From: Digestifier To: Linux-Activists@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Activists@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Thu, 11 Nov 93 06:13:46 EST Subject: Linux-Activists Digest #367 Linux-Activists Digest #367, Volume #6 Thu, 11 Nov 93 06:13:46 EST Contents: IN2000 (perhaps all SCSI as well) (Peter Lu) Re: linux on AMD 486 DX 40 [Q] (Neill Means) Two Video Questions (Sandia Wu) rsh bug ? rsh bug ? Re: Digiboard support? (Mark Buckaway) Some Problems Installing SLS 1.02 (Michael Ibarra) SLS 1.02 Install Help (dual partitioning) (Michael Ibarra) >Re: linux on AMD 486 DX 40 [Q] (Gareth Bult) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: swift@world.std.com (Peter Lu) Subject: IN2000 (perhaps all SCSI as well) Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1993 16:58:23 GMT Folks, I just put in the ALPHA IN2000 SCSI driver into my Linux 0.99 pl12 kernel and I have a problem with interrupt request assignment. According to the IN2000 documentation, I should set up the card for no-interrupt if I wanted to use MSDOS 5.0+ for multiple (more than 2) disk drives. The IN2000 driver expects an interrupt to be assigned to the card for use in Linux. Since it is desirable to be able to access my SCSI drive either from MSDOS or from Linux, I am at a loss. I certainly don't want to have to open up box to flip the DIP switch every time I switch between MSDOS and Linux. Is this a problem altogether with SCSI drivers, in that MSDOS 5.0 requires the controllers for additional disk drives not to use interrupts, whereas UNIX systems do want them to have separate interrupts? Does MSDOS (or BIOS SCSI drivers) use some kind of timer-based polling mechanisms in its support for 2+ disk drives? Is there some kind of solution that would accomodate both mechanisms without me having to open up the box to flip the switch? Obviously, other SCSI controllers may have software-programmable interrupt assignment so that this manual switch may not be needed. However, I am using the IN2000... All responses are appreciated. Peter Lu ------------------------------ From: nm@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Neill Means) Subject: Re: linux on AMD 486 DX 40 [Q] Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1993 16:40:28 GMT williams@vierzk.bates.scarolina.edu (Billy L. Williams Jr.) writes: >>Has somebody run linux on a AMD-486 DX 40 chip ? >> >>I plam to buy such a chip, and I would be glad to know if there are >>some problems, or if all is ok. >> >>Bruno Bogaert >>Universit\'e de Lille (France) >I run Linux on my AMD 386DX-40 an it works wonderfully. Very quick and >no problems whatsoever. >Billy L. Williams, Jr. I run linux with no hitchs on my AMD 386/40 with AMI Bios neill NM@STAFF.CC.PURDUE.EDU ------------------------------ From: sandia@fraser.sfu.ca (Sandia Wu) Subject: Two Video Questions Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1993 17:16:30 GMT I am a new Linux user and have just installed Linux on my machine. I have an ATI Wonder XL24 video card and have used the clock settings suggested by the documentations. However, I am currently using the VESA video modes for my ADI Microscan 4E monitor. It has a vertical refresh rate at 70Hz at 1024x768 and would like to utilize this. Does anyone know what available mode settings are there for this monitor. Secondly, I was playing around with OpenWindows yesterday and found that after running OpenWindows or TWM and exiting back out to the operating system, my video is lost. I get a bunch of vertical white lines across my screen and cannot see anything. If anyone has any ideas on resolving these two problems, please EMAIL me at jchiang@ee.ubc.ca. / O \0 V\ |\ X |#\ FLYBOY VOLLEYBALL \x/ |##\ .......|\##\........... . \##\ . . \#| . \| . . . | . ............|............. jchiang@ee.ubc.ca ------------------------------ From: stub@pce60 () Subject: rsh bug ? Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1993 14:30:16 GMT Hi ! ..when I rsh commands between my 2 LinuX boxes I notices some programs complaining 'bout wrong pathes/directories... I think the problem can be put in one line: rsh nepal echo $\HOME $\PWD which gives / /home/yeti as output... (not really, as /home/yeti is linked back via NFS to my other machine and the real output contains the expanded link...) But $HOME should give /home/yeti (or my personal link)... What's wrong, where should I search ? bye Ulf. ------------------------------ From: stub@pce60 () Subject: rsh bug ? Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1993 14:31:43 GMT Hi again... Sorry --- I forgot some lines 'bout my software running here... ..it's Slackware 1.1.0 on both machines... ..maybe that''s a hint... Bye again Ulf. ------------------------------ From: mark@datasoft.com (Mark Buckaway) Subject: Re: Digiboard support? Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1993 23:31:03 GMT Les Biffle (les@anasazi.com) wrote: : Are there drivers available for linux for the Digiboard multiport ASYNC : card? I'm trying to help some school districts get an internet gateway : up for email and other goodies, and hope to use some of their existing : hardware. : Thanks. David Jeske, jeske@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu, back in October suggested that he was working on a driver for Linux and the Digiboard line. I am not aware of the current status however. -- ============================================================================== Mark Buckaway | root@datasoft.com | DataSoft Communications DataSoft Communications | uunorth!datasoft!root | 62 Rock Fernway System Administrator | Voice: +1 416 756 4497 | Willowdale, ON M2J 4N5 ============================================================================== "UNIX and OS/2 are operating systems. Windows is a shell, and DOS is an boot virus" ============================================================================== ------------------------------ From: ibarra@DPW.COM (Michael Ibarra) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help Subject: Some Problems Installing SLS 1.02 Date: 2 Nov 93 20:16:13 GMT Hello: I have finally gotten my machine to a working state! What follows are some problems that I encountered, that may or may not be unique to my machine (386-40DX, 4 MEG RAM, 340 MEG HD) I first installed SLS under one partition and quickly decided that I liked linux enough to warrant getting rid of OS2-1.02, along with its boot manager, which were taking two of my four available partitions. Therefore, I was now able to create a separate /, /usr, and a swap partition instead of a swap file. Upon installing with doinstall /dev/hda2 /dev/hda3 /usr, and answering to the option that would do a full install, I ran out of space on /root, and /root/usr. What I had to do was a mini install, followed by a sysinstall -series . This worked just fine and all of my packages are installed so far with the exception of Xwindows. Secondly, after having everything installed, and beginning to do a make on various packages, ie: elm, smail, cnews, etc, I kept hanging on a make no matter how small, some makes had taken all night! I had done a 'free' command, but someone had told me that there may have been a bug that free was reporting erroneous info. So I ignored the Sawp: 0 0 , messages given by free. My /etc/fstab read (the first column) like this: /dev/hda2 /dev/hda3 /dev/hda4 proc With the above and when I did a mount -a a, I was informed that their was no swap space avail, remedy with the following: . I changed the fstab to read like this: /dev/hda2 /dec/hda3 proc /dev/hda4 Now when I did a mount -a, all of my memory showed with a free command and mounted right away!Seems weird to me, but just thought I should mention this to all of you. Mike Ibarra ibarra@dpw.com (212)450-5782 PS: I am still trying to get my HP laserjet to print correctly, any ideas? Thank you... proc A D D /proc ------------------------------ From: ibarra@DPW.COM (Michael Ibarra) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help Subject: SLS 1.02 Install Help (dual partitioning) Date: 29 Oct 93 15:04:46 GMT Hi: I have managed to sucessfully install SLS on my 386DX40, on two partitions. However, / was 15% full and /usr was 100% full when I did a df. I created / with 80meg, /usr with 90meg. So I began to do another initial install deciding to give / 50meg, /usr 120meg. When I do a mke2fs on my first partition, everything is fine, when I do the same on /usr, partition /dev/hda3, I get the following msg upon completion: mke2fs: Unable to find a block for inode table. When I try to do a doinstall /dev/hda2 /dev/hda3 /usr, I get this message after it starts to install its first pkg: Installing faq...tar:could not create usr/local/lib/menus/FAQ.z: not a directory I am stumped, it appears as if my filesystem is full?, but I am begin- ning from scratch. Do I need to do some type of format before I start over again? BTW, I have tried also creating my swap device before and after my doinstall /dev/hda2 /dev/hda3 /usr routine, with mkswap -c /dev/hda4 15180. I am changing partition id to Linux EXT (selection 83) for /dev/hda2 /dev/hda3, and Linux swap (selection 82) for /dev/hda4. I would appreciate all help. BTW I did read the install guide, which was very helpful (thank you Matt, let me know if you need a hard copy in ps format?). Hopefully I can resolve this matter soon so that I can get back to installing elm, uucp, smail. Help please ;-( Mike Ibarra ibarra@dpw.com (212)450-5782 Work (718)409-5880 Home ------------------------------ From: gareth@gblinux.demon.co.uk (Gareth Bult) Subject: >Re: linux on AMD 486 DX 40 [Q] Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1993 22:29:14 GMT Ditto. ------------------------------ ** 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 ******************************