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From: Digestifier <Linux-Misc-Request@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>
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To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Reply-To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 94 17:13:21 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #918
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Linux-Misc Digest #918, Volume #2 Tue, 11 Oct 94 17:13:21 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: Beautifying Linux/Xfree (Michael Goddard)
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Re: AFS Linux? (Dan Pop)
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DOOM 320x200 RES NEEDED (Crimson)
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upgraded RAM/HD now lpd doesnt work (Steve Heistand)
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Re: LINUX on an Mac Centris 610 DOS machine (Mr D R Barlow)
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Re: PHONE for ACC Bookstore Anyone? (russ mcelroy)
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Re: [Q] SW Technology, How to reach SWT?it (Tim Bass (Network Systems Engineer))
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EtherExpress PRO Driver?? (rdonovan@wln.com)
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Re: adding a dumb terminal (Carsten Menke)
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Re: Is linux a multithreaded operating system? (Lam Dang)
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comparative listing of distributions? (Scott Anderson)
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Re: DX2-66 @ 80MHz (was: AMD mystery chip etc. etc.) (Kevin Doherty)
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Need bootdisk that will accept 32 head drive (1.1.45 kernel or later) (Bob Oesterlin)
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Re: Why does Slackware ship with an old version of joe? (Bill West)
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Re: Idek 8617 + ???? @ 1280x1024x(76-80)Hz (Mary Shenk)
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Re: GNU libc extensions (readline) - How to link? (Mitchum DSouza)
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WARNING: Xfree-3.1 XF86_Mach32 may damage non-green monitors! (Andreas Koppenhoefer)
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Re: Boot disk -> Root disk (Andreas Koppenhoefer)
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Re: Where to get Slackware 2.0.1? (Stormy Henderson)
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Q: own Bootdisk with Ramdick ? (Stephan Duhl)
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Re: Is linux a multithreaded operating system? (Steven M. Doyle)
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Re: Yggdrasil Fall 1994: buyers be aware (Jim Duncan)
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From: mgoddard@wintermute.fullerton.edu (Michael Goddard)
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Subject: Re: Beautifying Linux/Xfree
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Date: 8 Oct 1994 03:44:59 -0700
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In article <1994Oct5.141142.773@muvms6> bailey9@muvms6.wvnet.edu (Andy Bailey) writes:
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>
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> Hi,
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> Over the past year now, I have spent lots (moist likely far too much) time
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>playing with Linux. A great deal of this time has been spent of adjusting
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>look and feel aspects of the OS... [8<]
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>... What I would like to do is discuss, with
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>some other interested people, various configurations that they are using for
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>fvwm, that they feel provide unique functionality. Also, since fvwm provides
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I agree,
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Linux is extremely slick and cool -- much more so in my opinion than
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anything MS has to offer. In fact, due to "some problem with the
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RAM in your [my] machine", OS/2 won't run but Linux runs just fine.
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(Yeah, I know, OS/2 is IBM, right. Still, I don't like Windows).
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Anyhow, why I'm here is to suggest you take a look at GREAT. GREAT
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is, I think, available in the /BETA or /ALPHA directory on sunsite
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and/or tsx-11.mit.edu. It was done (actually, not quite finished yet)
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by some guys at the Free Software Association of Germany. It has a
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cool little bar that goes across the bottom of your screen, called
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"gpanel", that has a clock along with icons you can use to start
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help, xterms, news, filemanager, calculator, mail, etc. So, I say
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you should check out GREAT.
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Michael Goddard
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mgoddard@titan.fullerton.edu
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From: danpop@cernapo.cern.ch (Dan Pop)
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Subject: Re: AFS Linux?
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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 00:17:10 GMT
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In <37cakc$h64@cronkite.seas.gwu.edu> mtanen@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu (Michael J. Tanenhaus) writes:
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>Anyone heard if this will be ported?
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>
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AFS is proprietary software. If you have a source code licence from
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Transarc, you can port it and use it for yourself.
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AFS was already ported at MIT and they're trying to sort out a way of
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distributing it (at least to the sites having AFS licences) with
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Transarc.
