Re: Can't read my boot CD on Ultra 5.
It could easily be an old enough drive that it wants good CD-R media (I have a spindle of Taiyo Yuden for that very purpose). Since the Ultra 5 uses IDE, you could put in another drive and see if that solves your problem. You can also do a device scan at the boot prom (help will help you find the command) and scan to see what device address the CD-ROM has, but since it's IDE, I expect that the PROM would expect the CD to be the slave drive on the primary channel (assuming the Ultra 5 has only one channel, which I think is the case). Jim - Original Message - From: Chris Andrew cjhand...@gmail.com To: debian-sparc debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 1:43 AM Subject: Can't read my boot CD on Ultra 5. Hi, all. It's a few years since I've posted to the list, and my last Sparc was an SS20. 've just taken delivery of a 'new' Ultra 5, but for the life of me can't boot a CD. The cd drive is an OEM model that was originally sold with the Ultra 5 and I have no reason to suspect that it hasn't been fitted since new. I suspect that my 'cdrom' alias is pointing to the wrong place, or my cd media is incompatible (cd-r). Having read several how-to's, I am still unable to fathom this one out. Can anyone lend me a helping hand? Many thanks, Chris. -- Reasons why you may want to try GNU/Linux: http://www.getgnulinux.org/ -- 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/k2k307203ff1004230043s981f8424lcdfe31fa03a2...@mail.gmail.com -- 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/a32d917b1a184a5a9f2ebaf992005...@jimm
Re: Debian-Sparc on a Sun Ultra10
- Original Message - From: Howard Eisenberger howa...@gmx.net To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 3:36 AM Subject: Re: Debian-Sparc on a Sun Ultra10 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 used Debian on my Ultra 1, and it installed fine using a 2.4 kernel, but when the 2.6 kernels came out, my machine would not run on them. I had to compile a custom kernel to upgrade to 2.6. I don't know if the stock 2.6 kernels have been fixed - it was a long time ago (5 years?) that I first installed my machine, and I'm not sure when I updated to 2.6. Jim -- 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/d40b725f54eb44679d17815498b73...@jimm
Re: sparc/debian/linux procedures
- Original Message - From: Brian Thompson br...@eng.wayne.edu To: Jurij Smakov ju...@wooyd.org; Martin inku...@interalpha.co.uk Cc: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 3:01 PM Subject: Re: sparc/debian/linux procedures One current concern (which I've brought up in the past but probably didn't follow proper procedure) is still the conflict between the tulip and dmfe ethernet kernel modules on both the Sun Netra X1 and Sunfire V100 platforms, as well as their eth0/eth1 numbering being swapped - which neither issue exists with Ubuntu. The ethx numbering can be cured through the use of udev config files. You can force the system to give a static ethx mapping to an Ethernet card via its MAC address. Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Etch on sunblade 150 : installer menus problem
Didrik Madheden wrote: I also had problems getting the kernel to load correctly over network. My solution to this was to connect the sparc over a serial console to some other box. Provided that the terminal on the other side is working correctly, the installation menus will work ok, although they'll be a bit sluggish at 9600 bps. To force the OPB into serial console mode, you need to boot without a keyboard connected. You may also need to give the command output-device without parameters in OPB before trying to do that, since otherwise OPB may ignore the fact that there's no keyboard, and still go into video mode. Tell us your results! /Didrik Madheden On 17/12/2007, Vera Mickael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I try to install etch on a sunblade 150, I reached the stage where I can see the first installer menu. For those who encountered the same problems as me, I used the boot command: boot net video=atyfb:off My problem is that the menu isn't displayed correctly, instead of colors on the border of the menu, special caracters are displayed. The screen's background is white and caracters are printed in black. I can't see which element is selected, there is no element highlighted. It's not possible to install this way. Is there an option to pass to the installer ? Is it possible to disable ncurses ? Thanks, Mickaël I had this problem too on sunblade 100. I was able to install by taking the defaults - just keep hitting Enter - but the difficult part is the disk formatting - need to use the terminal mode (from memory Ctrl-Alt-F2 or something like that?) then run the fdisk or whatever from the command line. Maybe someone can make an installer with a later kernel - the video problem is fixed by 2.6.23-rc4. Another neat idea would be an auto- option for the installer to self-install, or is there already? jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Building SPARC32PLUS
Hi, I am building some applications (openoffice.org) using gcc and g++ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/vanilla$ gcc --version gcc (GCC) 4.2.3 20071123 (prerelease) (Debian 4.2.2-4) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/vanilla$ g++ --version g++ (GCC) 4.2.3 20071123 (prerelease) (Debian 4.2.2-4) When running the file command I have noticed the object files are SPARC e.g. $ file something.o blah ... SPARC $ file everything.so blah -... SPARC32PLUS I assume the shared libs are different because they are linked to SPARC32PLUS files in /usr/lib... is that right? Also I notice that gcc -mcpu=v9 is needed to get object files like SPARC32PLUS. Is that the correct behaviour? I suppose I am wondering why gcc doesn't produce SPARC32PLUS by default. thanks jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Messy screen with ATI Mach64 on UltraIIi
Hernest wrote: Hi, I am trying to upgrade an UltraIIi from an old Aurora Linux (kernel 2.4.20) to Debian Etch (2.6.18), but I cannot get a workable framebuffer using the PCI video card on the system (an ATI Mach64 GT, see logs below). I am booting with the Debian netinst CD, but at all resolutions I tried, I always get a black verical stripe in the middle of the screen and sometimes the right half of the screen remains black. The thing is barely usable as I cannot see most of the comman line. With 2.4.20 everything is OK. If I disable the framebuffer (with video=atyfb:off fb boot option) the screen does not get messy, but the Debian menu is unusable, so I have to find a way to make the fb to work. I recall I saw this too - I think the default options will work - just keep hitting enter. Except when you get to the disk formatting. Switch to another terminal (Ctrl-Alt-F2) and use the command line fdisk. Some trial and error or good luck is involved. jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
linking SPARC applications
Hi, I have been building SPARC applications - I mean the shared libraries report SPARC in response to the file command. Now I noticed these are linked to various standard libs in /lib/v9 which report SPARC32PLUS, instead of linking to the required SPARC libs in /lib Is this something that has to be configured when building or is it something happens when running ldd? (I only have sun4u here) thanks jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: linking SPARC applications
Martin wrote: On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 16:53 +1000, Jim Watson wrote: Hi, I have been building SPARC applications - I mean the shared libraries report SPARC in response to the file command. Now I noticed these are linked to various standard libs in /lib/v9 which report SPARC32PLUS, instead of linking to the required SPARC libs in /lib Is this something that has to be configured when building or is it something happens when running ldd? (I only have sun4u here) IIRC the output of ldd is something like libraryNameInProgram = /where/it/maps/to/on/this/system if the first is incorrect, you have to change you build system / environment. If the second is incorrect you have to change how ld is set up on your system. Thus it would sound, to me, like your system was behaving correctly and the binaries should work on sun4m. Yes, but I like them to run on sparc (32) systems too. Previously they always linked to /lib/blah. Now something has changed so they now link to /lib/v9/blah But I didn't change my build system so I guess it is something changed in debian. Thats the bit I don't understand - what has changed? thanks jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: linking SPARC applications
Julien Cristau wrote: On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 22:38:05 +1000, Jim Watson wrote: Yes, but I like them to run on sparc (32) systems too. Previously they always linked to /lib/blah. Now something has changed so they now link to /lib/v9/blah But I didn't change my build system so I guess it is something changed in debian. Thats the bit I don't understand - what has changed? You have installed libc6-sparcv9. ld.so uses the optimized libraries if available and if the hardware supports it. Thank you Julien, that was it. I removed that package and the linking is fixed. jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#403364: SunBlade 150 problems - can anyone confirm?
निशांत / Nishant wrote: Hi, On 7/2/07, Thomas Köllmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe this is useful to the next guy installing Etch (or some other post-2.6.16 kernel) on a Blade 150 (or 100). Can you confirm that with a 2.6.16 kernel the problem is not reproducible? But now I am facing the problem with 2.6.18-4-sparc64. I need to use video=atyfb:off to be able to boot. I am on a SunBlade150. regards, Nishant On my Sunblade100 this is fixed in debian unstable 2.6.21-1 but video=atyfb:off is still needed anyway to avoid those red dots. jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Builds disturbed by the usage of a 64bit kernel.
