Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #165
From: Digestifier <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 8 Oct 94 21:13:47 EDT

Linux-Admin Digest #165, Volume #2                Sat, 8 Oct 94 21:13:47 EDT

Contents:
  Re: kernel message in log file - what does it mean (Erlend Midttun)
  Re: Mystery Chip...AMD (Daniel Zappala)
  PPP faster then 38.4 (Steven Kornreich)
  Re: Linux and Adaptec 1542 CF (Matti Aarnio)
  Re: mpeg_play for linux (Bill C. Riemers)
  Re: [Q] 4M -> 8M RAM worth it? (Dan Pop)
  Re: what's wrong with my agetty? (Kenneth H. Gantz)
  Re: ctwm compilation error (Hajime Saitou)
  Re: Lynx under Linux (Bryan Vold)
  Re: XFree86-3.1 - Whoopee! (Sam Oscar Lantinga)
  Re: Xfree 3.1 and SPEA MirageP64 (Linux) (Norbert Distler)
  Re: Not able to record sound! (Mathijs Maassen)
  fsck during boot: already mounted (Scott L. Crutchfield)
  Experiences with Archive's Python (Louis LaBash)
  IDE/EIDE drive >528M?? (Alex Y. Chang)
  Re: Best SCSI-II and 8mm tape (Patrick J. Volkerding)
  Re: Mystery Chip...AMD (Jay Ashworth)

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From: [email-masked] (Erlend Midttun)
Subject: Re: kernel message in log file - what does it mean
Date: 08 Oct 1994 18:50:38 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Daniel Tran) writes:

   HI,
   Twice this morning, my Linux networking component stopped working.  I had
   named running so when my station didn't communicate to the outside world, I
   thought named has failed.  I killed the named process, restarted but nothing
   work.  I then ping'ed some hosts using the real IP address - nothing work.

Had the same messages on my system to.  I am not running the named daemon
though, and it did not bring my system down.  My network manager explained
it to be my kernel making a request through the wrong gateway, and thereby
getting the rigth way to go back from the router.

The fix which worked for me was putting another line in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1
(running Slackware 2.0.0) which contained the correct information about the
gateway to use.  This is the line:

/sbin/route add -net 158.38.62.0 gw 158.38.60.250

where of course 158.38.62.0 is the net I am trying to reach using
158.38.60.250 as the gateway.  Since you are using the named daemon
I don't know if this is the rigth thing for you to do, but I guess
it is worth trying. 

   Can someone tell me what the "redirect from 128.97.175.1" means??
   This machine has been running solidly for at least 3 months now.

To me it came with one of the kernels between 1.1.18 and 1.1.51, but
I don't know which, as I upgraded directly.

   Daniel Tran [email-masked]

Erlend..
--
Erlend Midttun
email: [email-masked]         Live:    Fjordgt. 15            
http://colargol.edb.tih.no/~erlendbm/             7010 Trondheim
IRC:   Golle                                        A Linux User

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From: [email-masked] (Daniel Zappala)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Mystery Chip...AMD
Date: 6 Oct 1994 19:52:54 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Sam Brown) writes:
> picked up a dx-2-80 amd, works great. $210 was my cost $320 w/green vlb 
> motherboard. extremely stable and fast
> 

I have an AMD 486DX-40.  Any news on an add-in from AMD to turn this into a
486DX2-80, or do I need to buy a whole new chip?

