Re: potato install on AX and AXi

2000-06-06 Thread Ben Collins 
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 12:08:28PM -0700, Anton Blanchard wrote:
 
 Hi,
 
 I installed debian potato on an AX and AXi. On the whole it went smoothly,
 here are the problems I found:

Are the AX/AXi like the AXe (ps2 system)?

 - gpm + X hangs - already reported

I assume this is with a Xsun. I think I have a solution to make the Xsun
server try /dev/gpmdata initially before trying /dev/mouse. This will
assume that you have -Rraw enabled on gpm which works for my Mach64 Ultra
5 (ps2 mouse though).

 - There is a binfmt_elf.o module even though this is compiled into the
 kernel. Running depmod gives unresolved symbols, more an annoyance than a bug.

binfmt_elf.o is actually 64bit userland support, which doesn't really work
on 2.2.x anyway. The reason I did not compile it into the kernel is that
it acts as more of a DoS (running 64bit programs) than anything useful :)
binfmt_elf32 is compiled in obviously.

 - The AXi type 5 keyboard was found by the X server as a type 2. The 
 XF86Config
 had to be manually edited for it to work. I will look into this.

Weird.

 That was my venture into userland, now back to kernel hacking :)

Thanks for taking the time to report this,
  Ben

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Re: potato install on AX and AXi

2000-06-06 Thread Anton Blanchard 
 
 Are the AX/AXi like the AXe (ps2 system)?

Yep. They support both ps2 and sun keyboards.

 I assume this is with a Xsun. I think I have a solution to make the Xsun
 server try /dev/gpmdata initially before trying /dev/mouse. This will
 assume that you have -Rraw enabled on gpm which works for my Mach64 Ultra
 5 (ps2 mouse though).

I'll test that when I get home.

 binfmt_elf.o is actually 64bit userland support, which doesn't really work
 on 2.2.x anyway. The reason I did not compile it into the kernel is that
 it acts as more of a DoS (running 64bit programs) than anything useful :)
 binfmt_elf32 is compiled in obviously.

Ahh of course. Just so long as kmod doesn't insert it automatically :)

One more thing... why does setserial do stuff during bootup?

Anton

Re: potato install on AX and AXi

2000-06-06 Thread Ben Collins 
 
 One more thing... why does setserial do stuff during bootup?
 

I have no idea, I have worked my ass off trying to get rid of setserial
being installed on sparc's period. It usually breaks things that are
better off being left alone.

Ben

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