Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #293
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Date:     Mon, 20 Jun 94 23:13:08 EDT

Linux-Misc Digest #293, Volume #2                Mon, 20 Jun 94 23:13:08 EDT

Contents:
  Seyon crashes (David Rapchun)
  Re: Needed: HPGL or ps -> .gif software (Michael Will)
  Umsdos+Swap (John Bryan)
  Re: Pentium & PCI & SCSI & Linux (Brian Quandt)
  Re: Yggdrasil xinit always times out (Ed June)
  Re: Only 7000 Linux boxes, Re: Multiport Bored ... (Leo L Turetsky)
  Re: S3 Support - A bit lacking? (Brian Wellington)
  Re: Linux Journal issue #3 (July) (Michael K. Johnson)
  Re: Suggestions: Tape drives? (Grant Edwards)
  Cipher ST350, QIC-02 tape drive, works with linux?? (Whay S. Lee)
  Re: future of Unixware (Leslie Mikesell)
  Re: Linux.... On a Sparc? (Ronald Copley)

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From: rapchun@mintaka.sdsu.edu (David Rapchun)
Subject: Seyon crashes
Date: 20 Jun 1994 21:06:04 GMT

Hello, does anyone know why seyon 2.14b crashes every five minutes?

thanx.



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From: zxmgv07@studserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Will)
Subject: Re: Needed: HPGL or ps -> .gif software
Date: 20 Jun 94 18:02:04 GMT

In <2u4c62$t0e@sol.sun.csd.unb.ca> boyle@mantis.chem.unb.ca () writes:
>I'm looking for software which will take a HPGL or a postscript
>plotter file and produce a .gif file.  I've looked at a recent
Ghostscript can make gif. 
Try something like 
        gs -sDEVICE=gif8 -sOutputFile=thingy.gif thingy.ps

Cheers, Michael Will

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From: jhonsrid@drealm.drealm.org (John Bryan)
Subject: Umsdos+Swap
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 1994 15:36:27 +0000

I have seen some things recently that basically say don't use UMSDOS on a 
pc with less than 8mb because otherwise slackware install will fail. Yes,
it will without swap, and making a swap partition kind of defeats the aim
of using umsdos, but how many people do this?:
 
dd bs=1024 count=xx if=/dev/hda1 of=swapfile
 
Where 'xx' is size in kb, and 'swapfile' is swapfile name.
Change hda1 to whatever you need of course.
Then do:
mkswap swapfile xx
Where swapfile is name of swapfile and xx is size in kb.
Then do:
swapon swapfile
(You can turn it off using swapoff).
 
If someone could pass this on to the umsdos author, or give me his mail 
address, or give me Patrick Volkerding's mail address (sorry about spelling 
your name wrong if I did) or just shout at me because you knew this and its 
incredibly bad and dangerous thing to do. Anyway, I think it should 
documented somewhere because I can't see any problems with it and I 
certainly prefer doing this to making a swap partition every time I need 
that little extra memory. (I run linux in 40mb of hd space and have 4mb 
of ram.)
 
Btw, the youngest linux user I know is 15. Is that some kind of record?
 




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From: quandt@cs.umr.edu (Brian Quandt)
Subject: Re: Pentium & PCI & SCSI & Linux
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 1994 19:20:21 GMT


Looking at the compat list for linux.  Did not see anything in the compat.list
about PCI and Pentinum boards.  I'd like to set up
linux on one of these systems with a SCSI/PCI board.  If anyone
has any experience at this and the compatibility with linux
I'd like to know (as in will it work at all).  If you have any 
suggestions about SCSI 2 wide PCI compabitle controllers
please let me know.

Thanks in advance
Brian


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From: buggz@buggz.via.mind.org (Ed June)
Subject: Re: Yggdrasil xinit always times out
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 94 18:22:00 -0500
Reply-To: buggz@buggz.via.mind.org

Paul Tomblin wrote in a message to All:

Paul Tomblin (pt@gandalf.ca) wrote:

 PT> Not sure - but it seemed to be related to the fact that I
 PT> tried logging in as "demo" to run the X11 demo before I
 PT> logged in as root.

I've got the summer '94 Plug & Play Linux CD.
Did you get to use demo mode?
I could never get it to work.
I got the following error:

Fatal server error:
no screens found
xinit: No such file or directory (erno 2): unexpected signal 13


I also suspect it was this stuff that wrote the boot sector of my hd with a
message of:

Invalid partition table

I had to use the dos fdisk /MBR to wipe the master boot record of my hd.

I was more than bummed, and more than leary to try again.
Any hints?