Daniel

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From: [email-masked] (Steven Kornreich)
Subject: PPP faster then 38.4
Date: 8 Oct 1994 17:52:26 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

Can you run PPP or slip faster than 38.4? I have a V.34 modem that I use  
to communicate with my Internet provider that also has a v.34 modem on his  
side.
Thanks
--
Steven Kornreich
Kornreich Communications
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Matti Aarnio)
Subject: Re: Linux and Adaptec 1542 CF
Date: Sat, 8 Oct 1994 17:43:23 GMT

leadfoot@leftlane (Mark Curtis) writes:
>
>I just tried to install linux on my Dell 466/T, but I ran into a
>real problem.  It looks like the driver for AHA-1542 SCSI controllers
>only looks at the default address of 330.  Mine controller is at 230
>because my MIDI card is at 330.  That is the default address that
>all MIDI software will look for the MIDI card at so I don't want to
>change it.  All my other software works find with the SCSI controller
>at 230.
>
>Is there a way to tell the kernel to look at the alternate address of
>230 for the 1542CF?  I'm using the CD in the "Internet CD" book.
>I beleive that release is the 1.2 Slackware release.

        I feel the  Slackware 1.2 is OLD...  Thus the driver
        source file might have been moved since then..

        At the moment there is no way to externally tell the kernel to look
        at somewhere non-standard -- except at my own machine. (Linux 1.1.52)
        I have been developing LILO options for AHA1542, which lets users
        like you to override the default locations (and to set some other
        more esoteric configuration parameters...)

        For now your option is:
                - install the Adaptec on 330, deinstall the MIDI/Sound
                  for a moment
                - generate new kernel AFTER you have edited the
                        /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/aha1542.c
                  to look for the new controller location(s).
                  Edit the file, and start by looking for '0x330' in it.
                  Preceeding comment explains what to do with it.
                - install that new kernel, change your Adaptec,
                  install the MIDI/Sound-card..

>I've built the two floppies (Boot, Root) and they work except the
>kernel probes never find my SCSI controller or it's devices.
>
>Any ideas?

        This SHOULD be FAQ, I guess -- I hope my LILO-things are
        ready before the release of Linux 1.2, and thus will make
        the trouble obsolete..

>Thanks,
>
>Mark

        /Matti Aarnio   <[email-masked]>

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From: [email-masked] (Bill C. Riemers)
Subject: Re: mpeg_play for linux
Date: 08 Oct 1994 15:47:29 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Vaughan <[email-masked]> writes:

    Tom> [email-masked] (Klevemann) writes:
    >> Anyone know where I can get an mpeg_play for linux ?

    Tom> grep INDEX.whole from sunsite.unc.edu

    Tom> Thomas

The "Motif" version is better.  Check-out:

 http://www.geom.umn.edu/docs/mpeg_play/mpeg_play.html

Although, all the mpeg_play programs seem unstable.  i.e. If the
mpeg file is even slightly corrupted they tend to core dump or
at the very least abort the rest of the file.

                          Bill

--
<A HREF="    http://physics.purdue.edu/~bcr/homepage.html                  ">
<EM><ADDRESS>  Bill C. Riemers,  [email-masked]   </ADDRESS></EM></A>
<A HREF="           http://www.physics.purdue.edu/                         ">
<EM>          Department of Physics,   Purdue University            </EM></A>

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From: [email-masked] (Dan Pop)
Subject: Re: [Q] 4M -> 8M RAM worth it?
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 23:32:10 GMT

In <rcas1.781417441@giaeb> [email-masked] (Robert Casiano) writes:

>I`ve just installed linux at home. My pc is 486DX33 with 4M of RAM.
>It looks good but x  runs very very slow.  Thus, it swaps a lot to
>hard disk, and I fear that its life span is being shortened
>considerably.  So I might buy more memory.  With my tight budget, I
>could only afford another 4M.  Question is, is it worth it to buy the
>4M now, or just wait for probably another year and get 16M?n  If I
>buy the 4M now, wuold it improve things a lot, or not much
>improvement?

Upgrade now. You'll see a quantum leap in X performance. The difference
between 4M and 8M is far more significant than the one between 8M and 16M,
IMHO.

