Re: X on SS20
Le 15.07.04, Jan Houstek a tapoté : | On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Torbjörn Olander wrote: | | Why are you using 2.6? Perhaps you will have more luck with 2.4? | | The 2.6 kernel at least feels a lot faster than 2.4, and for the fun of | testing the latest kernel. :) | | For 32bit Sparc, 2.2 is recommended and you may try to play with 2.6. | Do NOT use 2.4, it's a nightmare, and with 2.6 out there, noone is going | to fix it. Really ? I use it for several month and got no problem. Only X11 that made an error once : watchdog reset with an ok prompt that did not allow to go for resume. I use the 2.4.26 on a dayly basis without any major problem. The sound is a bit strange (with cliks every time I play something) but everything else works perfectly. Thomas -- Ť C'est l'histoire d'un gars qui veut la machine la plus puissante du monde sous Windows 95 en émulation sous Wine qui tourne sur une station FreeBSD avec bibliotheque de compatibilité Linux. ť -+- ST in Guide du linuxien pervers : A quoi sert Unix ? -+-
RE: Trouble with upgrade to unstable on SS20 SMP
-Original Message- From: James Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 July 2004 03:37 To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Subject: Trouble with upgrade to unstable on SS20 SMP I had Woody running on this thing for a while, and recently decided to upgrade to unstable (new QFE card - want iptables for a router/Squid box). I am having a bit of a problem, though - doing apt-get dist-upgrade fails, saying that due to my CPU, libc6 (= 2.3.2.ds1-13) needs kernel 2.4.21 or greater. Okay, so I apt-get install kernel-image-2.4-sparc32-smp, and get unmet dependency warnings on libc6 (2.2.5-11.5). I am stuck - can't upgrade the kernel w/o libc, can't upgrade libc w/o the kernel. Something appears to be broken in the dist-upgrade system - either that, or my machine has something screwy about it. 2xTI SuperSparc 50's (per /proc/cpuinfo), maybe? Is there a way to shoehorn unstable on this without running headlong into dependency hell? I mean, short of compiling a kernel on my Sparc (Zz) is there some magic switch or command I overlooked to just make it work? You're entering a whole World Of Pain that I was in a couple of weeks ago here. Long and short of it is that 2.4.x kernels are pretty much b0rked on sparc32 and are, unfortunately, a prerequisite for Sarge. As Jan just pointed out in another thread 2.4 development for sparc32 isn't going to go anywhere fast now 2.6 is out but 2.6 currently doesn't work very well on sparc32, either (let alone in SMP mode). If you're desperate to get a machine running Sarge you're going to have to either compile a 2.4 kernel or download one from http://osinvestor.com before you do the dist-upgrade but my SS20 with two Ross 150MHz cards never managed to stay up for more than 5 or 10 minutes at a time before spinlocking with 2.4 on Woody and 2.4+Sarge was a complete disaster. I, too, wanted to use my SS20 as an iptables router/firewall but I've had to stick with 2.2/ipchains for the time being. Gary
Re: U2 2x300 no/false keyboard after 2.6.6
cp arch/sparc64/defconfig .config make oldconfig i build some working kernels before ;-) ... there is something about the obsolete devfs in 2.6 and i googled a bit and find a working solution (for me): /etc/fstab: devpts /dev/ptsdevpts defaults0 0 Thorsten
Re: Sound + Ultra10
Have you tried this? modprobe cs4231 echo cs4231 /etc/modules Have you tried the audioctl utility? Daniel van Eeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 22:33, Ruben Navarro Huedo wrote: Hello friends: Has anybody running Sound and Ultra 10? Y have tryed it with no success :( Some indication? I am using 2.4.26 kernel and i have compiled the sparc-sound modules. Thank's. -- Ruben Navarro Huedo eb5esx (arroba) eb5esx.ampr.org http://www.cabodesantapola.org -- Daniel van Eeden [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://compukid.no-ip.org/ jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] aim: Compukid128 icq: 36952189
SOLVED: Need Help Configuring IBM 73LZX on Ultra Sparc 60
