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From: ktaskine@finsun.csc.fi (Kimmo Taskinen)
Subject: Re: new error with compiling 0.99p1 : )
Organization: Electron Physics Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 06:12:36 GMT

In article <marcf.725763666@yorku.ca> marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier) writes:

>Hi...

>       God, ppl are going to start getting annoyed with the
>errors I seem to find, but hey...sorry :)

>       make config works
>       make dep works
>       make clean works
>       make all doesn't...

>       I get as far as compiling init/main.c, and it stops with:

>In function `start_kernel':
>241: too many arguments to function `inode_init'
>241: void value not ignored as it ought to be.

I had same problem, because I had not link from /usr/include/linux
to /usr/src/linux/include/linux but there was a directory /usr/include/linux
containing old sources (fs.h).

>       That was from patching 0.99p0 to 0.99p1.  I'm downloading
>the complete source for 0.99p1 right now and will see what happens
>with that...but...

This won't help if you don't remove /usr/include/linux-directory.

>Thanks...

>Marc
> 
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tonyb@acec.uucp (Tony Bringardner)
Subject: Help
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:02:13 GMT
Organization: Access Energy


I'm looking for some help getting some linux applications up
and running.  Since there does not seem to be a comp.os.linux.[help,bug]
newsgroup I'll post here.

I've recently installed linux 0.98 ! The installation was very smooth 
and I was impressed. Next I tried to install uucp and XFree86 without
much luck.

UUCP:
 	uucp commands run with no error messages but with no results. 
    there are no created in any of the uucp directories. It seems
    as if no command was executed.

XFree86:
	After what seems like a good installation when I execute startx
    I get the following.

____________________________________________________________________________

Creating TCP socket: Invalid argument
XFree86 Version 1.1 / X Windows System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 5000 )
Configured drivers:
  VGA256 (256 colour SVGA):
      et4000, et3000, pvga1, gvga, ati, tvga8900

         *** None of the configured devices was detected.***


Fatal server error:
no screens found
giving up.
xinit:  Interrupted system call (errno 4):  unable to connect to X server
xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.



____________________________________________________________________________
    

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

TonyB

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: sno@ais.org (Stephen Opal)
Subject: More SCSI mounting help needed.
Organization: UMCC
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 01:48:51 GMT

I wish to thank the linux community for the assistance offered!  I have
discovered my problem, and it has to do with the a1 boot disk in the
SLS distribution.  For some reason, that particular kernal construction
is having difficulty noticing my SCSI device.

I was fortunate to have another linux user (plph@engin.umich.edu) local to 
me to offer me an alternative kernal to experiment with.  This kernal has 
acknowledged my SCSI device with no difficulty except that he has a bug in 
his finish for installing the rootdisk.  However, the kernal configuration 
he uses is with Enabled SCSI support for both 1540 and 1740 Adaptechs, 
and turned off tape and cd support.

Therefor, it appears that I either need a new SLS a1 disk available to me
or I completely new strategy.  Since SLS a1 builds a root in ram and
then links /user into that, I'm not sure how I can build a new a1 disk
myself.  I have yet to have any success actually reading a disk from the
a: drive when I remove that a1 disk from it.  It won't mount because linux
thinks it is already mounted, however, there is no directory linked to
the device, and no entry in df or /etc/mtab for /dev/df0.....

I am willing to do just about anything to get past this SCSI acknowledgement
problem, including rebuilding from a raw kernel (if I can get away with it).

-- 
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From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier)
Subject: uucico ... Segmentation Fault??
Organization: York University
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 06:34:07 GMT

Hi...

	I've started playing with uucico in the 0.99 version of
the SLS distribution...except there is a slight problem...I get
segmentation violations :(  If I just type uucico alone, I get
one.

	I've downloaded the source and will recompile it tonight...
but I'm kinda curious as to why the binaries don't work

thanks..

