Re: binutils 2.30 still breaks rust builds on sparc64

2018-02-11 Thread Eric Botcazou
> Ok, I just cloned binutils from git, built it and installed it locally > on deb4g. The crash is gone \o/. With the master and not the 2.30 branch, right? -- Eric Botcazou

Re: binutils 2.30 still breaks rust builds on sparc64

2018-02-11 Thread Eric Botcazou
> binutils 2.30 has unfortunately still at least two issues on sparc64 which > become visible when trying to build rust code. Both issues do not exist > with 2.28. Can you try with current 2.30 branch (and current 2.29 branch if possible)? -- Eric Botcazou

Re: State of the SPARC patches for GRUB

2017-09-29 Thread Eric Snowberg
> On Sep 28, 2017, at 2:46 PM, Daniel Kiper wrote: > > Hi Adrian, > > On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 10:25:54AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> Hi! >> >> Last year, Eric Snowberg from Oracle posted a number of patches [1] to >> improve SPARC supp

Re: grub2 with SPARC support available for testing

2017-02-09 Thread Eric Snowberg
> On Feb 8, 2017, at 6:23 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > wrote: > > Hi! > > On 01/23/2017 12:40 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> I just uploaded grub2_2.02~beta3-3+sparc64 to Debian "unreleased" which >> contains an additional set of 1

Re: Grub2 with sparc64 patches

2017-01-26 Thread Eric Snowberg
> On Jan 26, 2017, at 9:52 AM, louis ayotte wrote: > > On 2017-01-25 03:02 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> On 01/25/2017 08:21 PM, Eric Snowberg wrote: >>> I believe you are running out of memory here because grub is trying to load >>> all those frame

Re: Grub2 with sparc64 patches

2017-01-25 Thread Eric Snowberg
> On Jan 25, 2017, at 9:40 AM, louis ayotte wrote: > > On 2017-01-24 01:01 PM, Eric Snowberg wrote: > >> How big is your kernel? Will silo boot it? Can you start over and do the >> following: >> >> grub> reboot >> >> You should be

Re: Grub2 with sparc64 patches

2017-01-25 Thread Eric Snowberg
> On Jan 25, 2017, at 6:58 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > wrote: > > Hi Eric! > > On 01/24/2017 11:37 PM, Eric Snowberg wrote: >> That might be best. Before you do that though, could you turn on the >> following debug flag and send me the results: >>

Re: Grub2 with sparc64 patches

2017-01-24 Thread Eric Snowberg
> On Jan 24, 2017, at 2:06 PM, louis ayotte wrote: > > On 2017-01-24 01:01 PM, Eric Snowberg wrote: > >> How big is your kernel? Will silo boot it? Can you start over and do the >> following: >> >> grub> reboot >> >> You should be

Re: Grub2 with sparc64 patches

2017-01-24 Thread Eric Snowberg
> On Jan 24, 2017, at 1:44 PM, Frans van Berckel wrote: > > Hi Eric, > > On Tue, 2017-01-24 at 09:29 -0700, Eric Snowberg wrote: > >> With a sun/vtoc partition table like you have on a Sun Blade >> 1000. You will need to give it the boot partition (/dev/sda1 i

Re: Grub2 with sparc64 patches

2017-01-24 Thread Eric Snowberg
> On Jan 24, 2017, at 9:49 AM, louis ayotte wrote: > > On 2017-01-24 10:56 AM, Eric Snowberg wrote: > >> “ls" is one area that has not been completed for SPARC and has many problems. >> >> Try this instead: >> >> grub> ls / >> >>

Re: Grub2 with sparc64 patches

2017-01-24 Thread Eric Snowberg
> On Jan 23, 2017, at 2:38 PM, louis ayotte wrote: > > > > On 2017-01-23 04:27 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> I think there is enough documentation for this on the web: >> >>> https://www.linux.com/learn/how-rescue-non-booting-grub-2-linux >>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRU

