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From: ayman@eecs.umich.edu (Ayman I. Kayssi)
Subject: HARDWARE QUESTION: Tape Drives
Organization: ACAL, EECS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 03:13:55 GMT


I would like to know what tape drives are known to work with both Linux and
MSDOS. I am going to buy one backup unit, which I will be using under both
operating systems.
Any info would be greatly appreciated.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ins217t@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
Subject: Re: Mouse dies when kermit runs :)
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 22:41:02 GMT


You've not got your modem on COM3 and mouse on COM1 do you ?

IRQ conflicts tend to happen if this is the case....
You can usually change a jumper or two to change COM3's IRQ to 5 and it 
should be fine
(if nothing else is on IRQ5 ...)

Enjoy !

Cos !
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: wongi@netcom.com (Isaac Wong)
Subject: Mouse dies when kermit runs :)
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 07:17:38 GMT


Last night I had problem even trying to run Xmono, now I have it running in
vga256 mode! I am so excited! One problem though, as soon as kermit starts,
my mouse is dead. i can restart the mouse by running the mouse test program
that came with my SLS package. Any clue?
From: major@pacific.cps.msu.edu (Ronald Major)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Paradise VGA, SIGBUS and FD_SET
Date: 23 Nov 92 23:42:09 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Michigan State University

Hello everyone in Linux Land!

	I am a new Linux user for about a week now and I think
it is really cool. I used the SLS package and all went smooth,
after I spent a few hours figuring it out. I know very little
about Unix system administration, but after playing around for
a few days I learned alot :))

First problem:

	What I am trying to do now is get X running. I went 
through the Xconfig tutorials ( several times ) trying to get
the timing parameters set up in the ModeDB to no avail. I did
get one graphics mode to work (816x632). But for that I copied
one of the examples. I would like to get 1024x768 or higher
working. I have seen alot of questions about this lately. 
Could any one help me? My card has a WD90C31 chip (or something
like that) and the manual says that there are clocks of 65 and
75 Mhz among others. The max horizontal freq is 48.5 khz and the
max vert. is 90 hz.


Second problem:

	I tried to compile xloadimage which I just downloaded
from export.lcs.mit.edu. Most of the compile went smoothly
until...
	First, SIGBUS is not defines in signal.h. Does Linux 
support SIGBUS? I just commented out those lines and proceeded :-(

	Next, during linking, it gave an error that FD_SET
and FD_ZERO were referenced from the text segment and gave up.
I just read that a new version of libc.so.4.2 was available
from tsx-11. Was this library the problem?

Any answers would be appreciated ( except 42 which I already know :)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: u734120@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (John Lamp)
Subject: Re: Dos Emulator Question
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 04:50:12 GMT

rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller, Linux Device Registrar) writes:

>I've read in the DOS emulator docs that it won't run *.EXE files, but that
>it will run *.COM files... so could EXE2BIN be used to make the conversion?
>or will this not work with some *.EXE's?

EXE2BIN will only work with a very limited range of *.exe files.  *.com
files are a hangover from CP/M days of 64K memory models.  You can write
them small because so much is assumed, so they are still quite popular for
quick and dirty (and in some cases clean) utilities.

Cheers
John

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From: mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
Subject: Re: Manuals for Linux
Organization: Cornell Theory Center
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 03:17:53 GMT

In article <By58w3.5K5@world.std.com> dchan@world.std.com (Dan Chan) writes:
>Where can I get the manual for Linux? or is that just simply not available?

If you're looking for the man pages, they should be available on all the
major Linux FTP sites.

If you are looking for the actual printed "nice" canonical set of Linux
manuals, they're currently, um, in my head right now. I just have to get around
to writing them down. :) Actually, the DOC channel of the mailing list is
working on them as we speak (right, guys?). We're producing the Install/Setup
Guide, the User's Guide, System Admin's Guide, Kernel Hacker's Guide, and more.
As I've posted before, please join the DOC channel and/or ask me or Lars
Wirzenius (wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi) about how to get involved with the project.