Marc
From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: IMPORTANT [BUG in 0.99] Re: [ANNOUNCE]: linux version 0.99
Date: 29 Dec 92 20:14:49 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

sdw@meaddata.com (Stephen Williams) writes:
>Statics are either explicitly initialized or they are not.
>If they are not, their contents are UNDEFINED until set.
>This is per ANSI C.
>
>There is NO requirement of the compiler or system to zero
>un-initialized statics (or auto's).

Chapter and verse, friend, chapter and verse.  I want you to give the
chapter and verse in the ANSI or the ISO C standard (they are the
same, except that their chapters and verses are numbered differently)
that says that statics are not initialized to zero unless explicitly
initialized to something else.  (I agree about the part about auto's,
though.)

I don't have the standard (I'm way too poor to afford it), but K&R 1
says, on page 199, in A8.6, Initialization,

	Static and external variables which are not initilized are
	guaranteed to start off as 0; automatic and register variables
	which are not initialized are guranteed to start off as
	garbage.

K&R 2 says, on page 219, A8.7, Initialization,

	A static object not explicitly initialized is initialized as
	if it (or its members) were assigned the constant 0.  The
	initial value of an automatic object not explicitly
	initialized is undefined.

I need more convincing than your word.  Chapter and verse (plus
quotations as suitable) is enough.

>The fact that some systems waste time doing so is no reason rely on it
>as a feature.  This was already debated and tossed out as something to
>rely on.

It has been a feature of C since the early 1970's (according to my
knowledge it was there way before K&R 1 was published in 1978).  

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From: newmont@netcom.com (Michael Skerl)
Subject: Linux SLS questions
Keywords: linux SLS
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 06:16:24 GMT

I have just finished downloading the version of SLS that resides on tsx-11.mit.
edu and have installed it on my pc. Now comes some questions!

First, after installing and using mkfs on my linux partition, linux sometimes
comes up with an "Unexpected HD Interrupt" on the screen between prompts. It
can be (but is not always related to) actions that I have taken on the disk.
When I mount my MS-DOS filesystem, I get a slew of errors and then the thing
works great?!?! Do I have to recompile the kernal to rid myself of this 
problem? The linux version is 0.98p5 and I am running it on a 386sx-25 with
4MB of RAM and a 105MB IDE hard drive with a Boca AT-IDE+ hard drive controller.
I have never experienced any incompatibilities with the drive or controller
under MS-DOS...have I bumped into something with linux?

Second, what is the latest version of Xfree86? The one I dl'd with SLS does
not support my SVGA card (TVGA8900D) and I don't have a copy of the mono
Xconfig that will work. Any suggestions?!

Thanks in advance for all the help. I would ask that any suggestions pls be
emailed to me as well as posted on the newsgroup...I don't get onto the net
very often and probably won't find the answer in the group!

Thanks in advance for all the help!

Bill Phillips
Computer Operator
Newmont Gold Company
Internet: newmont@netcom.com
From: Greg.Naber@f34.n343.z1.fidonet.org (Greg Naber)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: [Q] How to change text video mode in SLS startup
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 11:37:38 -0800

Hello there James!

In a Ditty of <Thursday December 24 1992>, James P. K. Gilb says to
All:

This ought to be a FAQ if it isn't already;)

 JPKG>   I installed SLS as per instructions, made boot disk, and
rebooted my
 JPKG> computer.  After the Loading ..... line, the video mode is
changed to
 JPKG> what I believe is 80x50, which my brain damaged Diamond
Speedstar+
 JPKG> does not seem to understand.  With the SLS disks a1 and a2, you
are
 JPKG> given the option of picking a video mode, such as 80x25 or 80x60,
all
 JPKG> of which work fine.

Bootable floppy 'fix':

with the boot disk in fd0 and a formatted flop handy do:

dd if=/dev/fd0 of=image.temp
cd /usr/src
cc rdev.c -o rdev
./rdev -?
./rdev -v /image.temp
./rdev -v /image.temp -1
./rdev -v /image.temp
Insert blank flop in fd0
dd if=image.temp of=/dev/fd0

reboot

Catch Ya Later!

Greg

... Every solution breeds new problems.

