Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #240
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Date:     Thu, 9 Jun 94 23:13:09 EDT

Linux-Misc Digest #240, Volume #2                 Thu, 9 Jun 94 23:13:09 EDT

Contents:
  Re: RARP under Linux (Larry Auton)
  Re: [slackware] what happened to dvilj2p? (Jim Robinson)
  Re: Please recommend GUI Builder for Motif (Steven Buytaert)
  Re: One Stop Information (M.A.Cooper)
  40M Syquest Removeable (Janson Hall)
  Re: CSLIP sl0 Performance (Dan Swartzendruber)
  Re: future of Unixware (Mark A. Davis)
  Re: future of Unixware (Mark A. Davis)
  Q: making shared libs (Matthias Reineke)
  Re: Which LINUX is best for my laptop??? (Michael S. Peek (lab))
  Re: mount CD-ROM ? (Peter Jones)
  Re: flop-0.1 available (Andreas Toenne)
  Re: Linux vs *BSD (new twist) (Benjamin Z. Goldsteen)
  IBM 3151 terminal (Matt Cable)
  Re: Linux vs *BSD (new twist) (max jester)
  Re: Latest in PC WEEK (May 30 Editorial) (lilo [Dances With Geeks])
  Re: Latest in PC WEEK (May 30 Editorial) (lilo [Dances With Geeks])
  AppleTalk(tm) for Linux(tm?) (Arthur Donkers, HD311, 55734)
  Re: Yggdrasil and PAS16 SCSI/CDROM: Any successes? (Rick Narron)
  re:octave & gnuplot (David E. Fox)
  Re: more video modes for NEC 5FG (Mark van Hoeij)

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From: lda@nfs-black.research.att.com (Larry Auton)
Subject: Re: RARP under Linux
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 1994 05:06:06 GMT

> From: 9208033h@levels.unisa.edu.au (MATTHEW TIPPETT)
> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
> Date: 6 Jun 94 21:56:02 +0930
> 
> Hi....
> 
> Sorry About the Previous Message with no Title...(If it got out)..
> 
> Anyway I was wondering what support there is for RARP under linux.
> 
> It is needed so that a machine can booted and get it's IP address from
> a server, and hence fill in the blanks for the network code.

it's probably too late for my two cents, but bootp is a much more
flexible protocol than reverse arp.  if we get to pick - pick bootp.

-lda


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From: jimr@shorty.cs.wisc.edu (Jim Robinson)
Subject: Re: [slackware] what happened to dvilj2p?
Date: 8 Jun 1994 05:09:32 GMT

In article <7710232328-329172@syllog2.watson.ibm.com> neumann@watson.ibm.com (Gustaf Neumann) writes:
[...]
> dvilj2p as well. you can get the newest version alwasy from 
> ftp.wu-wien.ac.at:pub/src/Typeset/dvi2xx.051a9.shar.gz
[...]

ftp.wu-wien.ac.at:pub/src/Typeset/dvi2xx/dvi2xx.051a9.shar.gz?


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From: buytaert@imec.be (Steven Buytaert)
Subject: Re: Please recommend GUI Builder for Motif
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 1994 08:04:15 GMT

Dan Newcombe (newcombe@aa.csc.peachnet.edu) wrote:
: In article <1994Jun7.081633.22121@imec.be> buytaert@imec.be (Steven Buytaert) writes:
: >Steven Buytaert (buytaert@imec.be) wrote:
: >: Thomas B. Pedersen (zeppelin@login.dkuug.dk) wrote:
: >: [snip]
: >: : The GUI Builder concept allows you to quickly build a prototype of
: >: : an application, which is impossible with uil-files. Does such a GUI 
: >: : builder exist for Linux/Motif?
: >[ snip the salespitch ]
: >:   In my quest for a solution, I stumbled upon SUIT 
: >  Boy do I feel stupid...
: >  You can find SUIT at uvacs.cs.virginia.edu in 
: >  pub/suit/...
: Ok...I'll make you feel even more stupid  :)
: sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/X11/devel
:       suit.tpz

 I feel humiliation pumping its way through
 every vain I have in my body :-)

--
Steven Buytaert 

WORK buytaert@imec.be
HOME buytaert@innet.be

        'Imagination is more important then knowledge.'
                        (A. Einstein)

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From: M.A.Cooper@bradford.ac.uk (M.A.Cooper)
Subject: Re: One Stop Information
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 1994 15:19:14 GMT

Luther Stephens P190 (luthers@brtph8dd.bnr.ca) wrote:

: I am new to Linux. I have read the faqs, a lot of the HOWTOs, etc.
: I was wondering if there was a "one stop" source of information
: on linux. Particularly a book that contains:

: 1. Supported Hardware lists.
: 2. General linux information (ftp sites, flavors,...)
: 3. Installation guide.
: 4. Linux/U*ix differences, and simularities.
: 5. System Admin guide for linux.
: 6. Programmers guide for linux.

