From: Digestifier To: Linux-Activists@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Activists@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Tue, 28 Sep 93 09:13:06 EDT Subject: Linux-Activists Digest #269 Linux-Activists Digest #269, Volume #6 Tue, 28 Sep 93 09:13:06 EDT Contents: Re: SoftLanding Message (Lanfranchi Thierry) New Great Linux Plus CDROM (Roman Yanovsky roman@btr.com) Summary of (Re: Common Lisp on 486 machines?) (Tomohiro Shibata) Re: Memory LEAKING!*=--.._ (Marino Ladavac) A Western Digital 8003E TCP/IP driver for Linux (Mikel L. Forcada) Linux as Gateway (Antonio Moreno Peleteiro) ET4000 and 32K or more colors on X (Stavros Sotirchos) Re: NetBSD, FreeBSD or Linux on IBM AMBRA platform? (Henrik Lund) Re: How does Linux compare to SUN IPC? (R. Stewart Ellis) Trantor support in Linux (Tony White) Re: WordProcessor (~=TEX) for Linux (R. Stewart Ellis) Re: ET4000 and 32K or more colors on X (JEFF EPLER) Re: Word Processor for Linux (lout) (R. Stewart Ellis) linux and modems? (CAM PROCTOR) Office Package (Island Draw Write Paint) for Linux (Thomas Uhl) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: lanfra_t@xenon.epita.fr (Lanfranchi Thierry) Subject: Re: SoftLanding Message Date: 28 Sep 1993 06:48:41 GMT In article <288f4b$np5@access.digex.net>, brettm@access.digex.net (Brett Michaels) writes: |> Anyone know how to get rid of the softlanding message that appears just |> before the login prompt? |> |> |> Yes : 'rm /etc/issue' -- begin 600 signature.gz M'XL("-X"3"P``W-I9VYA='5R90"U4TV/@R`0O?=7S,V:6+GOR3WL8?^`)Q)* M+"H)A0;HH8D_?E&DU@_<[F'G,'$>;QYO,`,0BVS(N$]H1`Y1,O+$%!."C@&) MTI$7/A*7$$D#XOED%6C(3AH7``5Z11;A%;JH3>APGJ.]\Z#P=:5L+*RQ\]<&N8J">]V4O2AG+Y'-N7 MT>'_ZU]\6[@H9F1B0;**&4,U%P^'.>_]3%6KE51"-;RB`I2^,)W-/-A6W9OV M'=_;'M:+\6YT6YLXO`K"8;DQ'G'<@].UJZ:>7X8Z3<>/)XHello! : > Just installed SLS 0.99.12 and hooked that baby right up to the : >net. All went great and life was good UNTIL I did a top or a free. : > Here output RIGHT after bootup! HELP! I'm missing 15 meg! : > Check this out........... : : >Here's the free output: : : > total used free shared buffers : >Mem: 14964 13792 1172 1856 10696 : >Swap: 0 0 0 Slightly on a tangent, free reports only 13800 K total on my 16 M machine. Its .99pl10, btw. Does anyone know where did the rest go (I know that 1 meg is kernel text plus IO space; I'm still missing at least a megabyte?) Included in hte kernel: SYSV IPC, ext2, minix, dos, no SCSI, inet, no soundcards. Thanks, /Alby. BTW, I read I have to enable IPC during boot. How? -- Proof by Intimidation: "I'm bigger, therefore I'm right." noone@nowhere.in.particular ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1993 12:32:35 GMT From: Mikel L. Forcada Subject: A Western Digital 8003E TCP/IP driver for Linux Hi netters, is there any driver out there for those old Western Digital 8003E cards that I can install on Linux? I wouldn't like top write a new one myself... Mikel L. Forcada Universitat d'Alacant ------------------------------ From: tonim@stonehenge.ac.upc.es (Antonio Moreno Peleteiro) Subject: Linux as Gateway Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1993 18:50:12 GMT We want linux installed as a gateway, but we are having problems with the second NE2000 card. Linux boots ok, but only detects the first card and seems to stop searching for others. Both cards are well configured (had been tested under MsDos to avoid IRQ conflicts and other configuration problems). It seems that we should add a second array for the second card in /linux/net/inet/Space.c, but how should we call it to make the kernel know of it? Thats the way to do both cards work? Any help will be apreciated. Please reply by email preferably. Thanks! Toni Moreno ================================ OOO Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC) tonim@ac.upc.es OOO OOO Departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors. ------------------------------ From: ssotir@ntua.gr (Stavros Sotirchos) Subject: ET4000 and 32K or more colors on X Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 11:02:45 GMT I would like to use more than 256 colors in my X session. Is this possible and if yes how? I must mention that I have a MegaEva/2 card with ET4000 and TruaColor DAC. Mail to ssotir@theseas.ntua.gr -- Sotirchos Stavros National Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece HOME: 7 Konitsis St., UUCP: mcsun!ariadne!theseas!ssotir Filothei, GR - 152 37 or InterNet : ssotir@theseas.ntua.gr Athens, GREECE ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux.help From: lund@diku.dk (Henrik Lund) Subject: Re: NetBSD, FreeBSD or Linux on IBM AMBRA platform? Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 10:55:39 GMT hd@world.std.com (HD Associates) writes: >In article , >David W. Smith wrote: >> >> I've just recently read about the new IBM company called AMBRA. >(...) >> The first is a 5 slot ISA system with 2 VESA LB slots and built in SCSI >> and 10BaseT ethnet. >I'm interested in this unit also, especially if the on board SCSI and >E-net has a full 32 bit address bus to memory. >Does anyone know how to get technical documentation from IBM/AMBRA so >that SCSI and network drivers can be written? I don' think IBM will tell you about their machines, as an example take the Micro Channel Bus, Linux won't run on MCA bus machines, because IBM won't tell "us" how to program it. This is not to speak badly about IBM, but to warn you that the only machines hat aren't 100 % IBM compatible is IBM machines, and the don' tell YOU about their secrets. >I'll try to track something down on Monday from IBM, but a contact >would be great. I remember a Kafka like experience trying to get >technical information out of AT&T (aka "We're the Phone Company") once >in my past. >Peter >-- >Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation >HD Associates Voice: 508 433 6936 >hd@world.std.com Fax: 508 433 5267 >Looking for: Orangey-brown front leather seats or NOS covers for '73 BMW 3.0cs Have fun, happy linuxing Henrik Lund lund@dikudk All opinions expressed are my own, but if you'd like to share them it's fine. ------------------------------ From: ellis@nova.gmi.edu (R. Stewart Ellis) Subject: Re: How does Linux compare to SUN IPC? Date: 28 Sep 93 12:10:30 GMT a228dhal@cdf.toronto.edu (Dhaliwal Bikram Singh) writes: [deleted] >The SUN IPC costs many times more than a typical Linux system. That is even >if you took a 'Maxed Out' PC and put Linux on it you could give the IPC a run >for its money. Many times more? First of all, the IPC is a three-year old target, with the same processor as the SS 1+. You can probably get either one with 12M (max with 1M simms)on the IPC or 16M on the SS1+, with a 16" color monitor and 200M disk for about $2200-2500. This gives you enet, SCSI, sound and a monitor that is about the size of some "17 in" monitors I was looking at the other day at a PeeCee store. On most benchmarks this system will be somewhat faster than a 386/40, but faster by a factor of three than a PC system with a generic Tseng 4000 svga card. If people want to compare 486dx2/66 machines, lets make sure they are compared against Classics or LX's. These machines comes with a minimum of 16M. They also include sound, enet, faster SCSI, so lets put those on the PC. They may also come with a minimum of 400M disk, but I am not sure. Last I checked the Classic was available at an academic discount price of about $3300 with the 15" monitor. The LX with a 16", I believe 32M of memory, and a 400M disk was in the low-to-mid $4000 range. I believe these computers would outperform the high-end PC at about the same price with comparable features at comparable price. Raw speed is not the only issue, however. On many tasks it will take you a long time to pay back the investment of time it takes you to port or find a ported version of a package that compiles out of the box on a Sun. Linux is a wonderful thing, but if you want access to all the free packages on the net, SunOS 4.1.3 still provides an edge and the costs are comparable for comparable performance. Also with SunOS on SPARC you never have to deal with IRQ's, DMA conflicts or base address conflicts for your enet, asynch, parallel, mouse,sound and video adapters. >P.S. I am sorry about your computer, time to upgrade rather than get angry. No need for most tasks, unless he is like the DOS heads I know who want the latest hardware so they can do one thing at a time faster. I still find a 386/16 with 8M, slow RLL disk, 8-bit enet and standard ET4000 video adapter, running SVR4 (slow) to be preferable to a faster PC running Windoze or DOS. >-- >------------------------ >a228dhal@cdf.toronto.edu >Bikram Dhaliwal >(416) 845-4567 -- R.Stewart(Stew) Ellis, Assoc.Prof., (Off)313-762-9765 ___________________ Humanities & Social Science, GMI Eng.& Mgmt. Inst. / _____ ______ Flint, MI 48504 ellis@nova.gmi.edu / / / / / / Gopher,News and sendmail maintainer, all around hack /________/ / / / / ------------------------------ From: arpw@bgtys16.UUCP (Tony White) Subject: Trantor support in Linux Date: Tue, 28 Sep 93 12:36:55 GMT Is there support for the Trantor T130 SCSI card available for Linux? I'd really like to use my Panasonic CDR-25! Thanks. -- ======================================================================== Tony White | Phone: (613) 765-4279 Bell-Northern Research, Ltd. | Fax: (613) 763-4222 Dept. 0R00, P.O. Box 3511, Station C, | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1Y 4H7 | email: arpw@bnr.ca ======================================================================== ------------------------------ From: ellis@nova.gmi.edu (R. Stewart Ellis) Subject: Re: WordProcessor (~=TEX) for Linux Date: 28 Sep 93 12:43:42 GMT daved@cortex.physiol.su.oz.au (Dave Davey) writes: >In <284qs5$hrq@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> btf57346@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Byron Faber) writes: >>So I guess the answer is that there is not word processor for linux? >There is "doc", which I have to admit I have not used seriously enough to >evaluate, and I cannot see any obvious reasony why the Andrew system "ez" >could not be ported to linux since it is an X client. It would probably >consume a lot of disk space though! ez was ported by Michael O'Reilly, the author of term, who might argue about how easy it was. He uploaded it to sunsite about 2 weeks ago. -- R.Stewart(Stew) Ellis, Assoc.Prof., (Off)313-762-9765 ___________________ Humanities & Social Science, GMI Eng.