Re: Success installing on a Sun Fire 280R was Re: Problems installing Linux in Ultra Sparc III SunFire 280R

2002-10-24 Thread Brian Milco
Hi, I've been trying to get a SunFire 280R working with linux and I was wondering if you used another video card or console. When you finally did get linux to install. If you used another vid card which one did you use? I've tried 3 standard PCI vid cards and via the console with no luck.

Re: dist-upgrade problem after make-kpkg

2002-10-24 Thread Maurizio Lemmo - Tannoiser
* giovedì 24 ottobre 2002, alle 09:43, Mark T. Valites scrive: > A while back I make-kpkg installed a new 2.4.19 custom kernel. > > This past week, I went to dist-upgrade the system again, except I am > getting caught when apt-get sees the custom kernel deb. It says if I > don't want to overwrite

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2002-10-24 Thread Frank Currah
I just joined the debian-sparc list. I have a Sun Enterprise 3500 and am trying to install Debian. When using the netinst.iso boot cd it doesn't detect the hard drives so I can't install. Anyone have any suggestions? Franklin

Re: md (raid1) problem on sparc Ultra1

2002-10-24 Thread Michael Hicks
"Francesco P. Lovergine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here I have a Ultra1 with 4 disks. On two of them I built a raid1. > Whenever I reboot after that disks are in sync, a data access exception > is issued on mounting/fscking. I'm using an ext3 fs on /dev/md0. I had a problem a while back with a

Re: Problem booting Sun Blade 100 with Debian install media

2002-10-24 Thread Ben Collins
> Thus USB, IDE, and serial dbootstrap all seems to be broken for me, (and > the machine still runs Solaris without any problems). Very puzzling to me. My Blade (including IDE and USB) is booting just fine. I installed from the exact same images. I use this machine as my primary desktop and I've

Re: Problem booting Sun Blade 100 with Debian install media

2002-10-24 Thread Arne Nordmark
Ben Collins wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 03:01:01PM +0200, Arne Nordmark wrote: Ben Collins wrote: I hooked up a serial terminal instead. The kernel booted, but after the root file system was mounted there were no more messages, so I guess the installation program output is going somewhere

Re: dist-upgrade problem after make-kpkg

2002-10-24 Thread Rildo Taveira de Oliveira
mv /lib/modules/2.4.19 /lib/modules/2.4.19.old and go ahead make-kpg --revision=foo.1.0 kernel_image --- "Mark T. Valites" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A while back I make-kpkg installed a new 2.4.19 > custom kernel. > > This past week, I went to dist-upgrade the system > again, except I am > get

Re: Woody boot CD/Floppy

2002-10-24 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:42:01AM -0400, iudicium ferat wrote: > > Problem is the kernel is a much more complex application than a binary, > > and it produces bad code in some parts of the kernel. > > Oh, got it; > > Is the ecgs64 compiler better then? (please keep the list in the Cc) Not "bet

dist-upgrade problem after make-kpkg

2002-10-24 Thread Mark T. Valites
A while back I make-kpkg installed a new 2.4.19 custom kernel. This past week, I went to dist-upgrade the system again, except I am getting caught when apt-get sees the custom kernel deb. It says if I don't want to overwrite part of it, to exit. When I do, it exits & appears to go on, but doesn'

Re: Woody boot CD/Floppy

2002-10-24 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:25:41AM -0400, iudicium ferat wrote: > [off list] > > > That isn't "egcs", that's actually egcs64, which is the _only_ compiler > > known to produce stable kernels for sparc64. Anything else is buggy. > > Gcc 3.2 will produce Sparc64 under Solaris - has there been effor

Re: Woody boot CD/Floppy

2002-10-24 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:56:19AM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > I have a Ultra 2 here with ESP SCSI. I get the same problem as > http://www.tux.org/hypermail/linux-kernel/1999week19/0593.html > (esp0: Warning, live target 0 not responding to selection). > > Now, I checked my Potato CD I have

Re: Problem booting Sun Blade 100 with Debian install media

2002-10-24 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 03:01:01PM +0200, Arne Nordmark wrote: > Ben Collins wrote: > >>I hooked up a serial terminal instead. The kernel booted, but after the > >>root file system was mounted there were no more messages, so I guess the > >>installation program output is going somewhere else. > >

