Re: Audio?

2000-01-19 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Wed, 19 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey everyone... I *finally* got audio working on my Ultra10 here at school. The 2.2.14 kernel seems to have done the trick. However, I am unable to do anymore then play basic audio via sox/play. When I try to use freeamp or xmms the

Re: Ok - I'll bite...How do you make the 8 bit sound work on an IPC?

1999-12-25 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, Fleet Captain Druaga wrote: OK. Here's what I've got: Debian 2.1 on a Sparc IPC, 36meg RAM, 200meg (/dev/sda), cdrom (/dev/cdrom) SCSI ID 6) I'm sure I've got the kernel installed with audio module installed - I chose to install that module when I did the install

Re: hardware question: power supply rating for sparc 5

1999-12-25 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Chris Trainor wrote: 150W is correct. The reason why most PC's have bigger supplies is because you can put a lot more stuff in them generally. Also, many of the 200W PC power supplies i've run into wont' run at 200W for too long. :) Note that my SS4/110 had a problem

Re: audio?

1999-10-29 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Fri, 29 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you probably are. default setting for /dev/audio is 8bit mono ulaw. a wav may or may not have a header which happens to be of the correct size to be one or more audio blocks and hence not upset things when you cat it to /dev/audio, i dunno.

Re: sound compilation problem with kernel = 2.2.10

1999-10-28 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Baudin maxime wrote: Hi, I installed S/Linux on a RDI powerlite (full sparc5 compatible tapdole) This computer use an amd7930 as sound chip. I got problems to compile it for now. simple answer: turn off CONFIG_ISDN -D

Re: audio?

1999-10-21 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But if you have an 8-bit wav file, how does endianness matter? I would think that it would be the same either way. Maybe I'm just naive about audio formats. you probably are. default setting for /dev/audio is 8bit mono ulaw. a wav may or may not

Re: tftping an ELC

1999-09-21 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Jean-Paul Blaquiere wrote: I'm trying to get my ELC to tftpboot, compiled a new kernel (2.2.6) which works fine when booting off disk, but not over the network. The image is being downloaded okay, but then it just hangs I have read the previous emails on a 2.2.12

Re: Parallel port on SparcClassic

1999-09-13 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Alexander Shumakovitch wrote: suspect the worst and indeed somewhere on RH site found that parallel port on sbus SPARCs is listed as unsupported. So I'd like to try 2.2.x kernel hopping it's less unsupported there than in 2.0.35 ;-) The problem now is that all the

Re: kernel 2.0.37 compilation failure

1999-08-26 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Anton Blanchard wrote: Woaaah Apparently I'm very lucky, because the SLC here wasn't damaged. :-)) But I can confirm: X doesn't work if a kernel 2.2.x is running. (Tested up to 2.2.10) Text mode works fine if you ignore the big wipe stripe running down on

Re: kernel 2.0.37 compilation failure

1999-08-03 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Andreas Jaehnigen wrote: Hi Debian Team... Compilation of kernel 2.0.37 fails here. System is a Sun Sparc 1... It fails because 2.0.37 doesn't include sparc patches. Does anybody have a clue why this happens..? Kernel is 2.0.37. (Need this release, because in

Re: kernel 2.0.37 compilation failure

1999-08-03 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Andrew Howell wrote: What's broken about it, i've got a bwtwo in a IPC running 2.2.10 and it appears to work fine. Some people apparently have a stripe down one side or something; I have no idea, I was just responding in kind to the message; 2.0.37 won't work. -D

Re: glibc 2.1.1 linking problems

1999-04-30 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On 28 Apr 1999, Stephen Zander wrote: New data point for you: glibc2.1.1 *still* fails with a stock 2.2.6 kernel on my SS5-170 at home. The 170 is, however, special in it's MMU configuration (Derrick only added 170 support to the 2.0 kernels around 2.0.3[56]). I can probably test it on an

Re: Boot from CD is a no-go

1999-04-24 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On 24 Apr 1999, Maciej Matysiak wrote: Christopher Reid Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I try to boot my SPARCstation ELC with the first CD, it gets as far as initializing the RAM disk, at which point it fails with a 'Data Access Exception', and I get put back to the PROM

Re: NEWS for debian-boot

1999-01-23 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Eric Delaunay wrote: I really need someone to document how to get tftp install going. If you could just send me an outline of how to setup the tftp server and what bootparms need to be set. Does it use DHCP? No, it uses RARP protocol. In another week I'll have a a

Re: kernel 2.0.35 iso9660

1999-01-01 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Eric Delaunay wrote: 1. Is the sound subsystem working for sparc ? Is it wise to include it as modules in the kernel package ? Wisest to add the last sparcaudio snapshot from ftp.dementia.org/pub/linux/sparc/audio most likely... it has a few fixes which will be in the

Re: The time has come ...

