Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #612
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Date:     Mon, 15 Aug 94 14:13:13 EDT

Linux-Misc Digest #612, Volume #2                Mon, 15 Aug 94 14:13:13 EDT

Contents:
  CD-ROM - Sbpro (Andrew Norton)
  HT support for X? (Gregory P Dunko)
  Re: No cd-rom in Slack2! (Robert Gasch)
  Programmers Wanted (Temporaerer Mitarbeiter IR)
  APC refuses to give out info without NDA (Craig Metz)
  PPC LINUX (Erik W. Gilling)
  efax PS font *small*!!!!! (Ziniu "Michael" Wei)
  Re: MV3D-PRO (Leap of Faith) (Tom Branham)
  Re: No cd-rom in Slack2! (Serge Solski u)
  Net 2 machines together to install Linux (Jim Trocki)
  Re: IDEA: termfs - NFS-like fs for Term (Chris Bagwell)
  Re: No cd-rom in Slack2! (Oliver Flimm)
  Re: booting in a system with both IDE and SCSI using Boot Manager (Larry Mintz)
  Re: 486DLC from Dee One Systems (Sergei Naoumov)
  Re: Using FK9000 (129 key programmable) keyboards (Andries Brouwer)
  Re: What's the linux.act.* hierachy about? (Ian McCloghrie)
  Re: IDEA: termfs - NFS-like fs for Term (Whay S. Lee)
  Re: Term Errors (Martin Koch)
  Re: Linux Inside T-Shirts (MATTHEW TIPPETT)
  multi part uuencode... (ALAN@teadmin.stuaffrs.wayne.edu)

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From: norton1@batis.bis.und.ac.za (Andrew Norton)
Subject: CD-ROM - Sbpro
Date: 15 Aug 1994 14:12:53 GMT

I have recently installed Linux on my system (Yesterday). I used the
Slakeware distribution 2.0, and my Kernal is version 1.0.9. I installed the
(a), (ap), and (y) packages. During the setup, it asked about a CD-Rom.

I have a Sound-Blaster Pro with a Panasonic CD. After the setup, I rebooted
and expected to find the CD-ROM, but it was not detected. I tried to run
"workbone" the CD player, but it said no-device. It sugested that I link the
/dev/sbpcd to /dev/cdrom. I did this, but this did not help. 

I looked in the CDROM-HOWTO, and it says that the drivers need compiling,
and that the kernal needs to be relinked. 

How does one go about doing this. Is there an easier way to get the
CD-Player working. Do I need more modules to be able to do this ?


Thanks in Advance

David
norton1@bis.und.ac.za

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From: gpd5545@cs.rit.edu (Gregory P Dunko)
Subject: HT support for X?
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 13:12:06 GMT

        Does anyone know whether or not an Xserver is being developed
for the HT series of video cards (video 7).  I've been runnning the
16 color server, and I'd like the 256.  These cards have built in support
on all the other major OS's (Windoze, OS/2, Chicago, etc) but not Linux.
Is this in the works?  I'd write one myself but I don't know a whole lot
about driver programming.

                                                -Greg
                                                 gpd5545@cs.rit.edu
-- 
****************************************************************
*Greg Dunko                                  gpd5545@cs.rit.edu*
*Rochester Institute of Technology                             *
*Rochester, NY                               5th Year Comp Sci *

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From: rgasch@nl.oracle.com (Robert Gasch)
Subject: Re: No cd-rom in Slack2!
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 11:24:42 GMT

I get this problem if I try mounting the CD as a non-root user. Doing 
it as root works fine ...

--> Robert

Serge Solski u (sols7520@mach1.wlu.ca) wrote:

:       I'm still having the exact same problem. I made the CDROM
: read-only, and that didn't work. I recompiled the kernel (several times)
: and that didn't work. I did about a thousand (no...ten thousand) other
: things that don't work. Does anyone know how to fix this annoying problem
: for us CDU31A users?


