Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #317
From: Digestifier <Linux-Misc-Request@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU
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Date:     Sun, 26 Jun 94 20:13:12 EDT

Linux-Misc Digest #317, Volume #2                Sun, 26 Jun 94 20:13:12 EDT

Contents:
  Orchid Fahrenheit setup.S (Brian Wellington)
  Re: BT445S explodes & takes out HD (Lawrence Foard)
  Re: VP/ix for Linux? (Frank Lofaro)
  Re: Infomagic (Charles Liu)
  Re: Umsdos+Swap (Eugene Mesgar)
  Re: HELP: HDD partitioning (Joseph W. Vigneau)
  When is the Next Infomagic CD set? (Byron Faber)
  info dir file gone (Stephen Timson)
  Re: BogoMips program from SunSite (Steffen W. Schilke)
  Re: Linux.... On a Sparc? (Steffen W. Schilke)
  Re: sco motif/iBCS/Linux ?? (Mike Jagdis)
  Re: Only 7000 Linux boxes, Re: Multiport Bored ... (Wayne Schlitt)
  Re: SCO Framemaker? (was Re: WP Said NO GO to Native Port.) (Wayne Schlitt)
  Re: TCP/IP: The reason I dumped OS/2 (David Simmons)
  CL5434 Chipset Video (i.e. SpeedStar 64) - work with X? (Robert Liles)
  Re: fvwm question (Jason Van Patten)
  Re: Scanner (Karl Eichwalder)
  Re: VP/ix for Linux? (Rob Janssen)
  Re: Why cannot xterm use -bg option in .xinitrc ? (Rob Janssen)
  Re: Orchid Kelvin64: Just what is it? (Allan Wind)

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From: bwelling@wam.umd.edu (Brian Wellington)
Subject: Orchid Fahrenheit setup.S
Date: 26 Jun 1994 04:13:26 GMT

Due to popular demand, here's a list of changes to my setup.S file
to use an Orchid Fahrenheit 1280 Plus/VLB in 132x25 and 132x44 text 
modes.  This will have to be modified for any other card since
this depends on the *exact* string kept in video BIOS.  Also, 
this will cause major problems with DOSEMU and svgalib.  But if
anyone still wants it:
(Note:  I overwrote the #9GXE entry since it was the easiest to modify)

 diff -u setup.S setup.S.old
--- setup.S     Sun Jun 19 20:25:46 1994
+++ setup.S.old Fri Jun 17 19:37:24 1994
@@ -396,8 +396,8 @@
 /* svga modes */
 svga:   cld
         lea     si,id9GXE      ! Check for the #9GXE (jyanowit@orixa.mtholyoke.edu,thanks dlm40629@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu)
-        mov     di,#0xe4       ! id string is at c000:049
-        mov     cx,#0x2a       ! length of "Graphics Power By"
+        mov     di,#0x49       ! id string is at c000:049
+        mov     cx,#0x11       ! length of "Graphics Power By"
         repe
         cmpsb
         jne     of1280
@@ -818,8 +818,7 @@
 idparadise:    .ascii  "VGA="
 idoakvga:      .ascii  "OAK VGA "
 idf1280:       .ascii  "Orchid Technology Fahrenheit 1280"
-id9GXE:                .ascii  "Orchid Technology Fahrenheit 1280 Plus/VLB"
-!  id9GXE:             .ascii  "Graphics Power By"
+id9GXE:                .ascii  "Graphics Power By"
 idVRAM:                .ascii  "Stealth VRAM"
 
 ! Manufacturer:          Numofmodes+2: Mode:

I don't know how to make a patch file, but that's a diff of the original
and modified file...

Brian


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Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
From: entropy@world.std.com (Lawrence Foard)
Subject: Re: BT445S explodes & takes out HD
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 1994 18:19:22 GMT

In article <1994Jun26.134651.22059@tigger.jvnc.net>,
Bob Kupiec <kupiec@tigger.jvnc.net> wrote:
>Well, what else can I say?  I heard a small "pop" sound and the smell
>of fried electronics. :-( The BT445S complained that the fuse was blown
>upon startup.  The diags LED was constantly flashing, indicating the
>same failure.

