Subject: Linux-Activists Digest #263
From: Digestifier <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 93 04:13:04 EDT

Linux-Activists Digest #263, Volume #6           Sun, 26 Sep 93 04:13:04 EDT

Contents:
  El cheapo CD with Linux (Tony Porczyk)
  Re: DEPCA ethernet card (Norbert J. Girardi)
  Re: find src for time (Michael Fuhr)
  Re: running X appl. by modem ? (MING HE)
  Re: running X appl. by modem ? (MING HE)
  Wanted Information on Linux (Quentin Campbell)
  Word Processor for Linux (lout) (Laszlo Herczeg)
  Re: Anyone Installed Metro-X Motif on SLS 1.03 -> Install sucks!! (K.)
  WABI ??? (Ralph Ballier)
  Remote reboot a Linux ? (Suryono Adisoemarta)
  Compiling Khoros for Linux.
  When will Xfree 2.0 be out/what will it have? (Mark D. Austin)
  Re: [Need Help] TERM hangs after four characters? (Howard Taylor)
  Re: WHERE can I obtaine the LATEST complete LINUX version (Tan Tran)
  DTC SCSI card (Chris Healy)
  ram and swap faults, help me! (C.A. Peskin)
  Re: where to get it and... (Tan Tran)
  Re: Wanted Information on Linux (Tan Tran)
  Proteon support? (George A Flett)

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From: [email-masked] (Tony Porczyk)
Subject: El cheapo CD with Linux
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1993 21:13:55 GMT

I just saw a rather slow CD that nevertheless supported Kodak
multi-session format.  It was called Panasonic CR 562.  I wonder if
anyone used it successfully with Linux?  Any other recommendations
(money is an object)?  Also, anyone has used the latest HP "el cheapo"
4L laser printer?  Would the postscript version (4ML) be more
adviseable?  Thanks,

Tony

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From: [email-masked] (Norbert J. Girardi)
Subject: Re: DEPCA ethernet card
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1993 18:41:17 GMT

Rudy Nunez (LAW) ([email-masked]) wrote:

:       Hello all, 

:       I was just at work and found some old DEC Depca Ethernet cards. 
: [some deleted]
:                               Hopefully the reponse I get will be
:                               , "they work great!"... Thanks all.
Yes, they DO work :-) 
You have to get Peter Bauer's patch for 99p11+ .
We are (at work) an all DEC shop, so all our PC's are equipped with
either DEPCA's or the newer 16 bit DE200 ETHERWORKS TURBO.
No problem to use those NIC's.

I don't know where to ftp the patches (I got them from PB direct because
he lives pretty close to my place :-)) but it should be 
something like depca-05.tgz.

And here comes README.DEPCA

>Supported cards:
>  Should: many of the DEC's DEPCA-family. However, I currently
>  could only test the driver against a DE200 (Turbo etherlink)
>  Together witch information received from others, it seems to
>  work with  (24-Jul-93)
>   DE200 64K
>    DE200 32K
>    DE100
>    DEPCA rev E
>
>  Since Rel. 0.5 it should also be possible to have more than
>  one depca in a PC (since the cards only support io-bases
>  0x200 and 0x300, the `more' actually says `up to 2'). They need to 
>  have different irq's, base-addresses and iobases (and, of
>  course, each needs an entry in Space.c (e.g de0 and de1)).
>
>Base for installation:
>  plain lx99pl11 (Release version)
>
>Installation (new):
>a. untar the driver in your /linux/net/inet directory:
>   zcat depca.tar.z|tar xvf -
>b. apply the patches contained in depca.diffs:
>   patch -p <depca.diffs
>c. Make sure your DEPCA matches the default-settings (in
>   Space.c (DEPCA_IRQ, DEPCA_BASE, DEPCA_IO)
>   if not, define them in CONFIG. (add to OPTS: -DDEPCA_xxx)
>d. put formatted, erasable disk in /dev/fd0
>e. goto /linux and make new system:
>   cd /linux
>   make zdisk
>f. go to /conf/inet/rc.inet1 and change the adapter passed
>   to ifconfig:
>   ifconfig de0 ...
>g. reboot....
>h. If the driver complains about rx timeouts, your box is to fast
>   You need to modify the two SlowerOut?-routines in depca.c (add
>   some loops...) The current ones work fine on my 386DX-40 
>   If the driver doesn't detect your card, defining ANY_SIGNATURE
>   in depca.c may help
>
>Installation (new Release):
>  Only pull depca.c from depca.tar.z and copy it to /linux/net/inet,
>  then build a new kernel (d., e.)
>
>Todo:
>- Test against other DEPCA-boards
>- There is some code in, which fights against lost interrupts. 
>  Should be checked, if this really happens
>- The card usage could be optimized: currently, there are 16 receive
>  buffers and one transmit-buffer configured. This should be changed
>  (to 2 or 4 transmit-buffers)
>- The driver code could be optimized
>- ...
>
>Gruss PB
>
>If you suceed in using this driver, and your type of depca isn't yet
>listed here, send me a mail
>If you fail in using this driver, send me a mail. (or a patch :-)
>
>(Peter Bauer, Systematika GmbH. Comments etc. to [email-masked])