Re: Grub2 with sparc64 patches

2017-01-24 Thread Eric Snowberg
> On Jan 24, 2017, at 6:34 AM, Frans van Berckel wrote: > > Hi Eric, > > On Mon, 2017-01-23 at 12:38 -0700, Eric Snowberg wrote: > >> Since the T5240 doesn’t support GPT, we have to use blocklists, could >> you try this instead: >> >> # grub-ins

Re: Grub2 with sparc64 patches

2017-01-23 Thread Eric Snowberg
> On Jan 23, 2017, at 10:09 AM, louis ayotte wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I made sure to install the correct version of this package as can be > seen here; > > # apt-cache policy grub2 > grub2: > Installed: 2.02~beta3-3+sparc64 > Candidate: 2.02~beta3-3+sparc64 > Version table: > *** 2.02~be

Re: Problems with interfaces on Sun Ultra 5

2010-02-02 Thread Eric Brower
I'm not sure there's enough information on your configuration to provide good recommendations, but take a look into the local_mac_address? Open-Boot PROM setting and see if that helps. When set "true" it allows each interface to have a different MAC address, rather than the "system" MAC address.

[Fwd: Re: Shorewall and SPARC]

2008-08-24 Thread Eric Nichols
; Date:Thu, August 21, 2008 8:05 pm To: "Eric Nichols" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 07:25:50PM -0400, Eric Nichols wrote: > Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > >On Thu, Aug 21,

Sparc Live CD

2008-06-03 Thread Eric Nichols
Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is it possible to update OBP while running Debian?

2008-04-16 Thread Eric Nichols
p going exclusively debian (yay!) on them. I haven't found any good documentation on if this is even possible. Thanks Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

pl2303 & multi IO cards

2008-02-15 Thread Eric Nichols
-io card (parport_serial). However I can't see it in the kernel config for the 2.6.18 kernel. Can anyone help? Many thanks Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

netboot E250

2008-01-22 Thread Eric Rapilly
Sorry, but it'snt an I386 that you should install : I386 is an INTEL processor, meanwhile on a sun it's a SPARC processor, a "RISC" processor . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[debian_smp]

2007-11-12 Thread Eric Rapilly
Hi there . I downloaded the wrong kernel for etch. I'm searching the SMP kernel to fit with the 2 sparc processors on my machine. I could'nt find it so far. Any idea where I can find it in Europe ? thanks and cheers. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

[etch]Xserver_next

2007-11-08 Thread Eric Rapilly
Hello. I recently changed the grafik board on my SUN, it's now a "raptor"with a DB15 output on a PCI slot, and the srceen is a LCD Samsung Sync Master 710v. During the boot, every thing is displayed, but when the X inteface comes up, screen turns to complete black. I guess its rather a frequenc

SUN_DEBIAN_ X _next

2007-11-07 Thread Eric Rapilly
entering the command "dmesg | grep fb0 return nothing on one of the sparc, and : fb0 Creatot at xxx.xx type 48 DAC10 on the other : the prafik card is on an UPA port on the first machine. maybe to be on an UPA port causes the pb ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Xserver -next

2007-11-06 Thread Eric Rapilly
the grafik card, as returnde by the dpkg command, appears to be a SUn Elite 3D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

debian : X

2007-11-06 Thread Eric Rapilly
I recentlyinstalled debian etch on my SUN ultra 60. I don't know if this problem is common, I can't launch any X session, whatever is the way I configure the Xserver : using "dpkg ." or reconfiguring teh xorg.conf with an editor. Checking the /var/log/xorg file shows me that the module for

[sun]hardware

2007-10-09 Thread Eric Rapilly
I'm proud to inform you that I could find on another SPARC, equipped with 2 grafic board on UPA bus, one of this card, that went on the other SUN Ultra 60. thus now, I have 2 sun ultra 60 with the dedicated DEBIAN cheers !!, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

[etch_sun]sound

2007-09-06 Thread Eric Rapilly
hi there . I have installed etch on my sun ultra 60, but it's look like the sound module of this machine is not recognized; Is there a patch to correct this small bug, and were can I download it. thanks !!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

