Re: aurora project
I noticed linuxpower went offline for good on June 2nd. Anyone know what this means for the Aurora project, or where its site has moved to, etc,.? - The info part of the aurora site has been transferred to www.auroralinux.org. - The mailing lists have been moved, but are probably waiting for the project leader to be active again. - The downloads have been moved but are on hold since build 0.3 is pretty much finished but waiting for the installer (auroaconda). - Every couple of days spot posts an update to his advagato dairy on http://www.advogato.net/person/spot/diary.html. Last entry is dated June 7 and ends with I'm going to the beach for a week ;-) Ingo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Again ss20 serial...
Mandi! Marco Gaiarin In chel di` si favelave... I quote myself: In a SS20, if i set the serial to 38400 BAUD, really i set this to 38400 or to some factors like x2 (57600) or x4 (115200)?! I've done some search with google. Seems that effectively sparc HW have the serial limited to 38400, more (but nonstandard) higer speed are not reilable. But i've found only information about sunos/solaris and *BSD. I've to setup my sparc as a home gateway with a 56K modem, kicking out an old 486, so please say me: my sparc (ss20) have seral port limited to 38400?! Thanks. -- 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 (2): Sound on sun4c
Ben, Ian others, I still do not understand how Ben got the OSS API on his Sparc. it /dev/sndstat has always been there in OSS/Free. Is OSS/Free installed with Debian Sparc 2.2.19 and just waiting to be configured? If so, where do I begin. The only sound API I see in the dselect list is ALSA. If there is no API already in this system, ALSA would appear to be appropriate. Thanks, Peter E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re (2): Sound on sun4c
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben, Ian others, I still do not understand how Ben got the OSS API on his Sparc. it /dev/sndstat has always been there in OSS/Free. Is OSS/Free installed with Debian Sparc 2.2.19 and just waiting to be configured? If so, where do I begin. No, it would appear that OSS/Free (and most likely the commercial OSS too) really only supports PC sound cards. For Sparc machines we have a seperate SparcAudio subsystem, and it lives in drivers/sbus/audio/ in the kernel source. It supports AMD-7930, CS-4231, and DBRI sound hardware, which seems to cover most or all SparcStation boxes. Like I said in my other post, SparcAudio does not cover the complete OSS interface. You don't get /dev/sndstat, but /dev/dsp /dev/audio and /dev/mixer all work. So pretty much any OSS-compatible software should work, baring perhaps endian issues. I don't think /dev/sndstat was ever used by any program anyway. Shell scripts, maybe. Basically it was just a simple mechanism for users to check their sound driver setup. Since the sound hardware is built into SparcStations, there's very little to screw up. The only sound API I see in the dselect list is ALSA. If there is no API already in this system, ALSA would appear to be appropriate. No, just load the sparcaudio modules or compile a kernel with them. I've always relied on my own compiled kernels so I don't really know what's included with the supplied kernels and modules. Now ALSA would be interesting to get working on Sparc. I gather that almost all developement (apart from absolutely necessary maintainance work) on OSS/Free has ceased; pretty much everyone's moved over to ALSA for quite a while. Especially work on the newer whiz-bang PCI sound cards, which is the whole reason why ALSA came about in the first place. ALSA recently went into Linus' 2.5 kernel I believe. The existing SparcAudio drivers don't appear to be that big and it might not take too much work to port them over to the ALSA framework. But audio isn't too important on the old Sparc's, so don't hold your breath. Sorry. bye - -- 8888888 Ian Tester *8)# \7\LINUX: because geeks will find a way [EMAIL PROTECTED] \7\ http://www.zipworld.com.au/~imroy -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: pgpenvelope 2.10.2 - http://pgpenvelope.sourceforge.net/ iD8DBQE9BiLgotavukHNBh4RAm6RAKCngnto9fNyQ+IMZtJfe5xeWdU96wCgvLVT wbPTB3SldiPpZMlfFjKpMZ0= =IyyI -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Window Managers
Hi all, Thanks for all the responses. I tried twm, gnome, icewm, blackbox and tldesk window managers. Of which I could not find any browsers other than lynx. The netscape browser which is coming default with some of the window managers does not seem to execute. When I use gnome all the the windows seem to settle on the extreme left top corner. I dont know where I am making a mistake, but I am looking for something like KDE or GNOME like on redhat where we have plenty of options, large number of browsers, etc. I think I am unable to find the right one. Any suggestions? Please cc me. thanks in advance, Aravind -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Window Managers
Aravind Vinnakota wrote: Hi all, Thanks for all the responses. I tried twm, gnome, icewm, blackbox and tldesk window managers. Of which I could not find any browsers other than lynx. The netscape browser which is coming default with some of the window managers does not seem to execute. When I use gnome all the the windows seem to settle on the extreme left top corner. I dont know where I am making a mistake, but I am looking for something like KDE or GNOME like on redhat where we have plenty of options, large number of browsers, etc. I think I am unable to find the right one. Any suggestions? Please cc me. you can install gnome and/or kde, just like on redhat. you can also install browsers, use apt-cache search to search for packages, or dselect or aptitude to browse packages (or debian.org web page) and install all the browsers you need. The most popular seem to be mozilla and galeon, KDE comes with konqueror, there is number of other browsers as well... the browsers do not come with window managers (or desktop environments), the window manager just manages the windows, the menu is created based on applications installed (each package can provide a manu entry, see /usr/lib/menu). if an application does not execute from menu, try to execute it from command line (xterm or other terminal program) and see if you get any error messages. Check the /usr/lib/menu to see how window manager tries to execute the program. the placement of windows is function of window manager, check the docs for the given window manager. erik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re (3): Sound on sun4c
Ian others, it just load the sparcaudio modules audio and amd7930 are loaded. There is no module called sparcaudio with kernel release 2.2.19. it ... or compile a kernel with them. OK. That is no obstacle. Yet Ben Collins did not mention compiling a kernel to get an OSS API. Still seems I am missing something. Regards, Peter E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Again ss20 serial...
On Jun 11, Marco Gaiarin illuminated : I've done some search with google. Seems that effectively sparc HW have the serial limited to 38400, more (but nonstandard) higer speed are not reilable. But i've found only information about sunos/solaris and *BSD. yes that's right. hardware limited to 38400. The OS on top of it doesn't make a difference. ./Jp -- Jean-Paul Blaquiere || Avatar of Computational [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Thaumaturgy http://japester.ucc.asn.au || verum ipsum factum I A C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Again ss20 serial...
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 10:32:40AM +0800, Jean-Paul Blaquiere wrote: On Jun 11, Marco Gaiarin illuminated : I've done some search with google. Seems that effectively sparc HW have the serial limited to 38400, more (but nonstandard) higer speed are not reilable. But i've found only information about sunos/solaris and *BSD. yes that's right. hardware limited to 38400. The OS on top of it doesn't make a difference. However, I believe there are sbus serial cards with linux support and you might be able to find a used one on ebay or something. I am using a magma card in an old IPX for this purpose (with OpenBSD) and it works quite well. Check the supported hardware list if you want to try this. I know that there is no magma support (hence my OpenBSD box) but I recall seeing that there are some... -- Mark pgpMv91uEgv53.pgp Description: PGP signature