End of README.DEPCA

- Norbert

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
From: [email-masked] (Michael Fuhr)
Subject: Re: find src for time
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1993 21:41:45 GMT

BARRY TITMARSH <[email-masked]> writes:

>so im wanting to recompile my time binary but where the heck to find the
>src code for it..

Try your neighborhood GNU mirror, or

    prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/time-1.5.tar.gz

if the following (from the info doc) is what you're looking for:

      This file documents the the GNU `time' command for running programs
   and summarizing the system resources they use.  This is edition 1.5,
   for version 1.5.

--
Michael Fuhr                             "A man who ain't got ideas of his own
[email-masked]                    should me mighty careful who he
                                          borrows 'em from."
                                                                      -Unknown

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From: [email-masked] (MING HE)
Subject: Re: running X appl. by modem ?
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1993 23:16:16 GMT

I'm interesed in dropping my data line when there are another incoming
call on the call waiting.  I use s10=1 which will drop my data line if
I'm using kermit.  But term won't do it even I'm using both s10=1 and
s0=1.
Thanks,
--
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                              /| |-| |  |-| |--|  lives independently from   
Video: [email-masked] | |_| |  +-+ |--|  the physical existing?"    
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
From: [email-masked] (MING HE)
Subject: Re: running X appl. by modem ?
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1993 23:17:38 GMT

I'm interesed in dropping my data line when there are another incoming
call on the call waiting.  I use s10=1 which will drop my data line if
I'm using kermit.  But term won't do it even I'm using both s10=1 and
s0=1.
Thanks,
--
Ming  He                       / ------ +-+ +--+ "Are you believing that soul
                              /| |-| |  |-| |--|  lives independently from   
Video: [email-masked] | |_| |  +-+ |--|  the physical existing?"    
Audio: (416) 635-1543  [H]     |     |      /  |                -- H.M.      
*|-|*|\/|*|-|*|\/|*IMAGING THE UNIVERSE STARTED FROM A DOT*|-|*|\/|*|-|*|\/|*

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From: [email-masked] (Quentin Campbell)
Subject: Wanted Information on Linux
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1993 23:17:59 GMT

is there an FTP site that contains information on the LINUX operating system?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Quentin
[email-masked] 

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From: [email-masked] (Laszlo Herczeg)
Subject: Word Processor for Linux (lout)
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1993 23:20:02 GMT

  There is a documentformatting package called lout which compiles
clean for Linux. It was posted ca. 3 weeks ago in comp.sources.misc.
Lout is much more newbie-aware than TeX, and it is remarkable for its
ease of use. It outputs Level I/II PostScript directly (no .dvi stage),
and you can drop in any compressed Adobe fonts for the PC which use the
.afm ending. It supports encapsulated postrscipt images, and has its own
native figure generating and symbolic math language.

 Lout will install in about 2 MB of disk space, but requires about 8
to compile and set it up.

For really small jobs, I am not using  the emacs-like editor called
Joe which is absolutely wonderful, and does things like underlining
and centering. It suffices for quick jobs, and has support for 7-bit
and 8-bit characters.

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From: [email-masked] (K.)
Subject: Re: Anyone Installed Metro-X Motif on SLS 1.03 -> Install sucks!!
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1993 23:47:12 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Bradly William Wright) writes:
>
>Has anyone been able to get Metro-X Motif to work with
>SLS 1.03?  Linux Systems Laboratory claims that it will work
>with SLS 1.03.  When trying to run mwm, I
>get an error message saying that the system can't exec:
>libXm.so.1 improper format.  
>
>Has anyone been able to make it work?
>
>
>Brad Wright

Brad --

Metro Link has been selling Motif for a while now and you are the
first complaint that I've seen so far.  Sounds to me like you might
want to try installing it again or talking to the company instead
of going to the net.   The problem you are experiencing could be
something that has nothing to do with either Metro Link's software
nor the SLS distribution.   How long did you look into the problem
before posting this note?  Does Metro Link have a support policy?
Did you call them?

