From: Digestifier To: Linux-Activists@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Activists@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Tue, 28 Sep 93 14:13:07 EDT Subject: Linux-Activists Digest #270 Linux-Activists Digest #270, Volume #6 Tue, 28 Sep 93 14:13:07 EDT Contents: mouse trouble (Tony Cifelli) Re: Bootdisk made by SLS install hangs during boot (Laurent Duperval) Ultrastor 24f driver probs (v1.11) (Dawood Alam) Maxima -- help (Herng-Jeng Jou) Re: mouse trouble (Chris Vetter) VLB IDE controller cards? (carsten) Re: term? (Mark A. Horton) Re: SoftLanding Message (Mark A. Horton) MIDI using serial port and Linux (The Cybard) Problem with DIP (Brett Michaels) Re: I think my monitor is exploding..help (Tom Reynolds) Re: SoftLanding Message (Brett Michaels) installing Xfree_mono (Wai Ho) Re: 1024x768 => Cirrus 5422 freaks out (Tom Vijlbrief) Re: WordProcessor (~=TEX) for Linux (snail@lsl.co.uk) Desperately seeking gperf paper ??? (Prabhat Keni) Re: help newbie with setting up "ps" command (Julian Day) Re: WordProcessor (~=TEX) for Linux (Julian Day) Re: 1024x768 => Cirrus 5422 freaks out (bryan k williams) Re: [Q] Comments on my configuration of PC please... (Robert Cooper) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ag794@Freenet.carleton.ca (Tony Cifelli) Subject: mouse trouble Reply-To: ag794@Freenet.carleton.ca (Tony Cifelli) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 13:05:23 GMT The woes continue. Will Tony get X up and running? Tune in next week .... Well thanks to someone who mailed me a re-compiled Xserver my ATI GU+ is now displaying the X environment. It appears that the next hurdle to surpass is getting the mouse to work. Its is stuck in the center of the screen. I am using the mouse that comes with the GU+. It is a busmouse. It is connected to IRQ2. In DOS, the driver it uses is a Microsoft Busmouse. When I re-compile the Linux kernel with this option, set my Xconfig to Microsoft/Busmouse and set the appropriate link for /dev/mouse the X Server fails to startup at all, saying it couldn't initialize the mouse (a core device). When I re-compile the kernel specifying the Logitech busmouse, and do the appropriate things in Xconfig and /dev/mouse, the X environment comes up, but the mouse is not working. BTW, during restart, the kernel detects a Logitech mouse. When I use the Microsoft option in the kernel, the mouse is not detected during restarts. What could be the problem? Are my IRQs ok? Can I tell Linux to use IRQ2 for the mouse explicitly? Why is Linux detecting a Logitech mouse while DOS sees a Microsoft busmouse? I have a Fax/modem on COM1 (using IRQ4). Could this be the complicating factor? How do I tell Linux I have a Fax/modem there? regards, Tony. -- [ Tony Cifelli, B.C.S., M.Math. ag794@freenet.carleton.ca ] [ President Bus: 613-723-7218 ] [ cifelli systems & software inc. Fax: 613-723-7472 ] [ 6 Gurdwara Rd. Suite 200 - Nepean, Ontario - K2E 8A3 - CANADA ] ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.admin From: duperval@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Laurent Duperval) Subject: Re: Bootdisk made by SLS install hangs during boot Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 12:11:22 GMT Wolfgang.Roth@graphics.ap.mchp.sni.de wrote: -> In article cornell@syl.dl.nec.com writes: -> >SLS version: 1.03 -> >Machine1: NEC Powermate 386 -> >Machine2: Amax PC/386 -> > -> >I've installed the SLS v.1.03 release on three machines. The two -> >listed above had the same trouble after installing, making a -> >bootdisk, and trying to boot from that bootdisk. -> I have the same problems on 3 machines (2*486 and 1*386) when I -> tried to boot from the original 3,5" bootdisk in driva A. The -> loading stops after the message "Detecting soundcard: AdLib -> (type 3)". I have no soundcards installed. I had the same problem. I circumvented (sp?) it by booting at low speed. It worked fine then, but I can't explain it. After I installed everything and had my own boot floppy, I was again able to boot at high speed. Go figure. ------------------------------ From: esrac@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Dawood Alam) Subject: Ultrastor 24f driver probs (v1.11) Date: 28 Sep 1993 14:37:50 +0100 Reply-To: esrac@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Dawood Alam) Compiled the latest Ultrastor 24f driver (Version 1.11) with linux pl13. Compiled first time. Appears to be OK however there as still problems when using a SCSI Archive viper 150S tape drive. When writing to the tape drive everything is OK. reading from the tape drive causes the machine to hang after some prolonged (5-10 mins) usage. The problem seems to be very intermittent. The driver does not spew out any error messages like the older versions did. This new driver is supposed to work OK with tape drives but does not appear to be reliable all the time. The same problem seems to exists as with the older drivers. Any suggestions ? Cheers Dawood ------------------------------ From: hjjou@aem.umn.edu (Herng-Jeng Jou) Subject: Maxima -- help Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 13:32:14 GMT Hi, I downloaded clisp.tar.z and maxima.tar.z from sunsite.unc.edu and followed README to install both packages. Compilation of maxima had no error (but some warnings). When I run maxima, it had following error message: *** -EVAL: undefined function SYSTEM::MAKE-WINDOW and I got following message no matter what I entered: *** -symbol *WINDOW* has no value I have no idea of what's going on, can somebody help? Thanks. Herng-Jeng Jou hjjou@zephyr.aem.umn.edu ------------------------------ From: cbvetter@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Chris Vetter) Subject: Re: mouse trouble Date: 28 Sep 1993 14:09:40 GMT Tony Cifelli wrote: > The woes continue. Will Tony get X up and running? Tune > in next week .... We will see :) > Well thanks to someone who mailed me a re-compiled Xserver > my ATI GU+ is now displaying the X environment. It appears > that the next hurdle to surpass is getting the mouse to > work. Its is stuck in the center of the screen. Had that one too ... Seems to be using a wrong /device ... > I am using the mouse that comes with the GU+. It is a busmouse. > It is connected to IRQ2. In DOS, the driver it uses is a > Microsoft Busmouse. When I re-compile the Linux kernel with Ah-ha, Busmouse, should remind that ! > this option, set my Xconfig to Microsoft/Busmouse and set You DON'T *NEED* to, I didn't configure LinuX kernel with any mouse support, and everything worls VERY fine :) > the appropriate link for /dev/mouse the X Server fails to Here it is ... wrong device ... use /dev/ttyS0 and everything should be right. > startup at all, saying it couldn't initialize the mouse > (a core device). When I re-compile the kernel specifying > the Logitech busmouse, and do the appropriate things > in Xconfig and /dev/mouse, the X environment comes up, > but the mouse is not working. BTW, during restart, the > kernel detects a Logitech mouse. When I use the Microsoft > option in the kernel, the mouse is not detected during > restarts. > > What could be the problem? See above. > Are my IRQs ok? Yep :) > Can I tell Linux to use IRQ2 for the mouse explicitly? Don't need to, see above. > Why is Linux detecting a Logitech mouse while DOS sees a Microsoft > busmouse? Because Logitech (Pilot) IS busmouse ... > I have a Fax/modem on COM1 (using IRQ4). Could > this be the complicating factor? Nope, this is LinuX, not MS-DOG ;) > How do I tell Linux I have a Fax/modem there? Dunno, thou ... > regards, > Tony. -- Chris Don't you know, that, if you start Linux on DOS (ROTFL), it deletes all files with the string 'Microsoft' in it? - Fritz Ganter - ------------------------------ From: bcrwhims@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (carsten) Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.setup Subject: VLB IDE controller cards? Date: 28 Sep 93 14:24:38 GMT Hi all, My Boca IDE Plus controller card has just failed under warranty :) and I would like to look into replacing it with a local-bus equivalent, in the same price range, ie CAN$50-75 or not too much more. Does anyone have any experience with any such beast? Can anyone recommend anything? Bear in