I am about to install Linux to the HD after playing with it as much as you can on floppy. I want to know exactly what video cards are supported. I would possibly get a ET-4000 based card.

Hello! Hopefully you have seen my first post about my problems using X with a microsoft mouse. In my first article, I said that if I ran a program that did an ioperm on the four ports used by the mouse, then after that I could get my mouse to work in X. Well that is half true. If I run a program that does an ioperm on all the ports and I interrupt it (with a ctrl-C) then I get the described behavior. If I allow the program to exit normally, then the mouse does not work at all. In my first a...

My biased vote would be for a PCnet-ISA driver (it's the NE2100 card in a chip). It's a low cost, high performance, bus master ethernet chip which we are agressively designing into PC motherboards. Depends on whether you're interested in existing systems or future systems. Sorry about the commercial. Mike Ching

If it's Adaptec 1522 compatable, it won't work. Likewise, the real Adaptec 1522 is unsupported. Only the 154x and 174x adaptec boards work, so do the Seagate, Ultrastor 14f, Future Domain -- Microsoft is responsible for propogating the evils it calls DOS and Windows, IBM for AIX (appropriately called Aches by those having to administer it), but marketing's sins don't come close to those of legal departments. Boycott AT&T for their absurd anti-BSDI lawsuit.

the compressed file system will not allow swap files, but PAGING of executables and complete random access is implemented by compressing files at the block level. Of course, doing this limits the possible compression, but this does not bother me too much. Swaping could be implemented, but would not be safe, first because you would never be able to tell how much memory is available on the swap device because it will be changing as a factor of achieved compression, and secondly the performance of Pag...

Sounds like a useful thing, especially because I am hunting all kinds of monsters in moria, playing with gandalf. Btw: These hobbits aren't friendly at all in moria!!! I need lots of (dead) casts. They show very nasty behaviour against a half-elb who is said to be a credit to the family ... Michael

I few weeks ago, I posted a message about CAD not working in my linux system. I saw numerous replies saying try this and things like on my system it doesn't work either... Well I have solved the problem for ME at least For those who have AMI bios there is an option under the advanced setup menu that says: Fast A20 Gate on you need to turn this off, there is no degredation in performance that I can see. I tried this and CAD and ALSO reboot works without having to do a hard reset. If you...

Hi all. I have seen a few people ask about the status of a true multi-user SLIP/PPP setup for Linux, but have yet to see a response. Do we have such a beast, or is someone in the process of working on one. I don't believe I've noticed it on the project registry (but correct me if I am wrong!) If not, I will *help* work on it (I don't know enough about it to go off, do the work, and have it ready in a few weeks ;^( ) JMS -- ************************************************...

Yeah, but for both problems there are fixes posted in the bug group, and both are really simple. A more annoying problem is that the magnifying window with ghostview didn't work. (It pops up, but will be empty). Anyway, none of these problems are killers, so if you need some of the new features, get it. At least the new cdjcolor driver for the Deskjet 500c is a real step forward. Sincerely, Klaus -- Klaus Steinberger Beschleunigerlabor der TU und LMU Muenchen Phone: (+49 89)32...

I've had several messages requesting clarification on this. My point is not: do all the OS stuff in userland. My point is: OS technology is done. Do a small kernel that implements the useful system calls and call it quits. I think this is Linux. The comment about userland means that the interesting space is applications. Not OS. You can build an OS with wizzy features but people are not interested in wizzy features, they are interested in selling the most copies of McPaint. They won'...

I missed the first part of the thread, but is there a version of TCP/IP out for linux? If so, where? CVK -- ============================================================================= Cliff Koch Motorola Cellular Infrastructure Division .. [uunet | mcdchg | gatech]!motcid!koch

In article <1992Aug26.172227.16546@pool.info.sunyit.edu>, ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson) writes: | I've been having problems with 16450's in my two Linux machines. I haven't | noticed it with my serial mouse, but my modem lines get forgotten my | Linux. It doesn't happen all the time, so it is unpredictable. I will | be connected somewhere, then all of a sudden get a little line noise and | the serial port goes dead. If I disconnect the phone line quick enough, | I can someti...

In article <1992Aug26.043317.17003@ucc.su.OZ.AU>, peterw@archsci.arch.su.oz.au (Peter Williams ) writes: | I think that the proper cure for this problem is to get rid of the timeout code | altogether (that's what I do). If your printer runs out of paper in the middle | of a print with the timeout as is you only have the duration of the timeout in | which to replenish the paper or the print gets aborted and you have to start | again. This is a real pain with documents that have more pages than y...