:       -Mark
: -- 
: "Key chuckles. 'If Skinny Puppy, in terms of the movie _Alien_, is a
: chest-burster, then Doubting Thomas is more of a face-hugger,' he informs,
: as if that were an explanation."
:                                                         -Keyboard, Jan '92

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From: tempir3@gizmo.Germany.Sun.COM (Temporaerer Mitarbeiter IR)
Subject: Programmers Wanted
Date: 11 Aug 1994 15:13:41 GMT
Reply-To: tempir3@gizmo.Germany.Sun.COM

Hello World,

  I am looking for talented and highly motivated C and C++
  programmers and developers to create perfectly-tuned
  software under the GPL and thus providing a range of
  conceptually integer and coherent applications.

  Special emphasis is put on flexibility, creativity and
  the ability of working reliably in a team together with
  other people located somewhere in the world.

  Experience in Object-Oriented and/or Structured System
  Development would be helpful, also knowledge of Motif
  or XView and of course Xlib and curses.

  But please, feel free to answer if just a part of the
  features above fit in your knowledge. Your ideas are
  the most important qualification in this project.

  Please send EMail reply. Thanks.


    michael strerath || michael.strerath@Germany.Sun.COM

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From: cmetz@thor.tjhsst.edu (Craig Metz)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: APC refuses to give out info without NDA
Date: 15 Aug 1994 11:22:11 -0400

        After getting the run-around several times from APC, I finally
got a response from Vince, who is apparently Debbie Gray's boss. Basically,
although he admitted freely that their serial protocol is simple enough
that it could be figured out and other manufacturers fully document their
means of automated shutdown and other communication to the host processor,
APC will not tell anyone how their Smart UPSs communicate. He offered a
token program that would make the Smart UPS a glorified Back UPS from a
shutdown and monitoring perspective, but would not take advantage of
any of the features of the unit other than telling your system to shut
down when the power's gone. 

        I strongly suggest that people interested in an UPS for Linux 
put significant bias against APC in their purchasing considerations. I am
going to be buying from Best Power, who not only fully documents their
products, but also provides the source code to their monitoring and 
shutdown software standard with their UNIX driver package. The people at
Best Power were also easy-going, answered my phone calls and questions
promptly and with concrete answers, and were just plain a lot easier to
deal with then the APC people. The Best FerrUPS line is regarded by a
lot of people that I have talked to as the best UPSs available on the
market, though they are somewhat more expensive than the rest. 

        If anyone wants to talk to APC themselves and express their 
dissapointment with their decision, the number is 1-800-800-4APC. 

        From my point of view, however, I just couldn't justify the
expense of the FerrUPS (in my price range, almost twice as much, not
to mention double the weight). At least one person who responded to
my original post indicated that he was going to just work on figuring
the protocol out, and I plan to do the same. Would any current owners
of APC Smart UPS units be interested in forming a group effort to do
this?
        
                                                                -Craig

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From: konkers@prairienet.org (Erik W. Gilling)
Subject: PPC LINUX
Date: 15 Aug 1994 15:25:30 GMT
Reply-To: konkers@prairienet.org (Erik W. Gilling)


Does any body know if someone is working on a PowerPC version of linux and if so will it run on a PowerMac?


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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
From: ziniuwei@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Ziniu "Michael" Wei)
Subject: efax PS font *small*!!!!!
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 15:25:44 GMT


I'm using efax to do lots of fax.  Until recently I found that when
faxing Postscript files, the fonts looks smaller than it should be.
i.e. when looking into those faxes received at some faxmachine, the
font is smaller than the print out the Postscript, *and* smaller than the 
same postscript faxed by some other fax software (I use HeliosCom+ on Sun, 
which generates same font size as it on Postscript).

This is really annoying!!!

Any comments, ideas?


--
Ziniu Wei               CEDAR, SUNY at Buffalo       ziniuwei@cs.buffalo.edu
~{@O3LPrT1S@T62;K@#,K{CGV;JGLx5=PB5D5XV7~}
Old programmers never die, they just branch to a new address.

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.multimedia
From: tbranham@mm.wellesley.edu (Tom Branham)
Subject: Re: MV3D-PRO (Leap of Faith)
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 16:09:40 GMT

Andrew Luck (p00078@psilink.com) wrote:
: Well, after lurking for a while, I've picked up a MediaVision 3D-Pro 
: for use as a general purpose soundcard.  

