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From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds)
Subject: Re: [Q] Does Linux fs hate large Directories?
Organization: University of Helsinki
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 10:44:29 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.124205.417@camaro> tfoley@camaro (Tim Foley) writes:
>
>   Does Linux 0.98p1 have a problem with large directories?  

I already replied to Tim, but I thought I'd mention it publicly as well:
yes, linux 0.99 (as well as all earlier versions) have problems with
directories that contain many subdirectories.  The reason is simple: the
minix filesystem uses only a unsigned char for the nlinks field, so if
you create a lot of directories, nlinks will overflow, as it's not
checked for.  The solution is either to use the extended filesystem
(which uses unsigned shorts) or to live with the limitation that you
can't have more than about 250 subdirectories in the same directory. 

Here is a patche to make the kernel check it (easy enough..): apply by
hand to linux/fs/minix/namei.c, beginning of the minix_mkdir() function. 

----- pseudo-patch -----
  		iput(dir);
  		return -EEXIST;
  	}
+ 	if (dir->i_nlink > 250) {
+ 		iput(dir);
+ 		return -EMLINK;
+ 	}
  	inode = minix_new_inode(dir);
  	if (!inode) {
----- pseudo-patch -----

Alternatively, wait until Sunday, when I'll make 0.99.1 available for
final testing before 1.0.

		Linus
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From: jeffk@grex.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jeff Kopmanis)
Subject: Need Xconfig for Paradise 512K SVGA
Organization: GREX Public Access Unix +1 313 761 3000
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 14:03:21 GMT

I have a Paradise 512K VGA card, Linux 0.98.pl5 and I need to get a hold of
a working Xconfig file.  I'm assuming that it will be running in Monochrome,
not color.

I know a similar item was posted a while back with a similar card.  I never
recall seeing the public response.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

Thanks a heep!

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From: jfritz@ptolemy2.rdrc.rpi.edu (Joe Fritz)
Subject: Re: Can X run with only 4 megs RAM?
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 02:11:37 GMT

In article <andrewc.724292380@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au> andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !) writes:
>jblaine@garnet.acns.fsu.edu (Jeff Blaine) writes:
>
>>I have a 386-25 with 4 megs and a 9 meg swap partition.  It seems very
>>odd the responses that this question has been getting.  People with nearly
>>the same configuration are having totally different circumstances come about
>>from running X.  
>
>>One person said they could run 2 xterms, xconq, xman etc and the initial 
>>person said they had 2 to 3 minutes lags between mouse movements.
>>I can open one xterm.  If I open anything else at all, X starts swapping
>>massively to disk.  I mean, unbearable lag if I open anything other than
>>an xterm.  X seems to swap for a few minutes (lots of disk action) if
>>anything more than that one xterm is opened.  Does anyone know what the
>>deal is with all of these different reports?
>
>Is this the new X or the old one ?
>I remember back when I had 4 megs (on a 386dx25) and just got linux going
>with 0.97pl2 MCC dist. + X (ie X 1.0) and, yep, just having XClock, XBiff
>going beside an Xterm made it unusable...
>
i am unable to get X to work with only 4M.  The server works fine .98,
but it crashes the system On 0.98.4 or later.  Maybe this is the same
problem that has beem complained about.  It looks like the kernel is
killing jobs, but i cannot tell since X is usually what ends up
killed.

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From: lcj0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Lutz C. Jacob)
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Subject: Need help with Viewsonic 4 Monitor
Date: 14 Dec 92 06:39:28 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University



Greetings!   
I have been trying to configure my Viewsonic 4 monitor for X to no avail. 
I have valid clocks, but unfortunately, do not have the timings for the 
monitor.  Can someone help with the tech info on the monitor?  
Please send e-mail, I will post followup?   On another note, is the vga-dbase
file still being maintained?  It used to be on banjo, but no more....
						Thanks,
						Lutz
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From: lfoard@Turing.ORG (Lawrence C. Foard)
Subject:  256 shades of gray on X and VGA?
Organization: The Turing Project, Public Access Internet Host
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 19:05:36 GMT


Are there any VGA cards supported by freex86 that will allow you to
get 256 rather than 64 shades of gray in 1024X768, or even 7800X600

? The normal VG pallet registers are only 6 bits. 

