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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: newbie SLS/X11 questions
From: jehresman@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Date: 17 Nov 92 00:03:19 EST
Organization: Wesleyan University

I'm a newbie who just installed SLS.  The install went smoothly and I was
reasonably impressed by the documentation, although more suggested sizes of
partitions would be useful along with instructions on how to mount them before
running doinstall; e.g. how big does the root and /usr need to be for various
configurations.  Also, for people w/ even less unix experience than I have,
more explicit "hand-holding" documentation need to be available.

My problem now is X11.  Right now I'm having problems finding the default fixed
font and with my VGA card (a Genoa 7900).  I believe the fixed font problem
came up before, but I forgot to save the solution.  On the video card, is there
any way to write an Xconfig for the standard 640x480 vga.  I'd like to make
sure that X works before I start fiddling with dot clocks.  I am also willing
to write some install docs for X11 that step people through the process of
setting it up (w/ the proper support, of course).

John Ehresman
From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: 16550 UART (was Re: 4-port Usernet Serial II Card [REVIEW])
Date: 18 Nov 92 21:57:30 GMT
Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY

In article <1ebgo4INN9g8@menudo.uh.edu>, wjin@cs.uh.edu (W. Woody Jin) writes:

| One more queston. When I use kermit, it connects at 9600bps O.K.
| When it transfers, it is not faster than 2400bps.  Why is it so ?

  Two possible reasons - one that you dialed out at 2400 (by using the
ability to call at other speeds than the serial link speed), or two that
you aren't limited by connection speed but by other factors, like a slow
computer at one end, packet network, etc.

  Try setting the windows in Ckermit with "SET WINDOWS 10" and whatever
you need to do on the other end to get windows running. Of course if you
mean that the other end confirms you called at 9600, then reason one is
out and you can look at reason two.

  If you're calling another UNIX kermit, you send a file with windows
using
	kermit -v 10 -is FileName

and of course do
	set file type binary
on your end to prevent lots of end of line translation.

-- 
bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
    Keyboard controller has been disabled, press F1 to continue.
From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Packaging Linux
Date: 23 Nov 92 07:18:34 GMT
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats

In article <1992Nov20.184332.4802@news.columbia.edu> jml12@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Jonathan M Lennox) writes:
>In article <1992Nov20.160444.16116@scifi.uucp> njs@scifi.uucp (Nicholas J. Simicich) writes:
>>I personally think that another essential for mass-usage is going to
>>be a filesystem that doesn't require sync() or fsck.  This isn't an
>>impossible task, and yes, there is a performance hit, but I don't
>>think you are going to sell a system to the masses that they can't
>>turn off whenever they want to.
>
>  Macintoshes require you to do a "shutdown" before power-off (or, on
>Mac II's, to CAUSE the power-off), so I hardly think you can argue
>that common people can't understand the concept.
>
>  Perhaps an X command which stops x, syncs, halts, and prints "it is
>now safe to turn off your computer" would be a good idea, though.

Also, DOS Windows 3.x requires a shutdown if it is using the Smartcache
driver.

-- 

Rick Kelly	rmk@rmkhome.UUCP	unixland!rmkhome!rmk	rmk@frog.UUCP
From: c60b-1fk@e260-1c.berkeley.edu (Ahmon Dancy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Character Set
Date: 20 Nov 1992 08:56:35 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: e260-1c.berkeley.edu
Originator: c60b-1fk@e260-1c.berkeley.edu


Greetings.  I just started using Linux yesterday and I'm
very impressed with it.  Anyway, one problem I have is when
I accidentally cat a binary file, the character set changes
to an all graphic one so I can't tell what I'm typing anymore.
Sometimes continuing further in the binary file will make the
character set switch back to normal. I'm looking for information
on what code is making this switch happen and how can I make
it happen manually.
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Ahmon Dancy  (c60b-1fk@webworm.berkeley.edu)
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: minyard@crchh453.bnr.ca (Corey Minyard)
Subject: Re: PLP daemon
Reply-To: minyard@bnr.ca
Organization: BNR
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 23:13:12 GMT

In article <1992Nov23.134624.26712@athena.mit.edu>, tree@midget.towson.edu (Denise Tree) writes:
|> Hi Activists,
|> 
|> Does the port of PLP  require tcp/ip in the kernel?

