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From: jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid)
Subject: Re: SLS package problem at sunsite.unc.edu
Keywords: include, header, SLS
Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 08:14:29 GMT

In article <62813@mimsy.umd.edu> bob@cs.umd.edu (Bahman Adeli) writes:
>If someone already hasn't noticed this:
>
>SLS package at sunsite.unc.edu has a synlink problem with lx98p5.taz in
>disk b4.  I think this is the reason many people (including me) have problems
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okay. this is fixed. unfortunately I mirror SLS from tsx-11 which
seems to be short on space (btw I put smail.taz in its appropriate place
in the distribution).  so on tsx-11 the kernel sources are just
a link to where they are on the archive (to save space).  This link
is bogus on sunsite of course.  I had fixed this before, but unfortunately
whenever the date becomes more recent on tsx-11, it grabs it again and over-
writes my fixed copy. sorry about this folks. i'll try to preempt the problem
when I see Peter announce an upcoming new version next time.

jem.
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From: Geoffrey.Anderson@f224.n143.z1.fidonet.org (Geoffrey Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Sls Install Problems
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 20:57:01 -0800

Hello Edward!

Tuesday December 15 1992, Edward Deering Boykin writes to All:

 EDB> From: ccasted@prism.gatech.EDU (Edward Deering Boykin)

 EDB> Loopback device init
 EDB> Warning WD8013 board not found at i/0 280

              ^^^^^^ An Ethernet board for tcp/ip?!? not sure myself

 EDB> hda
 EDB> partition table ok
 EDB> general protection 0000
 EDB> EIP: 0008: 0000B6C4
 EDB> EFLAGS: 00010286
 EDB> fs: 0017
 EDB> base: C0000000, limit 000A0000
 EDB> pid: 1, process nr: 1
 EDB> 8b 13 85 dZ 74 27 83 3a 02 74


 EDB> it hangs at this point?
 EDB> What is WD8013. If it is some western digital board I don't have
one so
 EDB> why is it looking for it? I got a mesage when rawriting a2 to
floppy but
 EDB> a2 worked(or seemed to) fine when I used a1 and a2 to start up.
All help
 EDB> will be greatly appreciated.

 I get this same error when I try to boot .99 installed from SLS.  I
assume it is the init process crashing 'cuz the [scroll lock] and
assorted "reporting" keys still tell me process status, mem status and
the sorts.  Any help out there?
The .98.5 that I am using breaks alot of things here that I wanna get
fixed, but I want a more steady environment before I dive into the
code!

Geoffrey

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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 11:19:46 EST
From: Dan the Man <DED110@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Help joining Linux-Activists?

      Well, I tried subscribing to the SCSI channel of the Linux-Activists
several times now and it just didn't work.  Can someone please explain how
it's supposed to be done?  I honestly tried a good dozen times.  My latest
failure gave me a response of "unvalid command: Join SCSI".  Help?




                                                 Dan the Man
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                                         (independent), misunderstood
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jting@mobius01.math.uwaterloo.ca ()
Subject: Re: SLS
Summary:  FTP site for SLS
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 22:17:00 GMT


I am planning to install linux on my machine (SLS).  Where is the most 
updated FTP site where I can get all the disks (for version 0.99)?  
Thanks for any replies.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
Subject: Re: ps that uses /proc
Keywords: ps recompile
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 21:34:08 GMT

n217cg@tamuts.tamu.edu (Scott Taylor) writes:

>In article <andrewc.724325825@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au> andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !) writes:
>>parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:
>>
>>>David Barr (barr@stein.u.washington.edu) wrote:
>>although I did notice in 98p6 that ps no longer shows the command line
>>options of the processes - they're all inside brackets...
>>
>>Any fixes ?

>I had this problem too; also, top claimed that I always had 100% free core- none
>of my processes  were using any memory!  Recompiling ps and top and then doing a
>ps -U fixed it.
Yeah, my top said I had 105% free core ! (or something past 100% anyway)
And this was when it was working !

Well, now that i compiled 0.99, yep, ps won't show processes, even with a ps
-U, so I'll just have to recompile it I guess...Sorry guys !


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From: ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: MONEY + Linux
Date: 17 Dec 1992 12:27:40 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: almaak.usc.edu

jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid) writes:

>>E.g. could universities be site-licensed, thereby
>>gaining the right to have attention paid to their bugs and config-
>>uration problems, and to receive regular updates?
>>
>You see, Linux (the kernel and most of the main utilities including
>the compiler are copy-lefted.  Anyone can give them away or sell them...
>So anysort of site licence based on updates will quickly be undermined
>by people just giving it away.

As you pointed out, Cygnus is a very interesting strategy for
blending the world of free software and the free market.

Cygnus works for clients.  They are beholden to supply bug fixes
to them.  But (thanks to the GPL) the improvements made by Cygnus
are returned to the free version of the software.

