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From: apl@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ari P Laakkonen)
Subject: Re: xsetroot and color with S3 server???
Date: 6 Nov 1992 18:26:51 GMT
Reply-To: apl@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ari P Laakkonen)
In article <1992Nov6.140054.7180@odin.diku.dk>, dingbat@diku.dk (Niels
Skov Olsen) writes:
|> Hi,
|>
|> I can't make xsetroot color my root window. I have tried the
|> -fg <color> -bg <color> but to no avail.
|>
|> I think my xsetroot is from the pre-release of Xfree86 1.1...
|>
|> Any clues?
|>
|> Niels
Use xsetroot -solid <colour-name>
Ari
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From: apl@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ari P Laakkonen)
Subject: Re: SCSI problems
Date: 6 Nov 1992 18:35:01 GMT
Reply-To: apl@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ari P Laakkonen)
In article <1992Nov6.151023.29069@athena.mit.edu>, pjs@raster.Kodak.COM
(Patrick Sweeney) writes:
|> Hi,
|> I am posting this for a friend. He is currently running Linux 0.98.3
|> on a 486/33 Gateway 4M ram with a SCSI Maxtor 340M hd using and Adaptec
|> controller. Running anything on the machine that uses heavy disk io is
|> sllloooowwww (e.g. it took him 4 hours to compile the kernel).
|> Swapping is disabled. Anybody else had this sort of problem and any ideas
|> for solution outside of buying a new machine ;-)
|> tnx
|> if you have anything specific please send mail to
|> bmt@raster.kodak.com
|>
|> - pjs@raster.kodak.com
|>
|>
Yes, I have the same problem but just not so bad.. kernel compilation is not
too bad, but sometimes it can take about 10-15 secs to do a sync after
just compiling a single kernel file & linking... My IDE drive is much faster.
My configuration is TiKo 486/50 16M ram, 120M IDE quantum, Adaptec 1542B
with 120M SCSI Maxtor. It seems like whenever the machine runs out of cache
space and writes stuff to disk, or an explicit sync is done then things
really freeze.
I use the 0.98.3 kernel with TCP/IP & cd-rom extra bits.
I don't have a swap file.
Anyone any ideas what is going on?
Ari
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From: apl@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ari P Laakkonen)
Subject: Re: Extended FS -> "magic match failed"
Date: 6 Nov 1992 18:38:52 GMT
Reply-To: apl@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ari P Laakkonen)
In article <chans.721065175@marsh>, chans@cs.curtin.edu.au (Sean Chan) writes:
|> I installed Linux on my hard drive as Linux Extended FS (Partition ID
|> 83), with the SLS distribution. After the installation was complete, I
|> rebooted...and it came up with "magic match failed". Other than that
|> statement, Linux works fine. I can login, etc.
|>
|> Oh, yes, when I do a fsck /dev/hda2 it comes up with a "bad magic number
|> in super-block". What does this mean?? Can anyone shed some light here??
|>
|> Sean
I think this is because the kernel assumes that the root partition is a
minix partition.
You could try to have a really minimalist minix root partition and then use
another partition with an ext fs on it for the bulk of your files.
Ari
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From: ramesh@utdallas.edu (R. Ramesh)
Subject: Phone numbers needed and INFO about ATI boards.
Reply-To: ramesh@utdallas.edu
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 18:34:10 GMT
Hi:
I am looking for phone numbers of Orchid (maker of S3 based Farenheit 1280)
and Actix (maker of Actix GraphicsEngine) to find out what is the trend of S3
based cards before I loose some money on a new card.
I am interested in
running Xv2.1 under linux at 1152x900x256 at least with XS3 (I know that
current version of XS3 can only do 1024x768x256 and this is supposed to be
changed in the future).
