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From: pwong@pwong.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (P.Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: What video card is good for Linux, OS2 and MS-Windows? 
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 93 22:41:59 EST
Organization: Ping Wong

I have purchased SpeedStar 24x couple months ago and it is a good card
for MS-Windows. However, I could not get the card to work in resolution
higher than 640x480 on Linux and OS2. I was going to wait for the drivers,
but I figure by the time the drivers become available, my 486/50MHz would
have been obsolete. Right now I am looking for a video card which is
supported by Linux, OS2 and MS-Windows. Would anyone please tell me what
video cards are good to be considered? The price range is < $400.

                My system configuration is
                486/50MHz w/ 16M
                SpeedStar 24x Video Card
                NEC 4FG
                PAS16 Sound Card

Thanks in advance!

--
pwong!pwong.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (P.Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: adam@netcom.com (Adam J. Richter)
Subject: Re: [Q] Non SCSI CDROM and tape drives
Keywords: Hardware, CDROM, Tape drives, interfaces
Organization: Yggdrasil Computing, Incorporated
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 09:23:30 GMT

In article <2232@osiris.bosch.de> mchapman@eis.k8.rt.bosch.de writes:
>What I would like to do is to be able to install linux directly from
>a CD. Is there any distribution (ideally CDROM and one floppy) which
>would allow me to do this? This would be really neat for people without
>FTP access who want to install the whole lot (linux, X, TeX etc).

	You are describing the Yggdrasil Linux/GNU/X CDROM
distribution.  You can get more information about the distribution
by sending mail to yggdrasil@netcom.com or by anonymous FTP from
netcom.com:pub/yggdrasil.

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409 Evelyn Ave., Apt. 312, Albany CA 94706  PO Box 8418, Berkeley CA 94707-8418
(510) 528-3209				    (510) 526-7531, fax: (510) 528-8508
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Another member of the League for Programming Freedom (league@prep.ai.mit.edu).
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: horke@buchonia.rhoen.in-berlin.de (Bernhard Kroenung)
Subject: Installing Packages from HD - how ?
Organization: fulmin Ebersburg/Rhoen
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 01:33:28 GMT

Hy

is it possible to install packages from HD (mounted DOS-Partition) instead
of installing every single disk. Just put all the files in a directory and
the "sysinstall -instsrc /mounted/dos/partition" should work - but how ?

  Ciao
    Bernhard
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From: bryanw@rahul.net (Bryan Woodworth)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: XANIM - FIXED!  <It's a DL viewer for X11>
Date: 5 Jan 93 22:35:22 GMT
Organization: a2i network

I'm pleased to announce that due to outstanding program author support,
Xanim is now fixed and ready to run on Linux systems.  It requires but ONE
line fix in ONE source file.  Linux is extremely compatible!  I love it!

So, please ftp to my site if you'd  like the fastest DL viewer for Linux-X.
 It's called xanim.tar.Z, and the fix is included as a separate file in the
same subdir called "xanim.linux.fix."  Just comment out one line, and
you're ready to compile and view DL animations on your Linux X system!

There are also FLI, GL and MPEG viewers at my ftp site.  I told bout it in
an earlier message but I'll regurgitate:  

ftp.rahul.net 192.160.13.1
cd to /pub/bryanw/unix/animations  
o Login anonymously
o Connections accepted 24hrs a day
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Bryan Woodworth <bryanw@rahul.net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: a080700@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk (Stephen Wong S M)
Subject: gcc 2.3.3 & libc.so.4.2
Organization: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 02:30:03 GMT

Hello all linuxers,

Would any wise guy to summarize what should be done (in steps) to get
gcc 2.3.3 & libc.so.4.2 installed?  I saw numerous articles about this
tough exercise!  But I (and possibly many others) am still not brave
and confident enough to jump into this new world, especially the story
of cannot login if some steps are missing!

Would you mind to tell what binaries will not work anymore if I install
libc.so.4.2 and if possible what's the remedy?  I know, I can grap the
source code and recompile, but I don't have the space to get every
source code in /bin, /usr/bin, /etc and it shouldn't like this, right?
I can do some recompile, just like to know in advance what should I
expect to do in order to use the new compiler and library.

I heard about using emacs to edit binary files, is it the only method?
I feel very uneasy in using a text editor to change bits and bytes in
binaries!  But if it has to be, would you mind to give instructions
clearly about what steps should be done?

Okay, I'm using SLS with a self compiled 0.99pl2 kernel and thanks
Peter for your work with SLS.  Will you put gcc 2.3.3 and lib 4.2 into
SLS shortly?

