Re: rebooting problem
Mandi! Joseph S In chel di` si favelave... If someone has compile a kernel 2.4.x on a sparc 20 can they please send me there setting and also what it the proper procedure for install they new kernel. I've compiled and run a 2.4.18 stock kernel for 2 month in a ss20, but the machine was doing nothing. I've not used strange settings in kernel configuration, there's little to configure in linux kernel for a ss20... ;-))) I've a plain potato box, with the bunk package for 2.4.18 kernel support: # kernel 2.4.X # deb http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian potato main #deb-src http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian potato main in sources.list. -- dott. Marco Gaiarin GNUPG Key ID: 240A3D66 Associazione ``La Nostra Famiglia''http://www.sv.lnf.it/ Polo FVG - Via della Bontà , 7 - 33078 - San Vito al Tagliamento (PN) gaio(at)sv.lnf.it tel +39-0434-842711fax +39-0434-842797 Supporta il disegno di legge sul software libero! http://www.softwarelibero.it/news/news020417_01.shtml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mail Server?
On 17-Jun-2002 Ottavio Campana wrote: I run potato's postfix since 266 days and I've never had a problem. I don't think exim's good for an ISP. It could be useful for a home computer but nothing more. I don't like qmail. There are large ISPs running their mail through Exim. www.freeserve.com springs to mind - it's one of the biggest ISPs in the UK. ISTM that all three Exim/Postfix/Qmail are used in high-volume mail setups. I reckon you're probably best off picking the one you feel most comfortable configuring. People have different preferences in that area. -- Jim Hague - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Work), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Play) Never trust a computer you can't lift. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
parport_pc kernel module troubles on SS4
Specs: Sparcstation 4 running Debian Woody kernel: self-compile 2.4.18 (using gcc 2.95.x, if I remember correctly) The following modules successfully load: Sparcstation4:~# lsmod Module Size Used byTainted: P lp 7140 0 parport_sunbpp 2068 1 parport15872 1 [lp parport_sunbpp] During the compile of my current kernel (2.4.18), I also compiled all the parallel port modules I could, and parport_pc compiled fine. (and if it didn't, I certainly couldn't find the logfile that gave notice) Running insmod parport_pc gives the following: Sparcstation4:~# insmod parport_pc Using /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/parport/parport_pc.o /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/parport/parport_pc.o: unresolved symbol parport_pc_find_nonpci_ports /lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/parport/parport_pc.o: unresolved symbol pci_free_consistent How can it compile ok then give problems when loading? More importantly, how can I fix this such that parport_pc will load and work? (btw, this is all in the effort of getting a parallel port printer to work) Thanks in advance _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mail Server?
On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 06:43:33PM +0200, Ottavio Campana wrote: I don't think exim's good for an ISP. It could be useful for a home computer but nothing more. I don't like qmail. I'm surprised to hear you say that about exim. You realize that it was written to handle mail for a rather large site, right? See http://www.exim.org/FAQ.html#TOC188 for some testimonials from other large sites that use it. I won't comment on qmail or those involved in its development. I suspect I don't need to comment on things like sendmail. noah -- ___ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html pgpQrFANOXU6i.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Mail Server?
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 01:40:15PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 06:43:33PM +0200, Ottavio Campana wrote: I don't think exim's good for an ISP. It could be useful for a home computer but nothing more. I don't like qmail. I'm surprised to hear you say that about exim. You realize that it was written to handle mail for a rather large site, right? See http://www.exim.org/FAQ.html#TOC188 for some testimonials from other large sites that use it. I've already written in another post that I've chosen postfix because I've felt more confortable with its documentation (and could do more things). That's why I prefer postfix for a large site. Anyway, everyone has to use the programs he can work better with, don't you think so? :-) PS: I was re-reading what I wrote. I didn't want to be so rude against exim I didn't want to start a flame. -- Non c'e' piu' forza nella normalita', c'e' solo monotonia. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Mail Server?
