Re: List of supported machines and flaws with it?
I've got a Sun Sparc Classic perfectly running sparc32 2.6.18 - there was some minor trickyness with the sun disklabel (eeprom boot-device=disk0 finally did it), but it's running really fine now. I also have a SunBlade 1000 which is still work in progress, but things are looking good after somebody on this list gave me a clue about the firmware for the SCSI controller. Cheers, Tom
Blade 1000 - no hard disks detected
Hi, I was trying to install Etch on my Sun Blade 1000 via netboot. Unlike the install, I tried about a year ago, the install menu was displayed fine and keyboard and network recognition were fast and correct - unfortunately no hard disks were detected. I also had no luck in trying to manually load the right driver. This is a little odd, because previous attempts with older installers found my two (SCSI) HDs without any problems - they were formatted and are working flawlessly on Solaris. Obviously there are Blade 1ks running debian, so I guess, the problem is on my side - maby somebody has got a hint for me? Thanks, Thomas Amm
Re: Sun Blade 2500
Tobias Marx schrieb: Paul Puschmann schrieb: Tobias Marx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am Wed, May 31, 2006 at 03:31:42PM +0200: hi! i would like to install debian on our sun blade 2500. i'm able to netboot this image: http://people.debian.org/~stappers/d-i/images/daily/sparc64/netboot/2.6/boot.img unfortunatly it does not find any harddrives. is there a module i could modprobe? How about kernel 2.4.x? At least for the installation. i've now tested the 2.4 netboot image. it prints "Remapping kernel... done." and then the computers hangs :( the same happens with teh sarge images (both 2.4 and 2.6...). isn't there anyone who has installed debian on sparc IIIi?? Hi, I managed to install testing about 1.5 years ago on a SB1000. I used an install image from phunnypharm.org I found on the Debian site. Said image is too old to cooperate with an actual DI. I've tried to find out, what was the clue with it, but nobody seemed to know. If you look at the archives, there was another guy from Germany who installed testing via netboot - I tried to find out whih image he exactly had used, but he gave me a rather rough answer. (Maybe he misunderstood me, as I named him a "lucky bastard" for having Debian up and running on a Sunblade.) So there is for sure a a way to install but I could not find out, what exactly was special with these installers. After some unsuccessfull tries I decided to run Solaris 10 until there's a solution. Greets, Thomas Amm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Elite 3D m6 support.
Aurelien Larcher wrote: Hi, I hope I'm not posting a silly question ... I googlized several hours but wasn't able to find a proper answer. I've just bought an Ultra60 workstation equiped with an Elite 3D m6 graphic card. Debian runs almost "flawlessly" but I can't succeed in installing the graphic/video extensions. For instance I'm not able to find Xv extension or DRI. I've read that a partial support is already included in the afb microcode but I don't know what to do... (and if it's true) The afb microcode is successfully loaded at every boot on my computer thanks to afbinit (if not, no X at all). what else should I do ? shall I conclude that there's no support since the graphic card is a bit ... "closed" ? Thanks in advance. Aurélien There is no XV extension on Elite3D cards, and as far as I know, no DRI under Linux / XFree86. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: small dns daemon / forwarder ?
On Sat, 7 May 2005 17:34:19 -0400 Andrew Hicox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone: > > I have a number of machines behind a NAT firewall. Because I don't like > to manage hosts files on all of the machines, I usually set up bind on > my Ultra-1 running debian. BIND has a zone file for my domain, and > reverse DNS info for each of my internal IP's, so it provides > 'internal' DNS on my network as well as caching and forwarding DNS > requests outside my domain. > > The problem is that BIND is a beast, (...) > So, there has to be something better out there to use for 'internal' > DNS. All this thing needs to do is resolve hostnames on my domain to > internal addresses (www.hicox.com = 192.168.blah.blah), and provide > reverse lookup for internal ip addresses (192.168.blah.blah = > laptop.hicox.com, etc.), and forward DNS requests to my ISP's DNS > server for things not on my domain (yahoo.com ... get ip from ISP's > DNS, relay it back to requester). > > dnsmasq looked promising, but it was tied fairly tightly with dhcpd, > which is not something I'm looking to run, configuration looked far > from intuitive as well. You can use dnsmaq without doing any dhcp. I have a SparcClassic with a 50Mhz MicroSparc CPU doing so for our LAN, which is also running a "dopewars"-server 24/7. (Yes, I have plenty of backup machines ;) ) The machine is running at about 3% load average. Cheers, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Good Proxy Server
David Demland said: > What would be a good proxy server to run on my Sparc 5 firewall? The > main goal is to filter websites by URL and by > content. I am not as concern about the caching. > > Any ideas? > > Thank You, > > David Demland > Privoxy is taking care for three underaged Sparcs here - two of them running Debian, one running Solaris10. If you are looking for per-URL-configuration, Privoxy could be a quite good choice.Cheers, Thomas Amm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Video Encoder for Debian Sparc
On Wednesday 01 December 2004 02:04, Marcelo Lopes wrote: > I've a Ultra10 with kernel 2.4.26 and I would like to use it to encode some > videos in AVI to MPEG ( DVD, SVCD and VCD ) > > Does anyone know any package that I can use to do that ? > > I would like to make some video-clips with my photos and mp3 songs. > > Have a look at www.mplayerhq.hu or search for mplayer or transcode for the sparc architecture at www.apt-get.org linuxvideostudio from testing could fit your needs, too.
