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From: patrick@wowbagger.pc-labor.uni-bremen.de (Patrick Steiner)
Subject: Help on ET4000 and X386 wanted
Organization: PC-Labor der Universitaet Bremen
Distribution: comp
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 15:56:06 GMT

And again I have to post my request.
Thanks to all who tried to help me already. But it still
does not work.

After starting X my screen gets white with black, vertical
lines from the top to the middle of the screen. Has anyone had
the same problem, or is there anyone who would like to help me.

I have a Highscreen 386DX/25 4 MB with a Highscreen LE1024 Monitor
(Anyone with the same Hardware out there ????). My card is a ET4000
1 MB (Enhanced Video Graphics Adapter).

The last version of my Xconfig looked like this:


FontPath   "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"

Keyboard
	AutoRepeat 500 5
	ServerNumLock

Microsoft "/dev/ttys2"
	BaudRate 1200

vga256
	Virtual		640 480
	ViewPort	0 0
	Modes		"640x480"
	Clocks		25 28 32 36 40 45 31 37
	Truecolor
	Chipset		"et4000"
	Videoram	1024
	
ModeDB
"640x480"  25  640 680 688 800 400 412 426 447


Please someone help me to get rid of my problem, or I have
to go back to MS-Windows and MS-DOS.

patrick

patrick@pc-labor.uni-bremen.de


Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: "Louis J. LaBash, Jr." <A200%SIUEMUS.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
Subject: Re MOUNT-SRC IS A DISASTER !!!
Reply-To: A200%SIUEMUS.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 14:29:29 GMT

|From: quale@saavik.cs.wisc.edu (Douglas E. Quale)
|Subject: MOUNT-SRC IS A DISASTER !!!
|Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 14:39:07 GMT
|
|MOUNT-SRC IS A DISASTER !!!

|I know, because I wrote it, and if you were unfortunate enough to try
|it you probably know that too.
|--
|Doug Quale
|quale@saavik.cs.wisc.edu

Great sense of humor, love-it. It made my day.

 -ljl-
 ---------------------------------------------------------
      /* No group wants equality; only supremacy. */
                          -ljl-
      A200@SIUEMUS.BITNET   |   labashl@vax3.siue.edu
      Louis J. LaBash, Jr., Southern Ill. Univ. @ Edw.
         MS 1052, Edwardsville, IL 62026-1052 USA
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jblaine@fsu1.cc.fsu.edu (Jeff Blaine)
Subject: Linux status, someone BRIEFLY mail me.
Followup-To:  poster
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4   
Reply-To: jblaine@fsu1.cc.fsu.edu
Organization: Florida State University
Distribution:  world
Date: 11 SEP 92 02:44:29    

A few months ago I had Linux 0.96c installed on my 386-25.  I had a 40 meg 
partition for Linux and an 8 meg partition for swapping.  I have since then 
removed Linux and used the space for more needed projects, but I would love 
to hear briefly how the sucker is getting along.

To help whoever replies to this out:

1.  Is there a nice comm program for it yet with szrz ?
2.  Is X running better (ack, I remember that dang clock.exe program and 
all of those settings for my monitor and card. ewwww)
3.  Has someone made a GIF viewer yet?
4.  How's the TCP/IP coming ?

Out of curiosity, how well does stuff written for unix compile over on 
Linux?  Is it a major hassle for non-graphics apps?  

One more thing, I still only use DOS because of Windows apps that I do work 
in such as CorelDraw and Word 2.0.  I would REALLY like to be able to 
convert my work to something on a unix platform (for very little cost) and 
start using a unix OS completely.  Does anyone have any suggestions?
What about 386BSD ?

Thanks for your time! 
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jeff Blaine - jblaine@fsu1.cc.fsu.edu - Jr. CS Major - Whee  ---------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux on a Microchannel box
Date: 15 Sep 92 15:11:31 GMT
Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY

In article <1992Sep14.201253.26347@unislc.uucp>, erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp) writes:

| That's IBM's attempt to lock up the PC market, which failed miserably,
| incidentally.  There are several people making MCA boxes, although I'm not
| sure why anyone would want one...

