On Thu, 2025-09-11 at 06:38 -0700, Tony Rodriguez wrote: > That is a good idea, thanks again for your assistance with sparc kernel > panics. > The S7 is stable now, kernel wise, compared to before.
Good. > Yes, I agree more work needs to be done regarding sparc64 Debian. It will be > helpful > to track issues to help resolve them. Not just Debian, Linux in general. A lot of things would definitely improve if all the SPARC patches in Oracle's UEK kernel could be upstreamed. > Other issues: > 1) Konsole, Gnome terminal, etc generate dots/lines within terminals with > lxde. Using > clear and resetting the terminal will not remove the dots/lines. However, > this is not > the case with “lx terminal. lx terminal appears to work without any visible > issues. I have no idea what you mean, to be honest. > 2) Kde plasma and Gnome fail to install. Will have to double check the > reason,can’t > remember the particular error, but think it is related to dependencies. It's always the same issue: https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2017/12/msg00060.html Both KDE and GNOME are heavy on Javascript which is still a problem on sparc64. Unless Javascript is properly fixed on sparc64, you will keep seeing this problem. > **Please list all the apt souces.list repos you typically use for sparc64. > This way we > can all add them as well, hopefully that will resolve packages with > dependency issues. > Just in case I am missing any? You aren't. If you want to use KDE or GNOME on sparc64, someone needs to fix Javascript. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
