Re: Using a fixed frequency screen with ATI MACH 64

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 00:14:29 +0200 (CEST) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A friend of mine proposed me to give one old Workstation Monitor the SONY GDM > 1952. These monitor are 'fixed rate' and I Found from this link > http://www.lysator.liu.se/~jonass/6091.html > that they are supposed to work wi

Re: SABRE0 uncorrectable error, aic7xxx

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 02:28:25 +0200 Blaz Novak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi; > > while playing with a tapedrive on an Adaptec 2940UW SCSI HBA (aic7xxx) > in an Ultra 5 I got some really weird errors (during tape I/O). > Would this be due to a software or a hardware problem; and if it's > softwa

Re: FUP to: Booting Sparc Blade 150 w/ ATI Rage XL (xlinit.c)

On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 14:54:51 -0400 "Grzegorz B. Prokopski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However I am not entirely happy w/ this onboard card. Yep, the mach64 is pretty crappy compared to the creator3d. Also, the creator3D sits on the main CPU bus whereas the mach64 sits on PCI. > 2. Doesn't sho

Re: X Server driver for U60

On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 15:43:53 -0400 "Brian Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got a Sun U60 Creator3D. Does the sunffb driver cover all 3 > versions (Creator3D series 1, 2, and 3) of the Creator3D video card? Yes. Please fix your email client to break long lines up to about 80 columns, you

Re: libssl0.9.7 build fails sparc32

On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 08:41:55 -0400 Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then it isn't a problem with sparc in particular, it's something broken > in the libssl build. You should report a bug on that package. Let them > know that v9 libraries should _not_ be built as 64-bit. The v9 optimized >

Re: Mozilla's back

On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 06:31:39 +0200 Elie De Brauwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After a long time mozilla is back up and running in unstable :-) Yes, I just noticed this too when I updated my unstable dist, awesome...

Re: upgrade sun mouse to ps2 mouse

On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 14:38:37 +1000 Amanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Running dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 I can change the mouse from sunmouse > to > ps2 mouse, but I'm unclear on what /dev to hang it off Use /dev/psaux if not using devfs, /dev/misc/ps2aux if you are.

Re: How to clone a drive

On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 15:03:27 -0500 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's the best way to clone a SCSI drive in a Sunblade 1000 running > Debian to another SB1000? I don't mind physically moving drives from one > box to another temporarily. > > What about a firewire connection? USB? > >

Re: Are Sunblade 1000s slow?

> Please can we not use clock speed of a measure of worth of CPUs. It > doesn't mean much. Equally well I oculd argue that SPARC boxen are > better because they are quad issue and not double as many PCs or the > fact that they are triple address not double... I haven't done this, this is why I

Re: Are Sunblade 1000s slow?

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 17:34:50 +0200 "Matthew French" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, Apple went through a tough time too. It is now Sun's turn. Maybe they > can alter their strategy to provide systems that are more relevant to > people's needs. As a Sun shareholder, I certainly hope so :( (no I

Re: 2.6.0-test6

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 09:45:39 -0500 "Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/805-7764-12/6j7a77hhh?a=view#z400010a55fa > "The UPA 64-bit data bus provides the connection between the CPU module and > the UPA graphics. The 64-bit UPA data shares the data bus with memory > through

Re: Are Sunblade 1000s slow?

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 16:34:18 +0200 "Matthew French" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > More seriously, Sun's server prices have become far more competitive, and > now that the prices are similar I would much rather have an 8 processor V880 > than an 8 processor Intel box. Same applies to servers that nee

Re: Mozilla Fails to start in Unstable

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 09:22:02 -0400 Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That will "hold" the packages, and keep apt-get from upgrading them. And > to make things easier for those bitten by this, here's working mozilla > packages for you. > > http://phunnypharm.org/sparc-mozilla-downgrade/ Coo

Re: Are Sunblade 1000s slow?