  I bought one last year, cost 14 cent/lb. It keeps my boat from drifting.
-- 
bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
    I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
From: rab@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU (Richard Alan Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: running high speed modems under *nix
Date: 11 Sep 92 13:03:40 GMT
Followup-To: rab@tauon.ph.unimelb.EDU.AU
Organization: Information Technology Services, University of Melbourne

In article <BuDz1M.Jq4@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Upholder@uiuc.edu (THE Upholder of Truth) writes:
>As another owner of a 14.4K Raw modem (57.6K after protocols), I'm interested
>in getting the upper limit of 38.4K bps removed from the kernel... 

Gee, you guys are doing well: i find that my modem hangs up if i use
38400 from Linux (with X running), and i have to use 19200 to get reliable
communications. [I am using an Avtek with MNP4-5 to get 9600 baud, so i
don't really need the extra speed, but i'm going to upgrade soon].

rab
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Richard Brown                     | E-mail: rab@tauon.ph.unimelb.EDU.AU
School of Physics                 | Phone : +61 3 344 5081
University of Melbourne           | Fax   : +61 3 347 4783
Parkville Victoria AUSTRALIA 3052 | Telex : AA35185
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: stewart@wimsey.bc.ca (Jim Stewart)
Subject: Re: 0.97 patchlevel 3 available
Organization: Wimsey 
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 08:11:07 GMT

In article <1992Sep8.181011.17161@crd.ge.com> davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
>In article <1992Sep5.184606.11361@klaava.Helsinki.FI>, torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) writes:
>
>| The swap-page handling resulted in a reduction of swap-file (or
>| partition) size to a maximum of 16MB per file.  It's nothing inherent to
>| the code, but it eased some algorithms, so I didn't bother coding around
>| it.  After all, 16MB is enough for most people, and if you want more,
>| you can have up to 128 swapfiles of 16MB each.  If I get enough
>| hate-mail about it, I might just try to find the energy to correct it. 
>| Maybe. 
>
>  Hate mail, no, but I think this should be fixed at some point.
>As long as multiple swap file work those users who need huge swap space
>can have it by creating a /swap (or some such) partition and creating
>multiple swap files within it. It's ugly, but I see no reason why a
>feature used only by a few people should be pretty as long as it works.
>If you couldn't do it at all I'd complain, but I can live with this if
>my image size gets so big it doesn't fit in 16+16 I'll live with a
>little inconvenience. Of course having more memory work would be nice,
>too, but it raises all sorts of problems. Maybe memory >16M could be
>used for swap of some such.

Huge images are a problem now.  Until the GCC "large initialized array"
problem is fixed, it will be not be possible to compile xphoon :-), or
more importantly flex -f scanners without a very large swapspace.  I seem
to allways be deleting 10 meg core files.  Please don't misunderstand,
this is not hate mail, (or even mildly perturbed mail) ... I can live
without xphoon, and compressed scanners are fast enough under linux :-)

js

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.)
Subject: Re: qrecent copy.
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 19:54:22 GMT

In article <1992Sep7.165004.17755@scott.skidmore.edu> jduncan@scott.skidmore.edu (john duncan) writes:
>Anyone know the answers to these questions?
>	Where can I get a recent copy of Linux.(I don't know what the
>recent rev is.

Sites that come to immediate mind:

	tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/...
	ftp.mcc.ac.uk:/pub/linux/... (I think)
	sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/...
	nic.funet.fi:/pub/OS/Linux/...

>	Is linux mostly compatible with SCO Unix/Xenix binaries. (Does
>it need recompileing)

SCO Unix, not at all binary compatible, but there is a Xenix emulator
written by Lawrence Foard which should be available somehow.  (In
fact, it should be in /pub/linux/ALPHA/xenix or something like that on
tsx-11.)

>	Can I run X11R4/5 with EGA/VGA/SVGA/XVGA?

Supported SVGA cards, yes.  This includes cards using the following
chipsets: ET3000, ET4000, Paradise, and Genoa, with 8514/A support in
beta testing.

Apparently the XFree86 people are working on generic VGA support.

