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From: nolet@concour.cs.concordia.ca (Nolet Richard G.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: How to use mouse in x11emacs???
Date: 28 Jul 92 12:32:24 GMT
Organization: Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec

Well.... the Subject says it all. I downloaded the x11emacs binary from
tsx (or was it banjo? :). I would have thought that an X version of
emacs would use the mouse for cursor and cut & paste operations. Can
someone point out what needs to be done to activate the mouse.

Also - is it possible to have only one binary of emacs that figures out
whether it's executing in X or not.

Thanks for the pointers. (Great job with everything: OS GCC X etc, etc...)

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From: tdunbar@vttcf.cc.vt.edu (Thomas Dunbar)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: texinfo
Date: 29 Jul 92 20:31:08 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA


texinfo.tex (and dvips binary) are at archsci.arch.su.oz.au in dir 
pub/linux/tex-etc
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: erb@insu1.etec.uni-karlsruhe.de (Olaf Erb)
Subject: 520MB harddisk - how to partition it?
Organization: Institut fuer Nachrichtensysteme, Uni Karlsruhe
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 16:14:53 GMT

Hi,
any suggestions about this? It's a 520MB Fujitsu SCSI disk...
Should I use MS-DOS' fdisk program? And partitionate 16 
partitions :-( ?
Thanks for help,
Olaf
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From: duperval@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Duperval Laurent)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Kernel mucking (Was: New Linux Install: Summary)
Date: 29 Jul 92 14:44:05 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal

In article <1992Jul28.182905.6379@ifi.uio.no> janl@ifi.uio.no (Jan Nicolai Langfeldt) writes:
>
>In article <1992Jul28.145636.6862@sura.net>, vargish@sura.net (Nick Vargish) writes:
>> -->3. I remember seeing a clue on how to disable the initial "Hit <ENTER>
>>    to see SVGA modes, any other key to continue" [sic.] messgae. 
>> 
>> I was told, "hack the kernel." Haven't done this yet, but I'm thinking
>> about it.
>
>I used a hour the other day to first disable the "Hit <ENTER>"
>message/readkey then select the desired video mode correctly. All this
>happens in /usr/src/linux/boot/setup.S. Just search for "chsvga" and
>you'll find the relevant code. Note that the "getkey" routine is kinda
>weird and seem to return something related to scancodes...
>

I also hacked at the kernel to remove that annoying message.  I took the
svgamode.patch file and tried to apply the patch.  It was broken so I just
went through the patch and applied it by hand.  I got it to work fine so...
if anyone has upgraded to 0.96cpl2 and managed to compile it using a modified
version of svgamode, can (s)he send the cdiffs to Linus so he can try (Please,
please, pretty please!!!) to incorporate it in his next release?  I think
there are a lot of people who would prefer not to have to selevt a video mode
since they use the same one all the time.  If that solution isn't right, maybe
we could store a file somewhere containing the video mode to run and the video
mode could be set in /etc/rc or something like that.  Or a utility that
changes the video mode on the fly.  I don't know all that much about video
card so I wouldn't be of much help.  But I'm sure someone out there can do it.
After all, we've got a stable OS that outperforms MS-DOG and possibly other
Unices...  all in less than a year.  Far out!


>Nicolai
>
>-- 
>Nicolai Langfeldt, "Bugs made while you wait"             
>Internet: janl@ifi.uio.no

P.S.  So when IS Linux's birthday?
-- 
Laurent Duperval
duperval@ere.umontreal.ca
duperval@jsp.umontreal.ca
"If you gotta go, you might as well go happy... or suprised"   -Me
From: S_TITZ@iravcl.ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: BSD Unix aka Freedom is a myth....
Date: 27 Jul 1992 08:37:32 GMT
Organization: Fachschaft Informatik, Uni Karlsruhe
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: irav1.ira.uka.de
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.23

In <veit.711728954@du9ds3> veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de writes:

...
>  NIXe or XINe above could be sued. I can imagine an interpretation of what is 
>  the "idea of UNIX," it might be a lot of things, including
>    file system (inodes, hierarchical tree, naming conventions)
>    process management (e.g. init, fork, setuid!)
                                          ~~~~~~
>    device driver management (terminal disciplines)
>    the set of system and user calls (remember the GETCHAR macro)
>    pipelining concept of the shells (in general: user interfacing) 
>  Any of the derived versions (or reverse engineered or developed from scratch)
>  has at least one aspect of UNIX. Even if the programmers haven't even seen

Some time ago, in a UNIX manual (which one I unfortunately don't
remember), I read that the SETUID principle was actually covered by a
patent (inventor Ken Thompson, I think).



