Subject: Linux-Development Digest #316
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Date:     Sun, 19 Dec 93 19:13:06 EST

Linux-Development Digest #316, Volume #1         Sun, 19 Dec 93 19:13:06 EST

Contents:
  kmem-ps patches from 0.99.14 to 0.99.14f? (Mail Administrator)
  Re: VT220 emulator (Daniel T. Schwager)
  Re: Adaptec 2842 VLB SCSI (Rob Janssen)
  Re: Lifesavers (Re: scroll-back tty's) (Fritz Ganter)
  Re: Symbolic linking across a network... (Fritz Ganter)
  Re: ISDN for Linux ??? (Gene Mangum)
  Re: New set of serial patches --- big bugfix!! (Mike Horwath)
  Re: (yet another) set of serial patches. (Mike Horwath)
  Re: Joystick device for Linux (Dennis Flaherty)

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From: TaRDiS@supraNY.UUCP (Mail Administrator)
Subject: kmem-ps patches from 0.99.14 to 0.99.14f?
Date: 19 Dec 1993 09:22:08 GMT

Can anyone tell me where I can find the patches for kmem-ps to make the 0.99.14
version work on kernel 0.99.14f?  Thanks much for any assistance you can
provide.

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From: danny@dragon.stgt.sub.org (Daniel T. Schwager)
Subject: Re: VT220 emulator
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1993 10:37:27 GMT

Simon Johnston (skj@oasis.icl.co.uk) wrote:
: Can anyone tell me where I can get a good VT220 emulator (telnet-like) for
: Linux which allows me to remap the keys. Our corporate office system likes 
: to see a VT220 but uses F16-F20 for special keys. Most of us connect via
: either a proprietry terminal emulator under MSDOS or PCTCPs telnet under OS/2
: this telnet allows you to remap the keys so the PC's F12 becomes a VT220 F20
: etc.
Please post comments, because i'm also interesting in this topic

Danny
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From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen)
Subject: Re: Adaptec 2842 VLB SCSI
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1993 11:14:20 GMT

In <2f026j$bu4@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> jmartin@opus.starlab.csc.com (John A. Martin) writes:

>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?

Are you sure it claims to be VLB?  At that time, there were about 3 different
standards.  My UMC localbus board isn't even VLB, and I use a 1542B with it.

Rob
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From: ganter@fvkmapc02.tu-graz.ac.at (Fritz Ganter)
Subject: Re: Lifesavers (Re: scroll-back tty's)
Date: 19 Dec 1993 14:18:08 GMT

Robert E. Wyrick (wyrickre@wyrickre) wrote:
: Matthias Urlichs (urlichs@smurf.sub.org) wrote:
: : Speaking about lifesavers... what I'd like to have is a "Stop" button which 
: : halts the machine if the console runs off on me. (It's pretty hard to read 
: : anything when several screenfuls per second just zip through.)

: : I've thought of adding an external NMI button, by simply connecting
: : a pushbutton to the IOCHK bus line and to ground. However, Linux seems to be 
: : turning that particular feature off:
: : - Linux recognizes NMIs which are generated by parity errors.
: : - The BIOS thinks there was a parity error when said button is pressed.
: : - However, as soon as Linux boots, the button does nothing.
: :   (OK, it clicks reassuringly. ;-)
: :  
: : Conclusion: Something turns off the IOCHK line. Where, how? 

: : -- 
: : And then I got rescued by this bowl!
: :                 -- Jo, PLANET OF THE DALEKS
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: : 90491 N|rnberg (Germany)  \   Consulting+Networking+Programming+etc'ing      42

: Ctrl-S (^S) always works fine for me.  Followed by ^Q to resume.

Or better: use Scroll-look, and any key (also Scroll-lock)
resumes. And you have also a light which indicates the scroll-status.