We'll be producing both LaTeX format printed manuals and texinfo format
online/printed docs. We're also working on man pages (both nroff and texi
format). 

I'll be happy to answer any questions about the Doc Project (or, I can
just mail you my posting about the status of the project if you missed it).

Thanks,
mdw

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From: fcaic@wbst845e.xerox.com (Frank Caico)
Subject: gwm
Organization: Xerox, Webster, NY
Distribution: comp.os.linux
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 16:22:24 GMT


Could someone post the binaries for gwm compiled under a recent set of
libraries?  The version of gwm on sunsite wants libX11.1.1 and I have
libX11.so.2.1/2.   

I took the regular source for gwm and tried to build it but I get this
error:
	* /usr/bin/bison: too many files open

or something very similar.
I would appreciate help on either of these two problems.  

Frank
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From: rg@trillian.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rudolf Gross)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Memory leaks in the TCP/IP-Code ?
Date: 15 Nov 1992 17:07:43 GMT
Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany
NNTP-Posting-Host: trillian

I've been compiling an LPmud driver using linux.
For those who aren't familiar with it: The driver
creates a socket, and accept()/select()s on it.
The driver is monolithic and has NO childs or so.

However, even if nothing happens, "free" reports
that the memory is running out. In 4 blocks
portions every 3-6 seconds or so. The driver itself
keeps memory statistics and reports NO additional
memory being allocated.

Could it be that there is some obscure bug in the
kernel ? The same code works 100% under SunOS and
a VERY capable LPmud-driver-specialist assured me
that the driver itself does NOT allocate memory
like that.

Does any kernel wizard have an idea where the memory
leak could be ?

Thanks in advance,
				Rudi Gross
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: ins217t@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
Subject: Re: (append) Does someone port ImageMagick to Linux yet?
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:58:15 GMT

mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis) writes:


>In a previous article, eoi@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Chenmin Zhang) says:

>>but I failed to generate a makefile for my xfree86-1.1 of linux version.
>>When I run xmkmf command I got the following message:
>>
>>    % mv Makefile Makefile.bak
>>    % imake -DUseInstalled -I/usr/X386/lib/X11/config
>>    % In file included from /usr/X386/lib/X11/config/Imake.tmpl:892, from :3:
>>    % /tmp/IIf.a00169:11: invalid preprocessor direction name
>>    % /tmp/IIf.a00169:15: invalid preprocessor direction name
>>    % imake: exit code 33. stop.

>remove the # comment lines from the Imakefile or change them to XCOMM

I think I remember now...
If you have something like
# If
or something similar
(ie. "If" as the first word in a comment)
imake barfs...just take out the comment lines...
If it didn't happen with IM, it certainly happened with other things...

Cos !

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From: stoehr@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Peter Stoehr)
Subject: starting xdm
Originator: stoehr@hpsiegert3.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 12:44:49 GMT


Hallo Linuxer,

I have a very simple problem, I can't get xdm to work.
After changing the content of Xservers from `:0 local /usr/bin/X11/X' to
`:0 local /usr/bin/X11/X -pn' the login window appears. But whenever I strike
a key, my computer just make a beep (like ^G). 

Does someone knows why ?
	Thanks for help
		Peter
	
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: PHSTUD52@nyx.uni-konstanz.de
Subject: Umlauts dont work
Organization: University of Konstanz, Germany
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 10:25:21 GMT

I used the -DKB_GR_Latin1 etc. to reconpile the kernel
After that i could not see any german umlauts but only the (at) Symbol
Have I to install the Latin1 Codepage ??
(Talking about my SLS V0.98 (Nov 92))
Answer to phstud52@knurz1
From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: anyone wants pdksh?
Date: 19 Nov 92 00:01:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: serval.1992Nov19.000134.4950
Organization: School of EECS, Washington State University

I have made pdksh 4.7 for sun. If anyone wants it, I can try to
make it for LInux.


