Does anyone know how to get the SparcStation's floopy drive to work? I am a n00b so please don't flame me to hard.
Thank you Anish -----Original Message----- From: Ferris McCormick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 8:28 AM To: Antonio Prioglio Cc: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org; xpert@XFree86.Org; sparclinux@vger.kernel.org; suse-sparc@suse.com; Jon Leonard Subject: Re: [Xpert]Re: DPMS, Screen blanking with Sun Creator3D (sun4u systems) On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Ferris McCormick wrote: > On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Antonio Prioglio wrote: > > > On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Ferris McCormick wrote: [...] > > > > I'd be getting a Creator 2D soon. I'll be happy to test it with a > > GDM-17E10. > > > > Saluti, > > Antonio Prioglio [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Thanks for the interest. I'll send out a patch file in the next day > or so. It modifies three source files: > ffb.h > ffb_driver.c > ffb_dac.c > and applies to the CVS version 4.1.99.1, of about November 1. However > the three files involved are dated 2001/05/04, and I haven't seen anything > else posted which would indicate conflicting changes to the driver. As indicated, attached source patch file puts some DPMS support into the Sun Creator/Elite driver for XF86, release 4.1.99(.1?)-CVS. The driver is in the Xfree source tree at (if I type all this right) xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/sunffb In that directory, the command patch -b < sunffb-4.1.99-DPMSMode.patch should successfully patch the files "ffb.h, ffb_driver.c, ffb_dac.c"; after that just 'make' in that directory should get you a new "sunffb_drv.o" (assuming you have already built everything once.) Now, with X inactive, go to wherever your existing drivers are (something like /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers depending on your configuration), save the existing sunffb_drv.o, and bring in the new one. To play with it, make sure that the already-working-with-your- Creator-card XF86Config file has the line Option "DPMS" "on" in its "Monitor" section, and restart X. "xset q" should now report that you can use DPMS, and you can play with it. Also, if you want, "xset s on; xset s blank" should now work. (If DPMS Option is not set, the driver will not enable DPMS, but you can change that behavior, of course.) Also, keep in mind Jon Leonard's note I sent you. I have no way of knowing if his remarks apply to your configuration or not. Good luck, Regards, Ferris -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Phone: (703) 392-0303 Fax: (703) 392-0401