 Ed June   TeamOS2

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From: Leo L Turetsky <professor+@CMU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Only 7000 Linux boxes, Re: Multiport Bored ...
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 1994 15:40:14 -0400

Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.linux.misc: 20-Jun-94 Re: Only 7000 Linux
boxes, .. by Robert Wolf@tigger.jvnc. 
> In Article <1994Jun14.035515.3041@truffula.sj.ca.us>, cls@truffula.sj.ca.us
> (Cameron L. Spitzer) wrote:
> >In article <1994Jun13.134758.13245@frmug.fr.net> bernard@cpio1.frmug.fr.net
> (Bernard Fouche) writes:
> >Argh!  I work for (but don't speak for!) a major manufacturer of
> >boards for PCs.
> >As far as I can tell, the *ONLY* reason we have not already developed,
> >tested, documented, released, and field-supported performance-optimized
> >Linux drivers is that the best data we can get say there are less than
> >7000 actual Linux systems in use!  That data is from the Linux Counter
> >project
>  
> Your marketing people are asleep at the switch.

I'd think they have to be dead at the switch to come up with that number.

-Leo

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From: bwelling@wam.umd.edu (Brian Wellington)
Subject: Re: S3 Support - A bit lacking?
Date: 20 Jun 1994 19:21:54 GMT

In article <1994Jun20.153209.1@vb.nwl.ac.uk>,  <l_kbb@vb.nwl.ac.uk> wrote:
>In article <CrIoDv.74t@madhouse.demon.co.uk>, andy@madhouse.demon.co.uk (Andrew Bray) writes:
>> In article <2tpahjINNsen@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> paul@holmes.ece.orst.edu (Paul Stoffregen) writes:
>>>I've got an S3 card (which is quite speedy under X, but cost < $140),
>>>but quite often I switch over to a good 'ole tty.  I've tried several
>>>times to get something higher than 80x25 in text mode, including an
>>>attempt tonight.  Typing 'rdev -v /vmlinuz -#' where I try dozens of
>>>different numbers seems to have no effect whatsoever.  I also tried
>>>configuring lilo to set the video mode, but with little success.
>> 
>> I had the same problem with my S3 based Spea/V7 Mirage.
>> The only fix I found was to hack the Linux start up code to recognise
>> my VGA BIOS, and offer extra video modes.
>
>Could you share what you did, as my couple of hours playing with the
>VGA clock registers failed to get me anthing other than standard VGA
>with my S3 based Spea/V7 Mirage. I only have 40 Mbytes for Linux, so
>rebuilding anything large may be a bit of a problem.
>
>> 
>>>The text-only tty just doesn't display very much information in
>>>80x25, and looks downright funny on my 17 inch monitor.
>> 
>> Even funnier on my 21".  Its a shame I can't use X at a resolution
>> higher that 1024x768 to take advantage of this extra size
>> (my card has 1MB RAM, and isn't upgradable).
>> 

I have an Orchid Fahrenheit 1280 Plus/VLB, and was able to get 132x43 by
editing setup.S, only changing the string searched for in BIOS, it's
length and location (got those from DOSEMU getrom), and modified the
Orchid Fahrenheit 1280 values.  It works in text mode, and is fine with
X, but svgalib programs don't work (the screen has a bunch of black
vertical columns, and dosemu really screws up when it's quit, and there's
no way to fix it.   Any ideas?

Brian



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From: johnsonm@merengue.oit.unc.edu (Michael K. Johnson)
Subject: Re: Linux Journal issue #3 (July)
Date: 20 Jun 1994 20:01:26 GMT
Reply-To: ljeditor@sunsite.unc.edu


In article <772118585snx@zmemw16.demon.co.uk> Stephen@zmemw16.demon.co.uk (Stephen Parkinson) writes:

   I don't suppose you can post a table of contents ?

   Go back with a pencil and paper ?

It's easier than that; Phil Hughes has already posted a table of
contents on comp.os.linux.announce some time ago, I'm pretty sure.
However, since you ask, here it is (hopefully correct; I'm not a
perfect typist):

        World Wide Web, by Bernie Thompson
        Tips for Optimizing Memory Usage, by Jeff tranter
        Interview: Fred van Kempen
        Stop Press, by Michael K. Johnson (That's me!)
        ICMake; part 3, by Frank Brokken and Karl Kubat
        Let's Take Linux Seriously, by Phil Hughes
        Sendmail+IDA, by Vince Skohan
        UniForum, by Phil Hughes
        Metamorphses, by me again
        Linux System Administration, by Mark Komarinski
        The Open Development of Debian, by Ian Murdock
        New Products
        What's GNU: Bash, the GNU Shell, by Chet Ramey
        Programming the VT interface, by me again
        Cooking with Linux, by matt Welsh
        Book Reviews (2)
        Consultant's directory
        Linux Counter