>	Will linux support the Coconet online BBS system.(my
>application for it)

I dunno, haven't heard about it.  If it's fairly portable to begin
with, a port to Linux should be painless.  If it has all sorts of ugly
SCO hacks, you could have problems.
-- 
                                    +      Jim Winstead Jr. (CSci '95)
                                    |      Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR
                                    |   jwinstea@jarthur.Claremont.EDU
                                    + or jwinstea@fenris.Claremont.EDU
From: zlsiial@uts.mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Help Wanted: Building gdb-4.6, how to make shared libraries
Date: 4 Sep 92 07:50:47 GMT
Reply-To: LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc)
Organization: Computing Centre, University of Manchester

In article <1992Sep3.131445@minerva.Prime.COM> peterson@minerva.Prime.COM (David Peterson) writes:
>I'm trying to build gdb version 4.6 without success.  After everything
>compiles and make runs the big 'smash everything together' load that makes
>the executable file, either one of two things happens:

The patches which I applied to compile gdb 4.6 for MCC interim Linux 0.97p2
can be found in mcc-interim/0.97p2/patches/gdb46.ud.Z, available by
anonymous ftp from ftp.mcc.ac.uk in /pub/linux, or from tsx-11.mit.edu
in /pub/linux/mirrors.

     -- Owen
     LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: int177c@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Jae Won)
Subject: Re: Progress report?
Organization: Monash University
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 01:06:43 GMT

In article <1992Sep7.173250.14016@klaava.Helsinki.FI> torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) writes:
>In article <1992Sep7.163715.8229@fwi.uva.nl> vesseur@fwi.uva.nl (Joep Vesseur) writes:
>>torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) writes:
>>
>>>Get 0.97.pl4 - it seems to be stable (knock wood: I haven't gotten any
>>>reports on it yet), 
>>
>>c'mone linus, give us a break: it's out for only 2hrs 40mins :-)
>
>"ONLY" 2hrs 40mins? WHAT? How much time do you want to thoroughly test
>out a new version? Lazy bums (*)
>
>Actually, the pl4 changes are small enough that I hope there are no new
>bugs hiding in there, so pl4 should be as stable as pl3 - with the added
>advantage of not having the truncate bug.  And I haven't gotten any bad
>reactions to pl3 yet.  On the other hand, I guess most people haven't
>had time to upgrade even that far... 
>
>Even the pl3 patches, while big, were pretty simple: mostly cleanups and
>some relatively straightforward swapping changes.  While bugs are always
>possible, the pl3/4 changes aren't of the type that keeps me awake
>nights wondering if they will work, and are likely to work without major
>problems (famous last words...)
>
>		Linus
>
>(*) No, I'm not serious.  Lack of smilies doesn't /always/ mean I'm dead
>serious.  Although some problems (especially HD-driver-related) have in
>fact been corrected with the help of beta-testers that were ready to
>test out several new versions/day.  Unsung heroes, and all that... 

	Hi.
	
		I am certainly very much up to date with Linux as I downloaded the 4th
patch last night and compiled it through. Hopefully from now on, I won't have
these annoying corruptions of the file system. As I found out, my X libs were
corrupted and also xman etc...they seem to work okay until that crucial moment.
(which is whenever it feels like).
		I am just wondering what buffer corruption is. It seems to be the cause
of most of my recent probs(afterr I upgraded to patch2). Can any kind soul
explain this poor comp sci student what buffer corruption is exactly??

Thanks in advance.


Jae
From: dlj0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (DAVID L. JOHNSON)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: U\*nx Book for DOS usr | newbie
Date: 6 Sep 92 06:26:01 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <1992Sep4.030955.7522@pool.info.sunyit.edu>, ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson) writes:
>In article <1992Sep2.171059.27974@athena.mit.edu> A200%SIUEMUS.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu writes:
>>Hi,
>>Saw your request inquiring about a U*ix book for beginners.
>>I just started using a u*ix system earlier this year.  Before
>>that it was DOS since its inception.  I've found the following
>>book to be very good:
>>

I have another one:  "A DOS user's guide to UNIX", Douglas Topham, from
"Info World",  Brady, Simon/Schuster.  Lists at 27.95, but I got it at a
discount place for $4.

