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Linux-Activists Digest #731, Volume #3            Mon, 7 Dec 92 17:15:28 EST

Contents:
  Re: Anyone have a BBS tha (Ron Smith)
  RE: "AWK" for Macintosh ? (Rudolf R. Sinkovics)
  Re: HELP! lpd dispears on me (Scott A. Laird)
  0.98.6 and SCSI, seagate (Clarence Wilkerson)
  Re:Readership report for November 92 ("Louis J. LaBash, Jr.")
  change tcpip irq on the fly? (Klaus Hartnegg)
  Re: 24 dots DVI driver for LINUX (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
  (Don't kill me) Speedstar 24X ([e-mail])
  [Q] X problem - what does "cannot set default font path" mean? (Gordon Royle)
  Re: Problem with TCP socket and X11 (Rudolf Boehm)
  Re: Help with lpr/lpd/lpc etc. (Chris Newbold)
  Re: New tcp patches available for testing (Mark Evans)
  Re: Getting X running (Kevin Cummings)
  Re: SURVEY: Diamond Speedstar 24 Settings (Kevin Cummings)
  ANNOUNCE: xgraph ported to linux (Isaac Wong)
  Re: MFM and IDE drives coexist under Linux? (Kevin Cummings)
  Re: X386 XDrawArc() bugged? (and other things...) (Andres Aravena Duarte)
  Wangtek Tape 5150ES (Carsten Schiers)
  Re: What *doesn't* work under linux (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
  Re: Do X-Windows use the math-coprocessor? (Kevin Cummings)
  Re: C&T 82C450 SVGA under X (Kevin Cummings)

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From: [e-mail] (Ron Smith)
Subject: Re: Anyone have a BBS tha
Date: 7 Dec 92 08:58:00 GMT
Reply-To: [e-mail] (Ron Smith)

TO: [e-mail]

In the message From: Ken Corey - Operator To: All dated 15:34 - 12-05-92
regarding Re: Anyone have a BBS tha, it was said...


KC>The mbox bbs appears to run okay under Linux.  I'm in the middle of

So tell me Ken, where can I download this 'mbox' bbs using 14,400 baud and
my DOS (ugh!) terminal program?  I haven't gotten around to playing with
ftp under Linux 0.98 yet (sorry.)

Ron
[e-mail]

(Note:  The address may change in near future.)

---
 . WinQwk 2.0 a#0 . Unregistered Evaluation Copy


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From: [e-mail] (Rudolf R. Sinkovics)
Subject: RE: "AWK" for Macintosh ?
Date: 7 Dec 1992 11:19:21 -0600

Is there a program like AWK which is available as a Unix and MS-Dos
program, available for Macintosh ?
Has this program ever been ported to the Macintosh platform ?

This program would allow scripting espacially to handle database programs
data from different platforms and do exporting/importing on the fly.

Is there any such thing for the Mac ?


Thanks in advance

Rudolf


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From: [e-mail] (Scott A. Laird)
Subject: Re: HELP! lpd dispears on me
Reply-To: [e-mail]
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 17:15:09 GMT

I just fixed my problem.  There was no /etc/printcap, just an
/usr/etc/printcap.  I just linked /etc/printcap to /usr/etc/printcap,
and it works.  Finally.

Scott.

--
Scott A. Laird            |  "But this goes to 18,446,744,073,709,551,615"
[e-mail]  |                - Nigel on his 64-bit computer
The University of Chicago |

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From: [e-mail] (Clarence Wilkerson)
Subject: 0.98.6 and SCSI, seagate
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 17:35:45 GMT

Last week I reportedf problems. Last night I started over with fresh sources
. If I left all the scsi drivers in, the kernel compiled and booted, both
from floppy and a lilo hard disk partition. This was true with the
0.98.6.scsipatch2 file patched in also.
  When I tried in config.h to edit out the other scsi drivers ( which had worked
with 98.4) the make clean and make depend scripts failed in linux/kernel/blk_drv/scsi
sections.
  I have not tried the scsi tape or cdrom.

What is the correct way to select only seagate support?
Finally, tcpip and X11 continued to work for me with the 0.98.6
kernel. I still have the 1 minute delay trying to ftp or telnet into
my linux machine from my sun 3/60 ( WD8003 ether on linux).