Charles Plessy wrote: Dear all, Starting from the observation that a pre-release debian pacakge of root-system and the current xaralx (non-free) pacakge fail to build from source on G5 powerpc machines but not on G4, I started to get worried that that kind of failures would be more widespread. The core of the problem is that the configure scripts sometimes mistake the build system type to be powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu instead of powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu. I am wondering similar things happen on sparc running a 32-bit userland with a 64-bits kernel, hence the crosspost. To investigate a bit more, I am rebuilding the maching with a cowbuildd, and in this email, I would like to give preliminary results before the week-end. Out of 500 packages already build, ~140 tried to detect the build system type, and ~30 of them guessed wrongly (powerpc64 instead of powerpc). Three of them failed to build and in one case the wrong guess is the obvious reason: In file included from /usr/include/features.h:346, from /usr/include/stdlib.h:25, from argus.c:40: /usr/include/gnu/stubs.h:9:27: error: gnu/stubs-64.h: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [argus.o] Error 1 I will continue the experiment during the week-end, but I do not think that I can manage to rebuild the whole archive. I woudld be especially intersted by the opinion of the sparc porters: do you use sparc64-powered buildd with 32-bit userlands? Do you often run in that kind of problem? Another think I am wondering is wether the pacakges built successfully with the wrong build system type are useful on normal 32-bit processors. Have a nice day, sorry in advance if i have missed the point - but this might be relevant ;) http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=251149 jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation prompt does not appear during netboot install
Frans Pop wrote: On Friday 11 May 2007 17:13, Emanuele Rocca wrote: * Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED], [2007-05-11 17:12 +0200]: On Friday 11 May 2007 17:06, H C Pumphrey wrote: This link talks about having two cards. But on some hardware (SunBlade 100 for example) you need it even if you have only one card, because the ATI framebuffer code the kernel locks up hard. Ah, I was not aware of that. Could someone who's experienced the issue propose an updated text that covers that? I guess that booting with video=atyfb:off (as suggested in the document) should work. Duh. What I am looking for a description of the situation where this occurs (on which hardware for example). On my Ultra 10 it is not needed. Searching this list for video=atyfb:off suggests the advice should just mention the symptom is the boot stops after Booting Linux Then it is not necessary to mention the hardware, although it seems mainly reported for sunblade 100 150, but was reported for Ultra 10 too, and other hardware might be affected but not reported here? For sunblade 100 at least I notice this is fixed in 2.6.20 but video=atyfb:off is still needed to avoid the red dots (search this list for red dots ;) thanks jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Etch installation on Sun Blade 100 - magic for /etc/silo.conf needed
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Machine is a stock Sun Blade with 256MB of memory, 20GB hard drive. Etch 4.0r0 official release netboot media fails - Boot from CD rom from SILO succeeds, then machine hangs trying to boot Linux. This is 2.6.18-4 Same here with 2.6.18 but it works with boot Linux video=atyfb:off That's not needed to boot 2.6.20, but is still needed to avoid red dots anyway jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Aptitude asks for installation CD
- Original Message - From: Desmond Rivet [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 11:07 AM Subject: Aptitude asks for installation CD The only glitch I have (so far) is that aptitude keeps asking me for the Network installation CD every time I want to install a piece of software. Things work fine once I put the CD in the drive. I have installed Debian 3.1 on another (Intel) machine and this doesn't happen. I still have sarge on my UltraSparc 1/170E, but it seems to me that the solution is to comment out or delete the lines referring to your CD-ROM in /etc/apt/sources.list . Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sunblade 100 IDPROM not valid
Rebooting my Sunblade 100 stopped at the ok prompt, the startup information included something like this: Ethernet address ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, Host ID And there was a message about the IDPROM being not valid. ok The Debian installation guide mentions this briefly: --- 5.1.4. IDPROM Messages If you cannot boot because you get messages about a problem with “IDPROM”, then it's possible that your NVRAM battery, which holds configuration information for you firmware, has run out. See the Sun NVRAM FAQ for more information. The suggested FAQ link is very detailed and helpful but involves replacing the dead battery chip: http://www.squirrel.com/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html The machine is about 5 years old and has run almost continuous all that time. But it was powered off for about a week recently. When it failed I wanted a quick fix that did not involve hardware and found the following which may be helpful to someone else. I have only tried it with a reboot command, not power-off or net boot yet. Step 1 boot failed. Ethernet address ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, Host ID Machine fails to boot, does not load SILO, stops at ok Now it appears that most commands do not work, but fortunately boot works ok boot Step 2 SILO loads, select required kernel from the menu Boot sequence stops with message CLOCK: Clock was stopped. Kick start Then it appears to hang. But wait a minute or less and the boot continues... The machine boots up but ifconfig shows the ethernet address is FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF and network cannot be reached. Step 3 Gentoo gives a clue here in Code List 3.2/3.4 http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-sparc-faq.xml So i did this as root: # eeprom local-mac-address?=true # reboot If I understand correctly, this forces the MAC address from the network card and the machine reboots with a valid MAC address. Maybe I was just lucky, or the battery is not completely dead yet? But i am reporting this as it might be a temporary fix that will help someone in a hurry. The mentioned NVRAM FAQ explains the proper solution. thanks Jim
Re: [sun]debian
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 10:59:27AM +0100, Eric Rapilly wrote: hello, I have problems to install debian on my SUN Ultra 1. Hi Eric, I think this was your first mistake: I downloaded on My fedora the images to install through the net, Fedora and Debian are different distributions of Linux, so if you want to install Debian then Fedora images are no use. I think that your first need to decide which distribution you want. If you decide on Debian, then this page has links to debian images: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ If you decide on Fedora, then this mailing list is no help - you need to find a Fedora mailing list instead. Good luck, Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [sun]debian
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 03:36:01PM +0100, Eric Rapilly wrote: If I can't boot from a Cdrom written on a fedora, is there a good way to install Debian on my SUN ? If no, what shall I do to install Debian on my SUN Hi Eric, You should read on the web about doing a network install. In brief, you set up another machine on your network with a boot image, and then configure the Sun box to download this image instead of booting from the CD. This is done from the OpenPROM so there is no need to have a working OS on the machine already. You can probably find all the information you need with google, but this might get you started. http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/sparc/ In particular, section 4.4. Regards, Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: sparc32 etch status
-Original Message- From: Robert Reif [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: February 25, 2007 4:18 PM To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Subject: sparc32 etch status I'm trying to install etch on all my sun4m machines. I haven't tried Debian on a sparc32, but it's running quite well on my Ultra 1/170E. I just have it running headless but I run an IRC server for our local Linux club, plus do backup DNS and MX on it. It's been very reliable. It has the Happy Meal NIC in it so the Debian hme driver is certainly okay in general. I have an ss20 but because I thought (probably incorrectly) that Debian's sparc SMP support wasn't that good, I put NetBSD on it. Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Please test the new kernel (2.6.18.dfsg.1-9)
On 08/02/2007, at 10:05 PM, Karl Goetz wrote: Jim Watson wrote: On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 22:28:12 -0800, Jurij Smakov wrote: Hi, A set of new kernel images has been uploaded to unstable a couple of days ago, including linux-image-2.6.18-4-sparc64_2.6.18.dfsg.1-9_sparc.deb Jurij, This works on my sunblade100, ( as before, it needs video=atyfb:off ) How do you pass this parameter? i tried `expert video=atyfb:off` and it failed. kk When the system is powered on, look for the SILO message then hold down the tab key and it will stop with a list of available kernels and the boot: prompt. Assuming you want the default kernel labeled Linux, type as below after the boot prompt and hit enter: boot: Linux video=atyfb:off I suppose this could be configured in /boot/silo.conf too... jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Please test the new kernel (2.6.18.dfsg.1-9)
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 22:28:12 -0800, Jurij Smakov wrote: Hi, A set of new kernel images has been uploaded to unstable a couple of days ago, including linux-image-2.6.18-4-sparc64_2.6.18.dfsg.1-9_sparc.deb Jurij, This works on my sunblade100, ( as before, it needs video=atyfb:off ) jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems booting Sun Blade 100: still unable to boot from CD
On 31/12/2006, at 2:25 AM, Holger Wansing wrote: Hello, On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 14:40:49 +0100 Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have no idea what video cards are in a Sun Blade 100. If it is something other than an ATI card, you may need a different parameter. The kernel Yes, is ATI card. My SunBlade 100 boots 2.6.18 OK from internal disk drive with video=atyfb:off. (This was not required with 2.6.16) As mentioned in the thread, net boot may be required - at least I have not seen any reports of success with CDROM. jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SunBlade 150 problems - can anyone confirm?
On 17/12/2006, at 5:55 AM, Thomas Köllmann wrote: On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 10:38:58 -0800 Jurij Smakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please try booting it with the boot parameter video=atyfb:off, i.e. instead of just pressing enter at the silo boot prompt type Linux video=atyfb:off Yes, that works. Does this have any drawbacks regarding the use of xorg? (I haven't yet installed that...) I can confirm this problem exists on Sunblade100 with the 2.6.18-3 (Mon 4 Dec) and the same fix works. I have been using xorg and also using video=atyfb:off to avoid the red dots issue, no problems I can see, only the alternative consoles have some unusable frame outside, about 20% of the screen area. Jim
Re: Unidentified subject!
On 03/11/2006, at 7:42 AM, Marco Abderhalden wrote: Hello, I tried to install Debian and Gentoo on a Sunblade 100. But I didn't have success. Debian error: cramfs: wrong magic Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00 Gentoo error: Loaded Kernel Version 2.6.17 Loading Initial ramdisk (645016 bytes at 0x2F802000 phys, 0x40C virt)... Illegal Instruction Do I have some problem with the ramdisk. The SB100 has 512MB of ram. Thanks in advance for useful hints. Regards, Marco Marco, To get help I think you should give exact details where you got the boot disks, what versions etc. My cdrom died years ago but a method that always works for me is net boot using tftp http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/sparc/ch04s04.html.en jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problems building amarok 1.4.4 on sparc
On 03/11/2006, at 5:12 PM, Jurij Smakov wrote: actual build) is built fine with gcc, however fails to build with the -std=iso9899:1990 option, which amarok appears to be using. I don't I dont know, just quoting from a book here: if you are writing code using the ANSI C conventions, you must use the __asm__ keyword instead of the normal asm keyword. that fixes the test case. jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fixed kernels for SunBlade 100/150 - please test ASAP
On 21/10/2006, at 2:35 PM, Jurij Smakov wrote: On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 07:07:18PM +0200, Luigi Gangitano wrote: Ok, this kernel works on SB100, but only if atyfb is disabled. Thanks, Luigi. I hope it will work for others too, so that we can go ahead and commit the changes. same here - works but only if atyfb off I attached the dmesg output, which shows some issues while scanning the of tree. I will attach mine too, for debian 2.16 (where atyfb works OK) and latest 2.18. Looking for things different ...BogoMIPS(?) 2.16 = 1001.47 2.18 = 11.12 jim PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 4.0.45 2001/02/08 14:33 Linux version 2.6.16-1-sparc64 (Debian 2.6.16-12) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.0.4 20060422 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.3-2)) #2 Thu May 4 12:36:43 PDT 2006 ARCH: SUN4U Ethernet address: 00:03:ba:04:a4:ab On node 0 totalpages: 31986 DMA zone: 31986 pages, LIFO batch:7 DMA32 zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0 Normal zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0 HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0 CPU[0]: Caches D[sz(16384):line_sz(32)] I[sz(16384):line_sz(32)] E[sz(262144):line_sz(64)] Built 1 zonelists Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda2 ro video=atyfb:off PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 32768 bytes) Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 262144 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 131072 bytes) Memory: 253360k available (2032k kernel code, 696k data, 136k init) [f800,0ff24000] Calibrating delay loop... 1001.47 BogoMIPS (lpj=2002944) Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized SELinux: Disabled at boot. Capability LSM initialized Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 checking if image is initramfs... it is Freeing initrd memory: 979k freed NET: Registered protocol family 16 PCI: Probing for controllers. PCI: Found SABRE, main regs at 01fe SABRE: Shared PCI config space at 01fe0100 SABRE: DVMA at c000 [2000] PCI quirk: region 0800-083f claimed by ali7101 ACPI PCI quirk: region 0600-061f claimed by ali7101 SMB PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 0] slot[ 8] map[0] to INO[23] PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 0] slot[ c] map[0] to INO[06] PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 0] slot[ c] map[0] to INO[1c] PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 0] slot[ c] map[0] to INO[24] PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 0] slot[ d] map[0] to INO[0c] PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 0] slot[13] map[0] to INO[0f] PCI0(PBMA): Bus running at 33MHz isa0: [dma - (floppy) (parallel)] [power] [serial] [serial] ebus0: [flashprom] [eeprom] [idprom] power: Control reg at 01fe02000800 ... powerd running. usbcore: registered new driver usbfs usbcore: registered new driver hub audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) audit(1161450046.196:1): initialized VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 8192 bytes) Initializing Cryptographic API io scheduler noop registered io scheduler anticipatory registered (default) io scheduler deadline registered io scheduler cfq registered Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds. Console: switching to mono PROM 80x34 rtc_init: no PC rtc found [drm] Initialized drm 1.0.1 20051102 ttyS0 at MMIO 0x1fe020003f8 (irq = 7246432) is a 16550A ttyS1 at MMIO 0x1fe020002e8 (irq = 7246432) is a 16550A isa bounce pool size: 16 pages RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize loop: loaded (max 8 devices) Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx rtc_sun_init: Registered Mostek RTC driver. usbmon: debugfs is not available usbcore: registered new driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP route cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 16384 bytes) TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 65536 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 65536 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192) TCP reno registered TCP bic registered NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 17 ohci_hcd: 2005 April 22 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI) ohci_hcd :00:0c.3: OHCI Host Controller ohci_hcd :00:0c.