mind that I am a student running _deep_ in the red, and no matter how nice a card costing only $200 is, I will probably not be able to afford it. Tell me about them anyway, though, no reason not to drool :) . If anyone has experience in the matter, I _must_ get a card which works in both linux and OS/2, so one which doesn't require a driver, or is completely standard is needed. Thanks, Carsten ------------------------------ From: mahmha@crl.com (Mark A. Horton) Subject: Re: term? Date: 28 Sep 93 14:35:04 GMT Timothy Mark Lawless (tlawless@whale.st.usm.edu) wrote: : I am real new to linux.. Can anyone tell me what i would use term for? : and how to use it.. If all this is in a faq i would be happy to look : it up if i knew where it was and what it was.. : Thanx. : Tim. The major sites for "life, the universe, and Linux" are: tsx-11.mit.edu /pub/linux sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux nic.funet.fi /pub/OS/Linux I recommend getting *any* .FAQ file you find about Linux. They have all been extremely helpful to me. Also, I most heartily recommend the following documents from the Linux Documentation Project (LDP) : Linux Installation and Getting Started by Matt Welsh The Linux Network Administrators' Guide by Olaf Kirch Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide by Michael K. Johnson Linux System Administrator's Guide by Lars Wirzenius These are truly wonderful documents. IMHO far better than most of the documentation available with the commercially available ($$$$ or &&&&) *nixen. I threw away my AT&T SVR4 ($$$$) system and haven't looked back! (Actually, I would have to be dragged back kicking and screaming!) You can find these documents in : pub/linux/ALPHA/LDP on tsx-11.mit.edu A rule of thumb that I use is this: If it's in any directory related to Linux documentation, GRAB it! A great many people have spent a lot of their own valuable (unreimbursed) time and effort in developing and documenting this wonderful new OS and deserve a great deal of appreciation for their efforts! In answer to your specific question, term is a terminal communications program that is very robust. For more standard terminal emulation I enjoy using minicom (currently version 1.4g) It is very complete, compiled clean first shot, installed like a breeze, and is very well documented. -- Mark -- ================================================================================ Mark A. Horton | Email: mah@ka4ybr.com (or here) "Linux-because you have a mind."| Cruise: 33 45 30 N / 084 16 50 W ================================================================================ "We may note that, for the purposes of these experiments, the symbol "=" has the meaning "may be confused with." ================================================================================ ------------------------------ From: mahmha@crl.com (Mark A. Horton) Subject: Re: SoftLanding Message Date: 28 Sep 1993 08:03:20 -0700 Lanfranchi Thierry (lanfra_t@xenon.epita.fr) wrote: : In article <288f4b$np5@access.digex.net>, brettm@access.digex.net (Brett Michaels) writes: : |> Anyone know how to get rid of the softlanding message that appears just : |> before the login prompt? : |> : |> : |> : Yes : 'rm /etc/issue' Isn't that a bit drastic? Why not just edit it to something that you find pleasing and/or reflects the uniqueness of your system? -- Mark -- ================================================================================ Mark A. Horton | Email: mah@ka4ybr.com (or here) Mark Horton Associates | Voice: +1 (404) 371 0291 (office) Strategic Planning | Fax: +1 (404) 371 0291 (office) Performance Tuning | Data: +1 (404) 378 7046 (Linux bbs) "The opinions expressed here | Snail: P.O.Box 747, Decatur, GA US 30031-0747 DO represent those of myself." | ICBM: 33 45 N / 084 16 W | Cruise: 33 45 30 N / 084 16 50 W ================================================================================ "We may note that, for the purposes of these experiments, the symbol "=" has the meaning "may be confused with." ================================================================================ ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,sunyab.misc.musicians,sunyab.free-unix,comp.music,alt.emusic,rec.music.makers.synth,comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware From: dudek@acsu.buffalo.edu (The Cybard) Subject: MIDI using serial port and Linux Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 16:03:43 GMT I'm interested in getting that Yamaha "Hello Music" MIDI synth module for my PC. I run both Linux and DOS/Windows on my system. I know that Linux supports some MIDI cards, but the Yamaha module doesn't use a MIDI card, it plugs directly into a COM port. If I use any of the MIDI software for Linux, can I use this module? Also, is there a Linux/MIDI mail-list channel yet? How do I post a question to the SOUND channel? Thanks. -- David Thomas Dudek / 098pwxs@ubvms.bitnet \ __ _ The Cybard State University / dudek@.acsu.buffalo.edu \ / `-' ) ,,, of New York / "If music be the food of love, \ | | ()|||||||[:::} @ Buffalo / play on!" - Wm. Shakespeare \ `__.-._) ''' ------------------------------ From: brettm@access.digex.net (Brett Michaels) Subject: Problem with DIP Date: 28 Sep 1993 12:09:14 -0400 I have a problem getting DIP talk to my modem with dip -t. I have edited all the network files per the net-2-faq. When I try to do anything that will send commands to my modem they do not go. My modem is on /dev/cua1 and works fine with other comm programs. The program also seems to take permanent mess up further comm. with the modem. After killing dip and a restart of the comm program I can no longer get the modem to recognize commands. I seems like there is some init file for dip, is that true? If so where is it? I am stuck until I can get dip to talk to a modem becuase I can't check to see of I can get network connectivity until I can slip to a net. I have no local network access. ------------------------------ From: treynold@vierzk.bates.scarolina.edu (Tom Reynolds) Subject: Re: I think my monitor is exploding..help Date: 28 Sep 1993 16:44:45 GMT In article <1993Sep28.042837.20580@cdf.toronto.edu>, Dhaliwal Bikram Singh wrote: >In article <1993Sep28.011131.3992@mikejag.wimsey.bc.ca> john@mikejag.wimsey.bc.ca (John A. Green) writes: >>I think my monitor is exploding too! >>In article (John Banghart) writes: >>>Ok, here's the deal. [much,much stuff deleted...] >Good news though, It sounds like you have the exact same equipment as I >have, that is: tvga8900, and a Darius HRV-1024 (?). > >I have posted my Xconfig before (a few days ago) and it is the one that >works perfectly with my setup in colour. So let me know if you want me >to post it again. > > Well, folks, while the thread is here..... I have an Acer 33D interlaced monitor, and I have an Orchid Fahrenheit 1280+ VLB card. I previously had a Trident card, and I've suspected my monitor of dying on me for quite a while now :) My X runs fine and I love it (especially with S3!) but I'd like to see a "safer" Xconfig if anyone out there has one... I won't be able to afford my new Mag 15" Flat for a few months, and also don't want to lose my eyebrows to flames shooting forth from my monitor in the middle of a session :) I would also like to get some higher resolutions, but I'm no X guru. Anyone out there feel like helping me? Thanx in advance.... Tom Reynolds treynold@aca.lasalle.edu treynold@vierzk.bates.scarolina.edu treynold@trex.com (down for now :( ------------------------------ From: brettm@access.digex.net (Brett Michaels) Subject: Re: SoftLanding Message Date: 28 Sep 1993 12:52:51 -0400 Thanks for the help. The file /etc/issue contains this message. You can edit it or remove to your liking. Anyone know whta program/script calls displays this file? ------------------------------ From: tauq7@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Wai Ho) Subject: installing Xfree_mono Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 14:55:34 GMT Hi James, First, make sure you are using the correct server. /usr/X386/X should be linked to X386mono. Once you have got that, try the server with a generic vga resoultion (640x480). Use the Xconfig values for the mono server also. You should have X running