Re: sarge upgrade -> root mounts readonly

2004-07-06 Thread David S. Miller
On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 21:33:09 -0500 Patrick Finnegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm. I saw the same problem on an Ultra 5 running 2.6.7 with woody. > Does it have to be newer than that? The fix was made on March 24th, 2004. So it should be in there. Your followup to this email indicates that

Re: sarge upgrade -> root mounts readonly

2004-07-06 Thread Patrick Finnegan
On Tuesday 06 July 2004 21:33, you wrote: > Hmm. I saw the same problem on an Ultra 5 running 2.6.7 with woody. > Does it have to be newer than that? Actually, I'm wrong, it was 2.4.18, when upgraded to Sarge. I ended up having some other problems that I was confusing with this (the keymap tha

Re: sarge upgrade -> root mounts readonly

2004-07-06 Thread Patrick Finnegan
On Tuesday 06 July 2004 20:58, David S. Miller wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 21:33:21 -0400 (EDT) > > Andy Tolonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have been running woody (kernel 2.4.24) happily for 6 months on > > my ultra 10. this week, i decided to upgrade to "testing" by > > changing my sources

Re: sarge upgrade -> root mounts readonly

2004-07-06 Thread David S. Miller
On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 21:33:21 -0400 (EDT) Andy Tolonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been running woody (kernel 2.4.24) happily for 6 months on my ultra > 10. this week, i decided to upgrade to "testing" by changing my > sources.list and running "apt-get dist-upgrade". > everything appeared t

sarge upgrade -> root mounts readonly

2004-07-06 Thread Andy Tolonen
Hi, I have been running woody (kernel 2.4.24) happily for 6 months on my ultra 10. this week, i decided to upgrade to "testing" by changing my sources.list and running "apt-get dist-upgrade". everything appeared to work fine. a few days later, i rebooted and only the root fs mounted read-only.

Fwd: RE: Sparcserver 10 install

2004-07-06 Thread Paul Henry
Has anyone tackled this before and can help us? -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: RE: Sparcserver 10 install Date: Monday 05 July 2004 09:27 From: "Nick [Stone]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Paul, I'd love to know why this happens, because then I can finally use

Re: [Rapidly drifting OT] Re: Direct rendering: No

2004-07-06 Thread David S. Miller
On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 18:43:05 -0400 (EDT) JLB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It sounds like it would be worth your while to work on the creator3d > > xfree86 driver to get the DRM support operational again. It would > > be an excellent and welcomed contribution on your part. > > > > I look forward

[Rapidly drifting OT] Re: Direct rendering: No

2004-07-06 Thread JLB
On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, David S. Miller wrote: > Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 15:38:28 -0700 > From: David S. Miller > To: JLB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-sparc@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Direct rendering: No > > On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 17:51:15 -0400 (EDT) > JLB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Direct rendering: No

2004-07-06 Thread David S. Miller
On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 18:13:34 -0400 Mike Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seriously, though - don't simply disable somthing that people are using - > give the user a choice as to what behavior s?he wants. It was simply not possible given the current way the XAA layer is architected. It's incom

Re: Direct rendering: No

2004-07-06 Thread David S. Miller
On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 17:51:15 -0400 (EDT) JLB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, the only good ATI drivers are closed-source and x86-only. Some of us > care about such things. Not true, the xfree86 and x11.org ATI drivers support the 7500 and similar families with full OpenGL acceleration. I know

Re: Sparcstation 10 boot ?

2004-07-06 Thread Patrick Finnegan
On Tuesday 06 July 2004 13:33, Sean Minotti wrote: > I'm wondering if the floppy/internet install should end with a SILO > install but didn't for some reason. Or whether I need to add the path > and file name to the boot command. Like Umm, Sparc 10s suffer from a prom bug which prevents booting un

Re: Direct rendering: No

2004-07-06 Thread Mike Edwards
I hate to go with a 'me, too' post - but me, too. :) Seriously, though - don't simply disable somthing that people are using - give the user a choice as to what behavior s?he wants. I too use the 3D support for Creator3D on an older kernel. If I had upgraded and found the support removed, I wou

Re: Direct rendering: No

2004-07-06 Thread JLB
That is a truly lovely alternative for people with money. Also, the only good ATI drivers are closed-source and x86-only. Some of us care about such things. Many people on this list doubtless are quite poor (I know I am) and merely have an old surplus Sparc given by a friend. It is quite insultin

