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From: Digestifier <Linux-Admin-Request@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>
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To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Reply-To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Date: Wed, 14 Sep 94 23:14:12 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #65
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Linux-Admin Digest #65, Volume #2 Wed, 14 Sep 94 23:14:12 EDT
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Contents:
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Sound Blaster Is Installed, but I get driver errors. (Jerry Hobby)
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Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (Jon Green)
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Re: Partitioning Question (Jay Schlieske)
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Re: Need DL/Time Limiting ideas - Linux BBS (Matthew Francey)
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Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (Eric J. Schwertfeger)
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Linux v1.0 SMAIL problem (Sean Williams)
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Lockup on X Logout, S3 #9GXE, HELP! (Mad Viking!!)
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DOSEMU Xdos and the Delete Key, help please (Mad Viking!!)
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Re: F'Domain TMC950 woes (Christopher Delgante)
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Problems with xfig & Linux (Alfred Hovdestad)
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Re: talk problem (Anthony J. Stuckey)
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Re: Modem 14400 and uugetty (Michael Zill)
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Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (Daniel Poirot)
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Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (Gerry Snyder)
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From: jhobby@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Jerry Hobby)
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Subject: Sound Blaster Is Installed, but I get driver errors.
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Date: 14 Sep 1994 17:19:20 -0500
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Okay, I have Linux 1.0.9 and Windows installed on my machine. The cdrom
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and sound card both work under windows. I recompiled the kernel and added
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the cdrom and sound drivers for Linux, and the cdrom began working. Hurray!
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However, the sound card remains quiet. I did create the device files, but
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still nothing. Also, I haven't noticed any messages during the boot
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process that mention the sound driver initializing. I don't know if it should
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produce messages or not.
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Here is the output of 'cat /dev/sndstat':
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Sound Driver:2.4 (Wed Sep 14 00:23:04 CDT 1994 root@farside.neosoft.com)
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Config options: 1ae2
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HW config:
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(Type 2: SoundBlaster at 0x220 irq 7 drq 1)
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(Type 6: SoundBlaster16 at 0x220 irq 7 drq 6)
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(Type 7: SB16 MPU-401 at 0x330 irq 7 drq 0)
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(Type 1: AdLib at 0x388 irq 0 drq 0)
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PCM devices:
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Synth devices:
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Midi devices:
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No mixers installed
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I loaded a few sound applications such as 'aumix'. The aumix application
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produces the following output:
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SOUND_MIXER_READ_DEVMASK: No such device or address
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I have checked the source code and it is trying to open the correct file,
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and it exists with 666 permissions. The error is actually produced by
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an ioctl statement (or something like that).
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Any advise? Thanks, Jerry
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--
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Jerry Hobby - Houston, TX
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========================= "I am not young enough to know everything."
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jhobby@.NeoSoft.com - J. M. Barrie
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72142.1100@compuserve.com
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From: jcgreen@iastate.edu (Jon Green)
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Subject: Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!!
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Date: 13 Sep 94 18:17:19 GMT
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In <MMENDIS.94Sep13132011@splinter.coe.neu.edu> mmendis@splinter.coe.neu.edu (Michael E. Mendis) writes:
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>You can get it for ***free*** from sunsite.unc.edu (last I saw it was still
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>in the Incoming dir)
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>mike
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Wow, thanks! I never would have found it otherwise!
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:)
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--
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* Jon Green * Proud to be a member of * 5646 Friley Hall *
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* jcgreen@iastate.edu * drunk_bastards@iastate.edu * Ames, Iowa 50012-0001 *
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* Jon2@irc * *BURP* * Phone (515) 296-0648 *
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From: Jay Schlieske <schliesk@sos.net>
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.liinux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development
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Subject: Re: Partitioning Question
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Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 08:09:54 -0400 (EDT)
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Reply-To: Jay Schlieske <schliesk@sos.sos.net>
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On 12 Sep 1994, David J Topper wrote:
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> So once I set my partitions (say 250 for Linux and 270 for DOS) using FIPS
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> or FDISK - is there a way to resize the Linux partition? I mean, is there a
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> way other than backing up all the data on the Linux partition, deleting that
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> partition, then resizing the DOS partition, then remounting the Linux partition,
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> then restoring the data on it.
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Hi all !