From the company's viewpoint, Cygnus is attractive because the
company gets a right to demand a bugfix.

From Cygnus' viewpoint, they make good money.

From our viewpoint (the net) we get bug fixes.

The same model will work with Linux.

        -ans.
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From: dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Philip Perucci)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: uugetty
Date: 16 Dec 92 15:36:15 GMT
Organization: Naval Medical Research & Development Command

Regarding uugetty...

I see two packages, "poe_igl" and "getty_ps".  I need a reliable
uugetty under 0.99 Linux.  Do both support this?  Currently, my
system has the binaries that come with the GCC distribution.

Rather than start a religious war, let me say that it looks like
"getty_ps" is limited to getty/uugetty, but does a far more complete
job of it.  Is there any reason NOT to use "getty_ps" package?

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From: ketil@ii.uib.no (Ketil M. Malde)
Subject: Re: S3 server 0.3 released
Reply-To: ketil@ii.uib.no
Organization: student of numerical analysis at the University of Bergen, Norway
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 01:45:09 GMT

>>>>> On Mon, 14 Dec 1992 23:05:28 GMT, jon@robots.ox.ac.uk (Jon
Tombs) posted some benchmarks on various X servers.

We ran some X benchmarks here on campus a while ago, and I thought
perhaps I could share the numbers with you all.

This is the most impressive benchmark Jon posted, for the rest of
them, look up the article:

S3 801 (Actix GraphicsEngine32)
TOTAL    102774 lineStones
TOTAL     45363 fillStones
TOTAL     27382 blitStones
TOTAL   2485082 arcStones
TOTAL    113125 textStones
TOTAL     97712 complexStones
TOTAL     60897 xStones

Here goes:

Silicon Graphics, SGI Indigo, 50mHz R4000 and some moderately fast
graphics card:


lines  435929		Note that this is running X, and not
fill    87513		the hardware supported GL extension
blit    28107		that SGI comes with.  This could probably
arcs  8782062
text   171875		increase performance somewhat.
comlex 113725

xstones 86377
---
NCD color X terminal, hooked to a Sun SparcStation-10 over 10mbit
ethernet: 

lines  120125
fill    46688
blit    43708
arcs  1233016
text   162135
complex  2222

xstones 75680
---
Sun SS2, running OpenWindows on a color screen:

lines  167198
fill    25151
blit    52037
arcs   665710
text   114468
complex 66209

xstones 61869
---
Sparc Station 1, b/w display:

lines   31175
fill    15834
blit    23891
arcs   752793
text    74687
complex 29738

xstones 30178
---

I don't give any guarantee of the accuracy of these figures, and they
may well be dependent on a lot of factors like network load etc etc.

I am impressed by the apparent speed of the S3 cards, however,
concidering they are not lagging far behind the indigo which is
specifically designed to handle graphics at high speeds, and costing
lots of $$$.  :-)



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From: Sten M. Drescher <smd@hrt216.brooks.af.mil>
Subject: Re: IMPORTANT [BUG in 0.99] Re: [ANNOUNCE]: linux version 0.99
Organization: AL/HRTI, Brooks AFB
	<1992Dec14.174625.1102@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
	<1992Dec14.201728.14054@tc.cornell.edu>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 22:26:05 GMT

	OK, now I have Linux booting from floppy.  On to the next
problem.  Our WD8003 boards are configured to use a base address of
0x0380, not 0x0280.  When I leave the base address at 0x280, the boot
correctly says it can't find a board, and continues past.  However, when
I change the base address to 0x0380 in net/tcp/Space.h, Linux prints
WD80013, and goes off into the night.  It doesn't reboot, it just hangs.
Any fixes, anyone?

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From: dinn@ug.cs.dal.ca (Michael 'Moose' Dinn)
Subject: Cron for Linux?
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 01:10:49 GMT


Does a cron-type scheduler exit for Linux? the SLS distribution doesn't
return anything on a find / -name \*cron\* -print.

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From: hartnegg@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Klaus Hartnegg)
Subject: Re: SLS98p1-TCPIP
Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Deutschland
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 22:10:47 GMT

Michael_Kraehe@hb.maus.de (Michael Kraehe) writes:

>   socket: Protocol not supported

ftp ftp.ruf.uni-freiburg.de
cd pc/linux/packages/tcpip
get config.c
quit
cc -o config config.c
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From: ellis@nova.gmi.edu (Stew Ellis)
Subject: Re: FAQ: Yes, the Dimond Stealth works in 1024x768 
Organization: GMI Engineering&Management Institute, Flint, MI
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 00:42:58 GMT

badger@phylo.life.uiuc.edu (Jonathan Badger) writes:

[stuff deleted]

>technical. Many people have the absurd belief that writing something like
>this would send the wrong message to Diamond that their policies are OK. 
>Diamond's policies are bad, I agree. But I can assure you that they could
>not care less about the very small Linux user base -- refusing to support 
>their cards is NOT going to bring about a change. 