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From: sb@deins.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Stefan Buenemann)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Can't compile new kernel (O.99p2)
Date: 8 Jan 1993 11:52:40 GMT
Organization: CS Department, Dortmund University, Germany
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: meins.informatik.uni-dortmund.de

I have some problems with compiling kernel from Linux 0.99p2. I'd installed
SLS 0.98p5 just one month ago and was able to recompile the kernel to get
the German keyboard work. Yesterday I downloaded the new kernel (0.99p2)
from nic.funet.fi. I chnaged the makefile and did make config, make dep and
make clean. Then I started make all. All worked fine until the file
tty_io.c in /linux/kernel/chr_drv was to compile. After a few minutes the
compilation goes in an endless loop (I think). The HD/lamp blinks once a second
and I interrupted after about one hour. Then I changed the Makefile in 
/kernel/chr_drv. I changed tty_io with tty_ioctl. Now tty_ioctl is compiled
but with the next file, console.c, I had the same problem mentioned before.
Please HELP !!

Stefan Buenemann

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From: lp@shlink.hanse.de (Lutz Petersen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re^2: SLS4 UUCP/SMAIL Questions
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 16:48:20 CET
Organization: 'shlink public site +49 4121 63587'

Im Artikel <LFFTwB1w165w@wefunk.rent.com> schreibt ludwig@wefunk.rent.com (Mitchel F. Ludwig):
> 
> name is softland.mysubdomain.domain.  Now, I figure I can change the
> softland part using the hostname command in an RC file, but how do I
> change the .mysubdomain.domain stuff to work with my domain stuff

 The best would be to recompile SMail. A lot of things are compiled
 in the Stuff. Another way would be to read the SMail-docs and create
 the right config-Files.

 Lutz
From: anto@dutetvf.tudelft.nl (Anto Daryanto)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: [HELP] Mail and LILO 0.7
Date: 5 Jan 93 10:04:52 GMT
Organization: Delft University of Technology

Hi Linux-er's, I've installed Linux last night. It works great,
although I encounter some problem:
 
[Q1] when I as user send a mail to other user I always get error message:
     "/usr/spool/mail/user.lock not creatable after 10 tries" and no
     mail sent.
 
[Q2] After doing HALT appears on the screen:
     "cannot exec /etc/umount, trying umount"  but you can shutdown
     normally. 

[Q3] Can anybody tell me line-by-line how to install LILO with OS/2
     boot manager? I've compiled LILO 0.7 but don't know how to
     install it.

Any help would be appreciated,
Anto Daryanto
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E-Mail: a.daryanto@dutetvd.et.tudelft.nl 
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: miranda@suspicion (Johann Miranda)
Subject: Re: LEAVING X -> Corrupted Textmode WHY ??????
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 19:31:18 GMT
Reply-To: miranda@eng.uiowa.edu
Organization: Department of Elect. and Comp. Engr., University of Iowa, USA.
Keywords: X Textmode

In article <1i94raINNnds@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> jansen@bruichladdich.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Thomas Jansen) writes:
>Hi there ,
>
>Leaving X  doesn't restore the Textmode .....
>I know that this is a known problem but is this a know-solveable or a 
>know-non-solveable-problem ????
>Maybe there exists a program, which re-init the VGA - card to their
>initial-values ....
>
>Maybe somebody know this and email it
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>                   TOM
>

	Attention! All of you people out there with a Trident card and the SLS
distribution!
If you are experiencing this problem, the possible fix might be (Many
thanks to William O'Connel, wto@ihlpx.att.com for pointing it out to me):

ftp to tsx-11.mit.edu
got to /attic/sources/libs
grab the vgalib with date May 26.
Careful with it. It will eat up the vgalib from SLS if you just untar it.
So rename it and uncompress it and untar it. Grab the runx binary (or
recompile the thing) and stick it into /usr/bin

To launch X do: runx startx ( Yes in the same line).

this should do it. Enjoy linuxing!
Adios.					-JEM-
From: root@slave.uwe.ac.uk (Operator (Phil/Dylan))
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Thanks for SLS, and some X problems.
Date: 9 Jan 93 01:02:59 GMT
Reply-To: p_copela@csd.uwe.ac.uk
Organization: The New University in the West of England, Bristol (WEB)

In article <726151359.27398@minster.york.ac.uk>, gary@minster.york.ac.uk
writes:
|> When in X the keyboard translation seem wrong. I'm using a UK
|> keyboard but X seems to think it's a US. I have rebuilt the kernel
|> for a UK keyboard and the translation work fine when not in X. I'm
|> not an X guru. Any clues?

well I found that I had to include a file (xmodmap.uk which I've forgotten
where i got) in the ~/.xinitrc
...
xmodmap -quiet /etc/xmodmap.uk
...

/etc/xmodmap.uk contains lines in the following format

...
keycode   9 = Escape
keycode  10 = 1 exclam
keycode  11 = 2 quotedbl
keycode  12 = 3 sterling
keycode  13 = 4 dollar
keycode  14 = 5 percent
...

