I have a mouse that switches from PC-Mouse (3-button) mode to Microsoft (2-button) mode according to the level of the DTR handshake line. The default 2-button mode is awkward to use under X11. I found that simply disconnecting the DTR line from my mouse lets the line float low (-5V) on the mouse side and sets the PC-Mouse mode. I was able to disconnect DTR by bending a contact on a connector inside my mouse. Another possibility would be to make a serial connector adapter that does not pass DT...

Hi, I'm getting a system to run Linux (DX2/66, 16MB, etc) but I haven't found any information comparing the advantages of using a local bus SCSI card (Ultrastor 34F) vs an ISA bus one (Adaptec 1542B). I've played with both cards a little and didn't notice any great speed differences under DOS, with the local bus card being a tad slower under Windows...what I need to know is which would be better for Linux (which is the main reason for getting the system). Any comments pro and con would be appre...

The reason that I went with my 386/40 was that the price/performance couldn't be beat by any machine in my price range. If it weren't for Linux, I wouldn't even have considered it. Without a meaningful OS, the intel chips were just so much bent sand. OS/2, win, winNT and friends just don't cut it. If it's not Posix or better, it isn't worth using. My next machine won't be an Intel archetecture machine. The reasons are fairly clear in the market today. Very low priced RISC PC's are coming in...

**Please allow me to rephrase my previous post so that it is less confusing. **(I assumed too much prior knowledge on the part of the reader) In article <1993Apr23.073110.14397@klaava.Helsinki.FI>, wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes: |> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes: |> >You chose to give up ownership of your code to the FSF. |> |> Not correct. Putting code under the GPL does not make it the property |> of the FSF. |> |> Other than tha...

Salutations, I am running .99p7 with a 2400 baud external modem and trying to get getty running properly. I followed the FAQ on serial ports, but when I dial in from another line the line is silent for several seconds and then disconnects. The getty process seems to be running fine on /dev/ttyS1, the proper com port, with the /etc/inittab entry similar to the vt entries. If getty is not running the modem picks it up. Does anyone have any suggestions? Will summarize and notify the FAQ ke...

Would one of you linux experts assist me. I have installed the SLS mini-version of Linux several times but when I boot from hard disk, I always get this message: init: can't load library '/lib/libc.so.4' No such library. The hardware locks down at this point. I know this file is on the floppy disk that I am installing from. Could someone tell me why the Linux can't see this file on the hard drive. When I ls -all /lib on the floppy drive - the filenames are: libc-lite.so...

Does anyone out there have an already-existing file of abbreviations to make elvis more like vi? I was very pleased with elvis until I discovered that some of my most-used vi commands don't seem to work. In particular, "ay`[mark] doesn't seem to yank the text between the current line and the [mark] into the cut buffer. I suspect somebody has already built a file to do this and other vi things; if so, please contact me. I just can't get used to using different commands at home and work! ...

I see no reason why it shouldn't, since that's how it was done before hardware blinking cursors became the norm :-) May I suggest that someone collect all these cursor size and blink on/off patches and make them selectable via escape sequences or etc.? That way we don't need to reboot to go from a blinking block cursor to a steady line :-) I'll look up the VT420 escapes for these Wednesday (they're sending me to the main office tomorrow, the VT420 manual is at the client site, grrr...). ++Bran...

I've found one problem with the SLS 1.01 distribution that I haven't seen mentioned here. That's that the /usr/man/cat1/*tex*.1 files are NOT preformatted. I've fixed it on my own system by moving the files into the /usr/man/man1 directory and formatting them. ,,, (o o) ===============================+=================oOO==(_)==OOo========== Frank Swasey | IBMIPNET: fswasey...

I have a DFI mouse with 3 buttons. It is microsoft compatible. So I set it up as such. It works fine in X Windows except the middle button does not function. Is there a command in X (to set up in the .Xdefaults or .twmrc) that enables the use of the middle button on Micro-Soft-compatible Serial mouse ? --Joel email: jer@ee.upenn.edu, jer@eniac.seas.upenn.edu Phone: (215) 898-1858

Sorry, but nobody seems to want to move this to gnu.misc.discuss... In article <1993Apr23.073110.14397@klaava.Helsinki.FI>, wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes: |> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes: |> >You chose to give up ownership of your code to the FSF. |> |> Not correct. Putting code under the GPL does not make it the property |> of the FSF. |> |> Other than that, I agree with Peter, as much as I prefer the GPL over |> the BSD copy...

had the mkdir part...but I had done: mount -t proc /proc /proc instead of getting rid of the t :( thanks :) marc

That I don't know, but it's interesting how things have changed. In the old days, my 286 would have to be pumped up to about 200MHz to keep up with my 12MHz R3000 (Personal IRIS). Not that I ever tried it, of course :-) But it used to take a CISC CPU so many cycles to execute an instruction that it would need a much faster clock than a RISC in order to offer similar performance. Now the tables have turned; it takes a 150MHz RISC Alpha to -- +-------------------+----------------------------+-----...

