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From: mcrocker@titan.ucc.umass.edu (MATTHEW S CROCKER)
Subject: GCC and i486 Compiler option....
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 12:38:20 GMT

I was reading through the GCC FAQ when I noticed a compiler option for
the i486.... Does GCC actually optimize for the pipelining of a 486 (i.e.
check data dependencies (sp?) or jump optimizations???) if so does
re-compiling the kernal using 486 optimizations speed up anything???

as far as I know the 486 doesn't have any new instructions over the 386
it is just faster and has an instruction pipeline...  if GCC compiled
the code so that minimal time was spent flushing the pipe we should
be able to see speeds aproaching 33 MIPS (yeah right, theory I know but..)
it would be nice to actually start using the pipe in my 486 with some
real efficency

on Another note:

I just installed SLS distribution.  I would like to get X running.

when I tried to startx after installing SLS it bombed with an et4000
error message (I Have an ATI Ultra) So, I got the XLinux8514 package on
sunsite. but this need librarys libm.so.2.2 & libc.so.2.2 (I think)
is there a way I can link this libraries to something that comes 
with SLS??

or better yet.  what are the EXACT steps needed to install
linux 0.98 + all the current binaries.  I can ftp all the stuff
but I end up screwing up the binaries and not having the correct
libraries in place when I do and all hell breaks loose :)

My system:
Gateway 486/33
ATI Ultra  (mach 3 + 1MB)  8514 register compatible :)))
20 MB 70ns RAM
200 MB IDE
     OS/2 2.0 BOOTMANAGER
     70 MB DOS + Windoze 3.1
     35 MB OS/2 2.01 beta 32 bit GRE 
     30 MB linux root
     60 MB linux /usr
      5 MB linus swap
MS Mouse
Zoom 2400 modem 9600 send only FAX

I read the FAQ but that is too old to really help with linux .98

I would like to get X running..

ALSO, while I'm at it. what revision of X does linux have.??
X11R5? I thought I saw something about X11R2 when xinit bombed..

Thanks for the time and the bandwidth :)

reply via c.o.l or e-mail

advTHANKSance

-Matt



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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: najem@dante.cs.uiuc.edu (Ziad Najem)
Subject: Re: HELP: are there tricks to get olvwm to make? Wont make for me
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1992 02:35:33 GMT

djr48312@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (X X) writes:

>Olvwm wont make for me, as for the details where it goes wrong I don't
>really remember, believe it needs some xlib or something.  All help to

>get olvwm to install will be greatly, greatly appreciated.


You don't need the last library (libobz ?) specified in the makefile.
Remove it and everything should go fine. 

 - Ziad
   najem@cs.uiuc.edu

p.s. This is definitely a good candidate for the FAQ list if not
already there.
From: wow@cup.portal.com (wallace otis waggoner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: High-Speed bbs for Linux?
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 23:31:31 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

	If there is enough interest I want to start a high-speed bbs
devoted to Linux.  Any interest or ideas?

Wally Waggoner
From: p00054@mail.psi.net (Geoffrey R. Deasey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: serial port programming
Date: 13 Oct 92 05:05:07 GMT
Article-I.D.: mail.718959645.0.p00054
Organization: Performance Systems Int'l
X-Mailer: PSILink (3.01)

I am a recent convert from the dos world, and am trying to write a 
routine that needs to test for incomming serial port activity.

           while (!timeout)
           {
             is_there_a_character_?
                get_the_character_reset_timeout
             if_no_character_update_timeout
           }
 
if no character show's up within 1 second then i do something 

      any ideas (please help)


             
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: david@ods.com (David Engel)
Subject: Re: iostreams in libg++, NIHCL for linux?
Organization: Optical Data Systems, Inc.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 18:31:18 GMT

Joost Helberg (jhelberg@nl.oracle.com) wrote:
: garyt@lgc.com (Gary Thompson) writes:
: : I finally got my hands on a 386 box and just installed Linux for
: : the first time using the new SLS package and everything went 
: : smoothly.
: : 
: : However, I was unable to get anything using iostreams in C++ to
: : successfully link.  It appeared that the iostreams were not part
: : of the libg++ that came with the SLS distribution.  Is there a
: : a complete libg++.a somewhere?
: I had the same experience, 2.2.2d with jump tables, no problem
: before, but no ostream now anymore.
: 
: I mailed hlu, but got no answer yet, he is too busy I guess. Some
: other people any suggestion?