with that. If there is still any problem, mail me again with the message that Xfree displays when you activate the startx script. This can be easily done with: startx > /tmp/foo 2>&1 where /tmp/foo is a file containing the redirected output. Press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to kill the X server when a graphics screen appears. If you manage to get the generic resolution working, you could try tweaking the timings in Xconfig to get a higher resolution. Note that the non-banked mono server handles only 64k despite a 256k card so that the maximum resolution (virtual or actual) is limited to 830x631 (or whatever products that does not exceed 64*1024*8). Mail me again if you want some sample timings from me. HTH, - -- ############################################################################## # Wai-Ming Ho (tauq7@central.susx.ac.uk) # # 2nd year Undergraduate at Univeristy of Sussex # # Major : Computer Systems Engineering # #----------------------------------------------------------------------------# # If there is anything more in life than this, # # I don't know what it is. # # Calvin # ############################################################################## -- ############################################################################## # Wai-Ming Ho # # tauq7@central.susx.ac.uk # ------------------------------ From: tom@izf.tno.nl (Tom Vijlbrief) Subject: Re: 1024x768 => Cirrus 5422 freaks out Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 16:03:57 GMT There is a bug in the distributed Cirrus driver in the Xfree 1.3 release, it won't enter interlaced mode. On ftp.izf.tno.nl is a file /pubread/linux/xf86_svg.gz with a patched X server for Cirrus users. Tom ------------------------------ From: snail@lsl.co.uk Subject: Re: WordProcessor (~=TEX) for Linux Date: 28 Sep 93 18:10:45 +0100 In article <1993Sep24.111523@cs.utwente.nl>, debruijn@cs.utwente.nl (Steef S.G. de Bruijn) writes: > |> a la WordPerfect for Linux. I think he means Framemaker for Linux, or 'Word for Linux' :-) > Wordperfert sucks (it's no misspell!) Don't u mean worddefect, as its know here. We have it one the Vomit Making System. -- snail@lsl.co.uk "If I were to read, much less to answer all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out alright, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference." [Abraham Lincoln, reported by Francis B Carpenter]. ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: gnu.utils,gnu.emacs From: pkeni@rahul.net (Prabhat Keni) Subject: Desperately seeking gperf paper ??? Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 16:26:59 GMT I am looking for a paper describing gperf perfect hash func generator. Alternatively ( If the gnu paper is not yet available) I'd like to know if anyone out there knows where to get the papers for USENIX C++ 1990 proceedings where Douglas Schmidt (gperf author) presented his paper, failing which could some one direct me to the ACM paper(s) ? I know the details reg. the above papers but want to know if they are available on the net. Thanx in advance. Prabhat. PS I tried fingering schmidt@ics.uci.edu, looks like Douglas Schmidt is not at that address anymore. Any clues ? Prabhat. pkeni@rahul.net -- Prabhat Keni pkeni@rahul.net 408-345-2107 (E) (408)-399-4010 (D temp). ------------------------------ From: jfd0@aber.ac.uk (Julian Day) Subject: Re: help newbie with setting up "ps" command Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 17:11:45 GMT Jeffrey Muday (mudayja@wfu.edu) wrote: : Linux users: : I just installed linux on my PC. Many of the basics seem to work : fine: vi, sed, awk, who... but when I attempt to monitor processes : with the ps command I get the familiar message that I have to mount : /proc. The system tells me to make sure /proc exists (and it does) and : to add the line "/proc /proc proc defaults" to /etc/fstab (which I did : and then rebooted. But... when I "ps" I get the same message. Can : one of you solve this mystery for me. Yeah, I've just installed Linux off SLS and found that in fstab you have the line: /dev/hdxx /root ext2fs defaults or the