No.  It will use domain sockets.

|> 
|> 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.

I'm not sure I understand.  I have never had a problem with the port getting
"jammed".  Big things print ok, though.

|> 
|> Denise
|> tree@midget.towson.edu

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

Corey Minyard
minyard@wf-rch.cirr.com
From: root@umibox.hanse.de
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: setting up a dial-in
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 04:41:04 GMT
Organization: Linux Box standing around in Hamburg, Germany

I think this one did not go out before, 'coz I had to nuke all my posts
recently (many others were scheduled for transmission to the host they
were actually coming from :-)
So here it is again:


When my second phone-line gets installed this weekend, I'll open my
Linux-box as some kind of mailbox. But I need to hear from someone who has
managed to set up a dial-in before, because up to now I have some
problems.

Mainly, where is this uugetty thing? Or is it called getty_ps? I can't seem
to find it anywhere.

Thanks in advance, I'll announce the phone number next week,

     Bernie
From: bille@studsys.mscs.mu.edu (Bill Ehrendreich)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: I am getting lo from Lilo
Date: 20 Nov 1992 01:36:09 GMT
Organization: Marquette University - Department MSCS
Distribution: world
Reply-To: bille@studsys.mscs.mu.edu (Bill Ehrendreich)
NNTP-Posting-Host: studsys.mscs.mu.edu
Originator: bille@studsys.mscs.mu.edu


I have a SCSI drive. In order to install Lilo I have to set up the disktab file.
. The documents are more than a little sparse in that reguard. I simply want to
get my system booting from the hard drive. 
 
My drive configuration is as follows:

           1 Segate 46 meg (or there abouts) SCSI drive 
                part1 37 meg linux exfs (root)
                part2 6 meg swap
                part4 3 msdos v5.0  

I need to know the correct settings for the disktab. Any other hints on install
ation would be greatly received.


-- 
=============================================================================
William Ehrendreich                 | EMAIL
Network Administration              | Primary sysadmin@metro.com
Metro Communications Project        | Secondary bille@studsys.mscs.mu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: mrhoten@cs.stanford.edu (Matthew X. Rhoten)
Subject: Re: X - how do I stop ctrl-alt-BS?
Originator: mrhoten@Xenon.Stanford.EDU
Organization: CS Department, Stanford University, California, USA
Date: 24 Nov 92 03:44:14 GMT

root@slave.uwe.ac.uk (Operator (Phil/Dylan)) writes:
>The linux machine that I use here is a research machine and I have found
>that to my annoyance a normal (unix unfriendly) user can get to console
>while it is xlocked and type in crtl-alt-del which kills the server
>stone dead includeing any work I'm doing at that time.
>[...]

You can use the reboot() syscall to turn off ctrl-alt-delete.  Look in
..src/linux/kernel/sys.c, I believe, for sys_reboot(). You need to be
superuser, and you pass it some magic values which mean "CAD off". You
can then pass it more magic values which mean "CAD on".


It should be simple to write a program to toggle this state.
Either make it setuid or be root when you run it.

 -matt
-- 
Matthew Rhoten | mrhoten@cs.stanford.edu | m_rhoten@leland.stanford.edu
"When Adam and Eve first saw each other, that's when the blues started."
 -John Lee Hooker
From: P.Remagnino@ee.surrey.ac.uk (Paolo Remagnino)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: X11 with Hercules card and MGR problems
Keywords: X11 and MGR
Date: 16 Nov 92 15:37:18 GMT
Organization: University of Surrey, Guildford, England


 Hi there,

 I have two huge probs:

 [1] I have an hercules card, and I would like to know if somebody has 
      managed to interface X11 under Linux with an Hercules card ? Is there
      the driver somewhere ?

 [2] I then tried to install MGR last nite and surprise I had another problem
     I managed to build mgr, but when I issued the command "mgr" it says
     I can't find the mouse or mouse is already operative ! very starnge,
     /dev/mouse exists and my mouse is mounted on a serial port !



   help ! please ! does anybody know ?