Iostreams is in libc.a not libg++.a.  However, iostreams is not yet
supported in the default, jump-table libs.  Therefore, to use them,
you must link with the static or classic (non-jump-table), shared
libs.

David
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: satishc@microsoft.com (Satish Chittamuru)
Subject: It Works (WAS Re: No mouse under xfree86-1.1)
Date: 08 Oct 92 20:29:02 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <1992Oct07.071851.14160@microsoft.com> satishc@microsoft.com (Satish Chittamuru) writes:
 > Neither Linux0.98 or X (xfree86-1.1 from tsx-11) seem to like my
 > mouse. Linux doesn't recognize it at all and under X it moves
 > in a completely erratic manner. Curiously enough Linux 0.97.6
 > recognizes my mouse, but as a Microsoft bus mouse. In reality
 > it is a serial mouse on ttys0 (com1).
 > 
 > The mouse used to be recognized just fined in 0.96c and X1.0
 > used to work perfectly well with it (as a logitech mouse).

Well, I got the 0.98.1 patches, recompiled the kernel and modified
my Xconfig to read a Microsoft mouse instead of a Logitech mouse
and now everything is hunky dory. I had initially left it as Logitech
since X1.0 worked just fine with that but it seems XFree86-1.1 is more
picky about what you call your mouse. I am not sure if the kernel
patches helped, but I will assume that they did.

BTW, my mouse is an "A4Tech" that can be used as a 2 button or 3 button
mouse. It has 3 buttons and a switch on the side that sets it to
2 or 3 button mode. But I can't get X to recognize it in the 3 button
mode. The mouse pointer does a break dance on the screen whenever I
move the mouse. Can anyone tell how to get X to recognize the 3rd
button. Many thanks!

On a different subject, I noticed something curious about the EXT FS.
While untarring an 8MB tar file on a Minix partition, I can still
use the other VCs with a reasonable response. However, untarring the
same file on a ExtFS partition just about locks out the CPU. It takes
ages to login on another VC let alone do anything useful. I also see
that my Minix partition is faster than the ExtFS partition, by about
200 KB/sec (This is all the more odd considering that my disk is a ZBR
drive and the EFS partition is on the outer tracks). Is performance a
known problem on the EFS? Can anything be done to improve it? Any info
appreciated.

-- 
Satish K. Chittamuru				satishc@microsoft.com
=====
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed herein, either stated or implied, are
solely my own and do not reflect Microsoft's views in any manner.
From: Jim.Corbett@f35.n152.z1.fidonet.org (Jim Corbett)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Maxtor 7213a update
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 14:02:00 -0800

JG> I've spent the last several days playing with componets,
JG> trying to
JG> track down the causes of my linux problems.  It seems it
JG> may have to
JG> do with my maxtor 7213a harddrive.  I've read everything
JG> through this
JG> newsgroup on this drive in a long time, but I thought I
JG> would tell you
JG> the results of some of my testings... Maybe you'll see
JG> something I've
JG> overlooked.

Check the rev level of your 7213 drive, there have been severl posts
here 
saying those less than a number cause problems.  If you call Maxtor,
they 
are aware of the problem, and will give you another drive or make you
some 
kind of a deal to solve it.

MAXTOR  408-432-1700

Please report back with what you discover! 
 
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From: oreillym@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Michael O'Reilly)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux..
Date: 14 Oct 1992 23:14:14 +0800
Organization: Home
NNTP-Posting-Host: tartarus.uwa.edu.au
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

bywater_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz wrote:
: Having just set-up the basic floppy of Linux, I am very impressed.  However,
: I do have some questions..
: 
: (a) How much disk space do all the partitions generally need for the basics 
: (very basic in fact)

Well, I started of with an 8 meg partition. That had a compiler and
precious little else. :) Think about 3 megs for utils, about 5 for the
compiler, about 13-14 for x-windows. Add at least 2 for temporary files.
Add about 2-3 megs for any major packages (ghostscript, TeX etc)

: (b) Is it possible to run remote users with Linux (eg across a null modem
: cable)?