My guess from the rest of the article is that your drives power might not be
plugged in. A few obnoxious drives don't bother with termination power fuses
or diodes (I melted a SCSI cable this way), if your drive isn't powered then
it tries to draw its power from the SCSI bus and you get smoke if the drive
wants alot of power :)
I've only seen one SCSI drive like this and it was made by the worst name
in the hard drive industry, so there is a good chance this isn't your
problem.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
From: ftlofaro@unlv.edu (Frank Lofaro)
Subject: Re: VP/ix for Linux?
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 94 04:12:35 GMT

In article <jmaclean.156.001610D6@fox.nstn.ns.ca> jmaclean@fox.nstn.ns.ca (James B. MacLean) writes:
>In article <1994Jun23.175359.20570@taylor.infi.net> mark@taylor.infi.net (Mark A. Davis) writes:
>
>>>       There are many features in VP/IX that are extremely usefull that
>>>dosemu just doesn't have (at least the last time I looked), and that I
>>>wouldn't want to have to do without (if I had to use VP/IX or dosemu
>>>personally, which I don't).
>
>>I have to agree.  If I had the features of VP/ix *or* Merge, I could
>>totally dump the MS-"DOS" partition at home.
>>-- 
>>  /--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
>>  | Mark A. Davis    | Lake Taylor Hospital | Norfolk, VA (804)-461-5001x431 |
>>  | Sys.Administrator|  Computer Services   | mark@taylor.infi.net           |
>>  \--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
>
>Since I have never used anything other than DOSEMU :-(, what are these 
>features that DOSEMU should put on it's wanted list?
>

DPMI support.


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From: Charles Liu <alte@rahul.net>
Subject: Re: Infomagic
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 1994 00:34:45 GMT

In article <1994Jun24.180854.7424@stsci.edu>,
Jon Saken <saken@stsci.edu> wrote:
>
>Sorry if this an FAQ question, but I can't find one for this group.
>I'm interested in installing Linux on a 486.  Could someone post or
>e-mail the address and phone number for Infomagic, and any other
 ^^^^^^
info@infomagic.com;  800-800-6613                                    


>company selling Linux packages?  Thanks.
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Universal CD-ROM (tm) resells four major Linux Distributions (which 
may allow you to swap one to the other quickly if installation problems 
occur).

Charles Liu
Universal CD-ROM
1645 S. Bascom Ave., #7
Compbell, CA 95008
408-369-9818
alte@rahul.com


>
>jon saken


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From: rostam@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Eugene Mesgar)
Subject: Re: Umsdos+Swap
Date: 24 Jun 1994 02:35:55 GMT

John Bryan (jhonsrid@drealm.drealm.org) wrote:
:  
: Btw, the youngest linux user I know is 15. Is that some kind of record?
:  

I started Linux when I was 14, Now I am 15. I installed it about 5 months
ago.. I love it..

-em




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From: joev@garden.WPI.EDU (Joseph W. Vigneau)
Subject: Re: HELP: HDD partitioning
Date: 26 Jun 1994 21:00:27 GMT

In article <Cs078u.3Gw@actrix.gen.nz>,
Robert King <robking@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
>
>I was playing with fdisk just now (sounds dangerous, I know) and when I
>viewed the current partition info I got something similar to the following:
>
>/dev/hda1 - 201 blocks
>/dev/hda2 - 5 blocks DOS FAT12 (MS-DOS 6.0)
>/dev/hda3 - 1 block OPUS
>/dev/hda5 - 188 blocks DOS FAT16 (data)
>/dev/hda6 - 41 blocks OS/2 HPFS (OS/2 2.11)
>/dev/hda7 - 41 blocks OS/2 HPFS (Personal OS/2)
>
>Firstly, where did /dev/hda4 go?

hda5-7 are most likely logical partitions on your drive, as opposed
to primary partitions (/dev/hda[1-4]).

>Secondly, what is OPUS.  I suspect that it is Boot Manager, it 
>starts at cylinder 1 and ends at 5 (where BM puts itself), but confirmation 
>would be reassuring for this newbie :-)

It is most likely the OS/2 Boot Manager.
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From: btf57346@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Byron Faber)
Subject: When is the Next Infomagic CD set?
Date: 24 Jun 1994 16:36:55 GMT

Anybody know when the next infomagic cd set is going to be
released?