>Telling us "sell your Stealth" is obviously a pretty unrealistic solution.
>Most of us can't afford to sell hardware every thirty seconds when some
>piece of software or another doesn't support it.

But, you see, Linux is not the only OS that uses the XFree86 X server
package.  Many other thousands of people are using it with BSD386 and SVR4.

The problem is that the authors of Xfree have committed to a portable
source-based distribution and will not support an entailed solution because
of Diamond's asinine policies.  You are free to implement whatever solution
you want, but if you want people who are committed to a source-based
distribution to support you, you are are really asking for something
absurd.  The first rule of buying hardware is spec your software and
determine if it will run on the desired hardware.  I would rather run SunOS
4.1.2, but it won't run on my choice of hardware.  I don't argue, I get the
right hardware or I run different software.  If you want to run your
Diamond, then write the initialization routine, or get the commercial
version of X386 from SGCS or buy Metrolink, both of which support it I
believe.


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From: johnson@ucselx.sdsu.edu (CC Lo)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Linux SLS 0.98.pl5 install help!!
Date: 14 Dec 92 10:29:35 GMT
Organization: San Diego State University Computing Services
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

Hi, I'm new with Linux.  I got Linux SLS package "a" from tsx-11.  I installed
"a" these two days.  Everything are fine except a message coming up during 
install a3: " MINIX-fs magic match failed ".  But it continued to finish the 
installation and I can't boot the hard disk from the new created boot floppy.
For your information, I got 4M and two 1.2M floppy, two hard disks, and I
installed the Linux on the 2nd HD.  Any info will be highly appreciated, 
thanks in advnance.

johnson@ucselx.sdsu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: u8011103@cc.nctu.edu.tw (Timothy C. F. Lee)
Subject: D-Link DE-200+ Help
Organization: National Chiao Tung University
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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 10:06:59 GMT


I cannot install Linux/SLS on my computer. I put a1 in the drive and reboot
my computer. After this message displayed on the screen, the system is down:

Load ............................................................
Press<RETURN> to see SVGA-modes avilable or <SPACE> to continue.

ttys0 at 0x03f8 (irq=4) is a 16450
ttys1 at 0x02f8 (irq=3) is a 16450
8 virtual consoles
lp_init: lp1 exists(0)

My computer has installed a D-Link DE-200+ Ethernet Card. And I found out
that all computers that have installed the D-Link DE-200+ have the same
problem. But it is ok for computers which install NE-2000.
Any suggestion?

=======
Timothy C. F. Lee
Department of Electronic Engineering
National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, R.O.C.
u8011103@cc.nctu.edu.tw
======
From: clave@frmug.fr.mugnet.org (Olivier Clave)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Mount command aborts (Segmentation fault core dump)
Keywords: mount
Date: 17 Dec 92 00:16:52 GMT
Organization: Minix User Group France

I can't install LINUX as "mount" command always produce a segmentation fault with core dump
It fails with hd or floppies.
Linux Boot: 0.98/ Root:0.97
My configuration is: 	PC AT Clone 386/33MHZ   16MGs RAM (70ns)   AMI BIOS V2.04 12/06/90
			Memory controller 85C310 (64K cache, Bios and Video Shadow)
                                    	2 floppies (1,4M + 1,2M), Hard drive 202 MGS (Western Digital)  IDE Controller
                                    	ISA bus
			Bus Controller 85C320 (DMA clock 4,773 MHZ, Bus clock speed=11Mhz)
			85C330 
			82C206 CMOS RAM Controller
  			Video Card Paradise VGA 1024 BIOS Version 10/13/89-14:00:00 (512k)
I got LINUX by FTPMAIL at tsx-11.mit.edu
When I try to install LINUX all is correct until it's time to mount hd:
FDISK finds four partitions, I give LINUX type to the first one (13MGS)
MKFS of /dev/hda1 is OK (13440 blocks)
But MOUNT of hard drive aborts (Segmentation fault with core dump) (mount /dev/hda1 /mnt)

Finally I success to install LINUX on my hardrive with dd command: dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/hda1
Then I boot on hard drive with bootlin dos command, login is OK
After that i try to mount a floppy: mount /dev/fd0 /mnt ==> Segmentation fault
Maybe there is a patch for mount ?
If anybody can help me, he is welcome
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: wolff@liberator.et.tudelft.nl (Rogier Wolff)
Subject: Re: Serial IRQ polling
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 13:57:34 GMT

adams@pdv2.fmr.maschinenbau.th-darmstadt.de (Adams) writes:

>In article <1gi6saINNaq4@life.ai.mit.edu> jimc@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (James Carpenter) writes:

>>   Does Linux poll serial ports (i.e. can I use COM2 and COM4 at the same time
>>   if they are both on IRQ 3). I have looked at the serial code but it just
>>   gets me dizzy. And I do not see any mention of polling (which is what I 
>>   always thought was the correct phrase). But is Linux suppose to do this?
>>   And if so PLEASE tell me that there is a trick to enabling it because
>>   nothing I've tried works.

