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From: bussmann@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (lucas bussmann)
Subject: Diamond Speedstar Clock Problem
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 09:53:35 GMT
Organization: TU Darmstadt
Keywords: Speedstar Diamond Clock

I have found a solution for the Diamond Speedstar Clock's problem,
not a final solution but it may be useful:

After setting up an extended text mode, the real mode (MS-DOS) program 
"clock.exe" will find clocks that do not appear before.
It seems that these clocks appeare only when they are needed by some BIOS 
routines.

Now a table of some clock values:

      TextMode          Clocks
        0x22            25,2  27,5  80   72    25,2   27,5   80   72
        0x2A            25,2  27,5  72   65,5  25,2   27,5   72   65,5

Useful is the phenomenon, that the clocks stay at their position even if you
reboot your computer. What Xfree tells you about the clocks is not
believable, because Linux is a multitasking Operating System and therefor it's 
not useful for realtime calculations.

If you run X multiple times then the server will give you different clock 
configurations. 

I have added a few lines of assembler code to the file linux/boot/setup.S:
.
- #define Diamond_Mode 0x22
.
.
.
entry start
start:
-!  switching on moment in the extended text mode  for Diamond VGA Cards
-        mov   ah,#0x00
-        mov   al,#Diamond_Mode
-        int   0x10
-!  switch back to normal text mode
-        mov   ah,#0x00
-        mov   al,#0x03
-        int   0x10

When the right clock appears in the table, you can use my little patch to
work with it. Don't forget to overwrite the clockdetection from the server
with the right clock specification from the table above in the Xconfig file,
otherwise it doesn't work.
This patch works with my Speedstar high colour plus with Bios version 5.0.
Maybe it works with other Speedstar VGA cards too.

Lucas Bussmann
Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
Department of Computer Science
Internet:bussmann@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de
From: broadley@lrdc5 (Bill Broadley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: 4-port Usernet Serial II Card [REVIEW]
Date: 17 Nov 92 07:05:44 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

Just thought I'd give a quick review of the USENET Serial Board II.  

I bought the kit, built it myself, the directions were good, all
parts are socketed, the board is a 2 layer 1/2 slot 16 bit card.

Took me about 2 hours to put it together, set it up as a standard
dos card (2 ports on 2 irq's) and booted linux.  It recognized all 4 16550's,
and immediately made use of them.  I tested all 4 and have no problems 8-).

The board seems very configuable allowing all ports on a single irq 
(each status is or'd together), and any other number of configuations 
involving irq's 2,3,4,5,10,11,12,15, and the standard I/O addresses, or a 
configurable block of 24 addresses just about anywhere.

There is also a status byte for the status of all 4 16550's to make it easier 
to figure out which buffer is full when they are all hooked up the same IRQ.

Manual is fairly complete, including NASA's soldering guide, 16550 complete 
data specs, PAL equations, circuit schematic, cabling diagrams etc.

So basically it looks well designed, includes source code, works well,
and most importantly compatible with linux.

Now if only I could find a graphics card as well designed/documented.

Anybody out there written a driver to handle all 4 ports on a single IRQ?   

Email with any additional questions.

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From: mchst12@cislabs.pitt.edu (Mark Hahn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Is it possible to mount the OS/2 HPFS from Linux?
Date: 23 Nov 92 01:45:17 GMT
Reply-To: mchst12@pitt.edu

OS/2's HPFS was originally written by Gordon Letwin, of Microsoft.
I recall an MS Journal article on HPFS internals, and frankly,
Minasi has published incorrect articles in Byte before.

regards, Mark.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: pclark@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Peter Clark)
Subject: Re: Empire Progress?
Keywords: empire, linux
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 13:35:17 GMT

First, if you wanna reply to this I would take it to Email.

As for compelling reasons to port KSU over instead of Chainsaw?  Well,
the list starts with ALLYHARBOR, markets, new forms of nuclear weapons,
and continues down from there.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: harry@atlas.socsci.umn.edu (Kuo-Chen Chang)
Subject: How  to  do SLIP within LINUX
Keywords: SLIP
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 04:08:21 GMT

Hi netter,

Just a quick Q.  Is SLIP available now?  I have been struggling with
ka9q and c-kermit for a while and without any luck.

