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From: Digestifier <Linux-Development-Request@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>
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To: Linux-Development@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Reply-To: Linux-Development@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Date: Fri, 7 Oct 94 17:13:29 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Development Digest #276
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Linux-Development Digest #276, Volume #2 Fri, 7 Oct 94 17:13:29 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: VESA and SVGAlib? (Christopher Wiles)
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Is anyone running websterd on linux? (Thaddeus H. Wood)
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Re: AHA-1742 driver near optimal? Ult 24F? (Mary Shenk)
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Re: Linux Mud (Joseph Angelis)
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Help With LCD, Cirrus and XFree86 (Lucas James Sheneman)
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Re: VESA and SVGAlib? (Phil Howard)
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Re: Compiling progs using port I/O (Frank Lofaro)
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Re: Adaptec AHA-2940 PCI SCSI card support.... (Hans de Hartog)
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Re: ext2fs vs. Berkeley FFS (H. Peter Anvin)
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Re: Telnet & ftp freeze! (Peter H. Lemieux)
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Re: Beautifying Linux/Xfree (DAVID L. JOHNSON)
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Re: Shared Libs: working toward a permanent solution? (Eric Youngdale)
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Xfree 3.1 and SPEA MirageP64 (Linux) (Christoph Martin)
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Re: Telnet & ftp freeze! (Ralph Sims)
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LINUX Logical volumes (Richelo Killian)
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Freeware Motif/Xview/tty interface library ? (Patrick Spinler)
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----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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From: a0017097@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu (Christopher Wiles)
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Subject: Re: VESA and SVGAlib?
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Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 01:24:17 GMT
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hhenson@inyanga.cs.wits.ac.za (Howard P. Henson) writes:
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: Andy Bailey (bailey9@muvms6.wvnet.edu) wrote:
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: : I have what might be a dumb question, about SVGAlib and video modes. I don't
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: : know diddly about programming graphics drivers, but here goes.
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: : With most DOS applications, namely graphics viewers, instead of specifying
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: : the drive specific to my card, I simply use the VESA driver, and voila, all my
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: : cardsmodes are recognized. Would this be possible for SVGAlib? I have overheard
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: : bits of conversation among Linux developers about avoiding making BIOS calls (
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: : I guess to ensure portability to other processors). Is the case the same here?
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:
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: The problem is not so much portability as the fact that VESA
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: drivers (and I asume you have a bios version) is 16 bit code and to run
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: it would require on to change CPU modes, and start thunking (16 -> 32 bit
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: conversions) etc. producing i) Slow access ii) Possible unstabilities on
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: the system which may land up with system crashes etc.
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.. things run ever so much faster when one accesses the SVGA chip in
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question directly ... no overhead added by going through the 8/16 bit
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250ns VGA BIOS (which may contain bugs to begin with) accessed worst-case
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through an ISA slot at 8Mhz (I _did_ say worst-case). I don't think that
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the CPU has to switch modes to deal with the bus ... if that were the
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case, you'd switch modes every time you accessed the hard drive.
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-- Chris
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a0017097@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu wileyc@halcyon.com wileyc@quark.chs.wa.com
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"... but I want to use all eight comm ports SIMULTANEOUSLY!"
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PGP 2.6 public key available by finger for the clinically paranoid.
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------------------------------
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From: thw@sentient.sentient.com (Thaddeus H. Wood)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
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Subject: Is anyone running websterd on linux?
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Date: 7 Oct 1994 01:43:57 GMT
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Greets all.
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I'm attempting to run the websterd server on linux.
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I've gotten the client & server sources that David Curry
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wrote at Purdue.
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I've managed to get it compiled, but there seems to be
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some sort of problem using libdbm.a.
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It compiles and links fine, but for some reason, calls to
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dbm_open or dbm_fetch seem to fail.
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Does anyone have any sort of inkling of what I speak?
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Is dbm the problem here?
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Do I need some sort of external dbm software?
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I'm running a full Slackware 2.0.1 installation.
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Thanks.
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--
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Thaddeus H. Wood thw@sentient.com
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-- --
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If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
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--
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From: mkshenk@u.washington.edu (Mary Shenk)
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Subject: Re: AHA-1742 driver near optimal? Ult 24F?
