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From: Digestifier <Linux-Activists-Request@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>
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To: Linux-Activists@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Reply-To: Linux-Activists@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 93 04:13:05 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Activists Digest #243
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Linux-Activists Digest #243, Volume #6 Mon, 20 Sep 93 04:13:05 EDT
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Contents:
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Writing device drivers. (Hugo Eide Gunnarsen)
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Linux is very unstable (Hugo Eide Gunnarsen)
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Re: ET4000/W32 drivers for Linux? (Stephen Harris)
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Re: Is there a way to switch Com IRQ's? (Philip Balister)
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[Q] configuring dosemu (travis jensen)
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[Q] Problems setting up new accounts (travis jensen)
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Re: "Memory exhausted" problem in X solved (Lars Wirzenius)
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Linux, X and everything (Hugo Eide Gunnarsen)
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Re: X and Slackware 1.0.3? (Aron Bonar)
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xconsole could not open console (Greg Margo)
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RE: Linux is very unstable
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Lint for Linux (Greg Rhoades)
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Re: Direct access to DOS drive (Yoshihiro Taguchi 7-2072)
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Modem no longer works correctly (Bruce Varney)
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timing of ET4000 VLB & Hyundai HCM-433E (MING HE)
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Re: Linux and MS Windows 3.1 (yuck) swap space. (Ian Nicholls)
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Minicomm not working. Please help. (levinson@vax.sonoma.edu)
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Re: Fourport support for PL12 (Peter Brouwer)
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HARDWARE COMPATIBILITY LIST (erc@apple.com)
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Re: how many Linux installs? (Logan Bryant)
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Re: Linux won't let me change password for new user (Allen Mar)
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Problem with CD-Rom and WD7000FASST2 (Frank Westheider)
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Re: Making a filesystem larger than 64mb? (Mark Cosham)
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From: hugogu@slagg.met.sintef.no (Hugo Eide Gunnarsen)
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Subject: Writing device drivers.
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Date: Sun, 19 Sep 93 20:22:09 GMT
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Hi.
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I am going to write some device drivers for linux, and wonder
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if anybody have some information about this.
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Device driver for SB16 ASP.
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Device driver for MS160 Search Engine.
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I have looked at the sound device drivers for linux,
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but I could not figure out what to do.
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Hugo E. Gunnarsen
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hugogu@lise1.lise.unit.no
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From: hugogu@slagg.met.sintef.no (Hugo Eide Gunnarsen)
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Subject: Linux is very unstable
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Date: Sun, 19 Sep 93 20:26:42 GMT
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Hi.
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I'm running linux-0.99.13 on my 80486DX50 16MB RAM 490MB IDE SMC ELITE
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SB16 ASP and MS160 cards.
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I used SLS 1.03.
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My problem is tat I can not get linux to run for more than 10h before
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it's craches.
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When I export X (logg out) it craches.
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When nobody do anything it craches.
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ARRRHHHGGG !!!
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Some times (2 time) i can log in via telnet, but are not able to
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start X again because I have no free VT.
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Anybody who might now any solutions ?
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Can I start som kind of debugging ?
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Hugo E. Gunnarsen
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hugogu@lise1.lise.unit.no
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From: harris@teaching.physics.ox.ac.uk (Stephen Harris)
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Subject: Re: ET4000/W32 drivers for Linux?
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Date: 19 Sep 93 20:38:58 BST
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Dirk Hohndel (hohndel@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de) wrote:
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: ET4000/W32 is said to be working with XFree86-1.3, but none of its
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: accelerated features are used.
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A colleague of mine set up one of these things recently and found that the
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"NoSpeedup" option was needed, otherwise the system died. Other than
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that he was *well* impressed with the speed of it. Was disappointed to
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have to use his own T9000B :-)
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--
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Stephen Harris
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harris@teaching.physics.ox.ac.uk
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Opinions are just opinions, and the facts are the facts. But what are what?
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From: balister@maddog (Philip Balister)
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Subject: Re: Is there a way to switch Com IRQ's?
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Date: 19 Sep 1993 20:01:59 GMT
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Reply-To: pbaliste@vt.edu
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Dhaliwal Bikram Singh (a228dhal@cdf.toronto.edu) wrote:
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: I was wondering if there exists a program to switch the IRQ number
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: of /dev/modem (or /dev/ttys2) to IRQ 5 instead of IRQ 3 (which is
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: controlling my top secret death ray). I know you can do it in the
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: kernal if a #define or something, but I am runing a very small
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: linux system at the moment and don't have the Gnu C compiler working
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: (as well I don't have the swap space). Any help appreciated.