First off, thanks to everyone that responded. Your hints led me down the correct path! Problem in a nutshell: I was using a new drive and it did not have a Sun Disklable on it. Therefore, the Debian SPARC install did not know what type of drive it was. Fix: I downloaded the install disk for Solaris 9 from Sun's website and burned it to CD. When my Ultra 60 was booting, I performed a Stop-A and 'boot cdrom -s' to boot it into single user mode. I then ran the format utility. I'm certainly no professional in 'format' so I won't even mislead anyone by giving them a step-by-step here. I fuddled around with format until I could get it to auto detect the drive type, format it, partition it, and save all of the tables. Then, reboot back into Debian (this time it saw the Sun Disklable) and deleted the existing Sun partitions. Created my on partitions and viola! Now onto new roadblocks. :) Thanks! Chuck - Original Message - From: Chuck Brown To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 1:00 PM Subject: Resend: Need Help Configuring IBM 73LZX on Ultra Sparc 60 Sorry for the re-send. My work e-mail address is not allowing incoming list-server posts. So, I subscribed via my personal e-mail account. Thanks! Chuck - Original Message - From: Chuck Brown To: 'debian-sparc@lists.debian.org' Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 11:40 AM Subject: Need Help Configuring IBM 73LZX on Ultra Sparc 60 I'm trying to load Debian 3.0r1 onto an Ultra Sparc 60 and I'm having a problem partitioning my second drive. Info from probe-scsi-all: Target 0 Unit 0 Disk FUJITSU MAJ3182M SUN18G 0804 Target 1 Unit 0 Disk IBM IC35L036UCD210-0S5BS When I partition the Fujitsu drive (SUN18G) Debian recognizes the drive and no problems here. When I go to partition the IBM drive (73LZX) it can't auto-configure the drive. The IBM website has a compatibility chart for the 73LZX and it lists the Ultra 60 as compatible. I've searched IBM's website and cannot find all of the information I need to setup the drive manually. I've Googled for the drive and I think I have some of the info I need. My guesses are in quotations. Heads (1-1024, default 64): "6" Secorts/track (1-1024, default 32): "63" Cylinders (1-65535, default 35001): "4462" Alternate cylinders (0-65535, default 2): ? Physical cylinders (0-65535, default 35003): "4462" Rotation speed (rpm) (1-10, default 5400): "1" Interleave factor (1-32, default 1): ? Extra sectors per cylinder (0-32, default 0): ? Is anyone out there using one of these IBM drives on an Ultra Sparc? If so, could you kindly direct me to where I might find the appropriate information to get this drive properly partitioned? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Chuck =Chuck Brown, DSLAM Engineer Grande Communications 3966 Parkwood Blvd. Frisco, TX 75034 http://www.grandecom.com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] cell: +940.453.6723 "Good judgment is the product of experience; experience is the product of bad judgment." - Unknown=
sunffb / SARGE
Dear listmembers, to whom it might concern: due to the trouble I had had with the sunffb (X11 starts, screen gets grey, you see the mouse-cross - Signal 11) I simply tried the old sunffb_drv.o binary from SuSE 7.3. It works like charm. Therefore: whoever relies on sunffb_drv.o graphics drivers for SARGE, don't use what comes with the debian sarge distribution. It is broken. I did not test the old debian sunffb, this may work as well. Take care Dieter Jurzitza P.S. and if someone urgently needs it, let me know :-) -- HARMAN BECKER AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Dr.-Ing. Dieter Jurzitza Manager Hardware Systems ESI Industriegebiet Ittersbach Becker-Göring Str. 16 D-76307 Karlsbad / Germany Phone: +49 (0)7248 71-1577 Fax: +49 (0)7248 71-1216 eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://www.becker.de *** Diese E-Mail enthaelt vertrauliche und/oder rechtlich geschuetzte Informationen. Wenn Sie nicht der richtige Adressat sind oder diese E-Mail irrtuemlich erhalten haben, informieren Sie bitte sofort den Absender und loeschen Sie diese Mail. Das unerlaubte Kopieren sowie die unbefugte Weitergabe dieser Mail ist nicht gestattet. This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the contents in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. ***
SunBlade 2000 fails to netboot
