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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: Tue, 28 Sep 93 01:13:23 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Activists Digest #268
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Linux-Activists Digest #268, Volume #6 Tue, 28 Sep 93 01:13:23 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: How does Linux compar (John Will)
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A DOS partition question. (John Will)
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Re: [A]RAWDISK.SYS: QIC-80 Backup of non-DOS disks (Philip Zembrod)
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Re: How does Linux compare to SUN IPC? (Terje Eggestad)
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Re: Auto-answer with uugetty or getty (Mark Buckaway)
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3c509 (aka Etherlink III) and NET-2 (Joseph Hoss)
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DigiBoard to support Linux!!!! (Gregory Gulik)
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PPP for linux??? (Matt Helgren)
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Help install X386_Mono (James F Hall)
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Re: WordProcessor (~=TEX) for Linux (Dave Davey)
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Re: Where can I get source for doc ? (Dave Davey)
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Re: I think my monitor is exploding..help (John A. Green)
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Re: Auto-answer with uugetty or getty (Andrew R. Tefft)
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Cannot use df (Po-ting Wu)
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TESTING -- PLEASE IGNORE (Christopher Stevens)
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Re: Can't umount! (Pawel Gburzynski)
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term? (Timothy Mark Lawless)
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Re: LPD and 1.03 (Eberhard Moenkeberg)
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Re: SoundBlaster CD-ROM support? (Eberhard Moenkeberg)
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Dead DIP (Brett Michaels)
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SoftLanding Message (Brett Michaels)
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Re: How does Linux compare to SUN IPC? (Dhaliwal Bikram Singh)
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Re: I think my monitor is exploding..help (Dhaliwal Bikram Singh)
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From: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
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Subject: Re: How does Linux compar
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Date: 26 Sep 93 22:05:00 GMT
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W >I run a computationally intensive xview program under Linux on a
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W >486DX33 in 8 seconds. The same program and data set on a Sun SPARC
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W >takes 11 seconds. Both compiles were gcc.
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There's lots of different models of the Sun sparc, which one were you
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using. Was it dedicated to the task at hand? Questions... questions...
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From: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
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Subject: A DOS partition question.
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Date: 27 Sep 93 14:36:00 GMT
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J >Let's say I partition my HD 110meg for linux, 10meg sway, and 50meg for
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J >DOS. Can I run DoubleSpace(which is what I have, so no flames about
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J >stacker being better) on my DOS partition only?
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You can run DS on the DOS partition, but Linux will not be able to access
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those files with it's MS-DOS filesystem. I don't know what the sway
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partition is for, does that rock the disk? :-) BTW, Stacker is better,
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in case nobody told you. <double grin>
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J >Also, is there a way to partition my drive without having to delete
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J >everything on it in the process?
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Nope. Welllllll, maybe. I have a program FIPS08.ZIP that I found on
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a BBS, it will shrink a disk partition if it's the only one on the disk.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc
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From: zembrod@informatik.uni-freiburg.de (Philip Zembrod)
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Subject: Re: [A]RAWDISK.SYS: QIC-80 Backup of non-DOS disks
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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 93 20:37:34 GMT
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buk@taz.de ($ Burkhard Kohl) writes:
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>Juergen Prang (prang@du9ds4.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de) wrote:
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>: Currently a lot of work is done, to implement a driver for
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>: QIC-80 (Floppycontroller-) Streamertapes. In the meantime I
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>: decided to write a DOS device driver, that enables logical
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>: access to non-DOS disks/partitions under DOS.
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>As far as I know there is an drive for floppy tape streamers
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>for linux already available on sunsite.unc.edu:
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> /pub/Linux/kernel/tapes/ftape-0.9.tar.z
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>or even higher.
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Another tape-related question: The SLS installation script offers
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installation from tape. Is this from QIC-Floppycontroler tape or only
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SCSI tape, and how does the installation work ? Just to tar the whole
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SLS directory tree onto the tape and then boot from the bootdisk and
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say "installation from tape" will hardly do the job, I suppose ?