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 ohci_hcd :00:0c.3: irq 9,7e4, io mem 0x1ff0200 usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-0:1.0: 4 ports detected ALI15X3: IDE controller at PCI slot :00:0d.0 ALI15X3: chipset revision 195 ALI15X3: 100% native mode on irq 4,7cc ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1fe02000a20-0x1fe02000a27, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1fe02000a28-0x1fe02000a2f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio Probing IDE interface ide0... usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2 usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hda: ST315320A, ATA DISK drive input: Logitech USB Receiver as /class/input/input0 input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb-
Re: blade 150 and 2.6
On 09/10/2006, at 6:42 AM, Riccardo Tortorici wrote: Now I've upgraded from 2.6.8 to 2.6.18 but I get this error if I boot with the new image: NVRAM: Low battery voltage! CLOCK: Clock was stopped. Kick start Boot with 2.6.8 is ok. As far as I can see, this message is in time.c from kernel sources... What if I'll comment those lines? Is it a dirty procedure or it's safe? With 2.6.18-1 I get the same error message on my sunblade 100, mailed http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2006/10/msg00032.html It is right after Booting Linux... jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cannot boot 2.6.18-1 on sunblade 100
Hi, I just installed linux-image-2.6.18-1-sparc64 which I think is the latest available on debian/unstable. But booting linux-image-2.6.18-1-sparc64 on sunblade100 fails: Booting Linux... NVRAM: Low Battery Voltage! CLOCK: Clock was stopped. Kick start The cursor just stops after Kick start The upgrade left Linux.OLD in place, which still boots fine and things work as usual. Linux sun 2.6.16-1-sparc64 #2 Thu May 4 12:36:43 PDT 2006 sparc64 GNU/ Linux thanks jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AW: One more
On 25/09/2006, at 4:33 PM, Hamish Greig wrote: default install either has an /etc/profile with logic to detect root and add */sbin/* or a root profile in /root/* ? debian/unstable updated yesterday... /etc/profile: if [ `id -u` -eq 0 ]; then PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/ bin:/usr/bin/X11 else PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games fi ~/.profile invokes ~/.bashrc, neither has any PATH jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian on Ultrasparc 1/170E
Hi all. I'm new to the list. I have a Sun Ultra 1/170E that I got quite inexpensively a few weeks ago. It has 640 MB of RAM and about 4 gigabytes of disk space. I've installed Debian etch on it without a GUI and it's working quite well. Given the amount of RAM in it, I'm wondering if this would make a viable workstation rather than a CLI-based server. I don't have a monitor, keyboard or mouse for it but have a couple of NEC MultiSyncs that I could adapt to it easily enough, and I understand a Type 5 keyboard and mouse won't cost too much. If it'll be fast enough and usable with Gnome or KDE, I think it would be a fun box to use that way. (My primary desktop is a PIII-450 with 768 MB RAM, and I think Ubuntu runs quite respectably on it [I couldn't get Debian to properly recognize my video card]... and I have Gnome on a PII-400 with 384 MB and find it to be very usable.) (I have a really good laptop, so no need to take a collection for me.) Thanks in advance. Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian on Ultrasparc 1/170E
- Original Message - From: Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jim MacKenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Debian Sparc debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 3:29 PM Subject: Re: Debian on Ultrasparc 1/170E Fast enought to be usable is always a bit of a length of string type question. I would have thought the 'desktop experience' would be comparable to a PII 400Mhz machine, if that's not fast enough then changing to a lighter weight desktop environment might help. Yes, it is a very relative thing. PII-400-ish is fast enough to be usable for me - and this machine can take a gigabyte of RAM, which won't hurt either. I want to do it more because it's cool than because it's practical, but if it can be both, bonus! Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Audio on Ultra 60
Hi, I'm trying to get sound out of my Sun Ultra 60 running Debian stable and kernel 2.6.14.6. 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). 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 Many pages mention audioctl and /dev/audioctl. I've found this program, but I don't seem to have this device node in /dev. Is this because I am missing a kernel module? I suspect that if I had the right module, this file would be created (like all the other files in /dev are these days). I've tried mknodding this device with the appropriate numbers anyway, but the audioctl program still fails with the error: /dev/audioctl: No such device The reason I want to use audioctl is that the only page I could find with a vaguely similar sounding problem (wrt distorted output) suggested using audioctl to set play.pause to 0. Anyone have any suggestions? Am I even on the right track trying to fix /dev/audioctl or is that old news? Regards, Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: booting ultra 1
On 06/19/06 01:14:13AM -0400, Matthew Pease wrote: Oh, man, what havent I tried :) I guess this is not as simple as a command to tell the thing where to find the next piece of code it needs to boot? Surely there is someone with an Ultra 1 that has run into this! The iso just posted to this list gave some different startup messages, and looked promising, but then barfed like the rest. I used to have an Ultra1 running sarge, but had to retire it because of hardware problems. Please post exactly what happens when you just hit enter at the silo prompt. If you don't have a serial console to copy/paste the output feel free to take a picture and post a URL containing the error messages. Have you tried net booting it? Setting up a RARP and TFTP isn't that difficult and would rule out a broken CDROM. Am I putting myself through needless pain? Is it just uncool to use anything but an i386? It should work fine, I had virtually no problems setting up Debian on my Ultra1, although I believe I installed woody and dist-upgraded to sarge. Jim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Possible fix for firefox's bus error
On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 08:52:18PM -0700, Jurij Smakov wrote: Hi, I've came up with a works-for-me patch for firefox, which fixes bus errors on startup (bug #362170). The patch and the binary debs built with it are available from: http://www.wooyd.org/debian/firefox/ If you can test it, please do. If it works, I'll push the patch upstream. Hi Jurij, it [0] starts up and runs OK on my sunblade 100 [1], thanks jim [0] Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux sparc64; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060326 Firefox/1.5.0.3 (Debian-1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.3-2) [1] Linux sun 2.6.16-1-sparc64 #2 Thu May 4 12:36:43 PDT 2006 sparc64 GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xorg 7 on sparc64
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 11:17:25PM +0200, Ludovic Court?s wrote: xorg7.0.15 xserver-xorg-core 1.0.2-7 xserver-xorg-video-ati 6.5.8.0-1 Now, with a 2.6.15 kernel and the same `xorg.conf', the machine does _not_ hang but X spits out the same messages, except that the error opening security policy file line is replaced with: (EE) /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libxaa.so is an unrecognized module type (EE) ATI: Failed to load module xaa (unknown module type, 6) (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Fatal server error: no screens found (Then X exits with -1.) The same occurs with a 2.6.14 kernel. So there's something fishy going on here. Are you saying so you can start Xorg 7 without even seeing the end of block range messages? i saw something vaguely similar on my sunblade100, when it needed libxau... jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: version of openoffice packages in testing/unstable
On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 09:01:09AM -0500, Steve Pacenka wrote: Steve...thanks Going one step upstream, Jim Watson's .tar.bz2 multi-RPM packages are quite usable with Debian (at least as single-user installs). These are available from Openoffice.org mirrors, in the contrib/linuxsparc directory. Jim is up to 2.0.2. You also need to find install_linux.sh for oo.o. Maybe the one here will work: http://ftp.stardiv.de/pub/OpenOffice.org/developer/install_scripts/ This can be got from mirrors my-mirror/pub/OpenOffice.org/developer/install_scripts The script relocates the rpm installations where required, else they default into /opt For future reference, Jim's port wiki page is: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/GNULinuxSparcPorting -- SP jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RAID config option missing
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 11:07:06AM +0100, Arnaud Fontaine wrote: Actually, it seems to be a bug in parted, so partman isn't able to tag a partition as Linux RAID autodetect (0xFD). Please take a look at the bug #355467 [0]. At the moment there is no solution in order to solve this issue. However, Sebastien's HOWTO is really interesting ;). Hi Arnaud, I had fun with Sebastien's HOWTO.. I knew that French they taught me in school would come in useful one day! :) In the end I got RAID working very nicely on my Ultra 60. I may get some bigger harddisks for that box soon, in which case I'll be going through the process again. If so I'll try and do English translation of Sebastien's instructions. Regards, Jim -- Jim Farrand -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#306476: quick question about Bug#306476
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 12:18:59PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: SunBlade 100 systems are notorious though. I tried installing one at a developers meeting recently and ran into the weirdest problems which were not even consistently reproducible. I did succeed in installing from CD some times, but at other times had errors halfway through the installation. The only really successful installation reports we've had, have been with netboot installs. I remember when I bought my sunblade 100 there were 2 type of solaris boot disks in the package, one special was for the sunblade 100, the other would fail half-way through. Anyway the cdrom stopped working when it was just after warranty, and since then it has installed debian by net boot several times with no problems. jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RAID config option missing
Hi, I'm trying to install Debian on a Sun Ultra 60 with 2 SCSI harddisks. I want to use software RAID on the discs. Although I can see the config option in partitioning section for configering RAID, I am not able to set partitions to type Physical volume for RAID in the partition config (which is a pre-requisite to the Configuring RAID step). All the guides I can find tell me I really need to be able to set this option to do the install (although they are all x86 specific). Does anyone know if this is just a bug in the installer, or is there a good reason that this option is missing (ie RAID won't work on this setup)? Or do I need to do something different on sparc systems? Thanks in advance, Jim -- Jim Farrand -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.6.16-rc2 sparc32 (and sparc64) kernel images available
if any one gets a sparc32 - smp 2.6.16+ kernel compilied and get make it available for download as a deb, I can test on some dual and quad processor systems. Let me know. Jim -- Original Message --- From: Jurij Smakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [UTF-8?]To: Ludovic Courtès [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Sent: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 20:32:05 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: 2.6.16-rc2 sparc32 (and sparc64) kernel images available [UTF-8?] On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Hi, Yesterday, 19 hours, 45 minutes, 7 seconds ago, Jurij Smakov wrote: I've committed the changes to build sparc32 images to the experimental branch of the svn and run a test build. The resulting images are available for download at http://www.wooyd.org/debian/kernels/. Great! Would it be possible for you to build sparc32 SMP images as well? I'd be glad to test it. I don't think it makes too much sense to build the SMP images at this point. The only person actively involved in making 2.6 SMP kernels work on sparc32 is Bob Breuer, and according to his recent post to sparc-linux list [0], it's not quite there yet. If you are seriously interested in testing SMP on sparc32, it is pretty simple to apply the patch mentioned in this message and build your own kernel (let me know if you'll need help with it). [0] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-sparcm=113822757706953w=2 Best regards, Jurij Smakov[EMAIL PROTECTED] Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC --- End of Original Message --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sparc developer machines
Quoting Clint Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Could you try repeatedly installing and purging the build-dependencies for openoffice.org while running kernel-image-2.6.8-2-sparc64-smp on your SB1000? The objective is to reproduce a crash that occurs on the dual-proc autobuilders. Hi Clint, can you give more info about the crash, where it occurs in building openoffice.org? tail of the build log would be good. I am continually building the upstream version of openoffice.org on sparc64 (sunblade 100, NOT SMP), maybe I can look for some clue that helps, such as warning message, relevant code or something? thanks jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sun Blade 150 install - fails on reboot, fails to configure X?
