From: Digestifier To: Linux-Activists@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Activists@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Thu, 23 Sep 93 09:13:11 EDT Subject: Linux-Activists Digest #253 Linux-Activists Digest #253, Volume #6 Thu, 23 Sep 93 09:13:11 EDT Contents: help for X of linux Re: recompile kernel (mitchell@sosc1.sosc.osshe.edu) Re: Got trouble: Linux doesn't see UltraStor SCSI adaptor (Charles T Wilson -- Personal Account) Re: Future Domain SCSI (Jon Hamilton) Re: Where can I find the Slackware distribution? (Brett Person) Linux & HPL4 (frank mobl young) Freeware Linux BBS - READ! (Ken Geis) Re: X and Slackware 1.0.3? (Jeff Jennings) [Help] Invalid partition table message at boot (Yves LACHANCE) Another Linux Newbie SOS File system problems? (Thomas Mcannally) Re: minicom 4g (Danny ter Haar) Need help for Xconfig (Ayub Butt) maxima: Where can I find it? (Rob Prior) SLS/Slackware/What? (Dave Ferret) Phigs on Linux (Arjen Stage Sheila) UWA??? (Azad Hessamoddini) Anybody running PPP??? (Please!) (Thomas Niederreiter) Non-US keyboards... and screens please too! (Rafal Maszkowski) WANTED: device drivers (Thomas Gusset) Re: Anyone Installed Metro-X Motif on SLS 1.03 -> Install sucks!! ($ Burkhard Kohl) Re: [A]RAWDISK.SYS: QIC-80 Backup of non-DOS disks ($ Burkhard Kohl) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ghhwang@pllab1 () Subject: help for X of linux Date: 23 Sep 1993 00:52:38 GMT Dear friends, I have installed the SLS1.03 yesterday. However, there are some problems. (1) I cannot use "df" (2) While I run X, the following message appeared: >PEXExtensionInit : Couldn't open default PEX FONT ffile Roman_M Please help me! ghhwang@cs.nthu.edu.tw ------------------------------ From: mitchell@sosc1.sosc.osshe.edu Subject: Re: recompile kernel Date: 22 Sep 1993 20:56:47 -0400 Reply-To: mitchell@sosc1.sosc.osshe.edu As a follow up to my last note, I wanted to let folks know that setting the irq to irq5 fixed the conflict with cua1. Apparently the autoprobe for the 3c503 took irq 3 as the interrupt even though com2 existed. Unfortunately, irq 5 conflicts with the qic02 stuff, so I had to reconfigure the kernel so it wouldn't use qic and now both com2 and the 3c503 card work.... but the question remains: Do I have to recompile the entire kernel each time I make a minor change? Stu ------------------------------ From: ctwilson@rock.concert.net (Charles T Wilson -- Personal Account) Subject: Re: Got trouble: Linux doesn't see UltraStor SCSI adaptor Date: 23 Sep 1993 00:54:49 GMT In article <1993Sep21.152716.14299@wixer.bga.com> steveb@wixer.bga.com (Steve Benz) writes: >A friend of mine came to town this weekend with the intent of getting >Linux installed on his machine -- I'd told him it'd be an easy one-afternoon >task, but I'm afraid I ended up with egg on my face... [ much deletia ] >So anyway, that's my story, and I'd sure appreciate it if somebody could >clear things up for me. This may not be much of an answer to you, but I suggest trying the MCC boot/install disk. I have a 14FB and have had no problems with MCC-Interim. If MCC doesn't see your adapter with default factory settings (which I'm using as I type [except for the transfer speed, which I upped a bit]), then you should ask for help from one of the scsi gurus again, 'cause I'm not one of them. hope this helps... -- /-----------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Tom Wilson | "I can't complain, but sometimes | | ctwilson@rock.concert.net | I still do." | | | -Joe Walsh | ------------------------------ From: jdh@iastate.edu (Jon Hamilton) Subject: Re: Future Domain SCSI Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1993 23:33:46 GMT In article Rick_Bowers@vos.stratus.com (Rick Bowers) writes: >In article <567@acme.fred.org>, greggb@acme.fred.org (Gregg D. Brekke) >wrote: >> >> I have a Future Domain TMC-1680 SCSI controller and Linux doesn't seem >> to recognize it at all. I thought I read it was in the