--
Clarence Wilkerson      \ Bitnet:       wilker%math.purdue.edu@purccvm
Prof. of Math. (topology)\ Internet:    [e-mail]
Dept. of Mathematics      \ messages:   [phone], FAX [phone]
Purdue University,         \ office:    [phone] (voice/modem)
W. Lafayette, Indiana 47907 \

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From: "Louis J. LaBash, Jr." <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re:Readership report for November 92
Reply-To: [e-mail]
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 18:38:50 GMT

|From: [e-mail] (Linus Torvalds)
|Subject: Readership report for November 92
|Date: 4 Dec 92 23:52:21 GMT

[deleted...]

|We're still playing catch-up to alt.sex (in popularity: we've been
|beating it in volume already (*)), but sex has been free since the
|sixties (or so they tell me), while linux has been free for only a year
|or so.  We'll get there yet,

|               Linus "safe linuxing: use backups" Torvalds

|(*) Pun? You decide.  Maybe I should get a life.

Linus, if I use backups, when will it be my turn?

 -ljl-
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     /* Men and women aren't equal;  Women have no equal.*/
                        Louis J. LaBash, Jr.
           [e-mail]   |   [e-mail]


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From: [e-mail] (Klaus Hartnegg)
Subject: change tcpip irq on the fly?
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 92 18:04:37 GMT

[e-mail] (Sander Plomp) writes:

>The solution to me was not using the lilo options for setting root or
>swap partiotion, but instead use rdev to set what is needed. Oh, the
>compiled rdev in SLS didn't recognize -v properly but the source is
>in the SLS distribution too and it did work (despite being incredible
>ugly). So the proper way to make the SLS distributed linux bootable
>from hardddisk seems to be:

>  - recompile rdev
>  - use rdev to set root partition, video mode, and, if you want,
>    ramsize and swap partition for /Image. (I use no ramdisk and set the
>    swap using fstab and swapon)

Is is also possible somehow to change the IQR and
base address of the wd ethernet card without recompiling?
--
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Klaus Hartnegg, Kleist-Str. 7, D-7835 Teningen, Germany | This text reflects
Internet : [e-mail]            | MY opinion, not that
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From: [e-mail] (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
Subject: Re: 24 dots DVI driver for LINUX
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 09:17:01 GMT


I'd appreciate the very same thing if anyone has any clues...

Njoy !

Cos !
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (Don't kill me) Speedstar 24X
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 18:19:33 GMT

I know that this has been asked before, but unfortunately I'm forced to
mess around with a SPEEDSTAR 24X instead of my expected SPEEDSTAR 24.
My problem is to switch this damned 24x into a 1024x768 mode with
an acceptable refresh rate (72Hz desired), but all I can get to work
is a 800x600 mode, which isn't enough for me.
Please mail me any hints/patches to get this card to work or I'll
throw it out of my PC.
Oh, I also need some good values for my EIZO 9080i, the ones in the
file VGA.DBASE didn't seem to work ...
Thanx,
         Thomas Mueller ([e-mail])


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From: [e-mail] (Gordon Royle)
Subject: [Q] X problem - what does "cannot set default font path" mean?
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 15:14:58 GMT


Having finally found a version of X386 that supports the Trident tvga8900
chipset, I have moved on to a more subtle problem.

The command startx clears the screen, puts up a fuzzy noisy reddish
rectangle for 1-2 seconds and then returns to text mode.

By using "startx 2> errors" I get some feedback as to what is happening.

        - it detects the chipset
        - it finds the clocks
        - it observes that because chipset != et4000  the SpeedUp code
                is modified

        THEN, it says

        cannot set default font path '/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/'

        and finally crashes on a fatal server error being unable to
find the font fixed.


        What I have done:

        Good - The font directories are present
               They all contain fonts.dir fonts.alias files that look OK
               They are all full of .pcf.Z files with appropriate looking
                numbers

        Possibly dubious - in order to save time, I simply replaced the
                X386 binary that came with the SLS distribution, with one
                that supports the tvga8900. That is, I didnt reinstall the
                whole binaries/fonts trees.


