Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #62
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Date: Wed, 14 Sep 94 08:13:42 EDT

Linux-Admin Digest #62, Volume #2                Wed, 14 Sep 94 08:13:42 EDT

Contents:
  Linux X DOOM (it works) (Bruce Sherwood)
  Re: login USERID length problem (Joel M. Hoffman)
  Re: uucp-1.05 problem (Markus Leist)
  Searching infos on ReadyLink ENET16/U Rev. C Card ([email-masked])
  Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (Mark A. Davis)
  Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (Mark A. Davis)
  Re: PPP/IP Forwarding Problem (Gregory Trubetskoy)
  Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (Mark A. Davis)
  Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!! (Drew Eckhardt)
  apsfilter won't print (DL83-08)
  Re: Everyone's MOUNT - WARNING! (David Jansen)
  terminal servers (Dave H)
  Re: talk problem (Steven Pritchard)
  Re: Everyone's MOUNT - WARNING! (Jay Ashworth)
  Re: NFS performance (Winfried Truemper)

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From: [email-masked] (Bruce Sherwood)
Subject: Linux X DOOM (it works)
Date: 12 Sep 1994 19:03:39 -0700

I am running DOOM under X on my 486 DX 33 with only 8 megs. runs fine at 
320x200 size..  Looks small in my 640x480 xwindows screen.. but hey.. it 
plays!

  Sound:   You MUST have the sound-kit 2.90 installed and compiled into 
your kernel. Otherwise sounds bites the big one. By removing the sound 
driver pogram that comes with doom (rename it from sndserver) you can 
play with out sound at all.. Sorry: No music.. Just FX

 Frame rate: 0.5 frames a sec? that bites.. mine is at least 15 to 20 
fps.. very playable..  yes.. wish I had a VLB Dynatime..

  (oh yeah.. mines just a simple 1meg tseng et4000 isa)

  For those with the pixel doubling problem.. get the newest version of 
the game. They fixed it and it is on sunsite.unc.edu... thats where I got 
mine..

  yep.. pixel doubling eats alot of overhead.. be fast and have ram.. 
then you can jack up the pixel duobling..

  or be like me... keep looking here in the areas for how to force X into 
320x200 mode..
 ...bruce

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From: [email-masked] (Joel M. Hoffman)
Subject: Re: login USERID length problem
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 16:12:34 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Brian Watts) writes:
>I think there is a serious problem in connection with 'login'.
>
>Login doesn't work correctly when the login ID is > 8
>characters AND you telnet or type 'login' at a console
>*after* having logged in.
>It gives a 'login incorrect' response.  This doesn't happen
>when you login directly from the console.
>

It works fine for me.  (I have one userid with 9 letters.)  Linux
version:

        Linux excalibur 1.0.9 #3 Sun Sep 11 09:51:42 EDT 1994 i386

Of course, there are other reasons why userid's > 8char are not such a
good idea.

-Joel
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
From: [email-masked] (Markus Leist)
Subject: Re: uucp-1.05 problem
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 00:19:39 GMT

hi^2.

problem solved.

my modem will set &K6 when initialized for fax by mgetty.
added at&K3 after fax-init!
seems to be bios-error of modem :-(

modem: zoltrix 14400/V.42bis
ati3 -> "V1.70 TR14-Jxxx-001 029"
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.protocols.nfs,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,convoy.hardware,local.pinboard,paderborn.pinboard,zer.z-netz.fundgrube.suche.elektronik
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Searching infos on ReadyLink ENET16/U Rev. C Card
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 13:20:00 +0200

Frank Westheider         Linux Support Group Paderborn
[email-masked]     [email-masked]
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HI Folks !

I'm looking for infos on the ReadLINK ENET16/U Rev. C Ethernet-Card.
This card can be jumpered for WD80x3 and NEx000 mode and has a lot of
jumpers on board :

  J10   Eprom-Addr            A18-A13
  J9    I/O ADDR              A8-A5
  J11   NE1/NE2
        CPX/WDP
        32K/8K
        WD/NE
  J5    SEL
  J4    <unknown>
  J12   0WD-DLY
  J8    PROM
  J15   EPROM CONFIG
                16K
                16/32K
                32/64K
                64K
  J14   EPROM SIZE
                E16K
                E32K
                E64K
  J6A   Upper IRQ's  (15,11,10)
  J6B   Lower IRQ's  (2,3,4,5,7)

Whatever setting i choose (WD oder NE), whatever IRQ/IO i choose, the card  
is recognized but

  - in NE-Mode the card hangs together with HD-Access  CRASH
  - in WD-Mode, all works fine, but the cards (2 of this kind) don't
    recognize one another on the NET

I got these cards very cheap but without infos.
Can anyone post me infos for this card ????