 * Origin: Linux Net Hdqtrs - Internet: squally.halcyon.com  (1:343/34)
From: ccasted@prism.gatech.EDU (Edward Deering Boykin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: How do I update to Xfree86 1.1?
Date: 25 Dec 92 00:12:53 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

Well, How?

I currently am running Linux .99 patch 1 with XFree86 1.0. I got this running
from the SLS package at Sunsite. What I want to know is how to update the
Xfree86 to 1.1. Many of the binaries available (Xconquer, XLoad etc)
will not run on 1.0. How to do it is what I need?


Ed Boykin
ccasted@prism.gatech.edu


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From: a1001032@cdf.toronto.edu (Fiona Wong)
Subject: setup for linux
Originator: a1001032@eddie.cdf.toronto.edu
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Disciplines Facility
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 19:38:40 GMT

Hi,folks:

I'm going to buy a setup like this:

486DX-50 ISA board
8Mb RAM
ATI WONDER XL24 1Mb w/o mouse
ADI 3e n.i. monitor
Quantum 240Mb IDE H.D. and Floppies.

Any problems with the above setup for linux?? :-)

Merry Christmas and Happy New year..

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: bwherry@nyx.cs.du.edu (Colorado Cyberpunk)
Subject: Re: Help needed to setup KERMIT on SLS for a hayes compat modem
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 93 19:36:12 GMT

kermit -l /dev/ttys0 for com1
kermit -l /dev/ttys1 for com2
kermit -l /dev/ttys2 for com3
kermit -l /dev/ttys3 for com4  

(notice a pattern here?)

brad

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: cp79111@csie.nctu.edu.tw (Kuo-Ping Hsu)
Subject: Defragment on Linux extfs
Organization: Computer Science & Information Engin., Chiao-Tung U, Taiwan, ROC
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 08:57:16 GMT


I got a defragement program at tsx-11.mit.edu (linux/ALPHA/defrag-0.2.tar.Z).
When I install and use it, my file system crashed. Have anyone can tell me
why. My Linux extended file system is ALPHA 11.

------
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K.P. Hsu
From: jimc@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (James Carpenter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: More than 2 serial devices at a time
Date: 26 Dec 1992 19:04:01 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu
Keywords: Serial 2 Devices

In article <cjx231b@rpi.edu> palmj@marcus.its.rpi.edu (Jyri L. Palm) writes:
>- Using jumpers on the serial card, make com2 use interrupt 5 (default is 3)

You're doing the same thing as I wanted to do (except I have a VT220).
Changing the interrupts is always a possibility except for the unfortunate
ones, such as myself, whos serial card only allows IRQ 3 or 4 :-( 

>Anyway, I have no idea how this would affect DOS programs (assuming you also
>use your system for DOS). Also, I have no idea how this may affect other
>linux operations (I don't know C, neither am I a unix guru). I'd really
>appreciate any comments or suggestions ... send to palmj@rpi.edu thanks.

You could always use a fossil driver under DOS. It'll allow you to specify
what base address and what IRQ your com ports are at.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: marc@r-node.gts.org (Marc Fournier - Admin)
Subject: Re: talk still not working; is tcp/ip installed ok?
Organization: R-node Public Access UNIX Information System (416-249-5366)
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 03:53:08 GMT

In article <1992Dec29.211543.12652@cs.tu-berlin.de> benoit@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Eric Heymann) writes:
> 
>Welcome To Linux System V0.98p5
> 
>Hostname is Patou.
> 
>login: root
>No mail.
>
	No passwd on root? Hmmmm...

