Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #212
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Date:     Fri, 3 Jun 94 20:13:26 EDT

Linux-Misc Digest #212, Volume #2                 Fri, 3 Jun 94 20:13:26 EDT

Contents:
  PFL for Linux: Caveat (Tim Holmes)
  Re: blah - kmem ps utils break under 1.1.13 (Frank Lofaro)
  Re: Linux for the masses? (WordProcessing again) (Mark A. Davis)
  Re: Linux for the masses? (WordProcessing again) (Mark A. Davis)
  Re: nntpsend problems under Linux - it almost works (Nathan Treadway)
  Re: Linux for the masses? (WordProcessing again) (Mark A. Davis)
  Re: Small PATCH to procps (Shannon Hendrix)
  Using CD-ROM recorder with Linux (Phil Howard)
  Re: Slackware CD-ROMs for sale (Patrick J. Volkerding)
  Re: fixup table!? (Hal N. Brooks)
  Re: WinNT vs. Linux as Internet Gateway? (Rob Newberry)
  Re: Linux vs *BSD (new twist) (Daniel Leeds)
  Anyone running XFree in 256 colors on a notebook? (Alvin Seow)
  oak  and linux (Jose I. Trapiella)

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From: timh@psammead.demon.co.uk (Tim Holmes)
Subject: PFL for Linux: Caveat
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 21:38:45 +0000

PFL for Linux 0.1 is now at ftp:\\ftp.demon.co.uk:/pub/unix/linux

The author has asked me to point out that the current version should
not be used with large amounts of data at this stage: about 10K per
selector is the stated limit.

Tim.
-- 
// Tim Holmes | +44 480 435565 (Huntingdon) | Ingres Systems Consultant \\
\\  at Home   | timh@psammead.demon.co.uk   |  part time Linux Hacker   //

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From: ftlofaro@unlv.edu (Frank Lofaro)
Subject: Re: blah - kmem ps utils break under 1.1.13
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 94 03:39:48 GMT

In article <2s3srq$q81@acmex.gatech.edu> gt8134b@prism.gatech.edu (Robert Sanders) writes:
>rene@renux.frmug.fr.net (Rene COUGNENC) writes:
>
>>Ce brave C. S. Hendrix ecrit:
>
>>> : Oh, and there are three of us.  ;)
>
>>> Four!  I hate the proc based stuff... long live kmem based ps!
>
>>Ok, add me to the list: Five :-)
>
>Hey, I like being able to use utilities I compiled long ago for
>different kernel versions!  I love the proc stuff!  I don't run
>'ps' a thousand times a second, so speed doesn't matter!  Whoo-hoo!
>
>One strike against the kmem suite, one for the proc suite.  Guys,
>rather than expending energy to run in place with the kmem suite,
>why don't you enhance the proc suite to do what you want?  What?
>Too logical?  No chance to bitch?  Never mind, then.
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Hey! Bitching is half the fun of Linux! Remember the "SLIP bitch" thread?
That was _classic_.

:) :)

>
>-- 
> _g,  '96 --->>>>>>>>>>   gt8134b@prism.gatech.edu  <<<<<<<<<---  CompSci  ,g_
>W@@@W__        |-\      ^        | disclaimer:  <---> "Bow before ZOD!" __W@@@W
>W@@@@**~~~'  ro|-<ert s/_\ nders |   who am I???  ^  from Superman  '~~~**@@@@W
>`*MV' hi,ocie! |-/ad! /   \ss!!  | ooga ooga!!    |    II (cool)!         `VW*'



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From: mark@taylor.infi.net (Mark A. Davis)
Subject: Re: Linux for the masses? (WordProcessing again)
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 1994 12:51:59 GMT

byron@cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff) writes:

>In article <1994May31.145704.7174@taylor.wyvern.com>,
>Mark A. Davis <mark@taylor.wyvern.com> wrote:
>>sta@whale.micro.umn.edu (Shawn T. Amundson) writes:
>>
>>>Byron A Jeff (byron@cc.gatech.edu) wrote:
>>>: In article <2scudj$2e8c@ns2.cc.lehigh.edu>,
>>>: DAVID L. JOHNSON <dlj0@ns2.CC.Lehigh.EDU> wrote:
>>Personally, I still think the best wordprocessor is one which has 
>>text, text/graphics preview, AND GUI versions (like WordPerfect for Unix).
>>This way, the user can support all display devices:  dumb and smart 
>>ASCII terminals, graphics preview terminals, console, and X/Xterminals.  
>>It would also allow the user to decide how much resources can or would be
>>devoted to it (X/GUI does use quite a bit of memory and CPU).