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Dan
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--
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Dan Pop
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CERN, CN Division
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Email: danpop@cernapo.cern.ch
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Mail: CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland
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From: crimson@MCS.COM (Crimson)
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Subject: DOOM 320x200 RES NEEDED
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Date: 11 Oct 1994 10:55:36 -0500
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I am looking for a 320x200 reslution to run Doom for linux. I have a
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Cirrus Logic 5428 chipset and Goldstar 14" .28 SVGA monitor. The
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clock speed I presmue I'll use is 25.23, but I have yet to get anything
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to work. The monitor's horizontal scan freq is about 31.5. Any
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suggestions?
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crimson@venus.mcs.com
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From: heistand@iastate.edu (Steve Heistand)
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Subject: upgraded RAM/HD now lpd doesnt work
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Date: 11 Oct 94 13:43:07 GMT
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Hi,
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Back when I had 8M and only one drive my printer worked
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just great. But now that I have 16M and 2 hard drives it
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doesnt. DOS prints just fine but not linux. I thought
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I read something once about the second hard drive using
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a weird interupt number that might interfere with lp1.
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But tis is just me grabing at straws as to why my lpr
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doesnt work.
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lpc always says no daemon present, even after a enable all
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start all. I can get the lights on the printer to flash
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is I set /dev/lp1 to use interupt 7 using tunelp
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but nothing comes out. If I use polling nothing happens.
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but cat'ing to /dev/lp1 will always work.
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confused.
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steve
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--
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=-------------------------------------------------------------------------=
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= Steve Heistand Email: heistand@scl.ameslab.gov =
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= =
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= Scalable Computing Lab Phone: (515) 294-1918 =
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= 237 Wilhelm Hall Fax : (515) 294-4491 =
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= Iowa State University Home : 227 Hyland Ave Ames, Ia 50014 =
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= Ames Ia 50011 (515) 292-8445 =
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= =
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= www: http://www.physics.iastate.edu/cfd/people/heistand/heistand.html =
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= =
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= If I knew what I was doing then it wouldn't be called RESEARCH! =
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From: xuuah@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr D R Barlow)
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Subject: Re: LINUX on an Mac Centris 610 DOS machine
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Date: 8 Oct 1994 12:32:39 +0100
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In article <damir-0710941920040001@wetware.is.net>,
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damir@is.net (Damir Smitlener) writes:
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[linux on a PC board in a Mac]
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>Having asked this myself, the replies I received all said...Nope, won't
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>work. Apparently Linux needs to see an IDE floppy (? Why ?) or it has to
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>boot from an IDE hard drive. They don't sound like particularly good
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>reasons to me, but that is what I've been told.
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They don't sound much like reasons at all, although please don't
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go out and buy hardware cos I said so :-)
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I can see that you probably wouldn't be able to access the floppy from
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Linux and you might have to write your own disk controller driver, but
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if you were to put a kernel on a DOS partition and use LOADLIN to
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start it, you'd at least be running Linux. Mounting the root
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partition is left as an exercise for the reader.
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Daniel
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From: russ@dialup.rain.com (russ mcelroy)
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Subject: Re: PHONE for ACC Bookstore Anyone?
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Date: Sat, 8 Oct 94 03:48:06 GMT
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In article <1994Oct5.184600.20175@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> edg@tt740 writes:
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>Does anyone have the phone for ACC Bookstore? They are Linux CD/book
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>disktributors.
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>^^^^^^
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>
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ACC Bookstore : 1-203-454-3242 (works the world over)
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1-800-546-7274 (only good in the USA)
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--
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Russ McElroy Qualicum Beach
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russ@dialup.rain.com | VE7AJH @VE7FMY.#NVI.BC.CAN.NA BC, Canada #*#
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From: bass@cais2.cais.com (Tim Bass (Network Systems Engineer))
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Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: Re: [Q] SW Technology, How to reach SWT?it
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Date: 9 Oct 1994 14:00:39 GMT
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Marvin Wu can be reached via e-mail at swt@netcom.com or by phone
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at (214)907-0871.
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E-mail is probally best. The good thing about Marvin is that he
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sincerely tries to make things right. What more can you ask for
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in an uncertain world!
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Just a repeat customer........that's all.....
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lmr (ren@math.ohio-state.edu) wrote:
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: Because so may happy people around, I am considering to buy something from
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: SW. But how can I reach them (any 1-800 number, and where are they?
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: I requested a catalog from Fintronic and had problem to figure out
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: what they have.
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: --
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: Liming Ren |
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: Dept. of Mathematics | 231 West 18th Avenue
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: The Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio43210
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From: rdonovan@wln.com
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Subject: EtherExpress PRO Driver??
