Subject: Linux-Activists Digest #203 From: Digestifier To: Linux-Activists@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU Reply-To: Linux-Activists@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU Date: Sun, 5 Sep 93 05:13:04 EDT Linux-Activists Digest #203, Volume #6 Sun, 5 Sep 93 05:13:04 EDT Contents: RE: Linux slow > 16 MB (R.L. Sanson) Diamond Stealth Pro (Peter P Chiu) delete libc.so.4.4.1 before symlink (Dongsung Kim) Xconfig (Peter P Chiu) FTAPE 0.9.5 problem Please help (levinson@vax.sonoma.edu) [ANNOUNCE] Slackware 1.0.2 released, a few updates (Patrick J. Volkerding) Re: CD-ROM Driver For GateWay 2000 486Dx2/66 (Eberhard Moenkeberg) Re: Public Domain driver for SMC Ethernet Card (Russell Nelson) Re: A Word Processor for Linux (Brandon C Long) gcrt0.o - HELP! (Robert Broughton) ll (Robert Broughton) mcd : Cannot initialize floppy drive (veena gondhalekar) Re: anonymous ftp 0.99pl1 (mrex@indigo0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de) Locking out bad sectors (Yousuf Khan) CL5426 graphics board? (Steven M. Palm) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: RSanson@massey.ac.nz (R.L. Sanson) Subject: RE: Linux slow > 16 MB Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1993 23:38:13 GMT RE: Linux slow > 16 MB I have recently increased my memory from 8 MB to 20 MB, and I must admit X operations (moving windows, bringing up menus etc.) seem much slower. Previously I used an 8 MB swap partition, which I removed with the additional RAM. Should I pull out 4 MB and drop back to 16 MB? My system is a 33 MHz Cyrix 486 DLC system. Regards Robert Sanson e-mail R.L.Sanson@massey.ac.nz Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences ph. 0064.6.350-5020 Massey University, Palmerston North, NZ fax. 0064.6.350-5616 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people. Pr.14v34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ------------------------------ From: ppc2@cec2.wustl.edu (Peter P Chiu) Subject: Diamond Stealth Pro Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1993 00:40:27 GMT Could anyone please send me the Xconfig for Diamond Stealth Pro? Thank You Very Much! -- .&______~*@*~______&. m Peter Chiu "w/%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%\w" mmm*** Washington University, St. Louis `Y""Y""Y"""""Y""Y""Y' mm***** ppc2@cec2.wustl.edu p-p_|__|__|_____|__|__|_q-q mm**Y** 275 Union Blvd, #711, St. Louis, _-[EEEEM==M==MM===MM==M==MEEEE]-_.|..|.... Missouri 63108 (314) 367-3599 ------------------------------ From: dongsung@iris.usc.edu (Dongsung Kim) Subject: delete libc.so.4.4.1 before symlink Date: 4 Sep 1993 17:50:27 -0700 Hello! I tried to upgrade my SLS 1.02 to SLS 1.03 and after install the 1.03 version. I deleted libc.so.4.4.1 before make symlink libc.so.4 to libc.so.4.4.2. Therefore, I can not even login because init can not load library. Please help me out. Thanks in advance. Dongsung Kim dognsung@iris.usc.edu ------------------------------ From: ppc2@cec2.wustl.edu (Peter P Chiu) Subject: Xconfig Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1993 00:46:32 GMT In the previous news i posted, I forgot to say what monitor I am using. Here is the complete config. of my computer: Diamond Stealth Pro NEC 3FGx Any info appreciated! Thanks. -- .&______~*@*~______&. m Peter Chiu "w/%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%\w" mmm*** Washington University, St. Louis `Y""Y""Y"""""Y""Y""Y' mm***** ppc2@cec2.wustl.edu p-p_|__|__|_____|__|__|_q-q mm**Y** 275 Union Blvd, #711, St. Louis, _-[EEEEM==M==MM===MM==M==MEEEE]-_.|..