Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #15
From: Digestifier <[email-masked]>
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Date: Fri, 2 Sep 94 20:19:47 EDT

Linux-Admin Digest #15, Volume #2                 Fri, 2 Sep 94 20:19:47 EDT

Contents:
  Re: XVGA for Trident (Tom Barringer)
  Re: Admin utils for linux ? (Darrel Hankerson)
  Re: [SLIP] Overruns? (Charlie Krasic)
  Re: Is it possible to have NFS via TERM ? (Christophe Person)
  HELP: DTC avidtek3151 ncr53c400 (jan verhoeven)
  Re: Please he: Slackware 2.0.0 will NOT boot on my computer (Raphael Mankin)
  Re: Testing a pointer (Raphael Mankin)
  Re: Whats the best _CHEAP_ ISA video card for Linux/Xfree? (Larry Doolittle)
  Need Xconfig for WD90C33 (Alfred Hovdestad)
  Filters on remote printers [?] (Bruce Alan Fraser)
  Re: Using an Exabyte with Linux (Tat Lam NGUYEN)
  SNMTP (Andreas Schmidt)
  Re: WTMP question [SOLVED] (H.J. Lu)
  Re: Whats the best ISA video card for Linux/Xfree? (Chris Camacho)
  Re: SOCK_PACKET: Why not reading outgoing packets ? (Peter Howlett)
  Pointer to Linux UUCP/News/Mail HOWTO documents (Vince Skahan)
  Adaptec 2940W (Joseph Womack - EECS)

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From: [email-masked] (Tom Barringer)
Subject: Re: XVGA for Trident
Date: 2 Sep 1994 13:59:02 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Paul Julie) writes:
|> 
|> I have a Trident 8900CL card, and the configuration automatically
|> made it 800x600 256 colours.  However, I know my card will handle
|> 1024x768 because I am running windows.  
|> 
|> Has anyone calculated those magic numbers for the trident card,
|> so it will run 1024x768 256 colours (and the motif manager is pannable)??
|> <snip>
|> My hardware 486 33Mhz, Trident 8900CL, Sony 14 inch monitor (model unknown)

When running ConfigXF86, when your choices for monitor appear, select
'Cheap 14" (TRY THIS FIRST)'.  I have an 8900c card and my original selection
for monitor also gave me just 800x600 and 640x480, but this selection gave
all three resolutions.

To make it pannable, enter a "virtual size" larger than the actual size.

<standard disclaimers apply>

(P.S. I know, I know, it's not "cheap".  Sorry, I didn't label it; that's
what it says. :)

--
Tom Barringer      : Progress Software Corp.   : The Tall Conspiracy is looking
QA Development     : 14 Oak Park               : for members.  Please see the
[email-masked]  : Bedford, MA  01730        : recruitment flyer posted on
GEnie: T.Barringer : #include <std/disclaim.i> : the top of your refrigerator.
HREF="ftp://ftp.progress.com/tomb/tomb.html"

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From: [email-masked] (Darrel Hankerson)
Subject: Re: Admin utils for linux ?
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 14:05:49 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Safuat Hamdy) writes:

   pointer to an anonymous ftp server where [UserMaint admin tools]
   is stored as a separate package? 

harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/code:

  -r--r--r--  1 14279        3281 Mar  9  1993 UserMaint_V1.0.README
  -r--r--r--  1 14279       17563 Mar 10  1993 UserMaint_V1.0.tar.gz

These have a nicely done graphical interface. There is a small problem
in editing the GID (on my Yggdrasil Sum-94 CD). Please followup if you
have any info to add.

--
--Darrel Hankerson [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Charlie Krasic)
Subject: Re: [SLIP] Overruns?
Date: 02 Sep 1994 14:06:53 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Gregory G. Woodbury) writes:

> In article <[email-masked]>, Bryce Ryan <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >I have been running DIP 3.3.7a-uri, and when checking the link stats via
> >the ifconfig sl0 command, have noticed a *huge* number of overruns--on
> >the order of 75% of the total packets transmitted or received.  needless
> >to say, my response time is incredibly slow.  I am using a 16550A UART,
> >so that's not the problem.  Any hints?
> 
> I was having similar problems both on a direct line and on a dialup link.
> The error rate seemed to be linear on linespeed used.  I dropped using
> header compression (cslip protocol) on the links, and voila!  no more
> overruns (even at 56Kbps.)

Curious.  I had the same problem.  As a side-effect of switching from
dip to dslip (Matt Dillon's slip package), I discovered that slattach
and dslip both flat out do not work when I specified CSLIP instead of
SLIP.  Yet dip seemed to work--aside from the overruns.

Without looking into any code, my theory is that the remote end of my
dialup isn't really set up for CSLIP.  Dip is still able to establish
a (broken) connection.  Slattach and dslip fail.  