Quoting Andrew M.A. Cater [EMAIL PROTECTED]: found or some such. The card is an ATI Rage of some description - I'm not at work now so can't check exactly - does anyone have a working XF86Config. System running Sarge i.e. Stable apart from needing the netinst disk to bootstrap it. SunBlade 100: lspci says: :00:13.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27) I use xorg but I attached an old config that was working: from silo.conf (files are in /boot) root=/dev/hda2 partition=1 default=Linux read-only timeout=100 image=/vmlinuz label=Linux initrd=/initrd.img jim XF86Config-4.works Description: Binary data silo.conf Description: Binary data
Re: Installing on a Sun Blade 100: CD Mounting issue
Quoting Simon Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dear All, Using the stable install CD's I've got the error found here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2005/04/msg00052.html The install CD cannot be mounted to continue the installation. Has this problem been fixed somewhere? If so could somebody point me to an ISO that I can use to install from, or a link to a TFTP netboot thing that will work. On sunblade 100 I have done tftp boot several times now using the tftp images referenced by the installation manual on the debian main page go to Installation Manual and choose the sparc version. It explains the procedure and provides links to images. I did a minimal installation then upgrade to unstable. jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sound on blade 100
Quoting Dave Love [EMAIL PROTECTED]: control. (I'm surprised the blade is up to running GNOME!) Gnome is running much better than a couple of years ago! Right now using mozilla while building openoffice.org. It runs openoffice.org 2.0 at an acceptable speed jim [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ top top - 19:13:49 up 15 days, 20:32, 6 users, load average: 1.67, 1.63, 1.43 Tasks: 106 total, 2 running, 104 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 96.6% us, 3.4% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem:254776k total, 225264k used,29512k free, 3776k buffers Swap: 1011528k total, 179944k used, 831584k free,41336k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 27986 jim 25 0 52672 41m 2800 R 92.4 16.5 0:05.84 cc1plus 16469 root 15 0 72392 17m 3704 S 5.6 6.9 525:43.97 Xorg 16826 jim 15 0 31176 10m 6136 S 1.3 4.4 18:03.00 gnome-terminal 27798 jim 16 0 2872 1472 1128 R 0.6 0.6 0:00.67 top 1 root 16 0 2160 168 120 S 0.0 0.1 0:12.94 init -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Please test pre-release 2.6.14-3 packages
Quoting Jurij Smakov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If no major problems are discovered, the kernel team plans to upload 2.6.14-3 to sid during weekend or early next week. This boots ok on the sunblade 100 and the sound works but a much reduced version of the framebuffer problem persists. The mouse and everything is OK now but there are still some red dots on the blue background, and can be seen for example on the desktop when hitting enter in a terminal window or moving the window, flickering red dots in vertical rows across the screen, and a few isolated red dots that do not move. jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sound on blade 100
Quoting Dave Love [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is it possible to get sound working on a blade 100? What looks like the relevant module for the audio isn't included in the 2.6.12 package, at least, and when I built it separately I got garbage out of the headphones I connected. The card is: Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 01) Dave, I have sound working nicely on sunblade 100 debian/unstable using stock 2.6.13 kernel source from upstream the only configured change was to build module snd_ali5451. I suppose it should work with the debian kernels just use modprobe and make sure are soundcore and snd modules loaded too? See the list of dependencies below. For volume control I use the gnome desktop volume control set to ALI5451 Alsa Mixer and turn all the volume controls to minimum then try increase PCM and MASTER volume to get best results. It seems work fine with the oss mixer selected too. By the way it then works out of the box with vlc and mozilla plugins to play from some broadcast video streams (windows media is ok but not real) and mov files etc. and the sound effects (wav) from the desktop. But I could not get the Java Media Framework fully operating with gij and havent tried any different sounds such as mp3 yet. anything with xine will just crash. jim [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/ooo680/sal$ lsmod Module Size Used by ipv6 286536 10 eth139423312 0 ohci1394 40016 0 ohci_hcd 20676 0 ieee1394 388520 2 eth1394,ohci1394 sungem 34180 0 sungem_phy 9728 1 sungem snd_ali545125064 2 snd_ac97_codec 96408 1 snd_ali5451 snd_pcm_oss61856 1 snd_mixer_oss 19776 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm 100425 3 snd_ali5451,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 27080 1 snd_pcm ide_cd 46024 0 cdrom 42600 1 ide_cd snd58152 8 snd_ali5451,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 11208 2 snd snd_page_alloc 12368 1 snd_pcm ext3 153104 3 jbd60848 1 ext3 ide_disk 18752 5 ide_generic 1536 0 [permanent] alim15x3 13344 0 [permanent] generic 5764 0 [permanent] evdev 14336 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/ooo680/sal$ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: STOP-A on serial line
On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 06:58:02PM +0200, Hartwig Atrops wrote: Hi all. I want to do some tests with Debian Sarge on an Ultra2 and try to make a barbone work again. Added CPU and memory - since this machine has no graphics, I attached a terminal (DEC VT 420) to serial A. How can I send STOP-A from my serial terminal? The machine tries to boot from network. That's not what I want. You need to send a break. Most serial terminal programs (or real serial terminals) will have a way to send a break. Jim -- Jim Mintha Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator Work: +31 20 525-4919 Informatiseringscentrum Home: +31 20 662-3892 University of Amsterdam Debian GNU/Linux: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _There are always Possibilities_ http://www.mintha.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PostgreSQL on testing
works fine here, can you provide the commands you are executing and the error message -- Original Message --- From: Martín Marqués martin@bugs.unl.edu.ar To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Sent: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:20:21 -0300 Subject: PostgreSQL on testing Is someone using the latest PostgreSQL download from testing? I'm experiencing trouble creating views. I filed in a BUG report on the subject, but haven't had any feed back yet, so I wanted to know if someone else is having the same problem. -- 09:18:44 up 11 days, 14:35, 2 users, load average: 1.95, 1.69, 1.51 - Lic. Martín Marqués | SELECT 'mmarques' || Centro de Telemática| '@' || 'unl.edu.ar'; Universidad Nacional| DBA, Programador, del Litoral | Administrador - --- End of Original Message --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PostgreSQL on testing
what does table/view hijo look like -- Original Message --- From: Martín Marqués martin@bugs.unl.edu.ar To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Sent: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:47:27 -0300 Subject: Re: PostgreSQL on testing El Mié 28 Sep 2005 09:41, Jim Buttafuoco escribió: works fine here, can you provide the commands you are executing and the error message Here's the BUG report: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=330296 And more info: ii postgresql-8.0 8.0.3-15 object-relational SQL database, version 8.0 server prueba= CREATE VIEW pruvista AS prueba- SELECT c1,c2 FROM hijo; server closed the connection unexpectedly This probably means the server terminated abnormally before or while processing the request. La conexión al servidor se ha perdido. Intentando reiniciar: falló. ! From the logs: 2005-09-28 09:12:57 ARTLOG: sentencia: CREATE VIEW pruvista AS SELECT c1,c2 FROM hijo; LOG: proceso de servidor (PID 15207) fue terminado por una señal 10 LOG: terminando todos los otros procesos de servidor activos LOG: todos los procesos fueron terminados; reinicializando 2005-09-28 09:46:54 ARTLOG: conexión recibida: host=[local] port= 2005-09-28 09:46:54 ARTFATAL: el sistema de base de datos está iniciándose LOG: el sistema de bases de datos fue interrumpido en 2005-09-28 09:12:54 ART LOG: el registro de checkpoint está en 0/EDE7B90 LOG: registro de redo en 0/EDE7B90; registro de undo en 0/0; apagado TRUE LOG: siguiente ID de transacción: 327692; siguiente OID: 814168 LOG: el sistema de bases de datos no fue apagado apropiadamente; se está efectuando la recuperación automática LOG: redo comienza en 0/EDE7BD0 LOG: la dirección de página 0/8DF8000 en el archivo de registro 0, segmento 14, posición 14647296 es inesperada LOG: redo listo en 0/EDF5F90 LOG: el sistema de bases de datos está listo -- 09:40:49 up 11 days, 14:58, 2 users, load average: 1.86, 1.64, 1.56 - Lic. Martín Marqués | SELECT 'mmarques' || Centro de Telemática| '@' || 'unl.edu.ar'; Universidad Nacional| DBA, Programador, del Litoral | Administrador - --- End of Original Message --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Net-booting a linux kernel on an Ultra 5
Hello, I'm trying to make a Sarge system run on an Ultra 5 workstation, booting from net with root on nfs. This is what I managed to do already: - compiled a sparc64 cross compiler on a x86 system - cross-compiled kernel 2.6.12 for sparc64 - ran elftoaout on the kernel - set up rarp and tftp server on the server - debootstrapped and exported a sparc sarge system on the server I got the Ultra 5 so far to load the kernel via tftp and boot it. But now I'm stuck at a problem, I seem unable to solve. The kernel mounts the nfs root but then complains that it is unable to open an initial console: [...] input: Sun Type 5 keyboard on su/serio1 input: Sun Mouse on su/serio0 IP-Config: Guessing netmask 255.255.255.0 IP-Config: Complete: device=eth0, addr=192.168.17.15, mask=255.255.255.0, gw=255.255.255.255, host=192.168.17.15, domain=, nis-domain=(none), bootserver=192.168.17.1, rootserver=192.168.17.1, rootpath= Looking up port of RPC 13/2 on 192.168.17.1 Looking up port of RPC 15/1 on 192.168.17.1 VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem) readonly. Warning: unable to open an initial console. eth0: Link is up using internal transceiver at 100Mb/s, Full Duplex. Am I missing a kernel config option? I built the kernel with the OpenBoot PROM console and the framebuffer console compiled in. Or am I missing a boot parameter? My kernel command line currently looks like this: ok printenv boot-file boot-file = 192.168.17.1:/tftpboot/sunny.aout root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.17.1:/vol/nfsroot/sunny ip=rarp Thanks in advance, Jim
Re: Net-booting a linux kernel on an Ultra 5
