HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: gei@phdrw2 (Juergen Geinitz)
Subject: Re: Linux and Adaptec 1542B SCSI (SCSI driver problem)
Organization: Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH,  Germany
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 10:06:40 GMT

In article <1992Nov12.152801.3139@us-es.sel.de> balz@us-es.sel.de (Stefan Balz) writes:
>Hi everybody!
>
>I've just installed an Adaptec host adapter and a Quantum P105S harddisk in my computer and there seems to be some problem with the Linux SCSI drivers. Linux (0.98) detects the host adapter and the hard drive correctly but writing to the hard disk is terribly slow (reading from the drive is no problem). To me it seems as if the driver was actually occupying the bus without transferring any data to the hard disk ('cause its not making any noise as it normally does). Transferring 1MB of data takes seve
>nutes before I do get the UN*X prompt again.
>
Funny I'm running 0.98.3 on an 1542 with a Quantum pd425s and I have no problems.
Are you really sure its no hardware problem?

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: eoi@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Chenmin Zhang)
Subject: (append) Does someone port ImageMagick to Linux yet?
Keywords: ImageMagick, X, linux
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 19:38:50 GMT


In article <Bxnx24.t4@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> you write:
>   The title says all !!!,  This package supposes to be run under X.
>

    I forgot to say in the last message that I did try to compile it,
but I failed to generate a makefile for my xfree86-1.1 of linux version.
When I run xmkmf command I got the following message:

    % mv Makefile Makefile.bak
    % imake -DUseInstalled -I/usr/X386/lib/X11/config
    % In file included from /usr/X386/lib/X11/config/Imake.tmpl:892, from :3:
    % /tmp/IIf.a00169:11: invalid preprocessor direction name
    % /tmp/IIf.a00169:15: invalid preprocessor direction name
    % imake: exit code 33. stop.

    To cause someone's interest, the ImageMagick is a image processing tool,
and it can translate between different image format, such as: TIFF, postscript,
PCX,...   


    Does some have any clue?

    Thanks advance!


Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: davidre@ifi.uio.no (David Eric Reksten)
Subject: Xconfig & Trident - The Solution?
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 10:38:53 GMT
Originator: davidre@kolsaas.ifi.uio.no


I have followed the thread concerning Linux and the Trident 8900C
videodriver with great interest. I have a tvga8900 myself, but I have
so far not succeeded in making it cooperate with X11. I read somewhere
that a TVGA bios of 4.0 or newer was needed, but I have so far not
seen any confirmation on this fact.

My bios is reported to be C3.0, and hence apparently not the one that
works. Could ANYONE please tell me if this is a fact, or just rumors?

There also appears to be some trident-files at tsx-11.mit.edu in 
/pub/linux/packages/X11/devel/. I have not looked at these files yet,
but perhaps there is a solution mentioned there...

If it now appeared that I (and others, too, I suppose) would have to
upgrade to v4.0 to make X work, would anyone please tell me if this is
possible/feasible? What would it cost? Or should we go out and buy a
Tseng ET4000???

Comments received with gratitude.

BTW: Thanks, Mr. Torvalds, for a superb operating system!
-- 
.david, Ipsa sua melior fama
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David E.Reksten, Univ. of Oslo, dept. of informatics, Norway
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jem@calypso.uucp (Jonathan Magid)
Subject: Re: where to find patches for 0.98pl3
Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 16:04:15 GMT

In article <pdhatchm.721034075@anaconda> pdhatchm@socs.uts.edu.au (Paul Hatchman) writes:
>
>I downloaded the 0.98pl3 kernel sources from tsx-11 and noticed that there was
>a problem with mounting then unmounting filesystems. 
>
>I assume this was the bug that was mentioned before in c.o.l.
>
>Where do I find the patches for this problem? Unfortunately the previous
>articles on the subject have expired here so I cant look them up.
>
>Thanks
>

yeah, be careful with this one; i believe it is the one that trashed
Hlu's filesystem.  Grab the patch from sunsite.unc.edu in /pub/Linux/Incoming
as something like importan983.patch.

jem.
ps. I put all sources and patches posted to comp.os.linux in Incoming
on sunsite, so if something expires on you, that is a good place to look
first.


