HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us (Bob Kirkpatrick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: [Q] How do I set up color (foreground/background), inverse video
Keywords: Video
Date: 7 Oct 92 16:36:48 GMT
Organization: Dog Ear'd Systems of Spokane, WA

tp@jet.uk (Tarang K Patel) writes:

> 
>  This should be a simple one for the experts.
>    
>   How do I set up foreground/background color, inverse video in LINUX ?
> 
>   I am currently on MCC 0.97pl2
> 
>        Tarang.

setterm -foreground {color} -background {color} -store

--- 
Bob Kirkpatrick <bobk@dogear.spk.wa.us>
Dog Ear'd Systems of Spokane, WA
From: Emmett.Sauer@f215.n3802.z1.fidonet.org (Emmett Sauer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: New Linux User Needs Compiler...  HELP!!!
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 21:22:00 -0800

UF> I get a compiler?!?!)  I've also seen something called GCC but
UF> the files  are HUGE.  Before I go and download this, can someone
tell me
UF> whether I'm  getting a running GCC compiler, or is it just another
package
UF> that says  "compile this and you'll have a neat compiler"?
UF>
   GCC is the compiler used to compile Linux and utilities, it is
available all over the place in ready to run form.  BUT I suggest you
get a Linux 'package' such as Hj's or MCC-Interim or SLS and it will be
complete with everything you need to compile.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: arumble@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Anthony Rumble)
Subject: Re: Dial-up line limit?
Organization: Sydney University Computing Service, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 12:14:21 GMT

rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller) writes:

>phanson@well.sf.ca.us writes:
>> [...] Anyway, he would like to have a system that supports in the
>>neighborhood of 50-60 users per machine, most connecting to the host
>>via dialup ports.  The first obvious question is how many simultaneous
>>users is Linux capable of supporting?  Does anyone know of any
>>multi-serial port cards capable of handling that many connections at
>>the same time?  [...]
>>                                  Pete Hanson

>I've been wondering something similar myself...

>The most serial ports I've seen on any i80[2|3|4]86 has been *FOUR*.
>How would one go about connecting more than four dial-up lines?
>...and what's the limiting factor for Linux (other than load)?

There are certainly larger cards than that.. 
Ive seen systems with 16 ports..

If you had something like a Digiboard 8i/8e card, performance
would be pretty good because the serial handling is actually
on the Card, NOT the CPU.. It has it's own processor and memory.

BUT.. you would have to write a driver for it, but looking at the
very good docos that came with the card, would not be hard for
someone who is good at Kernel hacking..
-- 
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aka SmilieZ
"Anything is possible.. If there is enuf money in it"
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: J.Jagger@sheffield-city-poly.ac.uk
Subject: CONFIG
Reply-To: J.Jagger@sheffield-city-poly.ac.uk
Organization: The Internet
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 00:08:26 GMT

Can some kind soul please email me a copy of
mit/server/ddx/x386/CONFIG
(the videotiming config tutorial)
or tell me where I can get a copy please.
Thanks
JJ
:: Jon Jagger  J.Jagger@scp.ac.uk
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ins295b@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew Humphrey)
Subject: Re: major swap problem
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 02:32:08 GMT

vitroth+@CMU.EDU (David M. Nolan) writes:

>Or at least it seems like one...

>I upgraded from 0.98 to pl1...  now when I run "free" it says that the
>machine is using NONE of the regular memory... and like two megs of the
>16 meg swap... which is interesting considering I only have a 10 meg
>swap...   
	Rebuild the psdatabase, or else ps goes looking in the wrong
spot for the info it needs.  Use ps -U <system path, which is the file
that is made upon compiling the kernel, lives in
<kernelsourcedir>/tools/system> /dev/swap.   This should fix your
problem, now if we had nlist style kernel lookups and an unstripped
kernel.... *smile* I'll get off my soapbox now, this wouldn't be a
problem.


--

Andrew Humphrey
ins295b@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au
ins295b@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au
humpy@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au

"Just because I'm paranoid, it doesn't mean the whole world isn't out to
get me".
From: mhbrekke@iastate.edu (Monty H. Brekke)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Mount,ps/free/etc. for 0.98
Date: 16 Oct 92 03:44:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.Bw73pt.1KF
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA

Is there a new version of mount for 0.98, or can I just use the 0.97
version? What about ps/free etc? I can't even seem to find a version
of these which work properly under 0.97.6. I'm also having a small
problem with umount. It seems that it wants to tack an extra /dev/ 
onto the beginning of the device names, so that it tries to umount,
for example, /dev//dev/hda1 (but only when I'm shutting down). Has
anyone else experienced similar behavior?

