HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: blee@halon.dfrf.nasa.gov (Bryson Lee)
Subject: Diamond SVGA Cards
Organization: NASA Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 00:09:47 GMT

I don't mean to reopen any festering sores with this post, but I'm hoping to
get some info that I think came out here a while back.  After failing to get
a TsengLabs VGA Mentor card to work reliably with my PC (either under DOS or
Linux), I have purchased a Diamond Speedstar Plus w/512K.  Considering some of
the discussions about that vendor in the last few weeks, I had reservations,
but the price was right and the return policy excellent.

Anyway, the card seemed to work a treat after I installed it and fired up 
Linux (the SLS 0.96c_pl2 variety, BTW).  It did X at 640x480 physical (800x600
virtual) with no problems.  However, once I rebooted into DOS to check 
operation there and then went back to Linux, the server would hang during 
startup and force me to reboot the machine.  If I then went back and tried to
run at a virtual resolution higher than the card would support, let it fail, 
and tried again at 800x600, things once again worked fine.  I guess this 
problem is related to clocks on the card, but I'm not sure.  

If someone could mail me a recap of the problems with Diamond ET4000 cards, it
would help me decide if I should write this one off and try another vendor,
or live within this card's limitations.

Thanks in advance,

Bryson Lee
blee@halon.dfrf.nasa.gov

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Subject: Re: Can we please nuke these discussions?
Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Organization: The Internet
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 21:38:58 GMT

   From: s891961@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Peter David Cupit)
   Date: 6 Oct 92 08:51:20 GMT

     The video card design posts are often related to a proposed project 
     to produce a special Linux video card.   In other words these are
     relevant postings and are not more suitable for other news groups.

Excuse me, but there's no such thing.  

If people want to design the perfect, open-architecture video card,
that's fine.  But it has nothing to do with Linux.  Just as discussion
on how the 386 chip masks don't belong here, neither does how to build
this video card.  Both the video card and the 386 chip can be used for
many other things rather than Linux, and Linux can use many other video
cards than this proposed project.  Please take it to
comp.sys.pc.hardware where it belongs!

							- Ted

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: "I.P.Morris" <I.P.Morris@southampton.ac.uk>
Subject: DAN Systems
Reply-To: I.P.Morris@southampton.ac.uk
Organization: The Internet
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 16:13:21 GMT

Hi,

Firstly I'm a relative newcomer to the net so if I break any of the nettiquete
then please dont fry me!

I am looking at buying a DAN 486-33/50, S3 graphics and 210MB IDE HD. If
anybody knows if Linux VX.XX is happy on this system I would be gratefull to
hear from you.

I heard that somebody was writing a simple DOS emulator under linux and since
I have a great deal of experiene with MS/DOS (yuck!) I may be able to help with
any problems. The only thing is that I don't know who you are!!!!!

Thanks


Ian.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: der@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Dave Ritchie)
Subject: Re: Summary of: What tape drives work with Linux
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 05:19:53 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard NARC Atlanta

In <BvAo5K.17zH@afsserv.boulder.ibm.com> carl@boxelder.Berkeley.EDU (Carl vonLoewenfeldt) writes:

>It is my understanding that Colorado Memory Systems and Irwin backup
>tape drives
>attach, not via SCSI, but via the IDE connection already in use for the floppy
>disk drives. They interpose themselves as a two-sided connection between tape
>drive and cable, effectively daisy-chaining.

    Ouch.... floppy drives are not IDE interface -- they are the 34 pin
Shugart connection that all 5 1/4" and 3 1/2" drives use. As I recall,
the IDE interface is 40 pins.... 

    Having hooked up a QIC-40 drive a few weeks ago, you just hook the
new cable into the controller and tape drive, and the old cable that
formerly pluged into the controller plugs into a special socket on the
new cable provided with the tape drive. Somehow, the floppies are 
turned off and the tape drive is driven by the floppy controller.