Re: Direct rendering: No

2004-07-06 Thread David S. Miller
On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 17:29:01 -0400 (EDT) JLB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Suggest an alternative then. One with 3D acceleration support -and- nice > font support. An x86 system with an ATI Radeon :-) For sparc64, no such options exist currently until someone gets the ATI Radeon support working on

Re: Direct rendering: No

2004-07-06 Thread JLB
Suggest an alternative then. One with 3D acceleration support -and- nice font support. On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, David S. Miller wrote: > Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 14:24:50 -0700 > From: David S. Miller > To: Erwann Abalea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Direct rende

Re: Direct rendering: No

2004-07-06 Thread David S. Miller
On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 22:50:53 +0200 (CEST) Erwann Abalea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What have I done wrong? What can I do to have hardware 3D acceleration > again with my Creator3D FFB1? (except reverting back to stable) In order to add support for the render extension of xfree86 (ie. get nice fo

Direct rendering: No

2004-07-06 Thread Erwann Abalea
Bonsoir, Some weeks ago, on my Ultra2+Creator3D machine, I was running Debian/stable with a 2.4.18 kernel.had to manually compile the DRM kernel part, because the normal kernel compilation process wouldn't want to compile it (with no warning or error, it simply was forgetted). At this time, glxinf

Re: Sparcstation 10 boot ?

2004-07-06 Thread David Johnson
On Tuesday 06 Jul 2004 19:33, Sean Minotti wrote: > > Hmm, I don't know what posessed me (thanks for the spelling correction). > Unfortunately your suggestion didn't help. > > Here's what I get: > ok boot > iommu/sbus/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],80/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 > File and args:

Re: Sparcstation 10 boot ?

2004-07-06 Thread Sean Minotti
Gary Parker wrote: -Original Message- From: JLB [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 July 2004 15:58 To: Sean Minotti Cc: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Sparcstation 10 boot ? The plural of "floppy" is "floppies". Well, that was helpful, wasn't it? Try 'boot disk1',

Re: Bug#257833: Configuration for sparc64 not found

2004-07-06 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 06, "David S. Miller" wrote: > It outputs "sparc64" on sparc64 Linux systems. > It has never output "sun4u", only Solaris systems > do that. Good to know, looks like this has been broken since the original modutils package then... I will fix it in the next upload. -- ciao, | Marco | [703

Re: Bug#257833: Configuration for sparc64 not found

2004-07-06 Thread David S. Miller
On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:42:43 +0200 "Marco d'Itri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did the output of uname -m change? > The script is expecting it to be sun4u on sparc64 systems. It outputs "sparc64" on sparc64 Linux systems. It has never output "sun4u", only Solaris systems do that.

Question on modules

2004-07-06 Thread Jurzitza, Dieter
Dear listmembers, to boot appropriately from the sarge CD's I need to load the aic7xxx - module because my hdd cannot be connected to the internal controller. Can some nice guy tell me how to get that file (and where?) on the latest sarge. I downloaded the images with jigdo. However, the kernel im

RE: Sparcstation 10 boot ?

2004-07-06 Thread Gary Parker
> -Original Message- > From: JLB [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 06 July 2004 15:58 > To: Sean Minotti > Cc: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Sparcstation 10 boot ? > > The plural of "floppy" is "floppies". Well, that was helpful, wasn't it? Try 'boot disk1', your OpenPROM

Re: Sparcstation 10 boot ?

2004-07-06 Thread JLB
The plural of "floppy" is "floppies". On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Sean Minotti wrote: > Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 10:55:07 -0400 > From: Sean Minotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org > Subject: Sparcstation 10 boot ? > Resent-Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 09:55:09 -0500 (CDT) > Resent-From:

Sparcstation 10 boot ?

2004-07-06 Thread Sean Minotti
I've downloaded the floppy's and installed to the hd. All seemed to go well. Now what do I type at the openboot prompt. I've tried boot linux, boot vmlinuz boot sysvinit etc. I get a message to the effect that the file loaded doesn't seem to be executable. Also my resue disk, made with dd do

Re: Bug#257833: Configuration for sparc64 not found

2004-07-06 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 06, marco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When i do apt-get install module-init-tools apt will get it and then: > Setting up module-init-tools (3.1-pre2-2) ... > Configuration for sparc64 not found, trying sparc64.generic > Architecture-specific config file not found Did the output of uname -m