(assuming that you compiled TERM at remote machine.) 

I use minicom to connect to remote machine;
then, run   'term 2 >/dev/null'
come back to home system, escape to shell from minicom by doing
 Ctrl-A then J, type 'term </dev/modem >/dev/modem'.(gotta link from
/dev/ttys1 to /dev/modem)
Now, I can open multiple shells by using 'rsh' from any window.
(sometimes I leave the connection open, and use  Linux from school.)
If I want to use X, I do 
setenv DISPLAY aydin:9               /* 'aydin' is my office computer */
xconn &
then, run any X prog, and it appears on my home computer.

hope it helps.

iarit@slate.mines.colorado.edu


 
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From: crh@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Christian Huebner)
Subject: Misc Questions
Keywords: X11,olwm,keyboard
Organization: Technical University of Munich, Germany
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 06:22:50 GMT

 I got Linux working on my PC just fine, nevertheless there are some
 very annoying problems left. My configuration (in case some problems
 are connected): i486/33 Cache 256kB, RAM 8MB, HDD Western Digital
 200MB, Diamond Stealth, Soundblaster, NE2000.

 1.) It seems to be impossible to get the german keyboard working
 under X. I am using the X386 server and a patch to setup.S to run
 the Stealth under 1024x768x256. 

 2.) My newly compiled OLVWM stops after switching the screen to my
 background color, issuing a "Floating Point Exception".

3.) The OLWM delivered with xview3 seems to have problems with screen
updating (curious lines in windows) and also doesn`t fire up correctly.
It stops somewhere before completing window headers. I can move the
window and size it, but no menu pops up on request...

4.) Xview 3 crashes (!) my X11 when loading a picture greater than
800x600. The machine just hangs and I need to reset in order to start
again.

5.) I am using kernel V0.99 and the command ps doesn`t work. It shows
the headline and then returns to the command prompt. Also my brother
told me this morning the memory-status-commands don`t work either.

6.) I`m gomma buy a new S3-card soon and I wondered, if somebody is
already using one of the following cards (with 86C928): Elsa, Actix 32,
the new Fahrenheit1280. Are there alternatives? Does anybody know, if
there is support for the TIGA cards under X?

I hope somebody can throw some new light on my problems. Thanks,

Chris
From: jepstei@afterlife.ncsc.mil (John Epstein)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: correction to release.libc-4.2 notes
Date: 5 Jan 93 02:57:48 GMT
Organization: The Great Beyond

If you already have a version of libc.so.4.2 the instructions cause
libc.so.4 to disappear --- I actually recovered without using bootdisk.
by mcopy to floppy and mcopy to /lib since my mcopy didn't use libc.so.4

BTW: It might be nice if ln was -static so ln -sf always available!!!

The problem with the instructions is:

cp libc.so.4.2 libc.so.4.2.old --> libc.so.4.2.ol for 14 char minix file system
the next line is
ln -sf libc.so.4.2.old libc.so.4 --> generates a 15 char symbolic link

I thought this would work as identical for first 14 char

My system died on the mv libc.so.4.2 foo

I am running linux-0.99 pl 1 prior to begin of libc-4.2 and gcc-2.3.3

John
From: jason@galaxy.ucr.edu (jason bishop)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Help with ET4000 and fixed frequency monitor PLEASE! :)
Date: 8 Jan 93 20:06:48 GMT
Organization: University of California, Riverside


	HEP me man! I was borrowing a trident vga card for my new
fixed frequency monitor (48khz horizontal by 60hz vertical) and it
worked great under X windows.  I had it in 1024x768 mode with no
problems.  I returned the card to a friend and bought a ET4000 hicolor
and now the 1024x768 mode doesnt seem to work.  I guess the ET4000 has
a different set of dot clocks.  Anyway, I made up my own mode with
the modegen2.sc spreadsheet by plugging in my horizontal and
vertical frenquencies for the monitor and a sample dot clock for 
the ET4000 card (75 I think it was) and guessed at all of the 
other values for sync delays and such.  But I dont think my monitor
likes it too good.  I ran it for 24 hours with these values and
now the very top left corner of the screen is discolored! HELP!
These are the values I was using in my Xconfig file:
	   "test"       75     1184 1216 1552 1568    771  778  781  797