I've got four SunBlade 2000s on which I installed Sid last year. However, because of all sorts of lock-up issues, etc, I've tried to downgrade back to Woody, with pretty bad results. The short of it is that I've decided to see if I can wipe one totally clean and start from scratch. I pulled down the official tftpboot image from ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-sparc/current/ Fom the sun4u folder I grabbed the tftpboot.img file and used it to net boot the SunBlade 2000. It started to load, and then died with the error: 464c00 Instruction Access Error ok Can't use is with (f0018f98) MyyFast Data Access MMU Miss and it dropped me to the OK prompt I remember having a similar (same?) problem last year when I installed these boxes, and I found a tftpboot image created by Ben Collins; I can boot off that one still, but when it gets to downloading the root image tc, it can no longer find the site that Ben had up. I was hoping to boot off the official image, but apparently it doesn't work with the SunBlade 2000. Any suggestions? -- Kent
Re: SunBlade 2000 fails to netboot
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 09:39:28AM -0500, Kent West wrote: I've got four SunBlade 2000s on which I installed Sid last year. However, because of all sorts of lock-up issues, etc, I've tried to downgrade back to Woody, with pretty bad results. The short of it is that I've decided to see if I can wipe one totally clean and start from scratch. I pulled down the official tftpboot image from ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-sparc/current/ http://www.phunnypharm.org/pub/for/sparc-folks/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: SunBlade 2000 fails to netboot
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 09:39:28AM -0500, Kent West wrote: Fom the sun4u folder I grabbed the tftpboot.img file and used it to net boot the SunBlade 2000. It started to load, and then died with the error: 464c00 Instruction Access Error ok Can't use is with (f0018f98) MyyFast Data Access MMU Miss and it dropped me to the OK prompt I don't know if it's the same issue, but I get the same kind of error on my blade 100 when I reboot the machine: * if I do a cold boot into Debian, it boots fine * if it's running solaris, and I do a reboot and I select linux, I get a '... MMU Miss' (sorry, don't remember what's on the dots) and I get the ok prompt I know I have an old prom (4.0 something); perhaps it's fixed in a more recent one. Anyway, I always do a power-off and turn the machine on again. Admar
Re: SunBlade 2000 fails to netboot
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know if it's the same issue, but I get the same kind of error on my blade 100 when I reboot the machine: * if I do a cold boot into Debian, it boots fine * if it's running solaris, and I do a reboot and I select linux, I get a '... MMU Miss' (sorry, don't remember what's on the dots) and I get the ok prompt You may want to try reset at the ok prompt and see if you can boot linux then. (halt at the silo prompt will drop you to openboot.) On some sun hardware, probe-scsi-all will hang or fail if the scsi controler has already been initialized. The linux boot sequence could have the same type of issue. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature.
Re: woody to sarge
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 19:32:39 -0700, Enrique Morfin wrote: i need sarge, so i modified my source.list and make dist-upgrade. At some point of this step it ask to modify the locales, i said NO, but when it finish, my keyboard is mesed up, is useless. So i need to reinstall woody and begin all again. Please report a bug against the console-data package for this. -- Joshua Kwan
Re: Ultra10 IDE and Sarge Install
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 18:42:49 -0400, Ben Collins wrote: Did you create a correct Sun Disk Label when you did the install? Our partitioner takes care of this. UNLESS... the disk already had a MS-DOS partition table on it. This will soon be fixed, along with the bug that should prevent you from installing with /boot or / not in the first gigabyte of the disk. -- Joshua Kwan
Re: Ultra10 IDE and Sarge Install
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 03:49:59PM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote: On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 18:42:49 -0400, Ben Collins wrote: Did you create a correct Sun Disk Label when you did the install? Our partitioner takes care of this. UNLESS... the disk already had a MS-DOS partition table on it. This will soon be fixed, along with the bug that should prevent you from installing with /boot or / not in the first gigabyte of the disk. Make sure you only do that for sparc32, not sparc64 (the /boot and / thing I mean). -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ WatchGuard - http://www.watchguard.com/