: If this happens to exist, I would be thrilled. I would still be thrilled
: if I could get it down to 1-3 books. Thanks for your time.

: Luke Stephens
: luthers@bnr.ca

        Hi there,
                the nearest I know of is the LDP manuals which include a
150 page install guide, including an introduction to unix, a network
admin guide and the kernel hackers guide. They are still being developed
along with linux, but are better than nothing. The postscript files for
these guides are in the variuos directories under /pub/linux/docs/LDP on
sunsite.unc.edu and the various mirror's.

        Hope this helps
                Martin 
-- 
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*                M.A.Cooper@bradford.ac.uk                    *
*       "Real programmers don't write documentation"          *
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From: jhall@otter.mrj.com (Janson Hall)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: 40M Syquest Removeable
Date: 9 Jun 1994 15:27:56 -0400


I have read the FAQ and SCSI-HOWTO and could not find an answer to
this question.  Is it possible to use the 40M Syqest Removeable drives
with Linux.  Any help would be appreciated.


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From: dswartz@pugsley.osf.org (Dan Swartzendruber)
Crossposted-To: digex.slip
Subject: Re: CSLIP sl0 Performance
Date: 10 Jun 1994 00:26:36 GMT

In article <2t67jt$d4r@news1.digex.net> mongo@access1.digex.net (mongo) writes:
>
>B.D. Decker (bdd@lamneth.digex.net) wrote:
>: Now that I'm all set with CSLIP on both ends of my link, I'd
>: like to tune my SLIP performance.  Currently, using "ifconfig sl0"
>: regularly gives me statistics similar to the following:
>
>You have something seriously misconfigured if you are using AX.25 with 
>SLIP and your modem.  AX.25 is used for *radio* communication, not used 
>with dial-up modems usually.  

No, this is meaningless.  ifconfig seems to always say this, even
when I'm using a perfectly good SLIP connection.

>                       vvvvvvvvvv
>: sl0       Link encap AMPR AX.25  HWaddr
>:           inet addr XXX.XXX.XXX.XX  P-t-P YYY.YYY.YYY.YY  Mask 255.255.0.0
>:           UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING  MTU 2000  Metric 0
>:           RX packets 1325 errors 0 dropped 0 overrun 267
>:           TX packets 959 errors 0 dropped 0 overrun 884
>
>: If I am reading this correctly, overrun packets are probably a "bad
>: thing", and should be minimized.  I've tried to do that by raising my
>: MTU, but the kernel gives me kmalloc errors if I go higher than 2000.
>: Am I looking in the wrong place?  Is this possibly a modem problem?
>
>Your MTU should not be set any higher than 1500, normally.  Some systems 
>work a lot better with a lower MTU of 1006 or 1024.  I don't have SLIP on 
>Digex, so I can't tell you what they like.  

This is not a problem either.  The overrun field is actually
referring to compressed packets.  Alan had to reuse a variable
or something.
-- 

#include <std_disclaimer.h>

Dan S.

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Crossposted-To: comp.unix.unixware,comp.os.linux
From: mark@taylor.infi.net (Mark A. Davis)
Subject: Re: future of Unixware
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 1994 12:04:24 GMT

wayne@backbone.uucp (Wayne Schlitt) writes:

>In article <8565@heimdall.sdrc.com> crbalsn@axpo5.sdrc.com (Jim Balson) writes:

>> >On the other hand, there are probably _more_ Linux users than all the
>> >SVR4 users combined.  Heck, there may well be more people running
>> >Linux than any other version of Unix out there, including Xenix,
>> >SunOS, SCO, etc.  Yggdrasil alone sold more CD's than Novell sold
>> >copies UW over the last 6 months, and you can bet that a vast majority
>> >of Linux users didn't get their copy from Yggdrasil.
>> 
>>      I prefer to argue about facts I can back up one way or thge other.
>> Don't make claims such as this without proof.