MfG,
        Olaf
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: orman@iastate.edu (David L Orman)
Subject: Re: Linux and RLL drives
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 13:59:10 GMT

In <712203618.F00001@remote.halcyon.com> Geoffrey.Anderson@f34.n343.z1.fidonet.org (Geoffrey Anderson) writes:

>I seem to be having a bit of trouble getting linux to create a valid FS
>on an RLL drive.  I have a WD RLL controller, and I created a 32 meg
>partition for it(actually it was a DOS partition, bit I hacked it to be
>a minix type partition.  Anyhow when I run mkfs -c [blah blah] it chokes
>on sector 3870 while checking for bad clusters.  I know that this is
>bull, since I had SpeedStor verify the partition and it is clean of bad
>sectors.  

>Am I crazy and linux should support RLL formatted drives, or is it a
>non-supported feature of the OS?  Is there hope for a patch/updated
>release?
>Or do I have to spend some $$$ I don't have to buy an IDE or SCSI drive.
> Type at you all again soon.

Works fine on my RLL, Is it really dieing on the bad sectors, or just
noticing them?  It it finishes after the errors then it recorded them,
and everything is fine. You will then have a file called .badblocks in
the root directory which is all the bad blocks on your disk linked
together.
From: lcj0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Lutzer <R>/Deutschland.com)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Viewsonic 4 monitor and Xconfig file?
Date: 22 Jul 92 03:06:48 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University



I am having problems configuring my Viewsonic 4 monitor with X11. Has anybody had any luck configuring this monitor with X11?  I am running .96c with a 386-25, 8megs of ram, and speedstar 1MB card. Any help would be greatly appreciated!! Please leave e-mail or post here....  thanks!
-- 
                                        Lutzer

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lcj0@Lehigh.edu                                 Lutzer (R)
                                                LUCC Student Konsultant
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: rwb@Turing.ORG (Robert W. Bingler)
Subject: Help compiling new kernel?
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 23:15:03 GMT

Hey,
        I am in need of some help compiling a new kernel.  I 
currently boot from a floppy using my hard drive as root. I 
want to recompile to optimize for my 486.  In the Makefile in 
/usr/src/linux I assume the ROOT_DEV option should be set for 
my linux partition.  I then should comment out the math 
emulation option.  I think I am supposed to add -486 to the 
CFLAGS option next.  Am I right so far?
        I am unclear as to where to go from here.  I know that 
there are many Makefiles in the source.  Will someone please 
give me a crashcourse as to what I should be using.
        Once I get it compiled, what should I do as to boot up 
into my new kernel.
        I have some ideas on some of these questions, but I 
don't want to make a wrong guess and mess something up.
Thanks for any Help,
Rob       

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From: butler@cs.tulane.edu (Larry Butler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Problems with X as non-root
Keywords: X tty
Date: 23 Jul 92 03:32:56 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-1615]: rex

Hi,
  I posted the original article(Problems with X as root). I seem to have
fixed my problem. I did :

chmod u+s /usr/bin/X11/X386
chmod u+s /usr/bin/X11/xinit

The more I think about it the more I think this WAS in the installation
instructions. I really didn't understand exactly what it was saying. It
would be nice if the actual commands that need to be issued could be
included in the future. Does any know where I could find a good source
of information on how the permission flags should be set on a typical unix
system.

Thanks,
Larry
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: haldane@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Steve Sykes)
Subject: TCP/IP
Summary: Status of TCP/IP for linux
Keywords: TCP/IP
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 01:20:28 GMT

Hi guys! (OK gals too, but I think 'guys' is gender-wide!!!!)