|.... Missouri 63108 (314) 367-3599 ------------------------------ Subject: FTAPE 0.9.5 problem Please help From: levinson@vax.sonoma.edu Date: 4 Sep 93 20:07:47 -0800 I have ftp'd the .99pl12 kernel source in its entirety and have gotten the ftape0.9.5. I patched the .99pl12 source and re-built the kernel. On bootup, it does say that buffers are allocated for the tape drive. I then compiled insmod and rmmod (the docs say there is supposed to be a lsmod, but I don't see it). I then rebooted and compiled the sys_hello.c and tested the system call. By typing ./hello, it worked and displayed Hello World. I then rmmod and it said it removed it. My problem is this, while making the tape stuff, I received several messages saying "RCSid Defined but not used" I would imagine it is a declared variable that is not used. My other problem is that when I type userft I get a message: Opening Tape: No such device What is the problem? Am I supposed to have an ftape device in my /dev directory? I have a Conner Archive 250MQT QIC80 tape drive hooked to my floppy. Any suggestions? -- Eric Levinson rcisnet2!root@moon.nbn.com | Home computer (UUCP) levinson@vax.sonoma.edu | Vax I can also be reached on my BBS system, Color Galaxy Milky Way (415) 883-0696 ------------------------------ From: bf703@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Patrick J. Volkerding) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Slackware 1.0.2 released, a few updates Date: 5 Sep 1993 04:06:42 GMT Reply-To: bf703@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Patrick J. Volkerding) There have been a few minor updates to Slackware 1.0.2: A1: tagfile, tagfile.org replaced. A2: vgalib.tgz removed, diska2 edited. A5: vgalib12.tgz and tvgalib.tgz added, smail.tgz removed, diska5 edited. A12: install.end removed. A13: Disk added: smail.tgz, diska13, install.end Two more new disks were added: G1 and Q1. G1 is a games disk. So far, this just has the "fortune" program on it. Q1 is a disk containing the source for the new .99pl13 alpha kernel, and two precompiled kernel packages, one for IDE and one for SCSI. The Q series will contain alpha software, and may change or disappear at any time. Here's a copy of the official announcement sent to comp.os.linux.announce: --- Announcing version 1.0.2 of the Slackware distribution of Linux. Slackware is a full-featured distribution of the Linux operating system designed for computers with a 3.5", 1.44M boot drive. The Slackware release strives for ease of installation, and as much of the software as possible has been preconfigured - greatly increasing user "slack." These disk sets are currently available: A: Base system. E: Emacs 19.19 F: All the most current Linux related FAQ lists. (HIGHLY recommended) G: Games. Currently, this only contains a port of the "fortune" program set up to print a random fortune when you log in. I'm open to suggestions for other stuff to add when I find time. Q: This is sort of an alpha-stuff series that may change and/or disappear at any time. Currently it contains source for the Linux kernel .99pl13 alpha, and two .99pl13 alpha zImages, one for IDE and one for SCSI. X: XFree86 1.3 and related software. SERIES A (base system) FEATURES: -- The system files that go in /bin, /etc, /dev... -- Kernel level .99pl12. -- Libraries at 4.4.1 Programming features: -- GNU make 3.62 -- BSD pmake 4.4 -- GNU rcs 5.6 -- tvgalib 1.0 (Trident card utilities) -- vgalib 1.2 (Tseng/standard VGA card utilities) -- Common LISP -- Perl 4.0pl35 -- Linux 0.99pl12 source code -- ncurses 1.7 -- GCC/G++/Obj-C 2.4.5 -- GNU debugger (gdb) 4.8 -- p2c 1.19 (Pascal to C translator) -- GNU Smalltalk 1.1.1 -- f2c (Fortran 77 to C translator) -- TCL Toolkit Editors/Text utilities: -- Selection 1.5 (Cut/paste from the screen) -- joe 1.0.8 -- jove 4.14.10 -- GNU troff 1.05 -- GNU ghostscript 2.6.1 -- ispell spell checker Networking/Mail/UUCP/News -- Taylor UUCP 1.04 -- Cnews -- Linux NET-2 (uses /conf directory in recommended fashion) -- deliver (simple mail delivery program) -- Smail 3.1.28 with tons of sample files. (Thanks goes to Ian Kluft!) -- traceroute utility -- nn 6.4.18 newsreader -- tin 1.1pl8 newsreader -- trn 2.5 newsreader -- elm 2.4pl21 -- mailx -- term 1.0.7 Other extra shells/utilities: -- tcsh 6.04 with preconfigured csh.cshrc -- Second extended fs utilities, v. 0.3 -- Time zone configuration -- DOS emulator source v. 0.49, with the libipc problem patched. -- sc spreadsheet v. 6.19 -- national (changes virtual console fonts) -- cpio 2.2 (backup utility) -- GNU diff 2.0 -- Elf binary support library and conversion utility. -- bc 1.02 (number cruncher) -- pdksh v. 4.7 (Public domain ksh) SERIES E (Emacs 19.19) FEATURES: -- This 5 disk series contains Rik Faith's port of Emacs 19.19 for Linux. -- All the LISP source and extra files are included. (Thanks Rik!) SERIES F (FAQs) FEATURES: -- Linux HOWTOs: -- Ethernet, Installation, Net-2, UUCP, and indexes/META-FAQ. -- comp.lang.c FAQ, GCC/G++ FAQ, TCL FAQ, Objective-C FAQ, Fortran FAQ. -- Linux main FAQ. -- LISP FAQ, LISP Window systems FAQ, OOP in LISP FAQ, Scheme FAQ. -- comp.lang.perl FAQ. -- Postscript FAQ. -- comp.unix.questions FAQ. -- comp.windows.X FAQ, OpenLook GUI FAQ, X on Intel FAQ. SERIES G (Games) FEATURES: -- Currently, just the "fortune" program. Set up to hook into your /etc/profile so that users get a free fortune when they log in. SERIES Q (Experimental stuff) FEATURES: This holds things that are currently being tested, or are alpha and are not going to be added until official versions are released. -- Linux kernel source .99pl13 alpha -- IDE zImage .99pl13 alpha -- SCSI zImage .99pl13 alpha SERIES X (X11) FEATURES: -- Complete XFree-86 1.3 binary release, including all programming utilities, libraries, include files, and the link kit. -- XS3-0.4.4 replacement X server for S3 based cards. -- monochrome and color xterms. -- OpenLook Window Manager -- libgr 1.2 graphics library. -- Simplified X windows setup procedures from the TAMU Linux release. -- PEX extentions package -- Slingshot/UIT examples. -- Interviews 3.1 idraw and doc. -- GNU chess 4.00pl62 with xboard 2.1pl11 -- XV 3.00 Shareware image/document viewer -- Lots, and lots more! The Slackware Linux release can be found on ftp.cdrom.com in directory /pub/linux/slackware. All of the disks except for the bootdisk are also available as zoo archives in /pub/linux/slackware/zooed_disks. These will be kept up to date. Enjoy! --- Patrick Volkerding volkerdi@ftp.cdrom.com volkerdi@mhd1.moorhead.msus.edu -- Patrick Volkerding volkerdi@mhd1.moorhead.msus.edu bf703@cleveland.freenet.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Sep 93 00:47:13 +0100 From: eberhard_moenkeberg@rollo.central.de (Eberhard Moenkeberg) Subject: Re: CD-ROM Driver For GateWay 2000 486Dx2/66 Hello K. and all others, on 31.08.93 K. D. Nguyen wrote to All in USENET.COMP.OS.LINUX: KD> My CD is non SCSI but compatible with SONY, KPDAK and Phillips (I was toldKD> so by GateWay 2000 people). Can Anyone show me know how CD-ROM and sound KD> work under Linux? Can you tell what kind/type of drive & card you have? ------------------------------ From: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Public Domain driver for SMC Ethernet Card Date: Sat, 05 Sep 93 02:24:17 GMT In article <19948@news.duke.edu> sdj@acpub.duke.edu writes: I have an SMC 3016TP Ethernet card I would like to use on my linux system. I notice that SMC Elite is supported by default but I cannot get it up with my 3016. Does anyone have any suggestions? I am using a 386SX AMI BIOS if it helps. In article <1993Sep3.183522.16119@merlin.hgc.edu>, mikes@hgc.edu (Mike Stein) writes: Are there any Public Domain drivers for the SMC3016 Ethernet card. What ftp sites are there for Public Domain drivers? SMC 3016 != WD 8013. The SMC Elite/16 is a Western Digital 8013E. The board you have is I/O based. SMC doesn't make them any more. You *might* be able to get programming docs from them. -russ What canst *thou* say? Crynwr Software Crynwr Software sells packet driver support. 