-- Dave Ritchie
der@hpuerca.atl.hp.com
From: tucker@yuppie.enet.dec.com (David Tucker / KC4ZGO / tucker@yuppie.ENET.dec.com)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: x 0.1 ran ok, but 1.1 doesn't start
Date: 4 Oct 92 16:16:47 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


I get this message when I type startx:

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

XX386 Version 1.2 / X Windows System [linux v1.1]
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000)

VGA256: pvga1 (mem: 256k clocks: 25)
failed to set default font path '/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/'
Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'


waiting for X server to begin accepting connections 
giving up.
xinit:  Interrupted system call (errno 4):  unable to connect to X server
xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error

-------------------------------------------------------------------------


This is my Xconfig:

-------------------------------------------------------------------------


#RGBPath		"/usr/lib/X11/rgb"
#FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"

Keyboard
  AutoRepeat 500 5
  Xleds      1 2 3
  ServerNumLock
  DontZap

Microsoft "/dev/ttyp1"
  baudrate     1200
  SampleRate	150
  Emulate3Buttons

vga256
  clocks       25
  modes        "640x400"

ModeDB
 "640x400"     25     640  680  688  800    400  412  426  447  Interlace

-------------------------------------------------------------------

X11 v0.1 used to work fine.

/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ exists and contains *.pcf files.

Anybody know what I'm doing wrong.

David
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: umisef@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Bernd Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Where's Linus
Date: 29 Sep 92 21:32:32 GMT
Organization: Point of Presence & MCS Hamburg

The subjext says it all - according to my newsreader Linus showed up
last on the 23rd of September - a week ago.
Is he off for holidays?
Did Bill Gates hijack(?) him?

What has happened....

Bye,
    Bernie
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: pdhatchm@socs.uts.edu.au (Paul Hatchman)
Subject: Contrib programs ported to X
Organization: Computing Sciences, Uni of Technology, Sydney.
Date:  4 Oct 92 07:46:58 GMT


I have found that most of the X11 contrib ported with only minor modification
to Linux. However some people have mentioned that they were having problems.

Here is a list of X11 programs that I have ported to Linux so far. If people
are interested in any of the below mail me and I will make them availible for
FTP.

My system is currently Linux v0.97-pl4, GCC2 with 4.1 Jump Tables, and the
latest version of the X-free beta server.

xload		- Load meter for linux 0.97pl4
xcal 3.3 	- A calendar progmram.
xlock 23.21.2 	- Screen Locking program (I did not actually port this one).
xpool 	 	- A pool game.
golddig2	- An arcade game (Still has some bugs).
xwanderer	- Wanderer for X (Still has some bugs).
xasteroids	- Asteroids game.
xdf		- Binary editor.
xhextris	- Tetris like game for X.
xinvaders	- Space invaders game.
xmris		- Mr Do like arcade game.
xroach		- Cockroaches hide under your windows 
			(I didnt port this one either)
seahaven towers	- A solitarie game in C++. (Does anyone know the rules?)

Has someone tried to port Xtank? Xtrek?

Most of the above only required modifications to one or two lines, or failed
to compile because of really bad coding by the authors. It is a real tribute
to Linus, the X11 guys and the GCC guys that most apps just require 
"xmkmf ; make" to compile! Well done!

If anyone would like any particular applications ported, mail me and I will
see what I can do. 

Anyone interested in a port of Dirt? I am not sure what would be involved but
might be willing to give it a try.
(Dirt stands for Design In Real Time and is an application builder for X)

Enjoy
--
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Paul Hatchman                      |    <this line intentionally left blank>
Systems Programmer,                |    pdhatchm@socs.uts.edu.au (prefered)    
Sydney Futures Exchange, Australia |       paulh@uts.edu.au
From: Esemi@polaris.utu.fi (Sami-Pekka Hallikas)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Paradise CVGA1024 and X ?
Date: 5 Oct 92 16:53:53 GMT
Organization: University of Turku, Finland

Problem: I have installed X11, but I can't get the display configuration 
	straight. I have Paradise CVGA 1024 card with (despite the name)
	has 512k mem. My monitor is Morse VGAplus.
	
	Could anyone help me to get my X running? Only thing I get on the
	screen is just some random colors and strange 'fuzz'.