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Do I need a special form of the SLS package, and if so, where can I
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get it ?
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--
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: whoisit? ( -- )
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." Philip Zembrod " ( zembrod@informatik.uni-freiburg.de ) ;
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From: t0e0078@tamsun.tamu.edu (Terje Eggestad)
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Subject: Re: How does Linux compare to SUN IPC?
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Date: 27 Sep 1993 16:38:40 -0500
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I fail to see the purpose, or the sanity of this argument.
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How can you compare hardware to software??
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This is like arguing about how this VCR tape compares to that VCR
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ot how the Cosby show compares to my TV!
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Let me explore the posibilities here a little bit.
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My 386/25 with no cache and 8 Meg of DRAM will run rings around
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a SUN IPC if I put 1meg of DRAM into it (yes I do think it still would run).
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However An 486DX2/66, with external cache, localbus accelerated SVGA
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card, 32 bit EISA or VESA bus, and SCSI drives, with the same amount
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DRAM running linux will probably run rings around an IPC.
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Terje
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From: mark@datasoft.north.net (Mark Buckaway)
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Subject: Re: Auto-answer with uugetty or getty
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Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1993 22:59:40 GMT
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Jack Roberts (roberts@nscf.org) wrote:
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: I only have one modem and would like to use it in a dialin and dialout
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: capacity. Do either of these packages allow for this without having to
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: kill the getty manually in order to dialout?
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Jack, a quick glance at the docs will answer your question. If it
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matters, I run two dial in/out lines.
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getty (getty_ps 2.07) can be setup two ways. One method permits
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callouts on the same dial-in line. First, you can have getty answer
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the call for you. It will monitor the modem and wait for a RING. When
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it gets this, it will issue an ATA to the modem and it answers the
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call. The only problem with this is the serial line is held open
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constantly and will not be available to other programs to call it. The
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second method is to let the modem answer the phone. getty does not
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hold the line but just waits for the DCD line to do something.
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Alternatively, it can wait for a character to do something.
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Check the man page. It's all in there.
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Mark
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--
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==============================================================================
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Mark Buckaway | root@datasoft.north.net | DataSoft Communications
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DataSoft Communications | uunorth!datasoft!root | 62 Rock Fernway
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System Administrator | Voice: +1 416 756 4497 | Willowdale, ON M2J 4N5
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==============================================================================
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"UNIX and OS/2 are operating systems. Windows is a shell, and
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DOS is an boot virus"
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From: us244953@emi.3m.com (Joseph Hoss)
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Subject: 3c509 (aka Etherlink III) and NET-2
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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 93 22:32:36 GMT
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I was wondering if anyone has had any luck getting Linux (SLS distribution) to
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work with a 3com 3c509 (combo, for what its worth). I think that I have
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uncommented the appropriate lines in CONFIG and modified the Makefile to
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include el3.o (after copying the 3c509.c file to el3.o). The new kernel seems
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to find the card on bootup (it spews some lines starting with eliii, which do
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list the right IRQ and I/O address). However, the line in rc.net
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ifconfig eth0 130.99.34.55 ...
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gacks and spews some errors along the lines of
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SIOCSIFADDR invalid argument,
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SIOCGIFFLAGS invalid argument
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etc.
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It apparently doesn't like the eth0 device. The file /dev/eth0 is linked to
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/dev/wd0. Is this right for the 3c509? The link was created by the
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installation.
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The ifconfig command for lo don't complain. The route add 130.99.24.0 command
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complains with a Network cannot be reached error.
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Any hints/ideas would be appreciated.
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Joe Hoss
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us244953@emi.3m.com
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Joseph Hoss
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3M Company
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EIS/IT
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
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From: greg@serveme.chi.il.us (Gregory Gulik)
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Subject: DigiBoard to support Linux!!!!