I'm not ragging on you personally here, but I just don't  like seeing
users not take the time to look into the problem themselves before
blasting messages all over the net -- especially if the messages
are not justified.

-k

"Thank you for listening"

PS:  I don't have Metro Link's Motif, but I know they are in the FAQ.
     Look in there to get more info.  Maybe there is an email address
     where you can contact them.

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From: [email-masked] (Ralph Ballier)
Subject: WABI ???
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1993 00:52:31 GMT

What's about WABI for Linux???

        Ralph

-- 
      Lise-Meitner-Schule (Oberstufenzentrum Chemie, Physik und Biologie)
                                 Ralph Ballier
          Rudower Strasse 184, D-12351 Berlin      Tel.: 030/6611011
 EMail: [email-masked]        "Offenes Deutsches Schul-Netz"

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From: [email-masked] (Suryono Adisoemarta)
Subject: Remote reboot a Linux ?
Date: 25 Sep 1993 21:03:24 -0500

I accidentally crash my linux box while debugging the serial port problem
remotely from home.

How to reboot that machine remotely (from other workstation) ? 
That machine is on our campus ethernet, and I can still ping 
but can't telnet in.

Thanks

yono

[email-masked]

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Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1993 01:33:12 EDT
From: <[email-masked]>
Crossposted-To: comp.graphics
Subject: Compiling Khoros for Linux.

Hello,

I have some questions  regarding the port of Khoros to Linux.
I got the original source and system files plus the patches by Wolfram Gloger.
My current version of Linux is 0.99pl12, I use gcc 2.4.5 and f2c-1993.04.2.8.
I applied the  patches against the Khoros source and system files, however
I failed to compile the program.  After some work I was able to compile Khoros
but I had to rewrite linux.cf file to implement my system configuration
(Wolfram uses SYSV and I like BSD).
Most of the Khoros' programs seem to work fine (I tested  editimage, putimage,
xprism3, xprism2, animate, many "vroutines"). However, there is a problem with
cantata. I get zombies every time when executing the routine (it gets pretty
bad after a while of using it :-( ). It seems that neither Wolframs patch to
src/xvroutines/Lib/xvforms/signal.c (replacing kill(pid, 0) with waitpid(...) )
nor the original version (I tried both) work for me.

Does any one have idea what can be done to fix this problem?
I tried to contact Wolfram Gloger at [email-masked] (regarding
his Linux patch) but the e-mail gets bounced back.

Any form of help would be appreciated!

Thanks,

-Pawel Potocki (email: [email-masked])

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From: [email-masked] (Mark D. Austin)
Subject: When will Xfree 2.0 be out/what will it have?
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1993 03:17:53 GMT

Hi,
Just wondering if anyone could feed me some tidbits on the status of
Xfree 2.0 and possibly what features it will have. I need 1280x1024,
and need to start looking for a video card etc.

thanks,
Mark  A. 
-- 
Mark Austin       
Georgia Tech,  School of Electrical Engineering, Atlanta, GA  30332-0250
E-MAIL: [email-masked]                    PHONE:  (404) 853-9370

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From: [email-masked] (Howard Taylor)
Subject: Re: [Need Help] TERM hangs after four characters?
Date: 26 Sep 1993 04:11:53 GMT

this has happenned to me also.  I posted just a few days back, and got
several responses and still had no luck with the suggestions that were
given - actually I had thought of most of them already....

if anyone has any clues, could they _please_ point them out.  I have been
dying to try this out.....

thanks,
--> howard
-- 
=============================================================================
Howard Taylor <[email-masked]>
Dept of Electrical Engineering
University of Delaware

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From: ttran@copland (Tan Tran)
Subject: Re: WHERE can I obtaine the LATEST complete LINUX version
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1993 03:55:54 GMT

[email-masked] (Mark Brady) writes:
: In <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Ed pimentel) writes:
: 
: >I am looking for the latest version of linux.
: >Does anyone know where I may be able to get it.
: > 
: > 
: > IMG (Inter-Multimedia Group) | Internet:  [email-masked]          
: >  
: > P.O. Box 95901               |            [email-masked] 
: >  
: > Atlanta, Georgia, US         | CIS     :  70611,3703                     
: >    
: >                              | FidoNet :  1:133/407                      
: >  
: >                              | BBS     :  +1-404-985-1198 zyxel 14.4k    
: >  
: 
: >-- 
: >[email-masked] (Ed pimentel)
: >gatech!kd4nc!vdbsan!willard!edimg
: >emory!uumind!willard!edimg
: >Willard's House BBS, Atlanta, GA -- +1 (404) 664 8814
: 
: 
: me too.
: 
: Also where can I get this (comp.os.linux) groups FAQ?
: 
: PLease (Mail and post) or mail replies.
: thanks
: mark
:

You can try ftp to tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/doc (for DOC)
and /pub/linux/INSTALL and grab everything under there.