On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 08:32:12 -0500 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Desktop usage/tinkering. I wanted Solitaire to have the cards fly by > faster than a speeding bullet; I wanted Mozilla to pop up faster than IE > on their dorm computers; I wanted zippiness. The card motion in the solitai

Re: 2.6.0-test6

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 08:02:43 -0500 "Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, I'll happily concede that 64 bit Sparcs are faster (in general) then 32 > bit sparcs. BUT, I think that has more to do with better/more > [cache|architecture|MHz|optimizations|processor design] than with simple > '64-bittedn

Re: Are Sunblade 1000s slow?

On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 06:56:25 -0500 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah, this is the information I needed. I would've thought a sb1000 > would've been considerably zippier than a 3-year old Pentium3 machine, > but what I'm hearing you say is that may not necessarily be the case. What exact

Re: 2.6.0-test6

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 06:21:38 -0500 "Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let's see, the first and most obvious issue would be transferring 64 bit > pointers per cycle instead of two 32 bit pointers in the same cycle. Sure, > if I had a large enough data set, it would speed things up greatly. But the

Re: DRM/DRI? (was: [debian-sparc] Re: Are Sunblade 1000s slow?)

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 10:48:29 +0200 (CEST) Erwann Abalea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, what is the difference between DRI and the drm.o kernel module? DRI is the Direct Rendering Infrastructure, it encompasses both the kernel bits and the xfree86/opengl side parts. > I have the drm.o kernel mo

Re: 2.6.0-test6

On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 18:57:43 -0500 "Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Personally, I prefer 32 bit, all marketroid blathering to the contrary. If I > had a huge database or was simulating weather/gnabgig/etc, then it'd be > worthwhile. Otherwise, the overhead of 64 bit just isn't quite worth it to

Re: Mozilla Fails to start in Unstable

On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 12:00:05 -0400 Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 11:10:47AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > When I try starting Moz from a terminal window, I get: > > Known problem with mozilla. Try to get the 1.4-2 packages. Maybe they > are in testing. Yes, but it

Re: Are Sunblade 1000s slow?

On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 17:08:58 -0500 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm, no difference. Right, because your bogomips numbers are perfectly fine.

Re: Are Sunblade 1000s slow?

On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 12:23:54 -0700 Andrew Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 07:57:13PM +0200, Elie De Brauwer wrote: > > On Thursday 02 October 2003 19:29, Patrick Morris wrote: > > > Kent West wrote: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/snert> cat /proc/cpuinfo > > > > cpu

Re: Are Sunblade 1000s slow?

On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 10:29:29 -0700 Patrick Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just for comparison, here's a dual-400 Ultra 2: The bogomips numbers are not comparable between Ultra-I/II/IIi cpus (what you have) and Ultra-III and onward (what Kent's sb1000 has).

Re: Are Sunblade 1000s slow?

On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 12:19:54 -0500 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, I wasn't too reliant on the GL numbers, but still 44 seems awfully > slow to me. I've tried using both the ATI driver and the fbdev driver > for xfree86, and I've tried both the with framebuffer and without > option

Re: Are Sunblade 1000s slow?

On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 11:53:34 -0400 Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 10:42:59AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > Kent West wrote: > > > > Another example: running "glxgears" only shows a frame rate of 26 to 44 FPS. > > GL isn't a good comparison, since it relies on video

Re: [debian-sparc] Update on mplayer support for Linux/SPARC

On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 14:27:48 +0200 (CEST) Erwann Abalea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Antonello wrote: > > > If you haven't enabled mlib yet, I advice you to do it, since the > > performance boost (at no additional cost) is remarkable. I posted a > > pico-howto on this subject s

Re: Update on mplayer support for Linux/SPARC

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 16:54:05 +0200 Antonello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's a mlib issue or mplayer's fault in your opinion? 0.91 works quite > well on the PGX, but there's no way to use mplayer+creator correctly. I think it's mplayer bug, try recompiling with mlib disabled which will make thi

Re: [debian-sparc] ultra 1

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 16:23:06 +0200 (CEST) Erwann Abalea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * my monitor is a 17 inches one, (model #365-1343), and my frequencies >are 30-82 horizontal and 48-150 vertical. Yours might vary. For all "sun*" video drivers in xfree86, the frequency and modes you specif

Re: Strange events...