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Date: 7 Oct 1994 01:45:38 GMT
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It seems that while I am hitting the disk hard on my dx2/66 w/an AHA-1742
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host adapter, I miss term packets. I have a 16550 UART. Should this be
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happening? It seems my system slows more than I think it "should" while
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hitting the disk. How much work has gone into the 1742 drivers under Linux?
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Are they close to optimal? What about the UltraStor 24F? Will this be a
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superior card under Linux, due to technical superiority and/or a better driver?
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Drivers aside, can anyone comment on the rel. technical merits of these 2
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cards?
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Thanks.
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(term is configured properly. I promise. Works wonderfully except when I
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hit the disk hard. These event are definitely linked, have done may trials.)
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From: angelis@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Joseph Angelis)
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Subject: Re: Linux Mud
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Date: 5 Oct 1994 23:54:21 GMT
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francis@VIOLET.uthscsa.edu (Scott Francis) writes:
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>Is there a mud developed for Linux and if so is it possible for me to get
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>the source or compiler version of it?
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Most of the Diku variants seem to work on my machine.. I'm using 1.1.0
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of the kernel and the latest gcc. Haven't had any problems yet..
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>Please respond to francis@violet.uthscsa.edu
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>Thanks is advance
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>Scott
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>//////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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>// //
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>// Scott Francis - UT Health Science Center //
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>// San Antonio, Texas //
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>// //
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>// e-mail: francis@violet.uthscsa.edu //
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>// sfrancis@janus1.cs.trinity.edu //
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>// //
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>// voice: (210)829-5501 //
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>// //
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>//////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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------------------------------
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From: sheneman@cs.uidaho.edu (Lucas James Sheneman)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: Help With LCD, Cirrus and XFree86
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Date: 7 Oct 1994 02:03:36 GMT
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I just got XFree86-3.1 and installed it on my machine. I have a Cirrus-6440
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chipset. I am trying to run the XF86-SVGA server. I managed to make the
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server happy by telling it I had a Cirrus-6420 chipset (like the docs say to
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do). When the server comes up, I get a nice, crisp, clear display on my
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LCD notebook, except for the fact that the top 50 pixels or so and the
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bottom 50 pixels of the screen are screwed up. The bottom 50 pixels of the
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display are identical to the top 50 pixels on the display...only shifted by
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about 100 pixels.
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My question is this: I have a dual-scan color LCD display and a cirrus 6440
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chipset. Does it make sense for me to determine the video modes for my
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display as discussed in the text file VideoModes.txt? How do I treat an LCD
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display when trying to determine video modes and sync frequencies? Does my
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problem sound like a video timings problem or does it sound like a problem in
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which my server is mis-using VRAM?
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Specifically, here is my system:
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1. Sager NP7500 Notebook/dual scan color LCD (640x480x256)
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2. 1MB VRAM.
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3. XFree86-3.1
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Please e-mail me if you have any suggestions. Thanks.
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-Luke.
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--
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+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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| Luke Sheneman sheneman@cs.uidaho.edu |
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+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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| Laboratory for Applied Logic, University of Idaho |
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| http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/lal/students/sheneman.dir/sheneman.html |
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+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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------------------------------
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From: phil@zeus.fasttax.com (Phil Howard)
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Subject: Re: VESA and SVGAlib?
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Date: 6 Oct 1994 22:45:47 -0500
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hhenson@inyanga.cs.wits.ac.za (Howard P. Henson) writes:
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>Andy Bailey (bailey9@muvms6.wvnet.edu) wrote:
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>: I have what might be a dumb question, about SVGAlib and video modes. I don't
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>: know diddly about programming graphics drivers, but here goes.
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>: With most DOS applications, namely graphics viewers, instead of specifying
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>: the drive specific to my card, I simply use the VESA driver, and voila, all my
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>: cardsmodes are recognized. Would this be possible for SVGAlib? I have overheard
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>: bits of conversation among Linux developers about avoiding making BIOS calls (
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>: I guess to ensure portability to other processors). Is the case the same here?
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> The problem is not so much portability as the fact that VESA
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>drivers (and I asume you have a bios version) is 16 bit code and to run
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>it would require on to change CPU modes, and start thunking (16 -> 32 bit
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>conversions) etc. producing i) Slow access ii) Possible unstabilities on
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>the system which may land up with system crashes etc.
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VESA is 2 things:
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1. A common BIOS programming interface.
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2. A driver that understand your hardware.
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Linux has:
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1. A non-BIOS programming interface.
