Date: Mon, 7 Apr 97 06:37:59 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V10 #11 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Mon, 7 Apr 97 Volume 10 : Issue 11 Today's Topics: CG6 Frame Buffer Kaput!! dip switches for Sun 3 scsi host adapter. looking for a pointer to a patch... Miscellany from Digest V10 #10 Moniterm Monitor Replacing Toshiba 3301 CD-ROM drive Suns-at-Home Digest V10 #10 +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > @net-kitchen.com | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / | | WWW Archive access: http://www.net-kitchen.com/~sah | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 09:04:18 -0500 (EST) From: raub@kushana.aero.ufl.edu (Mauricio Tavares) Subject: CG6 Frame Buffer Kaput!! To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com > >To All, > > > >I've just received in a Sparc 1+ with a dual slot CG6 frame buffer that > >looks like it has bitten the dust. > >On bootup it just displays a green alternating pattern on the screen of the > >monitor. > > [...] > > If this works, you have a multisync monitor on a down rev board. The board > needs some changes to make it work with the monitor. I have the info if > you need it. > I for one would like to know how to make my cg6 talk to multisync monitors. Yes, I do have a 16" Sun monitor already, but I always like to have an alternative. Also, most of the computer projectors I know of handle VGA/Multisync. =) -- ===========================+========================================== | Mauricio Tavares | "We will attack... | | raub@kushana.aero.ufl.edu | ...under the cover of daylight!" Rimmer | ===========================+========================================== - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 19:15:35 -0800 (PST) From: jadeite Subject: dip switches for Sun 3 scsi host adapter. To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com hello everyone, I have a Sun 4/260 with scsi tape drive, device name st(0,0,0). I'm trying to install a Sun3 Scsi Host adapter 501-1236 on a 501-1217. Whenever the host adapter is in the computer the machine is no longer able to find scsi tape drive (where i have to install the os from). I found two sets of dip switches but I have no idea what to do with them. Does anyone have any ideas? Please reply directly to me, I'm not on the list yet. - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 97 10:19:22 EST From: gary@sabot.com (Gary Sabot) Subject: looking for a pointer to a patch... To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com When I run my newly installed adobe acrobat, it prints out this message: WARNING: Adobe Acrobat 2.1 running on a X11/News server, requires patch T100444-74 (OpenWindows V3.0 Server Patch 3000-122). Otherwise the Xserver will hang. It mostly works, but for some input files it does crash my xserver and log me out. Adobe tech support isn't very supporting and says they can't help me. Can anyone point me to where I can find this patch? Thanks. --gary _______________________________________________________ Gary Sabot | Voice: (617) 647-7776 Sabot Associates, Inc. | FAX: (617) 647-7779 10 Carroll Circle | Internet: gary@sabot.com Weston, MA 02193 USA | ------------------------------------------------------- - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 06:44:03 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill Subject: Miscellany from Digest V10 #10 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com >Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 12:02:48 -0700 >From: Frank Berndt >Subject: GCC & Sun4 >I have a Sun 330, Sparc SUN4. >I just installed 2.4 and I'd like to install the GCC compiler. Of course >I'm now confronted with the "chicken or the egg" problem. >I can't compile the GCC software because I don't have a C compiler. >Any ideas? Anybody have the images that will work on my machine that I >can just download to get me started? There are a couple of archives of free software in "pkg" format that I know of; one is at sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/solaris/sparc; another is http://smc.vnet.net/solaris_2.5.html. (I don't know if the vnet.net site also has any Solaris 2.4 packages; sunsite definitely does.) The sunsite packages are generally "anchored" at /usr/local; the vnet packages are generally anchored at /opt. I've used the former, but not the latter. >- ------------------------------ >Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 20:51:27 -0500 >From: Wade Kemp >Subject: Help with SunOS 4.1.3_U1 > I have an IPC with 4.1.3_U1 loaded on it. When I compile programs >that use stdlib.h I get the following unresolved links with the loader: > __mbstowcs_xccs > __mbtowc_xccs > __wcstombs_xccs > __wctomb_xccs >Anyone have an idea of how to get rid of these? Well, those look like "multi-byte" & "wide character" routines, so I'd guess that you might want to check your specified "locale" -- and try changing it to (the minimalist) "C" value. >- ------------------------------ >Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 21:28:00 -0800 (PST) >From: David Wolfskill >Subject: New Sparc 5 and 20 case >I'm still trying to find a way to buy an Aurora 2 (trade in an Aurora >1?) case.... Got a quote from Sun Service for the 2 pieces of an "Aurora 2" chassis: base: $1500 cover: $ 275 At those prices, I'll leave the SunCD 4 internal in the Aurora 1 chassis & continue letting the SS5 emulate an overstuffed suitcase. :-( [The rationale given for the perception of high prices was that Sun doesn't provide very many of them this way. So does that mean that if hundreds of folks descend on Sun to get Aurora 2 chassis, the price will drop to something approaching the cost of materials & manufacture?] Oh, yeah: The new (orange-colored) SunExpress "Spares" catalog actually refers to the different CD (internal) drives and indicates which is for which chassis, with the following note: NOTE: SPARCstation 4, 5, and 20 models have changed to a new chassis configuration. A chassis with grey (purple) bezels is the old chassis, model 340-2915. A chassis with light grey (beige) bezels is the new chassis, nodel 340-3397. Please check your chassis in order to purchase the correct CD-ROM Drive or Floppy Drive. david -- David H. Wolfskill david@dhw.vip.best.com As a computing professional, I believe it would be unethical for me to advise, recommend, or support the use (save possibly for personal amusement) of any product that is or depends on any Microsoft product. - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 00:06:03 -0500 From: Christopher Knowles Subject: Moniterm Monitor To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu I recently got a moniterm monitor (Model# VCX-V2/115, Part# 999-0327-04) from a friend. I believe it is a 20" monitor. It is marked 1600x1280 on the product label. If anyone has any information on this monitor could you please e-mail it to me. The monitor has the 9-pin connector on the back of it. I was wondering if it is possible to hook this monitor up to a PC. Is it possible to make a 9-pin to 15-pin svga cable. If anyone knows the pinouts for such a cable could you e-mail that as well. Thank you all. Christopher Knowles cknowles@globalserve.net - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 20:08:35 -0500 From: Howard Huntley Subject: Replacing Toshiba 3301 CD-ROM drive To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com My toshiba CD-ROM drive has bitten the dust. I need a replacement drive. Are any of you selling one? I an looking all over Usenet for a good price on a replacement. NetCom's NetCruser v3.0/Eudora Pro v3.0/Forte Agent v.99f/OS/2 Warp v3.0/Win95/Linux, Sun SPARC CU-SeeMe: HHuntley@ix.netcom.com InterNet Phone: hhuntley@pub1.ipn.vocaltec.com http:/www.netcom.com/~hhuntley/hhuntley.html Jacksonville Electric Authority, Micro Systems Specialist: hunth@jea.com - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 12:13:02 -0600 From: Jim Thompson Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V10 #10 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com > Suns-at-Home Digest Sun, 30 Mar 97 Volume 10 : Issue 10 > > Today's Topics: > Activating more telnet sessions under Solaris? > Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 11:52:16 -0500 > From: swegerm@baileys-emh5.army.mil (Michael Sweger) > Subject: Activating more telnet sessions under Solaris? > To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com > > Hello, > > We currently have a Sun running SUNOS 5+ under Solaris 2.5.1. We > have an unlimited user license but currently are restricted to 50 > users maximum who can telnet in. Anybody past the 50 currently logged > in are kicked off before they can get a login prompt. My question is, > how do we cleanly increase the number of users that are allowed to > log in. I know I somehow have to do the following: > > a) increase the number of pty's from 50 to 150+ > by manual or some sysadmin tool. What would be the commands > or the tools name? # cp /etc/system /etc/system.orig # echo "set npty=150" >> /etc/system # reboot See the man page for details about /etc/system. (man -s 4 system) > b). probably would have to reboot the machine for the changes to > take affect. Yes/No? Yes. (Its simplest that way.) You could attempt to get all the ptys out of use, and then unload the module, adb it to use 150, rather than 48 as the 'default', and load it again, but you'll likely meet with failure. Just reboot. Its not that big a deal. (Is it?) > Is there a way, besides changing telnets port #, to allow only certain > network address's to receive a login prompt when telnetting in? I > don't want to use a firewall, but am curious to know if telnet has the > capability, similar to ftp, to prevent or allow specified network > address's upon connection to receive a login prompt. If you don't > receive a login prompt, then you can't guess at the login/passwds. telnet does not, but there are several freeware 'wrapper' programs that will allow you to provide service to only a specified set of addresses. [The tcp_wrapper is one. Pretty easy to setup, too. --ddm ] > Any answers are appreciated. > > Mike Sweger > > - ------------------------------ -- Jim Thompson / Smallworks, Inc. / jim@smallworks.com 512 338 0619 phone / 512 338 0625 fax HTML: The 3270 of the 90s - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************