>Thanks Mark. However it's going to be a tough grind trying to build all
>those interfaces. My thinking is to start with a simple one (text) and
>then move on to more complicated ones.

Agreed.

>I've heard good things about WP for Unix. Are there any major incompatibilities
>using the ISBC2 (sp) emulation.

Not sure, I have been choping on the bit to try it though..... I have heard
rather reliable reports that it works great, even under X mode (due to
static linking of WP binaries)...

>The only slight drawback is cost. I do realize (from reading your writing)
>that WP for Unix in compteitively priced with WP for DOS and WP for Windows.

Yep.

>But frankly one of Linux selling points ;-) is that it has a bunch of free
>tools. And since the WordProcessor is the flagship app for many many users
>it would be a letdown to have to say "There is a killer WP for Linux, but
>it's WordPerfect and it'll cost you $100. (or whatever the going cost is)"
>The quick reply will be "Well for that I can just run it on DOS/Windows."

Agreed again.  But there are a lot of people who would like to spend $0 on
a killer OS and $200 for a killer wordprocessing apps.  It beats $1000 for
a killer OS and $0 for a killer wordprocessing app :)

>Trying to build a free WordPerfect for Unix is an extremely tough task.
>But we have to start somewhere.

Boy would it be.  Sometimes it scares me.  WP 6.0 for Unix is probably the
largest, most sophisticated program I have ever seen.  Makes me think of
the days of pre 4.2.....   But one could mimic the more popular aspects
of WP without having to create all those zillions of features (how many 
people REALLY use all those features anyway).
-- 
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  | Mark A. Davis    | Lake Taylor Hospital | Norfolk, VA (804)-461-5001x431 |
  | Sys.Administrator|  Computer Services   | mark@taylor.infi.net           |
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From: mark@taylor.infi.net (Mark A. Davis)
Subject: Re: Linux for the masses? (WordProcessing again)
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 1994 12:55:08 GMT

reubenr@netcom.com (Reuben Regucera) writes:

>DAVID L. JOHNSON (dlj0@ns2.CC.Lehigh.EDU) wrote:
>: >
>: There is a demo version of WP for SCO unix (I forgot where it was.. can anyone
>: help here?) which I was able to run under iBCS without problems.  Some of the
>: button bitmaps were scrambled, but it ran (as  demo) fine.  In fact, it was
>: a little faster than on our rs6000's at work.  Howver, that is NOT fast.
>: It is basically a pretty pokey puppy unless you have gobs of RAM.

It does take lots of RAM for the X version.  But it is not really much
slower than other large X programs of similar complexity and function...

>: MS-DOS: Just say No!

"NO"!!  :)

>It can be found in : ftp.wordperfect.com:/unix/demos/sco/sco.Z
>It is an 8M file, uncompress works, but the tar file is not recognized 
>by Linux or Sun.

>Anyone got an any idea how to untar this beast?

Hmm, that is strange.  I suppose they used SCO's tar to tar it.  I [think]
I have tared things on SCO and untared them on Linux.  Certainly it must
work under Solaris......  very strange indeed.  I will test further.
-- 
  /--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
  | Mark A. Davis    | Lake Taylor Hospital | Norfolk, VA (804)-461-5001x431 |
  | Sys.Administrator|  Computer Services   | mark@taylor.infi.net           |
  \--------------------------------------------------------------------------/

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From: nathant@ontko.com (Nathan Treadway)
Crossposted-To: news.config,news.software.b
Subject: Re: nntpsend problems under Linux - it almost works
Date: 3 Jun 1994 22:09:59 GMT

Dana Bolden (Dana.Bolden@launchpad.unc.edu) wrote:

> nntpsend is misbehaving, though.  I am using the inn binaries that "came
> with" the Slackware Linux distribution (the latest one, I think - I am
> working on news and someone else set up (is setting up) the system as a
> whole).  The symptoms of my problem are:

> The server has been shutdown and restarted.  I have a site and a site.nntp
> file in my /var/spool/news/out.going directory.  nntpsend is run by cron
> (I am running it once per hour for now) or by news manually.  site is
> moved to site.work, nothing is written to syslog, outbound article
> headers are written to site.work as they are posted.