Thanks in advance. Please reply via mail to Esemi@cc.utu.fi. Please notice
the capital letter E in my address.
From: yves@eastwind.mcds.com (Yves Eynard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: BYTE asks, is UNIX dead?
Keywords: UNIX
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 92 09:48:27 EDT
Organization: The East Wind  +1 201 875 7063

rcskb@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Kendall Bennett) writes:

> You may be interested to know that Windows NT is also targeted to running
> on the new Iris range of graphics workstations (like the Crimson). Not
> only that, but Windows NT 2.0 will include support for the new SGI Open GL
> 3D graphics library standard (even though this will be introduced in 2.0,
> work in underway right now on this project jointly between MS and SGI as
> best I can remember).
> 
> I am not particularly fond of MS, but it seems to me that they have the
> world by the balls when it comes to marketing and moving into new
> areas (I wish IBM would get off their butts with OS/2 2.0 :-( )...
> 
Well... That is great, but when will we see it?  MS constantly tell us 
that the future is a week away and then postpones the release date.  I 
am not a fan of Big Blue, but O/S 2.0 is here, now.  
I have been hearing that NT is the best thing since the 8088 for about as 
long as the 8088 has been around.  Will MS ever stop playing with the 
market?
I have heard that MS salespeople are not to even mention O/S 2, are they 
afraid?
Hey isn't this the comp.os.linux conf.?


Yves Eynard            | 
yves@@eastwind.mcds.com |  This statement is false
                       |
From: alawrenc@sobeco.com (a.lawrence)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: More than two serial lines
Date: 3 Oct 92 01:18:23 GMT
Reply-To: alawrenc@sobeco.com
Organization: Lawrence & Assc.

In <NEGAARD.92Oct1231134@altair.aero.org> negaard@aero.org (Eric Negaard) writes:
>So now I have the first port on my card using IRQ5, and the second
>port is disabled.  Can someone please tell me what the "right" way
>is to get four serial ports?  Is there a way in Linux to find out
>which IRQs are in use?

Standard IRQ's	IRQ 0 - Timer
		IRQ 1 - Keyboard
		IRQ 2 - slave 8259 (AT)
		IRQ 3 - COM2 / COM 4
		IRQ 4 - COM1 / COM 3
		IRQ 5 - (XT) Hard Disk (AT) LPT2
		IRQ 6 - Floppy Disk
		IRQ 7 - LPT1

    AT only	IRQ 8 - Real time clock
		IRQ 9 - Re-direct to IRQ 2
		IRQ 10 - Not defined
		IRQ 11 - Not defined
		IRQ 12 - Not defined
		IRQ 13 - 80287
		IRQ 14 - Hard disk (AT)
		IRQ 15 - Not defined
-- 
If any given program runs correctly, it is obsolete.
=========================================================================
Andrew Lawrence, Informaticien Conseil           |  alawrenc@sobeco.com
3605 St-Urbain, #1605                            |  uunet!sobeco!alawrenc
From: varney@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Bruce Varney)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: linux under dos under ultrix
Date: 27 Sep 92 19:42:53 GMT
Organization: Purdue University

In <1992Sep26.163442.18125@nwnexus.WA.COM> vince@halcyon.com (Vince Skahan) writes:

>the next release out will emulate a 386, according to the word I get from
>Digital...However, with the funky way it emulates floppies and the way
>it 'boots', I'll be real impressed if you can run non-DOS on it...

>has anybody out there run non-DOS on SoftPC on a Sun or something?

	I once ran minix on an HP running SoftPC.

			Bruce
Organisation: European Space Operation Centre (E.S.O.C)
Date: Wednesday, 30 Sep 1992 14:30:30 CET
From: BARRY TITMARSH <BTITMARS@ESOC.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: I Can't get the Linux kernel to compile...
 <MPE73DQ@mailgzrz.tu-berlin.de>

ok i have also had the same problem but in a very helpfull phone call to
michael Jonson in the USA one of the tsx-11 boffs.. told me to
make the link to the linux src files in this way.
all my linux src code is kept in ./linux  all the make files look for it in
./usr/src/linux  i have had the compiler barf on the first file
so. he told me to cd to /usr/src then !! make the
ln -s /linux linux   this will then make the make all look for the code in the
correct place.. i have yet to test it, but feel sure it will work.
Barry 'an utter beginner' !! hi hi.
From: sinkkone@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Janne Sinkkonen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: prolog?
Date: 29 Sep 92 11:59:47 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: University of Helsinki (Finland)


Could someone name a good prolog for linux? 
Does it need porting? Has someone ported?

Janne
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hjk@dtro.e-technik.th-darmstadt.de (Hans-Juergen Knobloch)
Subject: strange behaviour of the GNU cp command
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 15:48:26 GMT
Organization: Institut fuer Datentechnik, T.H. Darmstadt

inspired by the rootdisk, created by hlu, I tried to save disk space by
copying files on my harddisk with the GNU cp command, which recognizes
empty sections in a file in contast to the GNU tar command.

