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From: bmyers@shyguy.lonestar.org (bob myers)
Subject: other problems - SLS .98.1 + patches 2-5
Organization: 3-B Technology
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 03:54:59 GMT

I've just installed patches 2 through 5 on my SLS distribution; let
me give a quick run down on my hardware:
 
Tandy 4800HD (80486sx -20 mhz) laptop, 50 mb hard drive linux partition,
      10 mb dos 5.0 partition, 4 mb ram (within a week, will be at 8 mb).

I'm seeing the following items now happening:

1) upon boot with LILO, I'm not being asked if I'd like to select any
   svga modes, but yet the 4 options are displayed and then quickly passed
   over.  (i.e. no pausing to select the svga mode, but it does display the
   four offered).

2) when I do a man of anything (and this also follows with some of the
   other commands/programs), I'm being warned about an old copy of stat()
   being used, and that I should recompile...but it still continues on
   with the execution (this is bothersome).

3) when i try to issue a 'w' command, I get the following:
   'lseek kmem: Unknown error 127469004'
   this also happens when I try the ps command.

4) gnuchess gives a segmentation fault (running in normal mode; not in
   X386 mode).

any ideas?  i think I might have found one problem; the Makefile in the 
/usr/src/linux directory had two occurances for specifying the svga
choice.

-bob



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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
Subject: Re: looking for useful TCP program
Organization: Aston University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 12:19:31 GMT

Reuben O Wells (row@cs.bham.ac.uk) wrote:
: Hi all,
: 
: I am looking for a couple programs, one which takes a hostname and optionally
: a port number, reads data from stdin and the other which runs on the remote
: machine writes all data received on a specified port to stdout.
: 
: Why ? I don't really want to run NFS and want to be able to do remote
: backups, I do have the TCP/IP suite installed and would like to use 
: it! For example:
: 
: on my local machine ...
: tar -cvf / - | senddata <hostname> <port>
: 
: on the remote machine ...
: recdata <port> > /dev/nrst8

The code to do this is fairly trivial.
Just one point run the recpdata program, which you could write as
recdata <file> <port>, first.
It should create a socket
bind it to <port>
do an accept
loop until EOF reading from the socket and writing to the output.

(it might be better to set this up as a well known service, run by inetd,
then that will handle to socket details and you can use something 
equivalent to cat > /dev/whatever in inetd.conf)

For the other end, connect to the socket, read from stdin, write to socket
Until EOF on stdin.

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From: grant@hpmcaa (Grant Garner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Mouse on HP 486/33T?
Date: 14 Nov 92 01:49:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: hpmcaa.1992Nov14.014950.1627
Organization: HP Cardiology Business Unit - McMinnville, OR
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4


Has anyone gotten the "Mini-DIN" mouse on an HP Vectra 486/33T to work?
I'd like to see X, but I'm nowhere close.

The slight info I've been able to find says it's PS/2 compatible, but
I sure can't seem to get it going.

Been trying SLS 98p1.  Great system!

Thanks,

Grant Garner			grant@mcm.hp.com
HP Cardiology Business Unit	
McMinnville OR 97128		(503) 434-8455
From: DOERRSAM@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de (Volker Doerrsam)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: tcp/ip - elnk16
Date: 20 Nov 92 14:55:20 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering)
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.20

Hello world!
This is an Emergency! We have succesfully installed Linux (Vers. 0.98pl3) on
our 386sx and now trying to network in our Cluster. The problem we're
running into is the ethernet-card which is an 'ELNK16'. Is anybody out there
who knows 
(has made) how to make the stuff work? Our VAX-Cluster supports TCP/IP, DECNET
and LAT. 

Thanks in advance
Volker and Joerg
From: tdunbar@vttcf.cc.vt.edu (Thomas Dunbar)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: libc.so.4.2 bug?
Date: 23 Nov 92 21:50:58 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA


 using /pub/linux/GCC/libc.so.4.2 and Rik Faith's recently uploaded
make v 3.62, i get a segmentation fault..when i link back to libc.so.4.1,
make works fine.
From: Conrad_Nobili@Harvard.EDU (Conrad C. Nobili)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: find src for TOP
Date: 18 Nov 92 23:25:17 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Organization: Harvard University Office for Information Technology

In article <92322.084949BTITMARS@ESOC.BITNET>, BTITMARS@ESOC.BITNET (BARRY
TITMARSH) wrote:

> ok thanks for the replies to find PS src for 0.98
> found on sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/ps-0.98.tar.Z

> I now need to find the source code for TOP for 0.98

You didn't perchance think of actually uncompressing and untaring this
package did you...?!