On 8/31/05, Jim MacBaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to resume the installation at the point where debootstrap failed when it tried to chroot into the sparc file system? I'm sure this is not the best way, but I got a fairly good-working system by - booting with init=/bin/bash and executing: - dpkg --install --force-depends /var/cache/apt/archives/*deb - apt-get -f install - dpkg-reconfigure -a - base-config Regards, Jim
Re: OT: Set OpenBoot input device
On 8/30/05, Chris Newport [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let the system boot then use the eeprom command FWIW, there was no need to alter the OBP, booting with no keyboard automatically transfers control to ttya. Unfortunately I havn't installed Debian yet. The box came with NetBSD installed, and that installation stalls when it tries to mount the root fs. Will the Ultra 5 boot from cdrom if I disconnect the hard disk? Or is there a jumper on the motherboard to reset all OpenBoot/BIOS settings to defaults like on many PC boards? Thank you very much, Jim
Re: OT: Set OpenBoot input device
Thank you very much for your input, Chris and Klaus! I found a lucky solution I had not expected. At one more reboot, the NetBSD kernel found that it had mounted the root fs for many times. The following fsck failed and I got dropped into single user mode. There I found that NetBSD has an eeprom command, too, which allowed me to reset the eeprom setting. On 8/30/05, Klaus Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I belive it is the same on the Ultra 5 and therefore you might be 'listening' on the wrong tty. Yes, that's why my serial approach failed in the first time. I was using a standard 9-pin-female to 9-pin-female no-modem cable. But after I have read some docs at sun.com, I found out that the 9-pin-male connector at the back of the Ultra 5 is ttyb and not ttya. ttya is a 25-pin-female connector instead of the 25-pin-male connector I know out of the pc world. I think I need to buy an adaptor. Regards, Jim
Re: tg3 driver fails
On 07/06/05 10:22:06PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: Am Mittwoch, 6. Juli 2005 22:11 schrieb David S. Miller: However, I agree that all firmware should be removed from the kernel and provided externally (like done with the AVM B1 ISDN cards). However, Debian _must_ tell then, where to find the firmware (means: don't let the user alone with this)! This doesn't work either. What if the tg3 card is your only network access? How might you get that magic firmware file? Does initrd or the like work with network boot? How does the card actually do network boot when not being able to operate without firmware (chicken-egg problem)? If the network card cannot handle network boot: why would you want such a crap? This scheme doesn't work, firmware belongs in the kernel tree so that at boot time, regardless of your internet access, you can get a working device. I could give you various reasons why firmware does _not_ belong into a compiled driver. A clean interface in driver development and easy firmware replacement are just two things. I think he meant packaged with the kernel and not built statically into the kernel binary; although if the firmware is sufficiently separate and the build process just links it in I don't see why that would be a problem either, sort of like how nVidia does their driver. Even barring that, you could easily throw it in an initrd or initramfs image to make it available for early initialization. What if I want to use NFS root over the tg3 device? See above. I find it strange that there are network cards that need a firmware uploaded :-/ It's good for ISDN cards as there are many modes to operate in but for an ethernet card? HS Jim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
near death experience sunblade 100
Hi, I am not asking for anything, I realise this is not reproducible and I have little data. I am just reporting what happened in case it means something to someone. I have been running debian unstable on a sun blade 100 for about 3 years. I reformatted the disk and re-installed debian unstable a few weeks ago. Last night the machine stopped, as I see from the time displayed was ten minutes after midnight. Next morning no response to keyboard or mouse so I powered off and restarted. The prom reported it could not boot. The mac address was all ::: At the ok prompt I typed boot and it reported boot Linux then stopped. I powered off and restarted a couple of times, no luck. I tried test-all and it stopped after testing about three items (usb i think). I powered off and restarted and it rebooted correctly and now functions as before. Except it had lost my kde desktop settings, but retained mozilla settings. thanks jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question on apt-settings
On 06/17/05 07:31:31AM +0200, Jurzitza, Dieter wrote: Hi folks, since I haven't experienced a crossing over from a testing to a stable distribution: is it now the time to change the entries in /etc/apt/sources.list from testing to stable, as I do not plan to further proceed from sarge to sid for the moment? Especially because within sources.list there is no reference to the distribution's name! Many thanks for your inputs, take care The time to do that was at release, but if you haven't updated anything since then it won't hurt to do it now. And if you leave it set to testing you'll upgrade to etch, not sid. sid will always be unstable and will never become testing. Dieter Jurzitza Jim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Low latency sparc64 kernels ?
On 06/13/05 11:55:55PM +0100, Martin wrote: On Sat, 2005-06-11 at 14:36 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Premeptibility patching is broken on Sparc. ReiserFS is broken on Sparc. Broken as in doesn't work at all, doesn't work fast or occasionally causes major corruption and eats all of your data. I have a sarge machine running / on reiserfs and it seems to work - can you provide any more pointers on this as I was just about to move some important data on to it. A while ago, not sure how many months it was, I had a reiserfs partition get partially corrupted from an unclean shutdown and the only evidence was that the box would oops and blank the screen when syslogd started. I had to hook up a serial console to even see the oops, I assume reiserfs was overwriting something in memory causing the display corruption. Mounting it said it was clean, reiserfsck said it was clean and yet it still hung when syslogd started. F'd with it a little more, figured out which file it was, deleted it, tar'd up /var and moved it to XFS and haven't had a problem since. Every time I figure it must have matured and give reiserfs a try it bites me in the ass. IMO XFS is much more mature and the userland tools are much, much better. Cheers, - Martin Jim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: question about kernel
On 06/07/05 02:01:37PM +0200, gaspo wrote: i have a debian [14:00:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/gaspo]$ uname -a Linux sparc64 2.4.18 #2 Thu Apr 11 14:37:17 EDT 2002 sparc64 unknownwith kernel 2.4.18 basic... i want to upgrade with another new kernel... what is the best way for uypgrade kernel? i can download witrh apt-cache search kernel NEw and dpkg -i KERNEL.deb... work? You can use apt-cache search kernel-image to get a list of the available kernels then just 'apt-get install kernel-image-version' to install it. Then depending on how you have your bootloader setup you might have to update /etc/silo.conf. Jim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: question about kernel
On 06/08/05 12:41:19AM +0200, gaspo wrote: but when i try apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.19-sun4u Setting up kernel-image-2.4.19-sun4u (26) ... after some SEcond i have the message: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6table_filter.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6table_mangle.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/net/ipx/ipx.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/net/netlink/netlink_dev.o There was a problem running depmod. This may be benign, (You may have versioned symbol names, for instance). Or this could be an error. In any case, since depmod is run at install time, we could just defer running depmod Would you like to abort now? [Yes] Yes dpkg: error processing kernel-image-2.4.19-sun4u (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: kernel-image-2.4.19-sun4u E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I haven't used a woody system in a while so I don't remember seeing that, but I really doubt you need those particular modules and the rest of the kernel should work just fine so don't abort the install. And as long as you keep your current kernel installed, you'll be able to fall back to it if 2.4.19 does cause you problems. 2005/6/7, Jim Crilly [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 06/07/05 02:01:37PM +0200, gaspo wrote: i have a debian [14:00:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/gaspo]$ uname -a Linux sparc64 2.4.18 #2 Thu Apr 11 14:37:17 EDT 2002 sparc64 unknownwith kernel 2.4.18 basic... i want to upgrade with another new kernel... what is the best way for uypgrade kernel? i can download witrh apt-cache search kernel NEw and dpkg -i KERNEL.deb... work? You can use apt-cache search kernel-image to get a list of the available kernels then just 'apt-get install kernel-image-version' to install it. Then depending on how you have your bootloader setup you might have to update /etc/silo.conf. Jim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug #251149: gcc wrapper for sparc is chronically broken
On 05/24/05 05:38:58PM -0700, David S.Miller wrote: From: Jim Crilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 14:42:27 -0400 True, but building kernels on sparc64 wasn't terribly fun for me the last time I tried it either so I decided it wasn't worth it and just stuck with the Debian kernel images. Amusing as I do all of the sparc64 kernel development under Debian/Sparc on all of my machines. It builds out of the box, both 2.4.x and 2.6.x. Feel free to laugh at me all you wish. It was quite a few months ago so I don't remember the issues I ran into and for all I know they don't exist any more, I do remember that building the kernel itself was fine but I think I had problems with the userspace stuff like menuconfig, on sparc64 btw. Jim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SABRE0: Uncorrectable Error
Hi, i got the kernel as follows for my sunblade 100: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dmesg PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 4.0.45 2001/02/08 14:33 Linux version 2.6.8-1-sparc64 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.4 (Debian 1:3.3.4-7)) #1 Sat Aug 28 04:28:53 PDT 2004 ARCH: SUN4U snip and the SABRE0 message: snip ext3: No journal on filesystem on hda1 SABRE0: Uncorrectable Error, primary error type[DMA Write:Translation Error] SABRE0: bytemask[00ff] dword_offset[0] was_block(0) SABRE0: UE AFAR [0fa7c000] SABRE0: UE Secondary errors [(none)] SABRE0: IOMMU Error, type[Invalid Error] SABRE0: IOMMU TAG(2)[RAW(00c6f800)error(Invalid Error)wr(0)sz(8K)vpg(df00)] SABRE0: IOMMU DATA(2)[RAW(6fe0)valid(1)used(1)cache(0)ppg() Adding 831080k swap on /dev/hda3. Priority:-1 extents:1 snip everything seems to be working OK, so i am not sure if i need report anything? jim
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Re: 2.6.x kernel for Sparc?