Byron
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From: stimson@lele-iri (Stephen Timson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: info dir file gone
Date: 26 Jun 1994 22:22:38 GMT

I recently upgraded from emacs 19.22 that came with slackware to 19.24.
When I installed the new(?) info files, the /usr/info/dir file was over-
written with an empty file.  Since this is the file that info goes to first,
info no longer works unless I give it a -f filename.  Is there a way to
generate this file or is it gone forever?  If it is gone is there a way for
me to get the original (does anyone know what slackware disk it is on)?

Thanks in advance,
--Steve

Please respond here or email to stimson@leland.stanford.edu, the reply to 
address will just bounce.

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From: sws@tora.RoBIN.de (Steffen W. Schilke)
Subject: Re: BogoMips program from SunSite
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 1994 14:31:06 GMT

Thomas G. McWilliams (tgm@netcom.com) wrote:
. 
. 
. 
: Poor Rob Janssen does not understand the Zen of BogoMips. Of course
: 38 BogoMips is a wonderful figure of merit for a Sparc 10 running
: SunOS 5. I'm sure Sun marketing will eventually adopt it as a tool.

I checked out a HP 712/80 (32 MB) and got 78 ;-) (ok, ca. 90 Processes)

: But these questions are probably best directed via e-mail to the
: BogoMips Research Institute---"Better Living Through BogoMips".


Where is the e@mail address ?    ;-)

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
From: sws@tora.RoBIN.de (Steffen W. Schilke)
Subject: Re: Linux.... On a Sparc?
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 1994 15:11:37 GMT

Andrew Anderson (andersoa@news.db.erau.edu) wrote:
: Leonard N. Zubkoff (lnz@dandelion.com) wrote:
: : In article <2u5s4j$ch1@uc.msc.edu> alk@et.msc.edu (Anthony L. Kimball) writes:
: :    I have a sparcstation at home running 4.1.3, and full source,
: :    but you know, if I do a hack on it, it is wasted effort, since
: :    I can't share it with anyone else except other sunos source licensees.
: :    I've been thinking about getting rid of the sparc, and picking up a
: :    pentium, simply because of Linux, but the loss of muscle would hurt.
: : Loss of muscle??  My personal Pentium-90 system feels and measures faster than
: : the SparcStation 10 Model 41 I have at the office.

: I agree.  My '66 will do loops around a Sparc 10...an operation that took
: 45 minutes on a Sparc-10 only took about 2 or 3 on my Pentium!

Yep, I have the same experience . All Sun's I used where slower then a
good (486, or 386 with SCSI-2 HD) LinuX Box

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From: jaggy@purplet.demon.co.uk (Mike Jagdis)
Subject: Re: sco motif/iBCS/Linux ??
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 1994 22:25:00 +0000

* In message <cyrillvCrx7CA.8tD@netcom.com>, Cyrill Vatomsky said:

CV> : CV> I have SCO installed on my second drive and it has motif. Is
CV> : CV> it possible to use it for Linux, maybe vie iBCS?

CV> : Yes and no. Yes you can run it under iBCS. But first you
CV> have to get at it.

CV> I can reinstall SCO on another machine. But unfortunately I
CV> do not have
CV> network here. (We live in stone ages). Is it possible to
CV> read/grab SCO
CV> Motif from distribution floppies (SCO original)?

Impossible to say. A combination of tar, cpio and the sysv fs will probably 
let you get the data of the disks but whether you can do anything useful 
with it at that stage is debatable. There could be install scripts in there 
that do *anything*.

  Another approach might be to install on another machine then copy the bits 
you want off by floppy and junk the rest again.

  But unless your time is valued at less than the average burger flipper 
your best bet would be to buy a couple of cheap 'n cheerful ethernet cards 
and get networked :-).

                                Mike  
 

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From: wayne@backbone.uucp (Wayne Schlitt)
Subject: Re: Only 7000 Linux boxes, Re: Multiport Bored ...
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 1994 22:17:15 GMT
Reply-To: wayne@cse.unl.edu

In article <2ufhj0$r99@galaxy.ucr.edu> rhyde@cuda.ucr.EDU (randy hyde) writes:
> 
> As an example, let's liberally assume there are 50,000 Linux boxes out there.