Tan Tran
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Chris Healy)
Subject: DTC SCSI card
Date: 25 Sep 1993 22:22:10 -0700

I have a 386-40 system with somewhere around 300 megs of SCSI space.  In
booting a Linux boot disk I find it won't recognise the DTC controller
running the system.  Is there anyway to fix this?  or is an update which
might support it to be released anytime in the future?  

Thanks in advance -- Chris
        [email-masked]

-- 
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Public Access UNIX and Internet at (503) 220-0636 (1200/2400, N81)

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From: [email-masked] (C.A. Peskin)
Subject: ram and swap faults, help me!
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1993 05:36:23 GMT

Memory and Swap errors:

Here is specific data concerning my problems:

After using swapoff and and then makeswap, in order to reformat the swap
drive -- hoping it would solve my problems -- I got this:

GENERAL PROTECTION: 0000
EIP: 0010:0011B619
EFLAGS: 00010206
EAX 882527E2    EBX 00006493    ECX 013F480     EDX 00003EBC
ESI 00000000    EDI 00000000    EBP 00000342

DS 0018 ES 0018 FS 002B GS 002B
PID 59  PROCESS NR: 14
66 39 68 0C 06 85 90 00 00 00

TRYING TO FREE KERNEL PAGE-DIRECTORY: NOT GOOD.
SEGMENTATION FAULT.

        Well, thats the message.   I have had several other errors
pertaining to ram and swap space.  Such as "NMI received.  Dazed and
confused, but rying to continue.", "unable to handle paging request at
address c0000012", "trying to free non existant swap page" , "bad page
table [00cf902c] =00000400", and  "memory fault."

My system configuration is as follows:

486 dx2/66.
20 mb of ram.
AMI bios
wd 1003 MFM and floppy ctrlr @ primary address
two mfm drives.  The second mfm is an xt2190 maxtor with over 1024 cyls.
This is the drive with linux.
Ultrasor 34f vlb scsi-2 ctrlr.  Mbox I/O @340H Bios segment
@cc000-cffff.  IRQ 15.
Runs a Maxtor 340 mb SCSI-2 drive.
ALL shadow is OFF. 
LILO is not installed. 
ATI VGA Wonder 512k video card.
PAS 16 Audio card
The rest is likely not significant.

I am running the Slackware pl13 release of Linux.

I get the bugs while running stuff, mostly when I put stuff in the
background.  If I leave the system idle, i get the errors, and the VC
locks up, but others are temporarily ok.

Please help.  Thanks!

-- 
+------------------------------------------------------------------+
|  Rochester Institute of Technology              Chris A. Peskin  |
|  Electrical Engineering                                          |
+------------------------------------------------------------------+ 

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From: ttran@copland (Tan Tran)
Subject: Re: where to get it and...
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1993 04:31:08 GMT

[email-masked] () writes:
: Where can I get  linux? and what to grab in that directory?
: 
: Thanks.
: -J Hdez.

I believed that this question was posted all over this group.
Anyway, you can try tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/INSTALL or
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux.

For the former, grab everything under INSTALL.

Regards,
[email-masked]

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From: ttran@copland (Tan Tran)
Subject: Re: Wanted Information on Linux
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1993 04:33:47 GMT

[email-masked] (Quentin Campbell) writes:
: is there an FTP site that contains information on the LINUX operating system?
: Any help would be greatly appreciated.
: 
: Thanks,
: Quentin
: [email-masked] 
:

Yes, try sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/docs/linux-doc-project.
Alternately, try tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/doc.

Regards,
[email-masked]

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From: George A Flett <[email-masked]>
Subject: Proteon support?
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1993 03:17:42 -0400

Does anyone know if there is any Proten Token-ring support under linux?
I have a Proteon 1346, and I'd really like to use it on my school
network. And NO we do not have ethernet at my location!!!

                            Alec

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