Any ideas anyone?

Cheers

Gordon

PS Free beer to anyone solving this problem when you're next in Perth



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From: [e-mail] (Rudolf Boehm)
Subject: Re: Problem with TCP socket and X11
Reply-To: [e-mail] (Rudolf Boehm)
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 16:21:42 GMT


I have the same problem too, even as root.

        thanx for any hint

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From: [e-mail] (Chris Newbold)
Subject: Re: Help with lpr/lpd/lpc etc.
Date: 7 Dec 92 18:56:40 GMT

In <[e-mail]> I wrote:

>I've just got the lpr package from sunsite and haven't had any
>luck getting it to work on 0.98-pl6.

>I run /usr/etc/lpd from rc. If I check the processes running on
>the system, lpd is there and stays there. It even creats a
>file in /usr/spool called lp1.lock.

>However, when I try to queue something with lpr, it reports that
>files are queued, but that it could not start the daemon. The
>files do indeed appear in the spool directory, /usr/spool/lp1.

I solved this last night after reading posts by someone else
on the same subject.

The problem was that I did not have /etc/printcap, so I sym-linked
it to /usr/etc/printcap.

Also, in the printcap entry for lp, there was a field specifing
an output filter to be found in /usr/adm/lpf, which of course
wasn't there. Removing this entry helped a lot...

-Chris

--
>>>> Chris Newbold <<<< * "If you fool around with a thing for very long you *
University of Rochester *                 will screw it up."                 *
Disclaimer: "All warranties expire upon payment of invoice."
[e-mail] * uhura.cc.rochester.edu!ctne_ltd@uunet

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From: [e-mail] (Mark Evans)
Subject: Re: New tcp patches available for testing
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 19:11:09 GMT

Ross Biro ([e-mail]) wrote:
: Since the Mailing list seems to be down, or atleast slow I'm making a general
: anouncement.  There are some new tcp patches for .98 pl6 on sunsite.unc.edu
: and tsx-11.mit.edu.  Only get them if you can apply diffs, recompile the
: kernel, and have a currently working tcp configuration.  They need to
: be tested before becoming part of 0.99 so be quick about it.
:
: Also these patches make a minor change to the device interface.  People
: working on other device drivers will need to make dev->init return 0
: on success and 1 on failure.
:
: Ross Biro [e-mail]
: Member League for Programming Freedom (LPF)
: mail [e-mail] to protect your Freedom

I have tcp with the patches applied working, not sure exactly what they are ment
to fix though.
(at least nothing obvious has broken :-) )
:
:

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From: [e-mail] (Kevin Cummings)
Subject: Re: Getting X running
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 19:23:30 GMT

In article <[e-mail]>, cct@node_1f11c.bnr.ca (Charles Calvin Tarlton) writes:
> Does anyone know if there is a list of working Xconfigs for different cards and monitors?  If not, could someone please compile one!  I had Linux pl5 running, but I couldn't get X to work at all....  After spending far too much time playing with the Xconf> ig file I gave up.  I couldn't even get the MONO version to work!
> Anyway, when I startup Linux and it asks me to hit <RETURN> for the video mode
> choices, I don't get a list.  It just goes right ahead and puts a little EGA up
> in the right hand corner.  Is this part of my problem?  I have an AVGA card which
> is supposedly Paradise compatible.  It has 1meg RAM.  I have a Viewsonic 6e monitor as well.  Does anyone have a configuration similar to this running?  I would really like to see a list of configurations and there corresponding Xconfig specifics posted s> omewhere....

All that this is really an indication of is that your video card is NOT one of the
ones recognized by the search being done in setup.S duing boot.  Since your video
card should remain in either 80x25 or 80x50(80x43 if EGA) mode, it should have
no bearing on your X startup (I beleive that both of these modes continue to use
either the 25 or 28MHz dot clocks depending on EGA/VGA) and that these clocks
are selectable on EVERY IBM compatible video card, and are the ones used by the
generic X server.  (I'm running 752x534 using the 28MHz clock on my Diamond Stealth
card waiting patiently for the S3 server to come out of ALPHA test, so I know it
works.)