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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1993 21:19:41 GMT
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I guess all that nagging worked!!!!
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I just got off the phone with tech support at DigiBoard, and I
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was told they will have Linux drivers available for their products
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in about 8 weeks!!!!
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Their products are a bit pricey, but it's nice to see commercial
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vendors support Linux!
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-greg
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Gregory A. Gulik Call Gagme, a public access
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greg@serveme.chi.il.us UNIX system at 312-282-8606
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|| gulik@rtsg.mot.com For information, drop a note
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to info@gagme.chi.il.us
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help.misc,comp.os.linux
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From: helgren@dvorak.amd.com (Matt Helgren)
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Subject: PPP for linux???
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Date: Wed, 22 Sep 93 23:00:18 GMT
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Anyone know where I can find ppp for linux? I had thought dp-ppp had been
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ported to linux but I am not sure. Thanks for any info.
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Matt Helgren
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matt.helgren@amd.com
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Subject: Help install X386_Mono
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From: ph9991ha@uwrf.edu (James F Hall)
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Date: 27 Sep 93 18:33:49 -0600
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I need some help in installing the mono server for X on my machine.
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Anyone have any experience with this?
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Basically, I can get X to run, but all I ever get is a bunch of
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static, or vertical lines on my screen. Seems like the video mapping
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isn't set correctly.
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I appear to be able to move the mouse, because if I move it, the
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shading of the lines on the screen seem to shift around or change
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brightness. There were no errors reported when I issued % startx
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But I can't really use X at this point, because I can't see what I am
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doing.
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My system: 386dx with 8Mb physical memory, Dexxa 2-button Microsoft-
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compatible mouse, older vga card with 256k vga ram. I'd rather not
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buy a higher-quality vga card, since I really won't be using X to do
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more than view DVI files, and to use gnuplot, both of which are
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_essential_.
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I think I had posted this before, but either no one felt they could
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repond meaningfully, or my poster was broken. I would appreciate the
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help, though. Getting X to run is the last thing on my "to-do" list
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before Linux is fully tailored for me.
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I'd also be open to a one-on-one dialog with any Linux X-wizard.
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From: daved@cortex.physiol.su.oz.au (Dave Davey)
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Subject: Re: WordProcessor (~=TEX) for Linux
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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 00:25:28 GMT
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In <284qs5$hrq@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> btf57346@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Byron Faber) writes:
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>So I guess the answer is that there is not word processor for linux?
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There is "doc", which I have to admit I have not used seriously enough to
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evaluate, and I cannot see any obvious reasony why the Andrew system "ez"
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could not be ported to linux since it is an X client. It would probably
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consume a lot of disk space though!
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From: daved@cortex.physiol.su.oz.au (Dave Davey)
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Subject: Re: Where can I get source for doc ?
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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 00:35:16 GMT
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In <283kof$p31@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> taluskie@utpapa.ph.utexas.edu (Vince Taluskie) writes:
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>doc looks like a great package and would be very useful to my users -
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>where can I get source that I can build on my Irix and AIX boxes ?
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interviews.stanford.mit
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From: john@mikejag.wimsey.bc.ca (John A. Green)
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Subject: Re: I think my monitor is exploding..help
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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 01:11:31 GMT
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I think my monitor is exploding too!
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In article <284iiq$l50@news.umbc.edu> john@midget.towson.edu (John Banghart) writes:
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>Ok, here's the deal.
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>I have a tvga8900cl card with 1mb. I installed SLS 1.03 and the whole
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>thing went off without a hitch. I modified the Xconfig files and set it
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>up to the best of my ability. I inserted a line for my chipset and
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>modified the other parts according to the FAQ. Xwindows runs fine but
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>when I start it up, my monitor flickers, makes a awfully loud *click*
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>and the screen goes dead. Not just blank, but dead. The power is still
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>on though. After about 1/2 a second it flickers again, and then X starts
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>to come up. It also seems that the monitor is growing abnormally hot
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>after what seems to be a short period of time.