> Now nntpsend is run again.  site.work is added to site.nntp (I can tell by
> examining the file contents and by adding the file sizes), site.work is
> deleted, and NO site file is created (seems that the ctlinnd flush part of
> nntpsend isn't being run).  Still nothing is written to syslog. Now, of
> course, posted articles ARE NOT added to the site file ('cause it doesn't
> exist).  If I run the ctlinnd flush command exactly as it appears in
> nntpsend manually as news, site IS created and articles headers can be
> written to it as expected, and the flush is noted in syslog.  I don't

I ran in to this, too.  I think it may have something to do with 
the fact that the server does not recreate the site file immediately 
on linux.  Anyway, I found that the script was exiting with an error when it
tried to move the "site" file to the "site".work file, since the site file did
not exist.

I added the two lines marked with "+", and it has worked for me.

(Note that to run under bash, I had to changed all the "PPID"s to
"PARENTPID"s, because PPID is already used by bash.)

This segement is from near the bottom of nntpsend.
=======================================================================
    ##  Start sending this site in the background.
    export SITE HOST LOCKS BATCHFILE PROGNAME PARENTPID SIZE TMPDIR
    sh -c '
        BATCHFILE=${HOST}.nntp
        LOCK=${LOCKS}/LOCK.${HOST}
        trap "rm -f ${LOCK} ; exit 1" 1 2 3 15
        shlock -p $$ -f ${LOCK} || {
            WHY="`cat ${LOCK}`"
            echo "${PROGNAME}: [${PARENTPID}:$$] ${HOST} locked ${WHY} `date`"
            exit
        }
        if [ -f ${SITE}.work ] ; then
            cat ${SITE}.work >>${BATCHFILE}
            rm -f ${SITE}.work
        fi
+       if [ -f ${SITE} ] ; then
            mv ${SITE} ${SITE}.work
+       fi
        if ctlinnd -s -t30 flush ${SITE} ; then

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From: mark@taylor.infi.net (Mark A. Davis)
Subject: Re: Linux for the masses? (WordProcessing again)
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 1994 13:18:14 GMT

dkh@sotona.physics.southampton.ac.uk (Darren Harvey) writes:

>In Article <2scudj$2e8c@ns2.CC.Lehigh.EDU>
>dlj0@ns2.CC.Lehigh.EDU (DAVID L. JOHNSON) writes:
>>
>>>2) Because it requires a minimum of 4.5 Meg of Andrew to run.
>>>
>>Do you think any full-featured WYSIWYG wordprocessor can get by with less?
>>Looked at WP lately?
>>
>YES - has anyone out there ever played with Acorn machines??? (NOT the old 
>BBC's, but the Archimedes / Risc PC's!!).  With a mere 1Mb of main memory 
>you can run !Impression, this is a fully fledged WYSIWYG Word-Processor / 
>DTP - including Anti-Aliased fonts and drag and drop graphics / text.  Okay,
>so the operating system is in ROM :) but the total is well under 4.5 Meg.  
>!Impression is not cr*p either - it beats the living daylights out of any 
>Windozz apps like Work or Wordperfect and reviews well against Quark on the 

Wordperfect is not a "Windozz app".  It is a wordprocessing program which
runs on many platforms, operating systems, and in many environments.  This
makes it PORTABLE.

>Mac.  Oh, and for speed, Impression running on a computer of 1988 vintage 
>(no processor upgrades) leaves a 66MHz PC running WordPerfect for Windows 
>in the dust.  My point is that you shouldn't need to throw loads of memory 
>and processor power at an application if it's written properly and has a 
>decent OS.

So WordPerfect for X and Unix is running under a poor OS?  Get real.
X is simply large.  And for compatibility reasons, WP for Unix is linked
static, not dynamically. 