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From: Thomas_Backhaus@hb.maus.de (Thomas Backhaus)
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Subject: Re: motif
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 01:43:00 GMT
Organization: MausNet (Mitglied im IN e.V.)
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Hi Bill,
w>
w>
w>At work, we have a licensed version of Motif on the Suns.  Is there a
w>free package like motif?  Has anyone put it on Linux?
w>
Because Motif isn`t under the Copyleft or something like that - it's simply
commercial - there is no version available for Linux.

But the Open Look Window Manager (both olvwm and olwm) are ported to Linux.

Bye
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From: bob@eagle.inmos.com (Bob Green)
Subject: [ANNOUNCE]: TinyMUSH 2.0.8.p8 is available.
Originator: mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU
Keywords: tinymush games
Organization: INMOS Limited, Bristol, UK
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 17:00:47 GMT

TinyMUSH 2.0.8.p8 has just been released, and contains my patches for Linux. Its
available from caisr2.caisr.cwru.edu, in /pub/mush. It compiles OK under 0.99
with gcc 2.3.2. I havn't tried it with earlier versions of Linux. Give it a try.

-Bob

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From: peterw@archsci.arch.su.EDU.AU (Peter Williams )
Subject: ANNOUNCE: ispell for British Commonwealth users
Keywords: ispell 3.0 spelling checking British Columbia 
Organization: University of Helsinki
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 00:49:58 GMT

A version of Geoff Kuenning's ispell V3.0 linked with jump libs 4.2 and
a British Commonwealth dictionary is available from

archsci.arch.su.edu.au (129.78.66.1)

in file

pub/linux/ispell/ispell.C.T.Z  (untar in /usr/local)

and the texinfo source for ispell documentation is in

pub/linux/ispell/ispell.texinfo

instructions are in

pub/linux/ispell/README.ispell

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From: poe@daimi.aau.dk
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] poeigl-1.8a alpha version available
Originator: mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU
Phone: +45 86 20 27 11 - 5034
Keywords: init getty login
Organization: DAIMI, Computer Science Department of Aarhus University
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:26:36 GMT

I just uploaded poeigl-1.8a.tar.Z to ftp.daimi.aau.dk

Several people have sent me bug reports and fixes as well as extensions
to the programs in this package. This alpha release is an attempt to
make these enhancements available to the rest of the Linux community.

Several bugs have been fixed.

write/wall have been enhanced to support a commandline message.

simpleinit now reads the timezone from /etc/TZ and sets it.

getty now supports certain escape codes in /etc/issue

Login no more has the syslog() messages #ifdef'ed out. If you don't have a 
real syslogd daemon, then there's a hacked version of a very simple syslog()
call included.

*** STATEMENT OF DIRECTION ***

I do not think that any more work on simpleinit should be done. If you are
not satisfied with simpleinit, get the sysvinit package by Mike Smoorenburg.

Also, there is a GNU version of write that I think we should use.

Acknowledgements:
-----------------
Sander Van Malssen <kozmix!sander@relay.nluug.nl> provided the code for the
	escape codes in /etc/issue.

Ed Carp provided the patch for simpleinit that supports timezones.

ssd@nevets.oau.org (Steven S. Dick) told me about a bug in login.c wrt. 
	SIGHUP.

I forget who sent me the patch to wall.

My thanks to all of them.

