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From: fmg@alpha.smi.med.pitt.edu (Filip Gieszczykiewicz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: HELP!!! Partition table failure, 200 MB of data at stake...
Summary: may be hardware problem - if not, ignore this
Date: 11 Jan 93 04:16:36 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.linux
Organization: Medical Informatics, Pittsburgh, PA USA

Thus spoke kfogel@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Karl Fogel):
>problem. There are about 200 MB of data at stake here, including some
[deleted]
>	C: drive failure
>	RUN SETUP UTILITY
>	Press <F1> to RESUME
[deleted]
>hardisk I/O error
>dev 0300, sector 4
>Unable to read /dev/hda

	Greetings. That's the BIOS panicking... Is that an IDE drive?
	If so, check the "controller" for a severe failure - some
	of the systems I fixed had literally BLOWN buffer chips.

	If that's not the problem, post the COMPLETE model # of the 
	drive and ask if anyone had the same drive that died of a 
	MEDIA problem - this will see if maybe the controller on the 
	drive is dead.

	IF, someone is REAL nice, ask them if they could send you their
	WORKING drive and see if substituting the boards with your
	drive will fix the problem. The only 2 bad things that this
	will/may do is:

	1) Void the person's warranty
	2) Blow his board (arghh...)

	If that does NOT work, call up a CREDIBLE hard drive recovery
	company (look in Computer Shopper) and ASK for an estimate.
	Consider that you may spend AS MUCH for the recovery as paying
	for someone else'es blown drive (#2 above). 

	While doing all of the above - pray.

	Take care.

	P.S. Ask that angel to back up HIS/HER data before letting you
	do brain surgery on their drive :-)
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From: hdoshi@picasso.ocis.temple.edu (Hiren Doshi)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Problems getting X running
Date: 11 Jan 93 02:08:58 GMT
Organization: Temple University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

Hi everybody! I am a satisfied Linux user. I just installed SLS X
series to get X running on my PC. I spent all night to get X up and
running without any success. As mentioned in the SLS.FAQ at tsx-11,
I tried to bring X in mono mode up but I was not able to bring X up.
It gave me a error message saying that there is not enough memory
I do have 8 megs memory. I tired all the different settings but it 
always gave me the same result. If anybody has been able to bring X 
up, either in mono or color mode on the following configuration, 
I would really appreciate if you can mail me the entries in Xconfig
or any other changes that I am supposed to make. I am using the SLS 
distribution. My configuration is:

Dell 486P/50 PC
Dell UltraScan 14C monitor
WD90C30-31 video card

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.


Hiren Doshi
hdoshi@129.32.1.21 (picasso.oics.temple.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
Subject: Re: Kernel FP Math bug?
Organization: University of Helsinki
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 23:47:32 GMT

jliddle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Jean Liddle) writes:
>Also, my kernel is compiled without math emulation, if that helps in
>narrowing down the possibilities ...

Gee, and I get core dumps with the same code on a Sun.  Perhaps it is
a very serious, very far spread problem with gcc?

No, I don't think so either.  The program that is supposed to exhibit
the problem has two severe problems, and a couple of less severe
problems.  Here is the original program again:

	main(int argc, char *argv)
	{
	  double f;

	  f = atof(argv[1]);
	  printf("The answere is %f\n", f);
	}

The severe problems are that argv has the wrong type and that atof is
not declared anywhere.  Since argv has the wrong type (pointer to
char, instead of pointer to pointer to char), it behaves badly as a
result.  This results in the core dump.

Since the function atof is not declared anywhere, it is assume to have
the default type int.  The correct type is double, so it has to be
declared.  The corrected program looks like this:

	double atof();
	main(int argc, char **argv)
	{
	  double f;

	  f = atof(argv[1]);
	  printf("The answere is %f\n", f);
	}

and this does, indeed, run without problems.

The less severe problems are that there is no prototype for printf in
scope (include <stdio.h> for this), and the program does not return a
value to the operating system (put a return or an exit to the end of
main to fix this).

I just love people who scream "compiler bug" or "operating system bug"
when they can't see what's wrong with their own code.  Both compilers
and OS's have bugs (I know they do, I've found a number myself), but
the probability of finding one is fairly small.

--
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While you teach one ignorant fool Usenet netiquette, two more join the net.
From: rapatel@theophilus.rutgers.edu ( Rakesh Patel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Wanted: tcsh-6.03 for Linux .98p5
Keywords: tcsh,linux
Date: 11 Jan 93 07:22:44 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

jsaker@cwis.unomaha.edu (James R. Saker Jr.) writes:

>I've dug around thru tsx-11 and sunsite but haven't located the 6.03
>version of tcsh. Is anyone aware of a compiled set of binaries and/or
>the source modified for Linux? Thanks!