>Well, you are right, I have no proof that more people run Linux that
>SVR4.  On the other hand, I doubt that you can prove me wrong.  I
>didn't, however, just make a random claim.  I do have some basis for
>it.  A lot of it is circumstantial, but here it is anyway.

>Right now, most of the Linux news groups have readership numbers in
>the 100,000-150,000 range.  Now there is some room for doubt in the
>accuracy of these numbers, and not everyone who reads these groups
>necessarily runs Linux.  OTOH, not everyone who runs Linux reads these
>groups.  So, there it is fairly safe to say that at _least_
>100,000-200,000 people run Linux.

There is little support otherwise.  You will see much less USENET
traffic for commercial Unixes because they usually find their support
elsewhere and have lower numbers of non-professionals.

>So, it seems very likely to me that there are 300,000-600,000 Linux
>users, and it is possible for there to be close to a million of them
>out there.

Quite possibly

>What are the numbers for SVR4?  Well, Sun probably sells the most with
>Solaris on the Sparc.  Lets say 200,000 per year for the last 2 years.
>(We will ignore all those people who have "upgraded" from Solaris to
>SunOS 4.0.x, and those that have replaced previous boxes...).  Add in
>UnixWares, and all the other little SVR4 companies, and you probably
>get 500,000 to a million.

>This total probably is more than any other version of Unix, including
>SCO Unix or SCO Xenix.  So, my claim that Linux might be the most used
>version of Unix is really about the same as my claim that there are
>more Linux users than SVR4 users.

Oops, you are probably going way too far now.  There are well over 1,000,000
copies of SCO products sold over the years.  And each of these copies
usually results in an average of 5 to 20 users.  This is a lot of activity.
You would be surprised how many people use Unix at work and do not know it.
Add all the commerical flavors of Unix together, plus all those users,
and you have a very considerable mass of people (aware or not).

>But, I _meant_ the claim to be provocative.  I _want_ Novell and us
>SVR4 people to think about this seriously.  SVR4 is having a hard
>enough time catching up to its predecessor (SVR3) in sales, but here
>is this newcomer that is rolling along quite nicely.

More power to ALL versions of Unix, as far as I'm concerned :)

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Crossposted-To: comp.unix.unixware,comp.os.linux
From: mark@taylor.infi.net (Mark A. Davis)
Subject: Re: future of Unixware
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 1994 12:06:48 GMT

evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes:

>In article <2t1kii$nst@eccdb1.pms.ford.com>
>       crawford@pt4427.pto.ford.com (William L. Crawford) writes:

>The SDK *does* include Motif.

>>What makes anyone think it does?

>Um, maybe because it's one of the packages on the distribution media?

>>What vendor offers an SDK that includes Motif?

>Um, UnixWare, and just about all the others? Even ODT's SDK includes
>Motif, but it's sure pricier than UW.

All SCO Unixes with X, whether development, runtime, ODT lite or ODT, include
Motif.  The SDK also includes the Motif development system.
-- 
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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: n24927@pbhrzx.uni-paderborn.de (Matthias Reineke)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Q: making shared libs
Date: 9 Jun 94 15:43:53 GMT


Hi,

i try to make shared libraries of libtiff.a, libjpeg.a and libmagick.a.
How can i evaluate the values for the jump table size and the
Global Offset Table (GOT) size? 

Here is the output of getsize (getsize >jump.vars-new) for libtiff:

> jump.vars-new:

0000028e K _TIFFFaxWhiteCodes   libtiff        tif_fax3
0000028e K _TIFFFaxBlackCodes   libtiff        tif_fax3
00001400 K _TIFFFax2DMode       libtiff        tif_fax3
00001400 K _TIFFFax2DNextState  libtiff        tif_fax3
00001400 K _TIFFFaxUncompAction libtiff        tif_fax3
00001400 K _TIFFFaxUncompNextState libtiff        tif_fax3
0000e600 K _TIFFFax1DAction     libtiff        tif_fax3
0000e604 K _TIFFFax1DNextState  libtiff        tif_fax3
00000730 K _tiffFieldInfo       libtiff        tif_dirinfo
00000034 K _tiffDataWidth       libtiff        tif_dirinfo

> size.nm:

00000000 T _TIFFFaxWhiteCodes
0000028e T _TIFFFaxBlackCodes
0000051c T _TIFFFax2DMode
0000191c T _TIFFFax2DNextState
00002d1c T _TIFFFaxUncompAction
0000411c T _TIFFFaxUncompNextState
0000551c T _TIFFFax1DAction
00013b1c T _TIFFFax1DNextState
00022120 T _tiffFieldInfo
00022850 T _tiffDataWidth
00022884 T __done

Ciao,
  Matthias Reineke

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From: peek@mathsun1 (Michael S. Peek (lab))
Subject: Re: Which LINUX is best for my laptop???
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 1994 17:12:17 GMT

x93oh1@wmich.edu wrote:
: Hi to all.  I would like to know that which Linux is best for my computer.

