Re: Lenny on E4500, esp_scsi won't detect disks

2010-03-16 Thread Frans van Berckel
On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 19:50 -0700, Mr Ian Primus wrote: lsmod reports that esp_scsi and sun_esp are both loaded. I can't remove/reinsert the module because rmmod isn't a valid command from the installer disc. Will modprobe -r do what you are looking for? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Debian Sparc 5.4 on Sun blade 2500

2010-03-16 Thread Paul Cao
I don't have solaris on that machine any longer. Here are some of the lshw information. It seems that it is recognized as XVR-500 but how come the display is fuzzy with dark strips vertically all over the screen? Thanks. Godzilla:~# lshw PCI (sysfs) godzilla description: Computer

Re: Debian Sparc 5.4 on Sun blade 2500

2010-03-16 Thread Frans van Berckel
That's okay. I wouldn't ask you to install Solaris, because you are on Debian already now. Installing sparc-utils will help you with a lot of interesting Sparc tools. # sudo apt-get install sparc-utils # prtconf -pv You can save the information in a txt file with. # prtconf -pv

Re: Debian Sparc 5.4 on Sun blade 2500

2010-03-16 Thread Frans van Berckel
If I am well your card isn't supported yet. Searching the attachment it's a XVR 600 true. Maybe we can get the XVR 500 driver to do the XVR 600 as well. Forwarding this e-mail to the kernel Sparc list. I know kernel developer David was looking for the XVR 600 information, to check this out.

Re: Debian Sparc 5.4 on Sun blade 2500

2010-03-16 Thread David Miller
From: Frans van Berckel fberc...@xs4all.nl Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:34:50 +0100 If I am well your card isn't supported yet. Searching the attachment it's a XVR 600 true. Maybe we can get the XVR 500 driver to do the XVR 600 as well. Forwarding this e-mail to the kernel Sparc list. I

Re: Debian Sparc 5.4 on Sun blade 2500

2010-03-16 Thread Paul Cao
If XVR-500 supports XVR-600 and XVR-500 is enabled in lenny, how can the display card not working properly? Are there any other reasons why display is garbled? Thanks alot. pc On Mar 16, 2010, at 6:24 PM, David Miller wrote: From: David Miller da...@davemloft.net Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010

Re: Debian Sparc 5.4 on Sun blade 2500

2010-03-16 Thread Paul Cao
Thanks so much for helping. The image is debian 5.04 DVD iso from http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.4/sparc/iso-dvd/ paul On Mar 16, 2010, at 6:59 PM, David Miller wrote: BTW just to check, how recent is your install image? Can you point me to a copy of it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Debian Sparc 5.4 on Sun blade 2500

2010-03-16 Thread Paul Cao
I can't have access to the image on the website. Privilege problem. I will install the image tomorrow if I can download it. Thanks. pc On Mar 16, 2010, at 7:07 PM, David Miller wrote: From: Paul Cao p...@ashland.edu Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:04:55 -0400 Thanks so much for helping. The image

Re: Debian Sparc 5.4 on Sun blade 2500

2010-03-16 Thread David Miller
From: Paul Cao p...@ashland.edu Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:57:45 -0400 If XVR-500 supports XVR-600 and XVR-500 is enabled in lenny, how can the display card not working properly? Are there any other reasons why display is garbled? I have no idea. I'm travelling this week to NYC where I have

Re: Debian Sparc 5.4 on Sun blade 2500

2010-03-16 Thread David Miller
BTW just to check, how recent is your install image? Can you point me to a copy of it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Debian Sparc 5.4 on Sun blade 2500

2010-03-16 Thread Paul Cao
I have download the iso image. I will install it tomorrow and post the results here. Thanks. pc On Mar 16, 2010, at 7:18 PM, David Miller wrote: From: Paul Cao p...@ashland.edu Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:13:36 -0400 I can't have access to the image on the website. Privilege problem. Sorry,

Re: Debian Sparc 5.4 on Sun blade 2500

2010-03-16 Thread David Miller
From: Paul Cao p...@ashland.edu Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:04:55 -0400 Thanks so much for helping. The image is debian 5.04 DVD iso from http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.4/sparc/iso-dvd/ Hmmm, can you try the mini.iso instead? That's what I used. I put a copy up at:

Re: Debian Sparc 5.4 on Sun blade 2500

2010-03-16 Thread David Miller
From: Paul Cao p...@ashland.edu Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:13:36 -0400 I can't have access to the image on the website. Privilege problem. Sorry, I've fixed that, please try again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

please restore Sun XVR video drivers, and add the latest one [was Re: Debian Sparc 5.4 on Sun blade 2500]

2010-03-16 Thread Josip Rodin
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-9 On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 03:24:37PM -0700, David Miller wrote: Josip, please make sure this gets fixed, please get my sunxvr1000 driver added (attached) and then add: CONFIG_FB_XVR500=y CONFIG_FB_XVR2500=y CONFIG_FB_XVR1000=y to the config for

Re: Lenny on E4500, esp_scsi won't detect disks

2010-03-16 Thread Mr Ian Primus
--- On Tue, 3/16/10, Frans van Berckel fberc...@xs4all.nl wrote: Ian Primus wrote: lsmod reports that esp_scsi and sun_esp are both loaded. I can't remove/reinsert the module because rmmod isn't a valid command from the installer disc. Will modprobe -r do what you are looking for? Hehe.

Re: Lenny on E4500, esp_scsi won't detect disks

2010-03-16 Thread Mr Ian Primus
Doing some more digging, it seems that the Sun fibre channel driver is missing from recent versions of the kernel, the newest one I've been able to find that contains it is 2.6.23. On this kernel, it's in drivers/fc4, and Fibre Channel support is a menu option right in the main menu after make

Re: Debian Sparc 5.4 on Sun blade 2500

2010-03-16 Thread Frans van Berckel
Petr, thanks for your input. Wanna go into it the next ... day. On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:18 +0100, Petr Vyslouzil pe...@ipe.muni.cz wrote: [ Debian mail lists don't like images in attachments? Try #2 with .tar.gz] Hello Frans all, Just to fast forward the bug tracking a tiny bit, here

Re: Debian Sparc 5.4 on Sun blade 2500

2010-03-16 Thread David Miller
From: Paul Cao p...@ashland.edu Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:21:53 -0400 I have download the iso image. I will install it tomorrow and post the results here. Meanwhile I tried the DVD myself and it worked with my XVR-500. I looked at the kernel image on the DVD and it has all the necessary PCI