>There is no reasonable way to poll a device in a multi user or
>realtime environment. Attaching to a timer
>will lead to a desastrous performance loss, and hooking the
>CPU will disable multitasking.

Linux doesn't poll, however if both COM2 and COM4 are in use, it will check
both devices before returing from the interrupt. Thus: No Linux doesn't
use polling, but it does allow both COM ports to be used. The only trick
is to get a reasonably new kernel.


					Roger.

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From: hartnegg@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Klaus Hartnegg)
Subject: Re: SCSI Controller
Keywords: scsi, adaptec, st01
Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Deutschland
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 17:21:20 GMT

ansgarr@rama.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Ansgar Radermacher) writes:

>I have a SCSI harddisk Quantum PD 210s and I want to buy a controller
>for using it with the PC. I am thinking about the Adaptec 1542, but if there
>is a cheaper solution (it shouldn't be a slower solution) that can be used
>with Linux I would like to hear about it.
>I also considered the Adaptec 1522, but I am not sure if it is supported
>yet.
>I heard that the Seagate ST01/ST02 might not work with my drive. Is this
>true ?

FORGET THE ST01/02 !
It just costs you a lot of time and money.
I learned it the hard way.

I too thought having a controller for $30 would be a lot nicer
than having to pay > $250 (these are the prices here in Germany).

However:
- the ST01 is not available any more in shops
- sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't
- it depends on the bios version
- it does not properly work with MY hard disk (Rodime 200 MB)
- it is not (yet?) really supported by Linux (i.e. will be sloooow).
- trying different controllers you will have to fdisk every time
  you switch controllers since they map the disk differently, even
  different ST01 controllers do it different (number of tracks and such).

Of course you MIGHT be lucky and save a lot of money.
But be warned that I WASTED a lot of money (and time!!) trying
to find a cheaper solution. Linux apparently does not like cheap
controllers. If there is a small problem, it does not work at all in Linux.
Right now I have an St01 here that works most of the time under dos
and it is being detected by Linux but then a few
seconds later Linux CRASHES with a SCSI timeout message.

Yesterday I gave up and ordered the Adaptec.

Klaus
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From: andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
Subject: Re: mail: Segmentation fault
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 23:22:05 GMT

steve@Nyongwa.CAM.ORG (Steve M. Robbins) writes:

>In article <1992Dec11.120053.20679@aston.ac.uk> evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans) writes:

>>in fact the problem is in the mktemp() routine in libc.
>>and is 'fixed' by compiling with -fwritable-strings

>If this is true, then I'm confused:  getty_ps also uses the mktemp()
>routine, and has no problems under pl6 without writable-strings.

Well, 98p5 DID break getty_ps - Mine left core droppings in the root dir.
and a patch was posted a week or so ago...Works ok now (almost...)


Enjoy !

Cos !
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From: kosina@techbook.com (Martin Kosina)
Subject: Linux 0.99 still unbootable
Organization: TECHbooks of Beaverton Oregon - Public Access Unix
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 03:05:13 GMT

I am still unable to boot 0.99. I am running 0.98p-1
now with extended FS and sysvinit. Applying the two
little patches posted earlier helped to get rid of
the 'paging request;' error but boot now 'hangs'
after printing the 'Linux 0.99 (root@...' banner. 
I can type on the keyboard but nothing happens, no
prompts or disk access, nothing. I am booting off
a floppy which I made with 'make disk'.

Does anyone have the same problem ? 

Thanks

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From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
Subject: Re: ps that uses /proc
Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 10:45:51 GMT

Andrew J. Cosgriff ! (andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au) wrote:
>parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:
>>You need to recompile ps and friends for 0.99. Before I did this ps showed
>>a total of 0 processes (but didn't give an error). Lack of recompilation
>>of ps and friends probably explains their sick state with 0.98 pl6.

>ps -U
>ought to do (assuming you have a /usr/src/linux/tools/system  file)

Oh, I forgot that. (To say that I did "ps U" about 20 times: the number of
times I recompiled while testing different versions of tcp).

>although I did notice in 98p6 that ps no longer shows the command line
>options of the processes - they're all inside brackets...

== sick state (IMHO). The options are not shown in brackets, the name of the
executable is, since this is stored in the process table, while the command
line parameters are stored in the programs memory space. ps seems to think that
the program is swapped out.

>Any fixes ?
Perhaps recompiling ps would do the trick? (seriously).

(smilies deleted for ideological reasons)

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