Mihamina, I run a 2.6.5 on sunblade 100, I built it from kernel.org sources with Ben Collin's patch here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2004/debian-sparc-200402/msg00013.html but i have not figured out how to get sounds yet... Linux sun 2.6.5 #13 Sun Apr 18 14:59:35 EST 2004 sparc64 GNU/Linux jim On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 09:55:14AM +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: Joshua Kwan wrote: sparc32 support is EXTREMELY dodgy at the moment for 2.6.x, And how about sparc64 (those with ultraproc) ?
Re: Problems with Kernel 2.6.5 and xserver, sorry wrong subject [was: serial-console]
works for me ;) http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2004/debian-sparc-200402/msg00013.html
Re: U5 - woody (2.4.24) - 3com 3crdag675 - pci wifi adapter - madwifi driver
Hi, i got the source from kernel.org and build on debian/unstable, out of the box, just removed from config anything that broke the build on my sunblade100 dmesgsnip Linux version 2.6.5 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.3 (Debian 20040401)) #13 Sun Apr 18 14:59:35 EST 2004 ARCH: SUN4U thanks to ben collins for the hints and xfree patch On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 01:29:57PM +0200, Pieter-Paul Spiertz wrote: Why are you actually compiling your own kernel? Do you really because its there ;)
RE: 2.6 for SS20 SMP?
I have gotten 2.4.24 kernels to boot, but not with SMP. The magic numbers seems to be just a bit over 1mb. I am trying to carve the kernel down to get it to boot. Does anyone have information on the exact max size for a kernel on the old Sparcs? Is this a prom or SILO function? Thanks Jim -Original Message- From: Andrew M.A. Cater [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 12:22 PM To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Subject: 2.6 for SS20 SMP? I have been having problems getting later kernels after 2.4.24 to boot on my SparcStation 20 - the vmlinuz is too big or some such? Any clues on this / is there a 2.6 kernel available that will do sparc32-smp? Angling to get this system to Linux Expo in London next week just to show that up to date Linux on old Sparc is entirely practicable. Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help with getting sarge cds to boot
sorry i dont know if this is right or wrong, it is just information. my silo.conf has lines like image=1/vmlinuz there are no subdirectories in /boot sun4u sunblade100 2.4.24 jim On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 06:54:05PM +0200, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: This is the silo.conf we are using right now in the cds: partition=1 timeout=600 read-only message=/boot/debian.txt default=linux append=cdrom devfs=mount initrd=/boot/initrd.gz root=/dev/rd/0 # Standard boot images image[sun4c,sun4d,sun4m]=/boot/sparc32 label=linux image[sun4u]=/boot/sparc64 label=linux Can anybody see anything wrong here?
Lab manual for SPARC
Hi, I got that Laboratory Manual for SPARC and found the debian package for tkisem. How can I build from assembler to execute on my machine? Have I missed something or do I need another book :( I can build the example foo.s and load and run foo in tkisem OK thus: $ as -als -o foo.o foo.s $ ld -m sun4 -o foo foo.o tkisem loads and runs as expected. Now I would like run the program foo on my sunblade 100 $ uname -u Linux sun 2.4.24-sparc64 #1 Fri Jan 30 18:32:22 EST 2004 sparc64 GNU/Linu The foo for iesm I guess sshould not run: $ file foo foo: sparc demand paged executable not stripped $ foo -bash: ./foo: cannot execute binary file I try this: $ ld -e start -m elf32_sparc -o foo foo.o ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol start; defaulting to 00010074 $ file foo foo: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, SPARC, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, not stripped $ ./foo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ./foo Segmentation fault Here was the as output snip SPARC GAS foo.spage 2 DEFINED SYMBOLS foo.s:2 .data: x foo.s:3 .data:0004 y foo.s:4 .data:0008 z foo.s:7 .text: start foo.s:17 .text:002c end thanks jim
Fix for bridge-utils for Sparc64
I know this is only on the periphery of interest for this group, but since I've seen questions asked about it and it's the Distro I tested and am using the fix on, I thought this might be of interest... -- Thanks to Santiago (Santi) Leon for providing the following fix to me to enable bridging on the Sparc64 platform. I have tested it under Debian unstable, using Kernel 2.4.25, and bridge-utils-0.9.6.tar.gz. The fix is as follows: Download bridge-utils-0.9.6.tar.gz source from bridge.sourceforge.net, untar it, edit bridge-utils/libbridge/libbridge_devif.c and search for a line that has this: return ioctl(br_socket_fd, SIOCDEVPRIVATE + 3, ifr); and replace it with this: return ioctl(br_socket_fd, SIOCDEVPRIVATE, ifr); (basically just remove the +3)... run make and again and try: (After you rebuild the bridge utilities, these should work beautifully!) bridge-utils/brctl/brctl addbr br0 bridge-utils/brctl/brctl adddif br0 eth0 bridge-utils/brctl/brctl show Santi mentioned that the newer kernels don't make SIOCDEVPRIVATE+3 a 64-bit compatible ioctl and that's why it doesn't work on the Sparc64 architecture. He also mentioned that the same fix works for the PowerPC64 Architecture so it might help for other 64bit architecture platforms. Note also that this is not scheduled to be fixed in bridge-tuils-0.9.7, so for now this seems to be the best work around for 64bit platforms. Here is a diff too: # diff -Nru bridge-utils/libbridge/libbridge_devif.c bridge-utils/libbridge/libbridge_devif.c.orig --- bridge-utils/libbridge/libbridge_devif.c2004-04-01 21:10:55.0 -0500 +++ bridge-utils/libbridge/libbridge_devif.c.orig 2002-01-16 07:04:45.0 -0500 @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ memcpy(ifr.ifr_name, br-ifname, IFNAMSIZ); ((unsigned long long *)(ifr.ifr_data))[0] = (unsigned long long)(unsigned long)args; - return ioctl(br_socket_fd, SIOCDEVPRIVATE, ifr); + return ioctl(br_socket_fd, SIOCDEVPRIVATE + 3, ifr); } #endif Thanks again Santi, Jim
RE: Fix for bridge-utils for Sparc64
-Original Message- You reversed the diff and your email client mangled it, too... You're right about the reversed diff...oops. Looks like my client sent the message OK, not sure why it got wrapped later... Just adding or removing some magic constants isn't good. If there's something missing on the kernel side, just fix it there. Agreed. If I knew enough to fix it I would! As 64bit architectures get more popular, I'm hoping many of these 32-64bit issues will disappear. In the mean time though, this lets those of us with an UltraSPARC and a qfe card do bridging. Jim
Booting custom kernel
Thanks to Igmar, I can now build a custom kernel (Sparc64) for my Ultra 60. Unfortunately, I have not been able to figure out how to boot it. I install the kernel in /boot and run silo, but when I boot I get this: Sun Ultra 60 UPA/PCI (2 X UltraSPARC-II 450MHz), No Keyboard OpenBoot 3.17, 2048 MB memory installed, Serial #11419681. Ethernet address 8:0:20:ae:40:21, Host ID: 80ae4021. Rebooting with command: boot Boot device: disk File and args: SILO Version 1.4.4 \ Linux debian 2.4.18 #2 Thu Apr 11 14:37:17 EDT 2002 sparc64 GNU/Linux The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software; the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright. Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicable law. boot: Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x4000 for kernel Cannot find /vmlinuz (Unknown ext2 error) Image not found try again boot: /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.25 Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x4000 for kernel Cannot find /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.25 (Unknown ext2 error) Image not found try again boot: /boot/vmlinux-2.4.25 Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x4000 for kernel Cannot find /boot/vmlinux-2.4.25 (Unknown ext2 error) Image not found try again boot: I have tried booting a compressed (vmlinuz-2.4.25) and uncompressed (vmlinux-2.4.25) kernel. I am running the latest of everything (unstable). /boot is an ext3 partition, and I have compiled in ext3 support (in kernel, not module). Ideas? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Jim
Bridging
Using Kernel 2.4.25 and bridge-utils64, I still can not get bridging working on the Sparc64 platform. Is anyone interested in helping me figure out what's wrong? If so, what can I do? Would I have better luck using 2.6.X? Any comments would be greatly appreciated. Jim
Re: Building custom kernel
I have tried burning frankincence and threw snillocneb three times over my shoulder but still it is not working :( jim On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 10:52:39AM +0100, Igmar Palsenberg wrote: I've just been here myself. The following works for me :
openoffice linux sparc
Hi, i am looking for someone with sparc knowledge who would like to help with the openoffice.org linux sparc porting on a regular basis, this involves helping to solve any problems upstream to reduce the workload for debian packagers. i can do the building but need a sparc mentor to review somecode, help interpret error messages, suggest fixes etc, as SUN people are always very helpful but it would be nice to get some other support. jim
Re: Reccomendations for Sun Linux
elaborate the problem? this is sunblade 100, as we speak, running mail, web, testing, unstable, openoffice, potato man, etc ;) On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 02:16:30PM +0200, D Lambrou wrote: Hi there. We are planning to buy some new machines (Sun) to run services such as mail ,web etc.. Nothing too fancy . Can you recommend some machines that you know that are working fine with Debian ? For example I have a Sun blade 100 which has a problem with dma and I cannot use it as a live system. I want to install woody. Thanks -- - D Lambrou http://crazylinux.net You can always get my public key block from http://crazylinux.net/public.asc Fingerprint: C7B3 A112 3704 7202 2B33 6B28 5418 78DD 774A 7BCB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Reccomendations for Sun Linux
Hi, i am just wondering what do you mean by problem? as my sunblade runs OK with kernel 2.4.18 for 12 months and 2.4.24 since yesterday, using debian stable and testing and unstable at different times, so if you can say what is the problem it can surely be easy to fix, as there are many who will be happy to help :) On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 02:55:26PM +0200, D Lambrou wrote: I could elaborate on the problem. Thats true. Just I dont have time at the moment :-)
Re: Building custom kernel