Hope that this helps

Phil
=--=
From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Seyon 1.7
Date: 6 Jan 1993 15:17:16 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

danubius@halcyon.com (Joseph R. Pannon) writes:

>I've just got Seyon-1.7 on my PC and when I installed it, I was
>surprised that the tar placed it in a directory branching off directly
>from the root!  Isn't this highly unusual place to install software
>packages?  Many of us actually reserved only a small partition for root
>and the last things I want to see is getting app packages in there!  Is
>it OK to move that seyon directory under /usr, or somewhere else before
>I compile the whole thing?

>BTW, the minimal install instructions mention something about running a
>'Configure' first. That should generate the necessary config.h header
>file.  What is this Configure?  The only one I found was a script
>somewhere in the linux src directory, but that had nothing to do with
>Seyon.  So this sounds Chinese to me right off the bat! ;-)

>Can anybody enlighten me about this?

>.... and I thought linux was "stingy" with documentation! ;-)

>Thanks,
>Joe Pannon

This may be a little new to you, but that is YOUR system, so you can put
the packages where you want. Most packages out there shouldn't have
paths hardcoded into them that are different from normal. Before installing
something, you should do a 

tar -ztvf <tar-file> to see where its going.

James
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: kfisher3@mach1.wlu.ca (kevin fisher U)
Subject: Getty and dumb terms
Summary: probably a dumb question..
Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 18:53:14 GMT

Ok, I modified inittab and set up getty so I can connect a dumb terminal to
my comm port, and everything's fine BUT....

Is there any way I can change the parity of the comm port?  It seems to want
mark parity, and the terminal I have only has none/even/odd.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: burch@seas.smu.edu (Chris Burchett)
Subject: Help! linux boot disk blanks video
Organization: SMU - School of Engineering & Applied Science - Dallas
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 04:04:05 GMT


Please help!

I am in the process of loading linux on my PC and I have ran into a
bit of a snag.  I installed the base system and the install script
created a boot disk.
Now when the system boots from the new disk the screen goes
blank?  The install boot disk works fine and I was able to see 
that the files seemed to get transfered OK.
I did some reading in the news here and found a problem like mine
The response said the video was changing to SVGA and the rdev -v
call was designed to prevent the switch.  I tried it with no change.

Please give me some hints.  I am excited about linux and would like
to get it running.

My configuration is a 386SX 20M with 4M RAM and a standard
paradise VGA.

Thanks in advance

burch@seas.smu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg)
Subject: Who is maintaining QIC-02?
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 15:02:59 GMT
Organization: TC Telemanagement, Clearwater, FL

Good news: I have QIC-02 support (tpqic02-2c) working under 0.99.2.

Bad news: I can't find the author of the QIC-02 drivers.  He seems to
have fallen off the face of the earth.

Request: If anyone knows where he is, please let me know, so we can
work on making a QIC-02 driver that fits better into the 0.99 scheme.

adTHANKSvance
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT  <chip@tct.com>, <73717.366@compuserve.com>
  "you make me want to break the laws of time and space / you make me
   want to eat pork / you make me want to staple bagels to my face /
   and remove them with a pitchfork" -- Weird Al Yankovic, "You Make Me"
From: geek+@CMU.EDU (Brian E. Gallew)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: [Q] SLIP, KA9Q, SunOs 4.1.1
Date: 6 Jan 93 08:53:08 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.AfGmeIe00WAuE0wbJM
Organization: Administrative Computing & Info Services, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Personal E-mail bounced, so here it is on the net:

Question:  Where did you get the SLIP patches for 0.99p2?  The last
SLIP patch set I saw was for 0.97p5.  If you don't have the SLIP
patches installed, then you can't run SLIP, only KA9Q, which is an
*entirely* different beast in terms of why it won't run.  Let me know,
and I'll see if I can help!

                                  -Brian

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From: kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Possible bug in 99.2 - file table overflow
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 93 11:54:32 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Brandon S. Allbery's Personal System

probreak@sam.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon) writes:
> I was compiling X in the background on oone connection as root, and attempted
> to configure gcc in another window.

Now *THAT* takes guts.  :-)

++Brandon

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: johnsonm@lars.StOlaf.edu (Michael K. Johnson)
Subject: Re: proc-ps dumps core if zip is running
Reply-To: johnsonm@stolaf.edu
Organization: Tea Conspiracy
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 23:00:09 GMT


Yeah, there are a few bugs in procps.  I intend to fix them as soon as
I have time.  Right now, I am trying to write a text that is supposed
to be used in a class next semester, so my time is a little scarce,
but I have found, and a few others have found, a few bugs, and I will
fix them as soon as possible, preferably before the weekend.