& Mgmt. Inst. / _____ ______ Flint, MI 48504 ellis@nova.gmi.edu / / / / / / Gopher,News and sendmail maintainer, all around hack /________/ / / / / ------------------------------ From: jepler@herbie.unl.edu (JEFF EPLER) Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.i386unix Subject: Re: ET4000 and 32K or more colors on X Date: 28 Sep 1993 12:43:42 GMT Cc: ssotir@theseas.ntua.gr ssotir@ntua.gr (Stavros Sotirchos) writes: >I would like to use more than 256 colors in my X session. >Is this possible and if yes how? >I must mention that I have a MegaEva/2 card with ET4000 and TruaColor DAC. As far as I know, no support for greater than eight bits color depth is supported by Xfree, and will not be in the next release. However, I think that sometime in the future this capability will be supported. (I saw one comment that said, basically, "Wait for 2.1") ------------------------------ From: ellis@nova.gmi.edu (R. Stewart Ellis) Subject: Re: Word Processor for Linux (lout) Date: 28 Sep 93 12:47:08 GMT khockenb@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu writes: >In article , wescott@spectrum.cs.bucknell.edu (Jeffrey Wescott '95) writes: >>>>>>> On Sat, 25 Sep 1993 23:20:02 GMT, las@whome.uucp (Laszlo Herczeg) said: >> >>> For really small jobs, I am not using the emacs-like editor called >>> Joe which is absolutely wonderful, and does things like underlining >>> and centering. It suffices for quick jobs, and has support for 7-bit >>> and 8-bit characters. >> >> Emacs-like!?!? Hahahah! Maybe I am wrong, but isn't JOE ==> "Joe's >> Own Editor" which is distributed w/ SLS? If so, it is HARDLY like >> Emacs and more closely resembles Wordstar for DOS. Sorry, I am just a >> big Emacs fan. >Maybe he meant "jove", which is an emacs-like editor. Since joe, jove and emacs are all insert-mode editors that understand ^F,^B,^N,^P,^A and ^E, I would arrange them like: vi--elvis-----vile-----------------------joe-------------jove---------emacs (I left out uemacs on purpose because the last couple of versions I tried did idle-waiting and mucked with the permissions of the files I edited with it.) In the above scheme joe would be (sorta) emacs-like. -- R.Stewart(Stew) Ellis, Assoc.Prof., (Off)313-762-9765 ___________________ Humanities & Social Science, GMI Eng.& Mgmt. Inst. / _____ ______ Flint, MI 48504 ellis@nova.gmi.edu / / / / / / Gopher,News and sendmail maintainer, all around hack /________/ / / / / ------------------------------ From: bcp1@cc.msstate.edu (CAM PROCTOR) Subject: linux and modems? Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 12:51:51 GMT I have a 14.4K baud infotel modem. Originally it was on com3 when I installed linux. When i try to access the modem all I get is "/dev/modem (cua2, ttyS2) is busy" or when trying to use minicom "Sorry cannot open /dev/modem". I tried relinking /dev/modem and even tried accessing cua2 and ttyS2 directly. Still nothing worked. Last night in desperation I removed my serial board and disabled com1 (com2 is still there... it's my rodent) and reset the modem (internal) to com1. it still gives me the same errors on cua0 as when i was on cua2. HELP! Please reply via email. cam bcp1@ra.msstate.edu bcp1@pcmail.cc.msstate.edu ------------------------------ From: tul@tonga.heidelbg.ibm.com (Thomas Uhl) Subject: Office Package (Island Draw Write Paint) for Linux Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 12:33:08 GMT Reply-To: tul%tonga.heidelbg.ibm.com@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com Hi everybody! As I already mentioned I asked Island for a port of their quite powerfull office software package "Draw, Write, Paint" to Linux. It contains a Wordprocessor, a program for creating Images and another for vector grafics. I think it would be the right thing for everybody who is locking for a standard software package. I got an answer some minutes ago. They know Linux, but at the moment they have no plans to make a port. This may change if they will see a real market for a Linux port. Now it is your turn!!! Please send me an E-Mail if you are pricipially willing to bye a package like "Draw, Write, Paint" for Linux. I want to show that there _IS_ a market for commercial Linux software. Please don't dissapoint me :-). Send your E-mail to the following address: tul@sun1.rz.fh-heilbronn.de Thanks for your efforts! Thomas ------------------------------ ** 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 ******************************