I have a SMC Elite16 EtherCard Plus. Apologies if this is a silly question, but is this one of the compatibles? If not, take this as a request for writing a corresponding driver. Andreas Maassen (maassen@parsytec.de)

Did you try to put -lm to the end of the line? Wolfgang

The bus mouse driver and the ethernet use the same device number (I think it's Major 10, Minor 0). So one of them has to be changed. Wolfgang Thiel

On old versions of SunOS (3.x I think) not doing this cost us quite a bit of performance. If you dig up the old TCP mail that Van sent out about getting to the wire speed on Sun 3/60's, you'll see him disgustedly pointing out that useless context switching was costing us a chunk of performance. I'm curious: would it cost that much on the 386 to switch to yourself? Or would it be cheap? What do context switches on Linux cost? --- Larry McVoy (415) 336-7627 ...

I do I do, imagine most of the hardisk just for user data! wow.. Programs that should be on a CD distribution IMHO :-) system: linux usual bin utils man pages X windows and some contrib stuff programming: gcc g++ ld, etc. gdb libraries emacs make document: tex, latex fonts etc. ghostview ghostscript, and fonts etc. dvips xdvi drawing: gnuplot xfig transfig idraw (yes both, the world is split over this, lets just put both) Communication: ftp slip...

Yeah, I guess that's one way. A shorter way is using the 'SANE' settings, which does include HUPCL. Are others having this problem? Last week A. Rumble posted about this, so I logged in to my system over the modem and dropped carrier several times. Every time the shell died, even if I was running another program like elm or rn. Then I tried doing weird things like starting a bunch of shells (bash; wait for the prompt; bash; wait for the prompt; bash...), or running login to login as anoth...

What advantage does Mach have over straight Linux? Is it worth loosing the simplicity and smallness of the Linux kernel for it? The Mach systems I've seen have bigger kernel's than Linux, and thats not counting the servers. Available for Telecommuting/Travel and contracts on the T Line \ / in the Boston MA area. Send me e-mail for a copy of my Resume. \ / -- VWIS 508-793-9568 (2400 baud), Linux support BBS.-- \/

Hi, Both ghostview 1.3 and ghostscript 2.5 (from gatekeeper.3com.com) compiled flawlessly under linux 0.97.1 and gcc 2.2.2. (linux 0.97.1 was installed over the SLS 0.96 installation). When trying to display some files, such as "cheq.ps", "chess.ps", and one of the linux logos, I get the message "Dynamic memory exhausted." in my xconsol. Does anyone know how to prevent this from happening? Is there a workaround or compilation option I may have overlooked? The results from free are: ...

You could, but as soon as the next Linux version comes out, you'll have to do it again. The way this works is you #undef CONFIG_DISTRIBUTION in config.h, and tailor the config.site.h to suit your tastes. Default is for no SCSI drivers, normal hard disk, etc. Theoretically, you will be able to keep the same config.site.h throughout the next N Linux releases, until some one puts in something you want. Also, if you aren't using SCSI support, until a decent config utility is used, you might...

What is the latest *working* combination of Linux source (including patches) and GCC, and where can they be located? -kwh- -- Kevin W. Hammond hammond@kwhpc.caseng.com CASE Engineering * 575 W. Madison #1601 * Chicago, IL 60661 * (312)902-2161

What are the latest *working* combination of Linux source and GCC and where are they located? I want to install GCC and Linux 0.97 from scratch and build the kernel. Past attempts have failed miserably, so I'm going to try from a "fresh, known-to- be-working" set. -kwh- -- Kevin W. Hammond hammond@kwhpc.caseng.com Looking for a real operating system? Try Linux. CASE Engineering * 575 W. Madison #1601 * Chicago, IL 60661 * (312)902-2161

Well, the DAK price is nice, but you better order fast, since DAK Actually, Linux also supports several other SCSI controllers, the ST01/2 (Seagate) being among them, and those are s'posed to be dirt Go for it. :) I'm sure that once someone decides they need it enough, they'll write one - until then, why bother? I don't know many people who would go out and buy some hardware just so they can write the drivers for it. This is pure speculation, but I suspect it may also be harder to get the...