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From: jmsimon@acsu.buffalo.edu (JMS)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: emacs under X
Keywords: emacs, X, x11emacs
Date: 11 Nov 92 03:30:12 GMT
Organization: ewe bee, you be, UB

kernel@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Kernel Account) writes:
>A.J.Bleasby@daresbury.ac.uk (Alan Bleasby) writes:
>> >This is probably a real easy question, but does anyone know how to  
>> >make emacs
>> >work under X? It seems to want to stay under the Xterm window.
>> 
>> Not that easy. You need a version of emacs that has been compiled to  
>> take advantage of X. Has anyone done this yet? I'd do it myself only am 
>> a little short of disc space..... :-)
>
>The emacs package that I downloaded from tsx-11 (I think) contained the  
>necessary *stuff* for running emacs under X.  Included is an executable  
>called x11emacs, which is what you need to run to take advantage of X.   
>You might check to see if you already have this and just don't know it.
>
>Check out tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/binaries/emacs-18.58

If you know you are going to want to run emacs in "text" mode and in it's
own window in X, you can simply remove your normal 'emacs' executable and
rename x11emacs to 'emacs' -- emacs will then try to create a window for
iteself if your DISPLAY environment variable is set, otherwise will run in
"text" mode in the current window/virtual console.

JMS


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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: gusset@ntb.ch (Thomas Gusset)
Subject: missing traditional.h
Reply-To: gusset@ntb.ch
Organization: Neu-Technikum Buchs, Switzerland
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 14:00:23 GMT

I got the source of linux-0.98.1. When I tried to make the Kernel, the header traditional.h was missing.

Where can I find it?

Thomas

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From: mbeattie@black.ox.ac.uk (Malcolm Beattie)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Can I make/mount a filesystem in a file?
Date: 11 Nov 92 09:29:05 GMT
Organization: Oxford University Computing Service, 13 Banbury Rd, Oxford, U
Originator: mbeattie@black

In article <1992Nov10.124856.629@gdr.bath.ac.uk> maspab@gdr.bath.ac.uk (P A Broadbery) writes:
>In the referenced article, rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller, Linux Device Registrar) writes:
>>I think I remember this thread coming up before, but I don't remember if
>>it was satisfactorily answered...
>>
>>Can I create a file (maybe with "dd if=/dev/zero of=filename count=$size")
>>in which I could make a filesystem ("mkfs filename $size")
>>and then mount that filesystem?
>
>Try using the user_dd patches in the ALPHA directory on tsx-11. They
>allow you to create block devices which talk to a user level program,
>and a supplied client does just what you ask.
>
>There is also a 'ramdisk' program which is a cool way of loading HJ's
>{base,gcc,lib}disks without wasting a floppy (or uncompressing the
>image). ramdisk in quotes 'cos it spends most its time swapped out...

Aaargh. This reminds of a Sun seminar a month or two back when
a couple of Sun engineers mentioned that one of the
performance-increasing features of Solaris 2.0 was an ability
to swap out to memory instead of disk... 
Oh for the days when disk was disk and memory was memory (or core, rather...)
On the other hand, I think I'll stick with Linux.

--Malcolm

>
>BTW, is anybody maintaining this program?
>
>Pete
>pab@maths.bath.ac.uk


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From: hpa@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin N9ITP)
Subject: Re: USA Linus fund -- final accounting (was: Thanks...)
Reply-To: hpa@nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin)
Organization: You must be kidding!
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 03:06:30 GMT

With Linus' thanks I thought this was an appropriate time to make the final
accounting report for the USA Linus fund.

William Broadley            $25
Philip Balister             $50
Cameron Spitzer             $35
Stephen Hill                $40
Jeffrey Moore              $100
Phil Anglin                 $50
James Lynch                 $50
Richard Almquist            $10
John Montgomery             $25
David Black                 $50
Mark Ng                    $100
Hisanori Noguchi            $20
John White                  $50
Satish Chittamuru           $50
Conway Yee                  $20
Charles Wilson              $25
Anonymous: "Linus Rules"    $20
Joel Hoffman                $25
Peter Anvin		    $40
-------------------------------
Subtotal		   $785
Wire transfer charge	   -$35
----------------------------------
Total		       USD  750.00
Tranfer rate USD/FIM	     .2087
----------------------------------
Final sum	       FIM 3593.68

Thanks, everyone, and let's go back to hacking!

