Re: Problems with X11 on Ultra10
On 2014-05-05, Howard Eisenberger wrote: On 2014-05-03, Sad Clouds wrote: Hello, I'm new to Debian and trying it out on Ultra10 which has Creator3D framebuffer. I installed Debian stable and seem to be having some issues with X11 or display manager. The system boots OK and I can see boot messages, but when it goes to start display manager the screen goes black and nothing happens. No windows, no mouse cursor, nothing. I don't have a Creator on my Ultra 10 (onboard ATI), but X works with Creator on my Ultra60 using Jan 10 jessie version of Debian. I installed a Creator card in my Ultra 10 and the problem seems to be that Debian tries to use the onboard ATI. You can search for this on the Web. I got a console by appending video=atyfb:off to the silo boot, but X is still not working. I created a xorg.conf, but I don't know how to ID the Creator card, which isn't PCI. It might be simpler to just pull the Creator and try the onboard ATI. The ATI on my Ultra 10 only has 2MB ram and is really fussy about which monitor I use. My Ultra 5 has 4MB video ram and is not so fussy. I use these as servers and/or music boxes, not graphical Desktops. For the former they work fine with Debian or OpenBSD. Regards, Howard E. -- My desktop is 3/4 plywood. -me -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/bsto85f7jj...@mid.individual.net
Re: Problems with X11 on Ultra10
On 2014-05-03, Sad Clouds wrote: Hello, I'm new to Debian and trying it out on Ultra10 which has Creator3D framebuffer. I installed Debian stable and seem to be having some issues with X11 or display manager. The system boots OK and I can see boot messages, but when it goes to start display manager the screen goes black and nothing happens. No windows, no mouse cursor, nothing. I don't have a Creator on my Ultra 10 (onboard ATI), but X works with Creator on my Ultra60 using Jan 10 jessie version of Debian. I know that at some point before this version, the sunffb module was missing, so there was no X. I don't know what you intend to do with your Ultra 10, but even if you get X working, I doubt if any of the graphical browsers will work (bus error) and/or be very slow. The following is what is working for me now: ultra60:~$ uname -a Linux ultra60 3.12-1-sparc64-smp #1 SMP Debian 3.12.6-2 (2013-12-29) sparc64 GNU/Linux ultra60:~$ Xorg -version X.Org X Server 1.14.5 Release Date: 2013-12-12 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.32-5-sparc64-smp sparc Debian Current Operating System: Linux ultra60 3.12-1-sparc64-smp #1 SMP Debian 3.12.6-2 (2013-12-29) sparc64 Kernel command line: root=/dev/sdb2 ro Build Date: 13 December 2013 06:07:03PM xorg-server 2:1.14.5-1 (Maarten Lankhorst maarten.lankho...@ubuntu.com) Current version of pixman: 0.32.4 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. ultra60:~$ grep -i sunffb /var/log/Xorg.0.log [ 167.573] (==) Matched sunffb as autoconfigured driver 0 [ 167.573] (==) Matched sunffb as autoconfigured driver 1 [ 167.573] (II) LoadModule: sunffb [ 167.599] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/sunffb_drv.so [ 167.612] (II) Module sunffb: vendor=X.Org Foundation [ 167.632] (II) SUNFFB: driver for Creator, Creator 3D and Elite 3D [ 167.646] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for sunffb [ 167.649] (WW) SUNFFB: More than one matching Device section found: Autoconfigured Video Device sunffb [ 167.664] (II) SUNFFB(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section [ 167.664] (==) SUNFFB(0): RGB weight 888 [ 167.665] (==) SUNFFB(0): Default visual is TrueColor [ 167.665] (==) SUNFFB(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) [ 167.665] (==) SUNFFB(0): Using HW cursor [ 167.704] (EE) SUNFFB: Failed to load module xaa (module does not exist, 0) [ 167.704] (II) SUNFFB(0): Loading XAA failed, acceleration disabled [ 167.705] (==) SUNFFB(0): DPI set to (96, 96) [ 167.771] (==) SUNFFB(0): Backing store disabled [ 167.772] (==) SUNFFB(0): Silken mouse enabled [ 167.804] (==) SUNFFB(0): DPMS enabled [ 167.804] (==) SUNFFB(0): DPMS enabled - Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/bspabkf9bn...@mid.individual.net
Re: Seems I have bad timing with Debian on SPARC.
On 2013-10-03, Hartwig Atrops hartwig.atr...@arcor.de wrote: I reinstalled my Ultra 60 some days ago - dual boot Wheezy / Jessie. I used the netinstall CDs. I'm running XFCE4, workes fine so far on both Wheezy and Jessie. Ok, Iceweasel is broken - that's an old problem. And installing Jessie with the XFCE CD ended up in a mixture of XFCE and Gnome - unusable. But starting with the netinstall CD, even Jessie is working without major problems so far. I just fired up my Ultra 60 with Creator card running Wheezy. No desktop manager, startx plus window manager. Everything seems to work, except: (1) No sound with SMP kernel. Non-SMP kernel O.K. (2) Bus error with iceweasel and iceape. I believe it's been like this for a couple of years now. $ uname -a Linux debu60 3.2.0-4-sparc64 #1 Debian 3.2.46-1 sparc64 GNU/Linux $ Xorg -version X.Org X Server 1.12.4 Release Date: 2012-08-27 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.32-5-sparc64-smp sparc Debian Current Operating System: Linux debu60 3.2.0-4-sparc64 #1 Debian 3.2.46-1 sparc64 Kernel command line: root=/dev/sdc2 ro Build Date: 17 April 2013 11:30:19AM xorg-server 2:1.12.4-6 (Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org) Current version of pixman: 0.26.0 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. $ grep -i sunffb /var/log/Xorg.0.log [ 108.882] (==) Matched sunffb as autoconfigured driver 0 [ 108.882] (==) Matched sunffb as autoconfigured driver 1 [ 108.883] (II) LoadModule: sunffb [ 108.924] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/sunffb_drv.so [ 108.938] (II) Module sunffb: vendor=X.Org Foundation [ 109.057] (II) SUNFFB: driver for Creator, Creator 3D and Elite 3D [ 109.071] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for sunffb [ 109.074] (WW) SUNFFB: More than one matching Device section found: Autoconfigured Video Dev [ 109.082] (II) SUNFFB(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section [ 109.082] (==) SUNFFB(0): RGB weight 888 [ 109.082] (==) SUNFFB(0): Default visual is TrueColor [ 109.083] (==) SUNFFB(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) [ 109.083] (==) SUNFFB(0): Using HW cursor [ 109.167] (==) SUNFFB(0): DPI set to (96, 96) [ 109.238] (II) SUNFFB(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA) [ 109.239] (==) SUNFFB(0): Backing store disabled [ 109.239] (==) SUNFFB(0): Silken mouse enabled [ 109.242] (==) SUNFFB(0): DPMS enabled [ 109.242] (==) SUNFFB(0): DPMS enabled Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/bb8f5ifu58...@mid.individual.net
Re: Seems I have bad timing with Debian on SPARC.