		Paolo
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: smitty@essnj1.essnjay.com (Hibbard T. Smith JR)
Subject: AHA1540-A ???
Organization: ESSNJAY Systems Inc.
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 20:13:12 GMT

I'm just starting to try and install linux-0.98p5.  The system uses an Adaptec
AHA-1542-A scsi host adapter, Maxtor 8380-S and a Maxtor LXT-200-S.  
It also has a Toshiba CD-ROM, a Genoa 7000 VGA, a 33 Mhz 386 (with 387), and
8 Mb. of RAM.  Almost forgot, there's a Media Vision Pro-Audio Spectrum in
there also.  I'm trying to put linux on the LXT-200.  

Everything goes okay until the fdisk.  Even that seems to work okay, but the 
subsequent reboot says that /dev/sdb has a bad partition entry.  A new fdisk
execution confirms that the partition table is garbled.  Needless to say, 
everything on the drive is gone. BTW: I am entering the head, sector and 
cylinder params as used by the Adaptec BIOS (64, 32, 191 respectively).

If anyone's heard of anything like this, and can give me a clue where to start,
I'd sure appreciate it.  

Thanks in advance for any help ...
-- 
		Smitty
-------------------------------------------
Hibbard T. Smith JR                 smitty@essnj1.ESSNJAY.COM	
ESSNJAY Systems Inc.                uunet!hsi!essnj1!smitty
From: rickm@eng.auburn.edu (Rick Martindale)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: [Q] Concerning Kernel ( 0.98.2 - 0.98.5 )
Date: 22 Nov 92 18:51:28 GMT
Organization: Auburn University Engineering

Hello World,
	I am currently running Linux 0.98.1 but have been trying
for what seems like eons to upgrade to a more recent level.
	I have compiled every patch level since 98.1 successfully
but none seem to want to run on my machine ( everyone has locked
it up ).  It boots ok, locates my ps2 mouse, mounts the hd, 
but it always! locks up before giving me the login prompt. C-A-D
won't reboot it, it takes a Hardware reboot.
	It was suggested that upgrading getty would fix it.
I now have the getty_ps version and it works fine for 0.98.1
but I still have the same old problem for the newer versions.

help, heLP, HELP!!!!
Rick
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: chchen@stat (Ching-Hsiang Chen)
Subject: Ghostview problem
Organization: Florida State University
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 08:55:05 GMT

Has anyone successfully run ghostview? I got ghostscript working and can
compile ghostview using the patches. It runs but with just a empty window.
I checked using 'ps' and it did show ghostscript was called up.
Any suggestion?

Steve Chen              chchen@stat.fsu.edu
From: joe@retina.anatomy.upenn.edu (Joe Panico)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: X server blows up: TCP socket screw up
Date: 16 Nov 92 20:07:31 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Neuroscience, U. of Pennsylvania


Running the SLS linux currently on tsx-11.mit.edu (linux 0.98 pl1-36).
Everything installed without incident, but the X server blows up when
invoked. e.g.
            "X :0"  produces the following error mssg.

Creating TCP socket: Invalid arg
Fata server error:
cannot establish tcp listening socket

Any clues would be very much appreciated. Thanks.


			Joe Panico
			joe@retina.anatomy.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: varney@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Bruce Varney)
Subject: Eisa vs. LB -- IDE vs SCSI
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 01:02:18 GMT


	Ok - here is the deal. I am looking at two different machines.
Both are from the same company (Gateway 2000)

	486-66DX2 Local Bus 8 Meg Ram, Local Bus IDE controller, 340 
meg IDE drive. 15" flat screen monitor. Local bus ATI Ultra Pro. 
Desktop case. Both floppies, all the regulars, etc. 
        ($2995 +$100 for tower case, +$95 for shipping) $3190
		

	486-33DX EISA 8 Meg ram, EISA Adaptec or Ultrastor SCSI controller
(supports DMA, and bus mastering, but not a caching controller). 500 meg
SCSI drive. 14" monitor. ISA Diamond Speedstar 24X. Tower case. Both floppies, 
all the regulars etc. 
		( $3495 +$95 for shipping) $3590

	I plan on running Linux and Dos (I have games). I plan on adding
a sound card to do some composition in the future, and would also like to
be able to do full-motion video sometime in the future. 
	Also, I plan on writing some pretty heavy-duty engineering code
(Lots of CPU, Mem, and Disk required) at some point. 