Sorry for the delay.  To make up for it, there will be a few more
programs included with the next release.

michaelkjohnson
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: FAQ questions
From: trix@krypton.mankato.msus.edu (Dustin B Rogne)
Date: 7 Jan 93 22:25:06 -0600
Distribution: world
Organization: Mankato State University

comp.os.linux

Help please.

My questions are: (NOTE: these come from reading the FAQ)


1. What is an extended partition? What kind and how big should I make it
for a great, but conservative linux setup? Should I make two partiions
for the swap drive also?

> Mount each of the disks in turn and run the install script on each
> of them.


2. What is the mount command to do this?

> QUESTION: I have the previous Linux version, how can I upgrade it?

3. Can you just get the most recent linux code, compile it, and not have to
get the full SLS release aagain. (ALL the old programs will work?)



> QUESTION: How can I be sure I won't be writing over anything important?  I
> have to use DOS on my machine, and I don't want to lose any files. 
>
> ANSWER: Back up everything. Just in case. Then, write some easily
> recognizable pattern to the partition you have reserved for linux, using
> some DOS tool. You can then use "cat /dev/hdX" under linux to examine
> which of the partitions you used. 

4. I have no comprehension of what and why this was put in the FAQ?

-- 
Thanks

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: Alex Nemirovsky <AN72958%LTUVAX.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
Subject: Pentium P5 (586) vs. i486 upgradable socket?
Reply-To: AN72958%LTUVAX.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 16:59:48 GMT

just a quick questions.. rumor has it that the P5 is going to be a
100 MIPS machine...  and most highend 486's are about 20 MIPS.

does anyone know if the upgrade socket on i486's allows you
to stick in a P5 or something of that nature?

I have heard (again hearsay) that is there is a chip in the
upgrade slot the orginal Cpu is bypassed.

if anyone knows... please straighten me out.

just to know if I can upgrade if a decide to go with a 486 and not wait
for the P5 whick might not be supported by Linux anytime soon.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: michaelw@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Michael Will)
Subject: Re: BUG in 0.99[p1] kernel c
Organization: Point of Presence & MCS Hamburg
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 21:56:46 GMT

Andy.Tainter@f615.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Andy Tainter) writes:
>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...
Funny thing, we had an ne2000-ethernetcard running on  irq2 in a novell
lan, then using it in linux worked after configuring the driver as irq9
the card still on irq2...

...anyone knowing *details* about this things?

Interested, Michael Will

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
Subject: Re: SUIT
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria B.C. CANADA
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 15:42:29 GMT

In article <1993Jan9.060254.17125@bradley.bradley.edu> brad@bradley.bradley.edu (Bradley E. Smith) writes:
>being new to linux (I love it), I have SUIT up and running.  I haven't
>tested it much, and need to learn how to make shared libraries
>(or are all libraries shared?).  Anyways if there is a demand
>I can put it up for ftp or upload it somewhere.  anyone interested?
>-- 
>Bradley Smith			 brad@bradley.edu ---  309-677-2337
>Network & Technical Services @ Bradley University, Peoria, IL
>
>"It's amazing how much scrap metal you get from 4 cans of beer"

What is SUIT?  It would be nice if when posting such notices, one line
was devoted to describing what it is.  For instance, a large number
of postings appeared about *mush and *mud.  Are these programs for 
people with propensities for so consistency materials?

Peter.
From: albion@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Craig T Manske)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Root User ID
Date: 10 Jan 1993 23:54:15 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4
Originator: albion@csd4.csd.uwm.edu

I have a program that checks for the "Root User ID" to make sure it isn't
zero. (Dunno why, but...)    Anyway, in the standard SLS install, the root
user was assigned the ID of 0, daemon 1, etc.. etc...  Is there any way
that I can reassign the user ID of root or maybe give it a different number
in /etc/passwd?  Or do I have to change my software to allow the root as 
ID 0.
  
Thanks

Albion
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From: lmy@ncn.UUCP (Lars Myraas)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: how do I mount the a2 disk for SLS.
Date: 6 Jan 93 15:13:46 GMT
Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Inf. A/S
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

jeffreyj@nighthawk.ksu.ksu.edu (Jeffrey John Martin) writes:
:      The instructions I have say to boot off the a1 and mount the a2.	
: how do that??  When I boot the a1 it says to type more /user/README
: When I do that I get "more command not found"  I'm lost.
:                             Thanks, Jeff jeffreyj@matt.ksu.ksu.edu
: 

1. boot with a1, after a while it says that you have to change to a2 and then
   answer the question about which drive to install SLS from...          ^^^^

2. a2 will automaticly be mounted, and you can 'more /user/README' or

3. fdisk... mkfs... dosinstall... (explained in sls.faq/README etc...)

Good Luck
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