Re: incredible slow E250
* on the Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 05:22:06PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 17:26:53 +0100 Peter Keel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got my E250 running with my own kernel (2.4.23-rc5-grsec), to be correct, I got it crawling for some applications: Do the slowdowns happen without the grsec stuff added to the kernel? You're right. It is grsec which slows down things like dpkg by factor 6. I was too quick to rule that one out. Right now, I try to find out which part of grsec is really responsible for it (it shouldn't be the non-exec stack per se, according to the authors). Peter -- Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin
Re: Silo breakage creating woody r2 CDs for sparc
* on the Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 10:16:58AM +, Brian Teeman wrote: I dont think Steve was commenting on if users wanted sparc CDs. He was talking about if anyone in Debian wanted to support sparc CDs. I don't know. I'm running Debian on Sparcs since a few years, and on about 8 machines. And I've never used floppies or a CD to boot. Even the first I set up with bootp and tftp. So I guess on sparc they aren't needed as much as on architectures where you can't just boot net. So this makes the userbase smaller (which isn't as huge as the x86-crowd in the first place), and certainly also the developer-base even more... Peter -- Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin
Netra T1 with kern 2.4.18 and HME ethernet
Hi folks, Quick summary: Netra T1 ethernet ports don't work - should they (yet)? I have got a set of five Netra T1s. These use the UltraSPARC II chip, which I understand is sun4u architecture. Each one has neither floppy nor CD-ROM drive, but does have two onboard ethernet ports and also a HME quad ethernet card. I'm using the TFTP image from ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-sparc/current/sun4u/tftpboot.img as described in the Debian Installation Guide at http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/sparc/install. The TFTP boot process works, and I can start the woody installation process quite happily. My problem is that although the installation process detects all six ethernet ports, none of them can receive data. (For example, I can see DHCP requests go out, and the reply come back from the DHCP Server, but the kernel never sees the packets arrive: ifconfig shows zero packets received.) I've also tried configuring the ports manually using ifconfig - in fact that's my preferred approach - but this didn't help, either. I've noticed that the docs are relatively old, and tend to refer to 2.2.x kernels, whereas the TFTP boot image uses 2.4.18. There are warnings about older kernels not supporting the onboard ethernet ports, so I've also tried several of the 4-port ethernet ports. Here are the pertinent boot messages (copied by hand from a real terminal connected to the Netra's serial console): | sunhme.c v1.99 12/Sep/99 | eth0-3: Quattro HME (PCI/CheerIO) 10/100baseT Ethernet DEC21153 PCI Bridge | eth0 Quattro HME slot 0 (PCI/CheerIO) 10/100baseT Ethernet 08:00:20:b2:79:21 | eth1 Quattro HME slot 0 (PCI/CheerIO) 10/100baseT Ethernet ... | eth2 HAPPY MEAL (PCI/CheerIO) 10/100BaseT Ethernet ... | eth3 HAPPY MEAL (PCI/CheerIO) 10/100BaseT Ethernet ... | eth3 HAPPY MEAL (PCI/CheerIO) 10/100BaseT Ethernet ... | eth5 HAPPY MEAL (PCI/CheerIO) 10/100BaseT Ethernet 08:00:20:ad:de:10 Should Netra T1s be able to communicate over the network? I don't mind whether I use the onboard ethernet ports or the HME 4-port card. I'd just like it to talk to me :-) Cheers, Chris
Re: Netra T1 with kern 2.4.18 and HME ethernet
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 02:44:00PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, Quick summary: Netra T1 ethernet ports don't work - should they (yet)? I have got a set of five Netra T1s. These use the UltraSPARC II chip, which I understand is sun4u architecture. Each one has neither floppy nor CD-ROM drive, but does have two onboard ethernet ports and also a HME quad ethernet card. I'm using the TFTP image from ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-sparc/current/sun4u/tftpboot.img as described in the Debian Installation Guide at http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/sparc/install. Try the tftp image at: http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/disks-sparc/current/ -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ WatchGuard - http://www.watchguard.com/
Re: XFree86 on Sunblade 150
On Tuesday 02 December 2003 23:42, Kent West wrote: Ryan Terry (MessEdUp) wrote: I am trying to configure X on a SunBlade 150. I am using the ati Mach64 server, and it is working enough to where I can get a desktop and I can set my resolution, and see things just fine. The problem I have is that the top 2 inches of the screen seem to bend to the right about a half inch. Other than this the X-Server seems to be running well. I have drawn up a VERY dirty sketch of what the screen looks like just to try to explain, it can be found here: http://www.violentsin.com/images/X-Distoreted.png Any help would be appreciated. What you've described/drawn sounds like less of an X problem and more of an adjustment problem on the monitor. You should be able to use the buttons on the monitor to adjust out the bend. Of course, if that messes up the console image, then I'm wrong. (Wouldn't be the first time I was wrong; there was that time in 1974) Normally a monitor saves the settings for earch resolution, try the following: change the width of your screen in X switch to console and everything will look normally (if the resolution/refresh rate between console and X differ offcourse) than switch back to X and look at the tiny screen. Unless if you have an old mechanical monitor where you should manually replace your magnets :D this won't work in that case. -- http://www.de-brauwer.be