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Get the setserial package from tsx-11. It lets you do this and
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more.!
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It's in pub/linux/sources/sbin/setserial-2.01.tar.z. I think it
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includes a binery as well.
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Philip
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--
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Reply to: pbaliste@vt.edu
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Linux: The choice of a GNU generation!
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From: jensen%peruvian.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (travis jensen)
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Subject: [Q] configuring dosemu
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Date: 19 Sep 93 14:59:31 MDT
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I am having a difficult time getting dosemu configured for my
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system. It is:
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Packard Bell 486dx33 w/1M video ram, 234 MB HDD, and two floppies.
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I am using SLS v1.03 and MS-DOS 6.0.
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What would be ideal is if somebody with the same or similar system
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could send me a copy of their config so that I could look over
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it.
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Travis
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--
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Travis A. Jensen
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jensen@peruvian.cs.utah.edu (preferred)
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jensen@cadehp0.eng.utah.edu (next best)
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"My elelator! Not your elelator, my elelator!!"--Baby Plucky Duck
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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From: jensen%peruvian.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (travis jensen)
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Subject: [Q] Problems setting up new accounts
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Date: 19 Sep 93 15:02:59 MDT
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I am having problems adding users to my system (SLS 1.03).
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I use 'useradd <name>' and then try to 'mkpasswd <name>'
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and get an error 'no SBM(?) database'. I try to log into
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the newusers account (well, it is my account) and I can't
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I don't know if this is a linux question or unix question,
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but any help would be appreciated. (BTW, I have checked
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the FAQ :)
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Travis
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--
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Travis A. Jensen
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jensen@peruvian.cs.utah.edu (preferred)
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jensen@cadehp0.eng.utah.edu (next best)
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"My elelator! Not your elelator, my elelator!!"--Baby Plucky Duck
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From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
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Subject: Re: "Memory exhausted" problem in X solved
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Date: 20 Sep 1993 00:24:25 +0300
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hancu@crim.ca (Marius Hancu) writes:
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> Following his advice on a related query, I inserted the following
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> lines in my /etc/rc file:
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> mkswap -c /dev/hda2 16500
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> swapon -a
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Only the swapon command should be needed in /etc/rc; the mkswap needs
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to be only once for each swap area (the mkswap doesn't really hurt,
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except it takes a little while to run, and if you ever use /dev/hda2
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for something else and forget to remove the mkswap from /etc/rc,
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you're screwed).
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> Would someone comment on why I had to insert these lines in those
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> files? I would have expected to get by just by the commands at
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> partitioning time. Don't they have a lasting effect?
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The mkswap program writes a `swap area signature' to the file, in
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addition to doing some other stuff (I'm not sure exactly what, but
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that is irrelevant). This has a ``lasting effect''.
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The swapon tells the operating system that it can use a particular
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swap area. This has to be done each time the system is started, and
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that's why the command has to be in /etc/rc (which is run when the
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system starts).
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--
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Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi (finger wirzeniu@klaava.helsinki.fi)
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MS-DOS, you can't live with it, you can live without it.
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From: hugogu@slagg.met.sintef.no (Hugo Eide Gunnarsen)
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Subject: Linux, X and everything
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Date: Sun, 19 Sep 93 22:06:35 GMT
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I have found out, that if getty is swapped out, X will not
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restart, and I will not get any contact with the keyboard.
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If anybody have found out how to avoid this problem, or how
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to mark a prosess as non swappeable, please mail me.
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Hugo E. Gunnarsen
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hugogu@lise.unit.no
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From: aron@luxor.ced.berkeley.edu (Aron Bonar)
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Subject: Re: X and Slackware 1.0.3?
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Date: 19 Sep 1993 22:27:34 GMT
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In article <geoffw.748247859@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU>, geoffw@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Geoffrey Warren Hicks) writes:
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|> Posted on behalf of a friend who does not have net access
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|> ---------------------------------------------------------
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|> cooper@s1.elec.uq.oz.au (Robert Cooper) writes:
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|>
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|> > Has anyone else had trouble with XFree86 that came
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|> > with the latest Slackware release??
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|>
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|> Yes!!!
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|>
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|> > I have an ET4000, Logitech mouse and 486 DX 33.
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|>
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|> I also have an Et4000 and a Logitech (bus) mouse, but a 386dx40
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|> > I have configured X for 800x600 256 colours with a
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|> > virtual screen of 1024x768. After using it for
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|> > about 10 to 20 minutes, the whole system freezes
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|> > requiring a hard reset.