	So, to the chase. If I get the Local bus machine, it will arrive
within the next 3 weaks (or so they say). I am too short on funds
however, to get the EISA machine - I would need to wait till the price
comes down at least another $400 (or till I win the lottery ;-). Is the
better disk performance, and more 32-bit expansions spots worth the 
extra wait (who knows how long). Also consider that the EISA machine
has a lesser video card and monitor, and is a DX33 instead of a DX2-66.

	I am looking for opinions here - what do you think I should do?
Does anyone know of another company that has a better deal, and still
has a good service reputation?

			Bruce

P.S. Oh - and also, any other company would need to take Discover ;-)

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: S_SPECKER@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (Specker Alexander)
Subject: problem installing a cron
Organization: University of Ulm, Germany
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 12:23:24 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24

I've the following problem with crond and crontab.
Got SLS98.pl4 and i'm not able to install a cron;
my cronfile looks like this:

* * * * *  echo "TEST"

I'm not sure how to install the cronfile, where to
place it and how to start. Any further information
about cron would be usefull.
Helps very welcome. Thanks a lot.

Alex
==================================================
Alexander Specker, Aitrach, Ulm
S_SPECKER@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de
From: jrc1@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (John Colton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: LILO or Shoelace?
Date: 17 Nov 92 17:42:46 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

I just installed Linux .98
Should I use LILO or Shoelace??
Will LILO give me a choice of partitions (DOS/LINUX) when I start my
machine?


How do I install LILO or Shoelace?

-- 
By the time I am finished with college I will own $80000 worth of information.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: bir7@leland.Stanford.EDU (Ross Biro)
Subject: Re: SOMAXCONN undefined in MudOS..
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 06:47:00 GMT

In article <1en2ptINN9tu@tartarus.uwa.edu.au> oreillym@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Michael O'Reilly) writes:
>Dr Algirdas Avizienis (aviz@lanai.cs.ucla.edu) wrote:
>: 	Hello! I am trying to compile MudOS 0.9 under Linux, but
>: I've run into a problem.  In the comm.c file, SOMAXCONN is
>: undefined.  It is the second argument in a call to select().
>: 
>: What should I be replacing this with?
>As in the number 5. :) This is a (minor) deficency in the #include
>files for TCP. By convention (at least, for BSD) it is usually 5.
>Michael
	Assuming you mean listen and not select, Linux (at least for
tcp) ignores the second argument.  Linux will happly have ~450
unaccepted connections on a socket before it starts ignoring new
connection requests (It ignores them so that they will be sent again,
and perhaps the resources will be available to accept them.)  So 5
will work as well as any other number, and I beleive that BSD silently
limits them to 5.

Ross Biro bir7@leland.stanford.edu 
Member League for Programming Freedom (LPF)
mail lpf@uunet.uu.net for information
 

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: jrs@world.std.com (Rick Sladkey)
Subject: ANNOUNCE: alpha NFS client for Linux
Organization: The Internet
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 04:38:27 GMT

My NFS filesystem for Linux is available for general testing.  At this
point it has a few limitations.  Most glaring is that binaries cannot
be run from from an NFS filesystem yet.  Also, it does not yet do
read/write caching so programs that do not use buffered I/O will be
painfully slow and network intensive.  Otherwise, it is a fairly
stable and complete implementation of the NFS protocol featuring
timeout and retransmission as well as directory, lookup, and attribute
caching.

It is available for Linux 0.98 patchlevels 4 and 5 from:

tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/ALPHA/NFS/nfs-client-0.3.tar.Z

Please let me know if you give it a try whether or not you had any
success with it.  Remember to include your NFS server's platform.
--
Rick Sladkey
jrs@world.std.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: sstonjek@jupiter.rz.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE (Stefan Stonjek)
Subject: ET3000 and XWindows
Organization: University of Osnabrueck, FRG
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 07:47:07 GMT

Hello!

I have a strange problem with my ET3000 (Optima 1024) and XWindows, 
runing with Linux 0.98.1. When I exit from XWindows to the normal text-
-screen, there are only lines from the top to the bottom of the screen.
Sometime they are on the whole screen and sometimes they only appear at the 
places of the normal lettres. It seams as if my computer fogot the font 
(or something like that).