1998-11-17 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Jules Bean wrote: I'd just spent 10 CPU hours compiling glibc 2.0.100 on my SS2, only to have it segfault on an explicit invocation of ld-linux.so (which I suspect is a typical manifestation of the Sun4c/2.0.x kernel breakage). The generally accepted sun4c 2.0.x problem

Re: Followup on unimplemented system calls 103 and 119

1998-11-10 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Matthew Haas wrote: There is a kernel 2.0.35 binary which I could have installed as opposed to the default 2.0.33... if I were to install this one, would it be sufficient enough to fix my problems (get rid of the syscall warnings)? The (minor) patch may have been

Re: IPC Problems

1998-10-08 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Kevin Fowler wrote: The problem I am having is an Unimplemented SPARC system call 103 and Unimplemented SPARC system call 119 error. They both appear one right after the other several times at boot up and anytime I log in or run a program. I was wondering if anyone else

Re: Parallel Port for Sparc IPX?

1998-09-28 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, Elie Rosenblum wrote: And thus spake Ryan Kirkpatrick, on Sun, Sep 27, 1998 at 06:42:53PM -0500: To get right to the point: Does a parallel port SBUS card exist for the Sparc? IPX specificly? If it does, where is the best place to go looking for one? You can

Re: unimplemented system calls

1998-09-14 Thread Derrick J Brashear
I seem to remember a big stink a while back about unimplemented system calls, including 103 119. This was fixed in later stable kernel snapshots. I'm just guessing here, but it could be that libc6 2.0.95 is using more of these syscalls than previous versions, so if you don't have the

Re: unimplemented system calls

1998-09-14 Thread Derrick J Brashear
At 08:33 -0700 1998-09-14, Derrick J Brashear wrote: There are a few more syscalls in the newest code which won't report errors anymore but won't do anything, which will be in the next snapshot. The problem is presumably that glibc is testing for existance but not usefulness of syscalls

Re: It Worked!

1998-08-12 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Eric Delaunay wrote: Well, how do you setup arp ? arp -s hostname 080020AABBCC rarp -s hostname 8:0:20:aa:bb:cc I was only required to setup rarp tables on my server (i386 debian box). Can you explain me in which case you need to also configure arp tables ? How do you

stable kernel snapshot 980805

1998-08-05 Thread Derrick J Brashear
Just uploaded a snapshot of stable tree with a number of local fixes to sparc-2.0.35. You can fetch by anonymous ftp at: ftp://vger.rutgers.edu/pub/linux/Sparc/kernel/v2.0/980805/ sparclinux-2.0-980805.tar.gzentire source tree sparclinux-980719-980805.diff.gzpatch against 980719

RE: Sound suport on IPC

1998-08-01 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, Richard wrote: U... let me get this.. you are trying to use the Build in Speaker in the IPC for sound??? Why not use the proper Microphone/Speaker Jack on the back... little round socket right next to the Keyboard socket :) for the purposes of seeing if an audio

Re: 2.0.35 turbosparc kernel

1998-07-29 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Marc Duponcheel wrote: I could give it a chance. But I am confused: which CVS archive are you actually talking about (I only know about vger the CVS 2.1.xxx)? 2.0 is a branch off the same CVS tree (tagged sparclinux-stable) So if the 2.0.35 patch is not too big, what

Re: sparc autocompile

1998-07-26 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Derrick J Brashear wrote: Which of course would entail an update of this. admin upsd1.0-5 BAD sparc is missing SIGPWR :-( The lack of SIGPWR I'm looking into. Realistically, sysvinit is already using SIGUSR2