I need to contact the appropriate person in my organization to check
on what my dialup is really configured for...

-- Buck

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From: [email-masked] (Christophe Person)
Subject: Re: Is it possible to have NFS via TERM ?
Date: 1 Sep 1994 14:28:42 -0500

>>>>> "Jagadeesh" == Jagadeesh Krishnamurthy Venugopal  writes:

    >> Is it possible to have NFS via TERM-connected network ?

    Jagadeesh> I am not too certain about this but I remember having
    Jagadeesh> read somewhere that NFS is a connectionless protocol
    Jagadeesh> and term is only for connection priented services, so I
    Jagadeesh> dont think you can get one.

    Jagadeesh> But who knows!
>That was true with term 1.X versions.  Term 2.X supports
connectionless protocals.  However, NFS requires binding
...
>               Bill

        I may be wrong but I think term is implementing TCP over a serial
line and not UDP which is used for NFS transfer...

<a href="http://dirac.bcm.tmc.edu/people/chrisp.html">
Christophe Person</a>

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From: [email-masked] (jan verhoeven)
Subject: HELP: DTC avidtek3151 ncr53c400
Date: 2 Sep 1994 19:07:41 +0200

Hello,

I am having problems getting my nec cdr210 cdrom to work wih linux.
The facts:

linux 1.1.45 kernel with cdrom, iso9660 and generic ncr5380 lowlevel scsi
driver compiled. during startup it says: scsi: 0 hosts.
My scsi card is a DTC avidtek 3151 xt board size scsi board with it's base
address set at DC00h (factory default). under msdos 6.2 everything works
fine so no hardware problems. 

I grepped through the source and found references for the ncr53c400 (which
is the scsi chip on the card) in the generic ncr5380 code. I read the
scsi-howto and the cdrom-howto. But whatever I tried, It doesn't work.
every time I get scsi: 0 hosts. 

Question has anyone gotten this dtc card working under linux and how thit
you do it?? 

I read that you can give parameters at the lilo prompt when booting a kernel
to override the autoprobe etc. but What port and irq uses this board. I can
only use the jumpers on it to relocate the 16 kb ram space it needs. Which I
now have set at the factory default of DC00h. I think getting the NEC cdr210
to work won't be a problem when the scsi card is recognised by the kernel.

So if anyone has this board please let me know how you did it.
(is maybe adding the trantor 130b patches usefull)???

signed jan verhoeven  [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Raphael Mankin)
Subject: Re: Please he: Slackware 2.0.0 will NOT boot on my computer
Reply-To: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 16:30:27 +0000

I had the same same, or a similar, problem. My config is
        SCSI ahrd disc on AH1542
        Mitsumi CD on a proprietary i/f
I could not find any kernel that would drive both the SCSI and the
Mitsumi.

What I did was to copy the /slackware/ directory tree to a spare hard
disc partition, using MSDOS, and then used the pure SCSI kernel
startup kernel on a floppy to boot and build a new kernel that had
just what I wanted in it. The cdscsi startup kernel would not work
with my CD -- it insisted on having a Sony drive.
-- 
Raphael Mankin                  Decalogue (n): a series of commandments, ten in 
                                        number - just enough to permit an
                                        intelligent selection for observance,
                                        but not enough to embarass the choice.
                                Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary

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From: [email-masked] (Raphael Mankin)
Subject: Re: Testing a pointer
Reply-To: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 16:48:46 +0000

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked]  writes:

> 
> Is there a command/function in C to test if a pointer is pointing to
> accessable memory? GDB can tell you if a pointer's contents are
> "unaccessable"... so there must be a way.
> 
Try to dereference it and have a signal handler to catch the
pointer fault. The handler just sets a global variable.

-- 
Raphael Mankin                  Decalogue (n): a series of commandments, ten in 
                                        number - just enough to permit an
                                        intelligent selection for observance,
                                        but not enough to embarass the choice.
                                Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
From: [email-masked] (Larry Doolittle)
Subject: Re: Whats the best _CHEAP_ ISA video card for Linux/Xfree?
Reply-To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 1994 17:51:30 GMT

Dirk Eddelbuettel ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Very well that the ATI Mach32/Ultra/Ultra Pro are advocated for, but could
: someone give me hints for the best    performance/price    ratios ?

Sounds tailor-made for an S3-801 board.

*  Orchid Fahrenheit 1280 Plus (?)
Works, fixed clocks, IMHO overpriced.

*  STB PowerGraph X-24
works well (I have the VLB version, a VL-24)
some recent boards appear to have problems with
the on-board frequency synthesizer when you
change modes.  When it works, it's nice not
to worry about what dot-clocks you have available,
since the card can synthesize any with about
0.1 MHz resolution.

