[vox-tech] Sparc Linux Update

[Richard S. Crawford]

Thanks to everyone who offered suggestions and ideas.  I ended up downloading 
and burning a Gentoo Sparc LiveCD.  From that I was able to install Gentoo on 
an old SunBlade 100.  It's a dreadfully slow machine; it took over two hours 
to compile the kernel, and almost three hours to compile the X server.

But it's working now.  Huzzah!


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Re: [vox-tech] Sparc Linux Update

[Josh Parsons]

On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 14:35 -0800, Richard S. Crawford wrote:

 It's a dreadfully slow machine; it took over two hours 
 to compile the kernel, and almost three hours to compile the X server.

You should learn about cross compilation.  http://kegel.com/crosstool/
is a good place to start.

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Re: [vox-tech] Plextor PX-712A not working [solved]

[Dylan Beaudette]

On Friday 14 January 2005 08:10 am, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
 Dylan, did this ever get resolved?

 One course of action is to boot KNOPPIX where you know everything works,
 get the list of modules that are loaded, boot back to your other system and
 manually modprobe them.

 Pete

Pete,

just got the CDROM to work here is what I did:

modprobe ide-generic  and low and behold in /var/log/messages:
/var/log/messages/-
ICH5: IDE controller at PCI slot :00:1f.1
 ACPI: PCI interrupt :00:1f.1[A] - GSI 18 (level, low) - IRQ 185
 ICH5: chipset revision 2
 ICH5: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs later
 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
 ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
 hda: PLEXTOR DVDR PX-712A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
 ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
 hda: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 8192kB Cache, UDMA(33)
 Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20

I just noticed in my /var/log/messages file some entries that may be related 
to the non-working CDROM:
--

...and now it seems to work...

on a side note, I noticed the following in /var/log/messages...

/var/log/messages/-
Jan 21 17:34:50 basho kernel: Sony CDU-535: probing base address 340
Jan 21 17:34:58 basho kernel: Did not find a Sony CDU-535 drive
Jan 21 17:34:58 basho kernel: Sony CDU-535: probing base address 340
Jan 21 17:35:05 basho kernel: Did not find a Sony CDU-535 drive
Jan 21 17:35:05 basho kernel: SJCD: Sanyo CDR-H94A cdrom driver version 1.7.
Jan 21 17:35:06 basho kernel: SJCD: Resetting: .. reset failed, no 
drive found.
Jan 21 17:35:06 basho kernel: SJCD: Sanyo CDR-H94A cdrom driver version 1.7.
Jan 21 17:35:07 basho kernel: SJCD: Resetting: .. reset failed, no 
drive found.


these entries showed up after modprobe pegged one of the CPUs for about 10 
seconds

not sure how to interpret these messages... probably unrelated

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Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group
University of California at Davis
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