Sun CDU561 CD-ROM misadventures

Hi. I am running slink on a SPARCclassic, and had to do the installation using a SCSI CDROM drive temporarily mooched off of another machine. I would like to get the original CDROM drive working with this machine. I've read some things about CDU-8012 CD-ROM drives, and things that have to be

re: xserver-xsun broken!

Dayton Turner writes: Hi, I just installed debian on my sparc the other day as well and I get pivo:~# startx (using VT number 7) PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file Roman_M sunMouseProc ioctl VUIDFORMAT: Invalid argument Fatal server error: failed to

esp SCSI Parity...

I finally put my Sparc 10 to good use... everything is working fine except the Tape and CDRW drives attached to the esp0 on-board controller. It gives parity errors on everything... it is properly terminated (active termination and term power on the tape drive) and the hard drives are on another

Re: potato

Previously Stephen R. Gore wrote: All except xcdroast and strace. Both of these packages need wichert's attention wrt building on sparc. He's aware of this, and should be able to take a look at them when he get's home. Aie, hope I'm not becoming a bottleneck here. I'll look at them on

Re: type5 sun de keyboard under XFree (mach64) on U5

On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 06:06:39PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: i am having problems getting a german type 5 keyboard to work (with german layout) with a xfree_mach64 server on a Sun Ultra 5 Somebody got some working setup ? Just for archiving purposes if anyone else will ever have the

netscape?

Sorry If im repeating a past question, but i cant seem to figure out how to isntall netscape on my sparc. When select the packages, i have a dependancy on netscape-base-472 for example, which doesnt exist. I've installed all the netscape related packages, but dont have a netscape binary. Am I