I have suddenly needed to become aware of the current state of kernel
TCP/IP support under linux.  I've seen the odd mention since dec'91
but nothing lately.  AND...Ican't find out who and where the latest
on this thread of development is.

If you are working on TCP/IP support, (I want to be able to port
ftp etc etc etc) drop me some e-mail.  ka9q is swell, but I'd really
like to be a *complete* part of the internet :-)

Thanks

summary posted as and when!

Laurence Culhane
From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Spreadsheet for Linux
Date: 31 Jul 92 16:03:39 GMT
Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY

In article <1992Jul30.142858.3952@spool.cs.wisc.edu>, djansa@mersem.cs.wisc.edu (Dean Jansa) writes:

| 	I am currently porting sc (spreadsheet calculator) to linux.
| 	It's up and running on my system, but I want to test it fully
| 	and get the arrow keys to work (the great curses problem).

  Please be sure to call it something to differentiate it from the
earlier port of sc to linux (which works very well for me, BTW).
-- 
bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
	It never ceases to amaze me that otherwise rational people, able to
	understand calculus, compound interest, and the income tax form, can
	continue to believe that poker is a game of chance.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: dchen@umassmed.UMMED.EDU (Daniel D.E. Chen)
Subject: New install help, please
Reply-To: dchen@umassmed.UMMED.EDU (Daniel D.E. Chen)
Organization: The Internet
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 17:01:59 GMT


I have 130 meg ide, and a 245 meg ide.  I would like to install linux but
still be able to use DRDOS.  The install doc's don't say anything about
preserving a DRDOS partition and have linux boot.

Also, what is the recommended repartion for linux to use, 30 meg root, 10 meg
tmp, etc...


Thanks
  Daniel Chen       dchen@umassmed.ummed.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger)
Subject: LILO: Version Alpha.3
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 23:59:55 GMT

A new alpha test version of LILO can be found on
banjo.concert.net as pub/Linux/Incoming/lilo.3.tar.Z

It works with 0.96c-pl1 and 0.96c-pl2 (and newer) kernels and doesn't
need a kernel patch anymore.

It contains some bug fixes, some minor improvements and an extensive
documentation about boot configurations. Therefore, the README may be
worth reading even if you don't want to install or update LILO.

Things that didn't make it into this release:
  - booting other operating systems from non-A: and non-C: drives
  - better SCSI support

The beginning of the README is at the end of this posting. Even if
you've already read an older LILO README, you might want to read the
"Booting basics" section.

I'm still interested to hear about success or failure to boot other
operating systems with LILO. MS-DOS 4.0 and 5.0 and DR-DOS 6.0 have
been reported to work, but I'd love to hear about different operating
systems or versions, especially OS/2.

As usual, I'm thankful for all bug reports, success stories, etc.

- Werner

---------------------------------- cut here -----------------------------------

LILO  -  Generic Boot Loader for Linux ("LInux LOader") by Werner Almesberger
=============================================================================

This is an ALPHA test release of a new boot loader. Be sure to have some
means to boot your system from a different media if you install LILO on your
hard disk.


WARNING: The formats of the boot sector and the map file have changed again.
	 If you've already installed LILO on your system, you have to update
	 the boot sector and create a new map file.


Changes from version 2 to 3
---------------------------

  Boot sector
  -----------

    - can initialize BSS of unstripped kernels.
    - also accepts [Tab] to show the list of known images.

  Map installer
  -------------

    - fixed parsing of the root device specification.
    - fixed setting of the root device when the boot image doesn't
      define it.
    - reduced the number of installable images from 19 to 16. (Because the
      descriptors have grown.)

  Documentation
  -------------

    - added a booting basics section.
    - many minor changes.
-- 
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  / Werner Almesberger, ETH Zuerich, CH      almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch /
 / IFW A44  Tel. +41 1 254 7213                 almesberger@rzvax.ethz.ch /
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: card@masi.ibp.fr (Remy CARD)
Subject: Patch for ext fs
Reply-To: card@masi.ibp.fr (Remy CARD)
Organization: The Internet
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 16:24:15 GMT



	Hi,

	Enclosed is a patch for the ext file system needed to correct
two bugs :
	1/ reported by Paul Douglas Page in comp.os.linux : ext fs
	   caused a kernel panic when running out of inodes,
	2/ reported by Eric Youngdale in the mailing list : rename
	   sometimes caused files to disappear under certains
	   circumstances.

