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From: rchen@fraser.sfu.ca (Robert Chen)
Subject: Re: New scsi code.
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 21:11:05 GMT

In article <Bxx7F9.MGD@ra.nrl.navy.mil> eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale) writes:
>	The mail handler at niksula.hut.fi seems to be all foobar, so
>it appears as if I cannot post things to the SCSI channel and expect them to
>arrive.  Thus I am going to do this the old fashion way...
>
>	I have uploaded a new alpha version of the scsi code to tsx-11.mit.edu.
>The source code is on tsx-11.mit.edu in pub/linux/ALPHA/scsi in fscsi-06.tar.Z
>I do not have context diffs from fscsi-a05, but if people want them, I can
>generate them easily enough (the new future domain code would make the diffs
>rather long).  There are a number of minor fixes here and there, which I
>described at the end of this message.
>
[lots of stuff deleted]
>-- 
>Eric Youngdale

I have a AHA 1542B and am using the SCSI code in the 0.98pl3+ kernel.
Exactly what code is in the kernel right now (fscsi-a05???).  Will
grabbing your fscsi-06.tar.Z improve my performance? 

Right now it takes half an hour to move a 42M file from one partition
to another (between two minix filesystems).  The computer hangs (no
keyboard echoing, etc) for 10 seconds a couple of times a minute
during the copy.  Is this now fixed, or is this what you mean by
controller specific performance inhancements?

- Ken
From: int177c@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Jae J Won)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: 386 assembler docs wanted
Date: 15 Nov 92 14:29:34 GMT
Organization: Monash University

Hi,

I would very much appreciate some sort of docs for the as86 we get with
gcc. Any user's manual, where I can get it etc would be very much appreciated.

Thanks very much in advance.

Jae
From: ianj@citrus.SAC.CA.US ( Ian Justman )
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Second Monitor
Date: 18 Nov 92 22:55:32 GMT
Organization: Citrus Grove Public Access ( 916 ) 381-5822    Sacramento CA.  USA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:
: 
: I much prefer the kermit way, where all incoming data is passed
: directly to the console, and vice versa (except that one char is
: reserved for special purposes on outgoing data).  I don't think
: minicom's built in terminal emulation is worth it (especially since it
: might not work as well as the console's).

However, I'm a die-hard Zmodem fan.  How does one use Zmodem (rz/sz)
with Kermit?  If I knew, I'd use Kermit exclusively for the reasons
you mentioned above.
-- 
Born to void warranties!	ianj@ijpc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: gauderer@t524i0.ira.uka.de (Patric Gauderer)
Subject: Paradise SVGA and X11 problems
Organization: /usr/users_2/gauderer/.organization
Distribution: comp
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 13:37:37 GMT

Hi,

I've installed Linux and X11 on my 486/33/4Mb/128Cache/512k Paradise svga and have had several
problems to get X386 to display something on my screen.
Now the mono-server works perfectly in 640x480 and 800x600.
Starting the color-server results in a few vertical stripes with small
parts of the clock and xterms and a mouse cursor in each strip.

The picture itself is stable. I tried to change the monitor definitions
but couldn't fix the problem.

Thanx in advance

Patric
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e-mail : gauderer@telematik.informatik.uni-karlsruhe.de
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From: sdj@acpub.duke.edu (SCOTT JOHNSON)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: tcsh bug
Keywords: tcsh
Date: 17 Nov 92 21:33:58 GMT

I recently downloaded tcsh 6.02, and installed it on my Linux 0.98pl1
system.  It works fine for the most part, but whenever I try to run 'pwd', I
get a core dump.  Was this fixed in one of the bug fixes, and if so how do I
install them?  Thank you very much! (Please reply to sdj@acpub.duke.edu).

--Scott
sdj@acpub.duke.edu
From: mucci@circle.cs.jhu.edu (Philip Mucci)
Subject: X/Linux with the ATI Ultra +/Pro
Organization: Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department, Baltimore, MD
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 10:14:22 GMT

	Very soon now I will be receiving a 486 system with one
of these cards. What is the status of X on the Mach32 chip? 

	Also, I believe that both of these boards are fully-coprocessed with
DRAM on board. Does this mean that it might be possible to have X running 
directly on the card as a true server? Has anyone given this any thought?

	Thanks for any info...
	-P.M.