HELP !!

Ciao
  Higgins

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From: [email-masked] (Mark A. Davis)
Subject: Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!!
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 23:39:51 GMT

[email-masked] (Highlander) writes:

>In article <[email-masked]>,
>Mark A. Davis <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>[previous n+1 levels of quoted material deleted for brevity] :)
>>OK- I have both MS-"DOS" and Linux DOOM.  My machine is a 486 33 DX with
>>16 MB of 0 wait X 32 RAM.  Adaptec 16 bit SCSI controller, Orchid
>>Pro Designer II ET-4000 16bit SVGA card, Sound Blaster Original, etc.
>>
>>The game absolutely flies under MS-"DOS", I can't even tell how many
>>frames per second, but at least 6.
>>
>>The game is completely unplayable under Linux, with a frame rate of 0.5
>>per second (the is the fastest in 640x480 X, in 1024x768 it is slower).
>>
>>So, the "requirement" for local bus/accelerated video is no joke.....

>Hmmm...  You should be getting better performance than that.

I thought so.... Maybe something IS wrong....

>  Are you
>playing with or without sound in the Linux version?

No sound.

>  (Then again, you should
>also be getting more than 6 fps out of the DOS version...)

I might be, I had to estimate.... the screen updating is soo fast I find
it hard to even guess!

>Without sound, the Linux and DOS version of Doom are almost identical
>speed-wise on my home machine (486DX50, 16MB+32MB swap, FD 1680 SCSI +
>separate IDE card for DOS, no-name OEM 90c30-based ISA video, and PAS-16).
>I'd guess I get between 15 and 20 fps under Linux in 1024x768.  Play is
>somewhat slower on my machine at work (486DX33, similar memory, IDE
>disk only, S3-based VLB video, and no sound).  I haven't recompiled my
>1.1.0 kernel with the 2.90-2 sound drivers, so I don't know how much
>sound slows things down.

Very odd....  The quest for answers continues....

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From: [email-masked] (Mark A. Davis)
Subject: Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!!
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 23:43:49 GMT

[email-masked] (Pat St. Jean) writes:

>Mark A. Davis <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>[previous n+1 levels of quoted material deleted for brevity] :)
>>OK- I have both MS-"DOS" and Linux DOOM.  My machine is a 486 33 DX with
>>16 MB of 0 wait X 32 RAM.  Adaptec 16 bit SCSI controller, Orchid
>>Pro Designer II ET-4000 16bit SVGA card, Sound Blaster Original, etc.
>>
>>The game absolutely flies under MS-"DOS", I can't even tell how many
>>frames per second, but at least 6.
>>
>>The game is completely unplayable under Linux, with a frame rate of 0.5
>>per second (the is the fastest in 640x480 X, in 1024x768 it is slower).
>>
>>So, the "requirement" for local bus/accelerated video is no joke.....

>I'm not to sure about that...I've got a dx2-66 w/ 20 meg of ram and an
>ISA tvga 8900 chipset and it runs plenty fine.  No slowness problems at
>all...with sound even.  PAS-16.  An AHA-1540b ISA scsi card.  330 meg
>seagate (doom is on that one).  Like I said...no problems...

Perhaps the ET-4000 is just a slow poke?  At the time I bought it, I thought
it would be the most compatible and best performing for the price range.
(I replaced a very annoying and incompatible ATI VGA Wonder).

I will continue to fiddle with things.  I don't expect much better performance
than 1 FPS even if I use all the tricks I have left to try :(
(Before anyone can ask- I am not swapping, X seems to work fine, not running
any sound drivers at all).
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From: [email-masked] (Gregory Trubetskoy)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: PPP/IP Forwarding Problem
Date: 13 Sep 1994 16:43:02 GMT

I have the same problem, and I have posted a question regarding this. 
Only diff is - I'm trying to get a PC to route between 2 ppp links. It 
seems that if it has two interfaces - it can't forward packets...
(I too have IP forwarding/gatewaying set to [yes]).