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 11:15:55 +0200 Roberto Giorgetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now I wonder if: > > -my system is going to die (the disk?); > > -I have a worm/virus of some kind (the machine is connected to Internet > and works as firewall for my whole LAN with netfilter/iptables); > > -it i

Re: New sparc-mini.iso for Debian installs...

On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 11:37:31 -0400 Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave, I haven't looked into why gcc-3.3.1 is causing this, but maybe > I'll have time this week. Check for variables explicitly initialized to zero, gcc-3.x will put them into the BSS section whether you want this to happ

Re: sunffb AGAIN..

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 15:55:57 +0200 Antonello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I still have one problem left: Mplayer, both with x11 that with SDL output, > renders movie files with an incorrect color table on the Creator. It's a bug in mplayer-1.0pre*, it's yuv2rgb routines are buggy on big-endian s

Re: sunffb AGAIN..

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 23:21:58 +0200 Antonello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I finally got my Creator (2d, generation 3) UPA video card for my Ultra10. > The card works, I get dual head display but I can't find a way to change the > framebuffer settings to get a suitable resolution and color depth.

Re: SPARC 5 Dual NICs same MAC Address

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 21:33:23 -0700 "David Demland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I configure a SPARC 5 to give a different MAC Address to the two > NICs? I have set the local-mac-address? to true and it did not work. It was > set to false before and did not work. What am I missing? Use 'ifc

Re: Some problems with Xfree86/sunffb driver

On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 11:40:02 -0400 Rob Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 11:47:24PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > > > I wouldn't use an ultra10 as a workstation, personally :-) > > OK, you can't just make a drive-by comment like like

Re: Illegal instruction after upgrade

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 08:22:25 -0700 Bruce Pinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since that upgrade many processes won't start and even commands like ps are > giving back "illegal instruction". I'm guessing that there is some > instruction in libc6 that is not valid on the SPARC (i.e. a bug), but am

Re: Some problems with Xfree86/sunffb driver

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 14:55:08 -0300 Maximiliano Garcia Silva - Decidir IT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - SUN ELITE 3D (SUNFFB module): I can alter nor the colors, nor the video > modes. I'd specified them in the configuration, but it loads only > [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's right. The xfree86 driver

Re: sparc64 and smp

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 16:46:41 +0100 "Richard Kline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone ever successfully instal debian on a Sun v880? > > I can not do a net install or a floppy install, only a cd install. Unfortunately, you're only likely to have luck with network install, sorry.

Re: Dealing with PC graphics cards (was Re: X or KDE freeze system)

XF-4.3.x should at least try to execute the x86 BIOS properly on Rage-128 cards, for example. But every time I ask why even debian unstable's XF86 is stuck at 4.2.x I never get any response so I fear it'll be stuck there for millenia or two. :)

Re: LCD on a Sun Blade 100

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 10:14:23 -0400 Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FYI, I tried to use a Sony 17" LCD panel on my Blade100, with no > success aswell. There probably needs to be LCD programming done by the video card's X86 bios before the X server starts up. And that isn't going to happe

Re: Compiler confusion

On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 09:33:01 -0400 "Eloy A. Paris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, what I still wonder is why when I invoke "gcc" things don't work, > but when I invoke "gcc-3.3" things do work as expected. Because 'gcc' is a shell script written by Ben that determines whether to specify "-m64"

Re: Compiler confusion

gcc defaults to 64-bit on sparc64 systems when the 64-bit libc is installed and "uname" returns "sparc64". Specify the "-m32" option to force 32-bit compilation. Another way is to run your commands in a 32-bit environment via "sparc32 /bin/${MY_SHELL}"

Re: X color problem

On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 07:13:26 +0200 Elie De Brauwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > brauwer.be/wastebasket/snapshot1.png Well, there's definitely a bug in the FB layer of xfree86 when working with mixed BGR/RGB pixmaps when apps are using the RENDER extension. The following patch to Debian's xfree86

