Re: sparc/debian/linux procedures

2009-05-06 Thread Martin
[ Apologies for the cross post ] On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 15:26 -0400, Brian Thompson wrote: > All, > It's my understanding that there are a team of people who are focused > on the sparc kernel itself (which is used by Debian as well as some of > the other distributions - Aurora, etc). This is a subs

Re: X in lenny: 'cannot run in ramebuffer mode'

2009-05-06 Thread Bob Wilkinson
On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 12:27:42PM +0200, Martin Lemmen wrote: > you inserted the line BusID "SBUS:/SUNW,f...@1e,o" into your xorg.conf - > where did you get that, exactly? > I want to try the same (and see if it does me any good), but I'm not sure my > card has the same busID. spain:/home/bob#

Re: Regarding older Sparc hardware (32-bit)

2009-05-06 Thread brian m. carlson
[Please don't CC me; I'm subscribed. M-F-T set appropriately.] On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 11:26:19AM +0100, Martin wrote: > IIRC support was dropped because no one wanted to maintain them. At one > point there was an effort to provide packages for them; this may still > exist. If not, if the origi

Re: Regarding older Sparc hardware (32-bit)

2009-05-06 Thread Martin
On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 19:52 +, brian m. carlson wrote: > On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 01:37:46PM -0500, Dan Oglesby wrote: > > Does Debian need/want more testers for older Sun systems like the IPC, > > SPARCStation 1/2/5/20? I have a handful of older systems and a small > > pile of SBus cards, all