	Can somebody give me some rules for making video modes that
are not bad for the monitor?  I have an ET4000 HiColor and a fixed
frequency sony trintron 17" monitor.  I really dont want to screw up
my monitor, so please help! thanks everybody!!!!!
							...Jason

	jason@galaxy.ucr.edu
University of California, Riverside
	Unix Systems Group

-- 
	jason@galaxy.ucr.edu
University of California, Riverside
	Unix Systems Group
From: asmith@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (arthur.c.smith)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Diamond clocks
Date: 8 Jan 93 13:45:30 GMT
Organization: AT&T

Hi,
 I have finally got a small program to set the Diamond Steath VRAM's third
video clock to the correct values for a 1024x768 screen from within Linux.
This works with X, doesn't use the VBIOS or any part of the Diamond smode code,
and does not depend on any previous clock settings. It does use the code posted
by Batman 8-) about a month ago. Now I have to fine tune Xconfig 8-(. Also I
have written a small device driver for the joystick (buttons only right now
8-)). It seems, from going through the BIOS, that the PC uses a timer to
measure the time it takes a know charge across a cap to discharge through the
variable resistor in the joystick. It also disables interrupts while this
happens. How long can interrupts be disabled before problems develop ?
          Art    (asmith@nwsca.att.com)
From: jmd6@unix.brighton.ac.uk (Morgoth.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: HELP Linux in UK
Date: 10 Jan 93 15:08:29 GMT
Organization: University of Brighton, UK

I've been tring to get hold of Linux for some time by down loading it from
Imperial Colledge in the UK. This never works so I'm looking for some where
else where I can get hold of it. Idealy I would like to down load it through
Janet or internet, but if I could send blank disks some where in the UK for
a copy that would be greate.


Thanks for your help

Jon
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jahke@amoeba.stgt.sub.org (Thilo Jahke)
Subject: ingres03 and 0.99pl2 ?
Keywords: ingres
Organization: Private Linux BBS
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 02:02:41 GMT

Hi all!

Has someone got ingres03 to work with Linux 0.99pl2 and gcc 2.3.3 (libc4.2)
I got it from tsx-11.mit.edu and applied the new patch 'patch.tmp'.

I got it to compile, but when trying to create a database it seems to
hang ... ps shows that there is 'sysmod' running (hanging).

Any help welcome!

Thilo

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        +--------------------------------------------+
       /  Thilo Jahke, Private Linux Site, Germany  /
      /       EMail: jahke@amoeba.stgt.sub.org     /
     +--------------------------------------------+
From: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Question about ISA/IDE di
Date: 4 Jan 93 18:02:00 GMT
Reply-To: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434

DD>While the effective transfer rate is
DD>really that high--1250KB/sec peak-- the actual disk<-->memory transfer
DD>is far lower, the difference attributed to the chache performance.

You are confusing old MFM drives with newer IDE and SCSI drives, 1250KB/sec
is a very realizable sustained throughput from a decent drive.  I look 
around the room, there's nothing in sight that doesn't do at least 
1000KB/sec here, that's three SCSI based systems, and an IDE one.  BTW,
I'm NOT measuring the speed of the cache, I'm talking raw DTR here.

53spt * 60rev/sec = 3180 sector/second

If a sector is the normal 512 bytes, that seems to come to 1590KB/sec
at 1:1 interleave.  Even if you subtract some for sector skew, a normal
760mb SCSI drive is easily able to do a sustained 1300-1400KB/sec.
---
 . KingQWK 1.05 # 97 . Point not found. A)bort, R)eread, I)gnore.
From: tdunbar@vttcf.cc.vt.edu (Thomas Dunbar)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: linux FAQ in LaTeX
Keywords: Linux FAQ, LaTeX
Date: 12 Jan 93 14:04:59 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

the LaTeX faq looks great; however the page nrs in the toc are off by seven 
  

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.windows.x.i386unix
From: dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat)
Subject: Re: Problem: ps/2 mouse
Organization: AT&T
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 13:59:18 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.041355.4284@e2big.mko.dec.com> pfau@coffee.enet.dec.com (Thomas Pfau) writes:
> 
> I've finally gotten X running under Linux 0.98pl5 on my wd90c30.  Now I'm
> having trouble with the mouse.
> 
> /usr/X386/tst/mouse/mouse returns garbage as I move the mouse around.
> When X comes up, the mouse just jumps around, mostly along the top of the
> screen.  It doesn't respond to button presses.
> 
> Anyone know what's wrong?
> 
> tom_p
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> pfau@coffee.enet.dec.com	| There is a place in space beyond our
> 				| sense of time.  There is a time
> 				| beyond space.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

The version of XFree86 you have doesn't support the PS/2 mouse.  XFree86
1.2 (currently planned for release during the last week of January or
first week of February) adds support for the PS/2 mouse.