list of >> 'supported' hardware? >> ... >> Thanks for the help, >> Gregg > > >I've been having the same problem. I'm using the SLS version from July >1993 off of tsx-11.mit.edu. > [...] >I'd really like to get this going. The FAQ says the FD 1680 is supported, >but it somehow doesn't work. You do have to configure it in... while doing make config, answer yes to the seagate st/01 controller option. Note that the 16x0 does *not* use the future domain driver, but the seagate one. If after installing the kernel with this enabled and booting it still won't find your card/drives, you may need to set some overrides in kernel/blk_drv/seagate.c. It's well commented. And it _does_ work, I have a 1680 with no rom on it and it works like a charm. Well, an 8 bit charm, but nonetheless... > >-Rick -- ==================================================================== = Jon Hamilton | "I guess irony can be pretty ironic sometimes" = = jdh@iastate.edu | -- Airplane = ==================================================================== ------------------------------ From: person@plains.NoDak.edu (Brett Person) Subject: Re: Where can I find the Slackware distribution? Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1993 05:34:42 GMT In article <148028@netnews.upenn.edu> siehhube@gradient.cis.upenn.edu (Hubert Sieh) writes: > >Hi, I'm trying to find the Slackware distribution. Could someone tell me >where (site & directory) I can find it. Also, any opinions on this >distribution would be appreciated. > >Please email: siehhube@gradient.cis.upenn.edu > It can be found on ftp.cdrom.com. Why isn't this in the FAQ? I must see 10 messages/week asking about where to get Slackware. Could whoever handles the FAQ (Mat) please add a Slackware answer. -- Brett Person Guest Account North Dakota State University person@plains.nodak.edu || person@plains.bitnet ------------------------------ From: youngfm@wfu.edu (frank mobl young) Subject: Linux & HPL4 Date: 23 Sep 1993 01:12:12 GMT I've been using linux for about 6 mos. now, just a basic setup: 386/486, Tseng4k video, 325 megs Hd, 8M R, and your basic 24-pin dot-matrix. I don't have a lot of experience with Laser Printers and the likes, but was thinking of upgrading to an HP LJ 4L. Would I be able to still send data to /dev/lp and have it print? Do I need to compile special drivers into the kernel (In the two-dozen or so odd kernel compiles, I recall nothing along the lines of such)? Basically, will I be able to create documents/graphics, etc under linux and print them under linux, or will I need to go to a msdos environment to print the data created under linux? The info on the printer that [may] be relevent: 26 scalables, 300dpi w/RHT and mft, PCL 5, 1Meg w/HP MET, etc. I don't know what half of it means, but since this is comp.os.linux, I'm just asking if it'll run with linux(though an emailed reply from some laserprinter knowlegable person that explained some of the specs. would be greatly appreciated :). So, WILL it in fact run w/o massive modification? Any info would be appreciated very much, Thanks, Frank ------------------------------ From: bogart@ucsee.Berkeley.EDU (Ken Geis) Subject: Freeware Linux BBS - READ! Date: 23 Sep 1993 02:12:33 GMT I've seen a lot of conversation on the Linux and BBS newsgroups recently about running a freeware Linux BBS. The responses haven't been too appealing, especially from the 'freeware' standpoint. I've got an idea that's perfect for the Linux environment. Why can't we write one? I'm not up to it myself, but I'd be glad to contribute whatever knowledge and coding I could. Let's talk, Ken ------------------------------ From: jennings@lhotse.stortek.com (Jeff Jennings) Subject: Re: X and Slackware 1.0.3? Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1993 22:28:50 GMT Shannon Hendrix (shendrix@pcs.cnu.edu) wrote: : So far everyone with problems with XFree 1.3 has had : a Tseng chip, either ET4000/ET3000 and pl12. : That is news to me. I am running p12 with Xfree 1.3 on a Tseng Labs ET4000 : and zero problems (except my monitor is $500 short of being ideal... :-). : I know several others with the same setup, no problems. Only people I : know who had problems were with Trident, ATI, and some kind of Paradise : card. : Is there anyone who has it working reliably with these : video chips?? : Moi! Moi aussi! ET4000, two different machines, a 386DX 25 and a 486DX 50, no problems at all. - jeff -- Jeff Jennings | Imagination is more important than knowledge. Jeff_Jennings@stortek.com | - Albert Einstein Storage Tek - Iceberg | (~) Turn down your lights (~) LSVL 4 (303)673-7855 | U (where applicable) U GCS -d+ -p+ c++ l++ u+(++) e++ m+ s/+ n+(---) h---(*) f+(-) !g w+ t++ r- y+(*) ------------------------------ From: yveslach@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (Yves LACHANCE) Subject: [Help] Invalid partition table message at boot Date: 23 Sep 1993 05:40:35 GMT Somehow, I scrapped my partition table with Linux' fdisk. (I think) Details below. (Please respond in email.) Thank you. I first installed Linux on my drive (that is brand new) like this: /dev/hda1 10M Linux swap /dev/hda2 115M Linux extfs (ext2fs actually) I successfully mkswap'ed and mke2fs'ed these two. Then I made a new partition, for the remaining size of the drive: /dev/hda3 200M Linux extfs (ext2fs again) I had problems mke2fs'ing it, so I went back to fdisk, deleted the partition. Instead of typing "n" for a new partition, I typed "a" with the partition #3. I was told that this was an empty partition. Eventually, I figured out that I was typing "a" (for add) instead of "n". I then rebooted, and it told me, before the LILO prompt: Invalid partition table And hung up there. I have to boot with my floppy disk. When I couldn't make it work, I decided to re-install Linux from my SLS 1.03 distribution. After going through the main system (series a, b & c), it told me the same message. I tried the FIX-TABLE and the IGNORE-TABLE lines in /etc/lilo/config (and then lilo'e it), to no avail. Both MS-DOS' and Linux' fdisks read the partition table information fine... On my new configuration, I now have only two partitions, having merged the 115M and 200M ones. Can anyone help? Please reply by email. yveslach@cs.mcgill.ca ------------------------------ From: mcannall@cps.msu.edu (Thomas Mcannally) Subject: Another Linux Newbie SOS File system problems? Date: 23 Sep 1993 03:35:25 GMT I just installed Linux on my computer and I have set up X. I would like to set up some users on my system, but when use the command "adduser -m User" the directories are created, and the . files are transfered to the directory. I chmod my home directory to 755 and chown the directory so the owner is User. I also chmod this directory to 744 . The problem is that unless I am logged in as the root user I cannot write to my directory. I cannot write anything whatsoever. I also tried making home and the user directories 777 just to see if that would work, No such luck. I am stumped , I read the linux Faq and all I can find is what I should do to chown and chmod directories and files. I hace not found anything to explain my situation. Some help on this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you !!! ------------------------------ From: danny@caution.cistron.nl.mugnet.org (Danny ter Haar) Subject: Re: minicom 4g Date: Wed, 22 Sep 93 12:53:15 In article jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca (John Henders) writes: > > It seems to not have made it onto either tsx-11 or sunsite. I >checked the listings and downloaded the one with the most recent date, >and it's not 1.4g. > Please send it again, and maybe leave a note asking the maintainers >to delete the other versions and there are some really obsolete versions >up there. > sure putting it on sunsite RIGHT NOW !! :-) I dont get it on TSX-11 because i get permission denied .... but on sunsite it is in /pub/Linux/Incoming I didn't send a note to the operator yet but when I find