On 2013-10-04, Hartwig Atrops wrote: On Friday 04 October 2013 22:43:43 u60 spitfire wrote: Nice. I'll disable XDM and do a manual startup. Did you write out /etc/X11/xorg.conf? (if not, if there's a chance you could before starting X do an X -configure and post the resulting xorg.conf.new that pops up in your home directory that would be great. My Ultra 60 has a Creator 3D card, too . X worked out of the box here, I did not need to provide an xorg.conf (Wheezy and Jessie). Xdm is in use, too - no problems. Neither local monitor nor XDMCP. No xorg.conf here also. I get 1280x1024 on old Sun (Hitachi?) monitor with VGA adapter on Creator card. Xorg -configure doesn't work, so no /root/xorg.conf.new. I do get a Segmentation fault when I shut down X before powering off. [I have Debian on external SCSI drive. Solaris 10 and OpenBSD on the internal drives. It's a slow machine, so I wouldn't expect too much. Debian on the 1.5MZ, 500MB ram Sunpci card is faster.] Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/bb9jlmf6id...@mid.individual.net
Re: powerbutton
On 2012-03-29, mlsp...@mailserver.ipstatico.net wrote: I've installed debian 6 stable on an old sparc sun ultra5 if I type: halt or shutdown -h now or init 0 all works fine If I try to shutdown using the powerbutton, the computer will go off but a lot of errors appear on the screen before going off How could I resolve the problem? I've had an ultra5 and ultra10 for years and always used halt, etc. I never considered using the powerbutton to shutdown. Anyway, I tried it on my ultra10 running wheezy and it got as far as ...Stoping disk Asking all remaining processes to terminate... and hung there without shutting off until I cut the power. When I powered the machine back on, it said that the disk wasn't cleanly unmounted, did a fsck, and carried on. This machine has a SCSI controller and drive. Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/9tq6nkf3v...@mid.individual.net
Re: New SILO available for testing
On 2012-01-27, Jurij Smakov wrote: I've built a new SILO package, which contain upstream fixes for bug #655897 (failure to build from source with recent versions of e2fslibs). I would appreciate some early testing before I upload it to unstable. You can find the new package (both source and binary) at http://www.wooyd.org/silo/ It works for me, but there is always a chance that as a result of installing it your system may become unbootable, so you should only test it if you are comfortable with recovering from situations like that. If I don't hear that something is horribly broken with the new package, I'll upload it to unstable in the middle of next week. Tested fine here on ide drive in spare ultra 10 wheezy box. Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/9opt68fua...@mid.individual.net
Re: Help Installing Lenny 5.0.0 on Ultra 5
On 2011-03-14, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Collin Baillie wrote: I also retrieved 6.0.0 sparc. Is the xorg problem fixed in this release. A very good question which I've not seen answered authoritatively. I see that the cmd64x module isn't included, so I guess install will fail anyhow. Or has this been fixed also? Basically, should I drop 5.0.0 and go for 6.0.0 on my Ultra 5? Is there a documented process to install a newer 5.0.x release with a working Xorg? I'm no authority, but I have been successfully running this combination on my Ultra 5 for some time: X.Org X Server 1.7.7 Release Date: 2010-05-04 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.32-bpo.5-sparc64-smp sparc Debian Current Operating System: Linux ultra5.localdomain 2.6.32-5-sparc64 #1 Thu Aug 12 15:23:02 UTC 2010 sparc64 Kernel command line: root=UUID=681641d3-5316-4b76-aa30-284b541d47d0 ro Build Date: 15 July 2010 04:58:18PM xorg-server 2:1.7.7-3 (Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org) Also, as I reported here last week: Subject: Re: Daily image builds restored Installed wheezy using businesscard.iso today (7 Mar.) to Ultra 10 with IDE Cd-Rom and hard drive, then upgraded to kernel 2.6.37 without problem. I haven't installed X yet, but I'll try it and report back. Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8u658vfv3...@mid.individual.net
Re: Help Installing Lenny 5.0.0 on Ultra 5
On 2011-03-14, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Howard Eisenberger wrote: On 2011-03-14, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Collin Baillie wrote: I also retrieved 6.0.0 sparc. Is the xorg problem fixed in this release. A very good question which I've not seen answered authoritatively. I see that the cmd64x module isn't included, so I guess install will fail anyhow. Or has this been fixed also? Basically, should I drop 5.0.0 and go for 6.0.0 on my Ultra 5? Is there a documented process to install a newer 5.0.x release with a working Xorg? I'm no authority, but I have been successfully running this combination on my Ultra 5 for some time: X.Org X Server 1.7.7 Release Date: 2010-05-04 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.32-bpo.5-sparc64-smp sparc Debian Current Operating System: Linux ultra5.localdomain 2.6.32-5-sparc64 #1 Thu Aug 12 15:23:02 UTC 2010 sparc64 Kernel command line: root=UUID=681641d3-5316-4b76-aa30-284b541d47d0 ro Build Date: 15 July 2010 04:58:18PM xorg-server 2:1.7.7-3 (Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org) Also, as I reported here last week: Subject: Re: Daily image builds restored Installed wheezy using businesscard.iso today (7 Mar.) to Ultra 10 with IDE Cd-Rom and hard drive, then upgraded to kernel 2.6.37 without problem. I haven't installed X yet, but I'll try it and report back. Thanks for that Howard, we await your results with bated breath. From a standard installation apt-get install xorg openbox menu seems to work for me. ultra10:~$ Xorg -version X.Org X Server 1.7.7 Release Date: 2010-05-04 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.32-bpo.5-sparc64-smp sparc Debian Current Operating System: Linux ultra10 2.6.37-2-sparc64 #1 Sun Feb 27 11:28:28 UTC 2011 sparc64 Kernel command line: root=/dev/sdb2 ro Build Date: 12 January 2011 03:48:22AM xorg-server 2:1.7.7-11 (Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org) Current version of pixman: 0.16.4 I do find that editing xorg.conf to use the dummy driver and then setting up VNC generally works, except that my results with KDE4 have been mixed since it makes far more use of subtle colours. Without an xorg.conf I only get 800x600. With monitor specs and DefaultDepth 16 in xorg.conf on the Ultra 10, I get much better resolution. On my Ultra 5 I have the monitor specs, but the DefaultDepth is commented out. I see that the ATI on my Ultra 5 has 4MB video ram, but only 2MB on my Ultra 10. [I have been using the Ultra 10 as a 24/7 Internet server for a number of years. I have just taken it offline and can now use it as a test box.] Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8u6k8vfc1...@mid.individual.net
Re: Daily image builds restored
On 2011-03-05, Jurij Smakov wrote: Thanks to the efforts of Aurelien Jarno and Steve McIntyre, the daily Debian installer image builds for sparc are happening again. Please test these installer images regularly, if you have an opportunity to do so. They can be downloaded from: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ Installed wheezy using businesscard.iso today (7 Mar.) to Ultra 10 with IDE Cd-Rom and hard drive, then upgraded to kernel 2.6.37 without problem. Linux ultra10 2.6.37-2-sparc64 #1 Sun Feb 27 11:28:28 UTC 2011 sparc64 GNU/Linux [ 27.470225] atyfb: 3D RAGE II+ (Mach64 GT) [0x4754 rev 0x9a] [ 27.470369] atyfb: 2M SGRAM (1:1), 14.31818 MHz XTAL, 200 MHz PLL, 67 Mhz MCLK, 67 MHz XCLK [ 27.568794] atyfb: fb0: ATY Mach64 frame buffer device on PCI 01:02.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage I/II 215GT [Mach64 GT] (rev 9a) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Flags: stepping, medium devsel, IRQ 13 Memory at e100 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] I/O ports at fe01 [disabled] [size=1] [virtual] Memory at fe01 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1] [virtual] Memory at fe01 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1] [virtual] Memory at fe01 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1] [virtual] Memory at fe01 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1] Expansion ROM at fe01 [disabled] [size=1] Kernel driver in use: atyfb Thanks and regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8tltnvfsh...@mid.individual.net
Re: Unofficial Squeeze installer image available
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 08:43:18AM +, Jurij Smakov wrote: http://www.wooyd.org/debian/squeeze/ One point: as mini iso installer downloads all udebs from the network, it probably does not matter in this case whether the cmd64x driver is available on the initrd or not, however it would be essential for installation from proper CD-ROM media. Can you verify that it is actually loaded on your system immediately after boot from mini iso? Just go back to the main installer menu (even before configuring the network) and check that it shows up in lsmod output or /proc/modules. If there is a mount binary available, you can also try to mount the CD at that point to positively confirm that everything is working as expected. No. pata_cmd64x module and /dev/scd0, /dev/sdaX do not appear until after Detect disks in the installer. Thanks, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110210203512.894938a...@mail.ncf.ca
