From: Digestifier To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Wed, 14 Sep 94 08:13:42 EDT Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #62 Linux-Admin Digest #62, Volume #2 Wed, 14 Sep 94 08:13:42 EDT Contents: Linux X DOOM (it works) (Bruce Sherwood) Re: login USERID length problem (Joel M. Hoffman) Re: uucp-1.05 problem (Markus Leist) Searching infos on ReadyLink ENET16/U Rev. C Card (HIGGINS@DELBOX.ZER.DE) Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (Mark A. Davis) Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (Mark A. Davis) Re: PPP/IP Forwarding Problem (Gregory Trubetskoy) Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (Mark A. Davis) Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (Drew Eckhardt) apsfilter won't print (DL83-08) Re: Everyone's MOUNT - WARNING! (David Jansen) terminal servers (Dave H) Re: talk problem (Steven Pritchard) Re: Everyone's MOUNT - WARNING! (Jay Ashworth) Re: NFS performance (Winfried Truemper) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: brucifer@cyberspace.com (Bruce Sherwood) Subject: Linux X DOOM (it works) Date: 12 Sep 1994 19:03:39 -0700 I am running DOOM under X on my 486 DX 33 with only 8 megs. runs fine at 320x200 size.. Looks small in my 640x480 xwindows screen.. but hey.. it plays! Sound: You MUST have the sound-kit 2.90 installed and compiled into your kernel. Otherwise sounds bites the big one. By removing the sound driver pogram that comes with doom (rename it from sndserver) you can play with out sound at all.. Sorry: No music.. Just FX Frame rate: 0.5 frames a sec? that bites.. mine is at least 15 to 20 fps.. very playable.. yes.. wish I had a VLB Dynatime.. (oh yeah.. mines just a simple 1meg tseng et4000 isa) For those with the pixel doubling problem.. get the newest version of the game. They fixed it and it is on sunsite.unc.edu... thats where I got mine.. yep.. pixel doubling eats alot of overhead.. be fast and have ram.. then you can jack up the pixel duobling.. or be like me... keep looking here in the areas for how to force X into 320x200 mode.. ...bruce ------------------------------ From: joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman) Subject: Re: login USERID length problem Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 16:12:34 GMT In article <352olm$p6c@cmcl2.NYU.EDU> brian@xp.psych.nyu.edu (Brian Watts) writes: >I think there is a serious problem in connection with 'login'. > >Login doesn't work correctly when the login ID is > 8 >characters AND you telnet or type 'login' at a console >*after* having logged in. >It gives a 'login incorrect' response. This doesn't happen >when you login directly from the console. > It works fine for me. (I have one userid with 9 letters.) Linux version: Linux excalibur 1.0.9 #3 Sun Sep 11 09:51:42 EDT 1994 i386 Of course, there are other reasons why userid's > 8char are not such a good idea. -Joel (joel@wam.umd.edu) -- ============================================================================= |_|~~ Germany, Europe. 1943. "The diameter of the bomb was 30 centimeters, __|~| 16 Million DEAD. and the diameter of its destruction, about 7 meters, and in it four killed and 11 wounded. cnc Bosnia, Europe. 1993. And around these, in a larger circle of pain cnc HOW MANY MORE? and time, are scattered two hospitals and one cemetery. But the young woman who was buried in the place from where she came, at a distance of more than than 100 kilometers, enlarges the circle considerably. And the lonely man who is mourning her death in a distant country incorporates into the circle the whole world. And I won't speak of the cry of the orphans that reaches God's chair and from there makes the circle endless and godless." ============================================================================= Tell Clinton to stop the genocide: president@whitehouse.gov ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help From: markus@hal.mitropa.com (Markus Leist) Subject: Re: uucp-1.05 problem Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 00:19:39 GMT hi^2. problem solved. my modem will set &K6 when initialized for fax by mgetty. added at&K3 after