As always, the packages contains only sourcecode. The binaries can be built
under Linux 0.98P5 or later with at least gcc-2.2.2d7

To those that do not already know, the poeigl package contains:

        init, getty, login, hostname, mesg, users, who, write

I have put the packages out for anon ftp at:

        ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/Linux-source

        - Peter. <poe@daimi.aau.dk>

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From: p_copela@csd.uwe-bristol.ac.uk (Phil \(SysAdmin Parallel Research\))
Subject: ANNOUNCE: FAQ (Net) update available
Originator: mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU
Keywords: faq net tcpip
Organization: University of the West of England, Bristol
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 01:15:56 GMT

This is just a note to inform the masses that I have updated the FAQ
for the net to include 0.99 with tcpip patches 1-4 and posted it to the net
channel. If the links betwwen here and sunsite stay up, i'll upload it
to /pub/Linux/Incoming, the tsx-11 link appears to be down at my end
of the punyverse. The faq now addresses most of the critisms that were
directed at it. I was going to include a filename permission table
but I've sine decided to release that as a different document as the
FAQ is 60000 bytes long

Phil
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From: sanjuan!pmacdona@sol.UVic.CA (Peter MacDonald)
Subject: SLS update: ghostscript and mailpak
Originator: mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU
Keywords: SLS update ghostscript mailpak
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, CANADA
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 21:32:45 GMT

The latest upgrade of SLS is up on tsx-11 (except for b5/smail.taz, which
I uploaded to sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/Incoming/smail.taz, because
tsx-11 ran out of space again).   Except for adding the afm fonts for
doc to the 'x' series, all the changes are in the 'b' series.

The main additions, are mailpak (thanks to Vince S.) and the ghostscript
and afm fonts.  I was really against bulking up SLS with Megs worth of
fonts, but now that it is done, you can finally do WYSIWYG composition
using SLS (X11, Ghostscript, Idraw and Doc).  

As usual, I reorganized, so some packages got moved to different disks.
This is a hazard of trying to keep the distribution floppy based.
This time however, I documented the moves and deletes in the HISTORY  file
which follows.


921213: b1/syslogd.taz:  updated version
	b4/syslogd.taz:  [rm]
	b5/man.taz: [mv] to b6
	b5/man2.taz: [mv] to b4
	b5/*: GS, fixkbd, smail, uucp
	b6/elm2_3.taz: [rm]
	b6/uucp.taz: [rm]
	b6/install.end: [rm]
	b6/tin1p4.taz: 
	b7/*: Ghostscript fonts
	b8/*: News and mail stuff (and new elm)
	x5/afm1.taz: Fonts for Doc/postscript
	x8/afm2.taz: Fonts for Doc/postscript


It looks worse than it is, because I explicitly indicate when I moved
something ([mv] to dest) and when I deleted something ([rm]).  I will
be following this convention rigorously in the future, so it should
even be possible to use a script or program to do the updates for
you, depending where you are.

The next update will probably be in the next few days, but will just be
the kernel upgrade to .99, as I am anxious to rid SLS of a patched kernel.
Also, we could be seeing a new version of Doc, and hopefully the rest of
the Interviews package, after shared jump libs are generated for X and IV.
After that, SLS will stop adding new features, and concentrate on fleshing
out what is there, and making it better.

Peter.

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From: Michael Caro <ACPS7221@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca>
Subject: PATCH and CONFIG files for InterViews
Originator: mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU
Keywords: patch config interviews iv
Organization: Cornell Theory Center
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 19:15:51 GMT

   Hello all:
   I have posted a set of config files along with a few small patches for
InterViews, Beta4, to sunsite /pub/Linux/Incoming/iv-config.beta4.TZ and to
tsx-11.  This file contains all the files required to compile InterViews
cleanly.
   The sources to IV can be obtained from sgi.com in
                   /graphics/interviews/new.tar.Z

   These patches contain a header file <linux/types.h> from 98.6.  It is
important that you use these 2 lines, even if you transplant them into a
different <linux/types.h> file (i.e new headers from 0.99.0 when available).
There is more info in README.linux.

   All the applications compile and run fine, as far as I can tell, except doc
which compiles, and runs, but has a problem with keyboard input still.  Please
send me bug reports, questions, fixes etc.  <ACPS7221@RyeVm.Ryerson.CA>

                                    Regards,  Michael.