The tcsh 6.02 patches for Linux were merged into the official 6.03 release.
I just used archie to find it.  The Linux config file is included. The source
I fetched was from ftp.uu.net.

Rakesh Patel.
-- 
Rakesh Patel (rapatel@rutgers.edu), Systems Programmer,
Network Services/NJIN Project, Telecommunications Division,
Rutgers University Computing Services (RUCS), Rutgers University
From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Where can I find full list of Xconfig options?
Date: 7 Jan 1993 09:23:30 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

lana@news.mit.edu (Svetlana Panasyuk) writes:

>Especially concerning mouse. I have Logitech mouse in PS/2 port and
>running Xfree86-1.1. with kernel Linux 098p5 from SLS 0.99 .Line
>Logitech "/dev/bmouseps2" doesn't help. Line 
>Microsoft "/dev/bmouseps2" does better, but mouse motion is restricted
>by Y == 0. I can use mconv (ps2mouse) and it works but I think that it should
>be possible without it. I can not find full list of Xconfig options in any of 
>documents distributed along with X.

>Thanx in advance.



Try man X386. Those man pages are there for a reason you know.

:-)

James
From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Kernel FP Math bug?
Date: 9 Jan 1993 20:50:19 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

rsocia@alberti.cray.com (Rick Socia) writes:

>I compiled the following program:

>main(int argc, char *argv)
>{
>  double f;

>  f = atof(argv[1]);
>  printf("The answere is %f\n", f);
>}

>The core dumps.  (passing an argument of "0.50").

>Any ideas?
>-- 
>Rick Socia

One problem with that code, if thats the EXACT code you compiled, is that
argv is defined wrong. I compiled it with argv defined as char *argv[], and
it works fine. Floating point works just fine as far as I have ever seen.

James
From: cpd1450@sjfc.UUCP (Craig Dufresne)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Help with Xconfig for Packard Bell Legend 650 w/ 14" Monitor
Keywords: Packard Bell Xconfig Mouse Color Xserver
Date: 5 Jan 93 21:14:13 GMT
Organization: St. John Fisher College, Rochester, NY


	Has anyone got a Color Xserver running on the Packard
Bell Legend 650 ('386sx) ??? I have:

SLS .98 pl 15
8 megs RAM
14" Packard Bell Color SVGA Monitor
Packard Bell PS/2 Style Mouse

Could you please email a Xconfig for either the Color or Monochrome
Xserver, that works with the mouse, or at least what lines are
needed to control the mouse and possibly the timings if the "800x600"
mode is available in Color.

Craig Dufresne

Email Response to:

cpd1450@sjfc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: brad@bradley.bradley.edu (Bradley E. Smith)
Subject: SUIT (ftpable)
Summary: I will put it up for ftp here in a few days.
Organization: Bradley University
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 14:36:17 GMT

I plan to put up (and ship to sites) the SUIT stuff here in a few
days (I want to try to get shared libraries).  At worst it will
be without shared libraries.....watch for more info.
-- 
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Network & Technical Services @ Bradley University, Peoria, IL

"It's amazing how much scrap metal you get from 4 cans of beer"
From: lmfken@lmf.ericsson.se (Kenneth Osterberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: What causes these Zombie processes?
Date: 7 Jan 93 07:12:19 GMT
Organization: Oy LM Ericsson Ab, Jorvas, Finland

tjrc1@cus.cam.ac.uk (T.J.R. Cutts) writes:
>Are you using olwm? I've only ever seen these zombies when running olwm,
>and they all disappear when I leave X.  How are you exiting X?
>Selecting Exit... from the default menu under olwm cleans up all the
>zombies for me.

Yes, it's a known bug with the olwm from xview3L2, it doesn't wait
properly for children it spawns from the root menu. I have a fix, but
I'd suggest you wait for the next xview release as the problem isn't
very serious.

--
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Organization: Ryerson Polytechnical Institute
Distribution: na
Date: Thursday, 7 Jan 1993 12:12:51 EST
From: <ACPS7221@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: It's installed, now what? (was Re: A flight of marketing fancy)
 <1993Jan6.232531.18206@sol.UVic.CA> <10926@vtserf.cc.vt.edu>

   I have posted to this group several times already.  There is a word
processor called "doc" that works very nicely under Linux (as does the whole
InterViews package).  When Linux 1.0 is out I will upload a new set of binaries
with a few bug fixes.  For now there is a working binary package for doc on
sunsite in /pub/Linux/Incoming as IVdoc.3.1.tar.Z.
   "doc" is a WYSIWYG document preparation system, that uses TeX algorithms,
saves data in a LaTeX format, is able to import postscript graphics, and
outputs in postscript format which you can send directly to your postscript
printer or use ghostscript ( I use ghostscript ).
    Also, for a spreadsheet, use xspread.  It's not as fancy as excel, but its
a decent spreadsheet for windows, most people would be satisfied with.