similar. If you change /root to / it will all work. : Also.. what is the /bin/hostname file about. On the bootup disk : I get one that has a bunch of non-ascii stuff and I get a hostname : of "softland"; my installed LINUX is missing this file. Can I make one, : and how do I do it? I think syssetup is supposed to do this for you. If not try the faqs. : Lastly... And this question demonstrates my lack of attention span for : reading documentation... What terminal programs are available in the : basic set-up? I would like to dialup my university account thru : LINUX (kermit or z-modem file transfer available) on my internal : "hayes compatible" modem. Try kermit, it is definatly available stateside, but I downloaded it with the rest of the SLS package. : thanks in advance for any help (or flames...) : --jeff Juilan Day ===== no sig. (jfd0@aber.ac.uk) ------------------------------ From: jfd0@aber.ac.uk (Julian Day) Subject: Re: WordProcessor (~=TEX) for Linux Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 17:22:29 GMT : There is a program called 'doc' in /usr/bin/X11 in SLS 1.03. : I've tried it very briefly, but I was very disappointed with : the performance. I had top running in another window, and doc : was using over 80% of the CPU, even when I wasn't doing anything. : -greg doc seemed to perform much more reasonably with a co-pro. Without, it is unusably slowwwwww. Julian Day ==== no sig (jfd0@aber.ac.uk) ------------------------------ From: uk02183@nx18.mik.uky.edu (bryan k williams) Subject: Re: 1024x768 => Cirrus 5422 freaks out Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 17:28:50 GMT Xfree 86 works fine with Cirrus CLGD5422, 26, 28 cards. I use an ISA 5422 card , it took me a while to configure it but now I have it. First off, you will probably need to force it to 1meg video ram (assuming you have it), mine would only see 256k until I told it otherwise. Next, the 542x series use 12 clocks number 1...12 rather than MHz numbers for the clocks. For 1024x768, I think it is clock 9 that is best. This depends on your monitor too. There is a program in the Xfree 86 1.3 release that tweaks the scan parameters needed to set a monitor type. Sorry, I am in Windows right now and I can't get to my Xconfig to enclose it. Does X support the highcolor or truecolor modes on the Cirrus chips? ------------------------------ From: coop@panix.com (Robert Cooper) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help Subject: Re: [Q] Comments on my configuration of PC please... Date: 28 Sep 1993 13:58:09 -0400 In <1993Sep22.204413.18853@anasazi.com> rusty@anasazi.com (Rusty Carruth) writes: >In article <27n1fq$hf4@crl.crl.com> mahmha@crl.com (Mark A. Horton) writes: >>Taek-Soo Kim (tkim@zonker.ecs.umass.edu) wrote: >>: After some survey and recommendation, I decided to purchase >>: the following PC. Any comments would be very helpful. >> >>: 486-DX2 66 (Comtrade) >>: EISA >>: 16MB RAM >>: Adaptec 1742 scsi-2 controller >>: 545MB HD >>: Orchid Fahrenheit 1280+ or VA (32bit VLB) with 1MB. >>: 17" Monitor (MAG or CTX). >> Just check to see what chipset they use on the motherboard. They last time I looked at comtrade, they only used the Hint chipset for eisa, which is not "true" eisa. See the unix hardware faq for more details. -- Robert Cooper Brooklyn, NY | "We don't know who discovered water, but coop@panix.com | we're pretty sure it wasn't a fish..." 212 309-9600 (Work) | Attributed to Marshall McLuhan ------------------------------ ** FOR YOUR REFERENCE ** The service address, to which questions about the list itself and requests to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, is: Internet: Linux-Activists-Request@NEWS-DIGESTS.MIT.EDU You can send mail to the entire list (and comp.os.linux) via: Internet: Linux-Activists@NEWS-DIGESTS.MIT.EDU Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites: nic.funet.fi pub/OS/Linux tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux tupac-amaru.informatik.rwth-aachen.de pub/msdos/replace The current version of Linux is 0.99pl9 released on April 23, 1993 End of Linux-Activists Digest ******************************