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I would be interested in replies to this question, being that I had to
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give up approx 35 MB of my 545 MB drive, due to non standard translations
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done by my IDE accellerator, when heads go over 1024. ( I was time
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limited when transferring my linux files off of my 345 ) I have since
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learned I can work around this with the new kernel I have, (1.1.45) since
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it queries the drive directly.
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>
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> I've downloaded quite a bit of stuff for installing Linux. I don't remember
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> exactly, but I think it was all the a,ap,x,xd,xv and a few other disks (all the
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> gnu stuff too). All tolled, I think I've got about 40+. The HOWTO says a
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> ROUGH estimate is about 2.5 megs per disk. I'm just not sure how much to
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> allocate for this thing. 250 seems fine but I would love to get away with 200
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> so DOS would have more room to breathe.
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>
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> Thanks,
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>
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> DT
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>
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>
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I had almost everything on a 105 MB partition for a few months, till I
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replaced my second drive. I found that when I gave it 200 + 16 swap,
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I had lots to spare *but* it's quickly filling up, as I'm adding new
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stuff to it. (wine, dosemu, TeX). I think it depends on how you want
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to use it. The stuff available for linux seems endless.
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Yggdrassil has a plug'n'play cd and slackware has a cd version also,
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where I hear you can run some of the less frequently used binaries
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from, ( also hear it's slower ).
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I'd say you can more than get away with 200 MB (a least for a few
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months)
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Hope this helps.
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- Jay o
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Jay Schlieske <#< " Above all.... have fun. "
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+*+ Credits: smartmail __>^>__ by * Linux-Pine3.90-Smail-Term201-PoP +*+
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Crossposted-To: alt.bbs,alt.bbs.unixbbs
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From: mdf@vigard.mef.org (Matthew Francey)
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Subject: Re: Need DL/Time Limiting ideas - Linux BBS
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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 14:41:43 GMT
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gcortevi@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Greg Corteville) writes:
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>I'm currently in the process of setting up a BBS under Linux. All of the
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>BBS software I've seen for Linux already is cryptic, difficult to use for
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>callers used to MS-DOS boards, and not very configurable.
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basically, you need no "BBS Software" for a Linux machine. just setup
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the users like yourself, turn on the modem and away you go.
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well, er, there are a few other things (of course), but thats about it.
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>modify it to eliminate shell escapes and other security hazards.
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instead of worrying about the prospect of those irritating users
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getting access to the shell, why not just up and *give* it to them
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and concern yourself with other aspects of security.
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there are benefits to this approach.
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a) it is *much* easier.
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b) the users will appreciate it (eventually ... there will be whiners)
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c) you can concentrate instead on writing documentation and instruction
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files for your users.
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d) it throws the security problem into the area of general unix security,
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and there are piles of books on this to educate you. *** THIS IS VITAL
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EVEN IF YOU DECIDE TO RESTRICT SHELL ACCESS ***
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e) system administration becomes identical to that on a standard unix
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machine ... again, there are many books to help you here as well.
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f) it is completely consistent with the flavour and operating style of a
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UNIX machine. as the Borg say: resistance is futile.
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virtually all commercial internet providers will give you a shell if
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you ask. they are not terribly concerned about "security", beyond what
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steps they have taken at a lower level (see (d), above).
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Heck, the one I use even lets me (shock! dismay!) *compile code*.
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>I'll use the gopher system (which is already set-up and merely needs to
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>be called from the BBS) as a means to access this information. I need
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>the BBS software that will provide message and file areas as well as
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>E-mail. It would also be nice to have FIDO (internal or external,
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>doesn't matter) support and Usenet support.
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why re-invent the wheel?
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a) use the "gopher" program directly for gopher
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b) use a standard news reader for reading news
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c) use a standard mail reader for reading mail
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documentation exists for all these programs. and all of them are
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actually easier to use and *much* more flexible than their MS-DOS
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counterparts.
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>login time
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yes, this is a stickler for most Linux machines as they come out of the
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box. however, it is very easy to write a C program to punt idle
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users, and over-limit sessions, off the line. mine is 155 lines long.
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you will probably need a disk-space quota thing as well ... but most Linux
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machines come with such. you will have to learn how to enable it.
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> The system should be easy to
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>use because a majority of my users will be used to MS-DOS type boards
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>like Renegade and Tag.
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what i've heard, is that the average BBS user has a brain. and he/she can
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usually read as well. rather than writing bizarre shell scripts filled with
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"ACCESS DENIED", "INTRUDER ALERT", "GUARDS! GUARDS!" and "ARREST THAT USER!"