Re: Unofficial Squeeze installer image available
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 09:43:21PM +, Jurij Smakov wrote: Over the last couple of days I've managed to build a functional Squeeze installer mini iso image for sparc, which addresses all known sparc-specific problems described in Squeeze errata. You can find the image, patches used to build it and a README file describing the bugs it's supposed to address (as well as rebuild instructions) at http://www.wooyd.org/debian/squeeze/ If you have encountered problems during Squeeze installation, please test this image and report the results, as a positive confirmation of fixes on a variety of different systems is essential for getting all these fixes into the first Squeeze point release. Perfecto! on this Ultra 5, IDE only. Expert install of base sytem and silo went without a hitch. The last time I installed Squeeze on this machine back in June, I had to use external SCSI CD-ROM, as I reported here. It was only in the last couple of days, that I learned that it was probably the CMD64x problem. Many thanks, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110210010433.aea448b...@mail.ncf.ca
Re: Debian 5.05 installation problem
On 2010-08-17, Negib Sherif wrote: I am trying to install Debian 5.05 version on Sparc V440 headless server with serial connection and the courser freezes on the installation menu. Anyone had similar problem and solution for it. I did not have any problem to install Ubuntu 6.10 on Sparc V440 which uses Debian installation code except the network card, cassini, that came with it did not work and managed the NIC to work with 3com card. I had a similar problem with a Sun Ultra AXe. I believe that that version of Ubuntu uses something like kernel 2.6.18. I ended up installing FreeBSD. Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/l3cuj7-git@gonif.dnyndns.org
Re: XVR-600 console not working with e3d [was Re: please restore Sun XVR video drivers, and add the latest one [was Re: Debian Sparc 5.4 on Sun blade 2500]]
On 2010-08-16, Josip Rodin wrote: On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 10:09:06AM -0400, Howard Eisenberger wrote: If it helps, I did this with the XVR-600 in my Ultra 60, but the output stops with: [0.00] OF stdout device is: /p...@1f,2000/SUNW,xvr-...@1 ... [0.00] Console: colour dummy device 80x25 [0.00] console [tty0] enabled, bootconsole disabled OK, so the conclusion from this is that either e3d (sunxvr500) driver needs some fixes to support XVR-600, or we need some way of getting the other one to activate? Cc:ing kernel mailing list in case someone there has better input. I found a thread from March this year where Dave was trying and failing to reproduce a similar setup - maybe Howard can provide the missing link now. One more thing - Howard, can you please see: http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2010/03/msg00036.html That link to a test kernel image in that message still works, so you could try it and report back. Booting with http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/xvr600_test.img, I do get a console. Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 144x56 e3d: Found device at 0001:80:01.0 fbcon: e3d (fb1) is primary device fbcon: Remapping primary device, fb1, to tty 1-63 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/7fipj7-nei@gonif.dnyndns.org
Re: please restore Sun XVR video drivers, and add the latest one [was Re: Debian Sparc 5.4 on Sun blade 2500]
On 2010-08-14, Josip Rodin wrote: On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 11:52:43PM +0200, joy wrote: On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 10:09:06AM -0400, Howard Eisenberger wrote: If it helps, I did this with the XVR-600 in my Ultra 60, but the output stops with: [0.00] OF stdout device is: /p...@1f,2000/SUNW,xvr-...@1 ... [0.00] Console: colour dummy device 80x25 [0.00] console [tty0] enabled, bootconsole disabled I am able to ssh into the machine. # uname -a Linux ultra60 2.6.32-5-sparc64-smp #1 SMP Thu Aug 12 18:24:18 \ UTC 2010 sparc64 GNU/Linux # lspci -v 0001:80:01.0 Display controller: 3DLabs Sun XVR-500 Graphics \ Accelerator (rev 01) Subsystem: 3DLabs Device 1047 Flags: 66MHz, medium devsel, IRQ 22 Memory at 0400 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] Memory at 0800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K] Memory at 0a00 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M] [virtual] Memory at fe01 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1] [virtual] Memory at fe01 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1] [virtual] Memory at fe01 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1] Expansion ROM at fe01 [disabled] [size=1] Capabilities: [68] Power Management version 1 Kernel driver in use: e3d So it doesn't look like the kernel framebuffer drivers picked it up. So that should be 3d3d:1047... but from the looks of it, that's not the detection method on sparc, the driver is just looking for SUNW,gfb in the PROM data. Can you install sparc-utils and run prtconf -v, and see if anything like that comes up? # prtconf -v System Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4u Memory size: 2048 Megabytes System Peripherals (Software Nodes): SUNW,Ultra-60 packages (driver probably installed) terminal-emulator (driver probably installed) deblocker (driver probably installed) obp-tftp (driver probably installed) disk-label (driver probably installed) SUNW,builtin-drivers (driver probably installed) sun-keyboard (driver probably installed) chosen (driver probably installed) openprom (driver probably installed) client-services (driver probably installed) options (driver probably installed) aliases (driver probably installed) memory (driver probably installed) virtual-memory (driver probably installed) pci (driver probably installed) ebus (driver probably installed) auxio (driver probably installed) power (driver probably installed) SUNW,pll (driver probably installed) sc (driver probably installed) se (driver probably installed) su (driver probably installed) su (driver probably installed) ecpp (driver probably installed) fdthree (driver probably installed) eeprom (driver probably installed) flashprom (driver probably installed) SUNW,CS4231 (driver probably installed) network (driver probably installed) scsi (driver probably installed) disk (driver probably installed) tape (driver probably installed) scsi (driver probably installed) disk (driver probably installed) tape (driver probably installed) usb (driver probably installed) usb (driver probably installed) usb (driver probably installed) pci108e,676a (driver probably installed) pci (driver probably installed) SUNW,XVR-600 (driver probably installed) counter-timer (driver probably installed) SUNW,UltraSPARC-II (driver probably installed) SUNW,UltraSPARC-II (driver probably installed) SUNW,ffb (driver probably installed) Oh, and on second thought, also it looks like e3d is the signature of the XVR-500 class driver (drivers/video/sunxvr500.c). That one also matches devices by PCI subdevice ID (0x0140 or 0x1024) which is probably how you get it. dmesg | grep e3d # ? # dmesg | grep e3d [ 77.017122] e3d: Found device at 0001:80:01.0 Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/knglj7-d2e@gonif.dnyndns.org
Re: Ultra 5, X hangs...
On 2010-08-11, Marco Gaiarin wrote: After upgrading lenny some days ago (and after i've not upgrade for a long time...) if i start the X server (via gdm or manually) the machine hung. If i boot in single user mode, the box work flawlessy. I've tried to remove the xorg.conf file, reconfigure, ... but nothing changed. Some hint? Thanks. You might want to search the mailing list archives for these subjects: X on Ultra5 with Debian Lenny 5.0.3 configure ati chipset for Sun ultra 5 I believe it is a question of getting the right combination of newer kernel and Xorg. Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8ulij7-b4k@gonif.dnyndns.org
Re: errors silo
On 2010-06-01, Howard Eisenberger wrote: On 2010-05-31, Jurij Smakov wrote: Last time I tried to install from a daily built squeeze image, I ran into http://bugs.debian.org/579948, which prevented me from doing meaningful partitioning. I guess I was just lucky with the image I downloaded at the end of March. However, using the daily build of 31 May, I also ran into this partitioner bug, although I managed to work around it by loading the fdisk-udeb module and creating the partitions from the 2nd console with fdisk. It wasn't quite what I wanted, but I was able to continue with the installation. Two other issues: First, the internal IDE cd-rom drive in the ultra 5 (secondary master) was not detected from inside the installer, so I installed from an external scsi cd-rom. Second, to get silo to boot I had to change root= in silo.conf from /dev/sdb2 (I also have a scsi drive sda) to /dev/hda2 I just tested this again on the ultra 5 with IDE plus scsi adapter and also an ultra 60 with scsi only. 1. The netinst daily-build that I have labelled 22 March installs without issue on both machines. 2. Using the netinst daily-build of 31 May, the partitioner fails if I try to use the whole disk, but works if I create an empty Sun disk label with fdisk (s), return to Detect disks, delete the two partitions, and install to the largest available free space. 3. Of course, using the netinst daily-build of 31 May, the IDE Detect and mount CD-ROM issue and the minor silo issue (this is not the show-stopper as in Alpha1) only occur on the IDE machine. Given these issues, it might be easier to install lenny, then upgrade Xorg or whatever without using the squeeze installer, which was my second suggestion to philo. I don't know if he tried this. Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ulcmd7-gha@gonif.dnyndns.org