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tmpcms@eua.ericsson.se (Carl Michael Skoog)
Subject: Q about Seagate SCSI controller ST02
Organization: Ellemtel Telecom Systems Labs, Stockholm, Sweden
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 16:13:36 GMT


I recently bought a used Seagate ST02 SCSI Host (Bios Revision 3.2).
During POST it first prints out something like "Seagate ST02 bios 3.2"
, and then the cryptic message "SCSI Adaptor Failure" comes up.

Does this indicate a hardware failure, or does it simply indicate that i have
no disks on the host(i have none, i just wanted to test the host).

Yes, i used IRQ 5 under Linux and the default under DOS, and i disabled the
cache under appropriate areas. The driver init under Linux don't give me any
errors.

I tried hooking up the diskette drive under the host, but to no avail, either
under Linux or DOS.

I called tech support at Seagate, and they had absolutely no clue.

Thanks in advance

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|					|	2 points for ambition,	|
|Email: tmpcms@eua.ericsson.se		|	96 points for hooters!"	|
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From: hedrick@farside.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: LINUX...SLIP...NET...X11
Date: 18 Nov 92 23:04:44 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

graves@jemez.eece.unm.edu (John Graves) writes:

>Anyone have SLIP running that allows for a "setenv DISPLAY" to work over the
>virtual ethernet?

>I can get NET to work and set up my SLIP connection.  The host machine knows
>my ip address... I can telnet/ftp anywhere... But how do I set up X11 to
>accept DISPLAY calls over the SLIP line?

Use the command "start x" in net.  On the host where you want to start
an X application, so "setenv DISPLAY nnn:0.0", where nnn is the IP
address or hostname of your Linux system.  That's all you should need.
Note that there is no security in this implementation, so I normally
do "start x" only when I've about to start an X application, and then
do "stop x" after it.  "stop x" won't stop existing X applications.  I
just stops net from accepting more.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: Dwight.Francis@nautical.r-node.gts.org (Dwight Francis)
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 07:01:42 EST
Organization: R-node Public Access UNIX Information System (416-249-5366)
Subject: Dos Emulator
Distribution: world
Reply-To: Dwight.Francis@nautical.r-node.gts.org (Dwight Francis)
X-Posting-Software: UniBoard 1.10a S/N 120921

  Coudld anyone who is current using/working up the Dos emulator give
some feedback ?  I am curious about what types of programs it will now
run. All input welcome.
--
Dwight Francis, user of the UniBoard System @ r-node.gts.org
E-Mail: Dwight.Francis@nautical.r-node.gts.org


R-node Public Access Unix/BBS - Free Access to the World thru Usenet
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tiller@solace.me.uiuc.edu (Mike Tiller)
Subject: Mouse Problem
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:48:19 GMT
Keywords: mouse X11 kernel

	I have an "el-cheapo" mouse on my system that has three
buttons.  It says it can *automatically* tell (yeah, I know...sure)
if it should emulate a microsoft 2 button or a PC mouse 3 button.
The problem I have is, it doesn't work under X11.  I have tried
every type of mouse X11 supports and it never recognizes the
middle button.  Now, it does work for both microsoft and something
else (I can't remember which...sorry).

	My question is, is there a hack I can make to the kernel
to improve this?  I have noticed what look like mouse related files
in the kernel, what do they do?

Thanks

Michael Tiller
University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)


Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.)
Subject: Re: Link /tmp and /usr/tmp?
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 20:28:33 GMT

In article <By11yE.IGr@access.digex.com> ssb1pzp@access.digex.com (Phil Perucci) writes:
>OK you partitioning experts...  I have / & /tmp file systems.
>(Oh yes, latest SLS 098pl5)  Want to link /usr/tmp to /tmp.
>I have tried EVERYTING I can think of to make the link. 
>No luck.

	rmdir /usr/tmp
	ln -s /tmp /usr/tmp

That should be all....
-- 
loveritablessencentipedependentalism+      Jim Winstead Jr. (CSci '95)
andaterrificklengtherealityearguessy|      Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR
mpathybridgenerationiceremonymphysic|   jwinstea@jarthur.Claremont.EDU
alendareadvertisexpresshothoughthend+ or jwinstea@fenris.Claremont.EDU
From: steve@Nyongwa.CAM.ORG (Steve M. Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: logout updating who display
Date: 20 Nov 92 04:23:08 GMT
Organization: Chiral Symmetry Breaking, Inc.