Harry

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mhbrekke@iastate.edu (Monty H. Brekke)
Subject: Re: Error compiling XV
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 07:57:44 GMT

In article <1992Nov20.085721.1271@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> tex@ipf.bau-verm.uni-karlsruhe.de writes:
>Hello,
>
>compiling (loading) XV gives the following error:
>gcc -o xv xv.a libjpeg.a libtiff.a -lX11 -lm
>xv.a(xvjpeg.o): Undefined symbol _setjmp referenced from text segment
>xv.a(xvjpeg.o): Undefined symbol _setjmp referenced from text segment
>make: *** [xv] Error 1
>
>Any ideas???
>
>Thanks Stefan
>
I had this same exact problem. The problem stems from the fact that
setjmp is defined as a macro in the ANSI standard, and apparently
whoever compiled the distribution didn't take this into account.
After a couple hours of playing with the Linux header files in an
effort to get hte beast to compile, I gave up and just downloaded
the full source distribution (from export.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib).
It compiled with only one change to the code. There is a README 
file which came with the library you are trying to compile that 
describes the change. It amounts to changing a #ifdef to a #ifndef.

One more thing-- You will need a fairly large system to compile
this thing. I've got a 486 with 16MB, and the machine started 
swapping with basically no other jobs running in the background.
If anyone wants the true binary, I can compile it static and upload
it, although it will probably be a very large binary. The shared
version I've got is about 640K stripped.

Good luck compiling, and let me know if you have any problems.



-- 
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From: chet@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Chet Ramey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Bash ( Was Re: which(1) ? where-is-it : I-wrote-one)
Date: 10 Nov 1992 00:21:08 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: odin.ins.cwru.edu

In article <1992Nov9.195631.23296@netcom.com> aclark@netcom.com (Al Clark) writes:
>     It does NOT have shell variables as distinct
>     from environment variables (no loss in my estimation).

This is not true.  A variable is not placed into the environment exported
to children unless the `export' command is used:

odin(3)$ abcd=efgh
odin(3)$ echo $abcd
efgh
odin(3)$ printenv abcd
odin(3)$ export abcd
odin(3)$ printenv abcd
efgh

Chet Ramey
Bash maintainer

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: pratten@csd.uwo.ca (A Warren Pratten)
Subject: Re: Packaging Linux
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario, London
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 00:19:49 GMT
Keywords: X11 windows Linux packaging

In article <daum.721861107@ee.ualberta.ca> daum@ee.ualberta.ca (Tanya Louise Daum) writes:
>I was reading this morning in a local computer paper about NeXT software and
>how the NeXT is the only computer with "a consistent and user friendly" user
>interface across almost all applications excluding the Macintosh.
>
>This got me thinking about the innadequacy of raw X windows and the
>applications already built.  Most applications aren't terribly user
>friendly, and certainly aren't consistent.  I know there are packaged
>environments for X out there that have this sort of internal consistency and
>user friendliness (Interviews struck me as kind of nice) but they have not
>caught on, etc.
>

I realize this type of thinking is very "old-fashion" but....
Some people (like me) find "consistent and user friendly" interfaces such as
those presented by NeXT and MacIntosh very annoying.  Personally I like
X's user-unfriendlyness.  When I work I want to pull up the application or
window and get at it.  I hate dragging this thing over top of that icon and
pulling down those menu bars.



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Email: Pratten@csd.uwo.ca
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ins217t@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
Subject: Putting Lilo in MBR
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 23:24:12 GMT

What does LILO do when you install it in the MBR of your hard disk ?
Does it change the active partition to the partition containing the
kernel / partition you boot ?

'Cause I played with it last night, and i could boot DOS, Linux and
SCO Open Desktop fine, but when i put it in Linux's boot sector and
changed the active partn. to linux, ODT wouldn't boot,
presumably because its boot program seems to assume that ODT is in
the active partition, and so it couldn't find the boot program to
run...8-(

So if I install LILO in the MBR will it change the active partition to
ODT's if i "want" to boot ODT (not likely - it's dad's, not mine 8-)
instead of Linux (now there's an impossible occurrence 8-) ?

Or shall I just stick with BOOTLIN until I can convince Dad to turf
ODT ;-) ?

Cos !
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			ins217t@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: kenc@sol.acs.unt.edu (Ken Corey - Operator)
Subject: Multiple serial cards?
Organization: University of North Texas
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 22:28:40 GMT

Okay, I've read the FAQ, and written to join the serial mail list...is there 
anyplace else I should look for info that will let me use a second serial 
card simultaneously under Linux?

Ken == kenc@sol.acs.unt.edu == kenc@vaxb.acs.unt.edu
 Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fate
 and captain of your soul.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: chchen@stat (Ching-Hsiang Chen)
Subject: XVI, not bad.
Organization: Florida State University
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 14:52:27 GMT

I just compiled XVI, a VI clone with multiple windows. The compilation
is straightforward, just copy the file makefile.usg to Makefile. You 
can get the source codes and doc at SIMTEL or oak.oakland.edu in
pub/msdos/editor/{xvidoc.zip,xvisrc.zip}.