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FUNNY you should mention this...!
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I just went through the same procedure, with EXACTLY the same software
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& tvga card, two days ago. It sounds like you are running into the same
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problem that I did; your monitor is interlaced, and you are trying to run
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X as though the monitor is non-interlaced (or vice-versa).
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Try changing your Modes entry:
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"1024x768" to "1024x768i".
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That worked for me. But I actually took that entry out entirely, and just
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use the 800x600 config; it's a lot more legible on my screen.
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NOW: please take this advice for what it's worth: very little. I just
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started on this Linux/X/vga business, and...
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My monitor is still EXPLODING. I just sat down in the den, and was
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startled to hear the crackle of electricity. I looked at my monitor, and
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it was black (screen-saver), except for the odd flash and flicker and
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sound of electical cracking.
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Electricity makes me nervous at the best of times. Guess how long it
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took me to kill the power on the monitor, computer, and every other
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electrical appliance that just looked at me funny.
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HELP!??? Is it the screen saver? X server? Bad card? Bad monitor?
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Bad hair day? Mine is a 'Darius' interlaced SVGA monitor HRV-1025.
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Even after I turned it off, it crackled. It's staying off until I get
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some advice. So there.
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--
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John A Green PROGRESS programmer at large
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john@mikejag.wimsey.bc.ca Vancouver, Canada
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From: teffta@cs690-3.erie.ge.com (Andrew R. Tefft)
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Subject: Re: Auto-answer with uugetty or getty
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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 01:42:14 GMT
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In article <1993Sep26.225940.2779@datasoft.north.net> mark@datasoft.north.net (Mark Buckaway) writes:
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>Jack Roberts (roberts@nscf.org) wrote:
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>: I only have one modem and would like to use it in a dialin and dialout
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>: capacity. Do either of these packages allow for this without having to
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>: kill the getty manually in order to dialout?
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>callouts on the same dial-in line. First, you can have getty answer
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>the call for you. It will monitor the modem and wait for a RING. When
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>it gets this, it will issue an ATA to the modem and it answers the
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>call. The only problem with this is the serial line is held open
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>constantly and will not be available to other programs to call it. The
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>second method is to let the modem answer the phone. getty does not
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>hold the line but just waits for the DCD line to do something.
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I suggest the second method (set the modem on auto-answer) unless
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you want to use ringback, where your modem only answers after
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a certain number of rings, then a pause, then more rings (useful
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for sharing the line with your voice phone). This method is
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much simpler since you don't have to worry about quite as much.
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What you *do* have to make sure of is that your modem asserts
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CD when a carrier is present, and that it is set to auto-answer.
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You can set this in the modem's NVRAM settings (recommended)
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or in the INIT string in your uugetty setup file. This way you
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don't have to worry about things like INITLINE or a CONNECT chat.
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Andy Tefft - new, expanded .sig - teffta@cs690-3.erie.ge.com
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From: wu@cs.purdue.edu (Po-ting Wu)
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Subject: Cannot use df
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Date: 27 Sep 1993 22:03:36 -0500
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Following error occurs when I use df,
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df: cannot read table of mounted filesystems
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I am using SLS 1.03, mount /dev/sda2 to / (ext2),
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/dev/swapfile to none (swap),
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none to /proc (proc).
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If someone know what's wrong, please help me.
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Thanks in advanced,
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Po-Ting
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From: albert@stu.rpi.edu (Christopher Stevens)
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Subject: TESTING -- PLEASE IGNORE
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Date: 28 Sep 1993 03:14:58 GMT
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TESTING -- PLEASE IGNORE. Thank you.
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Christopher Stevens
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stevec2@rpi.edu stevens@acm.rpi.edu
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From: pawel@cs.UAlberta.CA (Pawel Gburzynski)
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Subject: Re: Can't umount!