The following example with the program "gtbl" from groff-1.06.tar.Z shows,
that cp saves 2 blocks on disk in contrast to tar, but the strange behaviour
is, that the copied version of the program "gtbl" doesn't work anymore,
althought "cmp" doesn't show any difference between the two files.

Is this a general error in the linux file system, or has my configuration
some errors?

I am using Linux 0.98 and the cp program from hlu (with jump tables).

# echo !!! directories usr and usr/bin already exist !!!**********************
!!! directories usr and usr/bin already exist !!!**********************
# mount -t msdos /dev/fd1H1440 /flp
# df
Filesystem         1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hda4              20655   19041     1614     92%   /
/dev/hda3              20655   19529     1126     95%   /dsk
/dev/fd1H1440           1423    1276      147     90%   /flp
# echo "!!! normal behaviour (gtbl uses 62 blocks on /dev/hda4) !!!**********"
!!! normal behaviour (gtbl uses 62 blocks on /dev/hda4) !!!**********
# tar -xvzf /flp/groff106.taz usr/bin/gtbl
usr/bin/gtbl
# df
Filesystem         1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hda4              20655   19103     1552     92%   /
/dev/hda3              20655   19529     1126     95%   /dsk
/dev/fd1H1440           1423    1276      147     90%   /flp
# usr/bin/gtbl -v /dsk/tst1
GNU tbl version 1.06
.if !\n(.g .ab GNU tbl requires GNU troff.
.if !dTS .ds TS
.if !dTE .ds TE
.lf 1 /dsk/tst1
# ldd usr/bin/gtbl
        /lib/libc.so.4 (Jump table 4.1)
# echo "!!! unexspected behaviour (gtbl uses 60 blocks on /dev/hda4) !!!*****"
!!! unexspected behaviour (gtbl uses 60 blocks on /dev/hda4) !!!*****
# cp usr/bin/gtbl .
# df
Filesystem         1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hda4              20655   19163     1492     93%   /
/dev/hda3              20655   19530     1125     95%   /dsk
/dev/fd1H1440           1423    1276      147     90%   /flp
# ./gtbl -v /dsk/tst1
# ldd ./gtbl
# echo !!! end of gtbl-test !!!***********************************************
!!! end of gtbl-test !!!***********************************************
#

Hans-Juergen Knobloch
From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Logitech bus mouse sub-optimal performance
Date: 6 Oct 92 03:10:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: athena.1992Oct6.031005.4838
Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Organization: The Internet


   From: simonich@uservx.plk.af.mil
   Date: 5 Oct 92 12:16:28 GMT

   The problem is the use of IRQ 5.  The kernel busmouse.c
   has IRQ 5 hard coded in.  Changing it to use IRQ 2
   eliminates the conflict with the SCSI controller.
   Unfortunaty, IRQ 2 is in use and the open of /dev/bm
   returns EBUSY.  Thefore, I removed my serial I/O card,
   and changed the interupt on the mouse card and in the 
   kernel to IRQ 3, recompiled, and --- IT WORKED ---.  Now on to Xfree86      

If you changed the kernel to use IRQ 2, then it won't work, since IRQ 2
is use as the IRQ 8-15 demultiplexor.  On the AT bus, the line which
used to raise IRQ 2 is now mapped to IRQ 9.  So if you change the kernel
to use IRQ 9 for the busmouse, and set the busmouse to use "IRQ 2", it
should work just fine.

(The serial drivers have "if (irq == 2) irq = 9;" sprinkled in the
sources, as a user-friendly gesture.....)

							- Ted
From: frank@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Stefan Frank (sf))
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Do we have an ``index'' function?
Date: 5 Oct 92 14:14:54 GMT
Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany

From article <1992Oct3.182701.22366@wam.umd.edu>, by joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman):
> I'm trying to compile a program that uses the function ``index,'' but
> on compiliation the symbol _index is unknown.  Does Linux have a 
> substitute?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -Joel
> (joel@wam.umd.edu)

1.) have you #include'd the header file <strings.h>? (maybe <string.h>)
2.) if 1.) == yes, then the function

char *strchr (char *s, char c)

should do the same job (returns a pointer to the first ocurrence of c in s
or NULL, if s doesn't contain c.)