Linux is a fully multi-user O/S. You can run multiple users. 

: (c) I see it is using EGAc mode - Is it possible to get it to use VGA mode?

The 'EGAc' message is printed by the kernel simply to indicate that it
worked out your video card was at least EGA and that it has colour.

It will offer to let your use any VGA or SVGA text modes you have
(supports a LOT of cards). X-windows is a slightly different matter.

: That's all the questions so far..I'll no doubt have more as time passes..But
: very good...

Michael

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: lfoard@Turing.ORG (Lawrence C. Foard)
Subject: real SLIP, multiport cards?
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 16:14:21 GMT

From some messages I saw here I thought SLIP for Linux was out, but there
is nothing in the SLIP alpha directory. Is SLIP in the kernel to a state
where it is useable yet? If so where do you get it?

Multi ports-

 Has anyone written drivers for multi port cards for Linux yet? If not does
anyone know of a decent card that would allow 32-64 lines on a machine, and
has decent documentation available so that a driver could be written?
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Subject: Re: ! on the command line?
From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 20:10:36 GMT
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)

In article <Bvzu9u.5oC@wimsey.bc.ca> stewart@wimsey.bc.ca (Jim Stewart) writes:
>In article <718857952snx@grendel.demon.co.uk> jes@grendel.demon.co.uk (Jim Segrave) writes:
>>I'm running -/97 patch 6 with bash. I was playing around with a script
>>file with sed and trying to enter a !cmd -
>>
>>file * | sed '/text/!d'
>>
>[... more description deleted... ...]
>
>You disable csh style history substitution in bash with:
>
>   set +o histexpand
>
>You need to do this with bang paths for uucp as well ...

Even easier:

set +H

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: kk@cs.tu-berlin.de (Kolja Kaehler)
Subject: Re: Linux: system failure - HD format - HELP - SOS
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 10:40:13 GMT

wies@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Rene Felix Wies) writes:
: 
: Major problems using Linux and a C-Compiler on a 486.
: 
[stuff deleted]
: 
:   After about 8 hours of reinstalling DOS, OS/2 and (believe it or not)
:   Linux (0.96 !!!) I tried it again - same error messages
: 
:   Using the version 2.2.2d I received similar messages and could not 
:   compile the kernel.
: 
:   Since then I have not attempted to recompile the kernel and would 
:   realy like to find out what caused this "error".

As the documentation for gcc2.2.2d states, it only works with 096c or above
(and you need the 0.97<something> headerfiles, and I think the jump4.1 libs
don't work with a kernel below 0.97pl4); since 0.96 is *really* outdated,
it's probably best to try 0.98 ... currently pl1, but I still haven't read all
of c.o.l today ... :-)

I do not know how your configuration relates to corruption of a *whole* hd,
though...

[...]

	Kolja

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From: Brian.Leonard@f215.n3802.z1.fidonet.org (Brian Leonard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Never mind mailing Linux...
Date: 15 Oct 92 08:38:00 GMT


    Thanks for all your help, but I found (and got) Linux via anon FTP.
Is there any way for you to keep SuperBBS from deleting me after a
while? I know I won't really be that active, but I like the board and if
I find something interesting, I'll pass it along. Thanks...

                                            Brian Leonard


 * Origin: Advanced BBS - Line 1 (512)578-2720 (1:3802/215)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: michael@gandalf.moria (Michael Haardt)
Subject: Re: The evitable question -- MGR
Reply-To: u31b3hs@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Michael Haardt)
Organization: An old and gray machine, somewhere in Moria.
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 92 21:03:57 +0100
Return-Path: <u31b3hs@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>

In article <84133@bcsaic.boeing.com>, paula@atc.boeing.com (Paul Allen,calamity) writes:
> Look on tsx-11.mit.edu in /pub/linux/packages/MGR (from memory).  I've
> got this version working under Linux, and it appears to be about as
> solid as the Minix version was.  Michael Haardt produced this version,
> which he calls 0.4.  It's apparently based on the latest Sun version
> with bits and pieces from Linux people, Minix people, and Stephen Uhler
> himself.  I had to "lean" on the sources a bit before I could get them
> to compile.  Not all of the clients are ported, yet, so there's still
> room to make a contribution.