11 Grant St. 315-268-1925 Voice | LPF member - ask me about Potsdam, NY 13676 315-268-9201 FAX | the harm software patents do. ------------------------------ From: blong@ih-nxt05 (Brandon C Long) Subject: Re: A Word Processor for Linux Date: 5 Sep 1993 05:12:56 GMT heiser@bumetb.bu.edu (Bill Heiser) writes: >In article falk@unixg.ubc.ca (David Falk) writes: >> >>Yet,I have found that the only thing that keeps me tied to the DOS world >>is the lack of a good word processor in the UNIX World. I would like to make >Things like WORDPERFECT are available for UNIX, but not as far as I know >for LINUX. And I'd be surprised if it *ever* is. It is hard to get >around the fact that the "home type apps" available for PCs just aren't >available for Unix of any flavor. For example, when was the last time >you saw something equivalent to "QUICKEN", or "XTALK/WIN" for any >Unix platform? Actually, a lot of the standard software is available for unix, a fact I was mildly surprised to find out while perusing a copy Unixworld magazine. The problem is the cost (and using a version of unix which is supported). Unix versions of software are expensive. Since the software companies can't hope to match the huge number of copies sold of mswindoze apps sold, they are forced to charge a lot more in order to make up the cost of writing the apps. But the old standbyes of AutoCAD, Lotus 123, Wordperfect, XTreeGold, etc are all available for unix and xwindows. When version 1.0 of Linux comes out (whenever that may be) and the user base becomes a little larger, than sure, these apps will also be available for Linux. Why not? Being a unix os, the port wouldn't be too hard, and the companies would love to sell more copies, even if it is for a free un*x. But just because the apps are available, doesn't mean that they would be cheap. Right now, Linux is free, and everything you get for it is gnu, or written by (usually) some student with too much free time and the love of programming. (yeah, me too) But who wants to pay $995 to run MS WORD 5.1 on a sparc? Or Excel? (same price) Personally, emacs sound a lot better at that point. I can handle vi for free, but I can't afford ms word. Hell, I can't afford wordperfect, which is a steal at 299. Thank you, but no. Of course, if someone wants to right a great word processor, or quicken for linux, I'd love to use it (if the price is right)Otherwise, I'll do my bookkeeping by hand. Brandon --- Brandon Long God Creates the Dinosaurs Computer Engineering God kills the Dinosaurs University of Illinois God Creates Man Urbana-Champaign Man kills God blong@uiuc.edu Man Creates Dinosaurs blong@sumter.cso.uiuc.edu Dinosaurs kill Man (NeXT mail) -- Jurasic Park Opinions are such flighty things, but these are mine, for now. ------------------------------ From: Robert_Broughton@mindlink.bc.ca (Robert Broughton) Subject: gcrt0.o - HELP! Date: 5 Sep 93 05:28:52 GMT When I attempt to "ln" a program that has XWindow stuff in it, I immediately get a message that says "no such file or directory for gcrt0.o". Does anyone know where this is coming from? I suspect library/compiler compatibilities. I have the XFree86 1.3 that was released in mid-June, and the gcc stuff that is in SLS 1.03 (version 2.4.5). -- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Robert Broughton Robert_Broughton@mindlink.bc.ca "We calm and reassure. We embrace people with the message that we're all