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messages (:-/), why not just sit down and document and point the new users
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to places where they can learn?
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there is *big* interest in things UNIX by alot of MS-DOS users out there.
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i suspect your users will rise to the "challenge", except for the chronic
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and terminal whiners (but you know who they are by now). for those, run
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the old MSDOS BBS program inside a DOSemu session. they deserve it. :)
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>UUCP. [detroit area]
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there is probably a "detroit.general" newsgroup (or something similar).
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just post a message there asking for a UUCP link ... it's a start.
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UUCP links are fairly easy to negotiate. for mine, I asked a guy "Can I
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have a UUCP feed?" and he said "Ok".
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>I have a lot of questions and if you've read up to the end of this
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>message I appreciate it already.
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well, considering my tone, you probably don't appreciate it. ["miserable
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running-dog Linux elitist scum!" you are probably muttering :-] alot of the
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above looks like I am sneering at *you* in particular, but thats not the
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case. i am laughing at the idea of a "BBS Program" for Linux, and am somewhat
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concerned at the prospect of an MSDOS front end (and all that it implies)
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on a Linux machine. for Linux offers you and your users a real escape from
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the basic limitations of the MS-DOS remote-access model.
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--
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Matthew Francey mdf@vigard.mef.org ve3rqx@io.org
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"live before you die" GPS(NAD27): N43o34.210' W079o34.563' +0093m
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From: eric@pandora.Las-Vegas.NV.US (Eric J. Schwertfeger)
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Subject: Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!!
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Date: 13 Sep 1994 01:50:09 GMT
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Jason Aaron Fager (jafager@chopin.udel.edu) wrote:
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: Vianney Govers <vgovers@cri.leidenuniv.nl> wrote:
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: >Sebastian W. Bunka (seb@i102pc1.vu-wien.ac.at) wrote:
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: >: X-DOOM for Linux is OUT !!!!!!!!!
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: Anybody got feedback on how much memory is required for "decent" play?
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: (I.E., as fast as running it on DOS?)
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On my machine (8 Meg Ram, 128K cache, 486DX2-66, with a LocalBus S3 805
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video card, I don't notice the difference, except that I can get it to
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coredump. In fact, the linux version doesn't exhibit a bug the dos 1.6 beta
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version does under Very Happy Ammo mode (check the DOOM FAQ if you don't
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know what that is). Now, this isn't saying that it is as fast under linux,
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just that any slowdown isn't readily perceptible to me, and doesn't detract
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from the game.
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I lost the last two days to DOOM, now I see what all the fuss is about
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(though frankly, I've just about played it out).
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Does anyone have an Xconfig for 320x200 mode? :-)
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From: swilli@corp.cssi.net (Sean Williams)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.prog,dc.org.linux-users
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Subject: Linux v1.0 SMAIL problem
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Date: 13 Sep 1994 18:23:50 GMT
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I have installed Linux v1.0 Slackware release for 24hr SLIP access
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into ClarkNet and SMTP for my Novell 3.11 LAN. Everything works
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great except some mail that is sent out through SMTP causes a
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uucp_neighbors error. I know there is a missing file called
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/usr/lib/smail/routers that will correct this with the right config
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in it. The error is :
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Xdefer: <address> reason: <ERR_127> router uucp_neighbors :
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command '/usr/bin/uuname' returned exit status EX_32256
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I know calling uuname is a bug in SMAIL and a routers file will fix
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this but I don't know wht to put in it.
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What do I need to put in /usr/lib/smail/routers to get these messages
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delivered? Thanks for the help.
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* Sean Williams (14% CNE) | swilli@corp.cssi.net *
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* Corporate Information Systems Administrator | *
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* Communications & Systems Specialists, Inc. | phone: (410)290-9500 *
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* Columbia MD, 21046 | fax : (410)290-7012 *
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From: tas@eeyore.achilles.net (Mad Viking!!)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: Lockup on X Logout, S3 #9GXE, HELP!
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Date: 14 Sep 1994 14:19:13 GMT
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Hi,
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Every 4th or 5th logout from an X session, the video
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card seems to lock up my entire system.
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I get a black screen with vertical color lines.
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The video is a #9 GXE 1MB (level 11 then?) connected
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to a 15" NEC 4fge multisync. I run at 1024*768.