: I have  Austin 486sx 25mhz laptop with dual scan color, 4mb memory, 127 hdd.

: Where could I download the Linux? ( ftp sites? )
: Thanks in advance. 

: Seung Yup Oh

My two favorite sites are sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux, and
tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux.

Michael Peek - peek@math.utk.edu


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From: thanatos@drealm.drealm.org (Peter Jones)
Subject: Re: mount CD-ROM ?
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 1994 21:09:48 +0000

On Wed, 8 Jun 1994 05:34:35 GMT, david her (davidher@netcom.com) wrote (in article <davidherCr2Cto.LBK@netcom.com>):
> I installed slackware 1.1.0 and it recongized SoundBlaster CDROM, also 
> found a device /etc/cdrom. The problem is how to mount cdrom ?
> Plase help, thanks in advance.

1) Make sure the kernel you are running include iso9660 filesystem support.
   (We installed Slackware, asked for a CD-ROM based install, and it built
   a kernel without CD-ROM support... Sad...)

2) Do a `mkdir /cdrom' to give yourself a mount point.

3) Do a `mount -t iso9660 /dev/whatever /cdrom' (where `whatever' is the
   name that the kernel uses for a SoundBlaster CD-ROM).

-- Peter

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From: atoenne@mpi-sb.mpg.de (Andreas Toenne)
Subject: Re: flop-0.1 available
Date: 08 Jun 1994 08:52:34 GMT

In article <ann-14487.771009465@cs.cornell.edu> neal@ctd.comsat.com (Neal Becker) writes:

   Maybe I missed something obvious, but I couldn't find any way to do

   tar cf - . | gzip | <write to a sequence of floppies>.

Sure you are missing GNU tar since it comes with the 
*TAR & FEATHER* option :-)

Do this: gtar -cMzf /dev/fd0 .
-c means create archive
-M means multi-volume
-z means run everything through zip resp. unzip
-f means the following is the output file

It works like a charm and I use it for huge floppy transfers between
my Sparc at work and my Linux PC.


        Andreas Toenne
--

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        Im Stadtwald
        66123 Saarbruecken, Germany

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc
From: ben@rex.uokhsc.edu (Benjamin Z. Goldsteen)
Subject: Re: Linux vs *BSD (new twist)
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 1994 06:03:05 GMT
Reply-To: benjamin-goldsteen@uokhsc.edu

berndm@cs.monash.edu.au (Bernd U Meyer) writes:

>peter@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Peter da Silva) writes:

>>You got a C compiler, don't you?

>>So why are you forced to use these inadequate shells?

>Three words: "static libraries" and "quotas". It's really awful not to be 
>root anymore :-(

Actually, I was in a situattion like that a while ago...  I can't remember
my exact solution but I was able to get by with  220KB quota (latter raised
to 1 MB) on home by using /tmp and running some scripts on login...
-- 
Benjamin Z. Goldsteen

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help
From: mcable@porthos.tcs.tufts.edu (Matt Cable)
Subject: IBM 3151 terminal
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 1994 01:45:23 GMT

I just aquired an IBM 3151 terminal for cheap and I'm lookin to connect 
it to my system.  Has anyone succesfully worked on such a setup?  I 
don't have any manuals for it.  Any /etc/termcap's entries for one out there?

Can i use a regular serial cable?  Or will i need a null modem?

PLEASE help!

Thanks!

--
-matt

 Matthew E. Cable // mcable@musketeers.tufts.edu // wozz@wozz.tcs.tufts.edu

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Date: Wed, 8 Jun 1994 10:17:00 -0500
Subject: Re: Linux vs *BSD (new twist)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc
From: mwjester@seldon.cs.twsu.edu (max jester)

hart@apanix.apana.org.au (Leigh Hart) writes:
: peter@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Peter da Silva) writes:
:
: >-- Peter, who first used UNIX on an 11/70 that supported 65 users in 2MB RAM,
: >   and still supports Xenix systems that'll run 10 users in 1MB.
:
: -- Leigh, who first used UNIX on an 11/34 that supported 12 users in 128k RAM,
:    and still runs FreeBSD on a 386sx-16/6mb :-)
: --
-- Max, who first installed and ran UNIX on an 11/45 that supported 16
   users in 256K RAM, and still supports Unix systems that run 70 users
   in 256M RAM.