--
David Wexelblat <dwex@mtgzfs3.att.com>  (908) 957-5871
AT&T Bell Laboratories, 200 Laurel Ave - 3F-428, Middletown, NJ  07748

"The meaning of life?  That's simple.  Try to be happy, try not to hurt
 other people, and hope to fall in love."  -- Mallory Keaton
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: init eats processor time
Organization: FidoNet node 2:252/305 - The Purple Tentacle, Reading
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:20:00 +0000

* In message <16B53F3AD.I1041905@dbstu1.rz.tu-bs.de>
             I1041905@dbstu1.rz.tu-bs.de said:

II> All works fine, as long as I have my terminal up.
II> But when the cable is out or the 286 powered off, the status
II> lines (DTR, CTS and so on) are in "not ready" state.
II> Then the init-process consumes 8% to 24% of my CPU time.

You have an old init. With the cable out getty fails to open the port so 
exits. Init sees the getty has exited and immediately restarts it. Getty 
fails to open the port and exits... etc...

  The newer inits (certainly my init in the bootsys3.taz suite and Miquels 
init, possibly poe's simpleinit too) trap processes that respawn more than a 
certain number of times in a given period and disable them (see the 
documentation). Get one of these.

  (There are many other features to the bootsys3.taz stuff too).

                                Mike  
 
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From: zmbenhal@netcom.com (Zeyd M. Ben-Halim)
Subject: Re: lpr/lpd suite bugs?
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 22:32:52 GMT

In article <1993Jan7.152716.25821@cli.di.unipi.it> romano@pimac2.iet.unipi.it (Romano Giannetti) writes:
>Hi all.
>
>#1 When doing a lpq from my non-privileged account I have the message
>   "Warning: daemon not present" or similar, but lpd is there, from
>   the other "root" VC I have a "ps i ready and printing" , and all
>   seems go well... permissions broken? But where?

I traced this through gdb. when lpq reads /usr/spool/lpd.lock (where lpd
leaves its pid) it reads the wrong value! In one case:
lpd pid == 113
contents of lpd.lock is 113.
lpq reads 166! 
it then checks that a process of that id is present and fails!
A bug in read?

>Thank you very mauch. If I have answer, or if I manage to make things
>   work, I will post a summary here. (We need some more summary on
>   c.o.l., I think...).
>
>I am running 0.99pl1, loopback only tcp/ip, libc.so.4.2 (one of the latest
>release).

So am I.

>-- 
>***************************************************************************
>* Romano Giannetti          * Dip.to di Ingegneria dell'Informazione      *
>*                           * Elettronica, Informatica e Telecomunicazioni*
>* romano@iet.unipi.it       * via Diotisalvi,2                            *
>* giannetti@sssup1.sssup.it * Universita' di Pisa, I-56126 PISA, Italy    *
>***************************************************************************

Zeyd

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman)
Subject: Re: DOS emulation
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 17:44:35 GMT

In article <79132@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt8134b@prism.gatech.EDU (Howlin' Bob) writes:
>wolff@liberator.et.tudelft.nl (Rogier Wolff) writes:
>
>>At first video emulation need only be at 80x25 textmode. In the end it
>>shouldn't be too hard to detect "going into graphics", and emulate that
>>too. It might become a little slow, but it should at least work....
>
>That becomes difficult.  I plan on getting around to it, but it's not the
>most urgent thing right now.  I would be most pleased if you implemented
>such a thing, however.  Please mail me any suggestions/diffs you have.