[snip] :)

: 1.  Have I made a HUGE mistake ?

: 2. The PAS has native? OS/2 support.  Does this make it 
:       slightly/somewhat/very likely that the 3D-PRO will get OS/2 support?

: 3. The PAS has native? linux support.  Does this make it 
:       slightly/somewhat/very likely that the 3D-PRO will get linux support?

: Other than barbs and laughter, I'd appreciate any advice on getting 
: this puppy going.  The DOS.Windows install looks fairly straight 
: forward. Hints on OS/2 and Linux would be appreciated.

If you feel REALLLY adventurous , you could try out the SB pro hardware 
compatibility, see if it will install MMPM using it.....  This works on the
Logitech Soundman Wave from what I hear, so maybe............ How bold are you
feeling today, I guess should be the question :-) :-)
If ya try it let me know, and if there are problmes, I'll help ya back out again :)


: Thanks again.



--
tom
tbranham@mm.wellesley.edu


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From: sols7520@mach1.wlu.ca (Serge Solski u)
Subject: Re: No cd-rom in Slack2!
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 16:01:01 GMT

In article <CuKqD7.97A@nl.oracle.com> rgasch@nl.oracle.com (Robert Gasch) writes:
>I get this problem if I try mounting the CD as a non-root user. Doing 
>it as root works fine ...
>
>--> Robert


        It doesn't matter who I log-in as -- it doesn't work. Are you
using CDU31A?


>
>Serge Solski u (sols7520@mach1.wlu.ca) wrote:
>
>:      I'm still having the exact same problem. I made the CDROM
>: read-only, and that didn't work. I recompiled the kernel (several times)
>: and that didn't work. I did about a thousand (no...ten thousand) other
>: things that don't work. Does anyone know how to fix this annoying problem
>: for us CDU31A users?



        -Mark
-- 
"Key chuckles. 'If Skinny Puppy, in terms of the movie _Alien_, is a
chest-burster, then Doubting Thomas is more of a face-hugger,' he informs,
as if that were an explanation."
                                                        -Keyboard, Jan '92

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From: trockij@Cyanamid.COM (Jim Trocki)
Subject: Net 2 machines together to install Linux
Reply-To: trockij@Cyanamid.COM
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 15:02:37 GMT


  I have Slackware 2 installed on a PC at work which contains the Slackware
"installation tree" (A1, A2, A3, AP1, etc...) on a DOS partition. I would like to
install this on a different PC via NFS, with only these two machines ethernetted
together. On the destination machine I would like to NFS mount the Slackware
tree.

  Is this possible using only the Slackware boot and root disks? If not, how can
I do this? I would need a basic, step-by-step (or approximate) process of how
to do this. I am currently reading the O'Reilly TCP/IP and NFS/NIS books, but
I need this done ASAP.

Jim Trocki



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From: cbagwell@aud.alcatel.com (Chris Bagwell)
Subject: Re: IDEA: termfs - NFS-like fs for Term
Date: 15 Aug 1994 16:00:04 GMT
Reply-To: cbagwell@aud.alcatel.com

In article 7sn@gjalp.ifi.uio.no, sverrehu@ifi.uio.no (Sverre H. Huseby) writes:
> 
> How about making a new filesystem called termfs, that supports
> mounting a directory on a computer accessed by term?
> 

It sounds like a good idea to me.  I know that it would be slow but it shouldn't be 
any slower than doing a tupload and it would be a lot more convenient.  It would
also work well on editing smallish textfiles (such as source code) on remote
computers.  Let me know if you find any info on the possibility of this.


---
=========================================================================
[  Chris Bagwell                     |   Alcatel Network Systems        ]
[  cbagwell@aud.alcatel.com          |   Richardson, Texas              ]
=========================================================================



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From: flimm@ph-cip.uni-koeln.de (Oliver Flimm)
Subject: Re: No cd-rom in Slack2!
Date: 15 Aug 94 17:02:37

Hi,

I had a similar problem after installing Slack2.0 from CDROM
using my CMR562B (Panasonic, Kotobuki...).