>Linux really needs a WYSIWYG word processor which runs outside of X - 
>remember, Linux IS different from standard UNIX machines.  Most of the 
>Linux users (at least in my experience) actually use the console.  Ie one 
>Linux machine per user.

The people *I* know who use Linux, (which is NOT different from standard
Unix machines), use X.  And I, for one, think that if a program is going to
be written to use GUI and graphics under Unix, it should be for X first,
and ANYTHING else second.  Why limit the program by hardcoding it to
non-standard, hardware-dependant, single-user situations?
-- 
  /--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
  | Mark A. Davis    | Lake Taylor Hospital | Norfolk, VA (804)-461-5001x431 |
  | Sys.Administrator|  Computer Services   | mark@taylor.infi.net           |
  \--------------------------------------------------------------------------/

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From: shendrix@escape.widomaker.com (Shannon Hendrix)
Subject: Re: Small PATCH to procps
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 06:20:03 GMT

Shannon Hendrix (shendrix@escape.widomaker.com) wrote:
: I have made a small patch to free.c in the procps suite to reflect my
: personal preference.  Since others might like this too I've included the
: tiny patch here.

: Basically what this does is change the way 'free' reports the amount
: of memory used.  Normally it reports the amount of memory used by
: programs and the buffers.  However, most of the time I want to know
: how much is being used by programs, not the buffers.

:  ] free -t
:              total       used       free     shared    buffers
: Mem:         19408      18036       1372       8144       8648
: Swap:        16976       1288      15688
: Total:       36384      19324      17060

: To me the above says "You have 18 megs of programs loaded" and I
: really rather it looked like this:

:              total       used       free     shared    buffers
: Mem:         19408       9508        696       8064       9204
: Swap:        16976       1288      15688
: Total:       36384      10796      16384

: which correctly reports the amount of memory used by programs.

: Also, it's easy to make the free column reflect free+buffers if you
: like.  I don't but I'm including a patch here for others that might.

: patch to just change 'used'

: --- free.c.orig Thu Jun  2 00:04:34 1994
: +++ free.c      Thu Jun  2 00:31:38 1994
: @@ -59,6 +59,8 @@
:         {
:                 n = sscanf( buf2, "%s %d %d %d %d %d", name,
:                         &col[0], &col[1], &col[2], &col[3], &col[4] );
: +
: +               if ( n > 4 ) col[1] -= col[4], col[2] += col[4];
                                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

        OOPS!  Those chars should be deleted... sorry...

:                 if( n < 1 ) continue;
:                 fprintf( stdout, "%-7s", name );
:                 for( i=1 ; i<n ; i++ ) {

: patch to add both 'used' and 'free' (applied AFTER above)

: --- free.c.orig Thu Jun  2 00:34:18 1994
: +++ free.c      Thu Jun  2 00:35:12 1994
: @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
:                 n = sscanf( buf2, "%s %d %d %d %d %d", name,
:                         &col[0], &col[1], &col[2], &col[3], &col[4] );
:  
: -               if ( n > 4 ) col[1] -= col[4];
: +               if ( n > 4 ) col[1] -= col[4], col[2] += col[4];
:                 if( n < 1 ) continue;
:                 fprintf( stdout, "%-7s", name );
:                 for( i=1 ; i<n ; i++ ) {

: NOTE: I'm not claiming this is the logical way to format the output,
:       it just suits me to do it this way.
-- 
csh
===========================================================================
shendrix@escape.widomaker.com (UUCP)     | Amd486/40 Linux system
shendrix@pcs.cnu.edu (Internet)          | Christopher Newport University

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From: phil@zeus.fasttax.com (Phil Howard)
Subject: Using CD-ROM recorder with Linux
Date: 2 Jun 1994 23:13:46 -0500

Is there any information about using a CD-ROM recorder with Linux?
I scanned a whole collection of FAQS for the keyword "record" and
had zero matches.  It appears the subject is not discussed by any
of these (including how-to's).