Re: cannot find sparc64.gz

On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 00:54:24 +0200 Antonello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 21 August 2003 23:32, David S. Miller wrote: > > > Use "sparcv8plus+vis2" if you have an UltraSPARC-III or later > > processor. > > I think you mean "sparcv9+vi

Re: cannot find sparc64.gz

On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 23:33:03 +0200 Antonello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - Untar, unzip & put the libs in the appropriate places (the right library > and > archive lib are under the "sparcv8plus+vis" trees on the extracted archives) Use "sparcv8plus+vis2" if you have an UltraSPARC-III or later

Re: cannot find sparc64.gz

On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 21:39:19 +0200 Antonello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ldconfig says: > > sunseeker:/home/nenno/sw/MPlayer-0.91# ldconfig -p | grep mlib > libmlib.so.2 (ELF) => /usr/lib64/libmlib.so.2 > libmlib.so.2 (ELF) => /usr/lib64/libmlib.so.2 > libgdk_imlib.so.1 (

Re: cannot find sparc64.gz

On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 21:05:11 +0200 Antonello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll try now with a 32 bit library, since I'm compiling mplayer using sparc32 > > libmlib.so.2: ELF 32-bit MSB shared object, SPARC32PLUS, V8+ Required, Sun > UltraSPARC1 Extensions Required, version 1 (SYSV), not strippe

Re: cannot find sparc64.gz

On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 09:55:57 +0200 Antonello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 18:23:19 -0700 > "David S. Miller" wrote: > > > Actually, if you copy libmlib.so.* from a Solaris system onto your > > Linux/debian box then rebuild mpl

Re: cannot find sparc64.gz

On 20 Aug 2003 23:10:44 +0100 Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > *. Add direct VIS support to mplayer - it will give you the quickest > 'win' but it will be the most effort in the long run. Actually, if you copy libmlib.so.* from a Solaris system onto your Linux/debian box then rebuild mplayer,

Re: cannot find sparc64.gz

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 17:35:54 -0700 Andrew Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does mplayer use VIS? Only under Solaris, via the mlib library. I've been meaning to code up the routines so Linux gets VIS support under mplayer as well.

Re: SABRE0 errors in dmesg

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 23:02:47 +0200 Antonello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using the standard unstable 2.4.21 kernel and I was just trying > to open an AVI file via mplayer, to be viewed on the local display > (driven by the stock ATI Rage Pro 64 embedded on the motherboard). ... > It smells

Re: cannot find sparc64.gz

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 14:35:24 -0400 Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bitten by the 64-bitness default of gcc. > > Do this: > > # sparc32 make ARCH=sparc64 menuconfig Now it's clear why I never see this, I have a 64-bit ncurses library on my box. Ben, I trust we'll have 64-bit ncurses pa

Re: SABRE0 errors in dmesg

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 20:15:01 +0200 Antonello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sys32_ioctl(mplayer:1817): Unknown cmd fd(3) cmd(8004700c) arg(0400) > SABRE0: Uncorrectable Error, primary error type[DMA Read:Translation Error] Using bttv device perhaps?

Re: cannot find sparc64.gz

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 00:04:39 +0200 Antonello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only difference I notice is the use of EGCS in the Debian build, while I > used a more vanilla gcc-3.3 (the current unstable builds). As I told you in private email gcc-3.3 can only successfully compile current 2.4.22-

Re: cannot find sparc64.gz

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 20:05:12 +0200 Antonello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Success with "make xconfig", kernel compiles ok, but after image > decompression > (by SILO, of course), the box hangs with a "data access exception" and I'm > back at the "ok" prompt. The kernel is probably too big. "ma

Re: chronic "powerd: shutdown execution failed" problem on U10

On 17 Aug 2003 11:02:32 -0400 Steve Pacenka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 22:53, David S. Miller wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 19:54:24 -0400 > > Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Sounds to me like the power

Re: chronic "powerd: shutdown execution failed" problem on U10

On 17 Aug 2003 11:02:32 -0400 Steve Pacenka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 15:2898143 SABRE UE:7ee, SABRE CE:7ef, SABRE PCIERR:7f0, power:7e5 Unless you have a stream of PCI errors in your kernel logs, the power button is sending interrupts out like crazy, YIKES! I'll see if there is some wa

Re: Happy Meal lockups on Ultra 5

On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 11:10:23 +0200 (CEST) David List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have seen no other reports from Linux/Ultra Sparc users making > any connection between the ethernet lockups and the tty respawning > problem. In my case the connection seemed very real. There is no connection bet

Re: FAQ for porting packages available?