Each time I installed a new series using 'setup' just afterwards I couldn't
mount the CDROM anymore. Device busy.

As 'setup' seems to ''mount'' the device (here /dev/sbpcd) somehow, I just
unmounted it. That solved the problem for me..

Greetings

Oliver 

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From: mintz@news.intelsat.int (Larry Mintz)
Subject: Re: booting in a system with both IDE and SCSI using Boot Manager
Date: 15 Aug 1994 13:47:47 GMT

Paul Quinn (p_quinn@ECE.Concordia.CA) wrote:

: If I have two drives:

: IDE with Linux and DOS
: SCSI with OS/2 and DOS,

: where should I place my OS/2 boot manager so that I can boot and access all
: by OS'es?


I believe that in all systems with both IDE and SCSI interfaces that the IDE
interface takes precedence, therefore, boot manager should reside on the IDE
drive rather than the SCSI drive.

Larry


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From: naoumov@PHYSICS.UNC.EDU (Sergei Naoumov)
Subject: Re: 486DLC from Dee One Systems
Date: 15 Aug 1994 16:32:49 GMT

In article <32o0m8$am8@linux1.cfic2.com.tw>, yuan@cfic2.com.tw (yuan tzeng) writes:
> Alex Ramos (ramos@engr.latech.edu) &p&9;!:
> : Does anyone have experience with Linux in the 486DLC/40 motherboards
> : from Dee One Systems (Computer Shoper p. 789)?  These are obscenely
> : cheap (VLB with CPU for $158!).  Anybody know the BogoMips rating for
> : the processor?
> 
>   I have one, good deal for that price (Mine has 387). BogoMips
> may not make too much sense, anyway just for your reference: 
> 11.x

I have 486DLC/40. Works ok. BogoMips is 15.47 without applying
a Cyrix patch: still don't have time to do it. However, be careful
with a monitor they sell. Make sure its bandwidth is ok with your
videocard.

        Sergei

-- 
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+   Sergei O. Naoumov  serge@envy.astro.unc.edu  tel: (919)962-3998   +
+Department of Physics & Astronomy, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA+
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++


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Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.hardware,comp.os.linux.development
From: aeb@cwi.nl (Andries Brouwer)
Subject: Re: Using FK9000 (129 key programmable) keyboards
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 16:39:15 GMT

phys169@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (Mark Aitchison - Physics and Astronomy Computologist) writes:

: FK-9000 keyborads (with 129 keys) are programmable at the keyboard itself,
: but is there any software under DOS and ESPECIALLY LINUX to make use of these
: keys (e.g. in the Linux Kernel) without having to manually program keys for
: each keyboard?

: The problem is that the left-hand function keys send one code instead of two
: (one for make, another for break), and the calculator keys like MC seem to all
: send 0xFF (so long as another calculator key hadn't been pressed already).

: I presume somebody must've done all this before.

If you are interested, I could mail you patches for some earlier kernel version
(around 1.1.11 or so) for these keyboards. They conflict with Ted's tty changes,
so do not work for recent kernels. I hope to make a new version next month, when
I am back in Amsterdam again.

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From: ianm@qualcomm.com (Ian McCloghrie)
Subject: Re: What's the linux.act.* hierachy about?
Date: 15 Aug 1994 09:42:36 -0700

pageone@netcom.com writes:
>       At Netcom a few minutes ago, 30+ new linux.* groups (NOT comp.os.linux
>groups) showed up.  After looking through the control messages, they appear

If they're linux.act.*, I'd speculate that someone's set up a
mail<->news gateway from the linux-activists mailing lists at
niksula.hut.fi

--
____
\bi/  Ian McCloghrie      | FLUG:  FurryMUCK Linux User's Group
 \/   email: ian@ucsd.edu | Card Carrying Member, UCSD Secret Islandia Club
GCS (!)d-(--) p c++ l++(+++) u+ e- m+ s+/+ n+(-) h- f+ !g w+ t+ r y*

The above represents my personal opinions and not necessarily those
of my employer, Qualcomm Inc.

