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From: Andy.Tainter@f615.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Andy Tainter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: BUG in 0.99[p1] kernel c
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 00:00:06 -0800

TT>From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
TT>Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)

TT>   From: nyet@cco.caltech.edu (n liu)
TT>   Date: 25 Dec 1992 09:05:03 GMT

TT>   Cards CAN be connected to the same IRQ.. its just that your system
won't
TT>   know which one called the interrupt and won't service the right
card all
TT>   of the time. Under DOS this is occasionally fine, but under Linux
you wan
TT>   to be able to all of the devices simultaneosly.

TT>No, no, no!!!  A thousand times no!!!!!  There are real hardware
TT>problems with doing having more than one card connected to same IRQ. 
In
TT>the words of Gero Kuhlmann, who posted the following message ONLY
THREE
TT>DAYS BEFORE your misinformed posting:


You *CAN* have more than one card on INT 2, this is a cascaded int and
you can have upto 7 (may be 6) devices using it...

That is DOS, maybe linux cannot do that, but the hardware is set upto
do
it...

Andy
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: vernard@cc.gatech.edu (Vernard C. Martin)
Subject: Re: Trident Card Woes
Reply-To: vernard@cc.gatech.edu (Vernard C. Martin)
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 19:42:58 GMT

In article <725518847.AA27908@remote.halcyon.com> Bryant.Graham@f3.n292.z1.fidonet.org (Bryant Graham) writes:
>Edward,
>  I join the choir in pleading for help with a TVGA card.
>
>
>I have:
>
>       386sx 20
>       SyncMaster 3 monitor
>       2 IDE Seagate 100 meg H.D.
>       Digicom Scout plus 14.4
>       3.5 & 5.25 F.D.
>       4 meg RAM <4 more on order>
>
>       install older SLS 0.96 <full package> 
>       on a 32 meg partion on /dev/hd0/

I didn't think that the SLS package would fit on a 32 meg parition if you
included X and the GNU compiler.

Anyway,
If you have a Trident 8900B chipset then you can use the Xfree861.1 binaries
and get up to 800x655 in monochrome no problem. You can't do color at all. 

This can't be fixed without hacking the X server as far as I can tell. Its a
limitation on way the chipset gives the source and destination bytes to the
server.

hope this helps.

Vernard
Vernard Martin (vernard@cc.gatech.edu) Georgia Tech College of Computing
From: sbw@naucse.cse.nau.edu (Steve Wampler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: lpr with lx99p1?
Date: 30 Dec 92 21:47:11 GMT
Organization: Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff AZ

I'm having trouble getting the lpr binaries to work for me under
linux 99p1.  Everything seems fine except for lpd - I cannot keep it
running.  It dies with a 'connect: bad argument' message.

Any idea what I might be doing wrong?  Is the source code available
(patched for linux) - I couldn't find it at either sunsite of tsx-11.

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	Steve Wampler
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mfrankow@hamline.edu (Mike Frankowski)
Subject: Re: uugetty and "who"
Organization: Minnesota Supercomputer Center
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 07:30:53 GMT

Ahmon Dancy (c60b-1fk@e260-1c.berkeley.edu) wrote:
: 
: I am experiencing a problem with uugetty.  What's wrong is that when
: I use 'w' or 'who', it doesn't list all of the people who are really
: online.  Has anyone else had this problem?   I think I am using
: uugetty 2.03.   Is this corrected in 2.04?
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: Ahmon Dancy  (c60b-1fk@webworm.berkeley.edu)
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can you give a better descripting?  I have rewritten some of getty_ps 204 to
fix a few spurious problems and will finish a few more things before I offer
it back to the author.

describe it better so maybe I can help, or find a need to send it to ya

Mike
From: tfoley@camaro.uucp (Tim Foley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Internal compiler error while building kernel
Keywords: gcc
Date: 28 Dec 92 13:31:56 GMT
Organization: camaro

In article <1992Dec28.010228.9589@cbfsb.cb.att.com> wto@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (William T. O Connell) writes:
>
>When building the kernel (via 'make all'), I occasionally get the 
>following error message and compilation stops:
>	gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 4
>
>Then, I re-type 'make all', and the build will continue successfully.
>This may happen two or three times during building the entire kernel.
>Once built, the kernel works fine.
>
>I've only seen this on large builds (i.e. kernel).
>What is causing this compiler error? Any ideas?
>
>I am using .99p1 and recently loaded libc.so.4.2 because of sigaction.
>The compiler I am using is 2.2.2d.
>
 
  I get this the odd time as well, but its usually signal 11, I have had it
since SLS 098p1, and someone mentioned ages ago that it might be my gcc, but 
it dosen't happen as often now, but it was annoying.  I'm using 4.2 as well,
and still occasionally get sig 11 fatals.
 