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From: smackinla@cc.curtin.edu.au (Pat Mackinlay)
Subject: ANNOUNCE: New XT disk driver
Originator: mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU
Keywords: xt disk driver
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 17:10:22 GMT


This is a short note to annouce the second release of the XT hard disk 
drivers for Linux. This set of patches is for Linux 0.99 (pl0) and should
be available on tsx-11 under /pub/linux/ALPHA/xtdisk/xtdisk2.tar.Z and 
/pub/linux/ALPHA/xtdisk/README.xtdisk.

Just a brief introduction: this driver allows you to use XT-style (8 bit) 
hard drive controllers. The advantage of these is that you can use them in 
conjunction with normal AT-style (16 bit) controllers, IDE drives and SCSI 
drives. The major problem with them is the fact that they are very slow, so 
swapping to one of these controllers/disks is not reccomended <grin>.

So, if you have some old MFM or RLL disks that you'd like to use, and you 
can get hold of a suitable XT controller, you can now make use of them 
under Linux. Please email me if you have any questions about this...

The driver now attempts to auto-detect XT controllers and will also try to 
read the disk geometry if it knows how. At the moment, support for this is 
quite minimal, and I would appreciate it if anyone who had one of these 
cards and is using or planning on using the driver could contact me so I 
can add more support.

Pat -- Have a day!


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From: bob@eagle.inmos.com (Bob Green)
Subject: [ANNOUNCE]: PennMUSH 1.50.p6 has been released.
Originator: mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU
Keywords: penmush
Organization: INMOS Limited, Bristol, UK
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:59:04 GMT

I just received this:

> PennMUSH 1.50.p6 is out. It's on caisr2.caisr.cwru.edu as usual.
>
> ... stuff deleted
>
> Linux compatibility added courtesy of bob@inmos.co.uk. The restart
>   script is now in sh instead of csh.

I grabbed it and sure enough, it compiles up OK under 0.98p6 and 0.99 with
gcc 2.2.2d7 and 2.3.2. For the sources and many other things to do with muds,
look on caisr2.caisr.cwru.edu, in /pub/mush.

For those of you who grabbed my interim release of about a week ago, I suggest
you throw it away and get the new version.

PennMUSH is supported by Lydia Leong (lwl@eniac.seas.upenn.edu).

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From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds)
Subject: IMPORTANT [BUG in 0.99] Re: [ANNOUNCE]: linux version 0.99
Originator: mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU
Keywords: kernel linux 0.99
Organization: University of Helsinki
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 20:17:28 GMT

Simple but important bug-fixes follow.  Please check them out if you
have had problems with 0.99. 

In article <1992Dec14.174625.1102@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold) writes:
>
>Okay. I posted a note this morning about not being able to get 0.99 to boot.
>Well, I solved that problem... Just my own stupidity. *BUT*, I may have a 
>bug to report here.
>
>I also posted another note about X locking up perodically (Subject was 
>[BUG REPORT] swapping trouble ?!?). Now that I am running 0.99, the kernel
>manages to keep limping when X locks up--enough for syslogd to spit out what
>happens: I get a whole bunch of "No free inodes -- contact Linus" messages.

Good.  I added code to handle the "out of inode" error more gracefully,
and it seems to have found the error pretty efficiently (well, I
suspected it already, which is why I wrote the code in the first place,
but now it's confirmed).  Consider me contacted. 

Sadly, the "out of inode" code has a silly bug that can lead to kernel
panics at bootup: the 'inode_wait' wait-queue is not correctly
initialized to NULL, so people booting from floppy may get bad values
here. So here are a couple of fixes for 0.99 - unofficial, but I would
like to hear if there are still problems after these:

 1) in linux/fs/inode.c, at the start, change

	static struct wait_queue * inode_wait;

    to

	static struct wait_queue * inode_wait = NULL;

 2) in linux/include/linux/fs.h, double the value of NR_INODE (to 256),
    ie change

	#define NR_INODE 128

    to

	#define NR_INODE 256

and see if that is enough (it really should be: NR_FILE is 128, so the
above value for NR_INODE should leave plenty of inodes for things like
executables etc).  Hopefully you won't get the "No free inodes" problem
any more. 