fax-init! seems to be bios-error of modem :-( modem: zoltrix 14400/V.42bis ati3 -> "V1.70 TR14-Jxxx-001 029" -- -- Markus Leist - Tel.: 49 2065 53668 -- markus@hal.mitropa.com (privat) -- m_leist@unidui.uni-duisburg.de (uni) ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.protocols.nfs,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,convoy.hardware,local.pinboard,paderborn.pinboard,zer.z-netz.fundgrube.suche.elektronik From: HIGGINS@DELBOX.ZER.DE Subject: Searching infos on ReadyLink ENET16/U Rev. C Card Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 13:20:00 +0200 Frank Westheider Linux Support Group Paderborn higgins@uni-paderborn.de higgins@delbox.zer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ HI Folks ! I'm looking for infos on the ReadLINK ENET16/U Rev. C Ethernet-Card. This card can be jumpered for WD80x3 and NEx000 mode and has a lot of jumpers on board : J10 Eprom-Addr A18-A13 J9 I/O ADDR A8-A5 J11 NE1/NE2 CPX/WDP 32K/8K WD/NE J5 SEL J4 J12 0WD-DLY J8 PROM J15 EPROM CONFIG 16K 16/32K 32/64K 64K J14 EPROM SIZE E16K E32K E64K J6A Upper IRQ's (15,11,10) J6B Lower IRQ's (2,3,4,5,7) Whatever setting i choose (WD oder NE), whatever IRQ/IO i choose, the card is recognized but - in NE-Mode the card hangs together with HD-Access CRASH - in WD-Mode, all works fine, but the cards (2 of this kind) don't recognize one another on the NET I got these cards very cheap but without infos. Can anyone post me infos for this card ???? HELP !! Ciao Higgins -- You can escape the gates of hell, say DOG and WINDOG, USE LINUX :-) ! ## CrossPoint v3.0 ## ------------------------------ From: mark@taylor.infi.net (Mark A. Davis) Subject: Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 23:39:51 GMT tabaer@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Highlander) writes: >In article <1994Sep12.122248.12528@taylor.infi.net>, >Mark A. Davis wrote: >>[previous n+1 levels of quoted material deleted for brevity] :) >>OK- I have both MS-"DOS" and Linux DOOM. My machine is a 486 33 DX with >>16 MB of 0 wait X 32 RAM. Adaptec 16 bit SCSI controller, Orchid >>Pro Designer II ET-4000 16bit SVGA card, Sound Blaster Original, etc. >> >>The game absolutely flies under MS-"DOS", I can't even tell how many >>frames per second, but at least 6. >> >>The game is completely unplayable under Linux, with a frame rate of 0.5 >>per second (the is the fastest in 640x480 X, in 1024x768 it is slower). >> >>So, the "requirement" for local bus/accelerated video is no joke..... >Hmmm... You should be getting better performance than that. I thought so.... Maybe something IS wrong.... > Are you >playing with or without sound in the Linux version? No sound. > (Then again, you should >also be getting more than 6 fps out of the DOS version...) I might be, I had to estimate.... the screen updating is soo fast I find it hard to even guess! >Without sound, the Linux and DOS version of Doom are almost identical >speed-wise on my home machine (486DX50, 16MB+32MB swap, FD 1680 SCSI + >separate IDE card for DOS, no-name OEM 90c30-based ISA video, and PAS-16). >I'd guess I get between 15 and 20 fps under Linux in 1024x768. Play is >somewhat slower on my machine at work (486DX33, similar memory, IDE >disk only, S3-based VLB video, and no sound). I haven't recompiled my >1.1.0 kernel with the 2.90-2 sound drivers, so I don't know how much >sound slows things down. Very odd.... The quest for answers continues.... -- /--------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Mark A. Davis | Lake Taylor Hospital | Norfolk,VA (804)-461-5001x431 | | Director/SysAdmin | Information Systems | mark@taylor.infi.net | \--------------------------------------------------------------------------/ ------------------------------ From: mark@taylor.infi.net (Mark A. Davis) Subject: Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 23:43:49 GMT stjeanp@math.enmu.edu (Pat St. Jean) writes: >Mark A. Davis wrote: >>[previous n+1 levels of quoted material deleted for brevity] :) >>OK- I have both MS-"DOS" and Linux DOOM. My machine is a 486 33 DX with >>16 MB of 0 wait X 32 RAM. Adaptec 16 bit SCSI controller, Orchid >>Pro Designer