-- 
Sincerely,

David L. Johnson                    ID:  dlj0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu
Christmas-Saucon Hall #14, rm 211        
Department of Mathematics

Lehigh University                   Telephone: 215-758-3759 (office)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jml12@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Jonathan M Lennox)
Subject: Re: Binary locations
Reply-To: jml12@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Jonathan M Lennox)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 05:13:09 GMT

In article <y#sn22#.genie@netcom.com> genie@netcom.com (The Genie) writes:
>
>Hi Linuxers.
>
>I've been using Linux for about 2 weeks now, and have found
>a small nit-picky problem.  When I compile something
>or move a executable binary into a directory, Linux refuses
>to recognize the existence of the binary unless
>1) I source my .cshrc which includes paths
>2) The new binary must be located in the binary path.
>
>Is there a way for Linux to automatically recognize binaries
>and execute them in any directory besides those listed
>in the path + to recognize a new binary when placed in
>a directory (in essence, I have to source the .cshrc to
>tell Linux to check all the paths for all binaries).

  There are two issues here.

  First of all, your second point seems to imply that you do not have
'.' (the current directory) in your path.  If you want the shell (this
behavior is governed by your shell, not by Linux itself) to find files
in your current directory, change your .login or .cshrc to reflect
this as you set your path.

  Secondly, C-type shells maintain a hash table of command names, and
do not re-search your path automatically when nothing is found.  This
makes for faster error reporting in case of a typo, unlike sh-type
shells, which will search your path in case new files have been added.

  The command "rehash" will update this table.  You should do this
whenever you add executable files to anyplace along your path.  (I
imagine "set path" also updates this, which is why resourcing your
.cshrc solves your problem.)

  [This question really belongs on (or likely, would be answered by an
FAQ on) one of the general comp.unix.* groups--it really doesn't
belong on comp.os.linux.]

Jonathan Lennox
From: hlu@poly2.eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
Subject: Re: smail3.1.25 (or above) under linux?
Organization: Washington State University
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 22:41:26 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.192507.3827@nwnexus.WA.COM>, vince@halcyon.com (Vince Skahan) writes:
|> s_baumgn@irau26 (Fred Baumgarten) writes:
|> 
|> >Vincent D. Skahan (vds7789@aw2.fsl.ca.boeing.com) wrote:
|> >: [...]
|> >: 
|> >: Has anybody gotten smail3.1.25 (or above) to compile
|> >: under linux ? If so, would you be willing to either
|> 
|> >yup - 3.1.25 works - but only up to 0.97pl2 - at 0.97pl4 it cores
|> 

Try jump table 4.1. It does the trick for my mount.

|> nice piece of information...thanks
|> 
|> >: clue me in or kick me the config files for compiling
|> >: it (and the transport config files for making it work) ?
|> 
|> >humpf - an smail introduction ? would be too hard here...
|> 
|> that's not what I was looking for.
|> 
|> There are linux-isms that need to be identified and dealt with
|> (maybe a conf/os/linux file and/or a linux-specific EDITME file)
|> that I was looking to see if anybody had already solved it.
|> 
|> of course, if you *want* to kick all your config files and
|> a 'here's how it all plays together under linux' document,
|> I won't say no :-)
|> -- 
|>           Vince Skahan				vince@halcyon.com (here)
|>     vince@atc.boeing.com (work)		    vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (home)

H.J.
From: swaliff@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Steve Aliff)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: QIC 40 / QIC 80 ?
Date: 5 Sep 92 17:07:12 GMT
Organization: The Great Beyond

In article <1992Sep05.005517.1950@kithrup.COM> dje@cygnus.com (Doug Evans) writes:
>Steve Aliff (swaliff@afterlife.ncsc.mil) wrote:
>: In article <1992Sep04.152437.22327@kithrup.COM> dje@cygnus.com (Doug Evans) writes:
>: ...
>: >
>: >CMS wrote a device driver for SCO Unix and Xenix and it runs fine for me
>: >in both single user mode and full multitasking mode.
>: >
>: 
>: Is there a charge for it, or is it like their other software and
>: available on their BBS?
>: -- 
>: Steve Aliff (swaliff@afterlife.ncsc.mil [144.51.1.1])
>
>He he he ... take a wild guess ... :-(
>
>I paid 150 Loonies (that's Canadian dollars for those not fortunate enough to
>live in the Great White North ... but then again, I just moved away ... :-)
>
>--
>Doug Evans        | With views like these ...
>dje@cygnus.com    |                           who needs disclaimers.