While I agree with large parts of your posting, I think that this
number is too low.  My bet is that you are off by a factor of 5-20+,
that is, there are at least 250,000 Linux systems out there, possibly
a million or more.

However, even with those numbers, it still isn't clear that there are
enough Linux purchasers out there for it to be worth most companies
time to produce a Linux specialized product.  At least not yet.  If
things continue to grow, and it looks like it will, then in a year or
two this might be different.

I think software companies that can have their products run under the
iBCS2 system are the most likely folks to find that official Linux
support to be worth their while.  Specialized hardware that requires
large custom device drivers are probably the least likely.  (Or
products like vp/ix that require kernel modifications.)


-wayne
-- 
Our reasoning goes something like this:  "If I want it, I need it.  If
I need it, it's my right.  If it's my right, someone should give it to
me.  Or else I'll sue."     -- Newsweek June 27, 1994

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From: wayne@backbone.uucp (Wayne Schlitt)
Subject: Re: SCO Framemaker? (was Re: WP Said NO GO to Native Port.)
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 1994 22:23:18 GMT
Reply-To: wayne@cse.unl.edu

In article <1994Jun24.011725.3981@taylor.infi.net> mark@taylor.infi.net (Mark A. Davis) writes:
> swampler@noao.edu () writes:
> >  I much prefer FrameMaker (call me weird).  Since I'd be willing to bet
> >money no Linux-native version of FM is likely to show up, is there an
> >existing version for SCO?
> 
> Yes, the low street price is currently $2,000.00 for a single floating
> license.

When I bought my copy of frame, I was getting quotes of the SCO
version for ~$800, but I was told that I _had_ to have the iBCS2
version for SVR4 and that ended up costing me ~$1200.  Since I use my
PC to run Unix 24 hrs a day (I am a news/mail hub for my area), the
alternative of buying MS-Windows+MS-Word would have required me to buy
another PC.  So, even at $1200, it was cheap.  No, make that less
expensive.  :->


-wayne

p.s.  These were for fixed licenses, not floating licenses.
-- 
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I need it, it's my right.  If it's my right, someone should give it to
me.  Or else I'll sue."     -- Newsweek June 27, 1994

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From: simmons@EE.MsState.Edu (David Simmons)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: TCP/IP: The reason I dumped OS/2
Date: 26 Jun 1994 22:28:03 GMT
Reply-To: simmons@EE.MsState.Edu

In article <2ujmaqINN8tv@umbc9.umbc.edu>, QeyS <mgursk1@umbc.edu> wrote:
>
>Different strokes for different folks.  How many businesses use Linux?
>

You'd be surprised.  I work for a company that deals with Linux muchly
in setting up servers for customers.

David

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Mississippi State University Electrical and Computer Engineering
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From: ironman@news.gate.net (Robert Liles)
Subject: CL5434 Chipset Video (i.e. SpeedStar 64) - work with X?
Date: 26 Jun 1994 17:26:56 -0400


Hello Everyone, I need help.  I am not very experienced with Linux and I 
need to know how to use my Speedstar 64 with a Cirrus Logic 5434 Chipset 
with XFree86 V2.1. When I run startx, it tells me that it cannot find any 
screens.  I have checked the FAQs and there was noe mention of the the 
Speedstar 64 anywhere.  If anyone can help, please reply here or send me 
email.

Andrew Liles

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From: vanpatjm@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Jason Van Patten)
Subject: Re: fvwm question
Date: 26 Jun 1994 20:29:20 GMT

Hi again -

        OK, sorry for wasting all the bandwidth.  Thanks to all that responded.
I was under the impression that a motif-like icon box would appear in the
specified coordinates.  Silly me.

        Thanks again.

                                                Jason

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From: karl@pertron.central.de (Karl Eichwalder)
Subject: Re: Scanner
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 1994 12:42:17 GMT

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

> In article <2ugvcu$9td@hobel.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>,
> Juergen Richter <fdsa@guug.de> wrote:

> >Which scanners are supported by Linux? Which application programs for
> >scanners do exist for Linux?

> I wrote a small scanner FAQLET. Here is is.