I don't mean to sound harsh, but some of you have *got* to try harder
before posting your woes.  Please....

Conrad C. Nobili  N1LPM  Conrad_Nobili@Harvard.EDU  Harvard University OIT
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tfoley@r-node.gts.org (Tim Foley)
Subject: HD Read_Intr Additions...
Organization: R-node Public Access UNIX Information System (416-249-5366)
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 17:17:00 GMT

 
   Ok, I've tried lots of ideas on how to solve these read_intr and write
intr, but I've gotten no-where.  My machine is only a 486 25, so speed is
not the problem and I have the bus speed set for AT CLK.  I tried without
turbo just for the heck of it...no go.  
  Also, the Harddrive controller is an 16 bit 3-1 interleave controller...
not even a reasonably fast 1:1....so thats out.
  As I said before, the drive worked perfect under dos...and its does have
some defects...but I re-low-leveled it to make sure they didn't affect
Linux (Unless Linux needs to be told about HD errors even after Low-Leveling around them,
 
 					HELP!
 
							Tim

NOTE: Please Reply in Comp.os.Linux


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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ketil@ii.uib.no (Ketil M. Malde)
Subject: fdisk can't find the hard disk!
Reply-To: ketil@ii.uib.no,s391@brems.ii.uib.no
Organization: student of numerical analysis at the University of Bergen, Norway
Date: 17 Nov 92 11:25:17


Late last night I tried to install linux from the SLS distribution.
It runs just fine off the floppies, but it would be nice to have it on
the hard disk, right?  Right.

OK, first step is reduce the DOS disk partition, using disk editor
from norton, and changing the partition table entries and the size in
the DOS bootblock.  (Yes I know you're not supposed to do that, but it
worked out, OK?)

OK, start linux from floppy, run fdisk.  'Unable to read /dev/hda'
Just to make sure, I tried /dev/hdb, and after I read a few of the
docs, /dev/sda as well.  Same result.

I also tried creating a partition for linux with dos, but it would
still protest.

What am I doing wrong?

Please respond by email, I don't have time to read this group!

Machine is HP 486SX w/ enough RAM and a 406Mb SCSI disk.
Not entirely sure which version of the bootimage, at least 0.97.


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From: mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: question concerning dumb terminal and linux
Date: 20 Nov 1992 06:09:50 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc5.ins.cwru.edu



i got a Heathkit H19 terminal today and I'd like to hook it up
to my Linux box. Let's see if I got this right. Could someone
tell me if this is the correct procedure for setting it up.

I'll get a RS-232 cable to hook from the terminal to my COM2 serial port.
I think the Heath kit is a VT52. any1 know if this true????
Then, I'll need to know it's baud rate. I'll assume 9600 to start
with.

So to I'd simply type
'getty /dev/ttys2 9600' to instablish a login prompt on the terminal???
When I log in, would I have to set the terminal type??? Is there
a termcap entry for the vt52??? how would I set that???

Thanx in advance. You guys are great and all-knowing.
Later

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: dmuir@athena.mit.edu (Douglas H Muir)
Subject: Newbie questions about SLS
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:37:10 GMT

I got SLS up and running - including X.  I've also downloaded and compiled
the rzsz package found on tsx-11.mit.edu.  I do have a few questions, 
though.

First, I noticed that the version of xfree in SLS is 1.0, but that 1.1 is out.
Should I get the 1.1 release, or not worry about it?

Second, when running under X, my keyboard doesn't seem to work the same way
it does when not running under X.  For instance, backspace doesn't work in
emacs under X, and the arrow keys don't work under minicom.  How can I set
the keyboard to work under X the way it does outside?

Third, how do I get rz to work automatically with minicom?  Is it possible
to use rz, sz, etc. under kermit?

Thanks in advance for any info you can give me.



Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hooft@fys.ruu.nl (Rob Hooft)
Subject: Re: generating shared libraries
Organization: Physics Department, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 11:42:19 GMT

In <83876@ut-emx.uucp> yuhlin@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Yuh-Lin Chang) writes:

>I hope this is not a stupid question.  I would like to know how to
>generate shared libraries for dynamic linking.  I want to do this 
>because I have a few programs linked with a large traditional library
>(libtiff.a).  I hope that recompiling it to a shared library can save
>me a lot of space.  Thanks in advance.

There is a collection of shared libraries on sunsite.unc.edu directory
/pub/Linux/Incoming/jumptables. A shared libtiff.a library is included
in the libgr01.TZ package. There is also a document describing very
briefly how to create a jumptable library yourself.

Regards,

-- 
Rob W.W. Hooft,  Department of crystal and structural chemistry
Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, University of Utrecht
The Netherlands ===== hooft@chem.ruu.nl (hooft@hutruu54.bitnet)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: aclark@netcom.com (Al Clark)
Subject: Re: SLS install (again)
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 23:00:56 GMT

In article <1e26kaINNqg1@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> lairdt@CS.ORST.EDU (Tom Laird) writes:
>I asked once before and I've seen the same question asked by others,
>but here it is again.
>
>I have SLS 0.98p3 - what do I have to do to it so that I can install it
>even though it currently complains when trying to mount my floppy drive??
>I have not seen an answer posted to the group yet.

It's not clear to me what your problem is.  If you're installing it on
your hard disk, you would be mounting your hard disk on your root floppy.
If you have it installed on your hard disk and are trying to mount
floppies to complete the installation, you need to be much more
specific about exactly what you're doing and what the error message is.
-- 
Al - aclark@netcom.com - My opinions are my own.
From: hlu@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Error compiling XV
Date: 21 Nov 92 10:38:23 GMT
Article-I.D.: serval.1992Nov21.103823.15354
Distribution: world
Organization: Washington State University

In article <By23G9.BML@news.iastate.edu> mhbrekke@iastate.edu (Monty H. Brekke) writes:
>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
           ^^^^^^
Could someone please remove xv.a from all the ftp sites? Since
X11 2.0 (Xfree386 1.0), we don't need foo.a any more. That is why
we have jump table. xv.a is VERY VERY old in Linux term.

BTW, I believd xv should be compiled almost right out of box if
you have some experience with X11, C and Unix.


H.J.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
Subject: Re: Tape-Drivers & Mail
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 00:37:02 GMT

Vince Skahan (vince@victrola.sea.wa.us) wrote:

: also in there in newspak.tar.Z are my config files for all of the
: pieces of newspak, so if you have the sources already, put 'my' config
: files into place, edit to use 'your' system name, domain, and paths,
: and type 'make'.

Taylor-gamma 1.04 is getting pretty stable, and I've been running elm-2.4pl3
for a while with no problems, so I think it's getting near time for a mailpak
1.4 release.  It might be a good idea to merge newspak and mailpak, because it
doesn't make much sense to upload mailpak with smail in it if Vince is going
to supply it.  I've downloaded the latest newspak, and so will work on
configuring elm to work with Vince's smail.  Mailpak 1.4 will only contain
Taylor-uucp 1.04 (final if it's ready soon, else the gamma release), elm2.4p3,
and uustatus 1.3.

Since mailpak *is* rather big, I will also be posting an abbreviated version,
containing uustatus 1.3, patches for taylor-uucp gamma 1.04, and patches for
elm 2.4 pl3 for those who already have those versions.  I also forsee splitting
up mailpak into separate directories for each "product", so that folks who
just want the elm upgrade or uucp can just get those pieces.
--
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"There is nothing to seek and nothing to find.  You're already enlightened, and
all the words in the world won't give you what you already have.  The wise
seeker, therefore, is concerned with one thing only: to become aware of what
he already is, of the True Self within."  -- Zen maxim
-- 
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"There is nothing to seek and nothing to find.  You're already enlightened, and
all the words in the world won't give you what you already have.  The wise
From: wjin@cs.uh.edu (W. Woody Jin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Enough memory for X?
Date: 22 Nov 1992 07:22:01 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
NNTP-Posting-Host: rodin.cs.uh.edu