Re: errors silo
On 2010-05-31, Jurij Smakov wrote: Last time I tried to install from a daily built squeeze image, I ran into http://bugs.debian.org/579948, which prevented me from doing meaningful partitioning. I guess I was just lucky with the image I downloaded at the end of March. However, using the daily build of 31 May, I also ran into this partitioner bug, although I managed to work around it by loading the fdisk-udeb module and creating the partitions from the 2nd console with fdisk. It wasn't quite what I wanted, but I was able to continue with the installation. Two other issues: First, the internal IDE cd-rom drive in the ultra 5 (secondary master) was not detected from inside the installer, so I installed from an external scsi cd-rom. Second, to get silo to boot I had to change root= in silo.conf from /dev/sdb2 (I also have a scsi drive sda) to /dev/hda2 Given these issues, it might be easier to install lenny, then upgrade Xorg or whatever without using the squeeze installer, which was my second suggestion to philo. Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/urped7-6nk@gonif.dnyndns.org
Re: configure ati chipset for Sun ultra 5
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 11:51:37AM +0200, philo wrote: i do your recommandations, but i don't find Busid to xorg.conf. BusID PCI:1:2:0 in the Device section, but I don't have it in my xorg.conf anymore. usrv-raptor:/# lspci -v 01:02.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro 215GP (rev 5c) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Flags: stepping, medium devsel, IRQ 13 Memory at e100 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] I/O ports at fe01 [disabled] [size=1] Memory at e200 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] [virtual] Memory at fe01 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1] [virtual] Memory at fe01 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1] [virtual] Memory at fe01 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1] Expansion ROM at fe01 [disabled] [size=1] Kernel driver in use: atyfb Exactly the same as mine. $ lspci -v 01:02.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro 215GP (rev 5c) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Flags: stepping, medium devsel, IRQ 13 Memory at e100 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] I/O ports at fe01 [disabled] [size=1] Memory at e200 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] [virtual] Memory at fe01 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1] [virtual] Memory at fe01 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1] [virtual] Memory at fe01 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1] Expansion ROM at fe01 [disabled] [size=1] Kernel driver in use: atyfb have you tell about reference_clock ?? #Option reference_clock 29.5 MHz The ati chipset on the ultra 5, sometimes need to have their regerence_clock manually entered in. Your Ultra 5 could require one of the following options Option reference_clock 14.318 MHz Option reference_clock 28.636 MHz Option reference_clock 29.5 MHz For my Ultra 5 it used the 14.318 MHz option. So if one does not work, try another one. I don't have that in my xorg.conf and never did. $ Xorg -version X.Org X Server 1.6.1.901 (1.6.2 RC 1) Release Date: 2009-5-8 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.27.2-dsa-usii sparc Debian Current Operating System: Linux ultra5 2.6.30-1-sparc64 #1 Wed Jul 8 01:18:17 UTC 2009 sparc Build Date: 14 May 2009 04:50:27PM xorg-server 2:1.6.1.901-2 (bui...@spontini) Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. With this version of Xorg, X doesn't work here without an xorg.conf, but it DOES WORK at low resolution (640x480?) with a zero-length xorg.conf. I get better resolution when I put my monitor specs and default depth of 16 in xorg.conf. This minimal xorg.conf works for me with an old 15 SVGA monitor. $ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section Device Identifier Generic Video Card Option UseFBDev true EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Generic Monitor Option DPMS # IBM HorizSync 31.5-51 VertRefresh 43-60 EndSection Section Screen Identifier Default Screen Device Generic Video Card Monitor Generic Monitor DefaultDepth16 EndSection Section ServerLayout Identifier Default Layout Screen Default Screen EndSection Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100530091855.e21f08b...@mail.ncf.ca
Re: configure ati chipset for Sun ultra 5
On 2010-05-30, philo wrote: i try with your xorg.conf minimal ! i have only one error into Xorg.0.log : (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. i have an hitachi CM769ET screen ! resolution max 1600*1200 pixels. how i can parametre my screen into xorg.conf filename=Xorg.0.log X.Org X Server 1.4.2 Release Date: 11 June 2008 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux Debian (xorg-server 2:1.4.2-10.lenny2) Current Operating System: Linux usrv-raptor 2.6.26-2-sparc64 #1 Tue Jan 12 22:16:05 UTC 2010 sparc64 Build Date: 11 June 2009 10:44:40AM [snip] (II) UnloadModule: mach64 (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Fatal server error: no screens found I believe that the problem is with your version of Xorg. I did not have a working X a year or two ago. As I already mentioned, I am now using this version: X.Org X Server 1.6.1.901 (1.6.2 RC 1) Release Date: 2009-5-8 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.27.2-dsa-usii sparc Debian Current Operating System: Linux ultra5 2.6.30-1-sparc64 #1 Wed Jul 8 01:18:17 UTC 2009 sparc Build Date: 14 May 2009 04:50:27PM xorg-server 2:1.6.1.901-2 (bui...@spontini) Try to upgrade to squeeze (testing) where I see that Xorg is now at 2:1.7.7-1. Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/0n9ad7-52l@gonif.dnyndns.org
Re: errors silo
On 2010-05-30, philo wrote: i try to install debian testing cdrom iso with version sqeeze and last... the programme silo cannot install .. i have errors ! 1- squeeze between install at rubrique choise and install sofware stay blocked at silo configuration. 2- last testing (i forgot the name, sorry) silo code error 1 i have an Sun ultra 5 , 40 go hdd, 512 mo ram, 360mhz. before i have a bad version of xorg-xserver under debian R5 i try with testing but silo doesnt work !! I installed testing on a small (6 GB?) IDE hdd in this ultra 5 around the beginning of April using netinst CD (with mirror) and did not have a problem with silo. I have had the problem you describe (#1) in the past and if I recall correctly, I believe I did an expert install and when I got to tasksel, I didn't select anything (i.e. unselected standard). I'm not sure if I then tried to install silo in the next step in the installation or if skipped that and chose to continue without silo, rebooting the CD in rescue mode, and installed silo manually. Bonne chance and don't give up, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2p9bd7-ovr@gonif.dnyndns.org
Re: errors silo
On 2010-05-31, Howard Eisenberger wrote: On 2010-05-30, philo wrote: i try to install debian testing cdrom iso with version sqeeze and last... the programme silo cannot install .. i have errors ! 1- squeeze between install at rubrique choise and install sofware stay blocked at silo configuration. 2- last testing (i forgot the name, sorry) silo code error 1 i have an Sun ultra 5 , 40 go hdd, 512 mo ram, 360mhz. before i have a bad version of xorg-xserver under debian R5 i try with testing but silo doesnt work !! I installed testing on a small (6 GB?) IDE hdd in this ultra 5 around the beginning of April using netinst CD (with mirror) and did not have a problem with silo. I have had the problem you describe (#1) in the past and if I recall correctly, I believe I did an expert install and when I got to tasksel, I didn't select anything (i.e. unselected standard). I'm not sure if I then tried to install silo in the next step in the installation or if skipped that and chose to continue without silo, rebooting the CD in rescue mode, and installed silo manually. Someone else may wish to chime in, but on second thought it might be easier to install the basic system from the lenny CD with the working silo, change /etc/apt/sources.list to squeeze, do apt-get update', apt-get-upgrade, then install xorg and whatever else one wants from there. I assume a highspeed internet connection. Bonne chance and don't give up, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/qfmbd7-4ou@gonif.dnyndns.org
Re: configure ati chipset for Sun ultra 5