On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 13:35:21 +0200 (MEST) Pieter-Paul Spiertz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > wmtune uses outw() for radio card calls, You need to disable on Sparc any drivers which need to use these routines, they simply will not work. It is not a matter of just including asm/io.h, even if it comp

Re: Happy Meal lockups on Ultra 5

On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 11:20:52 -0400 Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And do you have any idea why the patch is not in vanilla? > > Probably because it's more of a workaround than a real fix. Correct. And in the SBUS case, the TX timeout reset of the chip doesn't unjam it at all so I ha

Re: Problems with a SPARC 5 and Qwest DSL Modem

Sun Lance chips have trouble talking to some auto-negotiating ethernet links. I don't know what to recommend...

Re: chronic "powerd: shutdown execution failed" problem on U10

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 19:54:24 -0400 Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sounds to me like the power button on the front is stuck or something. That's my guess too. The only time powerd should ever try to execute shutdown() is when the power button interrupt arrives. There was a bug at one p

Re: cross compiler question

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 11:07:35 +0200 Michael A Yehle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > but gcc fails to compile missing pthread.h and unistd.h Read the cross-GCC FAQ at: http://www.objsw.com/CrossGCC/ To build a cross compiler properly, you have to install the system headers of the target system i

Re: Video card problems with Sun Ultra Sparc 10

On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 19:05:12 -0400 Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I tried use the XF86config in a old message in > > this list > > Don't use an XF86Config-4, just run "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" > and make sure to choose mostly defauly settings (except make sure to > choose

Re: Bug#203324: unreproducible?

On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 22:38:45 -0700 Blars Blarson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Which machines are sun4m-softmul as opposed to sun4m? > sparcstation classic > sparcstation lx > sparcstation 10 (various processors) > sparcstation 20 (various processors) Depends upon the processor installed, Cypress c

Re: UltraSPARC IIIi enabled install images

On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 10:14:41 -0400 Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I remember correctly, there was a lot of flip-flop about which driver > was the right now, and different people had differing success with > both. > > Or maybe I'm just totally losing it :) > > I'll add the tulip drive

Re: UltraSPARC IIIi enabled install images

On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 01:50:37 -0400 Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A thing to note is that there is one known bug remaining. There's a PCI > error reported when the broadcom (tg3) ethernet devs are brought up, but > other than that things seem to be running smoothly. > > With my luck, Dav

Re: Ultra 5 Xinerama

On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 11:21:09 -0400 (EDT) "Mark T. Valites" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It sounds like my best (only?) hope is is to see if I can find a Rage128 > laying around I said I got it to work a long time ago in a tree I had hacked up massively locally, this means it worked for me in my tr

Re: Sparc 10 sbus quad ehternet

'ifconfig' can be used to set whatever ethernet address you'd like to use on each interface.

Re: New install on a SPARC Ultra2

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 18:35:48 +0100 (BST) Bertrand Sirodot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then, do you plan to ship future version of the kernel > with reiserfs support? Ben, you could enable this in the kernels you build for the distro if you want, lots of folks are using reiserfs successfully at l

Re: 2.6-test2 on unusual UE2

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 11:24:15 -0400 Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's wrong with using /dev/sde as the root disk? Should be able to > specify that in silo.conf without any problems. > > The thing is that the driver detects in the order that PCI probes. So > lower numbered busses and d

