sparc-newbie questions

2000-10-04 Thread Jeremy Rashbrooke
Howdi, I've finally got a decent sparc (Ultra-10) box to run Debian on. I've been playing with Debian for years on the i386 .. and was most impressed with the way that "things just worked" again, once I got rid of Solaris on this machine. I have hit a couple of problems, though, that are

Re: A pc with XFree 4.0.1 as X terminal for a SparcStation IPC

2000-10-04 Thread Joshua Uziel
* Rafael E. Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001004 18:50]: > However, when I log in, the colors are all very poor, it seems > that the clients are running at 8 bpp. The X server is running at 16 > bpp. > > Any advise will be welcome. SPARC machines (and especially the 32-bit ones) are not known for

A pc with XFree 4.0.1 as X terminal for a SparcStation IPC

2000-10-04 Thread Rafael E. Herrera
Hello, I've just installed potato on an old sparcstation IPC. I've set up my PC running XFree 4.0.1 (SuSE distrib.) so it acts as the sparc's X terminal (I just have the IPC box). It all seems to go ok, I get the xdm login panel. However, when I log in, the colors are all very poor, it seems that

Re: wdm problem

2000-10-04 Thread Leonardo Rochael Almeida
Hi, wdm is not looping. It is just dying, and when it dies, the X restarts as it normally would when wdm exits because, for example, you exited your session. Basically, you have to find out why is wdm dying. From the error log you sent below, it looks like an error while loading an image or some

Re: problems with the X server

2000-10-04 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 08:17:31PM +0200, Cristian Constantin wrote: > hi! > > i have upgraded recently to woody which provides: > > xserver-xsun 3.3.6-11 X server for 8-bit Sun framebuffers > > from time to time the xserver freezes and the hdd is heavly accessed; > (i'm not having more

problems with the X server

2000-10-04 Thread Cristian Constantin
hi! i have upgraded recently to woody which provides: xserver-xsun 3.3.6-11 X server for 8-bit Sun framebuffers from time to time the xserver freezes and the hdd is heavly accessed; (i'm not having more than 3 or 4 netscape windows and an xemacs one...) i'm getting in the /var/log/messag

wdm problem

2000-10-04 Thread Cristian Constantin
hi! i've upgraded to woody recently... when i start wdm it seems to enter some infinite loop; it keeps re-starting the X server... it says something like: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/secmeet$tail -f /var/log/wdm.log PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file Roman_M wdmLogin: /build/buildd/