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|>
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|> I don't think I have this problem (then again, I haven't run X for
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|> 20 minutes yet!!) My problem is that switching between virtual consoles
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|> or exiting the server causes the video output to go into some weird text
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|> mode that rolls the screen and is filled with "smiley" characters. Going
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|> back to the graphic console displays a crapped out graphics screen. Exiting
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|> the server and restarting it (blind!) restores the graphic screen, but the
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|> same behaviour ensues when you switch/exit.
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|> But sometimes, it doesn't do this.
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|>
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|> I think the ET4000 driver has a few problems, although XFree86 1.2 from the
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|> SLS was used for approx six months with no problems.
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|> I've mailed xfree86@physics.su.oz.au but have yet to get an answer.
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|>
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|> Any ideas, anyone?
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|>
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|> Craig Southeren
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I can't complain of any of those problems. I'm using Slackware 1.02 on
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a 486dx-50 with an ET4000 based card (Orchid Prodesigner 2s) running
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at 1024x768x256. Also using a Logitech mouse (serial).
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No video problems yet. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
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From: gmargo@netxcom.netx.com (Greg Margo)
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Subject: xconsole could not open console
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Date: 19 Sep 93 23:16:38 GMT
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Has anyone run into this problem?
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I am running SLS 1.03 with Xfree, using twm. I want to run 'xconsole'
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but it only prints the message "Couldn't open console". I have tried
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using chmod 666 on the appropriate tty and the -f device option on xconsole.
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Anyone have a clue?
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gm
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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1993 04:35:14 CDT
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From: <K111114@ALIJKU11.BITNET>
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Subject: RE: Linux is very unstable
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Uh, oh, you are using patch-level 13 ! This is a very much ALPHA kernel!
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Better use pl12, or don't complain ;-)
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/Herp
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From: greg@gladrial.lakes.trenton.sc.us (Greg Rhoades)
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Subject: Lint for Linux
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Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1993 03:07:29 GMT
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Does anyone know if Lint has been ported to Linux and where it might be?
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Thanks for any info.
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From: ytaguchi@titcc04.cc.titech.ac.jp (Yoshihiro Taguchi 7-2072)
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Subject: Re: Direct access to DOS drive
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Date: 19 Sep 93 22:32:40 GMT
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Reply-To: ytaguchi@cc.titech.ac.jp (Yoshihiro Taguchi 7-2072)
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In article <26qnu3$cdr@crcnis1.unl.edu> ctran@unlinfo.unl.edu (cuong tran) writes:
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If I have missunderstood what you would like to know, please forgive me.
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Do as followings,
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1) # mkdir /home2 (or with some other suitable name)
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2) # mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /home2
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Hereafter, by doing % cd /home2, you can access to msdos hd.
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When you would like to set up these things automatically everytime you boot system,
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add one line
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/dev/hda1 /home2 msdos defaults
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to /etc/fstab.
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tag (phys/titech/japan)
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From: varney@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Bruce Varney)
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Subject: Modem no longer works correctly
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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1993 03:19:07 GMT
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I just installed the most recent SLS version, and I can no
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longer get my modem to work correctly. Previously, I had a version
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of SLS from last december, and my modem worked fine using /dev/ttys2
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(com3 -- device c, 4, 66). Now, I cannot get the modem to work
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at all when I link /dev/modem with /dev/ttyS2 (c, 4, 66), or
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when I link it with /dev/cua2 (c, 5, 66). My modem still works
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like a gem in DOS. Anyone have any ideas?
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Bruce
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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From: cs921022@iris.ariel.yorku.ca (MING HE)
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Subject: timing of ET4000 VLB & Hyundai HCM-433E
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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1993 04:31:24 GMT
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The following is part of my startx.log:
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VGA256: et4000 (mem: 1024k numclocks: 16)
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VGA256: clocks: 25.2 28.3 32.4 34.8 28.9 35.9 25.5 36.0
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VGA256: clocks: 48.3 54.3 62.4 69.0 76.8 86.2 60.5 72.1
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VGA256: Mode "800x600": mode clock = 36.0, clock used = 36.0
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VGA256: Mode "1024x768": mode clock = 85.0, clock used = 86.2
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VGA256: Mode "640x480": mode clock = 25.0, clock used = 25.2
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VGA256: Virtual resolution set to 1024x1024
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What is clocks? Is those frequencies belonging to the ET4000 or the
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monitor? I supose that is of the ET4000 and has a unit of MHz.
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The clocks in the three mode lines is always changing. Why? And can
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I force them to run a specfied clock?