I see two possibilities:  One, giving the DOS program full control of
the screen, for SVGA graphics.  The program could do whatever it
wanted, and so the VC code would have to be augmented to save/restore
the complete state of the video card.  This would be a good thing,
anyway, because it will let one (or more!) VC's run X, and the others
run in text mode.  It will let one VC display text in 25x80, the other
in 43x132 (or whatever).  CMU already has code to save/restore VGA
cards, and has augmented the code to handle some SVGA regs., I
beleive.  The only problem with this approach is that I don't think
graphics programs could run in the background.  Some screen writes
would have to block until the VC on which the process is running is
selected.  Kludgy, but not terrible.

The second possibility is to emulate the SVGA card.  This would be
very nice, as it would allow a DOS program that expects to use the
whole screen to run in an X window.  Cool.  But, I suspect this will
be VERY VERY slow.  Many application write directory to the screen.
The emulator would have to watch the screen, note any changes,
translate those changes into system calls, and execute those calls.

-Joel
From: eichin@athena.mit.edu (Mark Eichin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Ctl-Atl-Del and Linux 0.99 patchlevel 2: SOLVED
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Date: 6 Jan 1993 23:49:33 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
NNTP-Posting-Host: tweedledumb.cygnus.com
In-reply-to: devet@adv.win.tue.nl's message of 6 Jan 93 12:43:25 GMT

That patch works for me (AMI BIOS, used to boot, with 99.2 it doesn't
anymore... changed the cli to sti, and now reboot and ctl-alt-del work
again.)
							_Mark_
From: st1pb@rosie.uh.edu (Burris, Dean E.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: help for Unix idiot
Date: 12 Jan 1993 22:46 CST
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: rosie.uh.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

I have never used Unix before and I recently installed 
SLS package.  For the life of me, I can't figure out
how to access my B: drive(3 1/2 HD).  I am guessing that
I need to "mount" it, but every time I try, I get an error
about not being able to find a file in my /etc directory.

I am trying to install X11 from my B: drive(fd1, I think) and
the sysinstall just looks at my A: drive.  HELP.

Also, what is a good book about Unix?  I need something so
that I don't have to bother everyone on Usenet.

Please email replies to ST1PB@jetson.uh.edu

also, what is the command switch to untar a file?

Dean
From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: DOS EMULATOR under GCC 2.3.3
Date: 9 Jan 1993 20:39:25 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

KK4D%MARISTB.bitnet@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Dan Newcombe) writes:

>Has anyone gotten the emulator to compile under gcc 2.3.3
>and run?

>Compilation is no problem, but when I run it it tells me that
>it can't find the shared libraries?  Huh?  I haven't had this
>problem with the other stuff I have done under 2.3.3.  And I
>have put libemu in /lib.  Am I missing something here?

>   -Dan

Sounds as if you need to install a newer binutils package. You can get it
from tsx-11.mit.edu in the pub/linux/GCC directory. This has a new ld in
it that knows where to find newer shared library images.

James
From: root@slave.uwe.ac.uk (Operator (Phil/Dylan))
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: dos emulator: increasing the drive C size ..how?
Date: 13 Jan 93 00:09:39 GMT
Reply-To: p_copela@csd.uwe.ac.uk
Organization: The New University in the West of England, Bristol (WEB)

In article <1993Jan7.171220.1881@ifi.unizh.ch>, amir@avalon.physik.unizh.ch
(Guindehi Amir) writes:
|> You can start .exe files from floppy !! There they work ! After running
|> fdisk, you must delete the old C partition and make a new one with the size
|> you
|> want. Don't worry, it is'nt the real partition you manipulate ! After that
|> your hdimage file will grow if you but more and more on drive c.
|

let me get this straight,.. you're saying that the $WHEREAMI/hdimage
dynamically grows in size in accordance with how much you put on it?

ie
	fdisking  a hdimage to say 8 meg while the hdimage = say 500k
will leave a 550k file which grows in linux to a maximum of 8meg (yes?)
but under the dos emulator it will *look* like 8 meg even if hdimage is
only 1 meg in size (yes?) If so, does hdimage also shrink in size if
you remove data from it?

if it does all of the above, I'll be well impressed (incidentally,
i'll have a shot with msdos(6)beta next week when i get a bit of
free time that should be fun 8-)..

BTW.. I tried compiling dosemu4.0 under 2.3.2 snapshot 921128,...
it wouldn't work,.. I assume that others have had it working on 2.3.3?

Phil
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