*  Actix GraphicsEngine 32
works well, slightly cheaper, fixed clocks

*  No-name Taiwan Clone
I haven't heard any horror stories, and some
people have reported success.

Prices should range from US$99 (Taiwan mail order)
to US$160 (STB local retail)  All these cards should come
with 1M 60ns DRAM, and be useful up to about 70 MHz dot-clock,
sufficient to run 1024x768ni.  Going above 1024x768 is not
normally recommended, both because you run out of DRAM bandwidth,
and you start eating into the 256K used for font caching.
STB says their parts should "work" up to 80 MHz dot clock, and
the freq synthesizer and RAMDAC is limited by XFree to 110 MHz.

: My system is a 486DX-33, 16MB, ISA bus, 1024x768 interlaced 14'' SVGA 
: monitor so I am looking for an accelerated card that gives me 800x600 and 
: 1024x768 (but not more, no 2 MB cards needed) and that will be faster than 
: the 512 kB Oak Oti67 it will replace (this one sucks: TOTAL  3012.000000 
: xStones  reported by xbench).

===>>>>Expect 60-80 kXstones from an S3-801 !!!!

: I am looking for something like
:       Orchid Fahrenheit                     140 USD       
===>S3
:       STB Powergraph                        125 USD
===>S3
:       STB Horizon                           95  USD    
===>Cirrus?
:         cards with Cirrus Logic 5428 chips    price ? 
:       
: Comments, recommendations, flames, welcome under <[email-masked]>

: Bye,

: -- 
: Dirk Eddelbuettel                                 
: <[email-masked]>                           

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From: [email-masked] (Alfred Hovdestad)
Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: Need Xconfig for WD90C33
Date: 1 Sep 1994 18:27:41 GMT

I need an Xconfig file (or help builiding one) for an ASI Rocket-VL
(VESA local bus VGA Accelerator/VESA local bus IDE) with a WD90c33
video chip.  I downloaded Bill Conn's XF86_SVGA driver and installed
that.  It recognizes the WD90c33 and returns the dot-clocks on an 
X -probeonly, but I can't seem to get the ModeDB set up correctly.
All I get is flicker on the screen.

Does anyone have a similar (working) configuration?

--
Alfred Hovdestad                        |e-mail: [email-masked]
Systems Programmer                      |    or: [email-masked]
Department of Computing Services        | Voice: (306) 966-4819
University of Saskatchewan              |   FAX: (306) 966-4938

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From: [email-masked] (Bruce Alan Fraser)
Subject: Filters on remote printers [?]
Date: 01 Sep 1994 19:16:41 GMT

Hi, I'm currently using lpr and a printcap file to send print jobs to
a remote printer.  However, I'm trying to add another remote printer
that does no filtering of its own.  I've read the docs, but I can't
see any way to cause each print job to be filtered before going to a
remote printer.  Everything I read says that the "if=" line in
/etc/printcap is ignored for remote printers.

Is there way around this?  Did I miss something?  I've read the
printing-faq also but saw no clues there.  Any ideas would be greatly
appreciated.

BTW, I'm running Slackware 2.0, lpr and using apsfilter 2.0 for filtering.

Bruce Fraser
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Tat Lam NGUYEN)
Subject: Re: Using an Exabyte with Linux
Date: 2 Sep 1994 11:41:23 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked] , [email-masked]

root ([email-masked]) wrote:

: Hi together,

 Hi,

: I just  have had a little bit of luck and got an used Exabyte streamer
: from my company (for nearly no $$ :-) ).

 Good deal... :)

: Unfortunately it seems that linux don't like such a beast :-(
: I plugged it in and everything seems to be okay. While booting the
: kernel tells me Target 5  Exabyte Model: EXB-8200 Rev. 4.25  SCSI-1
: But when I try to access the device nothing happens.
: The streamer had been connected to an old SUN but I haven't got any
: documentation. Did I miss something or doesn't Linux support Exabytes?

 Linux do support Exabytes. I have an EXB-8500 (SCSI-2, ID 2, external case)
 running fine with Linux (Slack 2.0, kernel 1.1.49).
 Try to give your EXB another (free) ID and be sure that it's terminated
 correctly.

: By the way, of cause I created the device files.

 I'm using /dev/nrmt0 or /dev/nrst0 as device.

 Good luck,
 TLN
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From: [email-masked] (Andreas Schmidt)
Subject: SNMTP
Date: 1 Sep 1994 06:59:24 GMT

Hi LINUXER's outside,

does anyone know if LINUX "speaks" SNMP?

Thanx...

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From: [email-masked] (H.J. Lu)
Subject: Re: WTMP question [SOLVED]
Date: 1 Sep 1994 02:06:30 GMT

Daniel Tran ([email-masked]) wrote:
: In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Daniel Tran) writes:
: >Hi,
: >The /usr/adm/wtmp file records all logins/logouts.  Upon examining the system, 
: >I found that there isn't a file like that.  How do you enable this process?.  
: >Can someone help me out.

