Subject: Linux-Development Digest #315
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Date:     Sun, 19 Dec 93 04:13:11 EST

Linux-Development Digest #315, Volume #1         Sun, 19 Dec 93 04:13:11 EST

Contents:
  [Q] Joystick driver (Peter Suetterlin)
  Re: ISDN for Linux ??? (Christian Weisgerber)
  Re: Joystick device for Linux (Eyal Lebedinsky)
  Re: XFree86 driver for AGX-014 chips? (Andrew M Dyer)
  Re: xBASE for Linux? (Dr Eberhard W Lisse)
  Re: Adaptec 2842 VLB SCSI (John A. Martin)
  Serious : 0.99PL14 looses keyboard in boot (Olav Kvittem)
  Re: XFree86 driver for AGX-014 chips? (Rob Janssen)
  Yggdrasil Fall'93 CDROM (Stephen Parkinson)
  no keyboard i/o in linux pl14 (David Neal)
  Re: ISDN for Linux ??? (Peter Desnoyers)
  Re: Linux port to M68030? (Bob Ray Taylor)

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From: suettpet@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Peter Suetterlin)
Subject: [Q] Joystick driver
Date: 18 Dec 1993 12:05:35 GMT

  Good day everybody!
 
Last night I was fiddling with the joystick-0.5 patch. I tried to
apply it to an pl14- Sourcetree. Of course that is not possible
with the patch-command, so I tried to do best by hand.
All seemed quite ok, allthough i mentioned that the major device
number used by the joystick-driver (15) is now used for the cdu31a 
cdrom driver (I don't use that one, so that should be no problem !?)
 
But, when I started compilation of the kernel (after make config; make
dep) it failed on the target joystick.c !!
It complained about an undefined function  jiffies_offset
I found in the headerfile joystick.h :
   #define CURRENT_JIFFIES (jiffies+jiffies_offset)
 
Does anyone know where the problem lies? I couldn't find a definition
for the jiffies, either. But they seem to be no problem.
 
Thanks for any suggestions.
 
   Peter

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From: naddy@mips.ruessel.sub.org (Christian Weisgerber)
Subject: Re: ISDN for Linux ???
Date: 17 Dec 1993 23:39:11 +0100

becker@super.org (Donald J. Becker) writes:

> I've read comments that most ISDN boards available have proprietary
> interfaces.

Well, most if not all passive cards (dumb boards without a CPU of their
own) sold over here are built around the Siemens ISAC-S (S0 bus
controller) and HSCX (dual HDLC controller) chips. Interfaces are
proprietary only insofar, as manufactures make use of about all ways
thinkable to map the chip registers into (I/O) address space.
(Talking about PC boards, of course.)

> Combined with regional differences in the protocol, it's
> just about impossible for a third party to write free software.

IFF you have a driver for one protocol up and running stable, adding
support for different D channel protocols shouldn't be too difficult.

-- 
Christian 'naddy' Weisgerber, Germany         naddy@mips.ruessel.sub.org

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From: eyal@fir.canberra.edu.au (Eyal Lebedinsky)
Subject: Re: Joystick device for Linux
Date: 18 Dec 93 11:06:27 GMT


I don't remember the name of it but there IS a joystick driver. Last
time I looked in WAS on tsx-11...grep...grep...grep.. Here:
In the /patches directory of the Linux part: joystick-0.5.tar.z.

My ls file is from early November so it should still be there.
--
Regards
        Eyal Lebedinsky         eyal@ise.canberra.edu.au

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From: amd@chinet.chinet.com (Andrew M Dyer)
Subject: Re: XFree86 driver for AGX-014 chips?
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1993 16:27:26 GMT

I snagged some docs for the chipset (AGX014) from the hercules BBS -
too bad they are in Word for Windows format :-).  Now all I have to do
is get my IDE and SCSI drives to coexist and I am all set to get started.
Any good tips for this?

-- 
=============================
Andrew Dyer
amd@chinet.chi.il.us

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Crossposted-To: comp.databases.xbase.misc
From: el@lisse.NA (Dr Eberhard W Lisse)
Subject: Re: xBASE for Linux?
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1993 17:07:51 GMT

walen@cs.ualberta.ca (Andrew E. Walenstein) writes:

>Robert_Broughton@mindlink.bc.ca (Robert Broughton) writes:
>>Does it exist?
>>Robert Broughton    Robert_Broughton@mindlink.bc.ca

>The only drawback is that CodeBase is a commercial product--seems a
>bit out of place on Linux right now....and as far as I know, the Linux
>port its not officially supported by the company, Sequiter Software.

