From: rhealey@kas.helios.mn.org (Rob Healey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
Subject: Re: AmigaUnix 2.1 - first impressions, second impressions
Date: 9 Apr 92 10:32:44 GMT
Organization: Rob's home system, Hopkins, MN


	Just got MY copy of 2.1 and installed it. I'll reply to
	what Seebs posted 'cause I didn't see some of the problems
	he did.

In article <1992Apr4.075611.17864@ux.acs.umn.edu> har@ux.acs.umn.edu (--SeebS--) writes:
=Bug reports: (Of course.)
=
=1] Apparently scrmenu is no longer started by default. I found no line in
=inittab or any of the rc scripts for it, so I added it as a line for
=init levels 2 and 3 in inittab.
=
	scrmenu was on by default on my installation. New version of
	scrmenu sucks though, see below.

=4] Also, when xv does work, the HSV code seems buggy - I have a GIF
=generated with ADPro (from an Imagine 'trace). If I view it with the HSV
=display disabled, it looks "right" - a blue and a green crystal floating
=over a black and white plane. In HSV mode, both of the crystals come out
=purple. Testing with the "click on a pixel to see it" reveals that everything
=seems to be getting a hue of 300 - the black and white looks fine, 'cuz it
=has no Saturation, but the crystals both come out purple. The RGB values
=are correct. (i.e., 0 100 0 and the like for green, 0 0 100 and the like
=for blue.)
=(On the up side, xeyes and several of the other programs no longer get
=munged displays.)
=
	Is this the old X11R4 1.x xv? The newer 2.x xv does a much
	nicer job. Fetch it at an internet archive near you.

=5] Xtetris has apparently been removed. I cried when I found this out. :)
=
	Yup, I had to restore it from my backup. Grrrrr.

=Even more GNU stuff! Wow. Also a working perl, which is good, 'cuz the
=installation I did seemed buggy. TeX would have been nice, since I *know*
=my installationg of TeX is buggy, but hey...
=
	TeX slides right in, it's a no brainer right off the Internet. I
	fetched, installed and unsed the UNIX C-TeX in a few hours. 0 problems
	compiling, installing or using it.

=X11R5 - I don't have enough space to actually install this yet. Is this
=what all the patches I've seen are for? I had blithely assumed they were
=for the benefit of people who had bothered to ftp the X11R5 source. Does
=X5 have TIGA support and all that? If so, I may switch to it, 'cuz it
=can't be *more* buggy... *sigh*. X11R4 is just not very friendly.
=
	No. The X11R5 on the tape is the striaght distribution from Keith
	that has different patch levels in the MIT source than my
	postings were for. If you have an A2410 stick with Keith's
	work and fix problems as you find them. If you have stock video
	only then pick up the regular MIT distribution and add the
	stuff I posted a while back. Unfortunately, the two different
	setups couldn't be kept in sync so there are differences.

	Keith's work appears to be based on X11R5 pl 8, the stuff I
	posted was for pl 9. After the initial install of the files
	I posted you could go back, add patch 10, and recompile to
	come up to the current patch level. This is only for monochrome
	stock video. For color, you have to use Keith's TIGA code
	which was not in the files I posted.

=Support for serial logins, etc., seems to be fine. I've been running
=an MS-DOS box and an old greenscreen since about half an hour after
=I got the machine up, and they work fine.
=
	I've been getting a day's backlog of mail and news since I
	brought it up a few hours ago. DAMN I hope I got the C news
	stuff straight. 1/2 B^).
=
=So, like, any questions or commentary?
=
	Your Install tape is bad or your tape heads need cleaning. My
	2.1 tape installed OK and all the packages were readable although
	I didn't install them all. For those who care, do a series of
	cpio's on the no rewind device taking care to use a dd piped
	through zcat for the compress cpio packages.

	My comments:

	I HATE the new scrmenu, it's braindead not to restart the login
	on the same VT when one is logged out. If I WANT the menu I
	will type ALT-ESC, I don't like it pushed on me every time I
	log out; YUCKO! I'm restoring 2.03's scrmenu tomorrow...

	C news takes some getting used to. You also need to set the
	mailname file to have your full domain name in it and the
	whoami file to just have your node name. Both are in /usr/lib/news.

	The local sys file entry name should match what is in whoami too.

	xtetris missing was a pain, but, that's what backups are for I
	guess.

	The patch disk is K00L, you do a sh /dev/dsk/fd0 to install the
	patch. A mini-shell script is on the first track and it dd's
	from the 2'nd track on up for the cpio file. Pretty cute!

	The support for the zorro<->ISA card was a surprise! You can use
	stock peewee 2-8 port dumb cards. Now, if only the address space
	of the ISA bus could be decoded we could be a SMART card on there!
	Eventually I'll see if I can get the Fax board the company I work
	for makes to work, it only needs I/O addresses so it should work
	from what I've seen of the mx driver.

	The TIGA driver for the resolver appears to be on 2.1! The color
	X install script mentions the A2410, Resolver and Ameristar 1600GX
	although it appears the 1600GX software isn't on 2.1.

	mtools, perl, and the source for gcc 2.0 and gdb 4.4 made it on
	to the tape which is now a 6250 in order to hold it all! X11R5
	source is the straight tree from Keith with no setup for monochrome
	or tweeks for patchlevels 9 and 10 of the MIT distribution.

	lharc, zip, unzip, zoo and kermit are on there although the zmodem
	stuff fell through the cracks. You can pick that up at an archive
	site pretty easy though.

	Cnews, nntp 1.5.11, tass and trn are the USENET solutions on 2.1.
	Seems to work well. You can use Cnew's mkhistory util to rebuild
	your history files from /var/spool/news if you bother to save it
	during the upgrade. You probably should save your Bnews active file
	and organization file if you have 'em. Everything else can go.

	Kernel has hooks for panic dumps now although not the actual code
	to do it so things are looking up for us kernel driver nurds.

	Probably lot's more to tell but I'm too tired to remember. More later,

		-Rob