	/hpa
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: 900058s@dragon.acadiau.ca (Andre Sonnichsen)
Subject: Re: DVI program for Epson 9- or 24-pin printer?
Organization: Acadia University
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 13:38:16 GMT

rchen@fraser.sfu.ca (Robert Chen) writes:

>Use dvips and the print it with ghostscript.  Works great.

	How do you tell ghostscript where to print the output?
I compiled in the epson driver, and used -sDEVICE=epson, but it won't
print.  At first it said it couldn't find /dev/lbp so I created a symbolic
link to /dev/lp1 (my epson).  Still no output.

	Any ideas?


Andre Sonnichsen
900058s@dragon.acadiau.ca

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.lang.tcl,comp.os.coherent,comp.unix.misc
From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM>
Subject: Re: Tcl to replacement most of /bin & /usr/bin (was: Tcl on Linux machines.)
Originator: tchrist@pixel.convex.com
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 18:07:12 GMT
Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Organization: Convex Computer Corporation, Colorado Springs, CO
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

From the keyboard of "David Herron" <david@twg.com>:

:  Perl is more like what I said about Basic-Plus above.  It's large
:  and while it can be embedded, it looks hard to do so.

Perl5 is embeddable.  See the recent Perl FAQ or mail me.

:- TCL is not subject to the GNU Public Liscense (GPV) while Perl is.

No, it's not, actually.  There's a different license available for it,
called the Artistic License, which comes in its src directory.

--tom
From: simonich@uservx.plk.af.mil
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: XView3 Source
Date: 6 Nov 92 10:46:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: uservx.1992Nov6.104618.36403
Organization: Phillips Laboratory - Kirtland AFB

I am looking for the source for XView3.  I know that it exists in
contrib-3 on export.lcs.mit.edu but I'm not quite desperate
enough to down load 15M+ just to get it.

A previous post announced that it also existed at XView3.ucdavis.edu
but the NIC doesn't recognize that host.

Does anyone know the numeric host name where XView3 exists as
a separate file?

Thanks
From: apl@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ari P Laakkonen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Help needed: S3 / Alpha Server
Date: 9 Nov 1992 14:21:11 GMT
Organization: Department Of Computing, Imperial College, London UK
Distribution: world
Reply-To: apl@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ari P Laakkonen)
NNTP-Posting-Host: peaberry.doc.ic.ac.uk


In article <1992Nov7.181829.19864@tandem.com>, tran@tran.Berkeley.EDU
(Tran) writes:
|> I have been running SLS 0.98.pl1-40 on my Farenheit 1280 card using the
|> MONO server and would now like to try the Alpha S3 server from 
|> ftp.robots.ox.ac.uk.   I downloaded the source and binaries last night and 
|> installed it on my machine.  When I ran "startx", I got just a blue
background
|> with no cursor or anything.  The mouse did not respond.  When I tried to 
|> rebuild the server with the source, mit/server/dix/cursor.c failed
because it 
|> sourced in /mit/server/include/dixfont.h, which sourced in a non-existent 
|> <font.h>.  Would a knowledgeable person out there inform me as to why:
|> 
|> - the binary for the Alpha server failed to work in the first place and 
|> - where I can find font.h and possibly other missing include files in order
|>    to successfully rebuild the server.  (By the way, I did find a copy of 
|>    font.h and other include files in the directory /mit/server/include/old.
|>    I tried to compile with these but this generated in many many more 
|>    errors.  I suspected that this is not the correct files.)
|> 
|> FYI, I am running on a 486-33 with a local bus Farenheit-1280 (dont know
|> if that makes a difference.  The MONO server seemed to work).
|> 
|> Regards,
|> 
|> Hieu T. Tran
|> 

I have a similar configuration and the S3 server works. Try running
it with the command line 'startx >& out', when the blue background comes
up it means that the server has not started properly but has not restored
text mode either. sync, reboot, and read the file 'out' for info on what
went wrong when the server tried to start. There are lots of possibilities..
the usual problems are with fonts. You must install the fonts separately,
e.g. from an XFree86 package, and they must be uncompressed. Other programs
necessary for the operation of the server, like xterm, must also be obtained
from the XFree86 package.
You say that the mono server works. One reason the S3 server can crash
is because of the monochrome data section in the Xconfig file. Eliminate this
section from the file if that is causing the problem.

