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From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: How to use fixit to get DOS and 386BSD on same drive?
Date: 14 Oct 1992 09:13:24 GMT
Organization: EUnet Backbone, Dortmund, Germany
Distribution: world
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In article <1992Oct13.094247.837@altair.selu.edu>, zmw@altair.selu.edu (Mike Whisenhunt zmw@selu.edu) writes:
> I have retrieved and created the fixit diskette, but could someone
> point me to some documentation or describe how I can use the fixit program
> to place the disklabel at the proper place within the 80MB partition?  Thanks!

0. insert fixit.fs diskette and boot from same
0.5 run fsck on /dev/rfd0a
1. make floppy writeable
2. disklabel wd0 > /tmp/dlwd0
3. vi /tmp/dlwd0 and edit partition table
4. disklabel -R -r wd0 /tmp/dlwd0 /usr/mdec/wdboot /usr/mdec/bootwd
*** note: I may have reversed the order of the last two parameters. use
*** the 512-byte file first, then the longer one, in that order
5. sync
6. shutdown
7. remove diskette, hit key on prompt to boot from hd
8. run (DOS 5.0) fdisk /mbr if you encounter problems with 386bsd partition
   not recognized
9. good luck

Cheers,
	Bernard
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From: fn@waldorf.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Frank Nobis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 386BSD and DOS partitioning help.
Date: 9 Oct 1992 13:29:43 GMT
Organization: CS Department, Dortmund University, Germany
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: waldorf

In article <1b3r4lINNq2f@Germany.EU.net>, bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard
Steiner) writes:
|> In article <Bvt7nr.BxD@acsu.buffalo.edu>, jones@acsu.buffalo.edu (terry
|> a jones) writes:
|> > 
|> > 	I have checked through the FAQ and did not see this type of
|> > thing covered there.  I was hoping someone could outline the steps
|> > required to get DOS 5.0 and 386BSD to co-exist on the same drive
|> > without using the standard install procedure.  The setup works fine
|> > if you want to live with the partitioning scheme established by
|> > install.  I have not been able to manually disklabel a drive that
|> > already has a DOS partition, disklabel tends to wipe out the partition
|> info.
|> 
|> ... and vice-versa, I daresay. I fdisk'd a disk with 5.0 fdisk,
|> installed
|> 386BSD -> fdisk gone. INstalled DOS 5.0 on top -> 386bsd fdisk
|> partition
|> gone :-(
|> 

I had the same problem on the computer of a friend of mine. He wants to
have DOS
and BSD to live on the same disk. So we installed a DOS partition with
fdisk on
the fresh low-level formatted disk. Then we boot BSD with the dist.fs
floppy. We
told install only to created the BSD partition. We now boot from the
fixit.fs
floppy and edit the disklabel. As Bernard mentioned, at this point the DOS
partition has gone. I know knew the problem. The `install' program writes
the
disklabel at front of the whole disk and not at the start of the BSD
partition.
Edititing the disklabel with the fixit.fs floppy now edits the correct
place, the
start of the BSD partition.

When you install now the whole stuff you will see that BSD starts single user
since the disklabel taken during boot is not the one in the BSD partition.

There is a simple solution:
	fdisk /mbr
from DOS5.0.

This will fix the partition table. You may know install the rest of DOS and
BSD.

MfG
    Frank
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura)
Subject: Re: Lance query 
Organization: Guru Systems/Funware Department
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 19:40:04 GMT

In <718075048snx@crynwr.com> nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) writes:

>In article <12764.9210021637@thor.cf.ac.uk> spedpr@thor.cf.ac.uk writes:

>   I've been getting a number of is1:reset errors from the isolink driver
>   and the cause is due to the lance stopping its transmitter.
>   Specifically, in the interrupt routine the transmitter-on (TXON) bit of
>   the lance is checked and if it isn't set then a reset occurs.

>I don't know, particularly.  However, AMD insists that there are no
>bugs in the LANCE, so the answer to your question lies in their
>published documentation.  No hidden bug sheet/shit.

Well, according to SunOS 4.0.somethings le(4S):

  lr%d: transmitter frozen - resetting
	A bug in the LANCE chip has stopped the chip's transmitter
	section. The driver has detected this condition and
	reinitialized the chip.

The next to pages list a lot additonal anomalies (:-)) of the chip.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: hand@spc9.jpl.nasa.gov (Kolin Hand)
Subject: XFree86 + ATI + NEC 3D (HELP)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Distribution: all
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 09:14:16 GMT


Greetins.