[szs20]cd

2007-07-17 Thread Eric Rapilly
did you try to clean it, with a dedicated clearer CDrom?it's quite cheap. good luck !! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[ss20]cdrom

2007-07-17 Thread Eric Rapilly
did you try to clean it with a cleaner Cdrom ? you may be able to find one in any computer shop -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[sun]etch

2007-07-13 Thread Eric Rapilly
hi there. I need an i nformation, concerning X'server (i.e;. gnome) since I did change the CRT screen, I can't anymore launch gnome; is it some tool to configure the screen ? thanks. salut les debianistes. je voudrais regler , sur mon SUN equipé du noyau debian 2.6, l'interface ecran, car le

[etch]netinstall

2007-07-11 Thread Eric Rapilly
for your information, on my PC under FC5, I don't have any CDROM burner , but only a DVD burner on PATA interface. It's look like this DVd burner is unable to burn a bootable CDROM. I 'm excpeting a SCSI CDROM burner, and then, I will try again to burn a bootable CDROM on this device. I hope, t

[sun]debian : setup

2007-06-12 Thread Eric Rapilly
Hi there; For my Debian on sun, I need some informations, because I'm not familiar with debian; 1 ° how to setup a fixed IP address ? 2° how to indicate the IP address of the gateway, which I use to go on internet that's all for today, ladies and gentelmen; thanks !!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

[sun]debian

2007-06-06 Thread Eric Rapilly
I have some questions, may be you wille be able to answer me. I will receive soon a sun ultra 60; But there is few memory. I want to know which kind of RAM is installed on the motherboard: is it ECC SDRAM or NVRAM? What is the video connector : sub -D 15 or 13w3 ? where could I find the latest

[sgi]debian

2007-06-01 Thread Eric Rapilly
hello ! I have got an SGI indigo2, without any CDROM. Do you if it exist a debian version for this station, under the bianry version ? where could I download it ? thanks and cheers !! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

[sun]debian

2007-04-29 Thread Eric Rapilly
Hi, ladies and gentlemen . I could'nt install Debian on my SUn SPARC ULTRA 1, because the crom has benn written with K3B under Fedora core 5, i.e with the ISO 9660 format, which unknown by the SUN OS ver 5.5.1. Thus, I believe the only thing to do, is to transfer Debian from fedora to the sun, but

[sun]debian

2007-03-25 Thread Eric Rapilly
No wonder if I can't install debian on my SUN, neither with a cdrom containing boot by the net, nore with a cdrom containing the full OS, apparently, I don't have an SCSI CDROM working fine !! I give them the n° 6 id, I setup a treminator; but when I boot the system, no device with ID 6 appears !!

[sun]debian

2007-03-23 Thread Eric Rapilly
If I can't boot from a Cdrom written on a fedora, is there a good way to install Debian on my SUN ? If no, what shall I do to install Debian on my SUN -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[sun]debian

2007-03-23 Thread Eric Rapilly
hello, I have problems to install debian on my SUN Ultra 1. I downloaded on My fedora the images to install through the net, , I wrote a bootable Cdrom with K3B wrietr software, but on the linux, when I type "stop +A" and then "boot cdrom" the answer is "can't find any boot device" So, I don't know

[sun]install

2007-02-22 Thread Eric Rapilly
hello, all of you. I got through the net an image to install the debian by the net. I'm new on debian and new on sun systems , but I'm rather old. Thus, I need help to either , go into the bios and tell to the machine to boot on the CD where is this image, or mount the cdrom and execute the shel

[sun]

2007-02-19 Thread Eric Rapilly
which distribution of debian is compatible with SUN ULTRA 1 ? I installed a 9.1 SCSI . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

next

2007-01-02 Thread Eric Rapilly
happy new year at all friends of LINUX, with a very good health, and also indeed, plenty of good PC equiped with UNIX/LINUX. Just one question : I'm looking for a CD containing SUN. OS version 5.5.1. I know that its'nt a free software, but as it is a little bit old, I hope that SUN will pardon m