Ari
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ajake@mits.mdata.fi (Jarkko Aitti)
Subject: linux crashes
Organization: Microdata Oy, Helsinki, Finland
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 05:54:07 GMT

Hi, i'm running linux 0.98.3 at my 486dx with no problems (almost),
BUT my friend who has 486sx have lots of problems with it.
(i'm posting this because he has no modem to use)

Machine:
Motherboard is marketed under name 'contaq' and uses AMI bios and is
compatible also with 486DX prosessors, it's a ISA bus, it has 486sx cpu.
There's some chips marked UMC, so maybe it's using UMC chipset (dunno if there
is UMC chipset, i heard these infos over phoneline)
4 Megs memory.

Harddisk is Maxtor LXT213A atv2.05 ( i think it's atid, and i don't know its
revision number)

There's also sounblaster card and oak vga card.

Software:
SLS 0.98.1 release (copy of mine which works), now upgraded to 0.98.3 kernel.
Using ext filesystem and one swappartition.

Problem:
Lots of different hangups at random interval, which does not depend if he is
using it or not. (at least seems like it)

errors:

 Trying to free nonexistant swapspace
---------------
ext_find_entry: Bad dir entry
device=770,dir=212,offset=520,reclen=770,name_len=0
---------------
General protection:0000
elp:0008:0001 695b
eflag:00010286
fs:0017
base:00000000 limit:c0000000
pid:576,prosess nr 2
8b,50,24,89,15,e8,ab,04,00,c7
(these he gots at least one screenful at a time)
-----------------

Sometimes machine resets immediately after erros so it's hard to read them.
Previously he used mcc-0.97.2 release, and had no problems..
(those both were copies of mine, so disks should be allright)

how is he tried to fix it:
first after gotting that swap error, he reformatted swappartion.
(with -c option, allthought there is no erros)

After i heard that there's a maxtor harddisk, i remebered of reading lots about
problems with some revisions of it. (it's in my KILL file:)
So, i borrowed my wd controller and he had st-251 drive, which he first
formatted (lowlevel) and then started to install SLS release to it.

He got those 'general protection errors' while installing it, so it wasn't
maxtor which did those...

He is using dos and windows with no problems at all..

Resetted bios setups to defaults didn't help..

I saw one posting from someone who mentioned also having same kind of problems
with motherboard which had chips reading 'UMC'.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: des@inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
Subject: Re: Linus and his virtual beer
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 12:21:08 GMT

Jonathan Magid (jem@calypso.uucp) wrote:
: Please use the alternate port 4242 if you are English and, hence
: prefer you beer warm.

please use port 6543 if your american and consider watneys red barrel
to be a "premium imported beer" (as advertised in californian bars ...
red barrel was discontinued in the UK about 12 years ago after being
villified by CAMRA, campaign for real ale, as being an example of all
that was wrong with mass produced "dead" beer).


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From: ddj+@cs.cmu.edu (Doug DeJulio)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Realtime procs under Linux?
Date: 10 Nov 92 16:09:49 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.BxICwE.B8r.2
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon


I'm thinking of running some experiments concerning the implementation
of realtime processes on a Unix-like platform.  My current thoughts
are to start with either Mach 3.0 or Linux.  Has anyone done anything
like this under Linux?  Any advice on how hard it would be?

(I would want to change the entire algorithm behind deciding which
 tasks get run at which times, and I'd need to wire some pages into
 physical memory permenantly, but I'd still want most of the software
 on the machine to run normally.)

-- 
Doug DeJulio
ddj+@cmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: dminer@cs.umr.edu (Dan Miner)
Subject: Possible 0.98.3 bug (in fs mounting)
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 07:18:48 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Rolla
Originator: dminer@mcs213b.cs.umr.edu

	Ok.  Here is one to hurt your brain on.. :)

mount /dev/fd0 /mnt	(first time)
	No problems...

(commands in that fs... like dir...:)

umount /dev/fd0
	No problems...