Am trying to get XFree86 working with my ATI VGA Wonder (512) V3
hooked to an NEC MS 3D.  I can't seem to find a good Xconfig.
I read the display tutorials and created many MODE groups but to
no avail.  I get only a very "rough" display that seems to go out
of synch when I move the mouse or type a key.

Can anyone give me config settings for a similar setup?

Is the ATI V3 card hopeless?

Appreciate any help.

Still trying Xconfigs...  Kolin

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From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: a couple of neophyte questions
Date: 13 Oct 92 07:54:06 GMT
Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung
Distribution: usa
Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de
NNTP-Posting-Host: du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de

In <1992Oct12.170346.854@midway.uchicago.edu> veve@quads.uchicago.edu (jack lewis vevea) writes:


>Any help with the following would be appreciated.

>Problem 1:  Sending mail works, but always produces the
>             message "Cannot read frozen config file".

Execute as root

sendmail -bz

once. This will create the necessary sendmail.fc file.


>Problem 2:  I have a terminal connected via a null-modem
>             cable to com2.  The finger, who, and uptime
>             commands show only the user logged on to the
>             console.
> 
>Suggestions?

I think this is a known bug.

Holger
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: peter@wiesel.cosy.sbg.ac.at (Peter Burgstaller)
Subject: Adding Swapspace ??
Organization: University of Salzburg / Austria
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 08:33:56 GMT

Hi folks!
I know, there is a FAQ about this but I don't know what to do with
it!
Here is my problem.
I've a 80MB 386bsd partition and don't know how to find out how
much swap-space my system is using!
The only thing I know for shure is that THIS swap-space (whatever size)
is too little. I need at least 16 better 20 MB swap-space but on
this single partition. 
Is there a way to add that much swap-space without making a new filesystem
i.e. just recompile the kernel ?

I hope someone can help me!

- Peter 8*(

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From: wmbfmk@rwb.urc.tue.nl (Marc van Kempen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Memory problem
Keywords: memory
Date: 14 Oct 92 16:48:15 GMT
Reply-To: wmbfmk@urc.tue.nl

Hi, I seem to have a memory related problem with 386bsd.

Whenever I start xlyap a few times (consumes approx. 4 MB each time) and
then start a make on some big program, my system will eventually hang,
and even reboot. I have read the thread about make having a memory leak,
so I guess the system just runs out of memory, which should be correct
since I had started xlyap enough times to use up to 34 MB or so. What
bothers me is that the system does not complain about running out of
memory in a somewhat more communicative manner than it does right now.
Is there a bug somewhere or am I just stupid and misconfigured the
system?

Here's my system:

486-33
16 MB Ram, 20 MB swap.
Adaptec 1542b SCSI with Quantum LPS 240
Tseng ET-4000 with hicolor ram dac.

Note:
I did apply Terry's patchkit to the kernel and rebuilt it.
 
Can someone shed a light on this one?



Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.windows.x
From: stripes@pix.com (Josh Osborne)
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster Driver Question
Organization: Pix Technologies -- The company with no adult supervision
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 12:38:15 GMT

In article <1992Oct15.065157.6633@athena.mit.edu> bri@pegasus.mit.edu (Brian D. Carlstrom) writes:
[...]
>i was quite happy(and surprised) to see a sb driver for 386bsd.
>now, just to clarify. is the driver just for the sb PRO? or is
>it for any. i have a good ole 8 bit sb. the post said
>sound blaster driver, but seemed to be only for the PRO

Well, good question.  I think (as long as you don't try to make any of the
stereo calls) it ought to work.  Try it and let us know.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: scotty@gagetalker.com (Scott Turner)
Subject: Re: Starting XFree861.1
Organization: L5 Computing
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 10:05:01 GMT

In article <Bvsr9F.CFv@cosy.sbg.ac.at> peter@wiesel.cosy.sbg.ac.at (Peter  
Burgstaller) writes:
|> Then I started xinit (also startx) then I got the following 
|> Message!
|> 
|> XFree86 v1.1 Xwindow System
|> (protocol version 11, revision 0 vendor release 5000)
|> Configured drivers: 
|>   VGA256(256color svga):
|>       ET4000,ET3000,PVGA1,GVGA,ATI,TVGA8900
|> XIO:  fatal io error 32 (broken pipe) on Xserver ":0.0"
|>       after 0 reqests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
|>       The connection was probably broken by the server shutdown or
|>       Killclient.
Ah, know it well, spent _hours_ on this one myself. It's
probably yer mouse. I've got the patched kernel (beta-1) and
re-mknod'd my serial ports and I wound up having to use com2
to get to com1. :) Of course that was _AFTER_ I figured out
I wasn't supposed to be using tty0! Too many hours on the 
commercial unixes...