: >TIA
: >Daniel Tran - [email-masked]

: Many thanks to everybody. WTMP is now working after I issued the following:

: touch /var/adm/wtmp

: ln -s /var/adm/wtmp /usr/adm/wtmp

I cannot help it. I thought /usr/adm is linked to /var/adm. Am I
wrong?

: ln -s /var/adm/wtmp /etc/wtmp

: Daniel Tran - [email-masked]

H.J.
--
First I thought he was on hunger strike. Later I was told he was
praticing YanXin QiGong.

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From: [email-masked] (Chris Camacho)
Subject: Re: Whats the best ISA video card for Linux/Xfree?
Date: 31 Aug 1994 21:02:04 -0400

Viktor T. Toth ([email-masked]) wrote:
: [email-masked] (John Hoford) writes:
: >
: > Even subjective evaluations (comparisons) welome.
: >
: I had very good experience with an ATI Graphics Ultra Pro. It's ISA,
: it's fast, the driver for it seems to be in excellent shape... works
: like a charm.
:
 Here's another vote for the ATI Graphics Ultra Pro. The ATI Mach32
 drivers work like a charm, and the speed is excellent for an ISA card!

 All IMHO of course.

-Chris
-- 
[email-masked] - Public Access Unix in Atlanta - 404/659-5720 - 404/521-0445

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From: [email-masked] (Peter Howlett)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: SOCK_PACKET: Why not reading outgoing packets ?
Date: 2 Sep 1994 14:35:46 GMT

Alan Cox ([email-masked]) wrote:
: In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Morten Jammer) writes:
: >Why can the socket typ SOCK_PACKET only read outgoing packets
: >when the interface is in promiscious mode ?

: It can definitelyt read all incoming packets on all the cards I use
: (barring etherexpress) otherwise tcpdump wouldnt work. Outgoing packet
: viewing is very recent but now works.

: Alan

Is it possible for me to get more information on how to use this
type of socket? (Can it be used to implement user level routing
protocols or packet filters?)

====================================================================
Peter Howlett                   Atlantic Systems Group
E-Mail: [email-masked]     Fredericton, N.B. Canada

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.announce
From: [email-masked] (Vince Skahan)
Subject: Pointer to Linux UUCP/News/Mail HOWTO documents
Reply-To: [email-masked] (Vince Skahan)
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 19:09:14 GMT

Last-modified: 26 Aug 1994

This is a periodic pointer to the Linux Mail, UUCP, and News 
HOWTO documents that are part of the Linux Documentation Project.  

These contain (hopefully) enough information to answer the 
Frequently Asked Questions on those subjects that are epidemic 
in the comp.os.linux.* hierarchy.

(the following is straight out of the Linux FAQ that is posted
        routinely to comp.os.linux.announce)

To get HOWTOs via anonymous ftp, please try the following sites:
        ftp.funet.fi (128.214.6.100) : /pub/OS/Linux/doc/HOWTO
        tsx-11.mit.edu (18.172.1.2) : /pub/linux/docs/HOWTO
        sunsite.unc.edu (152.2.22.81) : /pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO
 
To get them via the WorldWideWeb, please use the following URLs:
        http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/MAIL-HOWTO.html
        http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/UUCP-HOWTO.html
        http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/NEWS-HOWTO.html
        http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO-Index.html

To get them via electronic mail:
        There are a variety of ftp-by-electronic mail servers on
        Internet, each with their own particular syntax.  In
        general, you want to mail to any of the following addresses
        with the word 'help' as the text of your message:

        [email-masked]
        [email-masked]
        [email-masked]
 
--
   ------------------- Vince Skahan ------ [email-masked] ----------------
   Try http://www.halcyon.com/vince/welcome.html for the latest versions of
   the Linux Electronic Mail, UUCP, and USENET News 'HOWTO' documentation...

--
Send submissions for comp.os.linux.announce to: [email-masked]
Be sure to include Keywords: and a short description of your software.

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From: [email-masked] (Joseph Womack - EECS)
Subject: Adaptec 2940W
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 17:55:46 GMT

I am thinking about buying a Adaptec 2940W  SCSI-3 controller and
would like to know if anyone is using this controller.

Also has anyone delt with Royal Electronics based out of 
Industry, CA????

For a complete description/Ad see Computer Shopper, Sept. '94 page 256E

                                                Joe Womack
==================== *********************** ===========================
[email-masked] /        Linux        \ Washington State University 
   IEEE / ACM      /   Free Unix with X-11   \ Electrical Engineering &
     EE Major    /   MSDOS:  Just Because! ;)  \    Computer Science
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