Note that I'll have to make the number of inodes dynamic, but I won't do
so for 1.0, as the changes would be big enough to be bug-prone.  1.0
need not be perfect, but I hope it will be stable. 

		Linus


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From: jon@robots.ox.ac.uk (Jon Tombs)
Subject: S3 server 0.3 released
Originator: mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU
Keywords: X s3 server
Organization: Robotics Research Group, Engineering Science Dept, Oxford, UK.
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 23:05:28 GMT

Release 0.3 of the S3 xserver is now available on ftp.robots.ox.ac.uk in
/pub/linux/S3 and SunSite.unc.edu in /pub/Linux/X11/X-servers/s3 when their
mirror next fires up.

The new release has little changed from 0.2b except it now supports S3 86C801
based cards (albeit with a hardware cursor bug), but I won't be able to do any
more work on the server till mid January hence the release now.

I have also put up a version of Xfree86 with an un-accelarated S3 driver, this
isn't of much use apart from giving the dot clock speeds for S3 cards. 

If you are thinking of buying a S3 card please bare in mind there is a great
range of performace for S3 cards and that the new (higher performance) 928
chip has just been released.  There follows xbench results for a variety of
(S3) cards:

All tests ran on 486/33s linux and XS3 versions varies:

Fast ET4000 (Orchid Pro designer II)
TOTAL     56873 lineStones
TOTAL      5266 fillStones
TOTAL      1924 blitStones
TOTAL    870336 arcStones
TOTAL     57062 textStones
TOTAL      6993 complexStones
TOTAL      6646 xStones


Slow S3 911 (old Orchid Farenhite 1280 - but not sure if a 486/33)
TOTAL     56746 lineStones
TOTAL     16390 fillStones
TOTAL     10463 blitStones
TOTAL   1425872 arcStones
TOTAL     53625 textStones
TOTAL     34444 complexStones
TOTAL     24625 xStones

[Diamond stealth gives 30k xstones, but due to Diamond stupidity will not be
supported reliably]

70MHz S3 911 (Actix GraphicsEngine70)
TOTAL    103781 lineStones
TOTAL     21777 fillStones
TOTAL     16997 blitStones
TOTAL   2580416 arcStones
TOTAL     83875 textStones
TOTAL     46797 complexStones
TOTAL     37496 xStones

S3 924 (new Orchid farenhite 1280)
TOTAL    111640 lineStones
TOTAL     30450 fillStones
TOTAL     21935 blitStones
TOTAL   2871708 arcStones
TOTAL    103812 textStones
TOTAL     62222 complexStones
TOTAL     48559 xStones

S3 801 (Actix GraphicsEngine32)
TOTAL    102774 lineStones
TOTAL     45363 fillStones
TOTAL     27382 blitStones
TOTAL   2485082 arcStones
TOTAL    113125 textStones
TOTAL     97712 complexStones
TOTAL     60897 xStones

And Sun Sparc1+ cg3
TOTAL    121149 lineStones
TOTAL     13219 fillStones
TOTAL     10735 blitStones
TOTAL   2112958 arcStones
TOTAL    134750 textStones
TOTAL     22418 complexStones
TOTAL     25901 xStones



Jon.

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From: arumble@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Anthony Rumble)
Subject: ANNOUNCE: ALPHA 0.05a Fido EMSI Mailer for Linux
Summary: EMSI Mailer for Linux
Keywords: EMSI, FIDO, LINUX, MAIL
Organization: University of Helsinki
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 01:03:32 GMT

Available on..
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/Incoming/nxm0.05a.tar.Z

Please mail any problems/patches/reports to me at:
arumble@extro.ucc.su.oz.au

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