If it is public, please let me know where to get it from :-)-O


Brad Beacker <beacker@sgi.com> has written some dbase tools that
compile and work on linux.

greetings, el
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From: jmartin@opus.starlab.csc.com (John A. Martin)
Subject: Re: Adaptec 2842 VLB SCSI
Date: 18 Dec 1993 18:02:43 -0500
Reply-To: jmartin@opus.starlab.csc.com (John A. Martin)

Scott,

You said you had documentation from Adaptec.  Perhaps I asked the worng
folks, or the wrong question, but all I got from them was the glossy
sheets.

Can you tell me who to call and what to ask for?

I am interested in a scsi for my no-name Local Bus motherboard from
about June 92 before the VLB standard was finalized.  I need to
determine if the Adaptec card will work.  Any ideas or suggestions?

If all goes well I would be able at least to gunnea pig the thing I
should think by sometime in Feb.

Cheers  --jam
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From: oak@domen.uninett.no (Olav Kvittem)
Subject: Serious : 0.99PL14 looses keyboard in boot
Date: 18 Dec 1993 23:58:51 GMT

Hello,

My Pl14 kernel looses contact with the keyboard if Caps Lock is not
pressed early in the boot. The timing is critical so to be able to
boot successfully I must press Caps Lock at the right time it seems.
The boot copletes with normal messages, but does not echo characters
entered,  nor does it login.

On previous kernel levels like PL10-12, the symptomes were that if I
touched the keyboard during boot, system would be hung when the  
login prompt pops up.

I run Slackware 1.1.0 with LILO version 0.12.

I run a Twinhead 486DX/33 Notebook. The kernel is configed with PS/2
mouse, SLIP and TCP/IP and Ethernet with no drives included.

Any clues ?

Olav

snorre:/linux# grep -v ^# .config
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD = CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD
CONFIG_INET = CONFIG_INET
CONFIG_SYSVIPC = CONFIG_SYSVIPC
CONFIG_M486 = CONFIG_M486
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF = CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF
CONFIG_ETHERCARDS = CONFIG_ETHERCARDS
CONFIG_SLIP = CONFIG_SLIP
SL_COMPRESSED = SL_COMPRESSED
CONFIG_EXT2_FS = CONFIG_EXT2_FS
CONFIG_MSDOS_FS = CONFIG_MSDOS_FS
CONFIG_PROC_FS = CONFIG_PROC_FS
CONFIG_NFS_FS = CONFIG_NFS_FS
CONFIG_KBD_META = CONFIG_KBD_META
CONFIG_PRINTER = CONFIG_PRINTER
CONFIG_PSMOUSE = CONFIG_PSMOUSE
CONFIG_SELECTION = CONFIG_SELECTION


snorre:/linux# cat /etc/lilo/config
boot = /dev/hda
install = /etc/lilo/boot.b
timeout = 100

other = /dev/hda1
        label = dos

image = /zImage
        label = linux
        root = /dev/hda2
        vga=normal

image = /zImage.gml
        label = linux.gml
        root = /dev/hda2
        vga=normal

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From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen)
Subject: Re: XFree86 driver for AGX-014 chips?
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1993 22:24:42 GMT

In <CI8oDr.5Jq@chinet.chinet.com> amd@chinet.chinet.com (Andrew M Dyer) writes:

>I snagged some docs for the chipset (AGX014) from the hercules BBS -
>too bad they are in Word for Windows format :-).  Now all I have to do
>is get my IDE and SCSI drives to coexist and I am all set to get started.
>Any good tips for this?

What are you asking for?
Getting IDE and SCSI to coexist should be no problem, simply a matter
of compling the kernel which supports both, and creating the right
partitions & filesystems.  Please describe your problem.

Wrt AGX014 and WfW, I can't help you.

