Re: libgcj-2.95 and Linux/sparc

1999-11-09 Thread Matthias Klose
[CC to some Debian places; anybody who has time to backport it?] Tom Tromey writes: > > "Matthias" == Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Matthias> Now that libgc5 is merged in the HEAD brnach of libgcj, it > Matthias> should build. But: Debian potato will ship with > Matthias

sparc parallel printer port

1999-11-09 Thread John Davis
Hello, Please pardon these simple questions? I'm trying to get my sparc to be able to print. How does one get a /dev/lp device in debian sparc for slink? Does /dev/lpn device get installed when you install one of the lpr packages? Is it okay to make a /dev/lpn device via MAKEDEV lp? It seems

SMP on a SPARCcenter2000

1999-11-09 Thread Gergely Madarasz
Hello, We've just got it working. It used to hang when starting the second CPU... After some narrowing of the problematic part of sun4d_callin, in turned out to be a problem in calibrate_delay()... Something really strange is happening there. The problematic function is actually !!! PRINTK !!!. If

[Updated GNOME for slink]

1999-11-09 Thread Vincent Renardias
Hello, as you may probably know already, I've made an update of slink for Debian 2.1 (i386 only for now), and now I'd like to have non-i386 versions of it too. I was about to begin the alpha version on faure.d.o, but realised soon I need to be root because many newly compiled packages must be ins

Re: [WARNING] current state of modutils in potato

1999-11-09 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 09:52:52PM +0800, Jean-Paul Blaquiere wrote: > > On Nov 09, Ben Collins scrawled : > > > We do realize that the current modutils now in the sparc/potato > > distribution is broken. The problem is the new modutils does not allow for > > compilation for sparc that allows it t

Re: Bug#49172: dalvarez: Re: ["Nigel R. Armfield" ] Bug#49172: Boot problems

1999-11-09 Thread Adam Di Carlo
>Thanks for all of your comments - I struggled on for a little longer >but couldn't seem to make it perform any differently however I >tried. I suspect that it's simply not going to work. > >I managed to netboot it fine, mounted an NFS partition and did >the rest from there. That's fine while I'm

Re: [WARNING] current state of modutils in potato

1999-11-09 Thread Jean-Paul Blaquiere
> On Nov 09, Ben Collins scrawled : > We do realize that the current modutils now in the sparc/potato > distribution is broken. The problem is the new modutils does not allow for > compilation for sparc that allows it to work for sun4[cdm]'s and sun4u's > at the same time. > as a temporary option

[WARNING] current state of modutils in potato

1999-11-09 Thread Ben Collins
We do realize that the current modutils now in the sparc/potato distribution is broken. The problem is the new modutils does not allow for compilation for sparc that allows it to work for sun4[cdm]'s and sun4u's at the same time. We are working on a fix, in the meantime, I suggest putting it on ho

Re: Bug#49172: dalvarez: Re: ["Nigel R. Armfield" ] Bug#49172: Boot problems

1999-11-09 Thread Nigel R. Armfield
Dear all, Thanks for all of your comments - I struggled on for a little longer but couldn't seem to make it perform any differently however I tried. I suspect that it's simply not going to work. I managed to netboot it fine, mounted an NFS partition and did the rest from there. That's fine while

Re: problem with tftp boot

1999-11-09 Thread Jerry Xie
Eric, I found tftpboot.imp and I could boot off the img now. Thanks Jerry Xie wrote: > Eric, > > I really appreciate your help. I'm using Sparc IPC ( Sun4c ). > By the way, I couldn't find ftpboot.imp. Could you point me > to the right direction to search the file ? > > Thanks > > -Jerry >

Re: problem with tftp boot

1999-11-09 Thread Jerry Xie
Eric, I really appreciate your help. I'm using Sparc IPC ( Sun4c ). By the way, I couldn't find ftpboot.imp. Could you point me to the right direction to search the file ? Thanks -Jerry Eric Delaunay wrote: > Jerry Xie wrote: > > > > I tried to boot the installation system using tftp, look

Re: Bug#49172: dalvarez: Re: ["Nigel R. Armfield" ] Bug#49172: Boot problems

1999-11-09 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 09:49:43PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > I'm not sure -- it almost seems like bad partitioning on the Rescue > disk? Or just the flakey floppy reading code on the BIOS? > > Should I just close this bug? Any other thoughts? Eric Delunay said that sun4c's seem to have a

Re: Bug#49172: dalvarez: Re: ["Nigel R. Armfield" ] Bug#49172: Boot problems

1999-11-09 Thread Adam Di Carlo
> > >At the Sparc boot prompt, I do a 'b floppy', the floppy > > >fires-up, spells out 'SILO' one char at a time and then > > >says: > > > > > >Fatal error: Cannot read partition > > >Illegal or malformed device name > > >Fatal error: Cannot read partition > > >Fatal error: Cannot read partition >