Re: Updating OBP without Solaris

2006-10-23 Thread Eric Brower
On 10/23/06, Mark Morgan Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've been "playing" over the last couple of days with booting Sun's Standalone Flash PROM Update Utility over the network using rarp and tftp, to good effect. As a general question, does anybody know whether the OS can check the state of

Re: udev renaming interfaces fails on SunBlade100 with qfe

2006-09-19 Thread Eric Brower
nough to work properly as a QFE but does work as individual HMEs, the driver could be patched to allow use of the local-mac-addr values present in OBP. Thanks, E On 9/19/06, Luigi Gangitano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You can find it attached. Thanks, L Il giorno 19/set/06, alle ore 08:33,

Fwd: udev renaming interfaces fails on SunBlade100 with qfe

2006-09-15 Thread Eric Brower
Sorry-- forgot to include lthe list. -- Forwarded message -- From: Eric Brower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sep 15, 2006 11:39 AM Subject: Re: udev renaming interfaces fails on SunBlade100 with qfe To: Luigi Gangitano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 9/15/06, Luigi Gangi

Re: Full Duplex in Happy Meal Network interface

2006-09-14 Thread Eric Brower
On 9/14/06, Gustavo Mendes de Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello there, I´m using a Debian Sarge version for Sparc, running in a E420, and when I run ethtool command, I get server:~# ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ TP MII ] Supported link modes: 10baseT

Re: [D-I] Network driver question - how to recognize sunqe

2006-03-16 Thread Eric Brower
Attached is prtconf output from an SS1000 system. This is from DaveM's older vger prtconf CVS repo, which I find very useful. It concurs "qec" would provide a root device node for a QE device. Thanks, E On 3/16/06, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Both Debian Installer and dis

Re: LIRC and SPARC (problem with ioctl32)

2005-12-28 Thread Eric Brower
On 12/28/05, Boer Attila Laszlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > LIRC 0.7.2 compiles fine under Debian SPARC (stable). The lirc_gpio module > loads succesfully (tested with 2.4.27) but after I start lircd and try to > test with irw the lirc daemon dies. > Here is the output from dmesg: > ..

Re: Question on boot-message

2005-11-28 Thread Eric Brower
On 11/28/05, Jurzitza, Dieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear listmembers, > is there some way for me to find out which ioctl is missing here and whether > I do have a chance to fix this? > > <4>sys32_ioctl(mount:146): Unknown cmd fd(3) cmd(4c05) arg(e898) Run the "cmd" value backwards

Re: Between a rock & a hard place, need monolithic 2.4.2x kernel for sun4m

2005-07-27 Thread Eric Jorgensen
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 18:13:30 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Romain Dolbeau) wrote: > >I have sincere doubts whether there are more than a handfull of > > supported configurations that actually need this fix, if any at all. > > I don't think support for SM100 should be any concern to aynone, except

Re: Between a rock & a hard place, need monolithic 2.4.2x kernel for sun4m

2005-07-27 Thread Eric Jorgensen
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 01:53:14 +0200 Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 26 July 2005 01:45, Eric Jorgensen wrote: > > This means that an extremely small number of machines are affected. > > Those are not particularly common boxes. It should be possible to > &g

Re: Sarge may be last Debian release for 32 bit sparc systems

2005-07-26 Thread Eric Jorgensen
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 01:48:42 +0100 Neil Pilgrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > more available too. I'm not sure how much memory they have, but perhaps > the SS10/20 dimms that Eric Jorgensen advertised may work ok in them. I'm pretty sure that the vast majority of thes

Re: Between a rock & a hard place, need monolithic 2.4.2x kernel for sun4m

2005-07-25 Thread Eric Jorgensen
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 01:40:48 +0200 Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 26 July 2005 01:31, Eric Jorgensen wrote: > >Yes, since i have an RT626 i don't really meet the "if and only if" > > clause on needing to upgrade the kernel first.