Dan
--
Dan Pop 
CERN, CN Division
Email: [email-masked]
Mail:  CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland

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From: [email-masked] (Kenneth H. Gantz)
Subject: Re: what's wrong with my agetty?
Date: Sat, 8 Oct 1994 07:04:16 GMT

[email-masked] (Kenneth H. Gantz) writes:

>Hello,
>I'm trying to add a dumb terminal to my linux machine.
>Here's what I've done so far. I've connected an ADDS terminal
>to my comm 3 port via a null modem cable. I placed the following
>entry in my /etc/inittab file  s3:45:respawn:/sbin/agetty 19200 ttyS2.
>I do get a login prompt but when I try to enter anything it takes about
>15 seconds for anything to echo back to the dumb terminal. This makes
>it take an extremely long time to enter a user name and since passwords
>don't echo I can't tell when it's time to enter the next character. If I
>ignore the characters not echoing and type in a complete user name, most
>of the characters get dropped. I've tried baud rates of 19200, 9600 and 4800
>all with identical results. Any suggestions? I appreciate any help I
>can get.

Since I first posted this I've noticed that if I run a telecomm program
everything works fine. The modem doesn't have to be off hook, I just
have to have either minicom, seyon or term running. I don't understand
why these things are connected. The modem is on comm 1 and the dumb (really
dumb) terminal is on comm 3. Since the modem doesn't have to be off hook
it apparently needs to be initialized for my dumb terminal to work. Can
someone please explain?
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-- 
Ken Gantz
[email-masked]
Work - 502.329.3724         IT IS NOT A PROBLEM OF WHETHER MACHINES THINK,
FAX - 502.329.6199          BUT WHETHER MEN DO. - B.F. Skinner

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From: [email-masked] (Hajime Saitou)
Subject: Re: ctwm compilation error
Date: 8 Oct 1994 16:04:44 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Hendrik G. Seliger) writes:

 |Henry Gabryjelski ([email-masked]) wrote:
 |: When compiling ctwm-3.2p1, I get the following error during compilation:
 |
 |: /usr/lib/libXpm.sa(__T00028.o): Undefined symbol 
 |:                                    "__NEEDS_SHRLIB_libX11_3" referenced
 |: make: *** [ctwm] Error 1
 |
 |
 |You will need to recompile libXpm and make new shared libs. Get the
 |libXpm sources, change the NEEDS_SHRLIB_libX11_3 to an

I saw the same sort of post about fvwm.
I wonder if it's because "make install" with libXpm-3.4c doesn't
install the shared library as well.

Hajime Saito

[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Bryan Vold)
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.misc,comp.infosystems.www.providers,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Lynx under Linux
Date: 5 Oct 1994 12:37:09 -0500

In article <[email-masked]>,
Mubashir Cheema <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>I have noticed that when I run Lynx under Linux all available
>options get highlighted instead of the ones I move my 
>cursor to. 

Download the sources for the newest version (lynx2-3-1).  It has 
the linux-ncurses entry that I submitted.  They sort of screwed up
the entry though.  Edit the Makefile and find the entry for
linux-ncurses.  You need to add -DFANCY_CURSES to the defines, this is
the option which allows the nice looking (highlighted, not reversed)
links.  I have also changed my setup to use optimization (makes a large
difference in the speed! ;-) ).  Then compile with:

make linux-ncurses

>The guest account automatically recognizes the terminal type of
>user logging in. If for some reason it can't, it prompts the user
>for that information. I do not suspect that the guest account is
>not detecting the terminal type correctly, since I see the same 
>behaviour when I run lynx on my machine under xterm, vt100 etc. on
>this machine. 

Don't know about this one.

-Bryan
-- 
[email-masked]               "The relentless pursuit of perfection"
Linux -- The Choice of a GNU Generation  "Make it so, Number One." 

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From: [email-masked] (Sam Oscar Lantinga)
Subject: Re: XFree86-3.1 - Whoopee!
Date: 5 Oct 1994 17:16:01 GMT

Patrick J. Volkerding ([email-masked]) wrote:
: libXpm-3.4c _seemed_ to compile fine under XFree86 3.1, but any apps 
: linked with the resulting shared library seg fault when executed.  The 
: static version of libXpm works, though.  (Mitch - are you planning to 
: look at this?)

