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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uunet!acd4!iedv7!smm From: smm@iedv7.acd.com ( Steve McCoole ) Subject: Diffs to BSDI BSD/386 Ported Software List 02/02 Message-ID: <1992Nov7.201149.4407@acd4.acd.com> Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd Sender: news@acd4.acd.com (USENET News System) Organization: Applied Computing Devices, Inc., Terre Haute IN References: <1992Nov7.200754.4197@acd4.acd.com> Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 20:11:49 GMT Lines: 116 *** ported.list.02.v3 Mon Oct 19 09:42:53 1992 --- ported.list.02 Sat Nov 7 11:16:03 1992 *************** *** 49,55 **** a derivative of Dirk Husemann's keyboard modifications to use ALT as a meta key.) Mike Karels ( sent by Jeff Polk <polk@bsdi.com> ) ----- ! PD version of the pr program. Posted to the beta list. bjorn@sysadmin.com (Bjorn Satdeva) ----- Package that allows booting BSDI or DOS from the same hard disk. --- 49,56 ---- a derivative of Dirk Husemann's keyboard modifications to use ALT as a meta key.) Mike Karels ( sent by Jeff Polk <polk@bsdi.com> ) ----- ! PD version of the pr program. Posted to the beta list. This is part ! of the distribution on GAMMA releases. bjorn@sysadmin.com (Bjorn Satdeva) ----- Package that allows booting BSDI or DOS from the same hard disk. *************** *** 252,257 **** --- 253,261 ---- Patches to allow the SoundBlaster driver posted to alt.sources work under BSDI. John T Kohl <jtkohl@kolvir.elcr.ca.us> + (GAMMA) Patches to John's patches to allow the SoundBlaster driver to + work under GAMMA release. + Steve McCoole <smm@acd4.acd.com> ------ Fixes for the floating point emulator. karels@bsdi.com *************** *** 391,396 **** --- 395,474 ---- It supports two address ranges, 0x1a0-0x1bf, or 0x2a0-0x2bf in the 'enhanced' mode where all four ports share one interrupt line, which can be 2/9,3,4,5,6,7. bdale@gag.com (Bdale Garbee) + ------- + Tcl/Tk patches working under beta. Setenv/unsetenv hack may not be + robust. Problems with the strod function as provided by the package ( + BSDI has a prototype for the function but not the function itself ). + hartzell@cory.berkeley.edu (George Hartzell) + ------- + Tcl/Tk patches also working under beta. + cpetterb@javelin.sim.es.com (Cary Petterborg) + ------- + We aquired a used DEC hard drive which did not seem to spin up at all. + After digging around an Ultrix system, we discovered that the drive + needed a START_UNIT command to get it going. Here is a fix for the + scsi/sd.c driver which will issue a start unit upon boot (only to a + DEC drive at this moment. Issueing the start unit did not + cause problems for other drives, so I think the DEC compare can be + safely removed). If anyone else is having trouble getting unknown drives + to spin-up this will probably fix the problem. + tomm@ingres.com (Tom Markson) + ------- + (GAMMA) We seem to get a lot of requests to look up ASC/ASCQ codes... + I'll append a patch to the scsicmd sources below which will let you + extract an English translation of these values like this: + + % scsicmd -a 0x14/0 + recorded entity not found + % + + Scsicmd appears in gamma; if you don't have gamma and you want scsicmd, + ask Jeff for a copy. + donn@bsdi.com (Donn Seeley) + ------- + (GAMMA) Patch for problems with floating point instructions in rundos + envirionment. + karels@bsdi.com (Mike Karels) + ------- + (GAMMA) + I can't live without my 8 port serial card, so I quickly hacked + gamma 0.9 com.c to support it with my generic multiport modifications. + + While testing the bidirectional line usage, I discovered a bug, at + least in my opinion, in the DCD detection (fix included). + + This version isn't as robust as the latest stuff I had for beta 0.3.3, + but it works. Also, something is interfering with the bidirectional + line usage. + + (Sorry about posting this to both gamma and beta lists, but I wasn't + sure if a gamma list exists) + + You have to add something along the lines of the following to your config + file: + + # COM ports + # APT HSS08 multi-port serial card + device com0 at isa? port 0x100 + device com1 at isa? port 0x108 + device com2 at isa? port 0x110 + device com3 at isa? port 0x118 + device com4 at isa? port 0x120 + device com5 at isa? port 0x128 + device com6 at isa? port 0x130 + device com7 at isa? port 0x138 + + The HSS08 shares one IRQ for all the ports, so I get warnings about + conflicting IRQs from the autoconfigurator during boot, but it works. + + I also added: + stty -f /dev/com0 clocal + stty -f /dev/com1 clocal + ... + + to my /etc/rc.local, so things would stop blocking unexpectedly. + + Brian Litzinger <brian@apt.bungi.com> ------- ========================================================================