We welcome your comments!

michaelkjohnson

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.misc
From: grante@reddwarf.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: Suggestions: Tape drives?
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 1994 20:00:45 GMT

Rob Janssen (rob@pe1chl.ampr.org) wrote:
: In <2tl4vf$m8r@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> hsuc@msu.edu (Chun Hsu) writes:

: >I need to repartition to give more room for DOS/Windows and Linux.
: >With this information, what would people recommend.  I don't think
: >I need much more than 250 Mbyte capacity for the tape drive and I
: >can't afford to spend a fortune.  However, if I can find a
: >reasonably priced 250 Mbyte SCSI tape drive, that would be nice.
: >As I said before, I may eventually get another disk drive.  SCSI
: >would be convenient at that point.

: I have bought an Archive 2150S for the equivalent of about $150 on a
: computer faire.  This is a SCSI drive which can use DC-6150
: cartridges for 150MB capacity, or DC-6250 cartridges for 250MB
: capacity.  (of course, these are *uncompressed* values, so you could
: squeeze more on it if you dare)

: A drive like this could be attractive for you, but I don't know if
: you can get it at a comparable price...

If you're really hard up you might be able to find the previous
generation SCSI Archive tape drive sitting in a scrap heap -- usually
with some tapes to go along with it.  You're stuck with 60M on DC600
tapes, but what the hell if it's free -- it's still way better than
floppies.

Go to swap meets, hamfests, etc.  You should be able to find a 150/250
tape drive for not too many bucks.

--
Grant Edwards                                 |Yow!  It's the RINSE CYCLE!!
Rosemount Inc.                                |They've ALL IGNORED the RINSE
                                              |CYCLE!!
grante@rosemount.com                          |

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From: wslee@ai.mit.edu (Whay S. Lee)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Cipher ST350, QIC-02 tape drive, works with linux??
Date: 20 Jun 94 20:08:33


        saw this tape drive in the Shopper:

                OEM Cipher ST350, 700 Meg tape drive,
                QIC-02 compression interface,
                "uses DC-6xxx series data cartridges"

        It doesn't seem to be on the hardware.howto list .. does linux
support this tape drive? any info appreciated.  please send email.
thanks.

whay.

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From: les@MCS.COM (Leslie Mikesell)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.unixware,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: future of Unixware
Date: 20 Jun 1994 16:51:08 -0500

In article <1994Jun20.031545.8880@bilver.oau.org>,
Bill Vermillion <bill@bilver.oau.org> wrote:

>>> >Why would you ever want to have >96 RS232 ports on a Unix box??
>>> 
>>> A bunch of modems, some printers sprinkled around the building, some
>>> inbound wire services, a couple of satellite uplinks. 96 sounds
>>> about right to me...

>>On one UNIX box?!?!?!?! Wouldn't you get better throughtput if you scattered 
>>them on different machines?

>It all depends on the machine doesn't it.

In this case there is nothing special about the machine.  The serial ports
just happen to drive a mix of low speed things in lots of places and
scattering them over several machines would just make the machines spend
more time talking to each other.  Only a few of the ports will be handling
interactive users or high speed file transfers.  The idea is to put
all of this stuff on one plodding workhorse and set up other machines for
more interactive work.  It turns out that running many copies of only a
few programs has some advantages over running many different programs
at the same time under unix.

Les Mikesell
  les@mcs.com

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Linux.... On a Sparc?
From: copley1@muvms6.wvnet.edu (Ronald Copley)
Date: 20 Jun 94 10:27:53 EDT

> 
>       Isn't Solaris V1.1xxx just Sun double-speak for SunOS-4.1.3_u1 to
>       convince everyone that "Solaris" is the product and Solaris-2.x
>       is merely the latest and greatest rather than the radical change
>       that it is?
> 
>       Wow!  Marketeers... amazing folks!
> 
>       -- Mark
> 

Shore 'nuff. My 4.1.3 (SMCC ver A) CDs are emblazoned "Solaris 1.1". Comforts
me at night, you know. :)

--
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Informatiks                    |  computer equipment. Particularly DEC,
Scottown OH                    |  Pyramid, Sun and DG.
1.614.643.1340                 |  If you have Pink Fairies bootlegs, etc.
<copley1@muvms6.mu.wvnet.edu>  |  *please* contact me!
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