Rob
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From: Stephen@zmemw16.demon.co.uk (Stephen Parkinson)
Subject: Yggdrasil Fall'93 CDROM
Reply-To: Stephen@zmemw16.demon.co.uk
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1993 00:11:38 +0000


The Fall '93 CDROM edition of the Yggdrasil distribution has a
slight problem.

Logged in as root when booting from floppy and cdrom.
Executing 'ls -lR' for fun produces the following:-

Unable to handle kernel paging request at address c000000
Oops: 0000
EIP:    0010:00159c3e
EFLAGS: 00010202
eax: 006fcc40    ebx: 00000040   ecx: 00000000   edx: 00000000
esi: 005273d4    edi: 0001ee80   ebp: 004dbf98   
ds:  0018   es: 0018  fs: 002b  gs: 002b
Pid: 36, process nr: 7
0f b7 32 8b 18 50 e8 23 19 fc
Segmentation fault

Does anyone know of a solution for this particular problem ?

It also occurs in a minimal install (27Mb) and the intermediate (235Mb).

System 486dx50 ide 200,256mb adaptec 1542c/toshiba 3201 cdrom 8mb ram
disk setup hda1 dos5 200m
           hdb1 swap 16m
           hdb2 ext2 240m

Stephen Parkinson

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From: dneal@NeoSoft.com (David Neal)
Subject: no keyboard i/o in linux pl14
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1993 23:05:30 GMT

I recently upgraded from linux pl13 to pl14 as found on the slackware
disks.

I have a PS/1 486sx/33 with 12MB of ram, and ADAPTEC 1540 SCSI controller.

The slackware installation boot disk, and my pl13 root disk
both take keyboard input. The pl14 disk generated by slackware does
not. Fine, I pulled all the pl14 sources and re-compiled from scratch.
Same result. The system boots completely to a login: prompt but
refuses to see the keyboard. Even numlock and ctl+alt+del are inactive.

Before I start trying to find a pl13 kernel tree and diffing
things with 'kb' in them, anyone seen this problem?



-- 
David Neal. <dneal@neosoft.com> 
``But as I said, it's speculation on my part, not "the truth".'' 
   -- David Sternlight  : Kill an abortion protester, save an MD.

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From: peterd@pjd.dev.cdx.mot.com (Peter Desnoyers)
Subject: Re: ISDN for Linux ???
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1993 03:30:58 GMT

naddy@mips.ruessel.sub.org (Christian Weisgerber) writes:

>becker@super.org (Donald J. Becker) writes:

>> I've read comments that most ISDN boards available have proprietary
>> interfaces.

>Well, most if not all passive cards (dumb boards without a CPU of their
>own) sold over here are built around the Siemens ISAC-S (S0 bus
>controller) and HSCX (dual HDLC controller) chips. 

God that brings back bad memories :-) [let's just say that ISDN didn't
live up to some of its expectations in the US]

A reasonable chipset, though. If I recall, the HSCX can DMA into
on-board memory if the board has any, and does transparent mode, so
you might be able to do stuff like voice response as well as
HDLC-based protocols like PPP.

>> Combined with regional differences in the protocol, it's
>> just about impossible for a third party to write free software.

>IFF you have a driver for one protocol up and running stable, adding
>support for different D channel protocols shouldn't be too difficult.

LAPD is simple - either adapt the KA9Q LAPB code or write a really
simple version with window size 1. (Isn't that the default for Q.921?)
The lower level hardware drivers are going to be a pain in the ass. As
for Q.931, I've always wondered whether there's a way to pervert yacc
into building a parser for that protocol... [i.e. have a lexer that
converts back and forth between a text context-free format that YACC
can parse and the binary on-the-wire format]

Of course, if the phone company ever discovered that you were using a
protocol implementation that hadn't gone through proper homologation
testing to talk to their precious switches they'd probably get upset,
but if you don't have any bugs they'll never know...

                                Peter Desnoyers

-- 

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From: btaylor@cup.portal.com (Bob Ray Taylor)
Subject: Re: Linux port to M68030?
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 93 22:44:31 PST

I have heard a rumor that there exists a port of Linux to the 68030 CPU for
the Amiga. There is interest in porting Linux to other 68030/68040 hardware.
The need is for a _stable_ port for a baseline. Does a port exist and what
is its stability?

Thanks in advance,

Bob Taylor
btaylor@cup.portal.com

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