Marc
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From: gino@paola.dei.unipd.it (Gino Corradin)
Subject: Diskless PC & WD8013
Organization: Universita' di Padova, Italia
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 21:48:30 GMT

Hi, I'm gino.
I have 2 WD8013, and I have attached a 386 to a 486. The first PC doesn't
have the HD, but for me is possible to realize a diskless linux box.
I think this because if is possible to boot up from disk, must possible
to create a copy of kernel that uses the ethernet board. 
My problem is that I don't know like create a boot disk with a complete
copy of kernel. I'd want a boot & root disk that support the ethernet
board ! Please, enligth-me.
				thanks in advanced, gino
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Subject: Re: Appendum to problems with AST board
Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Organization: The Internet
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 07:57:22 GMT

   From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier)
   Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 03:50:08 GMT

	   When I boot up the system, the kernel properly finds the
   AST board, except it 'recognizes' them as ttys[8-11], which
   do not exist.  I figured that I had to mknod them, so I tried it
   out, but it didn't seem to work.  After thinking about it, over
   dinner, it struck me like lightening...it is 'half' working...I'm
   getting communications in one direction, but not the other.  Is
   that possible?  It is sending out /etc/issue and login prompts,
   but isn't allowing the other end to enter anything.  


Sounds like interrupts to the FourPort board aren't working right.  If
you don't have AUTO_IRQ (the automatic IRQ detection code) enabled, then
you either need to jumper your FourPort card for IRQ 5, or you need to
modify serial.c to use the proper IRQ for your card, or you need to use
the setserial program to let the kernel know what IRQ the card is using.

						- Ted
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: adelt@imada.ou.dk (Adel Shavandi)
Subject: Problem running Xview applications !
Summary: Problem running XView applications!
Keywords: Problems running Xview applications!
Organization: Dept. of Math. & Computer Science, Odense University, Denmark
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 14:02:39 GMT



I am a linux user with XFree86 version 1.1 and XView version 3.0L2. I have 
written a very simple XView application which runs with no problems under
SUN-OS4 with XView3.0 and now I would like to port it to linux.  
 
After having done all work required for compiling and linking a Xview 
application, when I tried to start it from my xterm window, the program 
did nothing! Then I tried to run it from xxgdb version 4.6 and the program 
runs without no problems, but after the following message appears in the
window of xxgdb: 
 
        [ioctl TIOCSPGRP failed in terminal-inferior: Not a typewriter] 
 
What is this message supposed to mean, and how can I correct this problem? 
I guess this is why I can't run my application without xxgdb. Is it true? 
 
 
I will really appraciate any kind of hints/help. 
 
 
 
 
                        Thanks in advance and 
                                happy new year, 
 
                                        Ade'l
From: tfoley@camaro.uucp (Tim Foley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Talk not working
Date: 27 Dec 92 00:22:51 GMT
Organization: camaro


I added my name to the named.local file and it seems to be ok now, why 
didn't install.net do this?
 
Not talk comes back with TARGET MACHINE DID NOT RECOGNIZE US.
 
  Any ideas?

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From: padaria@brushfire.rutgers.edu (Arif Padaria)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Need Help with Xconfig:Paradise Card
Keywords: linux, paradise, x, xconfig,video, setup, board
Date: 29 Dec 92 23:37:04 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


Hi,
   I am running a Gateway 2000 386SX 20, with a Paradise/Western
Digital Video Card/Chipset with 512K. I have setup my Xconfig with a
640X480 display and have tested with the standard 25 and 28 clock
timings. These don't seem to work and i need help. Would anyone having
the same video card please send me a copy of their Xconfig ? 
The monitor is a  Crystal Scan 1024. Thanks for your help in advance.
Please send mail to my email address directly and i will post details
if required by others.

Thanks,

Arif Padaria
padaria@paul.rutgers.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: wonge@fraser.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong)
Subject: TRULY A non-FAQ!! Hd controller error?
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 05:35:03 GMT

 Hi all.  After that fiasco I had installing the TeX package, well
here's the results of me 'fsck'ing the fs.

<this was previously sent to Jim Nance..just thought I'd show everyone
the result of not checking my partition before installing...>

>   Sorry to send you mail again, but on second thoughts, after doing the
> fsck /dev/hda2 command, the following errors appeared(same errors that
> happened..):-
> 
>   HD: read_intr: status = 0x51
>   HD: read_intr: error = 0x10
>   HD-controller reset
>          .
>          .
>    <repeated 3 times>
>   harddisk I/O error
>   dev 0302, sector 103348
>    <then it repeats from HD: read_intr: status = 0x51>
>        .
>        .
>    <this whole loop repeats at most 20 times then it throws me
> back to the prompt>
> 
Does this mean I REALLY screwed up my HD??? 