In article <1992Nov21.013807.12513@samba.oit.unc.edu> jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid) writes:
>In article <1992Nov19.094620.8917@newstand.syr.edu> ldstern@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Larry Stern) writes:
>>Quick question: I have plenty of hard disk space but only 4M of ram.
>>Before I start ftping and downloading mult-megs of binaries for X11,
>>should I even bother?  The FAQ says 8M of ram are needed (required?),
>>but I'm wondering if I can get away with 4.
>
>Get away? Yeah... But only if you are a patient soul like myself :)
>
>I run X11 with only 4 megs; I can run a single xterm and a clock with twm
>with no swapping; more clients than that... i swap.
>
>Today i had two xterms, idraw, and xv (with a gif) running.

I am running Xwindow/Xview with only 4M (386/25 without 387)).
It just works fine. I open 3 xterms, one oclock and one xeyes using olwm.
If I used twm, I could have saved more memory.
One xterm runs kermit to connect to the university computer.
It takes about similar time to do the same thing on sun3/50-4M system.
Maybe less than that.
In that configuration, it uses about 2M swap space
(I prepared 15M swap space).

Running graphics packages like idraw or xv will require your patience.
I use xfig instead of idraw, since it is much smaller and faster than
idraw.  TeX, Ghostscript, Ghostview, Xdvi, etc are running O.K. though
not fast enough.

Compiling takes much resource. Gcc is big.
When I compile my research project which includes lex and yacc,
it used about 8M of swap space, and the response was really slow.
And it took almost 15min to compile lex generated source file.
But normal compiling like making xdvi, ghostview is O.K.

When I switch from one window to another it takes about 0.5-3sec (or more)
depending on the load at that time.  But I think that it is still much, much
and much faster than OS/2 with 4M.

You may expect around SUN3/50 with 4M performance from 386-25/4M (maybe
slightly better).

Cheers,

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: erb@insu1.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de (Olaf Erb)
Subject: Re: Taylor UUCP 1.03 does not work with kernel 0.98pl5
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:32:19 GMT

Klaus Herrmann (28-631-2965) (klaush@obelix) wrote:
: Please respond to: klaus@aladin.tynet.sub.org
: 
: Hi,
: 
: My problem is, that all the uucp-staff from the mailpak doesn't run
: with the latest kernel patch # 5. With pl4 it was all o.k. Even when
: I recompile all uucp with the "-fwritabel-strings" flag the uucp coredumps.
: 
: Does anyone have the same problem or can help me ??
: 
: Thanks in advance
: 
:    Klaus Herrmann
: 

It's the buggy sigaction() Linus mentioned in his announce for pl5.

Just configure the uucp source as if you don't have sigaction(), and
it'll work... I don't remember the file, but it's no problem to find it.

Olaf
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: SCHLIGHW@dosuni1.rz.uni-osnabrueck.de (Hans Schligtenhorst)
Subject: Installation-problems with zonebitrecording HD
Organization: University of Osnabrueck, FRG
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 12:43:12 GMT

Hi everyone,
 
I've got problems installing LINUX SLS 0.98pl1-37 on my new SCSI-HD.
Running fdiskan error-message tells me to tell the system the numbers
of heads, cylinders and sectors manually because it is a zonebitrecording
harddisk (Fujitsu M2624FA), that means, there are different numbers of sectors
per track. Can anybody help me?
 
My system:
 
486/33 NoName, AMI-Bios
8MB Ram
AT-Bus Controller
- 1 3,5''
- 1 5,25''
- 105 MB NEC AT-Bus HD (no problems, will be sold)
Adaptec 1542B SCSI-Controller
- Fujitsu M2624FA 520MB SCSI-HD  (dunno how to fdisk :(  )
- Wangtek 5150 SCSI-Tape         (no dev-driver since now, any hint?)
- Seagate ST 296N 80MB SCSI-HD(only for mess-dos)
Galaxy ET-4000 vga
 
Thanks in advance
 
Hans
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Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:07:32 -0500 
From: Frank T Lofaro <fl0p+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Read-only text segments (was minicom breaks under 0.98pl5)