H.J.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale)
Subject: Re: First Release of the Linux Device List
Keywords: TAPE, CD-ROM, HELP!
Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:25:40 GMT

In article <1eb4ukINN53j@uwm.edu> rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller, Linux Device Registrar) writes:
>The following is what I have so far in the way of a complete listing of
>devices for Linux.  There are some gaps that need filling...
>
>For example, I don't have any minor numbers for TAPE drives yet, SCSI or
>otherwise.  Same goes for CD-ROMs.  Will those who have such things running
>let me know what major and minor numbers they've been using?  Thanks.

	OK, here goes.  For the cdrom, the minors are just the devices
themselves.  If you have one cdrom drive, the minor is 0.  If you have two,
then the minors are 0 and 1.  Not much more to it than that.

	For a SCSI tape, each physical device has two minor numbers that are
associated with it.  If you have two tape drives, then minors 0 and 1 will
refer to the first and second drives and the tape will be rewound when the
device is closed.  Minor numbers 128 and 129 (i.e. 128+n) also refer to the
first and second physical drives, but the tape will not be rewound after
closing the device.  If you have one tape, you could create the devices with
the following commands:

mknod /dev/rmt0 c 9 0
mknod /dev/nrmt0 c 9 128

> 8.  Scsi Disk	(block) ......	sd[0-?] or sd[0-?][0-?]
>	Minors numbers are [[16 * HostID] + partition]
>
>	Notes:	The maximum number of SCSI drives is defined by MAX_SD
>		found in [/usr/src]/linux/kernel/blk_drv/scsi/sd.h.

	Additional note: In the new scsi drivers there is no set maximum number
of scsi disks, hence no need to fiddle with sd.h  Everything autoconfigures as
the system boots.

>
> 9.  Scsi Tape	(block) ......	st[0-?]
>
>	Notes:	For future reference, the maximum number of SCSI tapes
>		is defined by MAX_ST which is found in
>		[/usr/src]/linux/kernel/blk_drv/scsi/st.h.


	The same is true here.  There is no longer any need to set MAX_ST,
and it would be a bad thing to actually try.  Even though there is a MAX_SR
in the cdrom code in the 0.98.5 kernel, the new scsi code effectively
eliminates this as well.

-- 
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From: jpo@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de (Joerg Pommnitz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux 0.98 pl5
Date: 17 Nov 92 10:03:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: hrz.jpo.721994610
Organization: tu-chemnitz

Hello (Linux-)world !

These wishlist is especially for Linus, but it might be interesting for some
others, too.

The main point is, that there are a lot of patches floating around. Some of
them are very interesting, but they often break with new versions (this is
a general observation and has nothing to do with pl5, which I havn`t tried
out yet :).

I think, a lot of them are very useful for the majority of LINUX users. So
it might be fine, to put them into the standard kernel. 
This was the general part, now the specific stuff :

1. SYSV-IPC (semaphores) implemented by balasub@cis.ohio-state.edu
2. selection patch
3. sound support
...

Which patches should be included ?

Nothing that is a special adaption to personal taste or even very country
dependend.
Nothing that depends on special and unusual hardware.

Everything that makes LINUX a full featured UN*X system.
Everything a lot of users might find useful (i.e. selection patch).

Yes, I know Linus' point of view, but I think there are a lot of features
already implemented, which lots of people (including me) don't know about,
so they cant customize their own kernel (even if they know how to do this).

Most of the patches don't break the standard kernel, because they  are
selectable via defines (for instance -DSELECTION).

So this is a suggestion to the contributors: make your patches selectable,
it might become easier for Linus to include them to the standard sources, if
he can switch them off.

I hope this will start a useful discussion, so please no flames.