Steve Chen         chchen@stat.fsu.edu
From: bsp10@cd.amdahl.com (Byong Pak)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: sls problems
Date: 19 Nov 92 18:10:35 GMT
Reply-To: bsp10@duts.ccc.amdahl.com
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

I just got the SLS stuff downloaded from tsx-11.  I am pretty sure I got all 
the latest stuff (Actually I got some of the older p4 version then checked 
the dir listing for modification dates and got the p5 version)  Anyhow, while
I was installing some problems came up.  

1.  There always seems to be a problem with no such file /user/*.tar ?? at
     the end of each disk.... Is this a problem or just a catch-all that I 
     need not worry about.

2.  The directory /dev is not created but is tried to installed to during 
    the install.

3.  (after I created a /dev and installed again), couln't do a chmod on 
    /dev/kmem

4.  For some reason during install, /dev/hda2 was mounted as / 
    let me explain my partitioning..... 
       /dev/hda1 was dos.
       /dev/hda2  exdended partition.
	   /dev/hda5  linux within extended partition.
           /dev/hda6  linux swap within extended partition.
       /dev/hda3  linux root
       /dev/hda4  boot manager.
    I used the following command for install

       doinstall /dev/hda3 /dev/hda5 /usr

5.  After the install, and a newly created floppy disk was made, I tried 
    booting from the floppy... It did't work, It got as far as checking the 
    partitions and then just hung there....

That's about the complete list of my problems.  I checked the SLS FAQ
and could 
not find answers to these questions there.... If anyone can help me I
would 
appreciate it...

Thanks
Byong

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From: gerd@zaphod.physik.fu-berlin.de (Gerd Buntkowsky)
Subject: Re: TCP Problems: Unknown service Solved !!!!!!!!!
Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 16:48:55 GMT

Hello and thanks to everybody who helped me,
I finally got the tcpip running
the problem with the unknown service is, that telnet looks for
the file /usr/etc/inet/services, while my path was /etc/services.
In this regard my question, should I link /usr/etc/inet to /etc ?
   gerd



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From: delman@mipg.upenn.edu (Delman Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: 0.98-pl5 has left many of my binaries dead
Date: 17 Nov 92 04:35:14 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania, USA.
In-reply-to: ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu's message of 17 Nov 92 03:43:27 GMT

In article <1992Nov17.034327.14311@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold) writes:

   bash 1.12.3, tcsh 6.02, uugetty and su are all broken. The shell
   binaries are dated late September; su and uugetty I compiled myself
   within the last month. I'm using GCC 2.2.2d7 and jumplibs 4.1.

I just want to echo that uugetty/getty from the getty_ps-203 package
is also broken on my system with 0.98.5. [Compiler gcc2.2.2d7] Am
currently trying to figure out why....

My bash 1.12 seems to work. It's from hlu's rootdisk.

Delman.
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From: opium@hardy.u.washington.edu (Just dance and move your body)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: How to find things at tsx?
Date: 17 Nov 92 03:55:33 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

I recently read that joe1.0.0 is at tsx in pub/linux somewhere, after
wasting a half hour searching all the directories I decided to ask if there is
an easier way to find it?????      Sorry to waste the space for it
but this has plagued me for a long time never finding things at tsx
From: steve@Nyongwa.CAM.ORG (Steve M. Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Fix for getty/uugetty under pl5
Summary: mea culpa -- patch included
Date: 19 Nov 92 04:19:53 GMT
Organization: Chiral Symmetry Breaking, Inc.

In article <1992Nov18.011322.9917@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold) writes:
>I've found the problem with the getty/uugetty from getty_ps203.
>
>The culprit is the code which attempts to add an entry into utmp
>for uugetty. Notice that the ifdef explicitly excludes the code
>which initializes utmp; the subsequent strncopys try to copy 
>stuff to a NULL structure:
>
>From main.c:585:
>
>#ifndef linux
>        while ((utmp = getutent()) != (struct utmp *) NULL) 
>                if (utmp->ut_type == INIT_PROCESS && utmp->ut_pid == pid)
>#endif
>                        {
>                        debug2(D_UTMP, "logutmp entry made\n");
>                        /* show login process in utmp
>                         */
>                        strncopy(utmp->ut_line, Device);
>                        strncopy(utmp->ut_id, Device+3);

Ooops.  That was stupid, wasn't it?

>I don't know enough about this to say what the real fix is (maybe
>it should be "#ifdef", I dunno. Perhaps the person who did the 
>original port can comment.

Okay, the reason I #ifdef'd out the loop to search through utmp was that
the init (simpleinit from poe) that I have does not create INIT_PROCESS
entries.  The result is that the loop here never finds an entry, and doesn't
overwrite it.  So the last person to use the line will *always* show up in
'who' until someone else logs in, because 'login' doesn't bother checking --
it ALWAYS writes a utmp entry.