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2. Good drivers for documented hardware and some drivers for others, too.
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If your hardware is not supported by Linux:
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1. Maybe someone is working on it now.
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2. Call your vendor and ask for a "Linux driver".
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3. Call your vendor and ask for full hardware documentation for driver
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development.
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4. Sell your hardware to some DOS loser and get something better.
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--
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/***** Phil Howard KA9WGN *********** How about universal JOBS? **************\
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* Unix/Internet/Sys Admin Let's de-Foley-ate congress in 94 *
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* CLR/Fast-Tax Don't let Annie get your gun! *
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\***** phil@fasttax.com ************* Just say NO to CIX extortion ***********/
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------------------------------
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From: ftlofaro@unlv.edu (Frank Lofaro)
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Subject: Re: Compiling progs using port I/O
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Date: Fri, 7 Oct 94 03:07:40 GMT
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In article <36hm55Ebnr@uni-erlangen.de> bon@lte.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de (Uwe Bonnes) writes:
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>Rob Janssen (rob@pe1chl.ampr.org) wrote:
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>> In <36bmo0$fmg@clarknet.clark.net> nardone@clark.net (Joe Nardone) writes:
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>
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>
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>> >Hey net-folks--
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>
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>> >I'm trying to compile a program that uses the inb and outb
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>> >functions (macros, actually) but when it comes to link time
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>> >all my inb/outb calls are represented as unresolved references
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>> >to ___outb (or ___outcb) and ___inb...
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>
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>> >Am I missing a library, or a path to one? gcc -v looks like it's
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>> >looking in all the right places for library files...
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>
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>> >I'm running GCC 2.5.8 on Linux Kernel 1.1.50 w/ a 486dx2/66.
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>
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>> >Any help would be much appreciated-
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>
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>> You have to compile with optimization (-O2)
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>
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>Is there some explanation for that behaviour?
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>--
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>Uwe Bonnes bon@lte.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de
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Yes, there is.
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extern inline is used instead of static inline in the function definitions.
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This is a Bad Thing. Without optimization, inline is ignored, thus
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extern inline becomes extern, which means it is not defined. Using static
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inline would mutate to static when not optimizing, which would still work
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(it would not be inline of course, but it wouldn't fail to compile, either).
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P.S. Using extern does not require -O2, just -O will work, Still, it would
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be nice to be able to use those functions even when you do not want to
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use optimization.
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------------------------------
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From: dehartog@kwetal.comcons.nl (Hans de Hartog)
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Subject: Re: Adaptec AHA-2940 PCI SCSI card support....
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Date: 7 Oct 1994 13:10:23 -0000
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Edward S Peschko (pesc0002@gold.tc.umn.edu) wrote:
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: hey all --
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: Any plans (*please*) for developing support for the AHA-2940 PCI SCSI
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: board??
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Yes, I've read somewhere that people are working on the PCI SCSI drivers
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Stay tuned to c.o.l.announce
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: Ed
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: (ie: This really sucks. I have a $5K system, with a 4MB VRAM card (and yes,
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: its diamond unfortunately) 4xPlextor, etc. etc... and its TOO NEW for linux!
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: If something doesn't come out soon, I guess it is just going to have to be
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: SCO...)
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Yup, that's life. There is a HOWTO-hardware (a.k.a. hardware compatibility
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list) for Linux. Better check that list before spending...
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--
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_____________________________________________________________________________
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Hans de Hartog, dehartog@comcons.nl, Voice: +31 348033100, Fax: +31 348033181
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Committed Consultancy BV, Korenmolenlaan 1b, 3447 GG Woerden, The Netherlands
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Home: dehartog@kwetal.comcons.nl, Voice/Data: +31 838038560, CIS: 100121,3301
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------------------------------
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From: hpa@ahab.eecs.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin)
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Subject: Re: ext2fs vs. Berkeley FFS
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Reply-To: hpa@nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin)
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Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 04:11:17 GMT
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Followup to: <36nng2$4a1@babyblue.cs.yale.edu>
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By author: hstrong@eng1.uconn.edu (Hugh Strong)
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In newsgroup: comp.os.linux.development
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>
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> I know this doesn't sound very UNIXy, but how difficult would
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> it be to implement a filesystem with some sort of arbitrary
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> extended attributes like those in NTFS or the more limited ones
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> in HPFS?