From comp.os.linux: 17-Nov-92 Re: minicom broken under .98-5 Brent
Benson@ssd.csd.harris.com (712)

>You don't have to go to such lengths to do this sort of thing.  Simply
>use an initialized array of characters rather than a pointer to a
>string constant:

>char gname[] = "stuff";

	Okay, an initialized array will allow you to change the contents, but
want if the program also wants to then change what gname points too? It
might not work. (Yeah I know it is extremely bad code (char
*gname="stuff") originally that resulted in an attempt to change a
strings literal pointed to by a pointer when the pointer was later
dereferenced. Nevertheless, it seems that stuff later on might depend on
where gname points being changable.)

P.S. I totally agree with Linus' tightening of the restrictions
(stopping NULL pointer dereferences, and now making the text-segment
read-only.). It might have been necessary for rapid development to allow
somewhat messy stuff to work for the time being, but with 1.0 in the not
too distant future, ensuring quality programming that doesn't do
anything really wrong is a good idea. That way we can be better assured
of a more stable, reliable, well built OS/software enviornment. If
anything breaks, it was kind of broken to begin with, and now it will
get fixed, like it should. Anyway thanks for an excellent OS, and I hope
that the little fixing of stuff up doesn't make the road too bumpy :)

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tree@midget.towson.edu (Denise Tree)
Subject: PLP daemon
Reply-To: tree@midget.towson.edu (Denise Tree)
Organization: The Internet
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 13:46:24 GMT

Hi Activists,

Does the port of PLP  require tcp/ip in the kernel?

I was wondering also (before snarfing) if using such
a spooler would enable me to finally print out larger
postscript files without the port getting jammed ...
an old problem.

Denise
tree@midget.towson.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jem@snakemail.hut.fi (Johan Myreen)
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux 0.98 pl5
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: 17 Nov 92 11:58:27 GMT

In article <JEM.92Nov16213559@lk-hp-6.hut.fi> jem@snakemail.hut.fi (Johan Myreen) writes:

>This breaks code modifying string literals, like for instance the
>mktemp library function when called like this: mktemp("/tmp/fooXXXXXX"). 
>This is not a bug in Linux or Gcc, but in *your* application, if you
>use mktemp like this, or do tricks like "bar"[2]++...

On second thought, these examples aren't very good, since the program 
fragments are meaningless. But you get the idea: don't modify string
constants, not even through a pointer.

Gcc offers the -fwritable-strings option as a quick fix for these
non-standard programs.

--
Johan Myreen
jem@cs.hut.fi
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: wyvern@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (The Wyvern)
Subject: Re: Problems with CMOS after using Linux on my 486
Organization: Free Software Foundation
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:18:47 GMT

In article <1992Nov12.230055.28527@sfu.ca> rchen@fraser.sfu.ca (Robert Chen) writes:
>In article <BxIyzz.38z@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> pcrichar@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Pat Richard) writes:
>>In article <96973@netnews.upenn.edu> dsimon@stipple.seas.upenn.edu (Derron Simon) writes:
>>>Hi.  I recently purchased a 486DX33 and want to run Linux on a 50 meg parition.
>>>My problem is that after loading Linux from the latest SLS disks (.98pl1, I
>>>ftp'ed them 3 days ago) I get "CMOS checksum bad" errors after every reboot.
>>>Usually the portion of CMOS that gets trashed is the Hard Drive information!
>>
>>Yes, I have also had this problem running SLS .98 pl1, though I somehow
>>feel it wasn't to do with SLS (?). When I used mtools, and then re-booted,
>>the hard disk info was lost. It was my first time using mtools, and
>[...]
>>Pat C. Richard, 
>>pcrichar@cayley.uwaterloo.ca
>
>
[...]
>I am told that this behavior happens only with AMI bios.  Don't know
>why.  Is there any chance there will ever be a fix for this?  Linux
>has had this 'bug' (if you can call it that) since the CAD code was
>introduced.
>
>
>Can anyone out there who knows anything about this comment?
>

My system uses Phoenix BIOS and has the same problem.
Reboot just hangs the machine, so I just sync, halt,
and hit reset. It'd sure be nice to have a working
reboot, though.

>- Ken
>