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From: wslee@ai.mit.edu (Whay S. Lee)
Subject: Re: IDEA: termfs - NFS-like fs for Term
Date: 15 Aug 94 13:02:54


In article <32o3e4$a3m@fozzy.aud.alcatel.com> 
cbagwell@aud.alcatel.com (Chris Bagwell) writes:
 
 > In article 7sn@gjalp.ifi.uio.no, 
 > sverrehu@ifi.uio.no (Sverre H. Huseby) writes:
 > > How about making a new filesystem called termfs, that supports
 > > mounting a directory on a computer accessed by term?
 
 > It sounds like a good idea to me.  I know that it would be slow but
 > it shouldn't be  any slower than doing a tupload and it would be 
 > a lot more convenient.  It would also work well on editing smallish 
 > textfiles (such as source code) on remote computers.

        How about caching the remote files on the local disk ?
        AFS support?

whay.

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From: nick@dali.uni-paderborn.de (Martin Koch)
Subject: Re: Term Errors
Date: 15 Aug 1994 16:52:01 GMT

In article <CuK40B.D4L@serval.net.wsu.edu> a0017097@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu (Christopher Wiles) writes:

Christopher> jeffs@stein1.u.washington.edu (Jeff Skone) writes: : I've
Christopher> been getting the following error a lot when trying to
Christopher> link my PC : to the remote unix host. Any ideas of how to
Christopher> fix it: : : Term: Failed to connect to term socket
Christopher> '/root/.term/socket

Christopher> <snip>

Christopher> You wouldn't happen to be using programs you ported using
Christopher> the 2.0.x rules, would you?

Christopher> I'm still working on this problem.  Right now it looks
Christopher> like the standard-inet-to-TERM translation routines are
Christopher> failing ... TERM_CONNECT() in particular.  The guy(s)
Christopher> that wrote TERM seem to be a little busy right now, so a
Christopher> bug fix is apparently not soon forthcoming.

And i have fixed it last night. I had the same error.

The problem is caused by a badly formatted termrc. (No Newline at the end in my case)
Please check if this could be the solution. First  i renamed my termrc and everything worked
fine. The i entered line for line. At least it worked.

Christopher> _If_ I find the problem, I'll post a bugfix here.  For
Christopher> right now, if you want to port programs, use the old
Christopher> rules (available upon request).

Christopher> -- Chris

Christopher> a0017097@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu wileyc@halcyon.com
Christopher> wileyc@quark.chs.wa.com "... but I want to use all eight
Christopher> comm ports SIMULTANEOUSLY!"  PGP 2.6 public key available
Christopher> by finger for the clinically paranoid.

---
Bye ;-)
==============Escape the Gates of Hell, use Linux==========
       Martin Koch ---  email : nick@uni-paderborn.de
==================Finger me for my PGP=Key=================
Everyone's a foreigner - nearly everywhere  

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From: 9208033h@levels.unisa.edu.au (MATTHEW TIPPETT)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Linux Inside T-Shirts
Date: 15 Aug 94 23:19:55 +0930

In article <3209jj$mi8@classic.iinet.com.au>, jpchia@iinet.com.au (Jean-Paul Chia) writes:
> Hello....
> Who would be interested in a Black/White Short/Long T-Shirt, with the
> 'Linux Inside' logo, printed in Red. A large one accross the back, and
> one small badge sized on the top left corner on the front. :)
> If anyone is, then mail me.. I'm just seeing if it is worth looking into
> the idea. :)
> Thank you.
> - JP

Just as an aside, if you look carefully at the Linux Inside Logo, on the
inside part of the loop, you can see some white pixels, in the solid area.
This came from the (R) registered trademark from intel....

Have a look at a 'intel inside' logo for what I mean..

Be careful... You might be opening yourself to something nasty...

Just worried my a bit...

Matt

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From: ALAN@teadmin.stuaffrs.wayne.edu
Subject: multi part uuencode...
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 12:58:42

Can anyone point me at a program that will uuencode a large file into several 
smaller mail-sized pieces?  I've got such a thing in MSDOS, but I'm looking at 
automating several of those processes using Linux.

TIA

Alan

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