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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: thsswto@iitmax.iit.edu (William T. O'Connell)
Subject: 3-Button mouse under X
Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology / Academic Computing Center
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 19:22:40 GMT

Can't get 3 button mouse to work under X.

I am using a microsoft 3 button mouse; when under X, the middle
button is in-active. A week -or- two ago, someone posted a small
few line program that did an ioctl on /dev/ttys0 (or what ever
COM port your mouse is on). I don't have the post here with me at work.
I inserted the program (as instructed by the post),the mouse pointer
(as I moved the mouse) was stuck moving left and right at the top
of the screen. The mouse  pointer had a mind of it's own, just
like my 3 year old :-}.

Did anybody have similar problems? Or a different solution?

I don't have my Xconfig in front of me, so I won't use
the actual syntax. But, my mouse in the Xconfig was set to
"microsoft /dev/ttys0", baud rate is set to 1200, and set
to emulate a 3 button. (These are my settings before I 
tried the above mentioned post (sorry, can't remember your name)).
I'm using a Trident 8900C.


- Bill 		thsswto@iitmax.iit.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier)
Subject: Re: getty problems on SLS .99 (fix included)
Organization: York University
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 04:47:24 GMT

wreillyi@libws4.ic.sunysb.edu (William J Reilly Iii) writes:

>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. 

	That's strange...mine has /etc/getty in it.  But I too am having
a slight problem....7etting a port to accept both out going and incoming
logins.  Right now I'm usig a terminal for testing (well, another Unix
machine).  If I don't enable the getty on the port, I can use  kermit to
connect to the second Unix Machine without a hitch.  If I run the getty,
everything *seems* to work for dialing in, but dialing out no longer works.

	Also, is there a way of 'restarting' init after making a change
to the inittab file?  On my other machine, it is /etc/init q. 

	And another weird thing...if I do a 'ps -aux', it shows PID 1 as being
/bin/init...but if I look, there is no such thing, it is in /etc/init,
where I would expect it.



>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?

	When installing (I don't know if it will work after), type:

	rdev -v /dev/?? -3  (I think the ?? was the floppy drive used
for installing)

Marc
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
Subject: How to force Xfree386 into generic VGA mode
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 19:03:22 GMT

I've got an ATI vga card, but I can't seem to get my monitor timings
correct on it (it is a fixed-frequency 640x480 Hyundai VGA monitor).

Since I can't get the color server to produce a stable picture, I just
want to force the monochrome server to use the generic driver.  However,
the monochrome server recognizes the ATI card and doesn't let me
use the generic driver.

How do I force the monochrome server to just use the generic VGA settings?

Thanks for the info.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: amartell@nyx.cs.du.edu (Alex Martelli)
Subject: Re: [Q] How to change text video mode in SLS startup
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 21:15:49 GMT

Greg.Naber@f34.n343.z1.fidonet.org (Greg Naber) writes:
	...
>This ought to be a FAQ if it isn't already;)

Well, maybe it should...


>Bootable floppy 'fix':

[suggestions about rdev -v omitted]

I built 99.1 from sources, without SVGA_MODE in the makefile (so it should
be asking, right?), and /etc/lilo/install'ed it (the rest is from SLS .99).
It comes up extended without asking.  rdev -v /vmlinux -3, now rdev -v
says mode is 65553, and STILL it does not ask - comes up extended anyway.
Where am I going wrong...?

Alex
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From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Users other than root changing password.
Date: 26 Dec 92 21:12:07 GMT
Organization: York University

jwilson@hartree.cs.Colorado.EDU (John Wilson) writes:

>I just installed SLS .99 acouple days ago, and only root is able
>to change passwords.  /bin/passwd replies unable to change password
>and password locked for user.

>/bin/passwd is -rwsr-xr-x
>/etc/passwd is -rw-r--r--
>/etc/shadow is -rw-------

>I thought I saw a question about this the other day and the reply was
>to apply the fix files, but when I got SLS, there were no fix files 
>on disks a or b series and there have been none since then.

>Passwords are expiring after one day for none root users also.

	Me too.  And why does useradd automatically put a passwd on
the account?  And what *is* the passwd that it puts on it?  I end up
having to do a 'passwd -d name' to get rid of it, cause I, by default,
allow the user to set his/her passwd on their own.

Marc
From: okir@monad.swb.de (Olaf Kirch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Distribution: world
Subject: [Q] Linux fdisk DOS compatible?
Organization: Little Hole in the Ground
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 12:18:14 

Hi, Linuxers!

I've got a tiny problem. When I got my PC, first thing I did was
to install Linux :-) Since DOS fdisk refused to make more than one
primary partition, I used Linux fdisk. However, I left one partition
for later use with DOS. But now, DOS won't recognize my disk at all!
DOS fdisk keeps dying with some sort of "Error when reading HD". I think
this is so because I have an SCSI disk, and I think I didn't get the
disk geometry right when partitioning. Does DOS rely on anything like
track boundaries, etc? Doesn't DOS fdisk like LILO MBR's?