Having used debian's sendmail and exim for 3+ years I can honestly say I prefer Sendmail, but mostly because Im a wee bit more familiar with it than exim. Ive found them both very reliable and stable, as for security bugs how long has it been since one was found in sendmail? over 2 years? I dont recollect a CERT or SAN's or any other alert in that time. We could get into a religious war over mta's just like we do over distro's, i prefer to use sendmail because of its links to enterprise stuff and scalability (grin) so its suits me to learn /suffer it, otherwise exim is probably easier. BTW has anybody tried running Samsung's Contact on Debian? (ne HP Openmail) so far Ive been forced to put Red Hat 7.3 on my HA cluster as Ive been unable to get it to install/work. :( I think Debian did a install package for netscape Navigator a while back, whats the chances of similar for Contact? if I could code I'd do it, but my perl gets as far as hello world ;/ But Id be happy to write up docs. This might sound mad but Im finding that trying to run commercial packages on Debian is becoming all but impossible, I have compaq servers stuff that I run Red Hat on not because I want to but because there is no .deb's for the array software (some of its even source) :( regards, Steven -Original Message- From: Andrew Sharp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 18 June 2002 3:01 To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Mail Server? Mark Eichin wrote: I was surprised that no one was really pushing qmail or sendmail. Why were you surprised? qmail, while useful, isn't DFSG-free. And sendmail is pretty much a legacy system :-) (Although in theory it has improved, the phrase a security hole you could drive a sendmail through is still common jargon...) qmail can be annoying if you just want to configure your server and forget it exists. If I had a company with thousands of employees and severe scalability, dns, and improperly configured recipient servers were hourly problems, qmail would probably be on my list. That whole custom file system thing turns out to be really annoying at the very worst moments, however. Exim works great and I don't have to switch my brain to `genius' to configure it. Sendmail, well geez, have you ever tried to configure sendmail? Eric should be shot for the billions of hours of system administrator time over the years that have been wasted trying to configure sendmail. Sure, there is a nifty program that helps you configure it now, but, too little, too late, I say. Smail, I haven't used but it looks reasonable, and I haven't heard anything [credible] bad about it. a -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Printing Problems on Ultra 30 - Solved!
Andrew: Your suggestion was good. Upon doing a search for the error message that I was getting (DMA write timed out) I found that a discussion in the linux-parport mailing list to be helpful. I am guessing here, but I think that the default way of accessing the parallel port, in the original kernel installed during my Woody upgrade, is interrupt-driven, protocol in hardware using DMA. So, my error message may be indicating that there is an unsuccessful attemp to use DMA to write to the hardware FIFO. Given this, I went into the options for recompiling a kernel and disabled Use FIFO/DMA if available. I am guessing that my printing will be slower now. The file, parport.txt, in kernel-source-2.4.18/Documentation, was also useful. -Sageev - Original Message - From: Andrew Sharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 8:07 PM Subject: Re: Printing Problems on Ultra 30 Andrew Sharp wrote: Sageev George wrote: While I've had some progress with trying to make my Ultra 30 print, I've had no real success. What I have done so far is adding the modules, parport_pc and lp. I have also did MAKEDEV par, MAKEDEV parport, and MAKEDEV lp. During the installation of the parport_pc module, I get the following messages: parport0: PC-style at 0x1fff13043bc (0x1fff13047bc), irq 7039808, dma 0 [PCSPP,T RISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA] parport0: Printer, EPSON Stylus COLOR 800 During lp installation (I think), I get the following: lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). When I try running the following (cat textfile.txt /dev/lp0), I get the following: lp0: compatibility mode DMA write timed out The last message repeats until I hit CTRL-C. I installed printtool, but it is not able to autodetect any printers, and it even question if I have added the parport module (which I have by this point). If it makes you feel any better, it has quit working on my PC hardware as well in the last couple of kernels. Don't know the details, because on that PC I also have windows, and printing still works with windows, so I'm just using windows when I need to print. This may not seem of much use, but it suggests that the problem is known to others and possibly there is a patch out there or the problem is due to be fixed soon. Or maybe someone knows a workaround. Fire up your search engine. Oh yeah, the experience is exactly the same, except I don't get the DMA write timed out message. a -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Booting Installation on SunBlade
Ben Collins wrote: On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 04:17:55PM -0500, Kent West wrote: I'm new to the Sun world, but comfortable on i386 and mostly comfortable on Debian for that platform. Don't even attempt to install potato on a Blade. You will have about as much luck as you would shooting shooting flies from 100 hundred yards with a paperclip. Use woody. There's a netinst.iso image in the disks-sparc/current/ directory. Thanks for the reply. I downloaded and burned the netinst.iso from http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/disks-sparc/current/netinst.iso. It boots the SunBlade 100 to the boot: prompt, and I can type help and get a help screen, but if I just press ENTER to start the install, I get the message Fast Data Access MMU Miss followed by the ok prompt. This machine has a winpci card if it matters. Thanks for any help! Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
