Re: SMP on Sun4m

2006-12-06 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
ng Etch. These are totally different things :) The first error messages are from a compiler that just crashed. Either due to a bug in the compiler, or due to some obscure memory management bugs in the kernel. The second set of error messages are s simple link error. One function that's

Re: Which port is tty A on the back of a sparc 20?

2006-03-20 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
s to /dev/ttyS0 unter Linux, and ttyb is /dev/ttyS1 MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw [EMAIL PROTECTED]. +49-172-7608481 _ O _ "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf| Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg _ _ O für einen Freien Staat voll Freier Bürger" | im Internet! |

Re: Porting packages to sparc

2006-03-12 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
> the silly "all the world's an intel" assumption, i don't see much > point in fixing lcd4linux. IIRC they tried the iopl()/inb()/outb() tricks to access the parport. Is that already gone and converted to the ppdev API or do they still do that? MfG, JBG -- Jan-Ben

Re: sparc ss20/debian

2006-01-12 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
o find out.) Do you want to boot off the network, eg. for installing the machine? Properly insert the network cable into the twisted pair / RJ45 ethernet port and use a network sniffer on the other side to explore on which way this box wants to boot. ...or do you want to do

Re: how to get in openboot ???

2005-12-17 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
2048 bytes...), or use a dual-hosted SCSI bus and write a small tool to eg. use Linux' SCSI-generic driver to set the drive to 512 Bytes once it powered up. "6,0" seems to be the SCSI ID. Is this correct? Is the SCSI chain properly terminated? MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw [EMA

Re: how to get in openboot ???

2005-12-17 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
see F1 ... It's usually written as "Stop" on the keyboard. MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw [EMAIL PROTECTED]. +49-172-7608481 _ O _ "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf| Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg _ _ O für einen Freien Staat voll Freier Bürge

Re: Type5 keyboard with kernel version 2.6.x

2005-11-01 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
PC105 keyboards. MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw [EMAIL PROTECTED]. +49-172-7608481 _ O _ "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf| Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg _ _ O für einen Freien Staat voll Freier Bürger" | im Internet! | im Irak! O O O ret

Re: Printing on Ultra1. The never ending story.

2005-08-08 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
uot;cups serial printer") brought up: http://lists.debian.org/debian-printing/2005/07/msg00124.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-printing/2005/07/msg00125.html which you may find interesting to read. MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw [EMAIL PROTECTED]. +49-172-7608481

Re: Ultra1, printing via serial port?

2005-07-29 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
First of all, you need to correctly configure the serial port with stty. For the next step, are you sure your printer accepts plain text for printing? (Actually, you never ever told us about your exact printer model.) MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw [EMAIL PROTECTED]. +49-172-7608481

Re: Ultra1, printing via serial port?

2005-07-29 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
user-defined settings, so you should outline what you actually did to print data with it. MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw [EMAIL PROTECTED]. +49-172-7608481 _ O _ "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf| Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg _ _ O fuer einen Freien Staat v

Re: Headless Ultra1, SSH and X11-forwarding

2005-07-19 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
X-connection via SSH to a headless machine? I would like to > hear from you. No, your ssh -X call is quite correct. Most probably, something of the stuff around isn't configured properly. Starting X11 clients on a headless machine is perfectly fine. MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw [EM

Re: Sarge: Sparc5 Parallel Port - no such Device

2005-05-19 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
driver, but you're missing parport_sunbpp as a physical driver. Once you've loaded that, your printer should work just fine. MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw [EMAIL PROTECTED]. +49-172-7608481 _ O _ "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf| Gegen Zensur | Geg

Re: sparc machines at debcamp

2005-04-18 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
I haven't switched on my sparc32 machines for quite some time, but I remember there were some TODOs: - Redo SILOs memory management to be able to load larger kernel binaries - Check if current testing/unstable works w/o h/w mul/div - Get 2.6.x to run SMP MfG

Re: A Modem

2005-01-21 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Fri, 2005-01-21 13:11:57 -0700, Walt L. Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Just a quick question > > I have an external USR 56K modem (serial). Is it possible > to get one of these to work on an Ultra2? It is. MfG, JBG -- Jan-Be

Re: cfdisk on sparc?

2004-09-06 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
slices" only, so there's exactly no use for such a partition sector on a Sparc computer's harddisk... MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw [EMAIL PROTECTED]. +49-172-7608481 _ O _ "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf| Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg _ _ O fuer ei

Re: Trouble with upgrade to unstable on SS20 SMP

2004-07-17 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
ally really work on it stopped any further work on that platform. He's got too much other tasks to finish. So if you've got enough sparc32 knowledge, *please* step forward:) MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw [EMAIL PROTECTED]. +49-172-7608481 "Eine Freie Meinung in ein

Re: What is best kernel/disto combination for SS20 SMP?