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I tried:
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new X
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new Xconfig
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new Xview
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dumping Xview, going to FVWM
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using xdm, still switches hardware modes (???), need
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dosemu on console (xdos problem, next post!)
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The stability of this system is important since it controls my
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LAN and is NFSed to to other machines. Currently we're
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using a policy of "IF YOU LOGOUT FROM X, inform others", which
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is a terrible waste of an otherwise great video card.
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Any suggestions welcome,
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Todd Stiers
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jager@glide.pr.mcs.net (use this address!!!)
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tas@cam.cornell.edu
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Jager on IRC #linux
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From: tas@eeyore.achilles.net (Mad Viking!!)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: DOSEMU Xdos and the Delete Key, help please
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Date: 14 Sep 1994 14:23:46 GMT
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Hi,
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I have DOSEMU/Xdos and the VGA font working well,
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however a program I'm trying to run requires
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the DELETE key, and does not seem to work
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under XDOS or ANSI-XTERM.
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It DOES work under console.
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Im using pre53_17.
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Maybe its in my keyboard/video config for dosemu?
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Thanks,
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Todd Stiers
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jager@glide.pr.mcs.net
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From: delgante@birch.ee.vt.edu (Christopher Delgante)
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Subject: Re: F'Domain TMC950 woes
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Date: 13 Sep 1994 20:18:35 GMT
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Reply-To: delgante@birch.ee.vt.edu
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Same problem with me. It only occurs when i have a CDROM in the drive tho'
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---
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*************************************************************************
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* Written By Christopher John DelGigante DELGANTE@BIRCH.EE.VT.EDU * * DELGANTE@VTAIX.CC.VT.EDU *
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* Located at Virginia Tech,Blacksburg,VA *
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* "Where we are but playthings of Nature..." * * * *\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\*
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*************************************************************************
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From: hovdesta@teapot.usask.ca (Alfred Hovdestad)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: Problems with xfig & Linux
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Date: 13 Sep 1994 18:29:13 GMT
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I have tried three different versions of xfig (the version distributed
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with slackware 1.0.9, version 2.1.7pa and 2.1.8 and all three exhibit
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the same problem.
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After I start xfig, it starts to devour memory. After about three
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minutes everything locks up. I can usually kill the process, but it
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takes about a minute to type in 'kill -9 444'.
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I can compile the same versions of xfig under Ultrix and everything
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works fine. BTW, I have seen this problem of two diferent machines.
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I know other people are running xfig under Linux, so what am I doing
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wrong?
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--
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Alfred Hovdestad |e-mail: hovdesta@herald.usask.ca
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Systems Programmer | or: Alfred.Hovdestad@usask.ca
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Department of Computing Services | Voice: (306) 966-4819
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University of Saskatchewan | FAX: (306) 966-4938
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From: stuckey@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Anthony J. Stuckey)
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Subject: Re: talk problem
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Date: 13 Sep 1994 18:42:36 GMT
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cord@msheinz.psych.nat.tu-bs.de (Cord Hockemeyer) writes:
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>Quite simple: His host refuses to answer your finger request. :)
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>A lot of systems don't serve finger requests because this was a
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>security hole (with bad consequences) some time ago.
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The security problems with fingerd are a bit removed from immediacy.
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It's still a problem. Some of the bugs may have been removed, but you can
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still do stalker-like things on any system running fingerd. Your
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implication -- that the protective attitude employed by many system
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administrators is archaic -- doesn't do justice to the actual, continuing
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problem.
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The performance problems that finger creates and/or allows are just
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another good reason to waste the little pain in the neck.
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--
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Anthony J. Stuckey stuckey@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu
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"And if you frisbee-throw a universe where does it go?" -- Steve Blunt.
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GCS/S -d+@ p c(++) l u+ e+(-) m+(*) s+++/-- !n h(*) f+ g+ w+ t+@ r y?
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KiboNumber == 1
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From: mzill@saturn.RoBIN.de (Michael Zill)
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Subject: Re: Modem 14400 and uugetty
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Date: Fri, 9 Sep 1994 13:44:37 GMT
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In article <CvEG08.7E5@cs.utwente.nl>, debruijn@cs.utwente.nl (S.G. de Bruijn) writes:
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|> Hi,
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|>
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|> I have dial-in enabled on my box with uugetty. It works perfectly with an acient 2400
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|> Bd modem (the caller). When the caller has an 14400Bd modem too, the connection is
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|> made, but uugetty dies with a segmentation fault.