You don't say whether you are trying the vga256 or the vga2 server, and you don't
say what's in your Xconfig file for video selection (at least in your message
quoted above).  If you are only trying to get the vga256 server running, try
getting the monochrome server going first.  Remember to relink X -> X386mono
and fix up your Xconfig file.

And good luck!

=================================================================
Kevin J. Cummings                       ComputerVision Services
20 Briarwood Road                       500 Old Connecticut Path
Framingham, Mass.                       Framingham, Mass.

Home:  [e-mail] Work:  [e-mail]

Std. Disclaimer: "Mr. McKittrick, after careful consideration,
                  I've come to the conclusion that your new
                  defense system SUCKS..."   --  War Games
=================================================================

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From: [e-mail] (Kevin Cummings)
Subject: Re: SURVEY: Diamond Speedstar 24 Settings
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 19:36:05 GMT

In article <gunther.723399289@atlas>, [e-mail] (Gunther Walther) writes:
> I've a Diamond Speedstar 24 Card and it is working but it is still
> far from being perfect. I've seen a couple of postings from
> people with similar problems so I hope there is some interest in
> this survey.

If you've been following the Diamond discussion here (and I'm sure elsewhere),
you'd know that Diamond has started using proprietary clock selection hardware
on their video boards.  The new hardware is NOT compatible with their old
hardware (and thus if you own a Diamond Speedstart Plus board, it depends on
the rev of the board whether or not it will work as is with X386 or XFree86).

The same hardware is in use on ALL of their new boards, so it doesn't matter if
you own a Speedstar Plus, Speedstar 24, Speedstar 24X, Stealth, or a Stealth 24.
None of these boards has the right clock selection software in the X servers.

It may be possible to set up a correct clock under MS-DOS, and then boot into
LINUX and get X to use it (some has claimed to do this using the ALPHA S3 server
on their Diamond Stealth card), but I suspect that you would be VERY limited in
the number of video modes actually available to you under such a scheme.  I'm not
even sure if you would have the "standard" 25 and 28 MHz clocks available to
you in addition to the Diamond extended clock or not (insufficient research).

The best advice right now concerning Diamond and X is DON'T if you have a choice.
If you don't have the choice, it's good luck.  If you have it working most of
the time, then I suspect you are ahead of everyone else in your same situation.

Congratulations!

=================================================================
Kevin J. Cummings                       ComputerVision Services
20 Briarwood Road                       500 Old Connecticut Path
Framingham, Mass.                       Framingham, Mass.

Home:  [e-mail] Work:  [e-mail]

Std. Disclaimer: "Mr. McKittrick, after careful consideration,
                  I've come to the conclusion that your new
                  defense system SUCKS..."   --  War Games
=================================================================

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From: [e-mail] (Isaac Wong)
Subject: ANNOUNCE: xgraph ported to linux
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 19:35:18 GMT


I've just uploaded it to /incoming  at tsx-11.mit.edu under the name xgraph.taz.
it contains the original xgraph-11.tar, linux binary and a 'diff -c' file for
patching the original source files.


here's the original README.ANNOUNCE by David Harrison
====================================================================

A new version of xgraph is now available.  Xgraph is a popular
two-dimensional plotting program that accepts data in a form similar
to the unix program graph and displays line graphs, scatter plots, or
bar charts on an X11 display.  These graphs are fully annotated with a
title, axis numbering and labels, and a legend.  Zooming in on regions
of a graph is supported.  The program can automatically generate
hardcopy output to Postscript printers and HPGL plotters.  A new
option allows xgraph output to be directly pasted into idraw for
further annotation.

This program is NOT a widget.  It is a stand-alone program written at
the Xlib level and should run on any machine with a reasonable
implementation of X11 release 3 or later.  The source for the program
is available through anonymous ftp to shambhala.Berkeley.EDU
(128.32.132.54):

        % ftp shambhala.Berkeley.EDU
        Name: anonymous
        Password: <anything non-null>
        ftp> cd pub
        ftp> binary
        ftp> get xgraph-11.tar.Z
        ftp> quit
        % uncompress xgraph-11.tar.Z
        % tar xf xgraph-11.tar

This will create a directory called xgraph-11.  In that directory
you will find a file called README.INSTALL that contains directions
for building the program.  I plan to submit the sources to the
moderator of comp.sources.x after I have tested the program under X11
release 4 (meaning a few weeks after the X Consortium releases the
distribution).

