Re: [SparcStation 10 Floppy Drive]
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Horst von Brand wrote: Anish Patel [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Yes it does report an fd0, but when ever I try to mount it I get mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/fd0 as a block device (maybe 'insmod driver'?) and when I do dmesg | grep fd I have this Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M Mine here (Sun Ultra 1, also SBUS machine) doesn't work at all with 2.4.x kernels, same symptoms. It works fine with 2.2.x, for instance stock 2.2.20 Ultras are known to have problems with floppy drives. SS10s usually work fine. On mine it's is quite happy with Solaris, Linux 2.2.x, 2.4.x, NetBSD, OpenBSD. The first question to me would be whether the floppy works in the first place. What happens with a boot floppy (with a bootable image) from the openprom? Saluti, Antonio Prioglio [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [SparcStation 10 Floppy Drive]
Anish Patel [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Yes it does report an fd0, but when ever I try to mount it I get mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/fd0 as a block device (maybe 'insmod driver'?) and when I do dmesg | grep fd I have this Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M Mine here (Sun Ultra 1, also SBUS machine) doesn't work at all with 2.4.x kernels, same symptoms. It works fine with 2.2.x, for instance stock 2.2.20 -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, ChileFax: +56 32 797513
Re: [SparcStation 10 Floppy Drive]
Well, first of all, what do you want it to do? Does it show up currently during boot? Take a look at the output from 'dmesg' and see if there is a line that makes reference to 'fd' 'fdc' or 'floppy' to be sure the kernel actually sees it. We're a friendly bunch and don't tend to flame nobs. :) E Anish Patel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe sparclinux in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
RE: [SparcStation 10 Floppy Drive]
Yes it does report an fd0, but when ever I try to mount it I get mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/fd0 as a block device (maybe 'insmod driver'?) and when I do dmesg | grep fd I have this Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M Anish -Original Message- From: Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 1:22 PM To: Anish Patel Cc: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org; sparclinux@vger.kernel.org; suse-sparc@suse.com Subject: Re: [SparcStation 10 Floppy Drive] Well, first of all, what do you want it to do? Does it show up currently during boot? Take a look at the output from 'dmesg' and see if there is a line that makes reference to 'fd' 'fdc' or 'floppy' to be sure the kernel actually sees it. We're a friendly bunch and don't tend to flame nobs. :) E Anish Patel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe sparclinux in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [RE: [SparcStation 10 Floppy Drive]]
Could you provide what you typed and what was spit back out at you? Did you also try mdir with a DOS floppy, checking the major and minor numbers of the device in the 'ls' listing or using /dev/fd0H1440 instead of fd0? Is there an entry for 'fd' in /proc/devices (I assume so). What kernel, distro, etc, E Anish Patel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes it does report an fd0, but when ever I try to mount it I get mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/fd0 as a block device (maybe 'insmod driver'?) and when I do dmesg | grep fd I have this Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M Anish -Original Message- From: Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 1:22 PM To: Anish Patel Cc: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org; sparclinux@vger.kernel.org; suse-sparc@suse.com Subject: Re: [SparcStation 10 Floppy Drive] Well, first of all, what do you want it to do? Does it show up currently during boot? Take a look at the output from 'dmesg' and see if there is a line that makes reference to 'fd' 'fdc' or 'floppy' to be sure the kernel actually sees it. We're a friendly bunch and don't tend to flame nobs. :) E Anish Patel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe sparclinux in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- 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]