II ET-4000 16bit SVGA card, Sound Blaster Original, etc. >> >>The game absolutely flies under MS-"DOS", I can't even tell how many >>frames per second, but at least 6. >> >>The game is completely unplayable under Linux, with a frame rate of 0.5 >>per second (the is the fastest in 640x480 X, in 1024x768 it is slower). >> >>So, the "requirement" for local bus/accelerated video is no joke..... >I'm not to sure about that...I've got a dx2-66 w/ 20 meg of ram and an >ISA tvga 8900 chipset and it runs plenty fine. No slowness problems at >all...with sound even. PAS-16. An AHA-1540b ISA scsi card. 330 meg >seagate (doom is on that one). Like I said...no problems... Perhaps the ET-4000 is just a slow poke? At the time I bought it, I thought it would be the most compatible and best performing for the price range. (I replaced a very annoying and incompatible ATI VGA Wonder). I will continue to fiddle with things. I don't expect much better performance than 1 FPS even if I use all the tricks I have left to try :( (Before anyone can ask- I am not swapping, X seems to work fine, not running any sound drivers at all). -- /--------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Mark A. Davis | Lake Taylor Hospital | Norfolk,VA (804)-461-5001x431 | | Director/SysAdmin | Information Systems | mark@taylor.infi.net | \--------------------------------------------------------------------------/ ------------------------------ From: grisha@cais.cais.com (Gregory Trubetskoy) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions Subject: Re: PPP/IP Forwarding Problem Date: 13 Sep 1994 16:43:02 GMT I have the same problem, and I have posted a question regarding this. Only diff is - I'm trying to get a PC to route between 2 ppp links. It seems that if it has two interfaces - it can't forward packets... (I too have IP forwarding/gatewaying set to [yes]). -- ================================================================ Gregory Trubetskoy grisha@cais.com ================================================================ ------------------------------ From: mark@taylor.infi.net (Mark A. Davis) Subject: Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 02:25:27 GMT mhw@cs.brown.edu (Mark Weaver) writes: >In article <351mfg$t6u@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, >Highlander wrote: >>In article <1994Sep12.122248.12528@taylor.infi.net>, >>Mark A. Davis wrote: >>>The game absolutely flies under MS-"DOS", I can't even tell how many >>>frames per second, but at least 6. >>> >>>The game is completely unplayable under Linux, with a frame rate of 0.5 >>>per second (the is the fastest in 640x480 X, in 1024x768 it is slower). >>> >>>So, the "requirement" for local bus/accelerated video is no joke..... >> >>Hmmm... You should be getting better performance than that. Are you >>playing with or without sound in the Linux version? (Then again, you should >>also be getting more than 6 fps out of the DOS version...) >For me (who has VLB video), the game it about the same speed with or >without sound. However, if the sound card is not configured properly, >and you leave sndserver in your path, the game crawls. >So, if sound doesn't work for you for any reason, try renaming sndserver >to something else and try again. Verified. I can revise my findings and add more information. 1) My estimate of 6 FPS under MS-"DOS" was grossly understated- I would say it is more like 20 - 30 FPS (sorry if that messed anyone up) 2) Indeed- if you do not have a sound driver installed, then remove the soundserver from your .doomrc and move the executable out of your path or rename it. 3) As predicted, screen size (X mode) and choice of window manager has little or no effect on speed. 4) With sndserver present, but un-used, high detail- 0.5 FPS 5) With sndserver removed, high detail- 2.5 FPS huge difference 6) With sndserver removed, low detail- 3.75 FPS (but SMALL!) 