Those who do not have ftp access can obtain the source for xgraph
using a mail archive system I have installed on dent.Berkeley.EDU
(courtesy of Brian Reid at Digital).  An example is given below:

        To: ucbvax!dent!archive-server
        Subject: send programs xgraph.shar.01 xgraph.shar.02

        send programs xgraph.shar.03 xgraph.shar.04 xgraph.shar.05
        send programs xgraph.shar.06 xgraph.shar.07 xgraph.shar.08

The archive server will send you these files as time and load permits.
They are standard shell archives and can be unpacked by running them
through /bin/sh (in order).  If you would like to know more about the
mail server, send a message with a subject of "help".  I am afraid I
am no mail wizard so I cannot help you determine a path to dent.

For those familar with xgraph, the most important changes are
summarized below:

- A new data reader has been written that allows discontinuous data in
  each data set.  Also, nearly all of the display options for xgraph
  can be set in the data file.  The reader is also more forgiving
  about blank lines and excess white space.

- A new option has been added to the Postscript hardcopy facility to
  allow xgraph output to be included in other documents using psfig.
  As mentioned above, xgraph output can be imported into idraw for
  further annotation if necessary.

- I received lots of complaints about the way xgraph obtains fonts and
  visuals.  The new xgraph uses a much simpler scheme to obtain these
  resources and has fall back code to insure it will run in almost any
  situation.

- Options handling has been cleaned up substantially.  Xgraph options
  can now be specified as X resources (~/.Xdefaults), in the data
  file, or on the command line.

- Drawing is somewhat faster on some servers due to a better choice of
  initial defaults.

Please send all bug reports, questions, comments or suggestions to
the electronic address below.

                        David Harrison
                        UC Berkeley Electronics Research Lab
                        ([e-mail], ...!ucbvax!ucbcad!davidh)





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From: [e-mail] (Kevin Cummings)
Subject: Re: MFM and IDE drives coexist under Linux?
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 19:57:15 GMT

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Delman Lee) writes:
> In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Donald E. Cope) writes:
>    I have a system with two controlers running susessfully, both have two drives
>    each, for  a total of 210meg.  They both operate on IRQ 14 and the primary
>    controler is a IDE(no name) and the secondary controler is a MFM (WD1003).
>      This is not a trivial task, first of all, because of the brain dead bus,
>    you need to isolate the IRQ lines on both controlers from the bus.  This was
>    accomplished by cutting solder paths on each board and adding a diode(in914)
>    and a resister to isolate the IRQ from the bus.  The secondary controler is
>    straped for secondary. Then there are changes to wdreg.h to pick which of the
>    controlers is being address and also some minor changes to wd.c also for the
>    same reason.
>
> Hi! I am MOST interested in the details. I have 1IDE and 2MFM's that I
> am trying to work with both MS-DOS and Linux. Please do email me the
> details and patches to Linux.
>
> I have a couple of questions: Does BOTH IRQ14 lines on the 2
> controllers need to be isolated? Won't isolating the IRQ14 on the
> controller card operating at the secondary I/O port do?

I am also interested in the details!  Perhaps you could post them?  If not
email is fine too!

=================================================================
Kevin J. Cummings                       ComputerVision Services
20 Briarwood Road                       500 Old Connecticut Path
Framingham, Mass.                       Framingham, Mass.