Re: Between a rock & a hard place, need monolithic 2.4.2x kernel for sun4m

2005-07-25 Thread Eric Jorgensen
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 01:23:40 +0200 Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 26 July 2005 01:21, Eric Jorgensen wrote: > >After uncovering just how interestingly munged up this system is, i > > decided to attempt a dist-upgrade to sarge. In case there was som

Between a rock & a hard place, need monolithic 2.4.2x kernel for sun4m

2005-07-25 Thread Eric Jorgensen
After uncovering just how interestingly munged up this system is, i decided to attempt a dist-upgrade to sarge. In case there was some confusion, dist-upgrade to woody was years ago. All seemed to be going well until aptitude flatly refused to install the new libc until i had a kernel newe

Re: Mopping up issues on an old sparc - need advice

2005-07-25 Thread Eric Jorgensen
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 14:24:04 -0700 Andrew Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >First, for some reason dpkg thinks that dialog and whiptail both > > conflict with debconf. Baffled here. I've never had to force an issue > > wrt dependencies and conflicts on debian, how do i just beat it in > > th

Re: Mopping up issues on an old sparc - need advice

2005-07-25 Thread Eric Jorgensen
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 14:24:04 -0700 Andrew Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 02:26:51PM -0600, Eric Jorgensen wrote: > > > >I've got an ss10 that's running woody, was dist-upgraded from > >potato. It > > is in a remot

Re: Sarge may be last Debian release for 32 bit sparc systems

2005-07-25 Thread Eric Jorgensen
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 14:06:46 -0700 Blars Blarson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Support of sun4c and sun4d was effectivly dropped from Sarge. The > only reports trying d-i on this hardware that I remember seeing were > failures, and noone bother to try to fix it. Upgrades from Woody may > work, b

Mopping up issues on an old sparc - need advice

2005-07-25 Thread Eric Jorgensen
I've got an ss10 that's running woody, was dist-upgraded from potato. It is in a remote facility running headless. Over time, it's grown some interesting warts. I'm wondering how best to resolve them. First, for some reason dpkg thinks that dialog and whiptail both conflict with debco

Re: Writing OBP from Linux

2005-07-20 Thread Eric Brower
On 7/20/05, Turbo Fredriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I usually do this via TFTP, but this time I don't want to do this > for various reasons, so does anyone have the program to do the > actuall writing of the OBP? > > I already extracted the actuall flash image from the OBP patch > (retreive

kxstitch repackaged with patch applied, need sparc to test source build

2005-06-15 Thread eric pareja
://tl.linux.org.ph/~xenos/debian The updated package is kxstitch_0.6-2 I test built the package (-1 and -2) on i386 and alpha pbuilders with no problems. The package is linda and lintian clean. Please cc me since I'm not on debian-sparc Thanks. -- ___ Eric Pareja (xenos AT upm.edu.ph) | Inform

Re: Envctrl support for E450

2005-05-17 Thread Eric Brower
On 5/17/05, David Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 17 May 2005 15:12, you wrote: > > > > If no one else is willing, the Aurora SPARC Project would be more than > > willing to take ownership of this machine and work with Eric Brower to > > get env

Re: Envctrl support for E450

2005-05-13 Thread Eric Brower
I'll ask once again, as well. I'm willing to provide a patch against kernel.org 2.6.11.8 for a very incomplete and guaranteed non-functional envctrl driver for the E450 to anybody willing to run it on their system, report results back to me and be the least bit responsive to testing modifications.

Re: Envctrl support for E450

2005-05-03 Thread Eric Brower
If anybody can provide networked console access to such a system, I may be convinced to play with it a bit (better still if you have a networked power supply involved). Please only volunteer if you are able to assist with reboots/compiles/testing and plan to be reliable (this has been a problem of

Re: Envctrl support for E450

2005-05-03 Thread Eric Brower
Whomever takes this on for 2.6 should seriously consider using the envctrl framework I posted to the sparclinux list for SUNW,envctrltwo support. Contact me off-list if you want the latest 2.6 kernel patch. Adding E450 support should be straightforward, and a lot lless work than the current roll-