Thanks in advance to anyone who can answer the above questions. Either
email or posting will be fine. Thanks again.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: chevalie%FRONER81.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu
Subject: pc-unix
Reply-To: chevalie%FRONER81.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 15:33:12 GMT


 hello,

 I have a PC-486, and I would know where , and how, I can get
and install Linux on it. There is perhaps a documentation available
somewhere ?

 I am looking for the newsgroup 'comp.os.linux'. Is it here ?

 thank you for all,
 friendly,

 Philippe

Philippe Chevalier
e-mail : chevalie@froner81.bitnet

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: lfoard@Turing.ORG (Lawrence C. Foard)
Subject: need WD8003 card jumper settings
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 20:24:42 GMT

I'm currently setting up TCP/IP and just noticed that the WD8003 card 
didn't come with a manual (it was used). Could someone send me the 
jumper settings needed for the Linux TCP/IP driver? The ones on the
card seem to be pretty close, it recognizes it, but I get timeout
errors when I do anything that would send stuff over the ethernet.

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From: jhelberg@nl.oracle.com (Joost Helberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Backing Up Linux
Date: 7 Oct 92 13:54:02 GMT
Organization: Oracle Europe
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

X-Disclaimer: This message was written by an unauthenticated user
              at Oracle Corporation.  The opinions expressed are those
              of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle.

rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller) writes:
: I'm thinking that with my meager 27 Megabyte Linux partition, and that only
: fractionally filled at the moment, I might do an easy backup by doing:
: 
: 	tar -cvf - / | compress | tar -c[multi-disk options]
: 
: 		the first 'tar' being used to *collect* all the files,
: 		and the second 'tar' being used to save the archive to
: 		multiple floppies in a multi-volume sort of way. (?)
That works allright, but:
  when making a backup, you want to be able to get the stuff
back again, you have to pull all flpooies in before being
able to untar them.

: Will this work?  Is there a better way?  What about:
: 
: 	tar -cvz[multi-disk options] /
: 	       ^ Does the "z" option work when *creating* such an archive?
You guessed right, NO.

I use
	tar cvfz - <dir> | fdio w <device>
and
    fdio r <device> | tar xvfz -

fdio talks with the tty to get more floppies.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: charlto@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Michael Charlton)
Subject: twm hangs machine under 97pl6 and XFree86-1.1 HELP!
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 17:41:10 GMT

Hello.  I'm running linux version 0.97 patch level 6 (patched
from mcc-interim 97pl2) on a 33Mhz 486 with 16M of memory.  I just
installed XFree86-1.1 and have gotten to the point where it will come
up with an xterm (mouse works fine as well).  All the executables run
except for twm and xtetris (x11emacs hangs the system as well).  As soon
as I try to run twm, xtetris or x11emacs, the system hangs (locks up
really good -- have to press the reset button).  I have the 4.1 jumptable
libraries installed as well (although I haven't gotten around to upgrading
my gcc to that yet).

Anybody have any clues?

     Thanks in advance,
        Mike

P.S. the 4.1 libraries seem to work OK as I can get emacs running without X
From: jjsf@gmv.es (Julio Sanchez)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Booting off hard drive
Keywords: boot
Date: 14 Oct 92 09:22:30 GMT
Organization: Grupo de Mecanica del Vuelo, S.A. (GMV), Madrid, Spain

In article <1992Oct10.231956.7917@cs.tulane.edu> kranz@cs.tulane.edu (Barry Kranz) writes:
>
>cd /mnt/etc/lilo
>rm map boot.????
>./lilo -r /mnt -b /dev/hdxx -i boot.b -v -v -v /vmlinux
>
>That was the end of the instructions.  It was now supposed to boot from hdxx.

I followed the intructions and it worked. I presume you are setting the
Linux partition as active. My DOS 3.3 FDISK was not very collaborative
but, at least, I could change the active partition to Linux and then
boot from it. To go back to DOS I used the Linux fdisk included to
set the DOS partition to active. Here I got caught twice because a
feature in Linux fdisk that lets you set as active more than one
partition. My machine does not boot after that. Also I seem to remember
that my FDISK would not let me set as active a logical partition
inside the extended partition. I had to drop the extended partition
and the DOS FDISK would not let me create another regular partition,
so I completed partitioning with the Linux fdisk. DOS FDISK would
then let me set it active, though it did not let me create it in
the first place.

Then I got the LILO docs and configured it to boot either. There are
many options in LILO and I don't really understand all of them.
I have not had any problem ever since. LILO is great! Now I boot
MSDOS as default, but my home machine will work the other way
round. I have the Linux partition as active.

I think my problems were caused by limitations in my BIOS. I don't
consider them to be Linux related. If you have Linux on an extended
partition and your machine won't let you boot from it (as seems to
be my case), you can use some of the alternative methods described
in the LILO docs so that LILO be started while booting. 