I'm downloading files matching "mkisofs" now as I suspect there
might be a clue there.  Any additional comments or suggestions?
-- 
Phil Howard KA9WGN      | The drive spec says the capacity is 600mb unformatted
Unix/Internet/Sys Admin | and 525mb formatted.  So where do I find an unformat
CLR/Fast-Tax            | utility?
phil@fasttax.com        |

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From: bf703@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Patrick J. Volkerding)
Subject: Re: Slackware CD-ROMs for sale
Date: 3 Jun 1994 04:25:58 GMT
Reply-To: bf703@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Patrick J. Volkerding)


The CDs are all spoken for, and my phone's safe (for now). Thanks! :^)

-- 
Patrick Volkerding
volkerdi@mhd1.moorhead.msus.edu
bf703@cleveland.freenet.edu

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From: hal@pollux.cs.uga.edu (Hal N. Brooks)
Subject: Re: fixup table!?
Date: 2 Jun 1994 18:06:59 GMT
Reply-To: hal@pollux.cs.uga.edu (Hal N. Brooks)

In article <2sk3ho$6f3@kubds1.kub.nl> paai@kub.nl (J.J. Paijmans) writes:
>In article <1994Jun1.135733.30980@news.datasrv.co.il> edunet@zeus.datasrv.co.il (Edunetics) writes:
>>
>>      The never ending sega of my computer brings me to a new border of
>                         ^^^^
>>unknown problems :-(
>...
>
>Well, you can't install Linux on a game-computer, you know... :-)
>Paai
>
>
>
>-- 
>Copyright Hans Paijmans 1994. Niets hierboven mag geheel of
>gedeeltelijk worden geciteerd buiten de nieuwsgroep(en) waar het
>oorspronkelijk is geplaatst.  Nothing of the above may be cited
                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>outside the newsgroups in which the message originally was posted.
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Darn.  And I wanted to send it to alt.humor.best-of-usenet.

-hal



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From: rob@eats.com (Rob Newberry)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup,utah.linux
Subject: Re: WinNT vs. Linux as Internet Gateway?
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 14:07:07 UNDEFINED

>I'm getting the company I work for set up on the Internet, and up to
>now we've been seriously considering Linux (a copy-lefted version of
>Unix under the GNU license) as our gateway/router/firewall. I
>understand that Windows NT has capabilities to be an Internet gateway,
>but I'm not familiar with what capabilities it has. Could you please
>comment on whether NT can do the following, and (if you can) if it can
>do them better than Linux:

>Filter in-coming and out-going packets by type and destination to 
>  prevent unauthorized and/or undesireable traffic (a firewall)

I would bet lots that NT (not even Daytona) will not support firewall.  As of 
now, firewall stuff under linux is not widely supported (some have done it, 
some are doing it, most are still trying...)

>Route TCP/IP traffic between the LAN and the Internet

If you have a machine which is connected to your LAN on ethernet and the 
Internet over SLIP, then, as of now, NT will NOT work.  NT has no way to route 
TCP/IP over SLIP.  Daytona MAY fix this, but when I saw Daytona demod, they 
showed its SLIP capabilities.  When I mentioned to the Microsoft people that 
people would want it for a LAN-Intenet gateway (that is, to route incoming 
traffic for several machines), they thought, "wow, what a wonderful idea" as 
if Daytona wasn't made for that.  It's funny to me that Microsoft promotes 
Daytona/NT as a competitor to Unix, but it can't do this.

>Allow FTP, Telnet, WWW, remote-login, finger, ping, and other 
> "standard" Unix access from both the internal LAN and the Internet

Right now, your telnet/remote login choices are few.  There are some products 
that are out, but they are new, and I would bet, somewhat unproven.  Most 
other programs (ftp, WWW) are available.  I've never seen a finger SERVER for 
NT; there's a client for almost everything.

> Has to be able to run these semi-well with multiple users 
> attached from in- and out-side the company

Probably about the same on both.

>Act as a local relay node for in-bound and out-bound email

If that email is SMTP based, then you'll need an SMTP server, which, as of 
now, does not exist for NT.  There is the SMTP gateway for MSMail, which is 
mega expensive.  But it does not support SMTP/POP clients like Eudora.  

>Act as local NNTP server for USENET news

Someone has a NNTP server for NT.  But its new.  And I doubt the source code's 
available.  So if it breaks, you rely on that company alone.  With linux, you 
can fix it yourself, or you can ask about a jillion other users for any fixes.