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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 94 17:53:00 PDT
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Does anyone know of a way to get support for an Intel EtherExpress PRO (Not
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EtherExpress 16) under Slackware? Any info would be greatly appreciated.
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Thanks
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Ryan R. Donovan
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rdonvan@wln.com
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From: carsten@cheops.chemie.uni-bielefeld.de (Carsten Menke)
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Subject: Re: adding a dumb terminal
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Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 02:09:25 GMT
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In article <36ungi$i41@bigboote.wpi.edu>,
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Joseph W. Vigneau <joev@garden.WPI.EDU> wrote:
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>In article <36um1f$6vi@news.doit.wisc.edu>,
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>Ka-pui Ko <ka-pui@cae.wisc.edu> wrote:
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>>
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>>I am thinking of adding a dumb terminal to my machine that is
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>>running Linux. I have an old 286 machine with serial port, with
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>>monitor, with keyborad.
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>>
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>>Is that any additional hardware that I need to get? How do
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>>I config the Linux to recognize that a dumb terminal exits?
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>On the 286, you'll need a terminal program (Qmodem, Telix, etc...)
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>Get a null-modem cable to connect the machines.
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>In your /etc/inittab, create or uncomment a line that says
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>s1:45:respawn:/sbin/agetty 19200 ttyS1
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> ^^^^^ ^^^^^
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> (1) (2)
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>1) Change to the highest speed you can reliably receive |
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>2) Change to which serial port you want to hang the 286 off of.
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>Then do an init 4 or init 5 (or just reboot), and you should get a login
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>prompt on the terminal.
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>
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>--
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>joev@wpi.edu, joev@hotblack.gweep.net WPI Computer Science Linux!
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> <a href="http://www.wpi.edu:8080/~joev"> Click Here! </a>
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If you are running at runlevel 6 you have the make the following change:
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original:
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s1:45:respawn:/sbin/agetty 19200 ttyS1
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changed:
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s1:456:respawn:/sbin/agetty 19200 ttyS1
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Carsten
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--
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Carsten Menke | Phone [int+49] +521-106-6276;
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Universitaet Bielefeld | Fax [int+49] +521-106-6146;
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Fakultaet fuer Chemie, AC I | E-Mail: carsten.menke@post.uni-bielefeld.de
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D-33501 Bielefeld (Germany) | A cleaned desk is a sign of a sick mind (by ???).
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From: dangit@netcom.com (Lam Dang)
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Subject: Re: Is linux a multithreaded operating system?
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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 13:50:53 GMT
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Jeff Kesselman (jeffpk@netcom.com) wrote:
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[cut]
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: This blocking business is an implementation detail. I don't think its a
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: terminology issue. This whole discussion goes to illustrate my OTHER
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: point (deleted) that the terms thread, task and process are often used in
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: different ways. The whole area of terminology is muddied, this is
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: PARTICULARLY true when referrign to 'threads'.
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For historical perspective, in IBM's MVS a "job" runs in its own address
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space. Each job consists of multiple, concurrent "tasks" which share the
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same address space.
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And, just like today's threads, MVS tasks do get in each other's way, and
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reading dumps is still a required skill in MVS shops.
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--
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Lam Dang
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dangit@netcom.com
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From: baal@garnet.msen.com (Scott Anderson)
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Subject: comparative listing of distributions?
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Date: 11 Oct 1994 10:10:41 -0400
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This has got to be a FAQ by now, but I don't find it anywhere...
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is there a comparative listing of the distributions, as far as ease of
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installation, feature set, etc?
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please reply by email, i've wasted enough bandwidth with this request :)
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thanks in advance,
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-scott
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Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.os.linux.admin
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From: doherty@coolpro.melpar.esys.com (Kevin Doherty)
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Subject: Re: DX2-66 @ 80MHz (was: AMD mystery chip etc. etc.)
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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 13:52:11 GMT
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In <1994Oct11.090558.12780@ka4ybr.com> mah@ka4ybr.com (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR) writes:
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>Perhaps one of those Peltier Junction devices would fit?
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> Just a thought.
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Just buy one 'o those small 1-2 cubic foot refrigerators and modify it
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into a PC enclosure. That way, your WHOLE machine runs cooler, and you
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have someplace for beer besides.......