Now, if you do this quickly with a new disk.

mount /dev/fd0 /mnt (second time)
	No problems...

dir /mnt
	PROBLEMS: (errmsg)
ll_rw_block: Trying to read nonexistent block-device 0000 (19)
total 0
{prompt}
umount /dev/fd0 (immediately)

(Note: the (19) changes to a 17 also...)

Now, if you wait about 30 secs or delete the /mnt and mkdir again or
sync or messup (like mount /dev/fd0 ) you will mount with no problems
and any fs operations work...????  How is that one?  :)

Sometimes you HAVE to get that errmsg before you can remount and try
again... Flakey...

I have 98.3 (whole sources with a patchlevel of 98.2pl10 (why?))
and I got my mount and stuff from hlu disks....

Thanks,
Dan
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University of Missouri-Rolla             "It all begins with a glimmer."
From: ianj@citrus.SAC.CA.US ( Ian Justman )
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: X and EGA
Date: 4 Nov 92 20:47:52 GMT
Organization: Citrus Grove Public Access ( 916 ) 381-5822    Sacramento CA.  USA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

Is it possible to use the words "X11" and "EGA" in the same sentence?
If so, how do I get the former to run with the latter?  Many thanks
for any advice, good or bad.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: drew@caesar.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
Subject: Re: help compile 0.98.4 odd errors
Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 08:47:52 GMT

In article <92317.053844BTITMARS@ESOC.BITNET> BARRY TITMARSH <BTITMARS@ESOC.BITNET> writes:
>this is the result i get from just typeing make in the /usr/src/linux
>dir

Since the Linux makefile no longer uses -nostdinc on cc and cpp, 
you must make /usr/include/linux a symlink to /usr/src/linux/include/linux.
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From: ee89jje%ee.surrey.ac.uk (Ed)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: X won't restore text mode -- what to do
Date: 5 Nov 92 16:21:51 GMT
Organization: University of Surrey, Guildford, England
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Sami-Pekka Hallikas (Esemi@polaris.utu.fi) wrote:
: cs89rdb@brunel.ac.uk (Roger D Binns) writes:
: >Sami-Pekka Hallikas (Esemi@polaris.utu.fi) wrote:
: >> When I end my X session, the screen stays in graphics mode.  The
: 
: >I have found (ET4000) that my text mode is only restored properly if I
: >choose SVGA mode 1.  Any other modes wont work.  Since it is 100x40, I can
: >live with it.
: 
: But I have not choices any text modes, I allways press space when computer
: ast those damn text modes... Hmm. Maybe it won't like NORMAL mode :-/
: 
: >Roger
: Semi ;)

This also happens if you run X without the required kernel - at least
0.97p4 I think.

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From: apl@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ari P Laakkonen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: SCSI problems
Date: 6 Nov 1992 18:35:01 GMT
Organization: Department Of Computing, Imperial College, London UK
Distribution: world
Reply-To: apl@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ari P Laakkonen)
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In article <1992Nov6.151023.29069@athena.mit.edu>, pjs@raster.Kodak.COM
(Patrick Sweeney) writes:
|> Hi,
|> 	I am posting this for a friend. He is currently running Linux 0.98.3
|> on a 486/33 Gateway 4M ram with a SCSI Maxtor 340M hd using and Adaptec
|> controller. Running anything on the machine that uses heavy disk io is
|> sllloooowwww (e.g. it took him 4 hours to compile the kernel).
|> Swapping is disabled. Anybody else had this sort of problem and any ideas
|> for solution outside of buying a new machine ;-)
|> tnx
|> 	if you have anything specific please send mail to
|> 		bmt@raster.kodak.com
|> 
|> - pjs@raster.kodak.com
|> 
|> 

Yes, I have the same problem but just not so bad.. kernel compilation is not
too bad, but sometimes it can take about 10-15 secs to do a sync after
just compiling a single kernel file & linking... My IDE drive is much faster.
My configuration is TiKo 486/50 16M ram, 120M IDE quantum, Adaptec 1542B
with 120M SCSI Maxtor. It seems like whenever the machine runs out of cache
space and writes stuff to disk, or an explicit sync is done then things
really freeze.
I use the 0.98.3 kernel with TCP/IP & cd-rom extra bits. 
I don't have a swap file.

Anyone any ideas what is going on?

Ari