usbmouse problem

2000-12-30 Thread DREIER Frédéric
Hi everybody, I'm just begining with Linux on sparc. I have already spent somme hours to install the lastest debian release on my sprac5 (problem with SILO) ... but it work now :-) Problem is 'startx'... it cannot find the mouse... I found on google that I need to link /dev/mouse -> /dev/sun

Re: CD Writer and SCSI adapter on Ultra5

2000-12-30 Thread Pieter Krul
RG wrote: > Probably it could have been a good choice to issue > prtconf > command under Solaris before erasing it with Linux, > in order to probe all the hardware my Ultra5 have inside > (graphics, ethernet, SCSI adapter and so on). > There is not any similar command in Linux, is there? Yes, it'

Re: Re: CD Writer and SCSI adapter on Ultra5

2000-12-30 Thread RG
Thank you for your kind replies. Joshua, due to the fact that I found the SCSI adapter already inside my Ultra5 I supposed it as being a common feature of all new Ultra5 and I wondered if this could be a standard one. So this is an answer also to Rainer that, if I understood well, is suggesting

Re: CD Writer and SCSI adapter on Ultra5

2000-12-30 Thread Rainer Bawidamann
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joshua Uziel) writes: > >> What is the SCSI adapter tipically inside an Ultra 5? >> Which kind of SCSI support I should put in the kernel? > > Ultra 5's don't come with SCSI... they've got IDE only unless you have a > SCSI controller adde

Problen setting modem port speed.

2000-12-30 Thread Robert Reif
Hi, I'm having a problem getting a modem connection speed other than 9600. I hacked pppd to print out the termios speeds and they are being set properly. I also hacked chat to print out the connection speed and it is always 9600 regardless of the speed set in the file in /etc/ppp/peers. I double

dual boot

2000-12-30 Thread HenSiong Tan
Hello, and an early "Happy New Year" greetings to all. I wonder if anyone would have any inputs on these: a. I have a sparc 4 running partial woody, and is planning to move to a larger disk---from a 2gb disk to a 9gb disk. How can I do this without reinstalling? I us

Re: XFree86 V336

2000-12-30 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 12:25:09AM +, Ian Chilton wrote: > Hello, > > I have compiled XFree86 v3.3.6 on my SparcStation 5, but I don't seem > to have an XSun binary. Did I miss something out? Yeah, about a dozen or so patches that are required for XF86 3.3.6 to realize that "sparc" != "Su