	The patch is very little, so I send it in ascii form. It
should be applied to linux 0.96c-2 in the directory where the
ext fs code resides (normally /usr/src/linux/fs/ext).

	Remy.

-------------------------Cut Here ---------------------------
*** ../../../../linux-0.96c-2/linux/fs/ext/freelists.c	Mon Jul 20 13:26:51 1992
--- freelists.c	Tue Jul 21 18:47:40 1992
***************
*** 267,273 ****
  printk("ext_free_inode: inode empty, skipping to %d\n", efi->next);
  #endif
  		j = (unsigned long) inode->i_sb->s_imap[0];
! 		if (efi->next < 1 || efi->next > inode->i_sb->s_ninodes) {
  			printk ("efi->next = %d\n", efi->next);
  			panic ("ext_new_inode: bad inode number in free list\n");
  		}
--- 267,273 ----
  printk("ext_free_inode: inode empty, skipping to %d\n", efi->next);
  #endif
  		j = (unsigned long) inode->i_sb->s_imap[0];
! 		if (efi->next > inode->i_sb->s_ninodes) {
  			printk ("efi->next = %d\n", efi->next);
  			panic ("ext_new_inode: bad inode number in free list\n");
  		}
*** ../../../../linux-0.96c-2/linux/fs/ext/namei.c	Mon Jul 20 13:27:56 1992
--- namei.c	Tue Jul 21 18:47:40 1992
***************
*** 845,852 ****
  /* ok, that's it */
  	old_de->inode = 0;
  	old_de->name_len = 0;
- 	ext_merge_entries (old_de, pde, nde);
  	new_de->inode = old_inode->i_ino;
  	if (new_inode) {
  		new_inode->i_nlink--;
  		new_inode->i_dirt = 1;
--- 845,852 ----
  /* ok, that's it */
  	old_de->inode = 0;
  	old_de->name_len = 0;
  	new_de->inode = old_inode->i_ino;
+ 	ext_merge_entries (old_de, pde, nde);
  	if (new_inode) {
  		new_inode->i_nlink--;
  		new_inode->i_dirt = 1;
-------------------------Cut Here ---------------------------
From: jozef@bu.edu.bu.edu (Jozef Marsala)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Will X11 run with my Oak "Extended" VGA controller?
Date: 24 Jul 92 19:42:09 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3


	I have OAK card and I can not run X stuff at all,
	no matter what I do. I tried many things, but
	nothing works. Right now I am unable to tell you
	what chip is OAK card using, but I remember it is not one
	of supported ones. I am almost ready to buy something
	that complies with Linux ...


					Sincerely, Jozef.




Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: dje@sspiff.ampr.ab.ca (Doug Evans)
Subject: SIGBUS
Organization: Edmonton, Alberta
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 05:39:18 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

When porting some applications (Mush and Tin for example) I had to
patch them because Linux doesn't define SIGBUS.

Is SIGBUS missing from Linux because it isn't really needed (IE: SIGSEGV can
always be used in it's place)? If so, I guess it's something application
authors/porters will just have to live with. It's not that difficult
if one uses #ifdef SIGBUS/#endif - one needn't have to add any Linux specific
configuration stuff per se.

I just thought I'd bring this topic up because except for SIGBUS
these two applications more or less ported ***** as is *****. Way cool!
-- 
Doug Evans               | "You're just supposed to sit here?"
dje@sspiff.ampr.ab.ca    |               - Worf in a mud bath.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: butler@cs.tulane.edu (Larry Butler)
Subject: Everex VGA
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 23:08:55 GMT
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-8720]: rex

Thanks,
Larry (butler@cs.tulane.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: joef@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU ()
Subject: Re: X will not run after recompile of kernel
Organization: Sydney University Computing Service, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 12:50:39 GMT

gis@mach4.wlu.ca (gis research) writes:


>My setup is as follows:	486/33 with math-co
>			8 Meg RAM/10 Meg swap

>Any ideas would be much appreciated. Thanks,

   I would suggest that you rip out whatever is in the 'math-co' position as
the 486 has a inbuilt co-processor. Things that go in the other position are
things like DX2's [I am lead to beileve]

           Joe

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joef@extro.ucc.su.oz.au [apparently changing to extro.cs.su.oz.au]
From: edmonds@cs.ubc.ca (Brian Edmonds)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: catting binaries
Date: 31 Jul 92 05:41:06 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada

f6930910@scheme.cs.ubc.ca (from UBC :) wrote:
>The wierd thing is that sometimes (not allways), after all the
>garbage has been cat(ed) to the screen, the terminal is left in
>a state such that all characters echoed to the screen are displayed
>as IBM extended graphics characters.  This does not allways happen, but
>usually does.  To see this, just cat a few of your favorite binaries
>to stdout.
It's quite simple really.  The vt terminal emulation has been expanded
to handle the IBM extended character set.  When the driver receives
a ^N, it kicks into extended mode, and interprets characters in their
new, wild, and wonderful form. :)  To get back to normal mode, simply
output a ^O to the screen.  (This can by done with echo:  echo ^V^O)

You should be able to duplicate this effect using any terminal program
with _full_ VT100 emulation.  I'm making this a general posting, as it
is a problem which perplexed me for a long time a number of years back
(not with Linux obviously).

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Brian Edmonds (MSc CompSci)                          edmonds@cs.ubc.ca
Xref: sparky comp.os.linux:6566 news.groups:16026
From: cummings@hammer.Prime.COM (Kevin Cummings)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,news.groups
Subject: Re: RFD: comp.unix.* reorganization
Date: 21 Jul 92 21:21:22 GMT
Followup-To: news.groups
Organization: Prime Computer R&D

In article <Brn6uv.Ct@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, thoth@uiuc.edu (Ben Cox) writes:
> I just wanted to let the readership of comp.os.linux know that
> In news.groups, peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
> 
> >craig@ec.uwa.oz.au (Craig Richmond - division) writes:
> >>If you are going to do anything then please put the heirarchy under comp.os
> >>where it logically belongs.
> 
> >Actually, I was going to suggest pulling comp.os.{minix,linux,coherent} into
> >the comp.unix world, if that's OK with the readership of those groups. That's
> >because Unix isn't an operating system: it's a family of operating systems
> >with a common core API... and as far as I'm concerned MINIX, LINUX, and
> >Coherent *are* Unix.

Wow, sounds to me like UNIX isn't an OS?  Maybe we should pull all of the
.unix.  groups back into comp.os where THEY belong?  B^)
(Why do I feel like there is something WRONG with that?)

Followups to news.groups.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: 0.96c + X + Logi :-(
From: billp@jupiter.cse.utoledo.edu (bill parquet)
Date: 24 Jul 92 22:03:16 EST

Michael_Kraehe@hb.maus.de (Michael Kraehe) writes:
: Now I tried to run X, but now I have a jumping mouse :-(
: 
: PS : Oh yes i tried out "Mousesystems", "Microsoft", and "Logitech" in
:      Xconfig. And I have <less> all the FAQ's :-)

Here's something that works for me (and I haven't found anything similar to
it in this newsgroup or in the FAQ's).  I think there is a mouse test program
that came with X11R5 1.1.  Try running that and see if it gives back reasonable
values (it did for me an my serial C7).  If it does than start Xwindows, and
run the mouse test program in the Xterm window.  After you exit the test
program, the mouse should behave normally.

I can't really guarantee that this will work (it worked for me).  If it does
pull the loop out of the test program (so it just initializes the mouse and
exits without any user intervention). and put it in your .xinitrc file.

BTW:  The mouse set up in my Xconfig file is logitech, 9600 baud (baudrate
doesn't matter).  The mouse test file was in /tst/mouse/mouse.  I'm pretty
sure it came with the Xwindows.  (It just appeared on my hd one day!)

billp@jupiter.cse.utoledo.edu


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