7) With sndserver removed, low detail, and the screen size (under options) is set to smallest possible (almost not visible)- about 15 FPS. (Remember- 486 DX 33, 16MB, SCSI, Orchid Prodesigner IIs ET-4000 16bit ISA) Hope this data might help someone else troubleshooting or just trying to compare for benchmark's sake. Was thinking of going to the "big" VA Beach computer fest this weekend- wonder what new video card I should consider buying for good X performance (on ISA, unless I upgrade MB too for VLB or PCI or whatever is current now) :) ;) -- /--------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Mark A. Davis | Lake Taylor Hospital | Norfolk,VA (804)-461-5001x431 | | Director/SysAdmin | Information Systems | mark@taylor.infi.net | \--------------------------------------------------------------------------/ ------------------------------ From: drew@frisbee.cs.Colorado.EDU (Drew Eckhardt) Subject: Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! Date: 13 Sep 1994 16:57:48 GMT In article <354bmh$8jh@nic.lth.se>, Mikael Nordqvist wrote: >>How are you mesauring the fps? Just taking a stab-in-the-dark, or is >>there a util for doing this? > >The correct way to measure FPS (that's comparable with the >DOS-version) is to start linuxxdom like this: > >linuxxdoom -devparm -timedemo demo? > >where ? is a number between 1 and 3 (these are the three prerecorded demos). > >The game will start and you will see the demo (played in "slow-motion"). >After a while the guy dies and the game exits. You will get two numbers. >Divide the first by the second and multiply by 35. This is your FPS. > >On a 486 AMD/40 with 20MB ram and the wad on my dos-partition I get >(with sound enabled) 8.5 FPS. On a 486-66DX2 with 32MB ram and a s-l-o-w Trident 8900B video board, I get 8.5 FPS without sound enabled. -- Since our leaders won't respect The Constitution, the highest law of our country, you can't expect them to obey lesser laws of any country. Boycott the United States until this changes. ------------------------------ From: s21008@cc.ntnu.edu.tw (DL83-08) Subject: apsfilter won't print Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 03:31:17 GMT [ Article crossposted from comp.os.linux.help ] [ Author was s21008@cc.ntnu.edu.tw ] [ Posted on Tue, 13 Sep 1994 03:25:35 GMT ] Hello! Has anyone installed the apsfilter successfully? I have a standard Slackware 2.0 setup. I grabbed the apsfilter and installed it according to the instuctions, but every time I try to print, I just get errors. For example, if I type "$lpr /usr/ghostscript/lib/examples/chess.ps" (I'm not possitive about the path), withing seconds, my printer (BJ200) spits out a gs error message to the likes of: Error: /undefinedfilename in --file-- Operand stack: (cheq.ps) (r) Execution stack: %interp_exit --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- Dictionary stack: 537/547 0/20 6/200 30/70 The page is then ejected, and the same things happenes again on a new sheet. I have to turn my printer off and #lprm the print job. I have never gotten apsfilter to work, which is surprissing, as it is supposed to be the easy way to set up printcap. PS: I have set the PRINTER environment variable to several of the "auto" printers created by the installation script of apsfilter. Any suggestions or experiences will be greatly appreciated! -- /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ ¥v Curtis Dean Smith Internet: s21008@cc.ntnu.edu.tw | °ê Institute of Chinese Language & Literature | ¿³ National Taiwan Normal University Bitnet: no more | \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ -- /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ ¥v Curtis Dean Smith Internet: s21008@cc.ntnu.edu.tw | °ê Institute of Chinese Language & Literature | ¿³ National Taiwan Normal University Bitnet: no more | \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ ------------------------------ From: jansen@helium.strw.LeidenUniv.nl (David Jansen) Subject: Re: Everyone's MOUNT - WARNING! Date: 14 Sep 1994 08:18:52 GMT In article <3554sp$b2t@astfgl.edb.tih.no> mortenst@colargol.edb.tih.no (Morten Steinvik) writes: >Jay Ashworth (jra@zeus.IntNet.net) wrote: >: >>/dev/fd0 /dos-a msdos user,noauto >: >> >: >>This means that any user can type 'mount /dos-a' and get the floppy all >: >>for herself, without nasty suid root problems. >: >: The option you _meant_ to give him was "nosuid", not noauto. :-) > >nosuid *AND* noauto, if you ask me. >noauto causes the system to not attempt mounting the floppy at boot-time (or >whenever else the /etc/fstab is read), it has to be mounted seperately. > >nosuid is good, too, as it stops attempts to run setuid files on the mounted >fs. Why choose one? How can msdos floppies contain files with the setuid bit set ? Besides, the man-pages say that 'user' implies 'nosuid', and a couple of other flags to make mounting safe. David Jansen -- _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ David Jansen Internet: jansen@strw.leidenuniv.nl _/ _/ _/ Leiden Observatory Bitnet: djansen@HLERUL51 _/ _/ _/ Mail : P.O.Box 9513, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ Phone : (31) 71 275877 Fax : (31) 71 275819 WWW: http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~jansen/ ------------------------------ From: daveh@199.86.32.8 (Dave H) Subject: terminal servers Date: 13 Sep 1994 10:45:38 GMT Does anyone have any idea what kind of terminal server will work with Linux? I would like the cost also. Looking for a cheap way to get more lines into linux. Preferably something that works on a ethernet card. Thanks in advance! ------------------------------ From: spritcha@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Steven Pritchard) Subject: Re: talk problem Date: 13 Sep 1994 14:47:06 -0600 cord@msheinz.psych.nat.tu-bs.de (Cord Hockemeyer) writes: >Dennis Duffner (duffy@dduff@dduff.ppci.com) wrote: >| I have a problem with talk. >| I cannot talk to a user I know on another system, even though they have >| been able to talk me, I can't reply. >| I get this: Connection Refused. (111) >| What's this all about anyhow? I can't find anything on this anywhere. >Quite simple: His host refuses to answer your finger request. :) >A lot of systems don't serve finger requests because this was a >security hole (with bad consequences) some time ago. I hate to diasgree, but this probably isn't the case. I get the same error message with talk when I try it from my machine, but if I telnet to one of my Unix accounts elsewhere and try to talk to the exact same person, it works fine. I don't know if this is a bug or just something not set up properly, but it is certainly something wrong on my Linux box. (Slackware 2.0) Steve -- spritcha@nyx10.cs.du.edu | Steven sjpritch@siucvmb.siu.edu | Pritchard GCS/M/S d? p+ c++(++++) l++ u+(-) e+ m+(---) s/+ !n h--- f+ g+ w@ t++ r- y? ------------------------------ From: jra@zeus.IntNet.net (Jay Ashworth) Subject: Re: Everyone's MOUNT - WARNING! Date: 13 Sep 1994 13:13:26 -0400 jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman) writes: >In article <34vi1g$8gl@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>, Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de writes: >>The appropriate options make it quite safe; here's an entry from my system's >>/etc/fstab: >> >>/dev/fd0 /dos-a msdos user,noauto >> >>This means that any user can type 'mount /dos-a' and get the floppy all >>for herself, without nasty suid root problems. >>See 'man 8 mount'. I did. And you know what I found? The option you _meant_ to give him was "nosuid", not noauto. :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Ashworth Designer & Associates ka1fjx/4 High Technology Systems Consulting jra@baylink.com +1 813 790 7592 ------------------------------ From: truemper@Calvados.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (Winfried Truemper) Subject: Re: NFS performance Date: 14 Sep 1994 09:47:02 GMT David J. Perkel (perkel@nagra.etho.caltech.edu) wrote: : What is the best way to measure and then to optimize NFS performance? : Some specifics: : So, I'm asking what values people are getting for performance. : How do you test it? Can you offer tips for improving it? Try the NFS-Preformance patch from Florian La Roche. We're getting 2-3 times higher throughput-rates than without. Approximatly 550kbyte/s to a sun on the same subnet; I have not tested it between to linux-box. I should work with your kernel-version (1.1.50). I will send you the original post (patch included) via email. 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