Please go on with the FAQLET -- are there any OCR software (PD) for Linux/UNIX
or DOS?

Now there is also a logiscan driver. In general this driver works for all
(?) the Logitech ScanMans -- but not for my Logitech controller board ;-(

Scanner Controller Board:
=========================
        Logitech
        PWA # 270394-0 0
        Rev. A
        FCC ID: DZLSCB5-PCR

        Main chip:
        Logitech
        360102-00
        AMI 9313ABN
        C19272

        IRQ 5
        DMA 1
        address 0x340


Please, have a look at your board and provide some informations for which
brands the driver works.  Thanks.

How to get the logi driver:

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Return-Path: <root@shadow.nonet.de>
Sender: root@shadow.nonet.de (Andy Beck)
Subject: logiscan 0.0.2 released
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 1994 01:17:58 +0100 (MET DST)
From: becka@hp.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de
Sender: becka@hp.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de

I just released the logiscan-0.0.2.tar.gz file to tsx.

It will soon be available there under ALPHA/scanner (I hope ...).

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen)
Subject: Re: VP/ix for Linux?
Reply-To: pe1chl@rabo.nl
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 1994 11:48:25 GMT

In <1994Jun26.041235.5031@unlv.edu> ftlofaro@unlv.edu (Frank Lofaro) writes:

>In article <jmaclean.156.001610D6@fox.nstn.ns.ca> jmaclean@fox.nstn.ns.ca (James B. MacLean) writes:
>>In article <1994Jun23.175359.20570@taylor.infi.net> mark@taylor.infi.net (Mark A. Davis) writes:
>>
>>>>       There are many features in VP/IX that are extremely usefull that
>>>>dosemu just doesn't have (at least the last time I looked), and that I
>>>>wouldn't want to have to do without (if I had to use VP/IX or dosemu
>>>>personally, which I don't).
>>
>>>I have to agree.  If I had the features of VP/ix *or* Merge, I could
>>>totally dump the MS-"DOS" partition at home.
>>>-- 
>>>  /--------------------------------------------------------------------------\
>>>  | Mark A. Davis    | Lake Taylor Hospital | Norfolk, VA (804)-461-5001x431 |
>>>  | Sys.Administrator|  Computer Services   | mark@taylor.infi.net           |
>>>  \--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
>>
>>Since I have never used anything other than DOSEMU :-(, what are these 
>>features that DOSEMU should put on it's wanted list?
>>

>DPMI support.

At least that is being worked on...

Rob
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Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.os.linux.help
From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen)
Subject: Re: Why cannot xterm use -bg option in .xinitrc ?
Reply-To: pe1chl@rabo.nl
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 1994 11:58:06 GMT

In <1994Jun26.024024.5037@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu> viznyuk@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu (Dragon Fly) writes:

>I'm customising X-windows and I have run
>onto the following puzzle:
>I can run xterm (or xclock or whatever else)
>with -bg <color> option (background color)
>from other xterm without any problem. However when I try
>to use the very same option, say, when running
>xterm (or xclock) from .xinitrc or from twm manager,
>they kick me off saying that that -bg option is
>illegal !!!  So the only way I can change the
>background color in xterm is by running it from
>other xterm or put the color as default in app-defaults/XTerm
>file. Why is it ?

No idea.  I do it all re time, and it works fine here...
(I start a few xterms with -geometry and -bg from .xinitrc)

Rob
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From: u930528@daimi.aau.dk (Allan Wind)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video
Subject: Re: Orchid Kelvin64: Just what is it?
Date: 25 Jun 1994 06:04:27 GMT

Thus spake bandu@acsu.buffalo.edu (Jagath Samarabandu):

>While browsing for video card in the store, I saw a Orchid kelvin 64 for
>$219. I just could not find such a beast in the video cards survey. Does anybody
>know what the chipset is? The Orchid Fahrenheit 1280 was in the survey and seem
>to be based on S3 80[1,5] and was $159 in the store. 

>The additional $50 must account for something (hopefully) and I'd really want
>to run Linux+XFree86 on the machine.

The chip is a CirrusLogic 5434... I wasn't impressed as I tried it out.
I think I'll go for a 864 or a new ATI card.


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