					Joerg
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: keith@ksmith.uucp (Keith Smith)
Subject: Re: Linux - the future?
Organization: Keith's Computer, Hope Mills, NC
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 02:02:32 GMT

In article <1992Nov8.202550.13831@mo.hobby.nl> hans@mo.hobby.nl (Hans Oey) writes:
>keith@ksmith.uucp (Keith Smith) writes:
>
[...]
>>don't mean niche work either.  Visit 5 lawyers offices, and 5
>>accountants office at random in your area, and see what they are using
>>for Word Processing.  Wanna take any wagers you won't find *ANY* that
>>are using roff or Tex?  (Yea, I'm sure there are exceptions, but I'll
>>make the bet with anyone willing to roll the dice with the yellow pages.)
>
>I know of at least one law firm were they use GNU emacs and LaTeX.

I said *RANDOM* selection out of a phone book.  Like start at A and work
your way down.  I DID say there were exceptions but I'd bet less than
10% even have a *IX based system, and less than 1% would be using a Text
Processing System on ANY enviroment.  People are generally lazy, and
don't want to learn this stuff, even if it is the best thing since
a post hole digger.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tjm@hrt213.brooks.af.mil (Tim Miller)
Subject: libinet.a -- what is it, where do I find it?
Organization: AL/HRTI, Brooks AFB
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 13:57:01 GMT

	Subject says it all.

-- Cerebus <tjm@hrt213.brooks.af.mil>
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale)
Subject: Re: Mitsumi CDROM support
Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 19:48:16 GMT

In article <By0xMF.1rr@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> wilker@hopf.math.purdue.edu (Clarence Wilkerson) writes:
>IT does not look like much of a bus to me. It looks pretty much, judging from
>the chips involved, like a parallel port cobbled together from 74LSXXX
>chips. I think it just decodes a few addresses and passes data on to the
>smarts at the drive end. Does anyone have docs on the MSCDEX interface to
>low level hardware sys driver for DOS? This might help in dis-assembling
>the supplied driver.

	I was at a computer flea market this afternoon, and a dealer swore up
and down that it was an IDE interface of some kind.  He claimed that you just
use the secondary IDE address, and treat it like a normal disk drive.  He also
said that you cannot plug the Mitsumi into a regular IDE board, but you have to
use the board that it comes with, which implies that it is not plug compatible
with an IDE disk.

	This all sounds like someone would need to try and hack the kernel so
that it looks at the secondary IDE address.  Once you have that working, I
think you could just "mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt" and you should be all
set.

	For what it is worth, aI saw a NEC 83 scsi cdrom drive going for 300$
this afternoon.  The dual speed drives are still more expensive, but might
prove worth it if people want to use the cdrom heavily.

-Eric
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: chris@cosmo.demon.co.uk.demon.co.uk (Chris Payne)
Distribution: world
Subject: Installing SLS...How???
X-Mailer: cppnews $Revision: 1.14 $
Organization: At Home
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 23:16:31 +0000

Hello Linux users,

Thanks to those people who answered some of my questions regarding swap 
files and funny VGA behaviour. I decided yesterday to download the latest SLS
packages, since my others were of various versions and didn't get along too
well with each other. Now I have yet another problem:

Although I am sure the SLS package is great, the documentation does appear to
be lacking some vital information on _exactly_ what to do to get the install
process started. Here is what I have done so far....

1. Download a1.z and a2.z (98pl5)

2. uncompress a1.z and rawrite the resulting file to a floppy. This is the
   boot floppy. This boots OK. However, the installation software asks you
   to insert the 'utilities' disk. What is this?

3. Since a2.z is 1.1Mb there is no point uncompressing it since it won't go
   on a floppy. I rawrite the file a2.z to a floppy and assume this is the
   'utilities' disk. When I tell the install program that I have inserted it
   it bombs out with...

   "MINIX-fs magic match failed"
   "mount: /dev/fd0h1200 already mounted or /user busy"
   
   Then I get a few more messages and a # prompt. I can't do anything at the
   prompt since there are no executables available. End of story.

O.K. So why do I get this? Where are the _REAL_ instructions?

By the way, I've read the FAQs and every document I can get my hands on. None
of them really tell you what to do.