Re: rtc and chrony on Ultra 1 and Ultra 5

2005-04-20 Thread Eric Brower
The "eeprom" OBP node does not include an "intr" or "interrupts" node, so the device does not support generating interrupts (at least, as implemented). In this case, UIE_ON and UIE_OFF are invalid (the drivers/char/rtc.c driver already treats them as such, returning EINVAL). Because some devices

kxstitch repackaged need sparc to test source build

2005-04-13 Thread eric pareja
is kxstitch_0.6-2 I test built the package (-1 and -2) on i386 and alpha pbuilders with no problems. Please cc me since I'm not on debian-sparc -- ___ Eric Pareja (xenos AT upm.edu.ph) | Information Management Service [IMS] \e/ Network and Systems Administrator | University o

Re: Possible heisenbug? (Was: Serial console on Ultra10 - no login-prompt)

2005-04-12 Thread Eric Brower
If your console is on a sunsab serial port (I'm not sure about the Ultra10), you are seeing the same issue I've worked-around a bit but there is no proper fix as of yet. See: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ultrasparc&m=111263847715665&w=2 E On Apr 12, 2005 10:40 AM, Olle Görling <[EMAIL

Re: Sun Ultra 5, "poweroff" without keyboard (off-topic?)

2005-04-05 Thread Eric Brower
On 05 Apr 2005 20:42:04 +0200, Sebastian Niehaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric Brower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 04 Apr 2005 20:47:01 +0200, Sebastian Niehaus > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > i

Re: Sun Ultra 5, "poweroff" without keyboard (off-topic?)

2005-04-05 Thread Eric Brower
On 04 Apr 2005 20:47:01 +0200, Sebastian Niehaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > i have an Sun Ultra 5 running Debian Sparc. Usually if I want to > switch off a maschine I use the command "poweroff". > > Anyway, on my Sun Ultra 5 this command does not power off the computer > as long as the

Re: Weird Mouse Behaviour with 2.6

2005-04-04 Thread Eric Brower
On Apr 4, 2005 12:21 PM, David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 11:11:01 -0700 > Eric Brower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In tty_ioctl.c tty_wait_until_sent() if the timeout variable is set to > > zero (which many callers do

Re: Weird Mouse Behaviour with 2.6

2005-04-04 Thread Eric Brower
On Apr 3, 2005 12:32 PM, Tomas Cernaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Sonntag, den 03.04.2005, 12:09 +0200 schrieb Tomas Cernaj: > > David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > [... mouse problem on ultras ...] > > > > > Yes, there is some problem initializing the serial line that the > > >

Re: Trying to install on SS5: results

2005-02-09 Thread Eric Brower
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 15:30:27 +0100, Cyril Laury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've also tried (and managed) to install Sarge on two > Sparcstation-5 (SS-170, 256Meg, type 5 keyboard) with 20041219 > netinst images. Unless something has recently changed, and I don't believe it has, the SS5/170 (Turb

Re: How to use 200 GB Disk on Ultra10?

2005-01-03 Thread Eric Brower
I've run across this before-- there is a potential for OBP booting PCI IDE controllers, it seems (I've never tried): http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-sparc64/2002/02/24/.html E On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 14:23:40 +0100, Dieter Jurzitza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Roland, > dear listmembers,

Re: debian on a sun enterprise 250

2004-12-02 Thread Eric Brower
[cc'd to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Take a look at my post regarding this issue: http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2004/11/msg2.html I'll offer you the envctrltwo driver as well, with the understanding that there are a few remaining issues to be addressed. I can't seem to find willing testers, de

Re: Maintenance light

2004-11-02 Thread Eric Brower
...I should also mention, dropping to OBP and typing "led-off" then "go" should extinguish the light and get you back to the OS-- that's a simpler workaround ;) E On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 10:55:11 -0700, Eric Brower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On the E250, the "