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This is only half a joke, BTW - I actually considered doing this to try
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to get my (Intel) DX2-66 to run at 100 MHz. It runs fine at 80; when I
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try to speed it up more the external cache fails. Chips run faster at
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the cooler end of their environmental range, by a factor of 20% or more.
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Another way to speed things up is to crank the voltage up a bit. 5V chips
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often work fine up past 7V; works fine in the lab, though I'm hesitant to
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do it to my machine at home. Heat becomes an even worse problem as well.
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(I know the above from job-related testing of standard commercial devices
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in liquid nitrogen. At -200 C we would routinely get a 2X improvement in
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device speed.)
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PS: Ran some benchmarks on my nominally 80 MHz machine; I saw only a 6%
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speedup in CPU-intensive tasks. This implies that I'm RAM limited, not
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CPU limited. BUT my video performance went up 16%; I suspect because my
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VLB is running at the new bus rate.
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--
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===============================================================================
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Kevin Doherty E-Systems/Melpar Division kdoherty@melpar.esys.com
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Principal Engineer Ashburn, VA 22011 (703) 729-6000x3675
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From: oester@vnet.ibm.com (Bob Oesterlin)
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Subject: Need bootdisk that will accept 32 head drive (1.1.45 kernel or later)
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Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 13:16:31 GMT
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Reply-To: oester@vnet.ibm.com
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I'm doing a fresh install on a system with a 540 meg drive that has
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32 head. All the bootdisks I can find only work on drives with 16
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heads. I know the 1.1.45 kernel fixes this, but I can't make it
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because I don't have a system to install.
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Does anyone have a boot disk that has a 1.1.45 or later kernel? An
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ftp site would do just fine!
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Thanks, Bob
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Bob Oesterlin, IBM AS/400 Division Dept 54T, Rochester MN 55901
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IBM IPNET: oester@rchland.ibm.com Internet:oester@vnet.ibm.com
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Phone: (507)-253-4528 (tie) 553-4528 ICBMNet: 44N 92.5W
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From: billw@starbase.neosoft.com (Bill West)
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Subject: Re: Why does Slackware ship with an old version of joe?
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Date: 11 Oct 1994 14:05:37 GMT
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Patrick J. Volkerding (gonzo@magnet.mednet.net) wrote:
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: In article <37c6jm$8tl@lynx.dac.neu.edu>,
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: zachary brown <zbrown@lynx.dac.neu.edu> wrote:
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: This is incorrect. Slackware 2.0.1 contains Joe version 1.0.12, which I
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: think this is the latest version.
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I got and installed Joe version 2.2 last week on my linux box and it is well
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worth doing the upgrade:-) There is also a new version for dos out and it
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works just as good as the UN*X versions (bye-bye does editor).
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--
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******************************************************************************
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Bill West
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Houston TX
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email: billw@starbase.neosoft.com
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******************************************************************************
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From: mkshenk@u.washington.edu (Mary Shenk)
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Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: Re: Idek 8617 + ???? @ 1280x1024x(76-80)Hz
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Date: 5 Oct 1994 21:25:44 GMT
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In article <Cx7pqD.2n3@nntpa.cb.att.com>,
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Bryon G. Rigg <bgrigg@unicoi.uucp> wrote:
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>I am purchasing an Idek 8617 monitor and want reccommendations for a video
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>accellerator. The Idek reports to have refresh rates up 80Hz for 1280x1024.
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>I am looking for a card that can support this.
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<snip>
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>I have looking at prices and foound the ATI Ultra Pro 2Mb (Mach 32) fits
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>within my operational and monetary constraints. Can this board give me
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>the refresh rates that I am looking for?
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>
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Depending on your exact XConfig, you can expect 74-76 hz at 1280x1024 at
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the maximum pixel clock of 135 Mhz. Not too many cards go higher, and I
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imagine they may be more expensive--you sure as hell don't want to be
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running that sort of clock on a DRAM card, to start with. There may be s3
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928 cards w/higher clocks (in your price range). For the record, I'm using one
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(GUP) at 1280x1024 and 74-75 hz on a 21" and it's pretty rock-solid. Grey
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vertical edges occasionally exhibit some pulsation...wouldn't really call it
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flicker. Most will, I believe, find something in the 76hz range functionally
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equiv to 80 or so. YMMV.
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From: Mitchum.DSouza@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk (Mitchum DSouza)
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Subject: Re: GNU libc extensions (readline) - How to link?