Re: 2.6-test2 on unusual UE2

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 05:54:21 -0500 Greg Moeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The first is a bit of messiness with my drives. > Linux is discovering them in the wrong order. Can you play around with the ordering of the Qlogic and Symbios driver rules in drivers/scsi/Makefile to see if that gets it

Re: Ultra 5 Xinerama

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 23:07:18 -0400 Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 11:13:14PM -0400, Mark T. Valites wrote: > > I spent all day fight my ultra 5 trying to get a second video card to be > > picked up by the system. At first I tried dropping in a matrox millineum > >

Re: v880 and debian/stable

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 19:32:21 -0500 Chris McClimans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd be willing to bet it needs the recent fixes I sent to Dave Miller > > for the newer OBP's. There's no kernel images with that fix yet, but > > one > > is coming soon. > > > > The v210 is a IIIi cpu, and it requi

Re: sparc scsi esp depends on pci & hangs on boot

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 20:25:58 +1000 (EST) ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, so you're not. Do you have a technical reason or do you just not have the > time or motivation? I have neither time nor motivation wrt. this :-) > For those of us interested in making these changes, any pointers or >

Re: sparc scsi esp depends on pci & hangs on boot

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 10:35:56 +0100 (BST) "C.Newport" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In that case none, but your original message implied that this did > not exist and would not be supported. > > Maybe I misunderstood what you meant. > > OTOH, (if !SBUS) might screw up ?. Look, SBUS does _NOT_ use

Re: sparc scsi esp depends on pci & hangs on boot

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 09:33:40 +0100 (BST) "C.Newport" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ouch - As I mentioned a few days ago, the Ex000 range can have a > mixture of SBUS and PCI. So what? > This configuration is becoming increasingly > common as these machines are upgraded to attach to SAN stuff and

Re: sparc scsi esp depends on pci & hangs on boot

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 01:20:56 -0600 Otto Solares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > everything else includes the generic one (pci dependant). > With this model what happens if a box had more than one > bus type (if technically possible)? If the architecture wants to support such situations, then the imp

Re: sparc scsi esp depends on pci & hangs on boot

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 08:02:22 +0100 Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:57:14PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > > I don't see why this is a problem. Either do this, or fix > > asm-generic/dma-mapping.h which is not GENERIC b

Re: sparc scsi esp depends on pci & hangs on boot

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 07:40:33 +0100 Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:29:11PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > > And unlike this particular scsi layer usage, such drivers will be > > dependant upon things like CONFIG_PCI and thus won&

Re: sparc scsi esp depends on pci & hangs on boot

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 07:28:36 +0100 Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Putting it into linux/dma-mapping.h is fine with me, but I expect to > see more users of the dma-mapping API soon.. And unlike this particular scsi layer usage, such drivers will be dependant upon things like CONFIG

Re: sparc scsi esp depends on pci & hangs on boot

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 07:07:39 +0100 Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sparc unfortunately defines the new DMA API in terms of the PCI DMA API > which gets you this mess. Sparc did not do this, the person coding up the new DMA API decided it was a good idea to implement the generic ver

Re: sparc scsi esp depends on pci & hangs on boot

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 12:26:09 -0600 Otto Solares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > converting the esp scsi driver to sbus without > pci requirement is the right step IMO. Maybe > the scsi people can comment on this. No, the problem is that SCSI DMA transfer direction macros are defined in terms of PCI

[PATCH] fix for "assertion (newsk->state != TCP_SYN_RECV) ..."

Chris and others, this below should cure the infamous: KERNEL: assertion (newsk->state != TCP_SYN_RECV) failed at tcp.c(2229) KERNEL: assertion ((1

Re: Problems installing Linux in Ultra Sparc III SunFire 280R

From: "Eduardo F. J. de Castro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 10:49:08 -0200 The machine you had access have the same FC SCSI disks and controller? Just to be sure, I have a PCI PGX64 graphics board too. I don't remember the exact components that were on my 280R, I

Re: Problems installing Linux in Ultra Sparc III SunFire 280R

From: "Eduardo F. J. de Castro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 21:16:03 -0300 Thank you David. I'll continue trying and posting the results (good or bad) on the list. I'll let you know about the results anyway. It is unlikely any of this code is going to change any time