   "doc" works best with a math chip and the extfs, with the extfs being
required primarily because of postscript font names, and of course X.

                    Happy Linuxing!!!       Michael Caro.

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: fcrews@ford.wes.army.mil (Ford Crews)
Subject: Xconfig/tseng4000/SyncMaster 4
Reply-To: fcrews@ford.wes.army.mil (Ford Crews)
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:21:20 GMT

Has anybody out there had got an Xconfig file for a Samsung Sync Master 4 
Monitor with a Tseng 4000 video card.  I've had no luck getting either 
800x600 or higher to work with out terrible flickering.  The windows driver 
in 800x600 are very stable and the 1024x768 aren't that bad, but under X 
it's very bad.  
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: michaelw@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Michael Will)
Subject: Re: 3Com 3c503 support for linux?
Organization: Point of Presence & MCS Hamburg
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 20:32:13 GMT
Keywords: 3Com 3c503 linux support

This was the driver we used at the latest ChaosCommunicationCongress and it
worked wonderful for my ne2000-ethernetcard which was configured for use
in out local novell-lan.

I just had to follow the instructions and went on internet for 2 days ;-)
In fact a nice person from Rostock (greetings to you, dirk!) installed
the thing for me...

The only problem I remember was on the last day, when many people took
their machine from the net, and I soaked megabytes of linux-soft to
my machine, the debug-messages about net-problems flooded my screen...

But I was very happy with the driver, thank you very much ;-)

Michael Will from HH 92
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: kosina@techbook.com (Martin Kosina)
Subject: Seyon 1.6 won't hang up
Organization: TECHbooks --- Public Access UNIX --- (503) 220-0636
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 20:10:53 GMT

    Thanks to everyone who responded to my first question on Seyon,
it now comes up correctly with all those nice colorful windows.
Everything works fine (dialing, autodownload, etc.) except for one
last thing - the Hangup command doesn't actually disconnect the line.
I have an external modem and the lights don't even flash when it is
supposedly done. Is this one of those settings you need to put
explicitly in Xresources, something like '+++ATH' ? I went through the
help file and README but it only mentioned the dialing prefix and other
settings but none for hanging up. If you got this to work could you let
me know how ? I would appreciate it !

                             Thanks,

                                       Martin
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
Subject: Re: Compiling 'shadow'
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 00:26:16 GMT

Richard Braun (richb@jti.com) wrote:

: Over the weekend I looked at this more closely.  The problem is that
: ulimit() is obsolete with Gnu lib 4.2, and the Linux release of shadow
: doesn't reflect that.
: 
: In config.h, change:
: 
: 	#define HAVE_ULIMIT
: 	#undef  HAVE_RLIMIT
: to
: 	#undef	HAVE_ULIMIT
: 	#define	HAVE_RLIMIT

I've made this change to my master copy of 3.2.2 - but I couldn't get it to
compile until I changed line 72 in passwd.c to read:

struct rlimit rlimit_fsize = { RLIM_INFINITY, RLIM_INFINITY };

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and the world will follow our lead into the future.  --Adolf Hitler
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: rafetmad@cheshire.oxy.edu (David Giller)
Subject: Re: Ctl-Atl-Del and Linux 0.99 patchlevel 2.
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 21:08:18 GMT

nnhut@bnr.ca (Nhut Nguyen) wrote:
>pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) writes:
>
>>Uh, Oh.  This just twigged a memory.  Wasn't there a reported incompatibility
>>between the OPTi chipset and some SCSI ctls (AH 1542B??)?
>
>I have heard about some incompatibility problems with OPTi chipsets. However,
>in this case I have excluded SCSI support. Furthermore, I have had no problem
>until 0.99pl1. Strange.

Stranger still.  I beleive I have an OPTi chipset.  Funny thing is,
C-A-D used to work intermittently, and as of 0.99.2, it works
consistently.  What's more, I'm using SCSI (aha1740).

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: leonp@cs.kun.nl (Leon Pillich)
Subject: Oak 077 Video card with Linux?
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 09:27:09 GMT

Hello verybody,
I'm quite new to the linux world, sine I only bought my
486DX33 yesterday.
One of the reasons I bought it was to run Linux.
The system was supposes to come equipped with a Trident 8900C
video card, and I read that I could use that Trident card for
Linunx with X.
But instead it was equipped with an Oak 077 SVGA (1 MB) card.
My questions are these:
- Can I run Linux/X with this card and how?
  What XConfig to use etc.?
- If not, why not?

I would greatly appreciate any answers to the questions.
I don't have much time though to look into this, because if it doesn't
work I may be able to persuade the shop who sold me the system to trade
the card for a Trident 8900C card.
(And in the end I plan to buy myself a Tsenglabs or other
 card, but that is a plan for the future and I don't know when
 that will happen.)