Poe's getty did no utmp checking, so I copied him.  And I goofed.
The fix is then to malloc the memory for utmp before trying to use it.
(Is the real fix to have init write INIT_PROCESS entries?)

Now: can someone explain why it took until pl5 for this to show up?  Since the
pointer utmp is a local variable to function main(), doesn't it have the
value 0?  If it does, how come writing all this junk to location zero doesn't
overwrite other valuable things and just crash royally?

Here's my aforementioned patch:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
*** main.old	Wed Nov 18 22:50:05 1992
--- main.c	Wed Nov 18 23:02:55 1992
***************
*** 579,585 ****
  	debug2(D_RUN, "update utmp/wtmp files\n");
  
  	pid = getpid();
! #ifndef linux
  	while ((utmp = getutent()) != (struct utmp *) NULL) 
  		if (utmp->ut_type == INIT_PROCESS && utmp->ut_pid == pid)
  #endif
--- 579,587 ----
  	debug2(D_RUN, "update utmp/wtmp files\n");
  
  	pid = getpid();
! #ifdef linux
! 	if ((utmp = malloc(sizeof(struct utmp))) != NULL)
! #else
  	while ((utmp = getutent()) != (struct utmp *) NULL) 
  		if (utmp->ut_type == INIT_PROCESS && utmp->ut_pid == pid)
  #endif
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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From: rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller, Linux Device Registrar)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Dos Emulator Question
Date: 23 Nov 1992 14:44:48 GMT
Organization: Just me.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.2.33
Summary: What about EXE2BIN?

I've read in the DOS emulator docs that it won't run *.EXE files, but that
it will run *.COM files... so could EXE2BIN be used to make the conversion?
or will this not work with some *.EXE's?

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: kfogel@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Karl Fogel)
Subject: Upgrading to GCC 222d7 and shlib 4.1 on 0.98.5 ... dangerous?
Organization: Oberlin College Computer Science
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 05:05:02 GMT
Distribution: comp.os.linux
X-Posted-From: occs.cs.oberlin.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu


	I am fairly (read: extremely) ignorant about what makes GCC
work, and have only the most basic understanding of how jump tables
and shared-libs work. I am currently trying to upgrade my gcc from
2.2.2d to 2.2.2d7 (the one currently on tsx-11), and the process is
more than a little confusing. Does anyone have the most recent GCC
working with 0.98pl5? And if so, are you willing to share your
experiences? I have seen a couple of reports that the shared libs are
broken under 0.98.5 and am thinking that maybe I should wait for a
while until something comes out that is guaranteed to work (as much as
anything is guaranteed to work, at least :-) ... can one install the
latest GCC without the latest sh_libs, and what about the jump-table?
Apologies if these are very basic questions, but they are not covered
in the FAQ's as far as I can tell. My gcc works fine now, so I'm not
in a terrible rush to do this, but I would like to keep up with
progress and upgrade sometime soon. Thanks in advance for any help...,
and as usual, thanks Linus and everyone else for this great OS!
--

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: rankin@ms.uky.edu (David W. Rankin Jr.)
Subject: Re: Packaging Linux
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 21:03:23 GMT
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences

In article <1992Nov20.160444.16116@scifi.uucp> njs@scifi.uucp
					(Nicholas J. Simicich) writes:
>In article <17612@mindlink.bc.ca> Neklan_Brozensky@mindlink.bc.ca
					(Neklan Brozensky) writes:
>
>>BTW I'm a new linux user, and like the original poster of this thread, I
>>agree that A simple prepackaged Xwindow linux could really make some noise on
>>the desktop, but *only* when it has DOS compatibility.
>
>I personally think that another essential for mass-usage is going to
>be a filesystem that doesn't require sync() or fsck.  This isn't an
>impossible task, and yes, there is a performance hit, but I don't
>think you are going to sell a system to the masses that they can't
>turn off whenever they want to.
The Macintosh has had quite a bit of sales, and Apple (for good reason)
repeatedly warns you NOT to turn off the machine without shutting it down.
(Can you say "Destroyed system file?" I knew you could...) After all, how
hard is it to "sudo halt" or "su root; halt"? 

I personally tend to rate the end-user's intellegence a bit high, tho. If
my mother can get the hang of using a Mac Classic 2 and Lotus 1-2-3, then
most people can handle any UNIX with a good installer. (And no comments from
the crowd about Mac, we are talking about my mother here. :)

BTW: Does anyone know if the sudo writen up in _UNIX System Administration Book_
(Nemeth, Snyder and Seebass) is in the public domain or at least for public
distribution? If it is, then I think it would be a Good Idea (tm) to include
sudo as part of the SLS distribution.

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