Re: Re: X on Ultra 10 (afbinit, XFre86)

2006-01-07 Thread Tomo Popovic
Thanks for the note about changing the resolution in openboot. It helped. As for KDE, I am talking about 3.3.1 that came with the install. My next isue is sound card that is not working. --- My guess is that if changing your xorg.conf doesn't work you will need to find a way to change it "dire

Re: Re: X on Ultra 10 w/Elite 3D (afbinit, XFre86)

2006-01-07 Thread Tomo Popovic
I think someone new to Linux on Sun might have use of this. I will try to summrize what I did to make X working on my U10 w/ Elite 3D: 1a) Download afbinit package from: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/contrib/a/afbinit/afbinit_1.0-1_sparc.deb 1b) Install it with follwoing command: dpkg -i afb

Re: cyrillic X keyboard layout

2006-01-07 Thread Andrey Khavryuchenko
Frans, "FP" == Frans Pop wrote: FP> On Saturday 07 January 2006 18:09, Andrey Khavryuchenko wrote: >> What I'm doing wrong? How can I check that correct rules are loading? FP> What kernel version are you running? If it is 2.6, you should _not_ use FP> the "sun" keyboard rules, but the stan

Re: cyrillic X keyboard layout

2006-01-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 07 January 2006 18:09, Andrey Khavryuchenko wrote: > in the /etc/X11/XFree86-4, my keyboard simply refuses to operate: looks > like completely wrong xkb rules or model are loaded, since it produces > anything, but the pressed key. > > What I'm doing wrong? How can I check that correct

cyrillic X keyboard layout

2006-01-07 Thread Andrey Khavryuchenko
Hello, fellows. Booted up old sparc laid around with debian stable. Works fine, so far, but the cyrillic input in XFree86. If I do it by book, by putting Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "keyboard" Option "CoreKeyboard"

Re: SS20, netboot, and SCSI drive detection

2006-01-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Today, 34 minutes, 3 seconds ago, Hartwig Atrops wrote: > If you still have trouble: which bootimage (URL)? I can try to check it for > you. I'm using the latest and greatest installer, with a 2.4 kernel though: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/installer-sparc/20051026/images/sparc32/n

Re: SS20, netboot, and SCSI drive detection

2006-01-07 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Samstag, 7. Januar 2006 16:44 schrieb Frans Pop: > On Saturday 07 January 2006 16:29, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > I'm having troubles with the netboot images on an SS20. Basically, > > none of those that I've tried seem to detect at boot time the SCSI hard > > drive that's in the machine (a look

Re: SS20, netboot, and SCSI drive detection

2006-01-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Today, one hour, 12 minutes, 49 seconds ago, Frans Pop wrote: > During the installation hard disks are not necessarily detected at boot > time, but may be detected later during the different hardware detection > phases. Ok, I guess I was too impatient. ;-) It turns out that I needed the `esp'

Re: SS20, netboot, and SCSI drive detection

2006-01-07 Thread Hartwig Atrops
Hi. The SS20 is the latest 32bit Sparc workstation - max. 2 CPU modules, up to 4 CPUs. No PCI, it's SBUS based. On Saturday 07 January 2006 16:44, Frans Pop wrote: > On Saturday 07 January 2006 16:29, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > I'm having troubles with the netboot images on an SS20. Basically,

Re: SS20, netboot, and SCSI drive detection

2006-01-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 07 January 2006 16:29, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > I'm having troubles with the netboot images on an SS20. Basically, > none of those that I've tried seem to detect at boot time the SCSI hard > drive that's in the machine (a look at the output of `dmesg' makes me > think so), although a `

SS20, netboot, and SCSI drive detection

2006-01-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, I'm having troubles with the netboot images on an SS20. Basically, none of those that I've tried seem to detect at boot time the SCSI hard drive that's in the machine (a look at the output of `dmesg' makes me think so), although a `probe-scsi' at the OB prompt does show it. I tried pretty mu

Re: What about: Debian cuts platform support

2006-01-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Today, one hour, 3 minutes, 58 seconds ago, Frans Pop wrote: > What will happen in the long term remains to be seen. There is a very > simple solution though: more active involvement from people who care in > those ports [1], especially in resolving kernel and porting issues and > maintenan

Re: What about: Debian cuts platform support

2006-01-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 07 January 2006 11:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It isn't the first time that I read news like this and I try to > understand exatly what daes mean. That summary is an overstatement of what's happening. The exclusion means that those archs will not be included in the official release

Re: X on Ultra 10 (afbinit, XFre86)

2006-01-07 Thread Vincent Vandeweijer
Hi, I too have a U10 with Elite3D. I am running 2.6.12 with xorg 6.8 on it (runs at 1280x1024). I specified my resolution in my xorg conf and haven't tried any other resolutions. "It just always worked". My guess is that if changing your xorg.conf doesn't work you will need to find a way to cha

What about: Debian cuts platform support

2006-01-07 Thread amadesani
Hi all. I think that you know: http://uk.builder.com/0,39026540,39291969,00.htm It isn't the first time that I read news like this and I try to understand exatly what daes mean. Cheers Antonio -- #+--+#+--+#+--+#+--+#+--+#+--+#+--+#+--+#+--+# Antonio Madesani [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]