Re: OpenOffice on Ultra 5
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 12:06, Frank Van Damme wrote: > On Thursday 12 June 2003 15:35, Thomas Duffy wrote: > > I doubt it will build. There was a port of openoffice.org 1.0.3 to > > Sparc/linux floating around that a guy know as "The Shrink" did for > > Aurora. I made a patch from his source and posted it to the Aurora > > Sparc list. Here is a link to it: > > > > http://www.dslextreme.com/users/tomduffy/openoffice-sparc.diff.bz2 > > > > Once applying this patch, you should be able to build 1.0.3. > > Why is a userspace app like openoffice hardware dependent? It normally works > on Solaris/Sparc doesn't it? OpenOffice.org is the code equivalent of a nuclear submarine built entirely from popsicle sticks. It has arch and OS specific asm code in it. Don't look at it too long, or you will go insane. As far as I'm concerned (having looked at the OOo code base and patched it into building for Aurora), "The Shrink" deserves a medal. At the very minimum, he deserves his sanity back. ;) ~spot --- Tom "spot" Callaway SAIR LCA, RHCE Red Hat Enterprise Architect :: http://www.redhat.com Project Leader for Aurora Sparc Linux :: http://auroralinux.org GPG: D786 8B22 D9DB 1F8B 4AB7 448E 3C5E 99AD 9305 4260 The words and opinions reflected in this message do not necessarily reflect those of my employer, Red Hat, and belong solely to me. "Immature poets borrow, mature poets steal." --- T. S. Eliot
Re: Debian 3.0 on Netra X1, installs but won't run
Not that this is much help, but I've had all kinds of problems getting debian installed onto netra t1's. I just do all my installations on a UE2 and move the disks over to my 220Rs, 420Rs and netra t1s. It always works perfectly. In fact I have a E6500 I might ship out a woody disk to the datacenter it's in and ask them to boot it while I sit on the console port remotely. I would be pretty cool to see 20-some processors on a debian linux box ;) On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 09:43:37AM -0700, Marc Singer wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 09:28:25AM -0700, Patrick Morris wrote: > > Have you tried it as neither a master nor a slave? That really ought to > > work. > > Yes, I tried every jumper combination. > > By the way, do you have an Netra X1? > > > > > Marc Singer wrote: > > > > >I've done more exploration. > > > > > >Someone suggested that the problem is that the CDROM is an IDE master. > > >When I change the CDROM to a slave, the Netra X1 refuses to recognize > > >it. In other words, the Netra *requires* that the CDROM be an IDE > > >master. > > > > > >I notice that both activity lights on the network interfaces flash > > >when the driver is loaded. Is this expected behavior? The flashing > > >stops when I insert a network cable connected to a hub/switch. > > > > > >At this point, I'm out of ideas. Thanks for the help. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Nate Campihttp://www.campin.net
Re: Booting Problems from Install CD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, William Sherwin wrote: > I am attempting to install Debian 3.0 on a Sparc IPX that lacks a floppy > drive. As I don't have root access to any other Sparcs, I cannot setup > a TFTP server for boot net. Oh yes you can. There's nothing platform specific about TFTP. Just set up TFTP and rarpd on some unix/linux box and serve up the files. I think I even remember hearing about someone using tftp from an NT box, or maybe that was something else. Do you not have another *nix box to install from? bye - -- 8<8<8<8<8<8<8< Ian Tester *8)# \7\LINUX: because geeks will find a way [EMAIL PROTECTED] \7\ http://www.spin.net.au/~imroy -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: pgpenvelope 2.10.2 - http://pgpenvelope.sourceforge.net/ iD8DBQE+6LlbotavukHNBh4RAiMsAJwN7kyfNh2yFeIM/DKgj/WCpFVQBQCgsQOP CXl62lbGmW328luat4S+PD0= =M/eq -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: OpenOffice on Ultra 5
On Thursday 12 June 2003 15:35, Thomas Duffy wrote: > I doubt it will build. There was a port of openoffice.org 1.0.3 to > Sparc/linux floating around that a guy know as "The Shrink" did for > Aurora. I made a patch from his source and posted it to the Aurora > Sparc list. Here is a link to it: > > http://www.dslextreme.com/users/tomduffy/openoffice-sparc.diff.bz2 > > Once applying this patch, you should be able to build 1.0.3. Why is a userspace app like openoffice hardware dependent? It normally works on Solaris/Sparc doesn't it? -- Frank Van Dammehttp://www.openstandaarden.be ~~~~ "Je pense, donc je suis breveté."
Re: Debian 3.0 on Netra X1, installs but won't run
On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 09:28:25AM -0700, Patrick Morris wrote: > Have you tried it as neither a master nor a slave? That really ought to > work. Yes, I tried every jumper combination. By the way, do you have an Netra X1? > > Marc Singer wrote: > > >I've done more exploration. > > > >Someone suggested that the problem is that the CDROM is an IDE master. > >When I change the CDROM to a slave, the Netra X1 refuses to recognize > >it. In other words, the Netra *requires* that the CDROM be an IDE > >master. > > > >I notice that both activity lights on the network interfaces flash > >when the driver is loaded. Is this expected behavior? The flashing > >stops when I insert a network cable connected to a hub/switch. > > > >At this point, I'm out of ideas. Thanks for the help. > > > > > > > > > > >
Re: Debian 3.0 on Netra X1, installs but won't run
Have you tried it as neither a master nor a slave? That really ought to work. Marc Singer wrote: I've done more exploration. Someone suggested that the problem is that the CDROM is an IDE master. When I change the CDROM to a slave, the Netra X1 refuses to recognize it. In other words, the Netra *requires* that the CDROM be an IDE master. I notice that both activity lights on the network interfaces flash when the driver is loaded. Is this expected behavior? The flashing stops when I insert a network cable connected to a hub/switch. At this point, I'm out of ideas. Thanks for the help.