In article <1992Nov19.033733.14948@unislc.uucp> erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp) writes:
>Craig Metz (vaz@eagle.TC.cornell.edu) wrote:
>
>: 	Might I ask exactly what program updates the /etc/utmp file such that
>: users who have logged out don't show up as logged in anymore? I installed SLS
>: and my system handled this procedure properly, but since installing poe-IGL
>: and admutils (latest versions), my system does not properly handle updating
>: the utmp file when a user logs out to reflect the user not being logged in any
>: more. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how this problem may be fixed?
>
>I think init does.  What happens is, getty spawns login which writes an entry
>to /etc/utmp, then spawns a shell.  When the shell dies, init sees it, takes
>the ttyslot() record out of /etc/utmp, and appends it to /etc/wtmp.  At least,
>that's the way it usually works. :)

Actually, poe's simpleinit doesn't touch utmp.  The getty programs though, do,
as does login.  Getty writes a LOGIN_PROCESS entry, and login changes it to
a USER_PROCESS.  So last and who scan only for the USER_PROCESS entries.

And both getty and login write entries to wtmp.

>Ed Carp			erc@apple.com, erc@saturn.upl.com	801/538-0177

-- 
Steve Robbins  --  steve@nyongwa.cam.org
I asked Hank Williams "how lonely does it get?"
Hank Williams hasn't answered yet.
From: meh@math33.sma.usna.navy.mil (Michael E. Hoffman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: 0.98pl5 fixes serial, breaks texmgr
Keywords: 0.98pl5, serial, texmgr
Date: 23 Nov 92 21:13:41 GMT
Reply-To: meh@math33.sma.usna.navy.mil (Michael E. Hoffman)
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Organization: U. S. Naval Academy

Just a brief note about my experiences with upgrading to 0.98pl5.  Ever since
0.98pl3 or so I'd had a minor problem with Linux not finding my third serial
port on bootup (I could set it to a particular interrupt with setserial, but
this gave a "type unknown" message).  The problem was minor since at the 
moment I'm not using the third serial port for anything, but upgrading to
0.98pl5 cleared it up.

Now the bad news.  The upgrade broke my TeX and MGR binaries, but I suppose
I had it coming . . . they were both way overdue for replacement.  TeX was
easy enough to fix by getting new binaries.  MGR was a bit more of a problem.
I got the latest source (version 0.51) on tsx-11, and recompiled.  This 
produced LOTS of error messages, but after a few minor hacks I got a usable
binary--in fact more stable than the old one (I did have to make it suid
to root to run it as a normal user--otherwise it dies with a "couldn't get
I/O permissions" message.)  My one real complaint is texmgr:  even after
recompilation, it refuses to run under 0.98pl5.  I suppose it does something
no longer permitted under the New Order, like writing to the text segment.
A pity, since I'd like to have a TeX previewer and haven't the disk space
or video equipment to make X worth the trouble.  Of course I could always
buy a new computer . . . 

My CPU:  16-MHz 386DX + Cyrix 387
My compiler:  GCC 2.2.2d + 4.1 jump tables
My OS:  Linux 0.98pl5
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Mike Hoffman                   | LINUX RULES!
meh@math33.sma.usna.navy.MIL   | Have you recompiled your kernel today?
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: graves@chama.eece.unm.edu (John Graves)
Subject: SHELL-INIT error... Fixed.
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 18:00:45 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

FYI

SHELL-INIT error.

I posted a problem earlier about getting a "SHELL-INIT " error 
with the SLS version 0.98.

I was told by several people to try issuing a "chmod 755 /" as user
root, but this would not work.

Turns out that the direcory called "ROOT"  on disk A2 has the wrong
protections.  

When I did a chmod 755 /root on the a2 disk before the installation,
the SHELL-INIT error went away.

So, SLS users may want to do this chmod 755 /root before doing
the "doinstall /dev/???" command.

