Sun Ultra 1, Happy Meal Ethernet and 2.4.18
Hi, I just installed Debian on a Sun Ultra 1 Creator 3d. The Sarge imags I got dind't detect my cdrom drive so I used Woody which worked quite well. One Problem I experience now is the hanging HappyMeal syndrome which seems to be common in 2.4.18. Since I am going to upgrade to a Sarge kernel: has this Item been fixed in 2.4.27? Thanks for your time, Sebastian
Re: Changing ip and hostname, gnome problem
> Convines us that it is debian-sparc@lists.debian.org related. If anyone here can help him, then they should, but by telling him its the wrong forum without directing him to the correct forum you are just helping to continue the myth that gnu/linux users are elitists.. Michael, try posing the question on the irc channel #gnome or on any of the sparc channels on irc.freenode.net. I usually get the best responses from the #gentoo-sparc channel, even on debian related issues. They might be able to help you out. In the meantime, if you change the ip but leave the hostname the same, does the error stil occur? Also check the other way around, does changing the hostname but leaving the same IP work? -- Take Back the Web! Get the Mozilla Firefox Web Browser! http://www.getfirefox.com
Re: Changing ip and hostname, gnome problem
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 10:42:20AM -0600, Chanslor, Michael David wrote: > Debians - I have changed debian/sparc/testing ip address and hostname to > a new subnet. > Modified: > /etc/network/interfaces > /etc/hosts > > 1.)Changes reflect in ifconfig, and talks on network OK > 2.)The problem is now gnome starts, but does NOT start menu bars, it's > almost like a fail-safe session because I get one window and can not > move it around... > 3.) I can change /etc/hosts and /etc/network/interfaces back to old and > everything works fine... > > Any ideas? Convines us that it is debian-sparc@lists.debian.org related. Cheers Geert Stappers -- Choose the forum carefully --smart questions rule #1 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Serial Terminal Virtual Consoles
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 07:58:46PM -0800, Jason Parvu wrote: > Does anyone how would I switch consoles (Ctrl-Alt-F2, etc) from > a serial terminal or is this possible. I am using a wyse-60 terminal and it > has no alt key? Welcome the wonderfull world of ASCII. I think you are looking for Package: screen Description: a terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation screen is a terminal multiplexor that runs several separate "screens" on a single physical character-based terminal. Each virtual terminal emulates a DEC VT100 plus several ANSI X3.64 and ISO 2022 functions. Screen sessions can be detached and resumed later on a different terminal. . Screen also supports a whole slew of other features. Some of these are: configurable input and output translation, serial port support, configurable logging, multi-user support, and utf8 charset support. Cheers Geert Stappers signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug 280384 (XFree86 Memory NX Bug) Fixed In Unstable
It appears that the X Strike Force build including the latest SPARC ELF loader fix from Mr. Mortimer has been inducted into the archive as of today, 2004-12-13. I advise everyone to discontinue use of the unofficial 'rjmx' X packages from my web server and move back to the real versions in unstable, once you are sure they work. Unless I receive objections from the community, I will be removing these files in approximately two weeks' time due to their apparent redundancy. Until then feel free to continue to download them from http://www.mhcomputing.net/debian/ . Thank you to the community for supporting me and others and for giving me the chance to support you as well by providing these fixed X packages.
Various unstable brokenness - X keyboard, dual processor kernel, console
All, Just a couple of quick notes: X keyboard is totally impossible and can't even get Ctrl-alt-backspace to kill it because I can't type ctrl-alt-bksp :( This is a sparc20 with two processors and 288M of memory: if and only if X is actually running, the dual processor kernel dies almost immediately with a watchdog reset - I've had to revert to a single processor kernel. [Both 2.4.27] Andy
