Date: Sun, 13 Apr 97 15:28:48 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V10 #12 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Sun, 13 Apr 97 Volume 10 : Issue 12 Today's Topics: CG6 Frame Buffer Kaput!! [and] looking for a pointer to a patch... Help with SunOS 4.1.3_U1 Installing Solaris from a SunOs server OPUS & SunOS upgrades +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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, 7 Apr 97 19:04 EDT From: adh@an.bradford.ma.us Subject: CG6 Frame Buffer Kaput!! [and] looking for a pointer to a patch... To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 09:04:18 -0500 (EST) From: raub@kushana.aero.ufl.edu (Mauricio Tavares) Subject: CG6 Frame Buffer Kaput!! 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. =) get a 13w3-to-svga adapter plug. access development corp makes one. [i'm running a sony 15sx off a cg6. nice and sharp!] - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 97 10:19:22 EST From: gary@sabot.com (Gary Sabot) Subject: looking for a pointer to a patch... 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? sunsite.unc.edu has the publicly-available patches. if it isn't there, the only legal way to get it involves money, probably a lot of it. ______________________________________________________________________________ Andrew Hay | if there's one thing that should be done quickly Internet Rambler | or not at all, it is the removal of one's adh@an.bradford.ma.us | personal snake from the bed of a complete stranger - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 16:14:59 -0800 From: Greg Earle Subject: Help with SunOS 4.1.3_U1 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Back in Suns-at-Home Digest V10 #10, Wade Kemp wrote: > 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? David Wolfskill recommended checking your locale settings; I have another possible cause. Did you (Wade) hand-roll your own libc.so? Using the steps provided in /usr/lib/shlib.etc/README? If you hand-roll your own libc.so using the shlib.etc files, you have to be careful because un-ar'ing libc_pic.a to get the individual .o files will result in the truncation of the filenames which are longer than 16 characters. One of these files is "xccs.multibyte.o", which gets truncated down to "xccs.multibyte.". Observe: isolar:1:27 [/usr/lib/shlib.etc] % uname -a SunOS isolar 4.1.4 3 sun4c isolar:1:28 [/usr/lib/shlib.etc] % ar tv libc_pic.a | egrep -v \\.o rw-r--r-- 0/1 23838 Oct 14 16:15 1994 __.SYMDEF rw-rw-r--11110/10 132 Oct 13 20:10 1994 rpc_commondata. rw-rw-r--11110/10 300 Oct 13 20:10 1994 rpc_dtablesize. rw-rw-r--11110/10 2160 Oct 13 20:07 1994 xccs.multibyte. The original README file in /usr/lib/shlib.etc mentions the first 2 of these files in step 3, but fails to mention "xccs.multibyte.": 3. Change to the "tmp" directory just made, extract the pic .o from libc_pic.a and rm the file __.SYMDEF. The reason you need to do the 2 "mv" commands is because "ar" truncated filenames over 16 characters. % cd tmp % ar x ../libc_pic.a % rm __.SYMDEF % mv rpc_dtablesize. rpc_dtablesize.o % mv rpc_commondata. rpc_commondata.o If you hand-rolled a libc.so in order to get DNS lookups built-in, this is a common problem. After the "ar" extraction phase, make sure to re-name all of the above *3* files to append the "o" to the end of their names so that they will all be sucked up into the resultant libc.so. - Greg - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 03:02:31 -0700 From: vprev Subject: Installing Solaris from a SunOs server To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Hi, I have an IPX running SunOs 4.1.4 with a non-Sun SCSI CDROM drive. I have the "fixcd" program that allows this drive to be used with the Sun. Now I got another Sun (SS1) and would like to install Solaris on it. Obviously it can't boot off the SCSI CDROM from the PROM monitor, so I was wondering whether it would be possible to perfom the installation with the Solaris CD on the SunOs machine on the network. Any pointers to this procedure will be appreciated. Thanks **vp - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 09:17:37 -0600 (MDT) From: cmconwa@sandia.gov (Christopher M. Conway) Subject: OPUS & SunOS upgrades To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Hi there-- I have an Opus Personal Mainframe currently running SunOS 4.1[.2, I believe]. I inherited this thing, and am having some problems. First, I've got a DEC RRD43 CDROM that I'm trying to attach to it. From what I can tell from the Sun CDROM FAQ, I should be able to use it in "Digital Workstation Mode", which provides 512 byte sectors. However, jumpering it to do thid seems to still result in the same problems (SCSI data buffer overflow)-- any ideas? Do I need to make the hardware mods suggested for other CDROMS? Second-- I don't seem to be able to boot this system from tape. It may be my tape drives, I'm not sure, I'm trying to find another (most of my equipment is scrounged from material that was being scrapped. Mostly because it was old, but in some cases things just don't work). In the meantime, what I'd *REALLY* like to do is upgrade it to 4.1.4. Does anyone know if I can a) do a cold install from a 4.1.4 cdrom, or b) upgrade from 4.1.whatever to 4.1.4? My concern is that there seem to be some kernel changes to support the shared mouse/keyboard and funky video stuff for this board. Did those get folded into a later SunOS, or am I stuck at 4.1.2 forever? Or can I get an upgrade from Opus ( like I could afford it... 8^{)> ). Thanks! Christopher M. Conway U*IX and C Guru Don't Tread on Me cmconwa@sandia.gov wombat@prickly-wombat.com We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we will all hang separately. I'll be post-feminist in the post-patriarchy. - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************