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|>
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|> I think it has to do with the missing 14400 speed line in /etc/gettydefs. Is it safe
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|> to add it bluntly? or is there any other alternative (locked on 38400, for instance,
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|> instead of auto-select through circulating speed lines in /etc/gettydefs)
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|>
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|> Any hints welcome, i want them to call!!
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|>
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First of all you should configure your modem that it returns
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the DTE speed not the DCE speed in the CONNECT <speed> string.
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Than you should enable hardware flow control for the modem and
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the serial line.
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Than you can lock the modem at 38400. So the modem is using
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the handshake lines to prevent overruns.
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Michael
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From: poirot@conan.jsc.nasa.gov (Daniel Poirot)
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Subject: Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!!
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Date: 14 Sep 1994 22:26:50 GMT
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In article <1994Sep14.143219.16741@noao.edu>, <swampler@noao.edu> wrote:
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>In article <355rm3$o92@maxwell11.ee>, kmzoerho@mtu.edu (Forkboy) writes:
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>|>
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>|> On my 486DX/33MHz, 8MB RAM, Genoa 8500VLbus 1Mb card, no sound, I got 10.4
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>|> fps. Anyone else get this high an fps reading?
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486DX2/66MHz, 20MB, Cirrus Logic 5428, no sound, 17.2 fps
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(Linux 1.1.50, XFree 2.1)
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--
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Daniel Poirot poirot@aio.jsc.nasa.gov
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NASA JSC "The mind is a terrible thing."
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ER3 tel: (713)483-8793
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Houston, TX 77058 fax: (713)483-3204
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From: Gerald.C.Snyder@jpl.nasa.gov (Gerry Snyder)
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Subject: Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!!
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Date: 13 Sep 1994 14:33:03 GMT
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In article <1994Sep12.234349.18416@taylor.infi.net>, mark@taylor.infi.net (Mark A. Davis) says:
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>
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>stjeanp@math.enmu.edu (Pat St. Jean) writes:
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>
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>>Mark A. Davis <mark@taylor.infi.net> wrote:
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>>>[previous n+1 levels of quoted material deleted for brevity] :)
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>>>OK- I have both MS-"DOS" and Linux DOOM. My machine is a 486 33 DX with
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>>>16 MB of 0 wait X 32 RAM. Adaptec 16 bit SCSI controller, Orchid
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>>>Pro Designer II ET-4000 16bit SVGA card, Sound Blaster Original, etc.
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>>>
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>>>The game absolutely flies under MS-"DOS", I can't even tell how many
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>>>frames per second, but at least 6.
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>>>
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>>>The game is completely unplayable under Linux, with a frame rate of 0.5
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>>>per second (the is the fastest in 640x480 X, in 1024x768 it is slower).
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>>>
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>>>So, the "requirement" for local bus/accelerated video is no joke.....
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>
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>>I'm not to sure about that...I've got a dx2-66 w/ 20 meg of ram and an
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>>ISA tvga 8900 chipset and it runs plenty fine. No slowness problems at
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>>all...with sound even. PAS-16. An AHA-1540b ISA scsi card. 330 meg
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>>seagate (doom is on that one). Like I said...no problems...
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>
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>Perhaps the ET-4000 is just a slow poke? At the time I bought it, I thought
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>it would be the most compatible and best performing for the price range.
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>(I replaced a very annoying and incompatible ATI VGA Wonder).
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>
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>I will continue to fiddle with things. I don't expect much better performance
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>than 1 FPS even if I use all the tricks I have left to try :(
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>(Before anyone can ask- I am not swapping, X seems to work fine, not running
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>any sound drivers at all).
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>--
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> /--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
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> | Mark A. Davis | Lake Taylor Hospital | Norfolk,VA (804)-461-5001x431 |
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> | Director/SysAdmin | Information Systems | mark@taylor.infi.net |
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> \--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
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I don't understand. I have an old 1Mb ISA Orchid et4000 on a
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33MHz 486dx, and without pixel doubling I get several frames
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per second. It is very playable. At 640x480 the image looks
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almost good, but I think I'll try to set up X to run at a lower
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resolution anyway.
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The sound does come out late on my SBP16, though.
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Gerry--Happiness is lotsa new stuff on c.o.l.announce.
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