I did as described by Mustafa (thanks) but LD .tmp_vmlinux1 arch/sparc64/kernel/built-in.o(.init.text+0x72c): In function Setup_arch': : undefined reference to Rd_image_start' I have searched around and find some old discussions but nothing that helps me see what is missing? any suggestions appreciated... another jim On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 06:23:10PM -0600, Mustafa Hussein wrote: Are you running this from a sparc32 bash? If not, you need to switch to it: sparc32 bash make ARCH=sparc64 menuconfig or just from your current shell: sparc32 make ARCH=sparc64 menuconfig
RE: Building custom kernel
Ben, I'd be interested in your input on this. I thought the latest direction was to use gcc 3.3.3+ for kernel compilation versus egcs64. Please correct me if I'm wrong... Jim If you want to build custom kernel, I suggest that you should download the source from ftp://ftp.kernel.org or from one of it's mirrors. Install the egcs64 package (cross compiler) using apt-get. (It seems to be, that it is already installed on your computer.) Here is my workflow: 1. Open the Makefile (in kernel's source root dir) with an arbitrary editor. 2. Look the beginning of this file. here is the variables for executable programs. Find the CC (not HOSTCC!!!) It's value is: $(CROSS_COMPILE)gcc Change it to: sparc64-linux-gcc (Note: I don't remeber exactly, look the real name from output of 'dpkg -L egcs64' command) Note: Change only the CC variable, not the CROSS_COMPILE! 3. Don't forget to run 'make mrproper' first! 4. Run 'make menuconfig'
RE: bridging ethernet problem
Just to save Ben the trouble, one thing I can tell is that you can't use bridge-utils, you must use bridge-utils64 from: http://www.phunnypharm.org/pub/for/sparc-folks/ How does it work with that? Jim sorry guys for my english, I need help for configuring ethernet bridging into debian sparc. I have installed Debian GNU/Linux (woody) into SUN Netra X1, I compiled 2.4.25 kernel with 802.1d Ethernet Bridging support, I have installed bridge-utils 0.9.5-2, I have read many documentations (Bridging FAQ and Bridging HOWTO). I create the virtual interface br0 brctl addbr br0 When I add the ethernet interfaces I recive this message: brctl addif br0 eth0 bridge br0 doesn't exist! Why not? brctl addbr br0 device br0 already exists; can't create bridge with the same name Note that the bridge module is loaded (viewable with lsmod) bridge:~# lsmod Module Size Used byNot tainted bridge 19560 1 tulip 45160 2 brctl show : bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces bridge:~# cat /proc/net/dev Inter-| Receive| Transmit face |bytespackets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytespackets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed lo: 465 5000 0 0 0 465 5000 0 0 0 eth0: 1396301906000 0 0 0 0 0000 0 0 0 eth1: 1398951905000 0 0 0 0 0000 0 0 0 br0: 0 0000 0 0 0 0 0000 0 0 0 This is my /etc/network/interface auto lo eth0 eth1 br0 iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet static address 0.0.0.0 netmask 0.0.0.0 iface eth1 inet static address 0.0.0.0 netmask 0.0.0.0 iface br0 inet static address 0.0.0.0 netmask 0.0.0.0 bridge_ports eth0 eth1 bridge_bridgeprio 32767 bridge_portprio eth1 129 bridge_fd 5 The outpu of ifconfig: br0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:BA:05:C8:0F UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1852 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:135696 (132.5 KiB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:64 Base address:0x2000 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:BA:05:C8:0E UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1875 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:137612 (134.3 KiB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:128
RE: noob with a few questions
Perhaps. I don't care for using 4 and 5 for starting X. I understand not starting some or all network services in 2 and everything in 3, but in practice I have never seen this used. I suspect that is why everything is started in 2. Few people understand how to use run levels. Like you said, they know about single and default (run level), that's it. Fewer still understand how to use inittab, thus my dislike of sticking xdm/gdm in there. I remember the first time I used Red Hat, scratching my head wondering why on earth someone had decided to stick xdm in inittab and define a run level for it. But, perhaps that's my UNIX background intransigence... ;-) Jim -Original Message- I do kind of wish that Debian would define the run levels. Only using run level 2 as running everything has confused some people from other UNIX worlds where 2 is typically single user no network, 3 multi-user network, 4 single user no network + X, and 5 is multi-user, network, X, kitchen sink etc... Not that I really care that much as I almost never worry about it, and only don't like the fact that I have to explain it as different to other people. For the most part I only ever use two run levels single and 2, with 2 being fully booted to whatever I set up the system to be, and I don't really change it much if ever.
How to build custom sparc64 kernel?
I can't figure out how to build a custom Sparc64 kernel. I need to build a 64bit custom SMP kernel for an Ultra 60 (2 CPUs). I have gotten the 2.4.25 source (both Debian and from kernel.org). I can't get either (or 2.4.24) to work. (Note that in between each attempt I do a make mrproper to clean up any mess) If I do a make menuconfig, it hangs. If I do a sparc32 make arch=sparc64 menuconfig, I can create the .config file: If I do a make dep, it doesn't work. It appears that it can't execute /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.25/arch/sparc64/kernel/check_asm: /bin/sh: line 1: ./check_asm: cannot execute binary file This is a 64bit file. My current kernel is a 64bit 2.4.18 kernel, so I'm not sure why it can't execute this file. Could this have something to do with the problem? Why can't I execute a 64bit file? If I do a sparc32 make arch=sparc64 dep, it will compile successfully. However, the output is a collection of 32bit SparcV7 binaries. This is WRONG! I need a collection of 64bit SparcV9 binaries. How do I do that? If I then do a sparc32 make arch=sparc64 vmlinux modules modules_install, I end up with a 32bit SparcV7 vmlinux kernel that is not bootable on an UltraSPARC (my Ultra 60). I also got the egcs64 package and altered my CC line to: CC = $(CROSS_COMPILE)sparc64-linux-gcc.egcs64 This has no effect. If I repeat the above, I get the same results (doesn't work or 32bit binaries). This can't be this hard. What am I doing wrong? Does anyone have a step by step guide to building a 64bit SparcV9 SMP kernel on an UltraSparc machine? My current configuration: Linux debian 2.4.18 #2 Thu Apr 11 14:37:17 EDT 2002 sparc64 GNU/Linux I am running the latest of all packages (unstable) except for SILO. The latest version of SILO won't load the vmlinuz kernel on my machine. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Jim
RE: noob with a few questions
Agreed - I definitely prefer the way it's done in Debian. I think it makes sense to put some daemons in inittab, like licensing daemons or things that provide crucial services, but I don't think X-Display Managers (xdm, gdm, etc...) fall into this category. I guess I also like how some UNIX/Linux distros let you reboot with run-level 5, but I can see why some dislike it too. Jim 1. How do I add something to the default run level? I need afbinit to run before X starts so I can have a fast(er) X experience. Put it in /etc/rc2.d/. All those run before X starts (X is started by /etc/inittab) That is not true in Debian, /etc/rc2.d/S99[gxk]dm is what starts X in Debian. X starting from inittab is fairly standard for other Linux distributions like Redhat and SUSE though and even other Unixes if I remember right. I Do prefer the Debian method though, why treat X any different than other daemons.
Building custom kernel
I am trying to build a custom kernel under Debian Sparc64 using a recent 2.4
kernel.
I am running the latest of everything (unstable) via apt-get dist-upgrade.
I tried to install the minimum amount of packages necessary. I am running
on a 2 CPU Ultra 60. I did an apt-get kernel-source-2.4.25 (also tried
.24), unbzipped and tarred under /usr/src.
Now when I do a make menuconfig, it hangs after the Preparing scripts part:
debian{root}:/usr/src/linux264make menuconfig
rm -f include/asm
( cd include ; ln -sf asm-sparc64 asm)
make -C scripts/lxdialog all
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.25/scripts/lxdialog'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.25/scripts/lxdialog'
/bin/sh scripts/Menuconfig arch/sparc64/config.in
Using defaults found in arch/sparc64/defconfig
Preparing scripts: functions,
parsing...done.
(Where /usr/src/linux is a symlink to /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.25)
I don't understand why it hangs at the end. make -d menuconfig didn't seem
to reveal anything useful either. Ideas?
Jim
openoffice.org680
A contrib linux sparc build of openoffice.org680 for developers/experimenting is now available on mirrors in openoffice/contrib/linuxsparc. This is not a debian package but a tarball that may be installed in the user home directory, but was built on a debian sparc system. Any comments would be appreciated. jim
linux sparc openoffice 111fix2
Hi, I put a tarball for openoffice.org version 111fix2 -b preview of 1.1.1 on mirrors openoffice/contrib/linuxsparc. Now has java and database access. Any reports would be appreciated. This is not a debian package but is built on debian :D thanks jim
Re: Memory not aligned kernel problem
Ben Collins wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 01:15:52PM +0100, Pieter-Paul Spiertz wrote: Hi Marco, On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, marco wrote: I just compiled the 2.6.0 kernel. The compile process is just fin, byt the image i get seems not to be bootable. Right after i select the image at the sil prompt at boot i get a Memory not aligned error and i am kicked to the openboot prompt again. What compiler did you use? I wouldn't trust all GCC versions. GCC 3.2.3 is known to work with the 2.4 kernels. I consider 2.6.0 a 'most things work' milestone. Sparc support for 2.6 hasn't been tested or reported on this list very much lately. It might be broken. In that case, it will be fixed in a next version of the 2.6 series. I'm guessig this is sparc32. I know for a fact that 2.6.0 is pretty solid on sparc64. I just booted 2.6.0 on an Ultra1 and it oopsed in the zilog interrupt handler as soon as the sysv scripts were done when init tries to start getty for the serial console. But since I don't currently have a serial console hooked up I didn't copy the oops, sorry. It happens consistantly on boot though so if you want I should be able to get the oops for you. Thanks, Jim.