Hope this helps,

Julio

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: samatar@staff.tc.umn.edu (mohamed samatar)
Subject: About OAK VGA with X386 ?
Organization: University of Minnesota
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 23:47:00 GMT

	 I need help for set up the x386.
I have OAK VGA, I think the model is "oti-07"
        		-resolution 800x600
			-256kb memory config
			-35.5 MHz dot clock

So my question is can I set up  the X386 with the device? If so 
how can I do it? Please use the e-mail to answer me, I have limited time 
to go thru the news most of the time.

M.samatar
++++++++++++++++++++
samatar@epx.cis.umn.edu
++++++++++++++++++++++++
 

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: satishc@microsoft.com (Satish Chittamuru)
Subject: No mouse under xfree86-1.1
Date: 07 Oct 92 07:18:51 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

Neither Linux0.98 or X (xfree86-1.1 from tsx-11) seem to like my
mouse. Linux doesn't recognize it at all and under X it moves
in a completely erratic manner. Curiously enough Linux 0.97.6
recognizes my mouse, but as a Microsoft bus mouse. In reality
it is a serial mouse on ttys0 (com1).

The mouse used to be recognized just fined in 0.96c and X1.0
used to work perfectly well with it (as a logitech mouse).

I have tried changing the baud rate, uncommenting the sample
rate in Xconfig but to no avail. Anyone have a clue what the
problem is? I can get X up and everything but can't select
the bloody window. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hardware:
  486/33 Local bus
  Seagate ST3283A IDE drive
  ET4000 card.
  Mouse on Com1
  Modem on Com2 with 16550A (is recognized and works fine)
  A Com3 port also exists but isn't being used for anything
   (Linux recognizes the 3 port)..

-- 
Satish K. Chittamuru				satishc@microsoft.com
=====
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed herein, either stated or implied, are
solely my own and do not reflect Microsoft's views in any manner.
From: A200%SIUEMUS.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu (Louis J. LaBash, Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Uncompress for DOS (ugh)
Date: 15 Oct 92 13:32:45 GMT
Reply-To: A200%SIUEMUS.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet

|can anyone point out some SPECIFIC places to find uncompress/compress
|for DOS?
Yes, on the Internet Washington University St. Louis, particulars are as
follows:

Note: logins allowed 24 Hrs a day
 login anonymous your-net-address   *limit of 200 simultaneous anonymous*

       wuarchive.wustl.edu [128.252.135.4]
         mirrors/msdos/compress/comp430d.zip  -exe, compress/uncompress
                              ~/comp430s.zip  -source for above, I think

They also have the following:
         mirrors/linux               LINUX tsx-11 mirror *Updated daily*
         mirrors/unix-c              SIMTEL mirror
         mirrors/msdos               SIMTEL mirror
         mirrors/garbo.uwasa.fi      Garbo mirror

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From: kolen-j@pons.cis.ohio-state.edu (john kolen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: question about X11 under SLS 0.98. xinit fails socket startup
Date: 13 Oct 92 19:03:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: pons.KOLEN-J.92Oct13140340
Organization: Ohio State Computer Science
Originator: kolen-j@pons.cis.ohio-state.edu

I'll add a me too to this one, however, I don't believe its the chipset since
I'm getting the same errors with a Trident VGA3900C.  (I hope I got the
numbers right:-)

Also, when xinit dies in my case it takes the crt with it, forcing me to
reboot.  Ideas?



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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman)
Subject: Re: ANSWER: (Re: GCC report segmentation fault and dump core.)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 13:13:53 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.145332.22468@crd.ge.com> davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
>Now that info-zip has released 1.9, there are some good technical
>reasons why using zip would be better than compressed tars:
>  1. files are smaller
>  2. you have a CRC and can tell right away when something is munged
>  3. Since you can tell which file is munged you have a prayer of
>     getting someone to send you just that file.

Does ZIP preserve file attributes?  If not, I would suggest, for people
who are really concerned about archive size, ZIP'd .tar files.  Of
course, that won't take advantage of (3).

-Joel
(joel@wam.umd.edu)

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: radel@bach.udel.edu (Todd Radel)
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster driver anoyone?
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 21:53:00 GMT

In article <3127@news.cerf.net> kevin@cyber.net (Kevin R. Sanders) writes:
>I have looked around the tsx-11 archive and have not found anything
>that looks like a sound blaster driver.  I have one of these cards and want
>to be able to use it under Linux, and am willing to write a driver for it if
>there is not already one out there.  But if there already is one, someone
>please let me know.  Thanks!