Some help please???

Cheers!

Chris.
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From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: rm Security Problem!
Date: 16 Nov 1992 11:42:13 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

tfoley@r-node.gts.org (Tim Foley) writes:

> 
>   I think I may have found a large problem with 'rm' as it comes in the
>SLS distribution.  
>   Logged in as *anyone* I can delete *almosy any file* with the rm
>command, it just comes up and asks 'override mode 0600' or whatever
>and away it goes!  I was able to delete copies of my passwd and inittab
>in the /etc dir using the guest login....very annoying, now disabled!
>  Anyone know whats going on with rm and where I can get the source to
>recompile it fixed! 
> 
>							Tim



Sounds as if there is a permission problem with the rm included on the SLS
distribution. Look at the permissions of your rm.
if they look anything like this, then they are wrong:

-rwsr-xr-x   1 root root  ...... rm

If that is anything close, the setuid bit is set, and rm will act as if
root entered the command. You just need to do a chmod 755 on /bin/rm to
fix this. Hope this helps.

James
From: farrellj@pinetree.org (farrellj)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Conference Unix et linux
Keywords: Figh-o-net (ick!)
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 11:32:47 EST
Organization: Gordon's Pinetree * Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

rchen@fraser.sfu.ca (Robert Chen) writes:

> In article <722438907.AA22022@remote.halcyon.com> Nicolas.Nowinski@p3000.f349
> > > Yves;
> > >  Voudrais-tu rendre accessible les conferences unix et
> > > linux par Bluewave
> > > si c'est possible. Moi je pense que ma configuration
> > > est correcte, sinon veux-tu me donner l'information
> > > pour les rendre accessibles par bluewave.
> >
> >    I thought that FIDONet Policy v4.0 calls for using ENGLISH in all
> >but designated AREAS! ! !
> >
> > * Origin: Another PerManNet Kit (1:109/349.3000)
> >
> 
> Vous ne parlez pas francais?  Dommage...
> 
> Aren't we being a bit testie?  Actually, it doesn't take a french 
> major to figure out what the above message says. 
 
        Not only that, but Policy4 was never formally adopted by Fidonet. 
You only conform to if if you want. They can't kick you out of Figh-o-Net 
simply for not compling. Besides, a call for help is a call for help, and 
if it is in a langauge you don't understand, you *politely* ask the 
person to re-phrase the question in one that you do understand. Simple 
courtesy.
 
ttyl
     Farrell
 
p.s. Should have sent this mail...but thought it was important enough for 
eveyone to see.

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From: fiji@realsoon.WPI.EDU (Ben Bennett)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Questions
Date: 21 Nov 1992 01:10:22 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: realsoon.wpi.edu

	Many thanks to the people who wrote the SLS it was (relatively)
painless to install Linux yesterday, I even got X running (in mono).

	Ok on to the questions: 
		I have been told that I can not run X in color on my
	Diamond Stealth, but I was looking through the manual and saw
	all you had to do was set a mode on the card and it emulated the 
	1024X720 256 color Veisa standard, so are there drivers that take
	advantage of this or is X stubborn.
		
		Where can I find drivers for my CD-ROM, it is a SCSI but
	not standard, I believe.  It is the one from the Sound-balster pro
	upgrade.
	
		Also are there drivers for the sound balster/sbpro for linux

		I saw the man pages for the dos emulator that SLS installed
	but I could not get it to work :-(  Does it work or was the one
	installed with the SLS broken?
	
		Fianlly my mail is dead, I tried mailing myself but it said
	segmentation fault when I ran mail or smail, elm ran but no mail was
	actually sent as far as I can tell.
		

		My system is a 486/50 with an award bios (zeos box)
		The cd rom is the phillips one I believe and it is
			the creative labs board driving it
		I have 8 megs memory and am running .98.5 off the SLS


	Any help would be much appreciated.

		Ben Bennett.
-- 
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 responsible for anything typed above.
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