Re: Maintenance light

2004-11-02 Thread Eric Brower
On the E250, the "General Error" LED on the front status panel is plumbed to the auxio power LED bit (logical OR, if I recall correctly). If it bothers you, I'd be happy to provide a patch to you. Alternatively, I have a rough SUNW,envctrtltwo environmental monitoring driver for the E250 I'd be h

Re: unknown partition table

2004-06-14 Thread Eric Brower
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:44:07 +0200, Peter Keel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only question that bugs me now: Is this SEAGATE-SX118273LC-6367 > just a model-specific string or a drive-specific one? Do I now have > two drives with some same ID? Is there any way to find out such > Drive-IDs? If y

pptpd encryption on SPARC

2004-05-10 Thread Eric Nichols
ernel with mppe? Shouldn't this kind of patch be in the stock kernel anyway? Thanks Eric

Re: debian install on 5/170 turbosparc problems

2004-05-06 Thread Eric Brower
Ross Camm wrote: yes, i saw those comments re dodgy support, but other docs say that it is supported. The main developers (Pete and DaveM) have stated that it is not stable. The other docs you mention are likely incorrect and somebody was lucky. is it possible its just a prom settin

Re: debian install on 5/170 turbosparc problems

2004-05-06 Thread Eric Brower
In short, support for TurboSPARC (SS5/170) in Linux is dodgy at best. You can find ample messages to this effect searching the list archives and those of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list, as well at the FAQ at www.ultralinux.org. Good luck! E Ross Camm wrote: these are the boot up messagesjust

Re: netboot , need help

2004-04-26 Thread Eric Brower
Try reading the JavaStation HOWTO-- it describes the procedures for creating diskless client images. It is light on net-booting information, but you should be able to find those specifics elsewhere. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/JavaStation-HOWTO.html E

2.6.x kernel for Sparc?

2004-04-25 Thread Eric Nichols
I didn't see this in apt... Is there a 2.6.x kernel image available for Sparc (I have a Sparc 5). Thanks Eric

Re: Add modem to a SPARC 5?

2004-04-25 Thread Eric Nichols
standard Netcruiser 56K modem running off my S5. I had to use a gender adaptor, and it will only run at 38400, which is pitifully slow. wvdial picked it straight up for me. Don't know how it will go with testing. hope this helps andy - Original Message - From: "Eric Nichol

Add modem to a SPARC 5?

2004-04-24 Thread Eric Nichols
I've got a 100mhz Sparc 5 running the untested version of Debian. Does anyone know what /dev works on the serial ports? I've tried both serial ports on ttyS0-3 and no luck. Thanks Eric

Re: Sarge on a Sparc5

2004-04-23 Thread Eric Nichols
That did it!  So here is the beginning and end of the story.  I booted with the netboot (sarge) cd. I received the following error and it stopped: Setting up filesystem please wait busybox[8]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 188 busybox[9]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 188 busybox

Re: Sarge on a Sparc5

2004-04-21 Thread Eric Nichols
g up filesystem message? I get lots of Unimplemented messages, but that doesn't usually stop things from working, you may just have to be patient. -Original Message- From: Eric Nichols [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 6:54 AM To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org

Sarge on a Sparc5

2004-04-21 Thread Eric Nichols
boot or will this work at all on this old box? Many Thanks Eric

Re: SS20 boot problem

2004-04-15 Thread Eric Brower
It is possible that your disk is external or is not in the primary SCSI disk slot. Stop-A, as you have been doing. Type 'probe-scsi-all' to see where you disk is located. Type 'devalias' and find the matching alias (i.e. "disk1"). Set a new default boot device with "setenv boot-device ". T

Re: Can't locate module char-major-4

2004-04-12 Thread Eric Brower
Janos Sziliczi wrote: Hi All, I found the following logs in my syslog many-many times: modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-4 last message repeated XX times I think this alias can be turned off using 'alias char-major-4 off' in modules.conf, but I don't want to do this at the m

Re: E250 LED indicators

2004-03-31 Thread Eric Brower
Eric Brower wrote: [ ... ] (i.e. LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_HALT goes to OBP, LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_POWER_OFF goes to OBP). I may have missed some subtlety, but it seems better to handle this outside of machine_power_off, as a driver MIGHT wish to call that directly under thermal failure scenarios, etc

