Re: Good sparc system? - Cont

1999-02-02 Thread Chris Hoover
How about the ELC? There are a couple on the ebay.com auction block. One is $30.00 with 0mem and 0hd. It appears that it should be supported in s/linux. And if I understand the specs I read, it takes standard 72pin simms (like those in my pc), correct. Also, they come with a built in monitor -

Re: Good sparc system? - Cont

1999-02-02 Thread Jim Mintha
On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 11:35:44PM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote: > How about the ELC? There are a couple on the ebay.com auction block. > One is $30.00 with 0mem and 0hd. It appears that it should be supported > in s/linux. And if I understand the specs I read, it takes standard > 72pin simms (li

Re: Good sparc system? - Cont

1999-02-02 Thread Marc Zyngier
> "Jim" == Jim Mintha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jim> Certainly not a speed demon but if you like playing around with Sun Jim> machines it is a nice machine to play with. The simms need to be Jim> parity but otherwise are normal ones. It will take 64MB total (4 Jim> slots 4MB or 16MB simms)

Help wanted with Alpha/Sparc XFree86 patches

1999-02-02 Thread Branden Robinson
Hello, I was wondering if it would be possible for me to persuade anyone to submit me a *merged* alpha/sparc patch for XFree86 so I can put it in -10. All I personally own is an i386 box. An integrated patch would also mean that I don't apply one and then watch 100 rejects happen when I apply th

sparc hardware added to boot-floppies Installation Manual

1999-02-02 Thread Adam Di Carlo
I've added some SPARC info on the hardware requirements and capabilities of the sparc boot-floppies to the Installation Manual. I don't have a sparc so I'm working blind off the kernel-image-2.0.35-2 for sparc, the S/Linux FAQ, and even the S/Linux 2.0.35 kernel patch diffs. If someone knowledgab

Re: XWindow in Sparc4

1999-02-02 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
... Hi Anders and other Sparc Debian users, the problem of csh is critical to me because everyone in my uni use csh in Solaris and are wanting to change to Linux but there is this problem: $ csh csh: Symbol `_IO_2_1_stdin_' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking

Re: Help wanted with Alpha/Sparc XFree86 patches

1999-02-02 Thread Anders Hammarquist
> I was wondering if it would be possible for me to persuade anyone to submit > me a *merged* alpha/sparc patch for XFree86 so I can put it in -10. Like I mentioned in some other message, my plan was to merge together my alpha and sparc patches with Steve's sparc patches and send the result to yo