2004-07-05 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
> only ave limited time to contribute. But I'd like to see it work ... This is one of the rare events where userspace isn't the problem. 2.6.x needs somebody with good sparc32 knowledge and some spare time... MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw [EMAIL PROTECTED]. +49-172-7

Re: What is best kernel/disto combination for SS20 SMP?

2004-07-05 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
ed these days. Maybe ask on sparclinux@vger.kernel.org ... MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw [EMAIL PROTECTED]. +49-172-7608481 "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf| Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg fuer einen Freien Staat voll Freier Bürger" | im Internet! | im I

Re: Must I have the file "sys/io.h" ???

2004-04-29 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
PC-style parports via inb/outb, can you > point me how to a direction on how to do this on sparcs that have > similar hardware (i.e. US5)? Esp. for all those parports, there's the "ppdev" driver. It gives you access to data and control registers of the 8255, which is all you need

Re: Fix for bridge-utils for Sparc64

2004-04-08 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
ng some magic constants isn't good. If there's something missing on the kernel side, just fix it there. MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw [EMAIL PROTECTED]. +49-172-7608481 "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf| Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg fuer einen Freien

Re: ss20 freeze

2004-04-01 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
a pencil and a piece of paper) and run it through ksymoops. MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw [EMAIL PROTECTED]. +49-172-7608481 "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf| Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg fuer einen Freien Staat voll Freier Bürger" | im Internet! | im Irak!

Re: Status of 2.4 kernel with sparc 4m SMP

2004-03-27 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
work SMP on sun4m Please also keep an eye on sparclinux@vger.kernel.org MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw [EMAIL PROTECTED]. +49-172-7608481 "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf| Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg fuer einen Freien Staat voll Freier Bürger" | im Intern

Re: 2.6.2 on SS20

2004-03-06 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
ts), so wait, do tests or just try to help woing work. Please also join the sparclinux@vger.kernel.org mailing list. MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw [EMAIL PROTECTED]. +49-172-7608481 "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf| Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg fuer einen Freien

Re: debian/sparc serial console

2003-10-01 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
keyboard (which works nicely on another SS10 with an older ROM version) doesn't help here... MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw [EMAIL PROTECTED]. +49-172-7608481 "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf| Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg fuer einen Freien Staat voll F

Re: SIGILL on SPARCstation 10

2003-09-26 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
U or newer kernel will help. Maybe, you'd even recompile your libc _forcing_ not to use hwmath. That'd work, too (as it did, until some weeks ago...). MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw [EMAIL PROTECTED]. +49-172-7608481 "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf

Re: SIGILL on SPARCstation 10

2003-09-26 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
23.45", "%f", &f); > return(0); > } Happy birthday. Debian/unstable started to use hardware multiplication and division, which (in it's full size) isn't supported on all Sparc CPUs. Obviously, your CPU suffers from that. There are some ways out: - Get a CPU su

Re: SPARC 5 Dual NIC Problems

2003-09-24 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
stand > why I can not ping the 192.168.1.1 computer? tcpdump this situation with a 3rd computer and show us it's output. MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw [EMAIL PROTECTED]. +49-172-7608481 "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf| Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg fuer

Re: another hypersparc smp question ...

2003-09-24 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
if I'm just crashing into a > dead end trying to setup SMP on this box. SMP with 2.4.x should work; 2.2.x will work, 2.6.x will not work. MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw [EMAIL PROTECTED]. +49-172-7608481 "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf| Gegen Zensur |

Re: Bug#203324: unreproducible?

2003-08-06 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
ization here and there. Thanks. MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw [EMAIL PROTECTED]. +49-172-7608481 "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf| Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg fuer einen Freien Staat voll Freier Bürger" | im Internet! | im Irak! ret = do_actions((c

Re: ss2 tftpimage size limitation?

2003-08-03 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
t's quite possible. After all, there are quite some low-memory machines for which the default ~10MB initrd (of which only some singel MBs are used!) is simply too large. Think of Amigas:) MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw [EMAIL PROTECTED]. +49-172-7608481 "Eine Freie Meinu

Re: Curious problem with a Sparc 20

2003-07-14 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
linux-2.4.0-test12/arch/sparc/mm/init.c, linux-2.4.0-test12/arch/sparc/mm/srmmu.c and linux-2.4.0-test12/include/asm-sparc/atops.h . I'm missing time to really check this, but if anybody had some, there's the hint:) MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw [EMAIL PROTECTED]. +49-17