  Just for the records, I'm gonna haveta RE-INSTALL the WHOLE
Linux package again! <ugh...>

  At least I'll get a new fresh start.....

  Any help would be appreciated...

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: dws@cseg03.uark.edu (David W. Summers)
Subject: File locking with SMAIL
Summary: Does anybody have file locking working with SMAIL?
Keywords: File Locking SMAIL 3.1.28 SMAIL 3.1.25
Organization: University of Arkansas
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 06:04:55 GMT

Does anyone have file locking with SMAIL working?  The last version I used
(SMAIL 3.1.25) was before Linux had file locking.  Now it has 'fcntl' 
file locking (I think).

If you have it working, could I get your conf/os/linux configuration?

You might also consider posting it and putting it up for FTP as (so far)
the only one I've found is the above mentioned one for SMAIL 3.1.25 without
file locking.

Any help or pointers would be appreciated.


    Thanks!
    - David Summers
    (dws@engr.uark.edu)

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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
From: levin@cosmic.physics.utah.edu (Chris Levin)
Subject: Assorted new user help
Keywords: SCSI X CD_ROM CDROM LILO
Organization: Cosmic Ray Physics Group, University of Utah
Distribution: comp.os.linux
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 22:31:40 GMT


Hello,
 
I have just installed LINUX version 0.98.Pl5-41 using the SLS package.
 
I have to say that this is an excellent product.  I plan on using it at home
for school projects, programming etc.
 
I am running Linux on the following hardware:
 
        486DX-33 with AMI bios
 
        8 Megs of RAM
 
        A Maxtor IDE harddrive (124meg) with 3 Linux partitons and a swap
                partition (about 10 megs).
 
        An Ultrastore 14F SCSI controller card with a Maxtor 340 meg SCSI
        and an NEC CDR-77 CD-Rom drive.
 
        An Orchid Farenheit1280 Video card.
 
Overall the system is working VERY well (Coherent is now gathering dust!)
but I am having a few problems that I hope someone here can help with.
 
One:
How can I access the SCSI drive?  When Linux boots it sees the drive but
there seems to be no entry in the /dev directory to mount it to.
 
Two:
I want to use LILO so that I can boot without a floppy but the instructions 
refer to a kernal image.  What is this?  There is a file in / called Image and
when I use this, the system starts to boot and then locks.  Help!
 
Three:
I can not get X working.  I have tried the VGA mono settings but every time X
starts it says that VGAcolor stuff can't be found.  However, if I just type 
X386 I get a graphics screen and a working mouse cursor (but no shell of any
sort). This seems to be a problem with a config file but I can't find it.
Any ideas?
 
Four:
I have man and man2 but there seem to be man pages missing.  Are there more
man files available?
 
Five:
I have gotten my HPlaserjet series II working by sending a control string to
it.  However I want to use LPR but I dont know how to make a printcap file.
The directions I have are not readable so can someone explain the settings?
 
Six:
How can I make my own man pages and add them to the system?
 
If anyone can help with these problems I would appreciate it.
 
Also, for anyone interested, I have got the following working (I understand
that some people have problems with the following)
 
1. I have no trouble accessing my SCSI dos partitions under Linux.
 
2. Modem communications using V.32 and minicom work fine (although minicom seems
        to have a minor bug with line feeds.)
 
3. Zmodem is working with #2. ( I am using the zmodem from coherent which compiles
        with warnings but works fine)
 
4. The drive Linux is on has no dos partitons at all and it seems to work fine.
        Initaly, it had one partition and that also worked fine.
 
5. Gcc is working great.
 
Thanks again for any help you can give.  If anyone wants to know how I got the
above working feel free to send me e-mail.
 
Thanks again.
 
Chris Levin
 
Ps. Please reply via email since I loose many messages in this group
before I can read them.  My address is:
 
levin@cosmic.physics.utah.edu
 
 
        
 
 


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