        I'm running libXpm-3.4c recompiled (shared, using tools-1.5)
under X11R6, along with fvwm recompiled with R6 libs and the recompiled
libXpm.  Everything is dynamically linked, and works great!

        I converted over to X11R6 yesterday, and it only took me
until about midnight to get everything tweaked just right.  Xlock was
actually the hardest, because I run non-standard shadowed passwords.

BTW, is there any way to get the built-in 300x200 mode without running
a separate server with "generic" chipset set in the configuration file?
I've tried specifying mode "300x200", but X complains that there is no
mode line for mode "300x200".  What am I doing wrong?

        Note that the -config option for X is obsolete, and it has
been replaced with the "-xf86config" option which is ONLY availiable
when run by the real root user.

        On the note of 16 bit color, I have a VLB Cirrus Logic 5426 
with 1 Meg RAM, and I haven't been able to get it working.  If I use 
the linear option, and set MemBase to 0x00e00000 or 0x04e00000 my system
will hard-reboot, like it says in the FAQ.  I have 16M memory.  Do I
have to get a better card?  Or is there a setting I am missing?

Good luck!

        -Sam Lantinga           ([email-masked])

P.S.  Most of the tsx XFree86-3.1 is available via anonymous ftp at
      dewdrop.water.ca.gov in /pub/Linux/XFree86-3.1

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From: [email-masked] (Norbert Distler)
Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.os.linux.development
Subject: Re: Xfree 3.1 and SPEA MirageP64 (Linux)
Date: 7 Oct 1994 00:00:25 GMT

[email-masked] (Christoph Martin) writes:

>README.S3 (in XF86-3.1-doc.tar.gz) says:

>>1 - Supported hardware
>>----------------------
>>
>>  ...
>>
>>S3 864, 20C498 RAMDAC, ICS2595 Clockchip
>>                SPEA MirageP64 2MB DRAM
>>
>>                        8 and 15/16 bpp
>>
>>                        ClockChip "ICS2595"

>I tried this in my XF86Config file. Die card ist 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?

README.S3 also says:

Clockchip support is only preliminary and
on some machines problems with the first
mode after startup of XF86_S3 or after 
switching back from VT have been seen; 
switching to next mode with CTRL+ALT+'+'
and back seems to solve this problem

Did you already try this? If it still doesn't work, could you please
email me the output of your startup sequence, your configuration and
your XF86Config?

    Norbert

--

================================================================================

Norbert Distler - [email-masked] - [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Mathijs Maassen)
Subject: Re: Not able to record sound!
Date: Sat, 8 Oct 1994 20:09:44 GMT
Reply-To: [email-masked]

Lam Hong ([email-masked]) wrote:

> I have just set up my linux system but I could not record sound with the 
> sound blaster 16 ASP card. It's strange that playing sound files is
> perfectly good!
> could anyone figure out the problem(s).

Try "mixer +rec line". That does it for my PAS16 soundcard. The mixer
program is part of the snd-util-2.5 package.
(You can find it on sunsite in /pub/Linux/kernel/sound/)

Mathijs <[email-masked]>

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From: slc@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_DOMAIN_FILE (Scott L. Crutchfield)
Subject: fsck during boot: already mounted
Date: 8 Oct 1994 16:57:18 GMT

I am running Yggdrasil P&P (summer 1994). It used to check the
filesystems every once in a while when during startup, even if they
were clean ("maximal mount-count reached"). Now it always complains
that the partitions are already mounted and it's aborting the checks.
I always shut down with "halt". I don't think I did anything to
/etc/rc or /etc/rc.local, but it's been a while so I can't be sure.

I've included relevant portions of the boot.log, fstab and rc files below.
Please let me know what I'm doing wrong!