Re: Problems installing Linux in Ultra Sparc III SunFire 280R

From: "Eduardo F. J. de Castro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 19:45:09 -0300 The SCSI controller is on the motherboard. On PCI slots there are only a Quad FastEthernet card and a RSC (Sun Remote System Control) card. Btw, Solaris 8 is installed on the first disk

Re: Problems installing Linux in Ultra Sparc III SunFire 280R

From: Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 18:16:31 -0400 On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 02:58:03PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > Where is 0x52de80 in the System.map file for this kernel? 0052d960 t isp2x00_init 0052dae0 t isp2x00_read_n

Re: Problems installing Linux in Ultra Sparc III SunFire 280R

From: "Eduardo F. J. de Castro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 15:46:58 -0300 ERROR(0): TPC[0052de80] TNPC[0052de84] TSTATE[80009604] ... Please, could you give us a hint? Where is 0x52de80 in the System.map file for this kernel?

Re: Problems installing Linux in Ultra Sparc III SunFire 280R

You'll have a lot more luck if you use Ben Collins's current kernel images: http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/disks-sparc/

Re: 2.4.19 on Ultra1 - Will it work?

Yes, this patch is the recommended fix people should use until I come up with a better solution. Franks a lot, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com

Re: NCPFS, anyone?

From: "IvanK." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 19:12:10 -0400 I've compiled many times 2.4.19 with 3.1 cross-compiled for sparc64-linux and so far had had no problem (except not being able to compile framebuffer support). Should I continue using it (if it ain'

Re: 2.5.40 on Sunblade 100

From: Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 21:25:45 -0400 Dave, looks like 2.5.40 has a byteswapping issue with the fonts on framebuffer (maybe just a mach64 issue?). Not only that but it looks like PCI isn't being probed correctly (lot of errors about unknown PCI

Re: 2.5.40 on Sunblade 100

From: Roy Bixler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 19:52:30 -0500 I compiled the ALI15X3 driver into 2.5.40 as well, but the lines about 'hda' and 'hdb' don't show up. The problem is the endianness of the accesses to the IDE_DATA register in the 2.5.x IDE layer. Patches ha

Re: NCPFS, anyone?

From: Roy Bixler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 12:44:46 -0500 Any suggestions for getting 2.5.x kernels running are appreicated. Otherwise, I'll have to try your patches on a 2.4 kernel. Don't use gcc-3.2 to build the kernel. It has known problems. Take the egcs64 pac

Re: 2.4.19 on Ultra1 - Will it work?

From: Ian Chilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 11:08:57 +0100 Is 2.4.19 known to work on a U1? Is it likely to be stable? Yes.

Re: Sound on Sun Blade 1000

From: Alex Buell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 23:48:44 + (GMT) On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, David S. Miller wrote: > Did someone fix esound already to deal with opposite endian sound > cards? Speak up! :-) I ran into this problem with an old relea

Re: Sound on Sun Blade 1000

From: Lennart Poettering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 00:34:22 +0100 Mhmmm. I understand. So it would be a good idea if I would patch esound for allowing BE data to come in, convert it on the fly to LE, and write it to the device? This would allow me to use all thos

Re: Sound on Sun Blade 1000

From: Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 13:50:34 -0500 Try the audioctl tool (I have no idea if it works with this driver). No, the apps just can't handle having only AFMT_16LE available on a big-endian cpu.

Re: Sound on Sun Blade 1000

From: Lennart Poettering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 18:21:26 +0100 Thank you very much. I compiled it without these lines and it installs correctly. But unfortunately all I can get with the driver is 8 bit audio. 8 bit is fine, but i'd prefer 16 bit... ;-) Any fur

Re: Sound on Sun Blade 1000

From: Lennart Poettering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 00:10:47 +0100 On Sat, 15.12.01 16:48, Peter Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > You're using a sound card which isn't going to work in a sparc64. > Basicly, the card only has 30-bits of address space, whereas pci

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