BTW, all those who read my earlier message about "ATI Graphics ultra cannot do
1152x900" I have news. I talked to folks in ATI and they say you can if you
program Mach 8 directly (i.e, not 8514 no SVGA mach 8 direct). Documents about
mach 8 is freely available for $50. Docs about Mach 32 (the new processor in
the ultra+ and pro) are available after signing nondisclosure agreement :-(
But the guy I talked to said that it is only matter of time before this
restriction is taken off. He also said using SVGA registers instead of Mach 8
or Mach 32 directly can lead to as much as 50% penalty in speed. So the folks
with LocalBus ultrapro who bought it for sheer speed should work on X servers
with Mach 8 (or Mach 32) before they realize the full potential of the card
:-(
If anybody feels that the content of this message does not belong here please
inform me by e-mail and I will stop posting such messages.
Ramesh
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From: mbeattie@black.ox.ac.uk (Malcolm Beattie)
Subject: Re: Can't run shell! (SLS) I'm loosing my hair!
Date: 6 Nov 1992 17:40:43 GMT
In article <1992Nov6.071803.15471@ugle.unit.no> hallvard@immhp1.marina.unit.no (Hallvard Paulsen) writes:
|
|
| This is driving me crazy!
|
| I've got the SLS package (including the z?fix.taz files), and
|there is now way I can do anything as a user. Well actually the errors I
|get is:
|
| shell-init:permission denied (when I log in)
| pwd : permission denied (every time i type a command)
|
| But when I check it turns out that my commands (like creating files
|deleting files and so on) are usually executed. The problem seems to
|be shell commands *only*. (that is since PS1="pwd"# I always get a
|permission denied message)
|
| So: How do I make the shell usable for users?
This sort of problem occurs when a user's home directory has its
permissions set incorrectly, for example if the directory is not
owned by the user and the permissions are rwx--x--x.
Just before the shell gives its prompt, it may try to
stat and read the current working directory, e.g. to put things
in its prompt text. This causes errors such as you describe.
When you create a user, bloggs say, make sure after you create
the home directory that you
# chown bloggs ~bloggs
(or chown bloggs.users ~bloggs or whatever) and then twiddle the
permissions if you don't like them.
Notice that the problem would show up under most Unices only
if the user *did* have execute permission but did *not* have
read permission, because without execute permission, login
realises in time and says something like
No home directory! logging in with home=/
and puts you in the root directory. Does anyone know if the login
that Linux (in particular, SLS) uses perhaps does the chdir
*before* changing uid to the user and without checks? In that
case, the above problem may show up even if the user's home
directory was rwx------ and not owned by the user?
--Malcolm
|
|
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From: scottwa@carex.forests (Scott Warner) Subject: Re: SLS update Date: 6 Nov 1992 18:40:23 GMT Reply-To: scottwa@carex.forests
I just installed the brand new SLS release last night. The problem with the shell-init takes place in the b-disks of the distribution for some unknown reason. I noticed the problem after I installed all the b-disks so I think it might be in the zbfix. I just located the shell script zafix in /install/scripts and reran it and everything was fine.
A couple of other problems I had were: The all the man pages are not world readable The directories I remember that had problems were cat1, cat8, and man1(?). I believe there was at least one more directory that needed fixing. The other major problem I had was that the X11 font files in /usr/lib/X11/font/75dpi and /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc need to be compressed before I could get X to work.
All in all the problems were minor and just took a little head scratching to figure out.
The SLS release of Linux is just the thing to expose it to the masses. I knew about Linux long before I installed it. The only problem was that I have no system administrator experience and so installing a complete unix system from scratch was intimidating to say the least. When I found out about SLS I went out and grabbed it off the net and in about 3 hours have unix and X-windows running on my PC. Please keep up the excellant work.
Scott Warner
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From: admerlev@sundae.triumf.ca ( Arnd Merlevede ) Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Sequence of steps to partition for LinuX and 386BSD ? Date: 6 Nov 1992 19:02:33 GMT Reply-To: admerlev@cipy.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de
Hi, anybody willing to share the experience they may have in setting up a (in my case 1G SCSI w/adaptec) hard disk for dos linux and bsd ? Maybe just the sequence in which to apply the steps in the various Q/A FAQs and what else is floating around ? Thanx Arnd
ps. Anybody still having a dist.fs.we800 ? Looks like it disappeared from the net ... (I d appreciate a uuencoded mail )