What you don't see in the excerpt from boot.log below is that fsck
says something like "/dev/hda7 already mounted, check aborted" during boot.

from /etc/boot.log:

<6>Kernel arguments: BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=307 ramdisk=0
...
<6>Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting.
<6>Linux version 1.1.0 (root@echota) #84 Fri Sep 9 13:50:02 CDT 1994
<6>Partition check:
<6>  hda: QUANTUM LPS540A (516MB IDE w/96KB Cache, MaxMult=8)
<6>  hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 > hda4
<6>EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
<6>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
<6>Max size:290506   Log zone size:2048
<6>First datazone:264   Root inode number 270336
<6>ISO9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
<6>Adding Swap: 20628k swap-space

from /etc/fstab:

# device        directory       type    options         freq pass

/dev/hda7       /               ext2    defaults
/proc           /proc           proc    defaults
/dev/hda8       /home           ext2    defaults
/dev/hda6       none            swap    sw
/dev/matsushita_cd      /system_cd      iso9660 defaults

from /etc/rc:

PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/sbin; export PATH
fsck -A -a
# Remount root writable
mount -n -o rw,remount /
# update syncs the filesystems every 30 seconds
update &
# remove /etc/mtab* so mount creates the /etc/mtab file
rm -f /etc/mtab* /etc/nologin
# mount all partitions specified in /etc/fstab
mount -av
# mount swap partition specified in /etc/fstab
swapon -a

from /etc/rc.local:

mount /dev/hda1 /home/dos

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From: [email-masked] (Louis LaBash)
Subject: Experiences with Archive's Python
Date: 8 Oct 1994 16:40:06 -0500

Hi,
I'm soliciting experiences with Archive's "Python" tape drives,
either 430NT, or 4520 models.

Thanks.
[email-masked]}

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From: [email-masked] (Alex Y. Chang)
Subject: IDE/EIDE drive >528M??
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 22:23:08 UNDEFINED

Dear Linuxers,
   I am planning upgrading my system with WD 2700 IDE drive. I was told by the 
vendor that I need to install a special driver to access the disk space >528M. 
This concerns me becasue I wonders if linux can access this DOS partition or 
not. I have checked the howto-hardware. I didn't find anything. Your comments 
will be much appreciated.

Thanks.
Alex 

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From: [email-masked] (Patrick J. Volkerding)
Subject: Re: Best SCSI-II and 8mm tape
Date: 7 Oct 1994 06:24:19 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
TlingitMan <[email-masked]> wrote:
>My Exabyte 8505 has been measured to sustain 400MB/sec in 8k or greater
>blocks on my 486DX33EISA*8MBRAM*ADAPTEC1742, even with a few retries.
>
>Beat that!  As well, it is a good 10% faster than the dozen or so 8500s I
>have and twice as fast as the 8200s.  

No doubt!  That _is_ fast!  I better get one so I can back up my 1 gig 
SCSI drive in just 2.5 seconds. ;^)

Pat

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From: [email-masked] (Jay Ashworth)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Mystery Chip...AMD
Date: 8 Oct 1994 13:19:10 -0400

[email-masked] (Brad Matthew Garcia) writes:
>I heard that AMD's version is more reliable than Intel's, and that many
>people have overclocked it to 80 MHz with no problems.  There was even
>a rumor going around that AMD would start to sell them as 486DX2-80's.
>If you see an AMD 486DX2-80 system for sale, I guess the rumor is true.

In the current Computer Shopper.  From at least 5 different vendors.
Guess it's true...

Or, maybe it _is_ a new chip.  Either way... I guess it's fast enough for
me...

Cheers,
-- jr 'Vrrrrrrrroooooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm' a
-- 
Jay R. Ashworth       High Technology Systems Consulting              Ashworth
Designer             Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation        & Associates
ka1fjx/4                                                       +1 813 790 7592
[email-masked]  "Hey! Do any of you guys know how to Madison?"      NIC: jra3

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