-John

--
John R Graves                       | Please don't take anything I write
email - 0004821977@mcimail.com      | seriously... Life is too short.
phone - (719)592-1437               |
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: kranz@cs.tulane.edu (Barry Kranz)
Subject: Seyon
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-20020]: isis
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 16:11:14 GMT

Although I have been able to compile the X app Seyon, everytime I
execute it I get a "killed by signal 11" error, has anyone gotten
this to work?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

thanx
krnz@thor.cs.tulane.edu
Organization: Johannes Kepler University Linz - Computing Center
Date: Monday, 16 Nov 1992 02:51:09 CET
From: <K111114@ALIJKU11.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: ICMP packages lost

Hi all.
I tried to port ping.c from a BSD-System. After doing some adaptive work,
(#if 0'ed all fields concerning time-measurement, etc.), the program seemed
to run, BUT ... I never get an ICMP-Echoreply for a sent ICMP-Message.
I have looked at the hexdump of the outgoing package, and it seems perfectly
right:

   8    0    E5   C7   5C   0   1   0
   !    !    !    !    !    !   !   !
   !    !    !    !    !    !   +---+----> Sequence Number
   !    !    !    !    !    !
   !    !    !    !    +----+------------> Identifier (e.g., PID)
   !    !    !    !
   !    !    +----+----------------------> Checksum
   !    !
   !    +--------------------------------> Code (has to be 0)
   !
   +-------------------------------------> Type

  (of course this values change for every icmp-msg sent, and for every new
  ping process started: fields seq-number/identifier/checksum)

  "Type" can contain many values, for "ping" only 2 are interesting:
  a) type=0 -> Echo Reply
  b) type=8 -> Echo Request.

  Therefore, a machine sends out an Echo-request, and the target machine
  sends back an Echo-reply.

  My problem was, that this didn't happen, I got 100 % packet loss from
  both devices: a) loopback and b) eth0.

  Doing kernel-debugging, I noticed that allthough dev_rint (net/tcp/dev.c)
  was called, an incoming ICMP-packet NEVER was generated. (I have added some
  printk's in net/tcp/icmp.c). As far as I can say, the problem is with the
  packet-type-functions, I noticed that in dev_rint, a function called
  ptype->func(skb2, dev, ptype) is called. The only place where this pointer
  is initialized is in net/tcp/packet.c, saying "p->func = packet_rcv". This
  again is done in a routine called packet_init. Again, I have added printks to
  packet.c (to packet_sendto, rvc, close, init, etc...), and I was very
  surprised that none of this function are called... strange...

  On the other hand, doing a ping TO the machine from outside generated the
  right response, i.e. sending a ping to Linux from our SunSparc generated
  an echo-reply, and the SunSparc wrote "xxx is alive".

  When reading through the source, I couldn't find the call to packet_init.
  When is it done ? Is ICMP not yet implemented ? "getprotobyname" did give
  me something like it is not implemented ... but there are the sources in
  net/tcp .. !? Is there a pointer to a function that points to another
  devicepointerfunctionentry not set ? Why is it possible to send ICMPs TO
  but not FROM the machine ?

Herp, getting confused.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: lcd@ais.org (Leon Dent)
Subject: Re: FIX: UUCP, !, bash and smail
Organization: UMCC
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 21:50:01 GMT

Strangely enough, I've just installed smail3.1.28 and having ! for history
is no problem.  At the command line I just escape it (\!), and the generated
uux command seems to work as well.

However, this may have been the problem with smail2.5...

Leon Dent
lcd@ais.org
From: jsk@uniplex.co.uk (Jonathan King)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Linux FAQ
Date: 23 Nov 92 17:42:30 GMT
Organization: Uniplex Limited, Hemel Hempstead.

Could some one post them to me (linux FAQ) ????

cheers

Jon King
From: rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller, Linux Device Registrar)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Where does TERM get set?
Date: 23 Nov 1992 20:44:57 GMT
Organization: Just me.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.2.33
Summary: Just what *is* the console, anyway?

I've been having problems with JOE (now version 1.0.6) on my Linux-box, and
have tracked them down /etc/termcap and $TERM.  Evidently the /etc/termcap
entry for "l1|con80x25|console|unknown" is *wrong* somehow... and I can't
figure out where $TERM gets set to "con80x25" in the first place.  It's not
in /etc/rc, /etc/rc.local, nor even .bash_profile nor .bashrc (though some
of them "export" the TERM variable).

When I set TERM=vt100, all goes well with JOE... but am I losing capability?
Just what *is* the Linux console?  Where can I get a *working* /etc/termcap?
(Right now, I've got the one from H.J.'s [root|base|gcc|lib]disk distribution.)