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>
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Probably quite trivial (all you need is an attribute on a directory
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that marks it as "look like a file"). A file with multiple data
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streams (forks, to use Mac terminology) is nothing but a directory.
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However, you would have to teach ls, cp etc about this convention,
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which would be a pain.
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/hpa
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--
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INTERNET: hpa@nwu.edu --- Allah'u'abha ---
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IBM MAIL: I0050052 at IBMMAIL HAM RADIO: N9ITP or SM4TKN
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FIDONET: 1:115/511 or 1:115/512 STORMNET: 181:294/1 or 181:294/101
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"All sysadmins love logs." -- Me after deleting 87 Mb worth of log files
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------------------------------
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From: phl@cyways.com (Peter H. Lemieux)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.admin
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Subject: Re: Telnet & ftp freeze!
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Date: 7 Oct 1994 04:26:30 GMT
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In article <3728nr$eb0@news.halcyon.com>, ralphs@halcyon.halcyon.com (Ralph Sims) says:
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>
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>Other things that run are Sendmail+IDA as a daemon, xntpd, and
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>CERN's web server. The ftp session definitely takes over the system.
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>
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Remember that FTP is running two simultaneous sessions with the other host,
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a data channel and a control channel. With only a standard two-wire modem,
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the line must be repeatedly turned around from TX to RX and back again.
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(Four wire, dedicated-line modems are pricey.) Services like news and
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the web have little upstream traffic, mostly downstream, since they
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have no control channel.
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Peter
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Dr. Peter H. Lemieux
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cyways, inc Voice: +1 (617) 924-7991
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203 Arlington Street Fax: +1 (617) 926-8440
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Watertown, MA 02172-2036 USA Internet: phl@cyways.com
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------------------------------
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From: dlj0@Lehigh.EDU (DAVID L. JOHNSON)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
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Subject: Re: Beautifying Linux/Xfree
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Date: 7 Oct 1994 16:09:25 GMT
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In article <372tg0$1ai@huron.eel.ufl.edu>, acg@kzin.cen.ufl.edu (Alexandra Griffin) writes:
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>In article <1994Oct5.141142.773@muvms6>,
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>Andy Bailey <bailey9@muvms6.wvnet.edu> wrote [in c.o.l.misc]:
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>>[...]
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>>
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>You may get some negative feedback from the die-hard functionality
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>over form crowd, but I'd say there's a lot of truth to what you're
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>saying-- cleaning up minor things like GUI look & feel *will* make the
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>X environment more appealing to a lot of people (maybe this is
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>unfortunate, but with all the "fluff" on a typical Mac/Windoze desktop
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>nowadays a lot of people expect this kind of thing...)
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We got LOTS of fluff, but no *one* set of it. That is sort of the main
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difference. You want standardized interfaces? Not likely. A vendor could
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provide one -- most of them do. But linux is a creature of the net, and there
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will not be only one GUI interface.
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>
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>Some ideas along this line that I've thought about:
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>
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>1) A mouse-driven tool for setting common X resource preferences would
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>be *very* helpful, even for experienced users (kind of a big project,
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>I know).
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I don't think this is too hard, and it is a good idea.
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>2) A better X file manager than what's currently out there (xfm &
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>xfilemanager are nice but not as easy to configure, easy to use, or
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>generally polished as one might like). Maybe something that provided
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>essentially the same functionality as Mouseless Commander (the
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>text-based Norton Commander clone), but with a mouse-driven GUI? (&
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>provisions for icons if desired, scrollbars on the dual file selection
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>lists, real pulldown menus-- leave in the command line at the bottom,
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>though!).
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This is arleady avialable. Try GREAT. Really. It takes a while to
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configure, and you should have Motif to get the best performance, but it has
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lots of options.
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> Well, you mentioned NextStep-- on second thought, something
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>similar to the wonderful NeXT Workspace Manager application would be
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>delightful to have. For those who have never seen it, this program
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>(in its Browser mode) presents a group of side-by-side vertical
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>directory listings, with each column representing a level of the
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>directory hiearchy...
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Y'know, the browser from Ghostview is similar to this -- not as advanced,
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though. GREAT's file manager is similar, as well -- though not the
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tree-structure. To each his own
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>3) Another idea from HP-VUE... this environment features a "console
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>bar" area at the bottom of the screen, containing buttons to switch
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>virtual desktops, invocation icons for commonly-used apps, small icons
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>for system functions (logging out...), and space for a clock,
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>calendar, Xload bargraph, & other stuff.