in it together. That our leaders are infallible and that there is nothing, absolutely nothing wrong." - Miles Drentell, _thirtysomething_ ------------------------------ From: Robert_Broughton@mindlink.bc.ca (Robert Broughton) Subject: ll Date: 5 Sep 93 05:31:58 GMT I can type in "ll", and get the equivalent of "ls -l", but "find / -name ll -print" delivers nothing. What exactly is going on here. I'm interested because ll doesn't work when I'm in a non-login shell. -- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Robert Broughton Robert_Broughton@mindlink.bc.ca "We calm and reassure. We embrace people with the message that we're all in it together. That our leaders are infallible and that there is nothing, absolutely nothing wrong." - Miles Drentell, _thirtysomething_ ------------------------------ From: veena@happy.cc.utexas.edu (veena gondhalekar) Subject: mcd : Cannot initialize floppy drive Date: 5 Sep 1993 01:22:49 -0500 This started happening after I installed my machine again using SLS. It used to be fine before. # cat .mcwd B:/ # mcd b: Warning: "//.mcwd" is out of date, contents ignored mcd: Cannot initialize 'B:' # Does anyone have any pointers on this one ? Thanks. Rajesh (using a friend's account) ------------------------------ From: mrex@indigo0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de Subject: Re: anonymous ftp 0.99pl1 Reply-To: mrex@rz.fht-mannheim.de Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1993 00:45:25 GMT Malcolm Beattie (mbeattie@black.ox.ac.uk) wrote: > > The point is that ftpd does a chroot(2) and then can't see > the libraries whatever sort of links you use. You either need > to have copies of your shared libraries under ~ftp or else > only ever put statically linked binaries under there. only 1/2 true. symbolic links won't work for the anon-ftp, but hard links will work, so either of the following will work: 1) ln /lib/libc.so.4.3.3 ~ftp/lib/libc.so.4.3.3 ln -s libc.so.4.3 /home/ftp/lib/libc.so.4 2) ln /lib/libc.so.4.3.3 ~ftp/lib/libc.so.4 -Martin -- Martin Rex Rechenzentrum Fachhochschule fuer Technik Mannheim, Germany E-Mail: mrex@roxi.rz.fht-mannheim.de ------------------------------ From: ykhan@gandalf.ca (Yousuf Khan) Subject: Locking out bad sectors Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1993 08:00:01 GMT Hi, we have an IDE drive here that seems to have lost all of its reserve sectors and now bad sectors are starting to show up on the surface itself. We were able to identify what these physical sectors were by using one of the numerous DOS disk scanning utilities. Is there anything similar to these disk scanners that'll work with on of the non-DOS filesystems of Linux? If we reformat the drive to use one of these filesystems, all DOS bad sector info would be lost. The various *fsck utils that come with Linux (and Unixes in general), seem to expect files to be located there before it'll be scanned. We want to prevent from installing files onto these bad sectors from the beginning. But without files, *fsck won't scann that section of the disk. It's the proverbial chicken vs. eggs: no files, no scanning -- no scanning, no files. Please send e-mail. Yousuf Khan -- Gandalf Data Ltd. Opinions expressed are my own. ------------------------------ From: smp@solaria.mil.wi.us (Steven M. Palm) Subject: CL5426 graphics board? Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1993 07:32:07 GMT I just got a CL5426 graphics card. I believe the chipset is a Cyrix chipset. Does anyone know if this is supported in Linux for X? Thanks one and all. ---- Steven M. Palm FidoNet, if you must, 1:154/600.0 Milwaukee, WI smp@solaria.mil.wi.us ------------------------------ ** 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 ******************************