Re: Problem booting Sun Blade 100 with Debian install media

2002-10-24 Thread Arne Nordmark
Ben Collins wrote: I hooked up a serial terminal instead. The kernel booted, but after the root file system was mounted there were no more messages, so I guess the installation program output is going somewhere else. If you connect a serial cable, you must disconnect the keyboard. which I

Re: Sound on KDE on Ultra 10 w/ CS4321

2002-10-24 Thread Michael J. Saletnik
On October 24, 2002 at 07:03, Daniel 'Doc' Sewell wrote: > I don't really understand the whole sound thing too well. Is there a quick > way to turn on OSS? Do I have to recompile a kernel, or are there simply > packages to apt-get? This is actually not a Sparc-specific answer, but basically

Re: Problem booting Sun Blade 100 with Debian install media

2002-10-24 Thread Ben Collins
> I hooked up a serial terminal instead. The kernel booted, but after the > root file system was mounted there were no more messages, so I guess the > installation program output is going somewhere else. If you connect a serial cable, you must disconnect the keyboard. -- Debian - http://ww

Re: Sparc 5: installation failed

2002-10-24 Thread Hartwig Atrops
Thank you for the information. Hmm, I installed the Woody testing on that machine, and it worked fine. And I have that testing state on my SS20 together with a kernel 2.4.18 compiled by myself, not everything configuered yet, but it workes fine, too. What has changed? Regards, Hartwig O

Re: Sound on KDE on Ultra 10 w/ CS4321

2002-10-24 Thread Hakan Kuecuekyilmaz
I don't have any real understanding with the sound, too. oss ran just 'out of the box'. i choose oss plugin in xmms, and it worked... On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 14:03, Daniel 'Doc' Sewell wrote: > Yeah, actually, I noticed that XMMS also locked up GNOME when I ran it with > the ESD daemon on. > > I d

Re: Sound on KDE on Ultra 10 w/ CS4321

2002-10-24 Thread Daniel 'Doc' Sewell
Yeah, actually, I noticed that XMMS also locked up GNOME when I ran it with the ESD daemon on. I don't really understand the whole sound thing too well. Is there a quick way to turn on OSS? Do I have to recompile a kernel, or are there simply packages to apt-get? Doc On Thursday 24 October

Re: Sound on KDE on Ultra 10 w/ CS4321

2002-10-24 Thread Hakan Kuecuekyilmaz
just shut down the artsd, and play sound throught oss. it works for me on my ultra10 with cs4321. but xmms locks my whole system from time to time. On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 06:03, Daniel 'Doc' Sewell wrote: > Hello, all > > Has anyone successfully gotten sound to work under KDE on Woody o

md (raid1) problem on sparc Ultra1

2002-10-24 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
I can reproduce this problem systematically on this machine with woody and stock kernel 2.4.18. Here I have a Ultra1 with 4 disks. On two of them I built a raid1. Whenever I reboot after that disks are in sync, a data access exception is issued on mounting/fscking. I'm using an ext3 fs on /dev/md

Re: Problem booting Sun Blade 100 with Debian install media

2002-10-24 Thread Arne Nordmark
Ben Collins wrote: On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 05:51:34PM +0200, Arne Nordmark wrote: Ben Collins wrote: On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 04:35:13PM +0200, Arne Nordmark wrote: Hello, I have no luck booting a Sun Blade 100 with 512M memory and PROM version 4.6 from the Debian install media. I have tr

Woody boot CD/Floppy

2002-10-24 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
I have a Ultra 2 here with ESP SCSI. I get the same problem as http://www.tux.org/hypermail/linux-kernel/1999week19/0593.html (esp0: Warning, live target 0 not responding to selection). Now, I checked my Potato CD I have for SPARC, and that's compiled with egcs (gcc vesion egcs-2.92.11 19980921 (g

Re: official 2.4 debs for sun4cdm (was: Re: kernel 2.4.x on sun4c)

2002-10-24 Thread Joshua Uziel
* christian mock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021023 02:41]: > Did the stability of SMP sun4m boxen improve for anyone going from > 2.4.18 to 2.4.19? Shall I invest the multiple CPU hours to recompile > for SMP? Absolutely... there were a _ton_ of fixes that went into the 2.4.19-pre series for 2.4.x ...