sun Sparcstation 5 boot problem
Hi, I am trying to install debian on my sparc station 5. I have replaced the hard drive with a 50gb Seagate baracudda. I am trying to do it with 4 partitions, a small sun boot, a very large Linux, a whole disk partition, and a small swap partition. Silo will not boot. It worked for a while and then I changed something (???) mostly the definition of the drive that makes it the correct size. I am new to Linux. Help. Jim
Re: ot: we've been scraped
me too - but many of those emails have a 142k attachment. On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 20:26:34 -0400, Steve Pacenka wrote Fellow Sparcers, I've gotten about 70 virus/worms today of the current Wintel variety. My Sparcs w/Debian are quite immune, fortunately. -- Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org) Debian Project (http://www.debian.org)
Re: LCD on a Sun Blade 100
I have benq fp767 it is beautiful :) on sun blade 100 debian unstable. here is my XF86Config get openoffice.org from your favourite mirror pub/openoffice/contrib/linuxsparc regrads jim On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 04:04:35PM +0200, Michael Daum wrote: Hi everybody, has anybody managed to get a Fujitsu Siemens 4312 FA LCD display or similar configured on debian/unstable (xserver-xfree86 4.2.1-11)? I've got the datasheet of that model specifying horiz. freq. 30-81 kHz and vertical freq. 56-75 Hz. No success reconfiguring xserver-xfree86 with this info. No reactions on the display, black screen. The LCD is ok connected to another machine. I've managed to get it up and running on a SuSE linux PC using sax2. So that's no hardware problem I tried to copy the modlines calculated by sax2 over to the debian/sparc XF86Config-4 file. That didn't help neither. The display is running fine with 1280x1024-75 on solaris as well using. Anyone that could help, please? Micha. -- -- Michael Daum -- Natural Language Systems (NatS) -- University of Hamburg, Department for Informatics -- http://nats-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~micha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION # XF86Config-4 (XFree86 server configuration file) generated by dexconf, the # Debian X Configuration tool, using values from the debconf database. # # Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config-4 manual page. # (Type man XF86Config-4 at the shell prompt.) # # If you want your changes to this file preserved by dexconf, only make changes # before the ### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION line above, and/or after the # ### END DEBCONF SECTION line below. # # To change things within the debconf section, run the command: # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 # as root. Also see How do I add custom sections to a dexconf-generated # XF86Config or XF86Config-4 file? in /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz. Section Files FontPathunix/:7100# local font server # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi EndSection Section Module LoadGLcore Loadbitmap Loaddbe Loadddc Loaddri Loadextmod Loadfreetype Loadglx Loadint10 Loadrecord Loadspeedo Loadtype1 Loadvbe EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Generic Keyboard Driver keyboard Option CoreKeyboard Option XkbRules xfree86 Option XkbModel pc104 Option XkbLayout us EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Configured Mouse Driver mouse Option CorePointer Option Device/dev/input/mice Option Protocol ImPS/2 Option Emulate3Buttons true Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Section Device Identifier ATI RAGE Driver ati BusID PCI:00:19:00 EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Generic Monitor HorizSync 30-70 VertRefresh 50-160 Option DPMS EndSection Section Screen Identifier Default Screen Device ATI RAGE Monitor Generic Monitor DefaultDepth24 SubSection Display Depth 1 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 4 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 8 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 15 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 16 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 24 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 EndSubSection EndSection Section ServerLayout Identifier Default Layout Screen Default Screen InputDevice Generic Keyboard InputDevice Configured Mouse EndSection Section
OpenOffice 1.1RC3 for linux sparc
OpenOffice 1.1RC3 for linux sparc can be found here and other mirrors http://mirrors.sunsite.dk/openoffice/contrib/linuxsparc/ Any reports would be appreciated - please see the README This was built on debian/unstable but is the standard OOo, not debian. thanks Jim
Performance Question
I recently setup Courier-IMAP on a Ultra2 with 2x300Mhz CPUs because the old slower hardware and wu-imapd/mbox setup was just getting too slow. For the most part the combination of newer hardware and Maildir was a big difference, especially on bigger mailboxes. The problem now is that on the really large mailboxes (the cut off seems to be around 9K messages) the sort capability causes problems with IMP because it takes so long. If I disable server-side sorting it's magnitudes faster, but IMP loses some functionality. I don't think there's much I can do since it just takes a long time for imapd to sort 9K messages, but I thought I'd ask anyway incase I'm missing something. Recompiling the package wouldn't help anything, right? Would a different imap daemon do better? Thanks for any input, Jim - This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/
Re: U1E hangs on make under Debian latest stable.
On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 06:38:41PM -0700, Ian McKee wrote: U1E #1 will always hang during a configure/make/make install procedure. In particular, during make of libxml-2.5.6, or bash-2.05a, the machine hangs, becomes unresponsive to input, and requires a hard power off to reboot. After this the disk must be fsck'd to reboot. U1E #2 does not hang during any make procedures I have tried. To me it sounds like you probably have a harware problem with U1E #1. Compiling often brings out hardware problems since it taxes the hardware. Try some other method of getting a high load on the machine and see if you can get it to lock up that way. My guess is the problem might be in the memory. Try swapping memory between the two machines and see if the problem machine switches. -- Jim Crumley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Work: 612 624-6804 or -0378 |
Re: Custom tftpboot images
I would be interested in knowing how to do this myself, if you could post a link to the docs you have that would be great. Jim. On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 03:53, Antonio Prioglio wrote: On 1 Apr 2003, Irvin Probst wrote: My question is: is there anybody interested in such a tftp boot file for sparc with XFS support ? If I'm the only one I'll make a quick and dirty hack to Ben Collin's tftpboot.img (add mkfs.xfs and piggyback a new kernel), but if other people are interested I'll try to make something cleaner. Hi, I have two U2 that would welcome a move to xfs. If you decide to post something I'll be glad to learn about it. Saluti, Antonio Prioglio [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- /\ \ /ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN - AGAINST HTML MAIL X - AGAINST MS ATTACHMENTS / \ -- Help protect your rights on-line. Join the Electronic Frontiers Foundation today: http://www.eff.org/join --- It's funny how the cross - an execution tool - has become a religion symbol.I have to wonder if we'd be seeing Jesus with a stake up his sphincter if that indeed was the was he was executed. I guess if he'd lived in more modern times we'd see Jesus in an electric chair above the alter. --- In-Warren R says: Our technicians are working on it and it will be blazing fast. (ATT Tech support) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Debian in a Ultra10
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 03:34:42PM -0200, Mototurismo wrote: Hi, I´m new in this list, this is my first msg. I have an Ultra10 workstation and I´d like to know if it´s possible to install Debian Linux in that system. If it´s possibly, what is the best way to do this ? Yes it is possible to install on an Ultra 10. The best way to do it depends on the particulars of your setup, but with Sparc hardware you probably want to do a network install. Take a look at the Installation manual [1] and the Getting Debian page [2] for details. 1. http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/sparc/install 2. http://www.debian.org/distrib/ -- Jim Crumley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Work: 612 624-6804 or -0378 |
Re: Solaris Debian ?
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 12:01:30PM +, Dave Love wrote: iudicium ferat [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, do you know where I can get one of: debian:/usr/share/doc# find / -name gnemul -ls debian:/usr/share/doc# find / -name ibcs2 -ls If you think you need ibcs2 because of instructions in the (ultralinux?) FAQ, you don't. [It wasn't clear who maintained that when I last thought it needed fixing -- anyone know where to send updates?] The FAQ is maintained by Pieter Krul: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (you can also send updates to me and I'll make sure they are passed on) Jim -- Jim Mintha Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator Work: +31 20 525-4919 Informatiseringscentrum Home: +31 20 662-3892 University of Amsterdam Debian GNU/Linux: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _There are always Possibilities_ http://www.mintha.com
Re: Mail Server?
On 17-Jun-2002 Ottavio Campana wrote: I run potato's postfix since 266 days and I've never had a problem. I don't think exim's good for an ISP. It could be useful for a home computer but nothing more. I don't like qmail. There are large ISPs running their mail through Exim. www.freeserve.com springs to mind - it's one of the biggest ISPs in the UK. ISTM that all three Exim/Postfix/Qmail are used in high-volume mail setups. I reckon you're probably best off picking the one you feel most comfortable configuring. People have different preferences in that area. -- Jim Hague - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Work), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Play) Never trust a computer you can't lift. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
libcapplet-dev missing from build machine?
Bug 128953 (xscreensaver-gnome not working with gnome) was reported against Alpha but seems to be a problem on Sparc as well. x86 and PowerPC work OK. I had a quick look, and it looks like libcapplet-dev is missing from the Sparc (and presumably Alpha) build machine(s). Anybody care to confirm/deny/suggest suitable package for reporting a bug against? -- Jim Hague - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Work), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Play) Never trust a computer you can't lift.
Re: nfs problem w/debian potato
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 08:48:54AM -0800, John Mastrolia wrote: Basically, I'm trying to mount a nfs partition exported from a Solaris 2.7 box (using both v2 and v3 nfs) and get a panic error that freezes the local workstation. Could someone point me to the document that points out the errors of my ways? mount -t nfs -o tcp,defaults,bg,soft hostname:/var/mail /var/mail or in /etc/fstab hostname:/var/mail /var/mail nfs defaults,tcp,bg,soft 0 0 Well, I mount NFS partitions under woody from Solaris, so I'll mention a couple of things that you might want to try. First, are you sure that you have the proper nfs packages installed? Check by typing dpkg -l nfs-client . Next, try mounting the partition with fewer options. For a first try, just use the defaults. If that works, add back in your options one by one and see what happens. -- Jim Crumley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Work: 612 624-6804 or -0378 |
Re: netscape 476 pkgs for sparc?
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 09:46:53PM +0100, Howard Glynn wrote: How can I install netscape-476, or more accurately, i suppose, where do i point apt sources at to pick it up? My sources.list is as per install with... deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib deb-src ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free I can see lots of netscape 476 support pkgs on my 2.2r3 cd's and i can see the same at the ftp mirror but i keep getting complaints about dependancies on netscape-base-476 and communicator-base-476. No amount of searching via google would turn these up. I have got mozilla m18 working but i am much more comfortable in 476 and need https, which i don't think mozilla has right now Well, as far as I remember from the last time this came up, netscape versions for Sparc Linux only went up 4.5. And it was supposed to be available at ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/english/4.5/unix/unsupported/linux20_sparc_glibc2/complete_install/. Check the list archives for details. As for mozilla, new versions are available in unstable and testing now (though I think they're still in non-US). I would suggest trying a new version of mozilla, (though you might have to upgrade to testing to do it). Newer versions support https and a lot of other stuff that wasn't in M18. -- Jim Crumley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Work: 612 624-6804 or -0378 |
Re: mysql-server on woody : bdb problems
I noticed this too, but since there already was a bug filed on Jun21st (#101783) with acknowledgment I didn't say anything. I did get mysqld to start with the --skip-bdb switch and it seems to be fine, although I'm not sure what that might/will effect =) Jim On Sunday 08 July 2001 05:50, Olivier Bornet wrote: Hello, I want to install mysql-server on a GNU/Debian SPARC box running woody. When starting the daemon, it say: 010708 11:25:11 mysqld started 010708 11:25:11 bdb: architecture lacks fast mutexes: applications cannot be threaded 010708 11:25:11 Can't init databases 010708 11:25:11 mysqld ended The version is : ii mysql-server 3.23.36-2 mysql database server binaries I have see the same message in the archive of this list, but I have found no answer. Any hints ? Thanks in advance, and good day. Olivier
Re: TFTP on SS2
From: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 08:34:09AM +0200, Jim Clark wrote: Yep - bit of a think before you type problem there. Sorry for the confusion. Getting back to the origin thread however, I still maintain that the problem is not RARP or TFTP, but the loaded kernel. It's just not to do with Memory :) Actually, it could have to do with TILO, since the problem system is a sun4c, and the one that worked is sun4m. I'd really like to hear if the newer 2.3.5 or 2.3.6 tftp images work on this same machine. Ben Apologies (I'm really not doing too well here :-) The SS2 is not an SS5 :) Jim