   Is it time for a 'My PDP-11 was older/lamer than your PDP-11' thread?
   (All in jest, no nastiness intended :^) - I have fond memories of my
   45 , RSTS/E, and System III)

Regards,
Max J.
mwjester@oz.cs.twsu.edu


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From: lilo@slip-5-16.ots.utexas.edu (lilo [Dances With Geeks])
Subject: Re: Latest in PC WEEK (May 30 Editorial)
Date: 9 Jun 1994 20:14:59 GMT

On 5 Jun 1994 06:56:31 GMT, Patrick Chase (patrick@sdd.hp.com) wrote:

> I fail to see how Novell can possibly distribute an operating system based
> on Linux. They'd have to offer any directly modified portions (such as the 
> kernel...) for free, and with source. I suppose they could put the modified 
> Linux components on an anonymous ftp site, available per the GNU license, and 
> then sell a CD-ROM version with additional programs/utilities of their own 
> creation (or licensed stuff like Looking Glass). 

I guess you didn't realize that the GNU license allows one to sell one's
program for any price desired, as long as source is made available and a
license to redistribute (including source) is granted.

The "free" doesn't mean without cost.  And, if they distribute source, there
is no requirement to make the program(s) available over the Internet (though
someone not affiliated with them almost certainly would end up doing so,
since the GNU license allows it).


lilo

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From: lilo@slip-5-16.ots.utexas.edu (lilo [Dances With Geeks])
Subject: Re: Latest in PC WEEK (May 30 Editorial)
Date: 9 Jun 1994 20:19:01 GMT

On Mon, 6 Jun 1994 13:21:06 UNDEFINED, Dan Newcombe (newcombe@aa.csc.peachnet.edu) wrote:

>       a) If what Novell add's doesn't require a kernel change, then they can charge 
> as much as they want and you can't redistribute it, and no source needs to be 
> included.  There is a debate on whether a loadable module counts as a derived 
> work.

Only among lawyers (they make their money by harassing people ;)....the rest
of us can be pretty certain that a loadable module is not a derived work in
any meaningful way.  It's derived from the *standard* for loadable modules,
not from the copyrighted *source code* that implements the kernel interface.
Unless you are silly enough to use a GNU-licensed sample loadable module
source as your starting point.... :)


lilo

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From: arthur@telecom.ptt.nl (Arthur Donkers, HD311, 55734)
Subject: AppleTalk(tm) for Linux(tm?)
Date: 6 Jun 1994 09:56:31 +0200

Dear Linux community,

For a project of mine I have to connect a few disjunt AppleTalk(tm) networks.
What better way than to do this through Unix (Linux pref.).

Is there an AppleTalk(tm) server available for Linux (Unix) ?? (a la SMBserver)

Thanks in advance,

Arthur Donkers


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From: rexx@netcom.com (Rick Narron)
Subject: Re: Yggdrasil and PAS16 SCSI/CDROM: Any successes?
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 1994 06:31:05 GMT


Dan Inman (lasdti@aai.arco.com) wrote:
:      Hello. I've just ordered the Yggdrasil CDROM, and I'm hoping
: to set up a CDROM-dependent installation, so that I only take up
: 50-70M of my HD for essentials and user directories. Adam 
: was kind enough to point out that the PAS16 SCSI driver is
: "experimental," and that he only gave me a 50/50 chance of
: getting the installation done using that driver with my 
: Toshiba 3401 CDROM.
 ...
:      So, my question is, has anyone out there been successful 
: installing/using this driver with one of the standard supported
: CDROMs? Has the driver improved any since, say, the kernel/driver
: versions on the Yggdrasil CD (since the SCSI Howto says it's a 
: "standard" driver), such that I could do some sort of workaround 
: like downloading the bare minimum system off the net and using 
: that to improve my chances? Or will I have to break down and 
: get another SCSI card (e.g. the FD TMC850M or the Adaptec 1522 - 
: something under $125) ? 

Dan,
        I installed the Yggdrasil Fall 1993 CDROM using a MediaVision
Fusion Double CD 16 controller with an NEC 55 double speed CDROM.