[SOLVED] Re: sound configuration
Thomas Amm said: > On Sunday 28 November 2004 12:49, Jeremy Huddleston wrote: >> >> Yeah, I'm a gentoo dev trollin', but in the spirit of peace, love, and >> harmony (pun intended), you guys might want to check out the patches >> to alsa-driver-1.0.7 that improve things on sparc (including a >> snd-ioctl32 that doesn't lockup)... >> >> http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/media-sound/alsa-driver/files/als>>a-driver-1.0.7-ioctl32.patch-r1 >> http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/media-sound/alsa-driver/files/als>>a-driver-1.0.7-configure.patch > > Thanks a lot, you're not trolling, but highly welcome. I was just about > to write some wrappers around audioctl and sox which works quite well > on 2.4.27-sparc64 (even artsd works, if set to threaded oss and started > together with 'audioctl -w play.pause=0' ) - maybe this has become > obsolete with the patches. Replying to myself, for the archives: After all it showed that OSS and jackd are working perfectly together - that's what Ioriginally wanted, and what can be seen as a quite useful configuration. I only did not dare to try it before I had ALSA runnning - a mistake, I admit.Artsd and Gnome are able to lock on jackd, Muse and Xmms are, aumix needs some quirx but worx.
Re: sound configuration
On Sunday 28 November 2004 12:49, Jeremy Huddleston wrote: > > Yeah, I'm a gentoo dev trollin', but in the spirit of peace, love, and > harmony (pun intended), you guys might want to check out the patches to > alsa-driver-1.0.7 that improve things on sparc (including a snd-ioctl32 > that doesn't lockup)... > > http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/media-sound/alsa-driver/files/als >a-driver-1.0.7-ioctl32.patch-r1 > http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/media-sound/alsa-driver/files/als >a-driver-1.0.7-configure.patch Thanks a lot, you're not trolling, but highly welcome. I was just about to write some wrappers around audioctl and sox which works quite well on 2.4.27-sparc64 (even artsd works, if set to threaded oss and started together with 'audioctl -w play.pause=0' ) - maybe this has become obsolete with the patches. I'd love it because the Sun-Audio device has a very powerful and warm output. I am a musician / VJ - and I intend to use the Blade for that purpose - well knowing this won't be too easy. Btw. 'harmony' - I have a A9000 715/100, which also used to have a good sound under 2.4 and broke with 2.6 native alsa - I'll have a look for corresponding patches.
Re: Where to find command?
Walt L. Williams said: > Hi > > I am looking for the command that is used to configure > the X11. I accidentaly set my color depth to 24 bit > when my old 3D creator card (Ultra2) and monitor can't > handle it. It actually needs to be set to around (Ahh!) 8 bit. > Ya thats right 8 bit. I have a fairly old Sun monitor. > Could someone direct me to the proper publication > please? (I want to download it so I can reference it.) > > Find the default depth value in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 the document should be the manpage to XF86Config-4 in section 5x
Re: sound configuration
Neil said: > Hey guys, > > It worked now. I rebooted my machine and was able to follow the > settings in /etc/default/audioctl > > I'm just wondering that when changing contents of /etc/default/audioctl > and you just rmmod and insmod the modules, sound starts coming out of > the default speaker. What is the proper way of reloaded the sound > drivers? > > Btw, I'm using cs4231 and audio devices and it's working great. > > Well, on my SparcClassic reloading the modules is not necessary at all - audioctl works out of the box. But could you tell me which modules exactly you are using (is alsa involved) for the cs4231? I am facing the same problems as you did, on a SunBlade 1000 (UltraSparc III, 2.6.8-sparc64) and I cant't actually find a way to get audio running on Linux - on Solaris 10 the onboard audio works pretty good, and I don't want to miss it on Linux.