On 2010-05-28, philo wrote: i have installed debian R5 on ultra 5, HDD 40Go, 360 Mhz, 512 ram and ATI pro rage video chipset. i try to install fglrx ati driver but i don't know if it's run under sparc64! some one can give me a link about X-windows configuration for sparc64 with ati chipset. On my ultra 5 I have: $ uname -a Linux ultra5 2.6.30-1-sparc64 #1 Wed Jul 8 01:18:17 UTC 2009 sparc GNU/Linux $ lspci -v 01:02.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro 215GP (rev 5c) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Flags: stepping, medium devsel, IRQ 13 Memory at e100 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] I/O ports at fe01 [disabled] [size=1] Memory at e200 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] [virtual] Memory at fe01 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1] [virtual] Memory at fe01 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1] [virtual] Memory at fe01 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1] Expansion ROM at fe01 [disabled] [size=1] Kernel driver in use: atyfb This minimal xorg.conf works for me with an old 15 SVGA monitor. $ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section Device Identifier Generic Video Card Option UseFBDev true EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Generic Monitor Option DPMS # IBM HorizSync 31.5-51 VertRefresh 43-60 EndSection Section Screen Identifier Default Screen Device Generic Video Card Monitor Generic Monitor DefaultDepth16 EndSection Section ServerLayout Identifier Default Layout Screen Default Screen EndSection - I use setxkbmap in my .xinitrc for the keyboard. I believe there may be a better place to customize the keyboard, but off-hand I forget. Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cjl6d7-64r@gonif.dnyndns.org
Re: Debian-Sparc on a Sun Ultra10
On 2010-03-31, Chris Liddell wrote: I had the same problem on my Blade 1000, and Jurij kindly pointed my at the solution, so I'll quote: This is a known problem. Kernel 2.6.30 incorrectly reported machine type to the installer, so SILO was installing incorrect bootloader (intended for 32-bit machines) during the installation, causing this boot failure. See the following message: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=570264#10 which includes a workaround for it. It will get fixed automatically once we get newer kernel for the installer images, daily images might already have 2.6.32, which should work out of the box. I just installed using this (March 22) netinst iso on my Ultra 5 and SILO booted successfully. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/sparc/iso-cd/ It uses kernel 2.6.32-3-sparc64. I guess my previous response about warm booting after Solaris 10 was a red herring. Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/bcrd87-0ti@gonif.dnyndns.org
Re: Debian-Sparc on a Sun Ultra10
On 2010-03-31, M. S wrote: i have a Sun Ultra 10, 440mhz UltraSparc IIi CPU + 1gb Ram + 60gb IDE-HDD. After the Install via Netboot, i type boot disk, and i became this Error: Booting with command: boot disk Boot device: disk Fast Data Access MMU MISS ok Solaris 10 works fine, i think the Hardware is okay, but i dont know how i can start Debiansparc. What i have to do to start Debian-Sparc. Is that a cold boot to Debian-sparc or a warm reboot after running Solaris 10? Debian-sparc boots fine on my Ultra 5 and 10, but that's all I have on them and it has been quite a while since installed it. I have both Debian-sparc and Solaris 10 on an Ultra 60 and get a Memory Address not Aligned error if I try to reboot to Debian after running Solaris. It boots fine if I power-off and boot cold. Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/nlhb87-ut2@gonif.dnyndns.org
Re: Lenny boot hangs on Sun Ultra 5
On 2010-02-01, Vladimir R wrote: On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:22:58 +0300 Gavin Duley wrote: I've had some trouble getting Xorg to work on my Ultra 5 under Debian in the past, but I have managed to get it to work. I've found what version of the kernel you have matters. I am running 2.6.22-3-sparc64. I've found newer versions (such as 2.6.26) will not work with Xorg. I'm not certain if it makes much difference, but I'm also running a slightly older version of Xorg - 1:7.3+19, I think (I'm running testing but haven't been using this machine much lately, hence it's quite behind on updates). If it's of any help, I've put my xorg.conf file on the web at: http://www.gavinduley.org/interests/computing/xorgconf.html Hope this helps. gavin, Thank You very much, I will take your experience into my mind. I dont think I'm going to downgrade kernel for the sake of desktop, because I will use system mostly as server. But when this problem will be fixed in new kernel, I will try to launch desktop session again, and your config will be good help for me. You are probably better off going forward. I could not get X to work with kernel 2.6.26, but has been working fine with the following configuration and a generic xorg.conf on my ultra 5. $ Xorg -version X.Org X Server 1.6.1.901 (1.6.2 RC 1) Release Date: 2009-5-8 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.27.2-dsa-usii sparc Debian Current Operating System: Linux ultra5 2.6.30-1-sparc64 #1 Wed Jul 8 01:18:17 UTC 2009 sparc Build Date: 14 May 2009 04:50:27PM xorg-server 2:1.6.1.901-2 (bui...@spontini) The only problem I have with kernel 2.6.30 is with any CD-ROM device, but that's another story. Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: X on Ultra5 with Debian Lenny 5.0.3
On 2009-11-11, Collin Baillie wrote: How do I do this? Stick squeeze server details into apt resources list and then apt-get upgrade That's the ticket. I guess you are new to Debian. This is not sparc specific. - edit /etc/apt/sources.list (change lenny to squeeze or testing) - apt-get update - apt-get upgrade (apt-get install xorg might be enough, but you might as well upgrade everything) To upgrade the kernel, do - apt-get install linux-image (it'll give you a list to choose from) Anyway, that's how I do it. I've kept kernel 2.6.26 for my CD device problem. Regards, Howard E. Basically, if you are running stable (lenny), I think X should work if you move to testing (squeeze) along with the newer kernel. I'm in X on my Ultra 5 right now. ultra5:~$ Xorg -version X.Org X Server 1.6.1.901 (1.6.2 RC 1) Release Date: 2009-5-8 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.27.2-dsa-usii sparc Debian Current Operating System: Linux ultra5 2.6.30-1-sparc64 #1 Wed Jul 8 01:18:17 UTC 2009 sparc Build Date: 14 May 2009 04:50:27PM xorg-server 2:1.6.1.901-2 (bui...@spontini) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: X on Ultra5 with Debian Lenny 5.0.3
On 2009-11-10, Collin Baillie wrote: Can anyone tell me where I can get a working kernel for my Ultra5, so I can have Debian with X running sometime soon :) X works here on my Ultra 5 with kernels 2.6.29 and 2.6.30 but not kernel 2.6.26. I have a an unresolved CD device issue with the newer kernels, but that's another story. Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: X on Ultra5 with Debian Lenny 5.0.3
On 2009-11-11, Collin Baillie wrote: Thanks for that Howard. Unfortunately, it looks like sid/unstable is now up to 2.6.31. i did try this kernel, but I still get the error. I thought this might happen. I believe you need a newer version of xorg as well. Is there an archive of snapshots of sid anywhere on the 'net I could search for a working kernel? Basically, if you are running stable (lenny), I think X should work if you move to testing (squeeze) along with the newer kernel. I'm in X on my Ultra 5 right now. ultra5:~$ Xorg -version X.Org X Server 1.6.1.901 (1.6.2 RC 1) Release Date: 2009-5-8 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.27.2-dsa-usii sparc Debian Current Operating System: Linux ultra5 2.6.30-1-sparc64 #1 Wed Jul 8 01:18:17 UTC 2009 sparc Build Date: 14 May 2009 04:50:27PM xorg-server 2:1.6.1.901-2 (bui...@spontini) Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
2.6.29 and 2.6.30 unable to open cdrom type devices on U5 U60
I mentioned this here on 11 June. Linux ultra5 2.6.29-2-sparc64 #1 Mon May 18 00:00:47 UTC 2009 sparc GNU/Linux Working here, including Xorg, except: ultra5:~$ eject [no CD in tray] eject: unable to open `/dev/hdc' ultra5:~$ wodim --devices wodim: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver! There is an ata_id [unable to open] warning during boot. I can, however, mount a data CD and play an audio CD. I now get the same behaviour on Ultra 5 using Linux 2.6.30-1-sparc64 #1 Wed Jul 8 01:18:17 UTC 2009 sparc GNU/Linux and on Ultra 60 with SCSI DVD using Linux 2.6.29-2-sparc64-smp #1 SMP Mon May 18 04:44:18 UTC 2009 sparc GNU/Linux $ eject [no CD in tray] eject: unable to open `/dev/scd0' This all works fine on both machines using 2.6.26 and with kernel 2.6.30 on x86. Anyone else? Regards, Howard E. ~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Please test 2.6.29-5
ultra5:~$ uname -a Linux ultra5 2.6.29-2-sparc64 #1 Mon May 18 00:00:47 UTC 2009 sparc GNU/Linux Working here, including Xorg, except: ultra5:~$ eject eject: unable to open `/dev/hdc' ultra5:~$ wodim --devices wodim: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver! There is an ata_id warning during boot. I can, however, mount a data CD and play an audio CD. Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Please test 2.6.29-5
On 2009-05-19, Howard Eisenberger wrote: X still problematic on Ultra 5 with onboard ATI graphics (Mach64). Using Xorg 1.4.0.90 AND kernel 2.6.22 for X. I can now report that X is working again for me on this machine using the new kernel 2.6.29-2/5 and Xorg 1.6, also from sid. Keep the faith. Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Please test 2.6.29-5