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Again, GREAT -- along with what you can do with .xinitrc, can do this. There
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is also another program out there that does things like this. Can't
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remember the name, but check them out as they show up.
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Much of your suggestions are really already available, and I don't see any
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interest in somehow standardizing them. Making such bells&whistles available
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is one thing, making them ubiquitous is another. Don't just assume that,
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if it isn't in slackware, it's not available.
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--
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David L. Johnson dlj0@lehigh.edu or
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Department of Mathematics dlj0@chern.math.lehigh.edu
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Lehigh University
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14 E. Packer Avenue (610) 758-3759
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Bethlehem, PA 18015-3174 (610) 828-3708
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From: eric@aib.com (Eric Youngdale)
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Subject: Re: Shared Libs: working toward a permanent solution?
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Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 04:38:26 GMT
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In article <RICHK.94Oct4145524@netcom17.netcom.com>,
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Richard Krehbiel <richk@netcom17.netcom.com> wrote:
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>In article <36pe51$s0v@strauss.udel.edu> mike@strauss.udel.edu (Michael James Porter) writes:
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>
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>> In article <DHOLLAND.94Sep29150545@husc7.harvard.edu>,
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>> David Holland <dholland@husc7.harvard.edu> wrote:
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>> =>How about dynamically relocating the library when it's loaded - once.
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>> =>Then the address it appears at can be determined at run time; that way
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>> =>it cannot possibly conflict with any other libraries; the library
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>> =>loading mechanism would pick addresses so that doesn't happen. Then
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>> =>when other processes add it, it would appear at the same address in
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>> =>every process.
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>>
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>>
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>> This is a good idea
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>
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>I also like this idea; it does not require that library code be
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>position independent. There was a long thread about the actual
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>performance penalty of PIC; from that I gather that it's at least 3%
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>and possibly more.
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The performance penalty is not due to the library being relocated. It
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is because we lose one of the machine registers so that it can be used
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to point to the GOT table. The Intel architecture is painfully short of
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registers, so losing one gives a noticable performance impact.
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>> , but it limits the loading of a shareable library
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>> to program load time. I would like to see dlls be loadable at any
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>> time in the life of a process.
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>
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>I don't see why this is a problem; if it can be done at program load
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>time, it can certainly be done at run time. It only requires that the
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>load-and-relocate function (and perhaps the locate-symbolic-entry-
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>point functions) be available to executing processes.
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The only way to avoid the performance penalty is to modify the compiler
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to do something like half-pic. THis way the same pic operands are used so but
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are not referenced to the %ebx register - then you can free up the %ebx
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register. Next you need to make sure that the assembler generates sensible
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relocations for all of these operands, and then you can generate a shared
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library. Finally you can use some kind of utility to "fast-load" the shared
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library at some fixed address and perform the majority of the relocations and
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then write the file back out again. You will also need to modify the dynamic
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loader to recognize that the library has already been relocated and properly
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load it at the correct address - in this case the addresses would be chosen
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locally. The disadvantage is that with a system such as this the libraries
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would be painfully slow before they are "fast-loaded".
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If I were trying to improve performance of ELF libraries, I would
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probably try and do something along the lines of what I just outlined. The
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key is to avoid cumbersome build procedures and it simply must be as
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idiot-proof as possible. I want to reiterate that for now the concern
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is simply to get everything stable and debugged so that it works.
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At the moment there are some C++ issues that should be resolved, and then
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we will sit back and pound on it for a while to make sure that it all hangs
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together before we release it to the general public.
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Finally, I noticed earlier in this thread that someone said that it was
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the performance of linux that was so attractive, and that if we started doing
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this sort of thing (i.e. ELF), that they would switch to something like
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Solaris. I found this comment *extremely* amusing, as would anyone else who
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had ever used Solaris. In my new job I have occasion to work on a Solaris
|
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machine, and believe you me, Solaris is the butt of many rather rude jokes, all
|
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of them concerning poor performance. BTW - Solaris uses ELF, but the
|
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performance problems are apparenetly more to do with the kernel/filesystem
|
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rather than anything else - Unixware also uses ELF, and it is much faster.