0.41 is on my HD, but due to local net problems, I can't put upload it
yet.  I also get news with some delay.  Some trivial compilation
problems like include files are fixed, some other minor bugs like scroll
regions too.  The clients which worked under 0.3 now work again with the
transparent client/server protocol (no \r to \n mapping any longer).  A
friend of mine who could test VGA stuff is just moving, so no news from
that.  Some people claim that it works, others deny it.  I can't test
anything right now.

Since scroll regions have a bug in 0.4 and most clients which compile
will *not* work, I removed 0.4 for now.

MGR never had a consistent version number (at least not visible to me,
with the original, MINIX ports and other stuff), so I started a new one
from 0.1 some months ago.  This is a version number for the whole
package, not just the server.

> If you want, you can join the MGR channel of arl's linux-activists mailing
> list.  Send mail to linux-activists-request@niksula.hut.fi to get an
> auto-reply explaining how the mailing list works.  The activity level
> on the MGR channel fluctuates, and is generally insignificant when
> compared to the volume of X-related stuff.

True.  Activity will get more in about two weeks, when I have more time.
First let me try to pass to exams and get four wisdom teeth pulled.

Then 0.5 will come out.  I will work at VGA again and hope to have gdb
then on my system, to see what causes the rare crashes.  I will also
test it on suns.  Btw: I never had the _quit(): panic since weeks, so I
hope that I fixed that bug finally :)

Michael
From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Chicken and egg: How was the first linux gcc binary created??
Keywords: gcc linux egg chicken soup
Date: 10 Oct 92 16:21:36 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

tep@engr.uark.edu writes:
>   As I was standing in the shower this morning I was thinking (I do
>my best thinking in the shower) "How did Linus generate that first
>gcc binary?"  

I think he cross-compiled from Minix.  Early Linux development was done
from under Minix (i.e. he ran Minix and wrote programs under Minix, but
he didn't use Minix code), and in fact many of the early activists came
from the Minix community.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: heim@peanuts.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Gerald Heim)
Subject: Re: Kernel Panic
Organization: organisiert? ich? ach was!
Date: 8 Oct 92 12:46:56


Hi

I had similar problems when I upgraded from 4 MB to 12 MB on a 386sx Board
(20 MHz, 32kB Cache). The solution was to disable the cache RAM via the
BIOS-setup. :-( Now my machine is much slower (really) but Linux works again.
This Problem hasn't occured under DOS however..... wished it was the other way.

gjh

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale)
Subject: Removable SCSIdisk patches.
Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 13:22:11 GMT

	Well, it appears as if a lot of mailers mung the uue file that
contained the actual patches, so I put them up for anonymous ftp.
Look on tsx-11.mit.edu in pub/linux/ALPHA/cdrom (i.e. I have write access to
that directory), for the file removable_scsi.diff.Z.

-Eric

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From: pc123@cl.cam.ac.uk (Pete Chown)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Ceasefire?
Date: 7 Oct 92 18:43:27 GMT
Reply-To: pc123@phx.cam.ac.uk (Pete Chown)
Followup-To: alt.flame
Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK

For ages it was really nice reading comp.os.linux (and alt.os.linux)
because there weren't thousands of flames in every day's articles.  It
made a really nice change from comp.unix.wizards, where someone would
post a newbie question, there would be six people flaming them and
telling them to post it in comp.unix.questions, and then there would
be hundreds of posts flaming about what should be posted there anyway,
and flaming the original flamers.

I can see comp.os.linux getting like this - not with newbie questions,
since there is no comp.os.linux.questions group, but with the flames
about the NT and video board discussions - it is now obvious that
flames will not cause these discussions to move elsewhere.

So could we have a ceasefire in the flame wars?  