On 2009-05-20, A.Madesani amades...@libero.it wrote: Hy Jurij, I can try to manage new kernel on my blade 1000. I use lenny (regularly updated). Where can I download kernel-image-2.6.29-5? I tried to find it, but the only version I found was 2.6.29-2. This is the one I tested. Package linux-image-2.6.29-2-sparc64 * sid (unstable) (admin): Linux 2.6.29 image on uniprocessor 64-bit UltraSPARC 2.6.29-5: sparc Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Please test 2.6.29-5
On 2009-05-18, Jurij Smakov wrote: The 2.6.29-5 kernel package, uploaded to sid a couple of days ago, has successfully built on sparc. As previous versions were failing for various reasons, this is the first 2.6.29 kernel available for sparc in Debian. If you have a chance, please test it and report your findings. Thanks a lot. Using dpkg -i to Lenny this kernel works for me on Ultra 5 and Ultra 60 (smp). Xorg 1.4.2 working on Ultra 60 with Creator UPA graphics. X still problematic on Ultra 5 with onboard ATI graphics (Mach64). Using Xorg 1.4.0.90 AND kernel 2.6.22 for X. Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Debian First Boot Problem on Ultra5
On 2009-05-03, Jon Pruente wrote: Is the monitor connected to the VGA port built into the motherboard? I've been having problems with X GDM on an Ultra 10, which uses the same mobo, IIRC. I was planning on trying it with the on board video, but you may be beating me to it. On my Ultra 5 and Ultra 10 using the onboard ATI video, X works for me with kernel = 2.6.22, but not above. On my Ultra 60 with Creator UPA graphics card, X works with kernels up to 2.6.26. I'm not sure what version of xorg is running on these. kernel 2.6.29 does not boot at all on these. At first glance, this kernel appears to be twice the size of 2.6.26. Regards, Howard E. Ottawa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: x-www-browser for ultra5 ultra60
On 2009-04-14, Tom spot Callaway tcall...@redhat.com wrote: On 04/13/2009 06:52 PM, Howard Eisenberger wrote: However, apt-get install libnss3-1d also upgrades libsqlite3, and when I started iceweasel, I get a Bus error before it finished loading. It seems to work all right for me with the new nss plus the old libsqlite3. There was an upstream bug in sqlite 3.6.12 that was causing SIGBUS on sparc, there is a patch here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494906 Thanks. Sorry for the late response. Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: x-www-browser for ultra5 ultra60
On 2009-03-26, Howard Eisenberger wrote: On 2009-03-25, Julien Cristau wrote: It'd be nice if someone could try the attached patch on sparc and see if they can reproduce the browser crash. It works! With the new libnssd3.so.1d, iceweasel 3.0.7 does not crash on the problem sites on my Ultra 5. Has anyone else tried this patch? I have been using it now for almost three weeks without a single crash. Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: x-www-browser for ultra5 ultra60
On 2009-04-13, Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org wrote: It works! With the new libnssd3.so.1d, iceweasel 3.0.7 does not crash on the problem sites on my Ultra 5. The bug was fixed using a different patch in nss 3.12.2.with.ckbi.1.73-2. Thanks. I didn't realize that. However, apt-get install libnss3-1d also upgrades libsqlite3, and when I started iceweasel, I get a Bus error before it finished loading. It seems to work all right for me with the new nss plus the old libsqlite3. I do have the core dump from the crash and did a trace back to libmozjs if anyone wants to look at it. Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: x-www-browser for ultra5 ultra60
On 2009-03-25, Julien Cristau wrote: It'd be nice if someone could try the attached patch on sparc and see if they can reproduce the browser crash. It works! With the new libnssd3.so.1d, iceweasel 3.0.7 does not crash on the problem sites on my Ultra 5. I used dpkg-buildpackage, which didn't finish, but I copied the new lib from the debian/ subdirectory. I'm not sure how to compile the single lib. Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: x-www-browser for ultra5 ultra60
On 2009-03-10, Jurij Smakov wrote: The crashes like this are usually due to unaligned memory accesses, which will cause a SEGFAULT/SIGBUS on sparc, but is tolerated on i386/amd64 platforms. I would not be surprised if that's a manifestation of the bug reported previously [0,1], which, as far as I can tell, is still not fixed upstream. I found that the most useful thing to do is to generate a core file by starting the program in the shell where the core file size is set to unlimited using 'ulimit -c unlimited', then trigger the crash. Given the core file and program executable, gdb should be able to tell where the crash occurs (even better if you have the binary unstripped or have the debugging symbols for it - for example, there is an iceweasel-dbg package in Debian, providing debugging symbols for iceweasel). It is usually fairly easy to tell from the backtrace why the unaligned access happened, usually things like raw memory accesses, for example trying to read a 4-byte word from a location which is not aligned on a 4-byte boundary. Even if it's hard to tell immediately what's wrong, at least it will make a useful bug report. [0] http://bugs.debian.org/362170 [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161826 Thanks for your expertise. I see that the thread for second bug report has continued for over 6 years. I didn't even have Sun hardware when it started. As it turns out, I have been using iceweasel 3.0.7 from unstable for a day now and this is the only page I have encountered so far that crashes the browser. I'll continue to use iceweasel and simply use something else for eBay for the time being. m...@ultra5:~$ ulimit -c unlimited m...@ultra5:~$ iceweasel --verbose https://signin.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?SignIn ICEWEASEL_DSP= APPLICATION_ID=iceweasel CMDLINE_DISPLAY= DISPLAY=:0.0 OPTIONS=-a iceweasel https://signin.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?SignIn DEBUG=0 DEBUGGER= MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO= MOZ_NO_REMOTE= Running: /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin -a iceweasel https://signin.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?SignIn Bus error (core dumped) m...@ultra5:~$ ls -l core.8659 -rw--- 1 ag221 ag221 80748544 2009-03-24 18:41 core.8659 I have never done any debugging so I'll have to read up on it. Given that I am still using kernel 2.6.21 for X11 on this machine and seeing the issues some others here are having just installing the operating system on their hardware, this browser problem does not seem that significant. Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: x-www-browser for ultra5 ultra60
On 2009-03-25, Jurij Smakov wrote: I have never done any debugging so I'll have to read up on it. It might be as easy is: sudo apt-get install iceweasel-dbg gdb gdb /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin core.8659 (gdb) bt That should (in theory :-) print out the backtrace of the crash, pointing out the location of the crash and the chain of function calls which lead to it. If it displays something meaningful, post it here and we'll try to figure it out. That was easy enough. Thanks for the quick lesson. xulrunner-1.9 was also upgraded, so I tried it again which reproduced the crash. $ gdb /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin core.9321 Core was generated by `/usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin -a iceweasel https://signin.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI'. Program terminated with signal 10, Bus error. [New process 9340] [New process 9346] [New process 9345] [New process 9341] [New process 9337] [New process 9336] [New process 9335] [New process 9321] #0 0xf69776bc in ?? () from /usr/lib/libnssutil3.so.1d (gdb) bt #0 0xf69776bc in ?? () from /usr/lib/libnssutil3.so.1d #1 0xf69776bc in ?? () from /usr/lib/libnssutil3.so.1d Backtrace stopped: previous frame identical to this frame (corrupt stack?) (gdb) quit Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: x-www-browser for ultra5 ultra60
On 2009-03-25, Julien Cristau jcristau wrote: On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 01:44 +, Howard Eisenberger wrote: #0 0xf69776bc in ?? () from /usr/lib/libnssutil3.so.1d (gdb) bt #0 0xf69776bc in ?? () from /usr/lib/libnssutil3.so.1d #1 0xf69776bc in ?? () from /usr/lib/libnssutil3.so.1d Backtrace stopped: previous frame identical to this frame (corrupt stack?) (gdb) quit You'll want to install libnss3-1d-dbg to get something meaningful here. Right you are. Core was generated by `/usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin -a iceweasel https://signin.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI'. Program terminated with signal 10, Bus error. [New process 2771] #0 0xf69bf6bc in der_TimeStringToTime (dst=0x115f574, string=value optimized out, generalized=2) at dertime.c:311 311 dertime.c: No such file or directory. in dertime.c (gdb) bt #0 0xf69bf6bc in der_TimeStringToTime (dst=0x115f574, string=value optimized out, generalized=2) at dertime.c:311 #1 0xf69bf780 in DER_GeneralizedTimeToTime_Util (dst=0x115f574, time=value optimized out) at dertime.c:239 A quick search for dertime.c (first hit). http://forum.soft32.com/linux/Bug-509930-libnss3-1d-crashes-sparc-ftopict473261.html Problem site: https://homebanking.sskm.de/ . Core was generated by `/usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin -a iceweasel https://homebanking.sskm.de/'. Program terminated with signal 10, Bus error. [New process 2889] #0 0xf697f6bc in der_TimeStringToTime (dst=0x1152684, string=value optimized out, generalized=2) at dertime.c:311 311 dertime.c: No such file or directory. in dertime.c (gdb) bt #0 0xf697f6bc in der_TimeStringToTime (dst=0x1152684, string=value optimized out, generalized=2) at dertime.c:311 #1 0xf697f780 in DER_GeneralizedTimeToTime_Util (dst=0x1152684, time=value optimized out) at dertime.c:239 Thanks for your help. Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: x-www-browser for ultra5 ultra60