To see the error messages I fired up xinit from a telnet session
from my NeXT. Someone sent me e-mail suggesting I fire up the
server and redirect stderr to a file.

The problem is that 386bsd doesn't have virtual terminals yet. So
when the console flips into graphics mode and the server dumps out it's
error messages they get flushed.

Scotty
From: g89s9112@hippo.ru.ac.za (Dirk Sturzebecher)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: 386BSD and manual pages
Date: 10 Oct 92 17:07:13 GMT
Distribution: global
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

Hi all,
just a short question. how do manual pages work with 386bsd ?

they are not in the normal format but rather as some form of text
file (with special char's to do the high lighting of keywords).
How do I get normat manual pages to 386bsd manual pages? I tried
troff,.. , but the results where not more or less unsatisfactory !

Cheers, Dirk

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: colin@cs.curtin.edu.au (Colin Manning)
Subject: [386bsd]Where is outb defined?
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 00:57:40 GMT

Hi,
	I was looking through wt.c, and fd.c, and came across outb() and 
out_fdc().  I can't find where they are defined.  Could someone please point me
in the right direction?

Thanks

Colin.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.mail.elm
From: g89s9112@hippo.ru.ac.za (Dirk Sturzebecher)
Subject: elm and 386bsd , HELP
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Distribution: global
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 16:37:56 GMT

Hi all,
has anyone out there compiled 'elm' to work with 386bsd ?

I have tried and got "something" working, but it is fairly unusable.
It is mostlikly my configuration. Is anybody out there who runs 386bsd
on 386 and is a uucp leaf node to the net ? If so, what elm
configuration choices will make the system work ?


The specific problems I have :

 1. the make does not work, but I can just make the four sub directories and
    install them.
 2. any mail to external hosts does not get into uucp, just get a host
    unknown.
 3. the keys are buggered. I tried both 7 and 8 Bit, both times some
    keys do not work at all. e.g. '>' to save options. some keys have to be
    capitals, some smalls.
 4. and last, the worst problem, I do not get the body of the message.
    If I send something from one user to the next, I only get the header,
    the typed body disappears!


Cheers, Dirk




P.S. I got the following compilation warnings, could that be the source of
     all the trouble ?

src/addr_util.c	819	prefix was declared implicitly extern and later
                        static
src/addr_util.c 930	get_unix_date was declared implicit extern and
			later static
filter/filter.c 70	type mismatch .... for 'getpwuid'

			the last warning appears in a number of places

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From: andreas@knobel.GUN.de (Andreas Klemm)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Moving ethernet card from IRQ2 to IRQ5 in 386BSD
Keywords: Ethernet card, IRQ, 386BSD
Date: 6 Oct 92 06:09:25 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Andreas Klemm, 4040 Neuss, Germany

In <wutcd.718056376@hadrian> wutcd@chemnitz.guug.de (Joerg Wunsch) writes:
|u8011841@cc.nctu.edu.tw () writes:
|>   So, How do I tell the kernel that the ethernet card had been moved from
|>the default IRQ 2 to IRQ 5? Can somebody kindly to give me some help?
|As mentioned above, _reconfigure_ your kernel, then rebuild - everything
|will be nice.

cd /sys/i386/conf
cp GENERICISA YOURCONFIG
vi YOURCONFIG
....
device we0 at isa? port 0x280 net irq 5 iomem 0xd0000 iosiz 8192 vector weintr
....                                  ~
config YOURCONFIG
cd /sys/compile/YOURCONFIG
make depend
make
mv /386bsd /386bsd.old
mv 386bsd /
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From: ohoward@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Todd Howard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster Pro driver (re-post)
Date: 12 Oct 92 05:52:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: matt.1bc6vdINNgrc
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

jtsilla@damon.ccs.northeastern.edu (James Tsillas) writes:

>Hi Kurt,

>thanks for posting the Soundblaster driver to c.u.bsd. I am considering
>buying a Soundblaster board and have been unable to find any review of
>the boards. So far, browsing Computer Shopper I've come across four
>variations:

>        Soundblaster
	8 bit interface;  No "extra" software.
>        Soundblaster Basic
	16 bit interface; No "extras".
>        Soundblaster Pro
	16 bit interface; MIDI Kit; Software (I've got this one)
>        Soundblaster Pro (OEM)
	This could be refering to the new SB-16, which can sample
in stereo at 44.4 kHz (CD speeds), among other things...but then
again, maybe not.

>Do you have any idea what the difference is among these? There is
>certainly a price difference.

