Re: [renfro@tntech.edu] Great job with 2.1, just a few minor questions

[Adam Di Carlo]

 Enrique == Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Enrique On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 07:25:06PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo
Enrique wrote:
  I can confirm these bugs.  Is there anyone working on them?
 Should I submit them as bugs against boot-floppies?

Enrique What has boot-floppies to do with these bugs?

Read on, gentle maintainer.
 
 Couple of glitches, though, that might have alrady been addressed:
 
 1) /dev/mouse was not symlinked to /dev/sunmouse when I first tried
 X.  Does some package that everybody else installs take care of
 that? As I didn't even touch dselect, and used apt to get whatever
 other packages were needed, I may very well have left out
 something.

Enrique Why should it be symlinked? AFAICT, the proper procedure is
Enrique defining /dev/sunmouse as the pointer device. /dev/mouse is a
Enrique nice thing to have, (don't need to remember which device is
Enrique the mouse connected in which machine) but I remember creating
Enrique it by hand every time I needed it.  Perhaps xserver-configure
Enrique should create it? I don't know for sure, but it sounds like a
Enrique wishlist bug against X.

There is no xserver-configure for the xserver-xsun line AFAIK.  There
is no configuration required on the systems supported by those
servers.

The default X servers for other sparc machines (such as my matrox64)
assume that /dev/mouse is valid.  I don't see why it shouldn't be.
It is valid for x86, right?

 2) /etc/rc.boot/0setserial croaked with Cannot autoconfigure port:
 Invalid argument -- extremely minor, as those serial ports are not
 likely to be used for anything. If this is the same init script as
 in the i386 version, perhaps there should be a differnt one for
 Sparc?

Enrique Again, I know little about serial ports on Sparc, so I can't
Enrique tell for sure if this is a bug in setserial or not, but I
Enrique think just commenting out the AUTO_IRQ=auto_irq line will do
Enrique the trick. Perhaps setserial should detect it's running on a
Enrique Sparc and not try autoconfig if that's not supported in that
Enrique architecture. Again, my vote is wishlist (or normal) bug
Enrique against setserial.

Correct, not a boot-floppies bug.  I say at least a normal bug.  Sparc
is important as x86 (or should be).  I'll make sure the bug is
there

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.Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/

Great job with 2.1, just a few minor questions

[renfro]

Hey, guys. First off, you seem to have done a great job with the Slink
install: within two hours, we took a 10-year old Sparc1 from formatting
the drives all the way to a base system, X, and ssh (inside of 65MB of
disk space, too). With any luck, another 20-something similar machines
will follow along.

Couple of glitches, though, that might have alrady been addressed:

1) /dev/mouse was not symlinked to /dev/sunmouse when I first tried X.
   Does some package that everybody else installs take care of that? As I
   didn't even touch dselect, and used apt to get whatever other packages
   were needed, I may very well have left out something.

2) /etc/rc.boot/0setserial croaked with Cannot autoconfigure port:
   Invalid argument -- extremely minor, as those serial ports are not
   likely to be used for anything. If this is the same init script as in
   the i386 version, perhaps there should be a differnt one for Sparc?

Overwhelmingly, though, Sparc Slink kicks much tail. I hope to have one at
home shortly. Thanks again.

--
Mike Renfro  / Instructor, Basic Engineering Program
931 372-3601 / [EMAIL PROTECTED]