: Rob

Fritz

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From: ganter@fvkmapc02.tu-graz.ac.at (Fritz Ganter)
Subject: Re: Symbolic linking across a network...
Date: 19 Dec 1993 19:30:40 GMT

Edward Baichtal (edwardb@netcom.com) wrote:

: Can you symbolically link files across a network with Linux?  I am 
: asking, only because I have found not a lot of network facilities matured 
: in Linux yet.
: -- 
: Edward Baichtal
: edwardb@netcom.com
You can mount another host via NFS on any mount point. Then make your link.

Fritz

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From: h198@hosp.med.umich.edu  (Gene Mangum)
Subject: Re: ISDN for Linux ???
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1993  15:15 ET

In Article <2en9pvINNinh@mailhost.uni-koblenz.de> "linux@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Systemkennung Linux (noalias))" says:
> |> Is there anybody in Europe (maybe Germany) working with some
> |> kind of ISDN support for Linux.
 
[Stuff Deleted]
 
> One very cheap solution for that problem is using a second PC running
> MSDOS and KA9Q. The performance and reliability isn't very high, but
> it's very cheap. But if someone could supply hardware docs for the
 
[Stuff Deleted]
 
  I do this regularly at home, and it works *VERY* well.   I haven't done
  any benchmarks, but I can't feel any performance loss by running through
  the 286-12 "router" onto my $29/card ethernet.   This is a nice solution
  for me because I run DOS, OS/2, and Linux on my main machine, and they
  all support ethernet.   I've had no reliability problems on my end.   I
  wish I could say the same for the ISDN hub :-(


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From: root@jacobs.mn.org (Mike Horwath)
Subject: Re: New set of serial patches --- big bugfix!!
Date: 18 Dec 1993 19:57:35 GMT

Things are better, but there is one new big bug (I know, you don't want
to hear that).

When you dialout on the line (using getty_ps, which operates correctly),
when the dialing program is done (be it uucp or kermit or whatever),
RTS and DTR go down, like they should, then DTR comes up, but RTS never
does.

This means that the modem can not answer the phone and the like.

I am trying to find the offending area, but haven't found it yet.

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From: root@jacobs.mn.org (Mike Horwath)
Subject: Re: (yet another) set of serial patches.
Date: 19 Dec 1993 07:55:18 GMT

I posted this to an incorrect followup message previously.

Observed:  Dial out with modem, using kermit, or UUCP

        system goes fine, does it duty, hang up and exit.  Now the
        RTS light is down, instead of being high as it should be.
        If I kill the getty running on it, it then brings the
        RTS light back high.

Hope this isn't a hard fix to take care of, since I am not always here
to kill the getty just hanging there.

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From: dennisf@denix.elk.miles.com (Dennis Flaherty)
Subject: Re: Joystick device for Linux
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1993 18:54:07 GMT

In article <TRANTER.93Dec16133903@ipc35.software.mitel.com>,
Jeff Tranter <tranter@Software.Mitel.COM> wrote:
> In article <1993Dec15.121144.7354@rz.uni-hildesheim.de> stoffre@uni-muenster.de (Arne Stoffregen) writes:
> 
> >  Hi world!
> >  Sorry if this has been thoroughly discussed before, but
> >  I wanted to know, if anyone has bothered to write a joy-
> >  stick device for Linux. I haven't looked at the source,
> >  but I cannot remember any file with a name like that.
> >  Cleverly I have looked for a /dev/joystick and found none,
> >  so I assumed it does not exist. :-))
> 
> It has been done. See
> tsx11.mit.edu:/pub/Linux/patches/joystick-0.5.tar.z
> 
> These patches are for a few kernel revisions back, but it shouldn't be
> too hard too apply them to a recent kernel. I believe I applied them
> to 0.99pl13.
> 
> Jeff

I wonder why these patches aren't in the standard kernel.  Do your
patches for pl13 work with pl14?

> >  I am writing on a 3D kind of a program and would like to
> >  rotate objects with the joystick.
> >  If anyone could give me a hint on who did this before or
> >  how to write a device (I think there is a FAQ for that??)
> >  I would be grateful.

This is probably more of an XFree86 question.  If the standard
Linux kernel supported joysticks, then XFree86 could use one as
an input device.

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