On 2009-03-25, Julien Cristau wrote: Core was generated by `/usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin -a iceweasel https://signin.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI'. Program terminated with signal 10, Bus error. #0 0xf69bf6bc in der_TimeStringToTime (dst=0x115f574, string=value optimized out, generalized=2) at dertime.c:311 #1 0xf69bf780 in DER_GeneralizedTimeToTime_Util (dst=0x115f574, time=value optimized out) at dertime.c:239 dertime.c:311 seems to be: *dst = PR_ImplodeTime(genTime); PR_ImplodeTime returns an int64. Here dst is 0x115f574, which is not aligned on a double-word boundary. So that'd explain the SIGBUS. The backtrace you get doesn't go further? It'd be nice to know what the DER_GeneralizedTimeToTime_Util caller is... I saved it this time. Not sure how much you need, but here is a bit more. #0 0xf69bf6bc in der_TimeStringToTime (dst=0x115f574, string=value optimized out, generalized=2) at dertime.c:311 #1 0xf69bf780 in DER_GeneralizedTimeToTime_Util (dst=0x115f574, time=value optimized out) at dertime.c:239 #2 0xf6aa4f54 in pkix_pl_OcspResponse_VerifySignature (response=0x115f554, cert=0x1159b74, procParams=0x11437e4, pPassed=0xf2cea084, #pNBIOContext=0xf2cea078, plContext=0x1143150) at pkix_pl_ocspresponse.c:883 #3 0xf6a5b610 in pkix_OcspChecker_Check (checkerObject=0x1148e8c, #cert=0x1159b74, procParams=0x11437e4, pNBIOContext=0xf2cea19c, #pResultCode=0xf2cea190, plContext=0x1143150) at pkix_ocspchecker.c:266 #4 0xf6a72bb4 in pkix_CheckChain (certs=0x115ad44, numCerts=2, #checkers=0x115ad0c, revCheckers=0x115f0e4, removeCheckedExtOIDs=0x115e8b4, #procParams=0x11437e4, pCertCheckedIndex=0x11588f4, pCheckerIndex=0x11588f8, pRevChecking=0x115891c, pReasonCode=0x1158908, #pNBIOContext=0xf2cea284, pFinalSubjPubKey=0xf2cea290, pPolicyTree=0xf2cea28c, pVerifyTree=0x0, plContext=0x1143150) at pkix_validate.c:354 #5 0xf6a76284 in pkix_Build_ValidateEntireChain (state=0x11588d4, anchor=0x11432ec, pNBIOContext=0xf2cea45c, pValResult=0xf2cea488, #verifyNode=0x1159184, plContext=0x1143150) at pkix_build.c:1619 #6 0xf6a7a734 in pkix_BuildForwardDepthFirstSearch #(pNBIOContext=0xf2cea654, state=0x11588d4, pValResult=0xf2cea64c, #plContext=0x1143150) at pkix_build.c:3052 Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: x-www-browser for ultra5 ultra60
On 2009-03-10, gavin duley wrote: Howard Eisenberger wrote: This is a general question. I have been unable to run iceweasel on my ultra5 or ultra60 since it went from 2.0 to 3.0. It crashes constantly with Bus error. I've had a similar problem with iceweasel on my Ultra 5, apparently due to a futex bug: http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2007/07/msg00130.html I have been using iceape (currently version 1.1.14). Now I see that iceape has been dropped from Lenny. I tried midori briefly on unstable, but it also crashed. Is anyone having more success in this regard on similar hardware? At the moment, I am using Epiphany. This is part of the GNOME project. It's not as sophisticated as iceweasel, but it does pretty much everything I need from a browser and works well. http://projects.gnome.org/epiphany/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphany_(browser) Thanks for responding. I just tried Epiphany (the browser, not the game) briefly and it also crashed on a problem page (ebay.ca), but I will investigate further. Out of interest, have you had any problems with X11 on your Ultra 5? I find that unless I use the 2.6.22 kernel, X11 simply doesn't work. I'm running testing (which is probably almost identical to stable about now...) and have had no luck with the 2.6.24 or 2.6.26 kernels. http://lists.humbug.org.au/archives/general/2008-August/027088.html As a matter of fact, I am also using 2.6.22 with testing on this Ultra 5. With 2.6.25 X11 will not run. Regards, Howard E. Ottawa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
x-www-browser for ultra5 ultra60
This is a general question. I have been unable to run iceweasel on my ultra5 or ultra60 since it went from 2.0 to 3.0. It crashes constantly with Bus error. I have been using iceape (currently version 1.1.14). Now I see that iceape has been dropped from Lenny. I tried midori briefly on unstable, but it also crashed. Is anyone having more success in this regard on similar hardware? Regards and many thanks to the Debian-sparc developers, Howard E. Ottawa, Canada -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: xorg not working on 2.6.24-1 (smp and single)
I just came across this message and didn't see a response. Did you find a fix? On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 07:40:13PM +0200, Angelo Rossi wrote: I got this error in debian linux sparc 64 (ultra 5 platform): X: warning; process set to priority -1 instead of requested priority 0 X.Org X Server 1.4.0.90 Release Date: 5 September 2007 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux Debian (xorg-server 2:1.4.1~git20080517-1) Current Operating System: Linux ULTRA5 2.6.24-1-sparc64-smp #1 SMP Thu May 8 18:15:33 UTC 2008 sparc64 Build Date: 18 May 2008 02:46:04PM Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Sat May 31 13:12:34 2008 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf (II) Module ddc already built-in mmap failure: Invalid argument Fatal server error: xf86MapDomainMem(): mmap() failure XIO: fatal IO error 54 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0 after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. The kernel suite is: uname -a Linux ULTRA5 2.6.24-1-sparc64-smp #1 SMP Thu May 8 18:15:33 UTC 2008 sparc64 GNU/Linux I have the same problem on my Ultra5 with onboard ATI graphics card moving from kernel 2.6.21 and 2.6.22 to 2.6.24 or 2.6.25. I believe that this is a PCI problem that that has been mentioned here and decribed in detail at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg01094.html http://www.archivum.info/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/2008-06/msg00929.html My /var/log/Xorg.0.log under 2.6.25 looks like this: X.Org X Server 1.4.0.90 Release Date: 5 September 2007 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux Debian (xorg-server 2:1.4.1~git20080517-1) Current Operating System: Linux ultra5 2.6.25-2-sparc64 #2 Fri Jun 27 05:32:02 UTC 2008 sparc64 Build Date: 18 May 2008 02:46:04PM (II) MACH64: Driver for ATI Mach64 chipsets (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:02:0 (--) Chipset ATI 3D Rage Pro found (II) resource ranges after xf86ClaimFixedResources() call: [0] -1 1 0xa000 - 0xa0ff (0x100) MX[B] [1] -1 1 0x8000 - 0x8fff (0x1000) MX[B] [2] -1 1 0x6000 - 0x6fff (0x1000) MX[B] [3] -1 1 0x4000 - 0x4fff (0x1000) MX[B] [4] -1 1 0x2000 - 0x20ff (0x100) MX[B] [5] -1 1 0xe000 - 0xe01f (0x20) MX[B] [6] -1 1 0xf100 - 0xf100 (0x1) MX[B] [7] -1 1 0xf000 - 0xf000 (0x1) MX[B] [8] -1 1 0xe102 - 0xe102 (0x1) MX[B](B) [9] -1 1 0xe200 - 0xe2000fff (0x1000) MX[B](B) [10] -1 1 0xe100 - 0xe1ff (0x100) MX[B](B) [11] -1 1 0x0400 - 0x04ff (0x100) IX[B] [12] -1 1 0x00c00020 - 0x00c0002f (0x10) IX[B] [13] -1 1 0x00c00018 - 0x00c0001b (0x4) IX[B] [14] -1 1 0x00c00010 - 0x00c00017 (0x8) IX[B] [15] -1 1 0x00c8 - 0x00cb (0x4) IX[B] [16] -1 1 0x00c0 - 0x00c7 (0x8) IX[B] (WW) INVALID MEM ALLOCATION b: 0xe100 e: 0xe1ff correcting (II) window: (II) resSize: [0] -1 1 0x - 0x (0x0) MX[B] (II) window fixed: (WW) INVALID MEM ALLOCATION b: 0xe200 e: 0xe2000fff correcting (II) window: (II) resSize: [0] -1 1 0x - 0x (0x0) MX[B] (II) window fixed: (II) resource ranges after probing: [0] -1 1 0x - 0x (0x0) MX[B](B) [1] -1 1 0x - 0x (0x0) MX[B](B) [2] -1 1 0xa000 - 0xa0ff (0x100) MX[B] [3] -1 1 0x8000 - 0x8fff (0x1000) MX[B] [4] -1 1 0x6000 - 0x6fff (0x1000) MX[B] [5] -1 1 0x4000 - 0x4fff (0x1000) MX[B] [6] -1 1 0x2000 - 0x20ff (0x100) MX[B] [7] -1 1 0xe000 - 0xe01f (0x20) MX[B] [8] -1 1 0xf100 - 0xf100 (0x1) MX[B] [9] -1 1 0xf000 - 0xf000 (0x1) MX[B] [10] -1 1 0xe102 - 0xe102 (0x1) MX[B](B) [11] 0 1 0x000a - 0x000a (0x1) MS[B] [12] 0 1 0x000b - 0x000b7fff (0x8000) MS[B] [13] 0 1 0x000b8000 - 0x000b (0x8000) MS[B] [14] -1 1 0x0400 - 0x04ff (0x100) IX[B] [15] -1 1 0x00c00020 - 0x00c0002f (0x10) IX[B] [16] -1 1 0x00c00018 - 0x00c0001b (0x4) IX[B] [17] -1 1 0x00c00010 - 0x00c00017 (0x8) IX[B] [18] -1 1 0x00c8 - 0x00cb
Re: Lenny on Ultra 60