Who can help. It is't very funny :-((((

Tschuess Stefan

P.S. Mail to: sstonjek@jupiter.rz.uni-osnabrueck.de
From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: malloc (0) ( Re: function-->macro bugs.)
Date: 21 Nov 92 18:13:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: serval.1992Nov21.181345.19607
Organization: School of EECS, Washington State University

In article <1992Nov21.124529.10725@klaava.Helsinki.FI>, wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:
|> hlu@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu) writes:

[....]

|> 
|> >If you can come up with a better idea to deal with
|> >
|> >	p = malloc (len); /* len may be 0. */
|> >	if (!p) fatal ("Out of memory");
|> >
|> >I'd like to hear from you.
|> 
|> There are programs which assume that malloc(0)==NULL, and programs
|> which assume malloc(0)!=NULL.  We can't support both types at the same
|> time without some kinds of hacks, something will surely break.
|> 
|> I have no problems with the current scheme (except for some naming
|> choices, I'd prefer __MALLOC_0_IS_NON_NULL instead of NO_FIX_MALLOC).

X11R5 uses MALLOC_0_RETURNS_NULL. I have changed stdlib.h to 

/* fix malloc (0) only if you include stdlib.h */

/* For compatibilities */
#if defined(NO_FIX_MALLOC) && !defined(MALLOC_0_RETURNS_NULL)
#define MALLOC_0_RETURNS_NULL
#endif

#ifndef MALLOC_0_RETURNS_NULL
...... malloc macros
#endif

|> Fixing programs that try to substitute their own malloc shouldn't be
|> that hard.  We'll never achieve total compatibility with all current
|> source code anyway.
|> 


H.J.
From: jwiegand@moe.eng.temple.edu (James Wiegand)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: X - how do I stop ctrl-alt-BS?
Date: 23 Nov 92 23:48:19 GMT
Organization: Temple University EE Dept.

In article <1992Nov23.025324.17638@csd.uwe.ac.uk> p_copela@csd.uwe.ac.uk writes:
>
>Having munged through most of the docs etc, I have come across a problem
>that I cannot redress, that of Xlock,...
>
>The linux machine that I use here is a research machine and I have found
>that to my annoyance a normal (unix unfriendly) user can get to console
>while it is xlocked and type in crtl-alt-del which kills the server
>stone dead includeing any work I'm doing at that time (*fume*  - it was
>my net-FAQ that I was working on) I locked the xserver using xlock in the
>reasonable expectation that the console would still have all my work on it
>when I can back from an errand. Instead I cam back to find this guy on it
>running amok with root privs. I have a /etc/locked shell for this guy,
>Dylan wrote it cos he also got cheesed of at this It's rather simple
>nasty and effective. I'll get Dylan to post it later.
>
RTFM:
(X386.1X)
KEYBOARD
       Multiple key presses recognized directly by X386 are:

       Ctrl+Alt+Backspace
               Immediately  kills  the  server  --  no  questions
               asked.  (Can be disabled by  specifying  "dontzap"
               in the configuration file.)
(/usr/X386/lib/X11/Xconfig, that is.)

Or buy a chastity belt for your computer :-).

jim
From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Problems compiling / installing .98p5
Date: 23 Nov 92 10:00:50 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

amylaar@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Joern Rennecke) writes:
>Today I wanted to upgrade from 0.98p1 to 0.98p5 to get rid of the accept()
>problems. I got the kernel sources from nic.funet.fi , changed the Makefile
>to to enable svga-mode selection and select my (german) keyboard.

Did you, by any chance, remember to change the macro that specifies
the root disk?  (First one in the toplevel kernel makefile, ROOTDISK
or something.)

>AFter some time compiling stopped, complaining that there was no way to
>make target /usr/include/traditional.h .

Did you do a 'make dep' before you compiled?

>Compiling then went on fine, with only a few warnings about unused functions

Those are normal.  It seems that Linus is unable to write a kernel
that is strictly ANSI C.  :-)

--
Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi  (finger wirzeniu@klaava.helsinki.fi)
   MS-DOS, you can't live with it, you can live without it.
Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 16:42:19 EST
From: <ESQUIVEL@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: boot_b.exe

Could somebody tell me where can I get boot_b.exe to boot
linux from drive B: ?

Rodolfo Esquivel

esquivel@qucdn.queensu.ca