In article <66929@mimsy.umd.edu>, acecoder@umiacs.umd.edu (Pierce Leonberger) writes: |> Is there anyway I can get .DVI files to print on a dot-matrix (9pin) printer |> in Linux? |> |> Thanks, |> Pierce |> -- |> *-----------------------------------------------------------------------------* |> University of Maryland : |> Institue for Advanced Computer Studies : |> College Park, MD 21144 : Convert your .dvi fi...

I am running Orchid Farheniet VA/VLB and a IDEK (5315, suppose to be really good) monitor, using XS3 server. I like to get Xconfig's from other users of Orchid Farheniet. Please also sendme any notes on any crazy experience with this setup. Thanks in Advance! -- Sohail M. Parekh Grumman Data Systems sohail@rhonda.jsc.nasa.gov 12000 Aerospace Ave. (713) 483-5912 Houston, TX 77034

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Trying to make xxgdb-1.06, I get these errors: calldbx.c:362: `FAPPEND' undeclared (first use this function) calldbx.c:371: too many arguments to function `setpgrp' calldbx.c:380: too many arguments to function `setpgrp' make: *** [calldbx.o] Error 1 I've seen these before (when trying to make xfishtank). Any ideas? Please reply via e-mail. Thanks, Seth. Seth Bromberger seth@gradient.cis.upenn.edu M.S.E. '93, University of Pennsylvania seth@eni...

I've just updated to Xfree1.2 via SLS and I've noticed several executables missing. Namely Xedit and bitmap. Also many applications are failing with a bizzare error Unable to covert string to pixmap. Programs that used to work are doing this. PLease help. BTW I know that I've installed all the packages, I've checked my /install/installed directory several times. The missing programs don't concern me as much as the Pixmap conversion bug. PLEASE EMAIL RESPONSES. I don't subscribe to this newsgro...

A couple of things might help. First of all, if you have one of the newer (sysv-compatible) versions of init, then init itself will do a regular sync for you even if you kill update. Secondly, the kernel can do paging even without a swap file. If memory becomes low, it can delete infrequently-accessed code pages from memory, and will reload them by demand paging if they get accessed again. However, this is not likely to happen regularly during periods of no load! It is possible that the I...

The latest version does seem to be reliable; in fact, I would hope I have generally had the opposite experience, except for one thing - because (as you have already mentioned) X is a bit slower on Linux/ET4000 than on a Sun ELC, it gets disproportionately affected by heavy load. If you are running in text mode, Linux is *amazingly* responsive even while running a couple of parallel compilations. It is not the kernel but the speed of X which causes the apparent A bigger concern would be the ...

In article <1rhb92$g3p@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> tdunbar@vtaix.cc.vt.edu (Thomas Dunbar) writes: > Unfortuantely, OSF's GUI (Motif) is now the defacto standard GUI > under X windows. Although X is free, Motif certainly is not. TD> Really? I've never used it, nor does any of the X software i need TD> require it. In what sense is it the "defacto" standard? Why, the Yertle the turtle sense, of course!

When you uncompress a block, both the compressed and uncompressed data will be cached - this will be automatic because of the use of the kernel's standard buffering code. However, if the file continues to be used, the raw compressed data can be flushed from the cache while the Exactly right. In fact, it is because of the allocation information in the raw file data that it is desireable to be able to cache the raw This method would also be incompatible with the standard inode structure. By im...

Hi, I am installing tcsh-6.02 on my system (running SLS 1.00) and looked into the Makefile. There are some files used by Makefile, but are not found in my system. I hope someone out there who has successfully install tcsh in their Linux system could help me. 1) I have used the following flags for compiling: INCLUDES=-I. -I.. LFLAGS=$(INCLUDES) CFLAGS=-O6 $(INCLUDES) -finline-functions -fstrength-reduce DFLAGS= LDFLAGS= -static -s ## Str...

Re: SLS 1.01 missing libm.so.4.3.3 file Since everyone is going to encounter this problem, and since I have already encountered it myself, and some people (like me) don't have any worthwhile ftp access: Is it possible for someone to post a copy of the appropriate libm.so.4.3.3 file here in this newsgroup once? If not, perhaps someone can email it to me? Sure would make my life easier. Thanks in advance Keith -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~...

Blinking cursors are unpleasant, at least in some people's eyes. Since all console output goes is controlled by the console driver (isn't it?), it might be possible to turn of the hardware cursor altogether and do a non-blinking software cursor by inverting the character at the cursor. This scheme doesn't work very well under MS-LOSS, since no self-respecting program writes via the operating system. -- Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi (finger wirzeniu@klaava.helsinki.fi) MS-DOS, you can't live...