Re: CDROM error at 99% of install - video card driver problem
Ben, No scratches. I tried reburning disc 1, no go. I tried downloading (with jigdo) and burning an image from another mirror, no go. Still get the error. FYI: The orginal CD was from a 6-CD set ordered from Cheapbytes.com. What I ended up doing was using the Stop - i command to kill the process which, to my amazement, brought me back to the first screen of phase 2 of the install. I then checked all packages to be installed (most were already in place) and chose cdrom for media type. Would not read ANY disc 1, even the download versions. (!!!) I may have a dead cdrom drive, but until I get a SCSI cdrom test drive, I am considering it inoperable. I started phase 2 again and chose ftp for media and let it go. Install is complete, Debian is set as default OS through open boot and boots to the linux shell. My next problem is upon entering the X windows environment, I get a discolored half-screen of pixels and it returns back to the shell. It does this three times, then the Debian diag window pops up and wants to check video card configuration (this is getting fun!). I run through the config, but not being a linux expert, did only what I could do. Will modifying the XFConfig -4 file help? I'm looking into this, also. Now, I do recall when I sent my first message to the group and you replied back that the Raptor GFX PCI card might not work. The only options I had for an X server video driver during installation were: ati, glint, fbdev, suncg3, 6, and 14, sunleo, sunffb,suntcx and sunbw2 ( I did look these all up through a google search to help define what each one was ) so I chose fbdev, with my fingers crossed. Well, I guess it's not going to function with that choice. I searched freshmeat.net and google, but not many hits on raptor GFX video drivers on sparc. Still looking... Any ideas? Thanks, Pete BallasyBen Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 09:01:08AM -0700, Pete Ballasy wrote:> I sure hope my SCSI cdrom is still working. I've installed (99% of it!) Debian 3.0 Woody for sparc on our Sun Enterprise 250 and I'm getting this error message:> > 99% [Working] sr0: CDROM (ioctl) error, command: 0x00 00 00 00 00 00> current sr00:00 sns = 70 3> ASC = 57 ASCQ = 0> Raw sense data: 00 00 00 0x57 00 00 00 0x70 00 00 00 0x3> cdrom: open failed> SCSI error: host 0 id 6 lun 0 return code = 802> Sense class 7, sense error 0, extended sense 3> Media change: Please the disk labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r1_Woody_-Official sparc Binary -1 (20030101) in the drive /cdrom and press enterSounds like that CD is bad (scratched?). Try reburning the CD.-- Debian - http://www.debian.org/Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/Subver sion - http://subversion.tigris.org/Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/ Do you Yahoo!? Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM).
Re: Debian 3.0 on Netra X1, installs but won't run
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 02:55:24PM -0700, Patrick Morris wrote: > Nope, it's not a Sparc thing, it's an IDE thing. Maybe it depends on > the motherboard, but just last week I was building a OpenBSD box out of > spare parts that wouldn't boot because the CD on the second IDE was > jumpered as a master. It's not an IDE thing, it's a CDROM thing. Some just don't want to be masters. I don't know why they even have jumpers. Others are OK being masters. I think most recent drives can handle being masters, but I could be wrong. In my experience it's pretty much a toss-up whether a given drive will work when jumpered as master. noah -- ___ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html pgpjtqdYd24dZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Debian 3.0 on Netra X1, installs but won't run
I've done more exploration. Someone suggested that the problem is that the CDROM is an IDE master. When I change the CDROM to a slave, the Netra X1 refuses to recognize it. In other words, the Netra *requires* that the CDROM be an IDE master. I notice that both activity lights on the network interfaces flash when the driver is loaded. Is this expected behavior? The flashing stops when I insert a network cable connected to a hub/switch. At this point, I'm out of ideas. Thanks for the help.
Re: OpenOffice on Ultra 5
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 05:16, Frank Van Damme wrote: > On Thursday 12 June 2003 11:15, MD wrote: > > I'm running Debian testing on Ultra Sparc 5. > > Is there a chance to see soon openoffice deb packages for sparc? > > Can't you download the source packages and dkpg-buildpackage -rfakeroot them? I doubt it will build. There was a port of openoffice.org 1.0.3 to Sparc/linux floating around that a guy know as "The Shrink" did for Aurora. I made a patch from his source and posted it to the Aurora Sparc list. Here is a link to it: http://www.dslextreme.com/users/tomduffy/openoffice-sparc.diff.bz2 Once applying this patch, you should be able to build 1.0.3. -tduffy -- Thomas Duffy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: OpenOffice on Ultra 5
On Thursday 12 June 2003 11:15, MD wrote: > I'm running Debian testing on Ultra Sparc 5. > Is there a chance to see soon openoffice deb packages for sparc? Can't you download the source packages and dkpg-buildpackage -rfakeroot them? -- Frank Van Dammehttp://www.openstandaarden.be ~~~~ "Je pense, donc je suis breveté."
OpenOffice on Ultra 5
I'm running Debian testing on Ultra Sparc 5. Is there a chance to see soon openoffice deb packages for sparc?
