Re: Deb on Sparc Station 5

2005-08-06 Thread Hartwig Atrops
Hi all.

   Hi folks I have a number of Sparc Station 5's coming soon will sarge
   run on them? I think they have 450MB hard drives and 65Mb of ram,
   though I'm not sure until they arrive. I'm  planning on learning about
   clustering, and I am reasonably new to Linux (been running Mandrake),
   so any help would be appreciated. Any good web sites you can point me
   at?
 
  I run Etch on an Ultra 5 box here (writing this now using Sylpheed on
  that box now).

 I'll just say it so someone else doesn't have to, a SparcStation 5 and
 an Ultra 5 are mch different animals.

That's true. A Sparcstation 5 is a 32 bit machine whith SCSI disks, while a 
Ultra 5 has a 64 bit CPU (and IDE).

The old Sparcstation 5 is a fine (home) server today. My SS5 has a 110 MHz 
CPU and the standard 8 bit graphics. I am still running Debian Woody on it, 
did not try Sarge yet. 

The SS5 has a special slot for a true color graphics card. I never have seen 
one and I do not know if it works with Linux/XFree86. 8 bit colour isn't much 
fun today. 

A 450 MB hard drive is not enough for an installation with KDE or Gnome, a 
small window manager like icewm, flwm ... shoud be possible. 

The high end 32 bit Sun workstation was the SS20 - with up to 4 CPUs. I have 
some dual processor SS20, I am planning to try clustering, too (Beowulf). As 
far as I know it works. Network interface: 10 Mbit/s.

Regards,

   Hartwig


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Kernel panic after running base-config, after install of 3.1

2005-08-06 Thread Chris Palmer
Hello,

I just installed Debian 3.1 (from the net install CD) on a sun4u that
identifies itself as:

Sun Ultra 1 UPA/SBus (UltraSPARC 167MHz), No Keyboard
OpenBoot 3.11, 448 MB memory installed, Serial #9032388.
Ethernet address 8:0:20:89:d2:c4, Host ID: 8089d2c4.

The install went fine. After I rebooted, it ran base-config, which also
seemed to go fine. But at the end of base-config, this happened:

 begin kernel panic output 

zs_open tts/%d0, tty overwrite. [appears many times]
zs_open tts/%d0, tty overwrite.
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
tsk-{mm,active_mm}-context = 0504
tsk-{mm,active_mm}-pgd = f8001152e000
  \|/  \|/
  @'/ .. \`@
  /_| \__/ |_\
 \__U_/
swapper(0): Oops
TSTATE: 004480f09606 TPC: 00515d80 TNPC: 00515d30 Y: ced
g0: 006c4288 g1:  g2:  g3: d
g4: f800 g5:  g6: 00414000 g7: 00670
o0: 0007 o1: 0001 o2:  o3: 0
o4: 006c3000 o5: 006038e0 sp: 00417211 ret_pc: 4
l0: f80030ad4000 l1:  l2:  l3: 1
l4:  l5: 01f0 l6: 00603870 l7: 0
i0: f8c0 i1: 00417d10 i2: 00603d80 i3: 00068
i4: 0006983c i5:  i6: 004172d1 i7: 00510
Caller[00516050]
Caller[0041edc4]
Caller[00408994]
Caller[0041a504]
Caller[0063e6f4]
Caller[00404678]
Caller[]
Instruction DUMP: 106fffee  84102002  106fffed c0284000 7f47 81e8  7 
Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!
In interrupt handler - not syncing
 Press L1-A to return to the boot prom

 end kernel panic output 

Has anyone else had a problem like this? I've got the machine back up
and am doing things on it, and it hasn't exploded again yet. Thanks in
advance for any hints, tips or commiseration.


For good measure, my dmesg is included below.

 begin dmesg output 

PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 3.11.1 1997/12/03 15:44
Linux version 2.4.27-2-sparc64 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 
1:3.3.5-12)) #1 Sun Apr 3 05:21:36 UTC 2005
ARCH: SUN4U
Ethernet address: 08:00:20:89:d2:c4
On node 0 totalpages: 56477
zone(0): 114596 pages.
zone(1): 0 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Found CPU 0 (node=f006499c,mid=0)
Found 1 CPU prom device tree node(s).
Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda2 ro
Calibrating delay loop... 333.41 BogoMIPS
Memory: 441008k available (1880k kernel code, 296k data, 160k init) 
[f800,37f48000]
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 1048576 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 524288 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 8192 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 262144 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 524288 bytes)
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: Probing for controllers.
SYSIO: UPA portID 1f, at 01fe
sbus0: Clock 25.0 MHz
dma0: HME DVMA gate array 
Sparc Zilog8530 serial driver version 1.68.2.2
Sun Mouse-Systems mouse driver version 1.00
tty00 at 0xf114 (irq = 12,7e8) is a Zilog8530
tty01 at 0xf110 (irq = 12,7e8) is a Zilog8530
tty02 at 0xf104 (irq = 12,7e8) is a Zilog8530
tty03 at 0xf100 (irq = 12,7e8) is a Zilog8530
keyboard: not present
Console: ttyS0 (Zilog8530)
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
devfs: boot_options: 0x0
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
rtc_init: no PC rtc found
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 50MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb.c: registered new driver usbmouse
usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver
usb.c: registered new driver usbkbd
usbkbd.c: :USB HID Boot Protocol keyboard driver
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 65536 bind 65536)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 2928 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... 

Question regarding bootup | Debian on SPARC 4

2005-08-06 Thread Steve
Title: Message



Hi 
All,

I have a SPARC 
4running sarge ona 2.6.12 sparc32 kernel.

The question is, how 
can I get the box to boot up with no monitor or keyboard 
attached?

The box boots fine 
with them attached but must hang when they are disconnected as not even the 
interfacecomes up.

Any 
ideas?

Cheers,

Steve


Re: Question regarding bootup | Debian on SPARC 4

2005-08-06 Thread Chris Palmer
Steve writes:

 The box boots fine with them attached but must hang when they are
 disconnected as not even the interface comes up.

Attach a null modem cable to its serial port (and the other end to a
machine running minicom or similar), and watch the console for clues.


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Keyboard and mouse settings for X

2005-08-06 Thread mangala
Hi,
I have installed Debian 3.1 on an Ultra 10 with a Sun Type 6 keyboard 
(non-USB).  The mouse plugs in to the keyboard.  The keyboard works fine 
at the console and the mouse was detected during X setup, but neither 
works at the Gnome login screen.  The key mapping is completely screwed up 
so I can't even log in and the mouse is completely unresponsive.  Does 
anyone know what settings I need to get the kb and mouse to work?
Thanks,
Mangala Sadhu Sangeet Singh


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Re: Keyboard and mouse settings for X

2005-08-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 07 August 2005 00:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I have installed Debian 3.1 on an Ultra 10 with a Sun Type 6 keyboard
 (non-USB).  The mouse plugs in to the keyboard.  The keyboard works
 fine at the console and the mouse was detected during X setup, but
 neither works at the Gnome login screen.  The key mapping is completely
 screwed up so I can't even log in and the mouse is completely
 unresponsive.  Does anyone know what settings I need to get the kb and
 mouse to work? Thanks,

Sounds like 2.4 versus 2.6 kernel confusion. See the Release Notes for 
information on this.

-http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/sparc/release-notes/ch-installing.en.html
-http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/sparc/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#s-upgrade-to-2.6

Cheers,
FJP


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