Re: E250 LED indicators

2004-03-31 Thread Eric Brower
David S. Miller wrote: On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 11:56:06 -0800 Eric Brower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: DaveM-- I'll float you a sysctl patch for sparc64 and sparc if you'd consider it and find the current "protection" valuable, otherwise perhaps machine_power_off

Re: E250 LED indicators

2004-03-31 Thread Eric Brower
I have a mostly written driver that support environmental monitoring and LEDs on the E250. It will handle temperature and fan monitoring, and can control all the LEDs (currently is only twiddles the activity LED). The bigger issue that has been keeping this driver off the list to date is that

Re: Losing my mind, RAID1 on Sparc completely broken?

2004-03-10 Thread Nathan Eric Norman
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 09:18:11AM +1000, Adam Conrad wrote: > Antonio Prioglio wrote: > > > > You need to leave the block 0 alone and start the partitions > > on block 1. > > > > It is a known issue on sparcs. > > It's my understanding that SILO needs to be installed to a partition > that begi

Re: auto poweroff - keyboard dependency?

2004-03-07 Thread Eric Brower
Janos Sziliczi wrote: Hi All, I've compiled a 2.4.25 kernel. When I'd typed the 'halt' command as root, the Linux shutdowned and the machine turned off automatically (no 'power-off' needed on PROM prompt). This tends to hit the list once every few weeks. In both sparc and sparc64 the kernel

Re: kernel 2.4.24-sparc64-smp shutdown problem

2004-03-02 Thread Eric Brower
You are using a serial console, right? Remove the check if (!serial_console) from arch/sparc64/kernel/power.c. E Philipp Michels wrote: hi list, i got a sun ultra 2 enterprise with two 167MHZ CPUs. I run debian sarge with a 2.4.24-sparc64-smp kernel-image. The problem is that my ma

Re: Problem with ioctl(fd, TUNSETIFF, ...)

2004-01-30 Thread Eric Brower
The definition of TUNSETIF is: #define TUNSETIFF _IOW('T', 202, int) indicating the argument is an "int" rather than a "struct ifreq*". This trickery (as I understand it) would work on 32-bit systems, but not 64-bit. The .../arch/sparc64/kernel/ioctl32.c translation for this ioctl is

Re: [Re: environmental monitoring]

2003-12-24 Thread Eric
Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Umm, the Netra T1 doesn't have an "envctrl" -- or a "SUNW,rasctrl" on an > > ebus. > > I don't think that's important; all I want is the CPU temperature. Looking at the prtconf output from the T1/200 and the SB-1000 (for which the bbc_envctrl driver w

Re: [Re: environmental monitoring]

2003-12-24 Thread Eric
Ricky Beam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Umm, the Netra T1 doesn't have an "envctrl" -- or a "SUNW,rasctrl" on an > ebus. Correct. The T1/200 has an "i2c" node. This goes back to my comment about the driver needing to understand the OBP nodes associated with environmental monitoring. E

Re: environmental monitoring

2003-12-23 Thread Eric Brower
Clint Adams wrote: On a Netra t1 105, it is possible to use the envctrl kernel module to read the CPU temperature. Is this possible with a Netra T1 AC200? Not currently. What needs to be done to adapt the driver? A driver needs to learn about the OBP format used on a particular platform

Re: environmental monitoring

2003-12-23 Thread Eric Brower
Clint Adams wrote: On a Netra t1 105, it is possible to use the envctrl kernel module to read the CPU temperature. Is this possible with a Netra T1 AC200? Not currently. E

Re: netra t4

2003-12-19 Thread Eric Brower
Take a look at the "Linux on the Sun JavaStation" howto-- that describes the process in detail. E VEGH Karoly wrote: On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 03:15:02PM -0800, Eric Brower wrote: You may wish to speak with Johan Verrept-- he built a kernel for use on his Netra T4. well, I trie

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