(I hesitated for a long time before posting this, because there is
nothing worse than people flaming the flamers which wastes even more
bandwidth.  I therefore set the followup to alt.flame in the hope of
avoiding generating a long discussion about this uninteresting topic.)
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From: wow@cup.portal.com (wallace otis waggoner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: High-Speed BBS for Linux Community
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 02:10:19 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

	Need to get some feedback from Linux Community as to interest in
Multinode High-speed BBS exclusive to Linux.  Please let me know of your
interest.

Wally Waggoner
From: apm233m@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Can I use gcc to develop MS-DOS apps ?
Date: 10 Oct 92 17:24:54 +1000
Organization: Computer Centre, Monash University, Australia

In article <1992Oct10.170904.90302@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>, apm233m@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au writes:

> The main site for djgpp is (unless it has changed recently):
>                  grape.ecs.clarkson.edu
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Whoops! the lastest release (version 1.08) was on
                  barnacle.erc.clarkson.edu

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Mathematics Department
Monash University
Australia
From: md3z+@andrew.cmu.edu (Mark Denovich)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Is ESDI supported
Date: 8 Oct 92 00:18:23 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.YeoyvDC00WB_4bHa0G
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA



the subject says it all.....   Specifically the SLS version........



Mark
From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Maxtor 7213a update
Date: 13 Oct 92 13:27:31 GMT
Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY

In article <ldajmvINNfm@ozona.cs.utexas.edu>, jefftep@cs.utexas.edu (Jeffrey Grills) writes:

| If it were not for this little problem, I'd be such a happy camper.
| As it is, I'm going bald at the age of 21... (sigh)

  I can't solve your disk problem, but as for the baldness, get a tee
shirt made up:
  "Some of us have better things to do with our hormones than grow hair"

Positively will improve your social life.
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From: drew@kinglear.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
Subject: Re: Help requested on booting linux on a PC with a SCSI disk.
Keywords: SCSI linux
Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 19:04:27 GMT

In article <d13f.719258308@alf> d13f@alf.zfn.uni-bremen.de (Bernd Lindner) writes:
>I've the same problem with the ST0X-SCSI-drivers to boot and install
>from floppy. 
>
>My configuration:
>486DX-33/16MB
>ST296N
>ST02
>
>0.96c : no disk info ==> assuming 1GB disk & getting login prompt.
>0.97 - 0.98.1 : disk info available, but detected as sd0 at scsi2
>                     ==> hanging system: scsi host 2 timed out

This is covered in the FAQ : Linux .97 and later, as well as earlier 
SCSI releases have an interrupt driven driver for the Seagate board. 
If the board is not jumpered for IRQ5, your computer never sees SCSI
interrupts and it doesn't work.  Consult the manual for correct jumper 
settings.

>is there a patch available to force the ST0X-SCSI-driver to detect all drives
>at scsi1?

As far as what pseudo-device the host adapter shows up as : 

There have been printk() numbering inconsistiencies in 
the kernel.  In most places, it's the index into an internal 
array of low-level driver structures.  So, in the 
current scheme of things, Adaptec, Seagate, etc will show up as 
a different scsi pseudo device.

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From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Backing Up Linux
Keywords: backups, disk, multi-volume, tar
Date: 12 Oct 92 15:01:28 GMT
Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY

In article <1aulspINNe7u@uwm.edu>, rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller) writes:
| Doing a `tar -h` shows me that there's much more to the GNU tar than I
| understand...  It appears that GNU tar knows how to make multi-volume
| '.tar' files and how to archive directly to disk, but *I* don't know how.

  I prefer bundle for the writing of the actual volumes, if you don't
mind a program which is dedicated to converting stdin and stdout to
multiple volumes.

Like:
  tar cf - /usr/local | bundle /dev/fd0 1440k 15k

Note, the 1440k is volume size, the 15k is the buffer size (1 cylinder).
For floppy this is the optimal size, since anything smaller slows the
write and anything larger takes longer to fill the buffer before the
first write starts. All double buffered and stuff, would used shared
memory if supported.

If you want this, I posted it to tsx-11 some months ago, don't use the
one in comp.sources, it's old, and doesn't use shared memory correctly
for V.4.
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