-- 

 Stefan Frank                      "......................................."
 Department of Computer Science
 University of Wuerzburg           Tel:     +49/931/888 5514
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
Subject: Re: gcc2.2.d7 and iostreams
Keywords: iostreams g++ c++ gcc
Organization: School of EECS, Washington State University
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 21:46:34 GMT

In article <Bvo3Lw.7wn@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, tiller@solace.me.uiuc.edu (Mike Tiller) writes:
|> Maybe I missed something, but is it just me or does the
|> iostreams implementation under gcc2.2.2d7 not work.  I got
|> the jump tables and libraries and stuff, but when
|> I compile things like:
|> 
|> #include	<iostream.h>
|> 
|> main()
|> {
|> 	cout << "Hello World\n";
|> }
|> 
|> I get undefined symbol cout.  Now it is apprarently in the
|> header files (As I would have expected) because I don't get
|> any compile time complaints, but when it links it says
|> something like
|> 
|> Can't find symbol _cout
|> 
|> And I looked in libg++ and sure enough, it isn't there.
|> Did I miss something...has anyone used the iostream stuff
|> with this release?
|> 
|> Mike

Use gcc -nojump

H.J.
From: badger@phylo.life.uiuc.edu (Jonathan Badger)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: BYTE asks, is UNIX dead?
Keywords: UNIX
Date: 28 Sep 92 19:26:02 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

I don't think this is a very productive thread, but has anyone who is 
complaining actually READ the article? All it is saying is that there
are too many dialects of UNIX and Windows NT may take over not because it
is better but because there will only be one standard. Exactly the same
thing occurred with CP/M and MS-DOS....
From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Once again -- FileSystem corruption
Date: 4 Oct 92 07:49:30 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

In article <t6bp+pk+@aix01.rz.fht-mannheim.de> mrex@aix01.rz.fht-mannheim.de (Martin Rex) writes:
>
>It still might be a problem with my Maxtor 7213 (PCBA rev 52 -- june '92)
>but to me it looks like linux is maybe not fault-tolerant enough.

Well, it's true that linux has some problems with bad spots on the disk
(as I have never been able to see one...), but in the case of the maxtor
drive (and you do have one of the early bad ones - PCBA < 63) it's just
that the maxtor doesn't seem to *report* the errors, so linux doesn't
even know about any trouble. 

The drive seems to work perfectly ok under DOS - but DOS (BIOS) doesn't
even use interrupts in the harddisk driver.  Does the maxtor work under
OS/2?

>I don't want to say linux is bad in any way,
>but maybe it's possible to add some switches to offer conservative
>timings for poor/flawed hardware ?

There already is, both in {in,out}b_p() and in the HD_DELAY values.  But
with so many different systems (and so few hardware manuals), it's a bit
difficult to please everybody.  The default delay of inb_p/outb_p is
four extra IO instructions - that is very conservative (at least my
drive works without any delay at all).  The HD_DELAY define isn't used
by default: it's a pretty ugly hack, and I don't like it (but it does
help some people, so...). 

		Linus
From: lebailli@cicb.fr (Olivier Le Baillif)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: KHOROS and linux
Date: 30 Sep 92 10:41:43 GMT
Organization: CICB, Universite' de Rennes I, FR


	I'd like to know if KHOROS have been compiled/tested under linux ? 
	In this case are the binary available on some ftp site ?

	If you have any information,please email them to me, or reply by posting.
	They will be welcome.

	thanks.

	bye, bye !

Olivier Lebaillif
Laboratoire de Radiocommunications
Universite de Rennes 1
France

EMAIL:  lebailli@cicb.fr
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
Subject: Re: Do we have an ``index'' function?
Organization: School of EECS, Washington State University
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 17:28:59 GMT

In article <2AD1896C.715E@tct.com>, chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
|> According to bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown):
|> >lm@slovax.Eng.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy) writes:
|> >>	#define	index	strchr
|> >>	#define	rindex	strrchr
|> >
|> >Please don't do this.  What if you have a struct with a member
|> >called "index"?
|> 
|> Who cares?
|> 
|> Conversely, the below statement requires such a definition:
|> 
|>     char *(*p)() = index;
|> 
|> -- 
|> Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT  <chip@tct.com>, <73717.366@compuserve.com>
|>     "My favorite phenomenon is when someone mails me or posts to this
|>      group, either calling me a newbie or telling me that my postings
|>      are not relevant to alt.non.sequitur."           -- Matt Welsh


Guys. Linux does have index, rindex, bcmp, bcopy and bzero. What else
do you want?

H.J.