        I had trouble with the CDROM until I got to version 99.14 of
the Linux kernel and higher (99.14, 99.15, 1.0 and 1.1 are good)

99.13 was bad and was the version on the CDROM itself but 99.14 was on
the floppy that came with the CDROM.

        Here are some notes about building the Linux kernel:

Step 2) is the critical one for getting the CDROM to work and
steps 1) and 3) are mainly for getting the sound to work:

        1) Get the IRQ and port information about the PAS 16 board from
           your Dos/Windows configuration files and write it down somewhere.
           In my case the Medivision Fusion Double CD 16 uses
                port x388 irq 11 drq  3
           and the Sound Blaster portion of the board uses
                port x220 irq 5 drq 1
           This is needed to get the sound card to work.

        2) During the make config of the Linux kernel build be sure to
           indicate
              a) that you want Scsi support
        and   b) that you want Scsi CDROM support
                 (the disk/tape/generic aren't needed for the CDROM)
        and   c) that you want PAS16 Scsi support
                 (the Adaptec, Buslogic  and other drivers aren't needed)
        and   d) that you want ISO9660 CDROM filesystem support.
                 (I also kept the Minix, Second extended, msdos,
                  /proc, OS/2 and Coherent filesystems.
                  Second extended, msdos and /proc are highly recommended.)
                   
        3) For getting the sound portion of my card to work, I indicated
            a) to enable the sound driver
        and b) to NOT include all of the drivers
        and c) to include Pro Audio Spectrum 16 (PAS16) support
        and d) to include Sound Blaster support
        and e) to include MIDI, voice and FM synthesizer
        and f) to indicate port x388 irq 11 drq 3 for
               the PAS16 ( the information from step 1) above)
        and g) to indicate port x220 irq 5 drq  1 for
               the Sound Blaster (again info from step 1) above)
        
                        
        For a while when I was trying to get Linux 99.13 to work,
I also started looking at Adaptec Scsi cards, but
with Linux 1.0 all of my hardware problems went away.

        I not tried using Linux 99.13 but before that I tried:

        OS/2 2.1 (couldn't get my Colorado 250 tape drive to work without
                  buying a program that cost more than OS/2 did)

        Coherent 4.2.05  (my first Unix system and it came with terrific
                  documentation which I still use,
                  but no support for PAS16 or for my Colorado 250 tape drive.)

        FreeBSD 1.0 (did include shadow password support and did seem
                     to have all of the help and source files to match
                     all of the binary executable files.  But there was
                     no support for PAS16 or Colorado 250 tape drive.)

        So, don't buy that Scsi card yet, Linux will probably work if it
is configured correctly.

Regards,
Rick Narron (rexx@netcom.com)


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Crossposted-To: comp.graphics.gnuplot
From: root@belvedere.sbay.org (David E. Fox)
Subject: re:octave & gnuplot
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 1994 01:31:11 GMT

In my previous article, I mentioned that I was successful in getting
octave and gnuplot working together on my Linux system.

I've since discovered some problems with the gnuplot binary that is on
sunsite.unc.edu;

1) the binary distribution does not include gnuplot_x11, which is required
if you run gnuplot in X;

2) the gnuplot binary is missing a number of useful terminal types, such
as latex.

Although I pulled down the source code for gnuplot 3.5 as well as the
linux-specific patch, and didn't have too many problems building it (apart
from some Makefile clumsiness) it might be a good idea to come up with a
better gnuplot distribution for Linux, unless it has been done already.
At least the gnuplot binary on sunsite.unc.edu needs replacement, IMHO.

Comments?

-- 
David Fox                       root@belvedere.sbay.org
5479 Castle Manor Drive
San Jose, CA 95129              Thanks for letting me change
408/253-7992                    magnetic patterns on your hard disk.

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From: hoeij@sci.kun.nl (Mark van Hoeij)
Subject: Re: more video modes for NEC 5FG
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 1994 08:45:11 GMT

In <9406071712.PN12767@LL.MIT.EDU> stuart@ll.mit.edu (Scott Stuart) writes:



>Using the fastest timing waveform in the manual, I extrapolated to the
>fasted dot clock my video board can handle, and came up with the
>following mode line which works extremely well.

># 1024x768 @ 95.3Hz
>"1024x768"     100.2   1024 1048 1152 1312     768 768 770 802

>Talk about low flicker!  Now I just need to get more video memory
>so I can increase the resolution.

You don't need more video memory to get a higher resolution. You can
use 1150x850 with 1Mb. 

Regards,
 Mark van Hoeij


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