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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1993 20:17:54 GMT
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ryanm4@hall101.its.rpi.edu (Matthew J. Ryan) writes:
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> Please help - I dont want to shutdown my system - This has
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>happen before, same installation, and last time it ate
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>/usr/local and /usr, and I had to reinstall.
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umount won't work if the target directory (of a subdirectory thereof) is
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the current directory of at least one process (including your shell).
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======================================================================
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Pawel Gburzynski, Associate Professor, Department of Computing Science
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University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta CANADA T6G 2H1
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e-mail: pawel@cs.ualberta.ca, tel: (403) 492-2347, fax: (403) 492-1071
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From: tlawless@whale.st.usm.edu (Timothy Mark Lawless)
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Subject: term?
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Date: 28 Sep 1993 03:43:25 GMT
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I am real new to linux.. Can anyone tell me what i would use term for?
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and how to use it.. If all this is in a faq i would be happy to look
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it up if i knew where it was and what it was..
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Thanx.
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Tim.
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--/ o ______ ____/ /_ __ , / __. , , , // _ _ _
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(_/ <_/ / / <_(_) (__/ /_/ (_/ /___ (_/|_(_(_/_</_</_/_)_/_)_
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"Trust me, I know what I / tlawless@whale.st.usm.edu
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am doing...I think." '
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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 93 03:12:00 +0100
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From: Eberhard_Moenkeberg@p27.rollo.central.de (Eberhard Moenkeberg)
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Subject: Re: LPD and 1.03
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Hello Eric and all others,
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on 21.09.93 Eric Sulzner wrote to All in USENET.COMP.OS.LINUX:
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ES> I was able to solve my lpd and lpr problems by running them with strace
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ES> -f in separate windows so I could watch both. Most of the problems were
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ES> errors trying to open files or devices.
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ES>
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ES> BTW, I think there's an SLS 1.03 and a Slackware 1.03 now, so you need
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ES> to specify.
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My script "lpd.build" (see C.O.L.A) is useable for both - with Slackware,
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you just have to remove the "cat /etc/lpd & >>rc.local" line...
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It was supposed to setup remote printing only - but directories & file with
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the right permissions will get setup, too...
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Greetings ... Eberhard
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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 93 03:13:14 +0100
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From: Eberhard_Moenkeberg@p27.rollo.central.de (Eberhard Moenkeberg)
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Subject: Re: SoundBlaster CD-ROM support?
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DN> ^AMSGID: nigel.msen.com 2734268f
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DN> ^AORIGID: <27mum5$1ro@nigel.msen.com>
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DN> From: dnichols@garnet.msen.com (David Nicholson)
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Yes, you do not have to form a question - the answer is "of course". Since a
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long time... All kinds of drives. Data & audio.
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ftp.gwdg.de:/pub/linux/cdrom/sbpcd04.tgz
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Greetings ... Eberhard
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From: brettm@access.digex.net (Brett Michaels)
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Subject: Dead DIP
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Date: 28 Sep 1993 00:36:19 -0400
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I have been working with DIP and SLS 1.0.3. I followed all of the latest
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NET-2 instructions.
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When I use DIP I can not get it to talk to the modem. I have a 14.4 modem
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attached to /dev/cua1.
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I use:
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dip -t
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>port /dev/cua1
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>speed 9600
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>reset (nothing happens to the modem)
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>dial xxxxxxx (no string is sent)
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Then when I exit dip via a ^C, the modem line is frozen for use by other
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comm. programs. I have to reboot. No processes seeem to be runningnas
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shown by ps.
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The /dev/cua1 and moem work fine for normal telecom.
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Any clues?
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From: brettm@access.digex.net (Brett Michaels)
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Subject: SoftLanding Message
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Date: 28 Sep 1993 00:38:35 -0400
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Anyone know how to get rid of the softlanding message that appears just
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before the login prompt?
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From: a228dhal@cdf.toronto.edu (Dhaliwal Bikram Singh)
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Subject: Re: How does Linux compare to SUN IPC?