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-Eric
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------------------------------
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From: martin@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (Christoph Martin)
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Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.os.linux.admin
|
||
Subject: Xfree 3.1 and SPEA MirageP64 (Linux)
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||
Date: 06 Oct 1994 16:11:53 GMT
|
||
|
||
|
||
README.S3 (in XF86-3.1-doc.tar.gz) says:
|
||
|
||
>1 - Supported hardware
|
||
>----------------------
|
||
>
|
||
> ...
|
||
>
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||
>S3 864, 20C498 RAMDAC, ICS2595 Clockchip
|
||
> SPEA MirageP64 2MB DRAM
|
||
>
|
||
> 8 and 15/16 bpp
|
||
>
|
||
> ClockChip "ICS2595"
|
||
|
||
I tried this in my XF86Config file. The card is probed correctly as
|
||
S3 864 with 20C486 RAMDAC. But the server can't set the clockchip.
|
||
|
||
What is the problem? Is it the right ClockChip statement? Has anyone
|
||
this card running with XFree 3.1?
|
||
|
||
Christoph
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||
|
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--
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||
============================================================================
|
||
Christoph Martin, Zentrum f<>r Datenverarbeitung, Uni-Mainz, Germany
|
||
Internet-Mail: Christoph.Martin@Uni-Mainz.DE
|
||
Paper-Mail: C. Martin, Zentrum f<>r Datenverarbeitung,
|
||
Johannes-Gutenberg-Universit<69>t, 55099 Mainz, Germany
|
||
Telefon: +49 6131 396316
|
||
--
|
||
============================================================================
|
||
Christoph Martin, Zentrum f<>r Datenverarbeitung, Uni-Mainz, Germany
|
||
Internet-Mail: Christoph.Martin@Uni-Mainz.DE
|
||
Paper-Mail: C. Martin, Zentrum f<>r Datenverarbeitung,
|
||
Johannes-Gutenberg-Universit<69>t, 55099 Mainz, Germany
|
||
Telefon: +49 6131 396316
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: ralphs@halcyon.halcyon.com (Ralph Sims)
|
||
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.admin
|
||
Subject: Re: Telnet & ftp freeze!
|
||
Date: 7 Oct 1994 14:06:44 GMT
|
||
|
||
phl@cyways.com (Peter H. Lemieux) writes:
|
||
|
||
>>CERN's web server. The ftp session definitely takes over the system.
|
||
|
||
>Remember that FTP is running two simultaneous sessions with the other host,
|
||
>a data channel and a control channel. With only a standard two-wire modem,
|
||
|
||
Right, but introducing a 3000ms latency in the PPP session is not
|
||
really acceptable.
|
||
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: killianr@beldin.sun.ac.za (Richelo Killian)
|
||
Subject: LINUX Logical volumes
|
||
Date: 7 Oct 1994 14:13:31 GMT
|
||
|
||
I have a interesting question for all you LINUX gurus out there...
|
||
|
||
Is it posible to create logigal volumes across drives and/or partitions and then mount a single filesystem on that volume? I know it can be done on HP-UX, but I want to do it on my LINUX box?
|
||
|
||
Cheers
|
||
Richelo Killian
|
||
KILLIANR@TELKOM09.telkom.co.za
|
||
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
|
||
From: pats@mack.RT66.com (Patrick Spinler)
|
||
Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.motif,comp.windows.x.open-look,comp.windows.misc,comp.programming,comp.unix.bsd
|
||
Subject: Freeware Motif/Xview/tty interface library ?
|
||
Date: 07 Oct 1994 03:06:13 GMT
|
||
|
||
|
||
Hi folks,
|
||
|
||
I'm part of a group writing a set of administration tools for freeware
|
||
unixes, and I'm looking for a freeware GUI interface library or class
|
||
library that transparently supports or can be made to support several
|
||
different interfaces, including Motif, Openlook, Xview, and tty
|
||
(curses). MS-Win, Mac, et al are nifty extras but not necessary.
|
||
|
||
Sorry for all the cross posting. Please email responses. If enough
|
||
people are interested, I'll post a summary to comp.windows.x or
|
||
comp.windows.misc.
|
||
|
||
Thanks !
|
||
-- Pat
|
||
|
||
----
|
||
Patrick Spinler pats@rt66.com
|
||
Re: flames - "May your cats grow hands"
|
||
|
||
--
|
||
Patrick Spinler pats@rt66.com
|
||
Re: flames - "May your cats grow hands"
|
||
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