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I'm using standard Xconfig VESA timing like below:
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"640x480" 25 640 664 760 800 480 491 493 525
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31 640 664 704 832 480 489 492 520
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"800x600" 36 800 824 896 1024 600 601 603 625
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40 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628
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50 800 856 976 1040 600 637 643 666
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# "1024x768i" 44 1024 1040 1216 1264 768 777 785 817 Interlace
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"1024x768" 65 1024 1032 1176 1344 768 771 777 806
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75 1024 1048 1184 1328 768 771 777 806
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85 1024 1032 1152 1360 768 784 787 823
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How can I change those above? What reading is needed?
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Thanks,
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/ming
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--
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Ming He / ------ +-+ +--+ "Are you believing that soul
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/| |-| | |-| |--| lives independently from
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Video: cs921022@ariel.Yorku.CA | |_| | +-+ |--| the physical existing?"
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Audio: (416) 669-6427 [H] | | / | -- H.M.
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*|-|*|\/|*|-|*|\/|*IMAGING THE UNIVERSE STARTED FROM A DOT*|-|*|\/|*|-|*|\/|*
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From: iann@cnw01.storesys.coles.oz.au (Ian Nicholls)
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Subject: Re: Linux and MS Windows 3.1 (yuck) swap space.
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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1993 03:52:41 GMT
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krej@electrum.kth.se (Kristian Ejvind) writes:
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> .... and linux can't swap on the dos file system.
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A simple question. Why? Is the msdos file system code not up to it?
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Mkswap creates identical files on xiafs and msdos (and presumably other)
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file systems, but swapon says that it can't find the swap signature.
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--
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"In some parts of the city, curiosity didn't just kill the cat, it threw
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it into the river with lead weights tied to its feet" - Terry Pratchett
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Ian Nicholls Phone : +61 3 829 6088 Fax: +61 3 829 6886
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The opinions of the poster do not necessarily represent those of the company.
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Subject: Minicomm not working. Please help.
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From: levinson@vax.sonoma.edu
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Date: 19 Sep 93 10:18:56 -0800
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I have just ftp'd the source for MINICOM off of sunsite.unc.edu.
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I have linux .99pl12 and all the up to date libraries and compiler.
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After I make all, and try to run the program, I get the following error
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message:
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Segmentation fault (core dumped)
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What does this mean? I checked the config.h and makefile to make sure
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everything was set properly for Linux.
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Also I noticed that the make install places the files in /usr/local/bin. I
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don't have a usr/local/bin, just a usr/bin. Should I just make it a symlink to
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usr/bin?
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Any help would be appreaciated.
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--
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Eric Levinson
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rcisnet2!root@moon.nbn.com | Home computer (UUCP)
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levinson@vax.sonoma.edu | Vax
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I can also be reached on my BBS system, Color Galaxy Milky Way (415) 883-0696
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From: pb@idca.tds.philips.nl (Peter Brouwer)
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Subject: Re: Fourport support for PL12
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Date: 20 Sep 93 06:57:53 GMT
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Reply-To: pb@apd.mts.dec.com (Peter Brouwer)
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In <27e4oq$p8q@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> tytso@athena.mit.edu (Theodore Ts'o) writes:
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> From: ackad@eis.cs.tu-bs.de (Claude Ackad)
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> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1993 13:28:22 GMT
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> Does the fourport support (AST fourport card) exist for the
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> kernel 099PL12? What are the right settings for the kernel?
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> Thanx for any hints.
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>Yes; from the INFO-SHEET:
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>0.3.3 Supported hardware:
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> Other hardware: SoundBlaster, ProAudio Spectrum 16, Gravis
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> Ultrasound, AST Fourport cards (with 4 serial ports), several
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> models of Boca serial boards, the Usenet Serial Card II, several
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> flavours of bus mice (Microsoft, Logitech, PS/2).
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>You will need the setserial version 2.01 to get the AST Fourport serial
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>ports to be configured (in /linux/sources/sbin on tsx-11.mit.edu).
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>Configure the AST Fourport cards in enhanced mode, not in compatible
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>mode, and use separate IRQ's if you have two Fourport cards --- although
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>the Fourport docs claims that two Fourport cards can share an IRQ, I've
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>never seen it work. I generally use IRQ 5 and IRQ 2 for my two AST
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>Fourport cards.
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For detailed info look in the file serial.c in the kernel sources. It is
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located in the subdir chr_drv.
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I do not have the sources at hand but if I remember correctly there are #define
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flags to enable the support for various serial cards ( 3 if I remember
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correctly). In my case the auto detect did not work. You can either use
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setserial or swith of the autoirq for serial io. I modified the config.in
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script for this.
