Re: sparc and alpha boot-floppies

2002-02-13 Thread Colin Walters
On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 04:00, Wilmer van der Gaast wrote: > Please keep 3.0.18 around, I'd say. ;-) > > I tried 3.0.19 on my x86 last week, but it sucked. There was no way to > install from network. Even worse, without fooling the Linux kernel (hdc=none > hdd=none) it insisted on an install from CD

Re: [apt-get] Problem with HORDE&IMP Installation

2001-11-16 Thread Colin Walters
Fontecha Lopez ยท Carlos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > /var/lib/dpkg/info/horde_postinst: /etc/horde/horde.php3.in: No such > file or directory. > > dpkg: error processing horde (--configure): >subprocess post_installation script returned error exit status > 1 > >

Re: dri for creator3d

2001-11-07 Thread Colin Walters
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (jeramy b smith) writes: > Does anyone have this working in sid? I can't get X to start with it > turned on. I let debconf setup X and everything was to spec (except > that debconf still leaves the deprecated pex5 and xie on). X would > not start however until I turned dri off.

Re: Need a public tftp and/or bootp server

2001-11-05 Thread Colin Walters
Mario Lombardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The Sun machine originally began creating itself from Sun files on a > Mac on my local network, but my Mac's tftp license, program, and > images have been deleted. I'm not aware of any public tftp servers; however, you could always install Debian on yo

Re: Newbie question : compiling XFree 4.1.0

2001-10-09 Thread Colin Walters
Nath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I use to work with debian but new to debian-sparc. I'm trying to > compile XFree 4.1.0, but can't find a good HOWTO and the INSTALL > isn't really verbose. Does anyone know a good help file ? Or are > there debs for xfree 4.1.0 for debian-sparc ? Upgrade to ei

Re: mp3 encoders working at ultrasparc

2001-10-01 Thread Colin Walters
"Alvaro F. Figueroa Cabezas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anyone made _any_ software that encodes wavs to mp3s work at the > UltraSparc arquitecture? Is there any reason you can't use Ogg Vorbis? It's a non-proprietary audio encoding format equal to or better than mp3 in quality. Just apt-

Re: [Fwd: How kernel sources are packaged?? (that's not a complain.. just to understand)]

2001-09-30 Thread Colin Walters
Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just use 2.2.x kernels on sparc32 for now. There's not much that a 2.4.x > kernel will buy you on an old system like that anyway. Mmm...I'd personally love to be able to use iptables on my Sparc classic firewall. The new stateful firewalling is really co

Re: Debian on SunBlade 100 installation error

2001-08-23 Thread Colin Walters
"Reynald MESSERLI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > All the download process goes well until it tries to install the > packages. It stops with the following message on the screen: > Installing essential packages. This is from the woody boot-floppies, right? I remember hearing that there is a point

Re: debian on Sun blade 100

2001-08-03 Thread Colin Walters
Paul Sajda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have been trying to get my Sun blade 100 up and running with debian > and have had little success. I tried to use the tftpboot.img from Ben > Collins "current" directory but am having some ARP/RARP and/or TFTP > problems. What problems did you run in

Re: Issues on Blade100: XFree86 and audio

2001-07-30 Thread Colin Walters
jason smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The first is XFree86, from the xfree86 4.0.3-4 package. You need to run XFree 4.1, which is on its way to unstable (it was in incoming last I heard). If it's not there yet, snarf it from: http://people.debian.org/~branden During the configuration, tell

Re: Sun blade 100

2001-07-26 Thread Colin Walters
Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not sure about this one. Is it a type5 keyboard, or a ps2 keyboard? Actually, it's a type6 USB keyboard. I'm pretty sure we tried both type6 and type5 for XkbModel, with no success. > Because then devfsd would be a required package. Well, I wasn't sugg

Re: Sun blade 100

2001-07-26 Thread Colin Walters
[ Following up on an old message ] Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If it has a Mach64 card, use this in /etc/apt/sources.list, and install > the xserver-xfree86 package: > > deb http://people.debian.org/%7Ebranden/ woody/sparc/ > > As noted on this list the past few days, you'll have

Re: Sun blade 100

2001-07-11 Thread Colin Walters
"Nathalie MESSERLI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've just received my brand new Sun Blade 100 and I wanted to know > if I could run debian-sparc on it. Yep. One of my friends runs Debian on his. I'm not sure if XFree groks the video card yet; last I heard, that was in the works.

Re: (newbee alert) cant save changes to edited scripts.

2001-07-02 Thread Colin Walters
"Greg Teigue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > greets, just got an old sparc2 and decided to put debian on it. > after being schooled in the art of openboot and whole disk > partitions i got it to install and can get it to boot through > openboot. however, i try to edit any scripts with vi and it wo

Re: Installing debian on a SunBlade 100

2001-06-11 Thread Colin Walters
Olivier Bornet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can you send to me which test I can make ? (and eventualy the > .config you use for generate the "standard" distributed kernel > image). In the Debian GNU/Linux system, the .config used to build kernels is stored in /boot/config-VERSION. If you use ke

Re: Installing debian on a SunBlade 100

2001-06-10 Thread Colin Walters
Olivier Bornet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > PS. If someone as a link to a "HOWTO" for compiling a kernel on a > Debian system, thanks in advance. apt-get install fakeroot kernel-package && cd /usr/src/linux && make menuconfig && fakeroot make-kpkg --revision hostname.1 kernel_image && dpkg -i

Re: Debian on SparcClassic

2001-06-03 Thread Colin Walters
"Schaller Christoph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > thanx for this great tip! It did work fine for booting. But in the > end i had to open my scsi-tower, attached to the SparcClassic > Station, because after booting i did not succeed in telling Debian > to use the second device for installing kern

Re: X on Sun Blade 100

2001-05-31 Thread Colin Walters
Philipp Frauenfelder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am completely new to the world outside i386 and I am going to get > a Sun Blade 100 in a few weeks too. Could you point me to some sort > of install HOWTO (including the basics) or give the few most > important points here? It's actually not to

potato r3 installation on a SparcClassic

2001-05-03 Thread Colin Walters
Hello, I'm trying to install potato r3 on my Sparc Classic (49.76 BogoMIPS, 64MB RAM, 500 MB hd), but I've run into a few problems. First of all, the scroll lock comes on randomly during all points of the installation I got through. This was pretty annoying, but I could use Control-Q to turn it

Re: [WARNING](sparc): (not an april fool's joke) libstdc++2.10 2.95.2-8 is broken on sparc

2000-04-01 Thread Colin Walters
> "Dinh-Tuan" == Dinh-Tuan Pham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dinh-Tuan> sunMouseProc ioctl VUIDGFORMAT: invalid argument I saw this before; it's most likely because you have /dev/mouse symlinked to /dev/gpmdata. You instead want to symlink it to /dev/sunmouse, i.e.: ln -sf /dev/sunmouse