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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 04:22:46 GMT
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In article <287mh0$9ql@tamsun.tamu.edu> t0e0078@tamsun.tamu.edu (Terje Eggestad) writes:
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>I fail to see the purpose, or the sanity of this argument.
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>How can you compare hardware to software??
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>
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>This is like arguing about how this VCR tape compares to that VCR
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>ot how the Cosby show compares to my TV!
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>
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>Let me explore the posibilities here a little bit.
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>My 386/25 with no cache and 8 Meg of DRAM will run rings around
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>a SUN IPC if I put 1meg of DRAM into it (yes I do think it still would run).
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>
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>However An 486DX2/66, with external cache, localbus accelerated SVGA
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>card, 32 bit EISA or VESA bus, and SCSI drives, with the same amount
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>DRAM running linux will probably run rings around an IPC.
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>
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>Terje
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As the original person who started this thread I must say that my intentions
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were to elaborate in the artical itself and not the subject header. As far
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as a general comparison between the two, I think it is perfectly valid since
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we are talking about systems that can potentially run the same ported software
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, applications that can be directly compared because they are identical at the
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source level. Not only can this comparison be kind of objective but helpful.
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The SUN IPC costs many times more than a typical Linux system. That is even
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if you took a 'Maxed Out' PC and put Linux on it you could give the IPC a run
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for its money.
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P.S. I am sorry about your computer, time to upgrade rather than get angry.
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a228dhal@cdf.toronto.edu
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Bikram Dhaliwal
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(416) 845-4567
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From: a228dhal@cdf.toronto.edu (Dhaliwal Bikram Singh)
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Subject: Re: I think my monitor is exploding..help
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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 04:28:37 GMT
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In article <1993Sep28.011131.3992@mikejag.wimsey.bc.ca> john@mikejag.wimsey.bc.ca (John A. Green) writes:
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>I think my monitor is exploding too!
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>In article (John Banghart) writes:
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>>Ok, here's the deal.
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>>I have a tvga8900cl card with 1mb. I installed SLS 1.03 and the whole
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>>thing went off without a hitch. I modified the Xconfig files and set it
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>>up to the best of my ability. I inserted a line for my chipset and
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>>modified the other parts according to the FAQ. Xwindows runs fine but
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>>when I start it up, my monitor flickers, makes a awfully loud *click*
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>>and the screen goes dead. Not just blank, but dead. The power is still
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>>on though. After about 1/2 a second it flickers again, and then X starts
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>>to come up. It also seems that the monitor is growing abnormally hot
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>>after what seems to be a short period of time.
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>
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>FUNNY you should mention this...!
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>
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>I just went through the same procedure, with EXACTLY the same software
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>& tvga card, two days ago. It sounds like you are running into the same
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>problem that I did; your monitor is interlaced, and you are trying to run
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>X as though the monitor is non-interlaced (or vice-versa).
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>
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>Try changing your Modes entry:
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> "1024x768" to "1024x768i".
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>That worked for me. But I actually took that entry out entirely, and just
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>use the 800x600 config; it's a lot more legible on my screen.
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>
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>
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>NOW: please take this advice for what it's worth: very little. I just
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>started on this Linux/X/vga business, and...
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>
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>HELP!??? Is it the screen saver? X server? Bad card? Bad monitor?
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>Bad hair day? Mine is a 'Darius' interlaced SVGA monitor HRV-1025.
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No, it certainly is not a screen saver. You must be careful because
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the wrong settings in your Xconfig can permanently dammage your monitor.
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I have read many reports about people frying or burning out monitors.
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Good news though, It sounds like you have the exact same equipment as I
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have, that is: tvga8900, and a Darius HRV-1024 (?).
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I have posted my Xconfig before (a few days ago) and it is the one that
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works perfectly with my setup in colour. So let me know if you want me
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to post it again.
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a228dhal@cdf.toronto.edu
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Bikram Dhaliwal
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(416) 845-4567
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