Re: Sun Sparc-Station 5 and Debian

1998-07-25 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Anders Hammarquist wrote: First off, do you know what graphics card it is (probably a cg6 or a TCX)? I thought other than the onboard-SS4 8bit TCX, all TCXs did 24 bit? while ago I used SunOS). One thing to watch for on installing Linux though is that it doesn't (really,

Re: Apt

1998-07-23 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Jules Bean wrote: 1) For no apparent resaon, X will suddenly blast itself on top of whatever VC I'm using. From that time on, it will apparently 'own' both VC 7, and the VC it blasted onto. It is often possible to fix this by explicitly running chvt vcno (preferably

Re: sparc status? A cry for information, and an offer to help

1998-07-22 Thread Derrick J Brashear
Wow, just found it in my mirror - guess I should look there more often. The FPE problem still exists though Yes, but presumably this is your TurboSparc, and you're using the pathetic attempt at TurboSparc support I did. The FPE problem is a) only interesting if people (including you) with

Re: Sparc status/my two cents

1998-07-22 Thread Derrick J Brashear
I've been meaning to have a look at it, I just haven't had the time yet. The repeat delay does seem rather short (I counted about 0.2 s), and as far as I can tell it's kernel related (though, as I said, I haven't really had the time to look at it yet). I don't have any problem with any of

stable kernel snapshot 980719

1998-07-19 Thread Derrick J Brashear
Just uploaded a snapshot of stable tree to bring us to 2.0.35 and fix some other stuff. You can fetch by anonymous ftp at: ftp://vger.rutgers.edu/pub/linux/Sparc/kernel/v2.0/980719/ sparclinux-2.0-980719.tar.gzentire source tree sparclinux-980625-980719.diff.gzpatch against 980625

2.0.34 candidate for SS5/170 (turbosparc)

1998-07-10 Thread Derrick J Brashear
Hi, I did some work on TurboSparc support for 2.0 kernels yesterday; Stephen Zander helped a bunch by doing some testing (and I hope he'll help me some more, but we got something useful, read on...) At ftp://jooky.dementia.org/pub/linux-turbo you can find an image of a kernel, an a.out image of

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1998-06-25 Thread Derrick J Brashear
There's a new snapshot of the stable tree available. You can find it over anonymous ftp at: vger.rutgers.edu:/pub/linux/Sparc/kernel/v2.0/980625/ sparclinux-2.0-980625.tar.gzentire source tree sparclinux-980618-980625.diff.gzpatch against 980618 snapshot

Re: SNAPSHOT (stable) 980618

1998-06-19 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Derrick J Brashear wrote: What's new: - merge to 2.0.34 - sparcaudio supports additional ioctls - 4231 audio fixes In an amazing case of stupidity, I forgot: - backport of math-emu from sparc64 by Peter Maydell - backport of sys_reboot power off, and notifiers from 2.1

SNAPSHOT (stable) 980618

1998-06-18 Thread Derrick J Brashear
There's a snapshot of the stable tree with 2.0.34 patches included, as well as some other bits. You can find it over anonymous ftp at: vger.rutgers.edu:/pub/linux/Sparc/kernel/v2.0/980618/ sparclinux-2.0-980618.tar.gzentire source tree sparclinux-980106-980618.diff.gzpatch against

Re: SunOS/Solaris Emulation

1998-05-30 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Fri, 29 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can i get the SunOS libs on the net? cause we only have Solaris 2.5 around... Unlikely, at least not legally. A useful project for someone to tackle would be a free (presumably BSD-based?) SunOS libc; The idea was bandied about before and I don't

Re: Running Solaris Binaries

1998-05-28 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On 28 May 1998, Stephen Zander wrote: I think, but I don't know, that you need ibcs for Solaris (though not for SunOS 4.1). However, I am sure that you need /usr/lib/ld.so.1 (the Solaris equivalent of /lib/ld-linux.so.2). Is that installed? IIRC you need to install it as

Re: sparc autocompile has begun

1998-05-15 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Fri, 15 May 1998, Anders Hammarquist wrote: From what I could tell, the bug was not in libm, but rather a case of missing floating point emulation in the kernel. Get a recent kernel from vger and try with that (it was fixed in the mid 2.1.90's and backported to 2.0.3x at about the same