I have already changed all partition ids from 81 (Linux) to 83 (efs),
so DOS doesn't get confused if it gobbles the eighth bit. Doesn't help.

On a related issue (although this is not exactly a question on Linux):
When DOS should recongize my HD, may I just type format c: on the
prompt to format the DOS partition? Or will that erase ALL of my disk?
(You never know - and better don't try :-)

Yours,
Olaf

PS: And pleeeeaase! Don't tell me to backup my 300M disk to floppies! :-)
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From: ccasted@prism.gatech.EDU (Edward Deering Boykin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Xfree861.1
Date: 22 Dec 92 22:08:35 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

I have the latest SLS version up and runnig with x on my 486. The sls was 
aquired from sunsite on Dec 19. If I am correct I have Xfree861.0 running right
now. Is this correct?
If so how do I upgrade to version 1.1? What are the differences between 1.0 and
1.1? Why doesn't te SLS distribution have 1.1? The info sheet says 1.1
ex\hibited 'strange' behavior. What does that mean?

I also have some system questions. Sometimes when I boot(I use a floppy) my
system does not report com 2 which is my mouse. How do I get linux to look 
again for the port once I am logged in. I don't want to reboot all the time.

If I download the source for a new kernel does it automatically unpac into the
proper directories or what? How does that work?

Thanks for all your help.
p.s I am still trying to find a working xload for xfree86v1.0.

Ed Boykin
ccasted@prism.gatech.edu

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: rahard@eeserv.ee.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo)
Subject: problem with uucp (uux)
Keywords: uucp
Organization: Electrical Engineering, U of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 01:20:28 GMT

I've just installed smail31 and having problems sending
mail to my smarthost. The error msg that I have 
something like ERR_143, transport uux: process killed by
signal 11.
Anybody knows what this means ?

--budi
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<rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca>      <rahard@ee.umanitoba.ca> 
Electrical Engineering - University of Manitoba - Canada
From: kotulla@cardhu.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Axel Kotulla)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: lpr-settings for HP LJ
Date: 30 Dec 92 13:51:48 GMT
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik - RWTH Aachen
NNTP-Posting-Host: cardhu.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
Summary: Does anybody know the proper settings for lpr and the HP LJ II(I)
Keywords: lpr settings HP Laserjet

Hi,

Does anybody know the correct settings for the lpr-Command (lpc, lpd, ...)
and a HP Laserjet II(I)p, specially in the printcap-file. Allthoug I started
the printer-daemon by lpd the lpq-command tells me

Warning: no daemon present
Rank   Owner      Job  Files                                 Total Size
1st    root       0    /home/axel/.bashrc                    1855 bytes

Thanks in advance

Axel Kotulla (E-Mail: axel@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de)


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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: balasub@iguana.cis.ohio-state.edu (Krishna Balasubramanian)
Subject: Re: IPC Makefile?
Originator: balasub@iguana.cis.ohio-state.edu
Organization: Ohio State Computer Science
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:05:28 GMT

In article <1992Dec23.172340.22338@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> jliddle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Jean Liddle) writes:


   Merry Winter Solstice!

   I downloaded the ipc extentions to linux 0.99[.1] and installed them
   according to instructions, but the make failed on the .../src/linux/ipc
   Makefile.  After browsing through the IPC Makefile I discovered it is
   a copy of the .../src/linux/Makefile, with the two-line change to make
   ipc compile in (ARCHIVES and SUBDIRS changes).  There appears to be no
   Makefile for the ipc directory.  Has anyone else run across this, and is
   there a reliable fix?  I hesitate to throw together my own Makefile for
   a package which will become part of the kernel, since any mistakes I
   make might not show themselves until sometime down the road, when I least
   expect (and can least afford) it.


Sorry I put the wrong Makefile in ipcbeta.tar.Z. I've fixed the file
on sunsite and sent the correction to tsx-11. Here it is (its pre 0.99)

krishna

#
# Makefile for the linux sysv ipc.
#
SUBDIRS		=#

.c.o:
	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c $<
.s.o:
	$(AS) -o $*.o $<
.c.s:
	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -S $<

OBJS	=  sem.o msg.o shm.o util.o 

ipc.o: $(OBJS) subdirs
	$(LD) -r -o ipc.o $(OBJS)


subdirs: dummy
	for i in $(SUBDIRS); do (cd $$i && echo $$i && $(MAKE)) || exit; done

clean:
	rm -f core *.o *.a tmp_make
	for i in *.c;do rm -f `basename $$i .c`.s;done

dep:
	sed '/\#\#\# Dependencies/q' < Makefile > tmp_make
	$(CPP) -M *.c >> tmp_make
	cp tmp_make Makefile
	@for i in $(SUBDIRS); do (cd $$i && echo $$i && $(MAKE) dep) || exit; done

dummy:

### Dependencies:

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk (Anthony Lovell)
Subject: Dead Keyboard and 0.99
Distribution: world
Organization: The Home for Three Headed Canines
Reply-To: alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk
X-Mailer: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.18)
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:50:29 +0000

Does anybody have any ideas as to how I can get a working 0.99 kernel
mine boots ok but the keyboards dead ,I added the inode fixes

386sx25 10mb
Hercules mono display
Fujitsu 40mb IDE drive

-- 

anthony

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mcampbel@cs.ucf.edu (Mike Campbell )
Subject: How to install over previous installation?
Organization: University of Central Florida
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 21:08:46 GMT

I have an old installation (SLS) on an partition in my HD.  I've just
d/l the a,b, and c series from sunsite, (the .99 SLS).  What do I need
to do to install this new one over the old one?

Thanks!

Mike
mcampbel@cs.ucf.edu
From: jimc@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (James Carpenter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Seagte ST-01 with Quantum Prodrive ELS
Date: 26 Dec 92 01:20:36 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu

Sorry about the double signature on my last note. Too much Eggnogg I guess
:-)
-- 

	Jim Carpenter
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	jimc@gnu.ai.mit.edu
From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: [Q] Problems with mount -t msdos
Date: 23 Dec 1992 12:02:23 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

amir@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Guindehi Amir) writes:

>Hi !
>I'm a new Linux user and would like to know if there are any problems with
>mountig MSDOS-Filesystems into the Linux FS. I would like to mount my
>dos-partitions in my /etc/rc file, but I would like too, not to trash it,
>because there are some important MSDOS-Data's.

>So can I do it, without trashing my msdos-FS in the future or not ?

>THX in advance

>- Amir Guindehi


In my fstab, I have the following line that I have been using for months 
to mount dos on a reboot:

/dev/hda1       /usr/dos        msdos   defaults

I haven't had any problems yet with that. I mainly just use it for copying 
files back and forth. This was where I ever heard problems existed, and I have
yet to be able to hurt anything on that partition.

James
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: lfoard@Turing.ORG (Lawrence C. Foard)
Subject: .99 SLS on VWIS BBS now, Linux uucp net?
Reply-To: entropy@world.std.com
Organization: The Turing Project, Public Access Internet Host
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 17:01:36 GMT

I've just finnished grabbing the new SLS release for my BBS (had
to find quite a few extra megs of space :(  ). The BBS should be
back up this afternoon with the new release.

Phone number:
1-508-793-9568

You can download before being registered, there is no time limit
for downloads (downloading the whole SLS set will take a good part of
a day).

Question for sysops and linux users-

With a few Linux BBS's out there who would other sysops be interested
in exchanging newsgroups (if someone could get comp.os.linux that would
be even better :)

What is the probability of getting an internet gateway for a Linux UUCP
mail net?
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo)
Subject: Re: HELP: How do use com3 in LINUX?
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 16:53:07 GMT

sundaram@egr.msu.edu (Divya Sundaram) writes:

>I am trying in vain to use a modem at COM3 on my machine. I have 
>my Logitech mouse at com1 and 9600 baud hayes compatible modem at com3 
>(and I have a wd8003 ethernet card at com2). Since com1 and com3 share 
              ============================= ?
>the same IRQ, I would like to know how LINUX deals with this. Would this pose 
>any problems for me - would I be able to use my mouse and my modem also?

I use internal 9600 baud MODEM in COM3 with IRQ5

1. Change the IRQ for COM3 to, say, 5
2. Use 'setserial' program (I think I got it from tsx-11.mit.edu)
   to set /dev/ttys3 to use IRQ5. That's it.

That's it. Works like a charm.

-- budi
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Xref: sparky comp.os.linux:21727 gnu.gcc.bug:3058
From: dbt@adm.csc.ncsu.edu (David B. Teague)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,gnu.gcc.bug
Subject: gcc-2.3.2 should build out of the box
Date: 22 Dec 92 19:05:11 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.linux,gnu.gcc.bug
Organization: North Carolina State University
Posted-Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:05:11 GMT
Apparently-To: gnu-gcc-bug@mcnc.org


  The reason gcc-2.3.2 wouldn't build for me previously was that my
gcc/install.sh file had lost a character. It should build OK. Users
may still want to consider changing configure to use the system install
and install in /usr... instead of /usr/local...

--Jim Bray (bray@wcuvax1.wcu.edu)

(Please Support the League for Programming Freedom, and Boycott ATT
 because of their legal intimidation of BSDI, UCB, and CMU)