On 2008-03-03, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: # snd-sun-cs4231 snd-pcm-oss --- On a U10 with Etch I added the first of those manually which was enough to get sound working. Similar tinkering on the U60 hasn't had any beneficial effect: the modules are loaded but KNotify puts up a dialog(ue) saying arts can't be initialised. I've not tried forcing this into initrd but I don't think I had to do anything like that on the U10. I'm now running testing, vmlinuz-2.6.22-3-sparc64-smp on the U60. I installed alsa-utils and ran alsaconf, but didn't write to /etc/modprobe.d/. With only snd-sun-cs4231 in /etc/modules, lsmod looks like this: Module Size Used by snd_sun_cs4231 23568 0 snd_pcm_oss52512 0 snd_mixer_oss 21056 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm92108 2 snd_sun_cs4231,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 28496 2 snd_sun_cs4231,snd_pcm snd65248 5 snd_sun_cs4231,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss, snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 11408 1 snd snd_page_alloc 14416 2 snd_sun_cs4231,snd_pcm and ls -l /dev/dsp* like so: crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 3 2008-03-04 13:13 /dev/dsp Sound seems to be working well as before using aumix or alsamixer and ogg123, mplayer, vlc, etc. Frankly, I don't know anything about 'KNotify' and 'arts'. I'll try falling back to Etch and see if that fixes it. If it doesn't then there might be a driver problem- frankly the only Sun machines I've managed to get sound out of yet are the U10s. I see that on the U60, unlike the U5/U10, the cs4231 is an actual card its own small slot. Maybe it's a hardware problem, although I doubt it. [Xinerama] It turns out to be easy and works well. Double up the Screen sections with different identifiers, reference both in ServerLayout, add Option Xinerama on, restart, and tell the panel to appear on both screens. Thanks. I'll save this for when I get around to trying it. Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lenny on Ultra 60
On 2008-02-17, Mark Morgan Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking good but two questions: a) How do I get sound working? My /etc/modules looks like this on my U5/10 and my recently acquired U60: # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded # at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with # are ignored. loop # snd-sun-cs4231 snd-pcm-oss --- I still use aumix (OSS). You may not need the last module with alsa. I'm not sure about other mixers, but aumix looks a bit strange with Vol and CD always at 100% while controling the sound with Pcm and Line1 respectively. Also, using the external speaker out and line out, I disconnect the internal speaker which I find much too loud. b) Unlike Etch the installer correctly picks up the Creator 3D cards. The kernel displays to the first one and X initialises both- no fixes to configuration files required. However both Gnome and KDE display a separate desktop on each display: what's the correct way to either spread the desktop over both displays (Xinerama?) or switch the focus of the input devices between displays. Configuration is U60, 2x 450MHz, 2Gb, 2x Creator 3D. Can't help here. I replaced a xvr600 (I couldn't get it to work with Debian) with a Creator 3D, which works fine. I do have another one, but haven't even tried installing it. Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB host adapter?
On 2007-05-01, BERTRAND Joël [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jordan Bettis a écrit : I have another question: I'd like to see if I can get USB working on my Ultra 5. Anyone have any recommendations for a PCI host adapter that'll work with it? I have installed a Belkin (5*USB2) in one of my U60. I suppose that this PCI card should work in a U5. Warning, you have to find a PCI 2.1 (not 2.2) adapter. I'm using NEC chip cards in my Ultra5 and 10. The Ali chip ones I tried were very flakey. It may have been a PCI 2.2 vs. 2.1 problem (I've run into this elsewhere), but would PCI 2.2 cards work at all? Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Replies to me not mailing list
I have received a few email replies recently that I'm pretty sure were intended for the mailing list. I'm reading and posting to the list as news in linux.debian.ports.sparc via the gateway at lists.bofh.it . I don't mind, but I don't think that the messages sent to me went to the list where everyone can read them. As I am writing this it occured to me that perhaps I should be putting the mailing list address in my Reply-To, which I will do from now on. Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xorg lockup on ultra 5
On 2006-07-24, Robert Lemmen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 11:54:42AM +, Howard Eisenberger wrote: Hang on. I have a small (1.3 mg) ide boot drive. I also have=20 a PCI scsi card with a larger scsi drive. Xorg is working with=20 testing on sda1, but still locks up when I install to hda2=20 (guided partitioning). Beats me. i installed to a ide drive and an md raid device, both failed in the described way. i'm really a bit lost here... I tried two things. First, on the ide drive I installed testing base, then changed sources.list to stable and installed X (xfree86). Not a solution, but it did work, so the problem is definitely with xorg. Second. I have 2 PCI expansion cards. USB in slot 1 and scsi in slot 2. (If I put them in the other way around the ultra 10 doesn't even boot. The USB doesn't work very well, but I left it in to test some other time.) To make a long story short, if I remove *both* cards, xorg works on the ide drive! I haven't tried slots 3 and 4 on the riser board and notice that the jumpers on the board are all off, if that means anything. For my purposes, I don't need X on the ide drive, since I'm only using it to boot to the scsi drive, which works. Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Audio on Ultra 60
On 2006-07-23, Jim Farrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to get sound out of my Sun Ultra 60 running Debian stable and kernel 2.6.14.6. FWIW, I'm currently running testing and kernel 2.6.15-1 on a Sun Ultra 10 with the CS4231 sound chipset. At the moment, I can see mixers, programs think that they can play sound, and I do get a nasty distorted noise out of the box, but it doesn't bear much resemblence to the noise I think should be coming out. I suspect that the output is being played too fast - if I play a tune in xmms I can see the track time display moving far too fast - a 3minute track zooms past in 30seconds or so (but I get exactly the same distorted output in all players, including alsaplay). These are the same symptoms that I had with a previous 2.6 kernel, although I don't remember which one, other than I believe I skipped 2.6.14. I don't use xmms, but all I got from ogg123, mpg321, and mp3blaster was noise. Sound is working for me again with my current kernel. I'm using the snd_sun_cs4231 driver. According to this page: http://www.dementia.org/~shadow/sparcaudio.html this is the correct chipset for Ultra 60s. Does anyone know if this page is still relevant? It's a bit light on instructions - says that things should just work with recent kernels. It doesn't mention what kernel modules to load. This is what I have: [0]nyx:~# lsmod | grep snd snd_sun_cs4231 28750 0 snd_pcm_oss66030 0 snd_mixer_oss 22996 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm 111473 2 snd_sun_cs4231,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 32562 2 snd_sun_cs4231,snd_pcm snd67204 5 snd_sun_cs4231,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 14374 1 snd snd_page_alloc 14945 2 snd_sun_cs4231,snd_pcm My lsmod looks like exactly yours (except for the sizes), although for some odd reason I have this, but I don't know if it matters. snd_mixer_oss 19072 2 snd_pcm_oss All I have in /etc/modules is snd-sun-cs4231 and snd-pcm-oss. Many pages mention audioctl and /dev/audioctl. I never investigated beyond simply changing kernels, so I can't help with this. Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xorg lockup on ultra 5
On 2006-07-20, Robert Lemmen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, i read that thread and tried some other things (different kernel, no framebuffer etc), but with no luck. has anybody who had this problem found a way to work around it? I had the same problem when upgrading from an older version of testing to a more recent one on an ultra 10. I'm completely new to Sun systems, so when my machine locked up I had a difficult time getting it to boot again. I thought it was a major hardware failure. Anyway, I just re-installed testing using the netinst CD and it seems to be fixed. I'm using the stock 2.6.15 kernel and have the same or similar ATI graphics card. To test this I installed the base system + x-window-system + twm. To get the keyboard to work, I changed Option XkbRules sun to xorg. Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xorg lockup on ultra 5
On 2006-07-23, Howard Eisenberger wrote: Anyway, I just re-installed testing using the netinst CD and it seems to be fixed. I'm using the stock 2.6.15 kernel and have the same or similar ATI graphics card. To test this I installed the base system + x-window-system + twm. Hang on. I have a small (1.3 mg) ide boot drive. I also have a PCI scsi card with a larger scsi drive. Xorg is working with testing on sda1, but still locks up when I install to hda2 (guided partitioning). Beats me. Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