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From: [email-masked] (Mark A. Davis)
Subject: Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!!
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 02:25:27 GMT

[email-masked] (Mark Weaver) writes:

>In article <[email-masked]>,
>Highlander <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>In article <[email-masked]>,
>>Mark A. Davis <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>>The game absolutely flies under MS-"DOS", I can't even tell how many
>>>frames per second, but at least 6.
>>>
>>>The game is completely unplayable under Linux, with a frame rate of 0.5
>>>per second (the is the fastest in 640x480 X, in 1024x768 it is slower).
>>>
>>>So, the "requirement" for local bus/accelerated video is no joke.....
>>
>>Hmmm...  You should be getting better performance than that.  Are you
>>playing with or without sound in the Linux version?  (Then again, you should
>>also be getting more than 6 fps out of the DOS version...)

>For me (who has VLB video), the game it about the same speed with or
>without sound.  However, if the sound card is not configured properly,
>and you leave sndserver in your path, the game crawls.

>So, if sound doesn't work for you for any reason, try renaming sndserver
>to something else and try again.

Verified.  I can revise my findings and add more information. 

1) My estimate of 6 FPS under MS-"DOS" was grossly understated- I would say
   it is more like 20 - 30 FPS  (sorry if that messed anyone up)

2) Indeed- if you do not have a sound driver installed, then remove the
   soundserver from your .doomrc and move the executable out of your path
   or rename it.

3) As predicted, screen size (X mode) and choice of window manager has
   little or no effect on speed.

4) With sndserver present, but un-used, high detail- 0.5 FPS
5) With sndserver removed, high detail- 2.5 FPS    huge difference
6) With sndserver removed, low detail- 3.75 FPS (but SMALL!)
7) With sndserver removed, low detail, and the screen size (under options)
   is set to smallest possible (almost not visible)- about 15 FPS.

(Remember- 486 DX 33, 16MB, SCSI, Orchid Prodesigner IIs ET-4000 16bit ISA)

Hope this data might help someone else troubleshooting or just trying to
compare for benchmark's sake.  Was thinking of going to the "big" VA Beach
computer fest this weekend- wonder what new video card I should consider
buying for good X performance (on ISA, unless I upgrade MB too for VLB or
PCI or whatever is current now)  :)  ;)
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From: [email-masked] (Drew Eckhardt)
Subject: Re: DOMM 4 Linux /X is OUT !!!
Date: 13 Sep 1994 16:57:48 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, Mikael Nordqvist <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>How are you mesauring the fps?  Just taking a stab-in-the-dark, or is
>>there a util for doing this?
>
>The correct way to measure FPS (that's comparable with the
>DOS-version) is to start linuxxdom like this:
>
>linuxxdoom -devparm -timedemo demo?
>
>where ? is a number between 1 and 3 (these are the three prerecorded demos).
>
>The game will start and you will see the demo (played in "slow-motion").
>After a while the guy dies and the game exits. You will get two numbers.
>Divide the first by the second and multiply by 35. This is your FPS.
>
>On a 486 AMD/40 with 20MB ram and the wad on my dos-partition I get
>(with sound enabled) 8.5 FPS. 

On a 486-66DX2 with 32MB ram and a s-l-o-w Trident 8900B video
board, I get 8.5 FPS without sound enabled.

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From: [email-masked] (DL83-08)
Subject: apsfilter won't print
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 03:31:17 GMT

[ Article crossposted from comp.os.linux.help ]
[ Author was [email-masked] ]
[ Posted on Tue, 13 Sep 1994 03:25:35 GMT ]

Hello!

Has anyone installed the apsfilter successfully?  I have a standard
Slackware 2.0 setup.  I grabbed the apsfilter and installed it according to
the instuctions, but every time I try to print, I just get errors.  For
example, if I type "$lpr /usr/ghostscript/lib/examples/chess.ps" (I'm not
possitive about the path), withing seconds, my printer (BJ200) spits out a
gs error message to the likes of:

Error: /undefinedfilename in --file--
Operand stack:
    (cheq.ps)  (r)
Execution stack:
    %interp_exit  --nostringval--  --nostringval--  --nostringval--  false 
--nostringval--  --nostringval--  --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
    537/547  0/20  6/200  30/70

The page is then ejected, and the same things happenes again on a new sheet. 
I have to turn my printer off and #lprm the print job.  I have never gotten
apsfilter to work, which is surprissing, as it is supposed to be the easy
way to set up printcap.