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Date: 10 Oct 1994 10:50:33 GMT
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In article <375er7$su8@dunx1.ocs.drexel.edu>, FEARNLCJ@DUVM.OCS.DREXEL.EDU writes:
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|> I decided to write some C code using the GNU libc extension, readline.
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|> But when I compile (even with -lgcc as the last arg on cmd-line):
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|> poly-render.c:75 (/tmp/cca004401.o): Undefined symbol _getline
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|> referenced text segment
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|> So I tried "cd /usr/lib; nm lib* | grep readline" and it wasn't there.
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|> It would seem readline (and other GNU libc extensions) aren't in the
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|> standard shared libs? I have Slackware 1.2.1 - soon to be upgraded,
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|> but that's where my D series came from - 1.1.51 kernel and sundry other
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|> upgrades too :)save
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getline() is not in 4.5.26, but is in the upcoming 4.6.x library.
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|> Is there a way to include the symbol without linking? I was able to
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|> create a .o file without difficulty. It wasn't in the GCC-FAQ, so
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|> I ask :)
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Just link in the object you were able to compile for the time being.
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Mitch
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From: koppenas@tick.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Andreas Koppenhoefer)
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Subject: WARNING: Xfree-3.1 XF86_Mach32 may damage non-green monitors!
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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 10:10:20 GMT
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Hello out there,
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first of all I want to notice that Xfree86-3.1 runs fine with my ATI
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Graphics Ultra PRO Mach32 together with a Sony Multiscan 17se (it's a
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"green" monitor with powersaving capability).
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While running 'startx -- /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_Mach32 :0 -bpp 16' and
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about 10 minutes of inactivity the screensaver blanked out my
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screen. And surprisingly my monitor went into powersaving mode.
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That's exactly what I want to get.
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But... I've never enabled any powersaving option!
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While running 'startx -- /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_Mach32 :0 -bpp16' (which
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is a 8-bit server -bpp 8) my monitor doesn't switch to powersaving
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mode while screensaver is active!? Why not?
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And here's the problem: What if my monitor wouldn't like powersaving
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signals? I suppose *NON-GREEN*MONITORS*MAY*GET*DAMAGED* by this behavior!
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Whow can I enable powersaving signals with -bpp 8 server and whow to
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disable with -bpp 16 ???
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The man-page states a option keyword for XConfig-files, but mach32
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server doesn't recognize. In the announcement for Xfree-3.1 one can
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read that green-functions are not yet available for mach32!??
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Ok, someone out there who can clarify this behavior? I've not enough
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disk space to hold Xfree-source. Therefore I'm not able to check
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sources. Please don't blame me for this warning posting. It's a caveat
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from someone who has already blown two brand new monitors this summer :=(
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- Andreas
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Andreas Koppenhoefer, Student der Universitaet Stuttgart, BR Deutschland
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prefered languages: German, English, C, perl ("Just another Perl hacker,")
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SMTP: koppenh@trick.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
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privat: Belaustr. 5/3, D-70195 Stuttgart, Germany,
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Earth, Sector ZZ9 plural Z alpha
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phone: +49 711 696378 and +49 711 694111 (19-22h MEZ=GMT+1)
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From: koppenas@tick.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Andreas Koppenhoefer)
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Subject: Re: Boot disk -> Root disk
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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 10:28:22 GMT
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In article <36k9lv$beu@mailer.fsu.edu> koshy@open.cs.fsu.edu (Pramod Koshy) writes:
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The problem I am having is that the boot disk makes a Ram disk and then
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boots the system from RAM. Then it tells me to load the root disk which also
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works fine. After this when I try to run the fdisk , it says "out of memory"
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.Having only 4 MB of RAM , i need the command that disables the ram disk and
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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loads the boot, root from the floppy. The information accompanying the
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distribution I have does not give me any information on how to do it. Can
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somebody please help me.
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You should try 'ramdisk=0' option at lilo prompt. Don't forget to
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specify your bootimage at first.
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Andreas
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--
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Andreas Koppenhoefer, Student der Universitaet Stuttgart, BR Deutschland
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prefered languages: German, English, C, perl ("Just another Perl hacker,")
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SMTP: koppenh@trick.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
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privat: Belaustr. 5/3, D-70195 Stuttgart, Germany,
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Earth, Sector ZZ9 plural Z alpha
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phone: +49 711 696378 and +49 711 694111 (19-22h MEZ=GMT+1)
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From: Stormy@Purple.Madness (Stormy Henderson)
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Subject: Re: Where to get Slackware 2.0.1?