Thnx for any help,


Leon Pillich
University of Nijmegen, Holland
email: leonp@cs.kun.nl
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From: iarit@slate.mines.colorado.edu (ARIT ISMAIL)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux Screen Capture
Date: 7 Jan 93 16:24:51 GMT
Organization: Colorado School of Mines


Are you talking about X-window screen?, if you are, you can use 'xgrabscr'.
It works just fine with my setup(SLS .98p5 X386 1024x768x256).

ismail
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: a080700@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk (Stephen Wong S M)
Subject: Re: Performance Enhanced or Worsened by Cache Addition? On Zeos 486DX2-66 system?
Organization: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 11:30:57 GMT

In article <FRIEDMAN.93Jan7000112@khan.trincoll.edu> mark.friedman@mail.trincoll.edu writes:
>On some PC-Clone systems, when running some versions of Unix, users
>have found that performance actually increases after disabling the
>hardware cache perhaps because the cacheing algorithm in the kernel
>was better tuned to Unix access than the hardware cacheing algorithms.
>
>Can anyone argue through an understanding of Linux's kernel and
>hardware cacheing, or through experience, or best yet actual
>measurements whether the performance of Linux with X, and say GNU
>programs such as emacs and gcc increases or decreases with the
>addition of a hardware cache?
>
>In particular, I'd be interested in knowing if any Zeos 486DX2-66
>system users have measured/experienced their systems running Linux
>with and without the 128K and 256K hardware caches and experie nced a
>significant difference in performance in either direction.
>
>I am trying to decide whether to purchase a 128K cache upgrade to go
>with a system with 16M RAM.
>
>Thanks,
>
>-- Mark
>--
>
>
>Mark A. Friedman		 	     mark.friedman@mail.trincoll.edu
>Engineering and Computer Science	   or friedman@starbase.trincoll.edu
>Trinity College				               Phone: (203) 297-2519
>Hartford, Connecticut   06106		                 Fax: (203) 297-2569

You must be mixed up disk cache with CPU cache.  In general, no flame, no
flame please, disk cache can be implemented quite good by kernel code, as
in linux, and therefore, you may be better to use software disk cache,
rather than cached harddisk controller.  However, CPU cache is totally
different story.  The kernel cannot speed up main memory (RAM) access by
software method!  Unless the CPU cache design is really bad.  

You will be quite sure to gain some speed in increasing CPU cache size.  
However, there is deminishing return in adding CPU cache.  Let say, if 
you add extra 32kB secondary cache on top of the 8kB internal cache in 
486DX, you will really feel the difference in speed.  On the other hand, 
if you add extra 256kB CPU cache on top of a system which already has 
256kB, you may not tell the difference!

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From: wonge@fraser.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong)
Subject: any other compilers?
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 16:23:22 GMT


  Surely, this can't be in the FAQ.  So is there a MODULA-2 compiler
for Linux?   Man.. this CAN'T be a FAQ!    It's not like everyone  
programs in M-2!!!

  Thanks..  

  

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From: anto@dutetvc.tudelft.nl (Anto Daryanto)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: [Q's] After SLS installation...
Date: 6 Jan 93 09:43:05 GMT
Organization: Delft University of Technology

Hi Linuxer's, as followup of my mail (SLS 0.98pl5):

> 
>[Q1] when I as user send a mail to other user I always get error message:
>     "/usr/spool/mail/user.lock not creatable after 10 tries" and no
>     mail sent.

[SOLVED] I did chown user /home/user /usr/spool/mail/user

>[Q2] After doing HALT appears on the screen:
>     "cannot exec /etc/umount, trying umount"  but you can shutdown
>     normally. 

[NOT YET]

>[Q3] Can anybody tell me line-by-line how to install LILO with OS/2
>     boot manager? I've compiled LILO 0.7 but don't know how to
>     install it.

Well, I did read LILO Quick Start. It is installed in my /dev/hda2, and
it boots. But then I got "panic: cannot mount root". Any idea?

Another [Q's]

[Q4] Trying to compile kernel got problem with CDROM (inode.c, I have
     not CDROM), even when I told "make config" w/o CDROM. I deleted
     lines about CDROM in inode.c, it compiles until finds error in
     tcpip.c. Any suggestions?

[Q5] ELM 2.3: 
     -Got error "can't open folder in /usr/spool/mail/user"
      if I login as user and started ELM. Why?
     -How can you use emacs-15.39 as your ELM editor? I dont like VI.

[Q6] UUCP: Anybody got UUCP working? Mine's gave segmentation fault.
     And how do you have to configure Dialers? I was using UUCP for
     OS/2, it's different...

Any help would be appreciated,
Anto Daryanto
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