PS: I have set the PRINTER environment variable to several of the "auto"
printers created by the installation script of apsfilter.

Any suggestions or experiences will be greatly appreciated!

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From: [email-masked] (David Jansen)
Subject: Re: Everyone's MOUNT - WARNING!
Date: 14 Sep 1994 08:18:52 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Morten Steinvik) writes:

>Jay Ashworth ([email-masked]) wrote:
>: >>/dev/fd0        /dos-a      msdos       user,noauto
>: >>
>: >>This means that any user can type 'mount /dos-a' and get the floppy all
>: >>for herself, without nasty suid root problems.
>:  
>: The option you _meant_ to give him was "nosuid", not noauto. :-)
>
>nosuid *AND* noauto, if you ask me.
>noauto causes the system to not attempt mounting the floppy at boot-time (or
>whenever else the /etc/fstab is read), it has to be mounted seperately.
>
>nosuid is good, too, as it stops attempts to run setuid files on the mounted
>fs. Why choose one?

How can msdos floppies contain files with the setuid bit set ?
Besides, the man-pages say that 'user' implies 'nosuid', and a couple
of other flags to make mounting safe.

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From: [email-masked] (Dave H)
Subject: terminal servers
Date: 13 Sep 1994 10:45:38 GMT

Does anyone have any idea what kind of terminal server will work with 
Linux?  I would like the cost also.  Looking for a cheap way to get more 
lines into linux.  Preferably something that works on a ethernet card.  
Thanks in advance!

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From: [email-masked] (Steven Pritchard)
Subject: Re: talk problem
Date: 13 Sep 1994 14:47:06 -0600

[email-masked] (Cord Hockemeyer) writes:

>Dennis Duffner (duffy@[email-masked]) wrote:
>| I have a problem with talk.

>| I cannot talk to a user I know on another system, even though they have
>| been able to talk me, I can't reply.

>| I get this: Connection Refused. (111)

>| What's this all about anyhow?  I can't find anything on this anywhere.

>Quite simple: His host refuses to answer your finger request. :)
>A lot of systems don't serve finger requests because this was a
>security hole (with bad consequences) some time ago.

I hate to diasgree, but this probably isn't the case.  I get the same 
error message with talk when I try it from my machine, but if I telnet to 
one of my Unix accounts elsewhere and try to talk to the exact same 
person, it works fine.  I don't know if this is a bug or just something 
not set up properly, but it is certainly something wrong on my Linux 
box.  (Slackware 2.0)

Steve
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From: [email-masked] (Jay Ashworth)
Subject: Re: Everyone's MOUNT - WARNING!
Date: 13 Sep 1994 13:13:26 -0400

[email-masked] (Jeff Kesselman) writes:
>In article <[email-masked]>,
    [email-masked] writes:
>>The appropriate options make it quite safe; here's an entry from my system's
>>/etc/fstab:
>>
>>/dev/fd0        /dos-a      msdos       user,noauto
>>
>>This means that any user can type 'mount /dos-a' and get the floppy all
>>for herself, without nasty suid root problems.
>>See 'man 8 mount'.

I did.  And you know what I found?  
 
The option you _meant_ to give him was "nosuid", not noauto. :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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From: [email-masked] (Winfried Truemper)
Subject: Re: NFS performance
Date: 14 Sep 1994 09:47:02 GMT

David J. Perkel ([email-masked]) wrote:
: What is the best way to measure and then to optimize NFS performance?
: Some specifics:

: So, I'm asking what values people are getting for performance.
: How do you test it?  Can you offer tips for improving it?

Try the NFS-Preformance patch from Florian La Roche. We're getting 2-3 times
higher throughput-rates than without. Approximatly 550kbyte/s to a sun on the
same subnet; I have not tested it between to linux-box.

I should work with your kernel-version (1.1.50). 

I will send you the original post (patch included) via email.

Regards
Winfried

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