Boiling it down in summary:

	1.) Where does bash get the "con80x25" value for TERM from?

	2.) Does the /etc/termcap entry for "con80x25" faithfully define
	    the Linux console?  If so, why won't JOE work with it?

	3.) [optional] What's the best way to make this terminal thing mesh?

Rick Miller   <rick@ee.uwm.edu> | <rick@discus.mil.wi.us>   Ricxjo Muelisto
Occupation:  Husband, Father, WEPCo. WAN Mgr., Discus Sys0p, and  Linux fan
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: nhc@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (n.h.chandler)
Subject: Re: Tape-Drivers & Mail
Organization: AT&T
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 22:13:53 GMT

In article <1992Nov20.194628.516@victrola.sea.wa.us>, vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan) writes:
> Michael_Kraehe@hb.maus.de (Michael Kraehe) writes:
> >An other question is about the Mail-Packet installed by SLS. I'vnt find
> >any configfiles for it. And there seems to be no doku. So how to config
> >for a SMARTHOST an using normal IN-Domain Adresses ? Also xmh does'nt
> >seem to work ? Is it neccesary to install f*cking smail ?
> 
> you can get smail3.1.28 in the newspak directory on sunsite.unc.edu
              ^^^^^^^^^^^
Unlike ELM, this does not compile out of the box.  It wouldn't even
get through a "make depend".  I tried to mail the results of my attempt to 
compile it using Linux-0.98.5 and gcc 2.2.2d7 to Vince but the mail keeps
bouncing!


-- 
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nhc@mtdcr.att.com             ||       Middletown, NJ 07748
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.lang.tcl,comp.os.coherent,comp.unix.misc
From: jjensen@convex.com (James Jensen)
Subject: Re: Tcl to replacement most of /bin & /usr/bin (was: Tcl on Linux machines.)
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 19:27:36 GMT
Organization: USENET news support, CONVEX Computer Corp, Richardson, Tx. USA
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
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.

"David Herron" <david@twg.com> writes:
-
- I dunno about the rest of you jokers, but what I'd like to see is:
-
- - ***SMALLER*** disk space requirements.  (and smaller memory
requirement)
-
- - More easily customizable environment, with customizations
(sometimes)
-   just behind the front end of the tools.
-
- - Have the inner functionality of the tools made available in some
sort of
-   script/program environment for building new tools.  Particularly for
-   writing little X based interfaces ...
-

A more elegent and easier solution would be
to modify gcc to produce code for an interpreter.
The interpreter would be part of a shared library.  
This would save the disk space.  If gcc produced the 
same internal code as Tcl or perl then your second two 
goals would be met, I think.

I suspect that someone familiar with the internals of both gcc and
perl/Tcl could do something like that fairly quickly.  Anyone
could do it more quickly than reimplementing all of the tools in
another language.  Heck, writing a compiler/interpreter from scratch 
would be faster than reimplementing all those tools.

Jim Jensen - jjensen@convex.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: chris@cosmo.demon.co.uk.demon.co.uk (Chris Payne)
Distribution: world
Subject: A few problems
X-Mailer: cppnews $Revision: 1.14 $
Organization: At Home
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 19:34:19 +0000

Hello Linux users..

I have been reading this group for a while now and have decided to try 
Linux out. Having read the FAQs and all the other information I can find I
still have a few questions before installing on my hard disk (the floppy 
version works fine):

1. When partitioning the hard disk I gather that you should make a 'few'
   partitions for Linux. A root, swap and user I recall. How big should
   these be? Is a swap file as good as a swap partition? Why have a 'user'
   partition?

2. When I tried the root/boot floppies on a machine at work (Paradise VGA) 
   I see 2 odd effects:
     i) The 'choose VGA mode' screen bombs out, so I have to 'press space
        to continue'. Any ideas?
    ii) The cursor disappears completely. Is there a setterm command to turn
        it on? 

3. I am going to install the SLS versions initially. There seems to be some
   differences between every 'README' file I have. I note that the rootimage
   does not have a menu program that some README files suggest. Am I right in 
   thinking that I just rawrite the SLS files (xxx.tar.z) to a floppy and then
   execute 'tar zxvf /dev/<my floppy>'?

Any answers/hints/ideas etc. gratefully received.

Cheers!

Chris.
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@ Home, Bristol, UK.