the time i'll certainly will...... Danny -- _______________________________________________________________________ Danny ter Haar or PHILIPS DCC: combining the disadvantages of cd-rom's and tapes ------------------------------ From: butt@CAMIS.Stanford.EDU (Ayub Butt) Subject: Need help for Xconfig Date: 23 Sep 1993 04:10:46 GMT Hi Linux, I have installed a Trident (512) video card on my 386 machine, but some how I am not able to run X in VGA mode...don't have a clue why ? When I run startx script, the screen gets messed up, changes colors few times, then comes back complaining that clock rate (hz) is not right. Can someone who is using Trident card mail me the Xconfig, xinitrc and xserver files. Thanks in advance... Please respond by e-mail to any account: aabid@peso.stanford.edu ubutia@sparta.sjsu.edu ------------------------------ From: Rob_Prior@mindlink.bc.ca (Rob Prior) Subject: maxima: Where can I find it? Date: 23 Sep 93 04:08:44 GMT Someone recently posted a sampling of what maxima could do, and it appeared to be similar to maple in functionality, if not capability. Could some kind soul please direct me to an FTP site where I could get a copy? I have misplaced my copy of another posting that listed where all of the math programs for Linux could be found... Thanks in advance, RobPrior robp@unixg.ubc.ca -- ========================================================================== Rob Prior, Mech 4 Mechanical (Aeronautical) Engineering Department, University of B.C. email: a634@mindlink.uucp | snail: 4874 Greentree Pl, Burnaby, BC, V5G 3V5 ------------------------------ From: ferret@works.uucp (Dave Ferret) Subject: SLS/Slackware/What? Date: Thu, 23 Sep 93 01:09:48 EDT Pardon me, I just got here. I've only heard of the SLS release, is Slackware another packaged release, or what? How many others than SLS are there? - Thanks, . Dave Dave Ferret (Proprietor/System Operator) Inquiries to: merk!works!ferret The Works - [617] 861/8976 Informational Archives ------------------------------ From: stage@ictser.UUCP (Arjen Stage Sheila) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.help Subject: Phigs on Linux Date: 23 Sep 93 07:47:37 GMT Has anyone already ported the PHIGS package (comes with X11R5) to Linux? I have to use it for a graduating project, but I'd like to be able to do some work at home to. I've noticed that the Linux X-server already supports PEX, but the library containing the PHIGS-extensions (libphigs.a) isn't on the distribution disks. There is a version of PHIGS (called UIPEX), that promises a near complete version of PHIGS but I can't get the makefile working (I think this has some- thing to do with the differences between GNU-make and the standard UNIX-make). Any help, hints, tips etc will be greatly appreciated. AtDhVaAnNkCsE Arjen Broeze ------------------------------ From: hessamod@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Azad Hessamoddini) Subject: UWA??? Date: 23 Sep 1993 17:22:56 +0800 s there anybody out there on UWA campus that runs Linux? (University of Western Australia) ... I need your kernel. Please contact me on X2515, Thanx Azad. -- ....... This message was transmitted on 100% recycled photons. ........ ------------------------------ From: p7003ad@sun3.LRZ-Muenchen.DE (Thomas Niederreiter) Subject: Anybody running PPP??? (Please!) Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1993 10:26:46 GMT Hi! Is anybody running PPP with linux? Or does anybody know where to get the PPP-stuff? Please help me... Thanx in advance, Thomas Niederreiter ===================================================================== | Thomas Niederreiter | | alias HOR (It's not a bug, It's a feature) | | EMAIL: | | p7003ad@sunmail.lrz-muenchen.de | ===================================================================== ------------------------------ From: rzm@oden.oso.chalmers.se (Rafal Maszkowski) Subject: Non-US keyboards... and screens please too! Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1993 09:12:48 GMT Fritz Ganter (ganter@fvkmapc02.tu-graz.ac.at) wrote: : DE SCHEEMAECKER MARC (we39110@vub.ac.be) wrote: : : How do I change the keyboard? : why don't you use loadkeys? How to get not Latin-1 characters on the screen (e.g. a with ogonek). Is there any package for it or I should write it? |-8= R. -- Rafal Maszkowski rzm@oso.chalmers.se rzm@mat.torun.edu.pl <-finger for public snail: Omgangen 464-82, 412-80 Goteborg, Sweden; tel: +46-31-7780831 key Opinia publiczna powinna byc zaalarmowana swoim nieistnieniem - S.J.Lec ------------------------------ From: gusset@sparc1.ntb.ch (Thomas Gusset) Subject: WANTED: device drivers Reply-To: gusset@sparc1.ntb.ch Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1993 11:13:00 GMT does anybody know about device drivers for linux for: - analog i/o cards - digital i/o cards - IEEE 488 interface please send mail, I will summarize thanks thomas --- @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ ******************************************************* @ @ @@ @@@@@ Thomas Gusset, Neu-Technikum Buchs, CH-9470 BUCHS @@ @ @@ @ @ Abteilung Informatik Switzerland @ @ @ @@ @@@@@ phone: ++41 81 755 33 86 fax: ++41 81 756 54 34 @ @@ @@ @ @ E-Mail: Gusset@ntb.ch @ @ @@ @@@@@ ******************************************************* ------------------------------ From: buk@taz.de ($ Burkhard Kohl) Subject: Re: Anyone Installed Metro-X Motif on SLS 1.03 -> Install sucks!! Date: 23 Sep 1993 09:52:14 GMT Bradly William Wright (wwright@shell.portal.com) wrote: : Has anyone been able to get Metro-X Motif to work with : SLS 1.03? Linux Systems Laboratory claims that it will work : with SLS 1.03. When trying to run mwm, I : get an error message saying that the system can't exec: : libXm.so.1 improper format. : Has anyone been able to make it work? I've tried to mail a reply but Mailer-Daemon on unix.portal.com says: Host unknown. Please check that out. I have not installed that package, but I know that SLS installation quite frequently messes up links to lib-files. Did you check the lib directory? -- _/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ Burkhard Kohl _/ _/ _/ _/ buk@taz.de _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ die tageszeitung _/ _/ _/ _/ Germany _/ _/ _/ _/ 1000 Berlin 61 Phone: +30-259-02-120 _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ Kochstr. 18 FAX : +30-251-06-94 ------------------------------ From: buk@taz.de ($ Burkhard Kohl) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: [A]RAWDISK.SYS: QIC-80 Backup of non-DOS disks Date: 23 Sep 1993 10:04:52 GMT Juergen Prang (prang@du9ds4.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de) wrote: : Currently a lot of work is done, to implement a driver for : QIC-80 (Floppycontroller-) Streamertapes. In the meantime I : decided to write a DOS device driver, that enables logical : access to non-DOS disks/partitions under DOS. As far as I know there is an drive for floppy tape streamers for linux already available on sunsite.unc.edu: /pub/Linux/kernel/tapes/ftape-0.9.tar.z or even higher. As an aside I would like to say that we should not talk fo "QIC-80" drivers since QIC-80 only specifies the tape format. The signal interface is defined in (QIC-117 - hope that's right, i don't have my QIC interface list at hand). For the same reason you talk of QIC-02 interfaces and not of QIC-24, QIC-150 and so on. I'am not even sure wether the floppy tape drive uses the QIC-80 format - to me it would not make sense because - for backup purposes - QIC-80 is overspecified. -- _/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ Burkhard Kohl _/ _/ _/ _/ buk@taz.de _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ die tageszeitung _/ _/ _/ _/ Germany _/ _/ _/ _/ 1000 Berlin 61 Phone: +30-259-02-120 _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ Kochstr. 18 FAX : +30-251-06-94 ------------------------------ ** 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 ******************************