>Allow for SECURE (password/dial-back) dial-in access via SLIP/PPP
> or terminal emulation

I'm in the dark here.  Sorry.

>Do IP via SLIP/PPP/CSLIP (for the connection to the Internet)

As I said, NT doesn't have this now.  It will have (some form of) it in 
Daytona.

>Allow internal clients to connect to Internet services via IPX/SPX
>  (ie an IPX <-> TCP/IP gateway)

As of now, this is the only place where Linux loses.  But with the rumored 
Novell Corsais atop Linux, I bet this will be forthcoming.

>What kind of prices are we going to look at for WinNT to provide
>access to up to 100 users? What additional software will we need to
>get some/all of the capabilities listed above?

All around, the NT price is going to be MUCH, MUCH more.  NNTP server, mail 
server, etc.  are all commercial products, so tack them on to the price of NT. 
 All in all, that's probably $1000.  On the linux side, all of this comes with 
slackware, so if you've got ftp, bill yourself for the price of the download 
:-).  

Let me put it this way.  Back in January, I wanted to set up a gateway for my 
company, with four Windows PCs and two Macs to the Internet.  We wanted our 
own domain and all that jazz.  At that time, I did not know squat about Unix.  
So I wanted, badly, to go with NT Advanced Server.  But the long and short of 
it was, NTAS just couldn't do the stuff.  So I went with Linux.  It turns out, 
I've saved myself about $2000, and have complete internet access for all my 
users, plus a wonderful server operating system that supports Macs and PCs.  
My Linux machine runs SAMBA, so WfWG clients can mount its drives -- WITHOUT 
NFS.  The Macs have NFS/Share, so they can mount the Linux drive too.  CAP 
should work with Linux soon, and then the Macs won't need NFS stuff.  The Macs 
and PCs all print to the linux machine no problem.  And to top it all off, I 
know a lot more about Unix, which in the long run, will probably make me more 
competitive in the market.  Plus we have X-Windows...plus this...plus that...

I have to say, for me, Linux has been the greatest investment I made.  And it 
was a damn cheap investment.

Rob



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From: dleeds@MCS.COM (Daniel Leeds)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs *BSD (new twist)
Date: 2 Jun 1994 23:38:46 -0500

Alex Ramos (ramos@engr.latech.edu) wrote:
: It is agreed upon (by means of large disagreement which averages out
: :>) that fully configured Linux and *BSD are just as good as the
: other.  However, I'd like to add an observation: The Linux Slackware
: 1.2.0 distribution is much superior to the FreeBSD 1.1 BinDist.  You
: get a much more usable system when you're done installing, all within
: roughly the same amount of disk space.  Any comments?
                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^

Yes.  How does one justify that the bindist is not a useable system m8??
IF superior means nice color displays geared for morons and so much 
excess shit that the majority will never use/need then yes, it is 
superior.  I install FreeBSD I get a very useable system that only 
requires me to add the tools I choose to use from the ports collection.  
Linux makes me spend a million years getting rid of the excess crap.  And 
whose friggin idea was it for that godawful bloody color ls??  Wankers if 
you ask me. ;)

: How do you use virtual consoles on FreeBSD?

Compile with SYSCONS and RTFM.


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From: uaseow@mcs.drexel.edu (Alvin Seow)
Subject: Anyone running XFree in 256 colors on a notebook?
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 94 15:36:45 GMT

Is anyone sucessfully running XFree in 256 colors on a notebook,
portable or laptop computer ?

I am currently running XFree2.1.1 in VGA16 but was hoping to get 
256 colors.

My configs:
Midwest Micro Soundbook (Dual-scan)
Linux 1.1.14
XFree2.1.1

Thanks
Al.



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Subject: oak  and linux
From: jose@proy2.etsiig.uniovi.es (Jose I. Trapiella)
Date: 2 Jun 94 19:54:45 +0100

Hello,
We are installing the Slackware distribution on a PC with a Oak
video card and we have found a lot of problems with the configuration. 
Could anybody send me a configuration file with the settings for it?
Thanks in advance 
                 Jose

PS: Please e-mail me directly

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