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In the source you can also find which IO address and IRQ to use and the major
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and minor numbers for the tty entries in /dev
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--
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/\_/\
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(0 0)
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===================================oOO==(_)==OOo============================
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# Regards, Peter Brouwer, / Digital Equipment Enterprise,
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# NET : peter.brouwer@apd.mts.dec.com \ WorkGroup Systems,
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# DIGITAL : HLDEO1::BROUWER_P,829-4218 / Dep Office Product Sets, P.O.Box 245,
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# PHONE:[+31][0]55 43 ext 4218,fax 2103\ 7300AE Apeldoorn, The Netherlands.
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From: erc@apple.com
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Subject: HARDWARE COMPATIBILITY LIST
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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1993 07:00:40 GMT
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Reply-To: erc@apple.com
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--
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Ed Carp, N7EKG erc@apple.com 510/659-9560
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anon-0001@khijol.uucp
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If you want magic, let go of your armor. Magic is so much stronger than
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steel! -- Richard Bach, "The Bridge Across Forever"
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
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From: lbryan@sinkhole.unf.edu (Logan Bryant)
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Subject: Re: how many Linux installs?
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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1993 07:27:09 GMT
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Andreas Helke (andreas@fly.mgen.uni-heidelberg.de) wrote:
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: In article <1993Sep16.083313.13552@truffula.sj.ca.us>
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: cls@truffula.sj.ca.us (Cameron L. Spitzer) writes:
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: >I work for a hardware and systems company. We have an
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: >Interoperability Lab where they install our products on
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: >the OSes our customers run, test our drivers, run
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: >benchmarks, etc.
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: >I want the Lab to install Linux and check it out. But
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: >I can't make a business case for doing it without knowing
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: >how big the Linux market is. (All of Unix is only about
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: >5% of our market.) How many people run Linux,
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: >on how many machines? If you think you know or have a way to
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Well, if you're taking a poll, I use it. I'm not a sysadmin, nor am I a UNIX
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guru or anything of that sort. Just you're average Joe User....and I love it.
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Logan
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<lbryan@unf6.unf.edu>
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From: allenm@sfu.ca (Allen Mar)
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Subject: Re: Linux won't let me change password for new user
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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1993 07:22:11 GMT
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winstead@cs.tulane.edu (Teddy Winstead) writes:
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>I used the latest SLS distribution of Linux from sunsite.unc.edu, and
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>when I added a user with useradd, things went smoothly until I tried
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>to log in. The passwd field is totally blank in the passwd file, as is
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>the entry in the shadow file. When I log on, I type the user name,
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>and Linux informs me that my password has expires, and that I should
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>select a new one. It then promptly tells me (without letting me
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>type anything in) that the password cannot be changed. I have triple
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>checked my permissions on all pertinent files, and can't figure out what in
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>the hell is wrong. Anybody got any ideas?
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Try setting a password for the user (from root) 'passwd <userid> <password>'.
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The syntax may be not quite right, as I've not used my linux install for
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a coupla weeks, but I had to go thru similar "problems" with that.
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>ted
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Allen
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allenm@wizard.ucs.sfu.ca
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From: higgins@rom.uni-paderborn.de (Frank Westheider)
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Subject: Problem with CD-Rom and WD7000FASST2
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Date: 20 Sep 1993 09:47:59 +0200
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HI Folks !
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I'm running Linux SLS1.03 and pl12a with my WD7000FASST2 SCSI without
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problems. But yesterday i connecte a SCSI-2 Toshiba CD-Rom.
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First contact was good,mounting iso9660 works, but...
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No audio capability. The Workman (with or without SCSI-2 ioctl-Patch)
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didn't work, the xcdplayer works neither !
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Any help appreciated !
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Is this a bug in the WD7000, the WD7000-driver, the CD-Rom or the
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application-program ??
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Ciao
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and thanx
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Frank Westheider (higgins@delbox.zer.de higgins@uni-paderborn.de)
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From: inu574f@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au (Mark Cosham)
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Subject: Re: Making a filesystem larger than 64mb?
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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1993 05:18:40 GMT
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harpoon@diku.dk (Morten Krog) writes:
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>Hi,
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>How do I use mke2fs to create a filesystem larger than 64mb. I want to have
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>a partition on my harddisk (size 75mb) installed with Linux, but I cannot
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>format the partition. As I read the doc, mkfs is unable to do this but
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>mke2fs should be able. I don't have mkefs so don't suggest that I use that.
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>PLEASE help. Any help will be appriciated.
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>Morten
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Hi. I've used the ext2 format quite successfully with partition sizes
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of 120Mb, so it should cope with 75Mb ok.
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Mark Cosham
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--
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Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
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===========> <=======> <=======> <=======> <=======> <=======> <===========
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Mark Cosham Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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cosham@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au inu574f@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au
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