I claim nothing... I don't have my latest mailing from Creative
Labs in front of me.

Todd
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From: dean@ksr.com (Dean Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Could the passwd/crypt changes be included in the patch kit?
Date: 12 Oct 92 20:49:43 EDT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Kendall Square Research

In article <1992Oct7.161805.21244@rwwa.COM> witr@rwwa.com writes:
>In article <1992Oct6.152823.3185@sci34hub.sci.com>,
>  gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) writes:
>
>| The only bypass is for someone outside
>| the US to write the code, and make it available on a ftp site also outside
>| the country. 
>
>So then, if there were a patch that included a dummy module with comments
>pointing to such a place, a patch could be distributed, right?

The export regulations prevent you from assisting a foreign national
from aquiring the DES, even if its from a foreign site. 

It's been rumored that this will change for a long time.  But then,
it's also been rumored that the deficit will be lowered and that your
taxes will go down.  I wouldn't believe anyone who says that the 
regulations don't apply.  They always apply. ;-)  Your best bet is 
to call your congress-droids and tell them how much you don't like it.
Actually, a hand written letter is more effective.

Don't do anything before checking with a lawyer, to be safe.

		--Dean


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: witke@cs.tu-berlin.de (Marius Witke)
Subject: How to compile X386 applications ?
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 13:26:17 GMT


Hi,

I tried to compile some small X examples but had no success...
The linker always complains: 'undefined symbol ... referenced from text
segment' - and that for all X functions in the program.

I set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH and LD_RUN_PATH to /usr/X386/lib and 
compiled with options -L/usr/X386/lib and -lX11

What am I doing wrong ???

Thanks for any help,
			Marius.

 
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: antkasx@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (Ken A. Sturrock)
Subject: Re: cant build kernel
Organization: Georgia State University
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 02:32:59 GMT

andrew@citr.uq.oz.au (Andrew A Zander) writes:

	az> I have just installed the patch kit which includes the
	az> fix concerning the inability to build kernels ( something
	az> about vers.o ). This fix was duly applied but when i try
	az> to build a kernel i get an error from the make, it cant find
	az> vers.o. can anyone help?

Yes, I got the same error and fixed it by adding an:

	echo >> vers.c

to the file "newvers.sh" in /usr/src/sys.386bsd/i386/conf. After this, my
GENERICISA make runs without a hitch.

Unfortunately the others ( LARGE, SMALL, etc ) still don't make, often the
machine works for quite a while then just zones out and hangs. However the
GENERICISA is fine....one kernel is better than none.

Many, many thanks to Terry for the patchkit it works beautifully even for those
of us who aren't C hackers.

						-ks
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
From: dawes@physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes)
Subject: Re: Speedstar 24X with XFree86 in 640x480x256 mode?
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 14:14:37 GMT

In article <1992Oct14.021655.721@skitzo.dseg.ti.com> dittman@skitzo.dseg.ti.com (Eric Dittman) writes:
>Has anyone been able to get XFree86 to work with the Diamond
>Speedstar 24X in ANY mode?  I've been following the discussion
>on this video card, and I know there's no config available for
>the higher resolution modes.  I thought I read a post earlier
>that said 640x480x256 would work, but it doesn't work for me.

I think those earlier posts were referring to the Speedstar 24 -- not the
24X.  The 24 uses the ET4000 chipset, but the 24X uses a different chipset
which I'm told is a descendant of the PVGA chipset.  I have no idea if
it is close enough to PVGA1 to work with XFree86 (looks like it isn't).

(Can you send me the output the server produces when you try to run it?)

>Eric Dittman                  Texas Instruments - Component Test Facility
>dittman@skitzo.dseg.ti.com    (214) 578-3575
>Disclaimer:  Not even my opinions.  I found them by the side of the road.

David
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From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Corrupted directory
Date: 13 Oct 1992 10:13:22 GMT
Organization: EUnet Backbone, Dortmund, Germany
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: walhalla.germany.eu.net

In article <26947.9210120417@thor.cf.ac.uk>, spedpr@thor.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards) writes:
=Using a program utilising unlink I managed to shift the awkward
=directory to lost+found where it now resides as #04954. While this is
=very nice it hasn't solved my problem of a corrupted filesystem. Oh
=well, it seemed like a good thing to try.
=
=Is there a way to delete this inode. Fsck just isn't up to it. It goes
=through the motions of fixing things but when I reboot the problem's
=still there.

go single user mode (hit ^C during boot cycle)
clri <filesystem> <inode>
fsck <filesystem>

You may have to use the fixit disk, though.

-Bernard
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