Home:  [e-mail] Work:  [e-mail]

Std. Disclaimer: "Mr. McKittrick, after careful consideration,
                  I've come to the conclusion that your new
                  defense system SUCKS..."   --  War Games
=================================================================

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From: [e-mail] (Andres Aravena Duarte)
Subject: Re: X386 XDrawArc() bugged? (and other things...)
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1992 19:46:52 GMT

Romano Giannetti ([e-mail]) wrote:
: Compile (gcc -o bug bug.c -lX11) the program and run it so (from an
: xterm, of course):
:
: $ ./bug 1 10
:
: it writes 'gc line_width)=1' and then plot two rectangles with
: ellipses in it: the first one, on the top, correct (I have plotted it
: with Graphic Context gcb, where I have asked *explicitly* line_width
: of 1); the second one, at the bottom, has the ellipses traced only in
: part and shifted on the x-axis to the right (in my screen). Also the
: programs xvier (that comes with the distribution) and xfig 2.1.6 (that
: I compiled and that showed me the problem) have the same behaviour.
:

Same problem here. I think must be an error in Xmono, given the null
response. I've seen Xspread make Pie graphs with the described probl.

Another issue failing is the "put-bitmap" routine. I belive it swaps
the byte order. You can see it if you say "xwd | xwud" (or something
like this) and click over any window. You will get a weired copy of
the window. Repeat it over the xwud window and it will give a new
un-weired window.

The same happens with xmag and xv.

I would like to hear any opinion, esspecialy from the experts on X.
I have (by now) no disk space nor experience to try to solve it,
but maybe someone can give me hope that these probs. will disapear
when I change my VGA to a supported SVGA.

Andres
(first LINUX in South-America --- as far as I know)

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From: [e-mail] (Carsten Schiers)
Subject: Wangtek Tape 5150ES
Date: 7 Dec 92 18:54:19 GMT

Hi,

will Linux work with Wangtek 5150ES and Adaptek 1542B without any problems
(means plug-it-in-and-go)?

CU Carsten.

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From: [e-mail] (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
Subject: Re: What *doesn't* work under linux
Date: 7 Dec 92 18:05:43 GMT

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Per Andersson) writes:
>In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Arnt Gulbrandsen) writes:
>>
>>I am _not_ game for a 68000 emulator, but if there's reasonable
>>interest in a Sinclair Spectrum emulator for Linux I'll do it.
>>
>If it would run games for the Speccy it would be a dream come true.
>( I just need to get the games in from tape....)
>
>Knightlore - now that was a game.
>
>/Per
>
There are several emulators for the Spectrum. One of the best is 'spec145' I
think, and available for ftp on various archive sites (wuarchive.wustl.edu).
It's Dutch, shareware, and can even read & write tapes!

There is only one drawback - it runs under MSDOS.....

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From: [e-mail] (Kevin Cummings)
Subject: Re: Do X-Windows use the math-coprocessor?
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 20:23:20 GMT

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Makis Maroulis) writes:
> Hello everybody
>
> I have a 386DX-33Mhz without a math-coprocessor. I'm asking that question
> because X-Windows in color mode look quite slow in my machine, so I was
> wondering if I can improve the speed by adding a math-co, since I can't afford
> to bye a 486.

I beleive that the simple answer to that is YES!

=================================================================
Kevin J. Cummings                       ComputerVision Services
20 Briarwood Road                       500 Old Connecticut Path
Framingham, Mass.                       Framingham, Mass.

Home:  [e-mail] Work:  [e-mail]

Std. Disclaimer: "Mr. McKittrick, after careful consideration,
                  I've come to the conclusion that your new
                  defense system SUCKS..."   --  War Games
=================================================================

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From: [e-mail] (Kevin Cummings)
Subject: Re: C&T 82C450 SVGA under X
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 20:12:19 GMT

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Alan Charlton) writes:
> Done that, and it works fine in 640x480 mono.  Can I tell the server that there
> are extra clocks available, e.g. Clocks               25 28 32 36 etc?

Depends on which X server is actually running.  The generic server only knows
about 2 clocks: 25 and 28.  The other servers know about more.  Check your
screen out after you kill X to see what clocks your server recognized.
Alternatively you could redirect stderr to a file upon startup, then look at it
after exit (or reboot)  Use:  startx &2> file

> I really don't fancy building the server from scratch - I don't have the disk space
> for a start!

 Nor do I.

> Any more clues to this would be appreciated.

Well, if this doesn't work, I'm just about out of idea's.  I got my X running
pretty painlessly using the generic server (not the first time, but it didn't
take much work to iron out the problems).  I was actually suprised I didn't
more problems than I did (given the number of people who, like yourself, are
having problems bringing it up).

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