I think there's a driver on tsx in /pub/linux/ALPHA/sound.
Wish I had an SB Pro to test it on, though...  :(


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From: Eric.Eskam@f234.n209.z1.fidonet.org (Eric Eskam)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: RE: NJ/SML
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 21:31:31 -0800

BT> I appreciate what the Linux gurus have to say. However, splitting
BT> newsgroups for other systems/os's has been successful in the past,
BT> and I see no reason why it should fail here.

One objection :)

I get this through Fido.   If you split it up, I will have to hope that
the
kind soul who is porting this to Fido from the Internet will do so for
all the 
little sub-groups.

I would love to get the sub-groups, but I would have to hope for those
to be
ported to Fido as well.  If someone would do it, great.  If not, then I
object 
:-)

Eric

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: kk@cs.tu-berlin.de (Kolja Kaehler)
Subject: Re: XLoadImage: has someone ported it yet?
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 10:55:05 GMT

I don't remember exactly, but I think I didn't need to do anything else to
xloadimage but compile :-)
'porting' really has become the exception to the rule ... 

	Kolja
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From: najem@milton.cs.uiuc.edu (Ziad Najem)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: where is lharc?
Date: 13 Oct 92 16:57:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: m.1992Oct13.165721.10061
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL

erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp) writes:

>I assume taht lharc is what's being used to pack up .lha files, so where
>is it?  It's not on tsx-11, where it should be.

I think (I might be wrong) that lha can handle lharc files. I got lha
from tsx11:/pub/linux/packages/lisp


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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tdmyers@kittyhawk.ecn.uoknor.edu (Terry D Myers)
Subject: Help! SLS+Shoelace=Kernel Panic!!
Summary: Unable to mount root??????
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 05:35:32 GMT
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
Keywords: Kernel Panic? I'm Panicked!!!

Help!!!!

I just installed the newest release of the SLS and everything works great from
the boot floppy. Being an overdaring beginner I decided to try and get Linux
to boot from the hard disk partition using Shoelace. I screwed it up good once
and tried again following the directions in the Beginners Guide and it seemed 
to work great... I booted DOS without a hitch then tried the Linux partition 
and - it worked great for a second. It loaded the Image - said Press <return>
.... 8 virtual consoles .... then ===> Kernel Panic : unable to mount root.  

What does it mean - what do I do???

I can still boot DOS with Shoelace and I can run Linux just fine with the boot
floppy but I would like to axe the floppy. Any Help????

I have looked at the FAQ-sheets and saw nothing similar - if I have missed
some other posting from way back - sorry!!

'Nuf said - This is my first posting to any news group so no flames if ANYTHING
is wrong - just constructive criticism :)

Thanks In Advance
Terry Myers
From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Which Linux Distribution is closest to Complete Source Distribution
Date: 7 Oct 92 17:29:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: serval.1992Oct7.172956.12541
Organization: School of EECS, Washington State University

In article <1992Oct7.161529.11824@samba.oit.unc.edu>, Kurt.Bond@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Kurt Bond) writes:
|> Which of the major Linux distributions comes the closest to being both 
|> Complete (having just about everthing you'd expect to get with a unix)
|> and Having all the source code for everything that is part of that 
|> distribution?
|> 
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|>      North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Campus Office for Information
|>         Technology, or the Experimental Bulletin Board Service.
|>            internet:  bbs.oit.unc.edu or 152.2.22.80


If you can provide me a big hd and lots of floppies. I can make one. Or you
have to collect source code yourself. The stuffs on tsx-11 under
pub/linux/GCC/[root|base]disk are pretty much complete. But I assume you
are comfortable with Linux.


H.J.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: 890025d@dragon.acadiau.ca (Andy DeWolfe)
Subject: Which X si best?
Organization: Acadia University
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 13:34:50 GMT

I just got Linux up and running on my machine and now
I want to get X11.  I've looked around and noticed several
different versions, and I was wondering what is the difference
between them.  Also, I have an ATI Vantage, so I know I need the
X8514 stuff, but how does it go with X?  Any help will be greatly
appreciated.
-Andy

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: cblaine@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Jefferson Blaine)
Subject: gwm, Makefile bad?
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: gwm
Organization: /etc/organization
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 15:14:28 GMT

I recently got gwm off of sunsite.unc.edu from under pub/Linux/X11/window-
managers.  After downloading, I uncompressed, and untarred the file with no
problems.  I switched dirs to the new /usr/lib/X11/gwm it had created and
found now README.linux or README.  Ok, so now I am in the blue, and I type
make.  The machine whirs to life for about 1 seconds, then gives me my
prompt back.  I deleted the Makefile, and re-made it with imake from
the Imakefile that comes with it....still, the same thing happens when
I try and make.  Does anyone have any suggestions?  What am I doing wrong?