So they're greedy SOBs are they? Well the way I see it, we can do
one or more of the following:

1. Pay the bums for their software,

2. Try and figure out the workings of their drive ourselves and
write our own driver,

3. Find a company who sells tape drives and will give us the
software (or at least the info we need to put together a driver) and
jump ship to that company, and/or,

4. Start a letter writing campaign to CMS politely informing them
that we'll take our business elsewhere if they're not forthcoming
with the info we need.

So, 

1. How many CMS owners are there in the Linux community?

2. Does anyone know of another drive manufacturer we could jump ship
to? 
-- 
Steve Aliff (swaliff@afterlife.ncsc.mil [144.51.1.1])
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: golden@pecan.cns.udel.edu (Edward Golden)
Subject: How to boot a SCSI drive (w/ a WD7000 FASST)
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 04:38:36 GMT

   I am another who is quite new to linux, and is trying to get it to
work for me.

   My system has a WD-7000 Fasst SCSI adapter in it.  Thanks to the help
given by an expert here, I managed to convince 0.97 to see my adapter card.
(I had moved the BIOS chip adress to 0xC8000 to fit better in UMB for DOS.
0.97 couldn't find it there.   I had to move it back to 0xCE0000)  Now
I have two new concerns.

   First, how do I make 0.97 boot completely from the hard disk?  I'd like to
be able to boot without any floppies involved.  Linux is on the second
partition of my drive (MS-Dos owning the first, primary partition).  I have
done "mkfs" and partitioned it properly (I think, see below).  Barring that,
I can't even make the boot floppy mount the drive as "/".  (I "pboot" and
used "0302")  The partition for linux is "/dev/sda2"... not "/dev/hda#".

   The other concern is about the WD-7000 partitioning.  The WD card comes
with some utilities (SSTSETUP, SSTBIO.SYS, etc) that are supposed to be used
for partitioning.  Linux doesn't seem to be compatible with the partitions
created by these utilities.  I had to use MSDOS 5.0 fdisk and "pfdisk" to
make the partitons.  This makes the drive incompatable with the dos drivers.
Is there some way around this problem?  Or can I leave it alone, trusting that
the system is stable partitioned this way?  (Do I HAVE to use the SST
utilities?)

   Again, I'd be grateful for any assistance.  Thanx!

							[Golden]
From: moura@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Hermano P de Moura)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Where is <sys/syscall.h> in Linux?
Date: 15 Sep 92 15:57:59 GMT
Organization: Glasgow University Computing Science Dept.


I am trying to port a software to Linux and got stuck at the very
begin, so I would appreciate very much any answer to the following
questions:

1	Is there a document on the subject "porting software
	to Linux"? Something with useful hints to easy the task
	of porting software to Linux.

2	The program I am trying to compile has a

	#include <sys/syscall.h>

	Where is this header file in Linux?

3	Also the stat.h and some files in /usr/include seems
	to have problem to compile. Using /usr/include/linux/stat.h
	solved the problem, but I had to rename "stat" to "new_stat".

	Is there a way to check that my /usr/include directory is
	update and complete?

Thanks very much for any clarification,

-- Hermano Moura
From: bills@news.uwyo.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Linux as X terminal
Date: 11 Sep 92 13:24:43 MST
Distribution: world
Organization: University of Wyoming - Laramie, WY

	Is it possible to use Linux as an X server.  IE can
I run an application on a remote DEC station and control
it from my Linux machine.  Can this be done using SLIP
and a fast modem or do I have to use TCP/IP.  Also does
the SLS distribution have TCP/IP built in?
				Thanks,
				Bills@outlaw.uwyo.edu
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