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Date: 11 Oct 1994 05:35:57 GMT
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Reply-To: Stormy@Grand.Mother.Com
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Marten Liebster wrote:
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A few weeks ago, there was a post about Slackware 2.0.1. It was
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the release with all the kernels from 1.0.9 to 1.1.50 and XFree86
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3.1 on it.
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Whoever said that was quite mistaken. I have Slackware 2.0.1 myself, I'm not
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sure how high the kernels go (NOT to 1.1.50, 1.1.18 or 1.1.38 sounds familiar),
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but the version of X it comes with is 2.1.1.
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It's on ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/linux/slackware/slakware/
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Be happy...
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- Stormy the happinator "The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ
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Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
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Reply to: Shall lure it back to cancel half a line,
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stormy@phs.k12.ar.us Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it."
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From: duhl@informatik.uni-kl.de (Stephan Duhl)
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Subject: Q: own Bootdisk with Ramdick ?
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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 10:37:45 GMT
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--
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Hi all,
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I want to create my own Bootdisk with a Ramdisk, like the Slakeware Boot/Root
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disks. But i haven't found any traget in the Makefiles of the kernel-source.
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I don't want to use my HD to boot. Ich will spezify the programs copying to
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the Ramdisk, and i want to use my own kernel.
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How can i create such a disk(s) ?
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so long Stephan.
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=======================================================================
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Stephan Duhl email: duhl@informatik.uni-kl.de
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University of Kaiserslautern
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From: wcreator@kaiwan.com (Steven M. Doyle)
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Subject: Re: Is linux a multithreaded operating system?
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Date: 9 Oct 1994 04:49:50 -0700
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In <jeffpkCxEDBn.L24@netcom.com> jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman) writes:
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>In article <wcreator.781683125@kaiwan009>,
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>Steven M. Doyle <wcreator@kaiwan.com> wrote:
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>>In <longyearCxDDpJ.H2C@netcom.com> longyear@netcom.com (Al Longyear) writes:
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>>I am somewhat confused on this issue. What exactly is multi-threaded? And
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>>are multi-threaded and multi-user mutually exclusive?
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>So yes, UNIX is multi-threaded in the sens that there are multiple threads
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>of control operating in a time-sliced fashion. The term 'threading' is
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>often used in multi-tasking system however to denote a 'lesser form' of
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>multi-taskign that goes on completely within a single process. thsi is
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>also sometimes called 'light-weight multi-tasking'. UNIX (and Linux)
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>don't inhearently preclude this, but implementation of it is up to the
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>makers of a light-weight tasking library (such as the berkley light-weight
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>multi-tasking library) or teh compiler system in cases where light-weight
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>multi-tasking is built directly into the compiler system (as in Modula2).
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Ahhh, I see :) People are always throwing the fact that OS/2 is a
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"multi-threading" operating system -- I never saw the point... I would
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think that there's not much of an advantage. Oh, well... :)
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>All of the above are generalizations. If you REALLY want to know more
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>then you can pick up an intro operating systems text. Particularly
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>useful would be one that discuss UNIX in detail.
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>Jeff Kesselman
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Will definitely do that.... I'm planning on getting into Linux kernel
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hacking one of these days :)
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-wc
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--
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| Steven Doyle, AKA World Creator | #include <std_disclaimer> |
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| Sysop, NETDimension (818)592-6279 | For information on Artificial Worlds |
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| wcreator@kaiwan.com | send email to wcreator@kaiwan.com for |
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| wcreator@axposf.pa.dec.com | an information package. |
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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From: duncan@bolero.okay.com (Jim Duncan)
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Subject: Re: Yggdrasil Fall 1994: buyers be aware
|
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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 06:36:06 GMT
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In article <1994Oct8.004611.87896@slate.mines.colorado.edu>,
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Myron Uecker <muecker@slate.mines.colorado.edu> wrote:
|
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> I am wondering how many of the shell scripts haven't been updated to
|
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>match the new release.
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>
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I just installed it today and have been discovering these here and
|
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there. You start an executable and then get complaints about "No
|
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such file or directory" and then have to manually shuffle things
|
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around. This release seems in some ways less satisfactory than the
|
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Summer issue (but some things are better of course). It's a little
|
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sloppy.
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--
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K-FOX| w ["] | WA6MBV
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