Spare Sun 16 monitor

2003-06-11 Thread Francis Devereux
I have a Sun/Sony CPD-1790 monitor which I no longer need (salvaged along with a SPARCclassic that I am using headless). If anyone can collect it from London (UK) you can have it for free. It is working, but there is a gap of about 2cm on the left hand side of the display and I haven't been able

Re: cannot logon on to sparc as only certain keys work - keys type strange characters - locked out

2003-05-16 Thread Francis Devereux
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 11:58:42AM +0100, kevin curran wrote: Can anyone help or can anyone tell me the command that I can type at the lilo prompt to enter perhaps some sort of console that might allow me to log in as 'root' and fix my keyboard problem. Typing linux S at the silo prompt should

Re: Ultra 5 SSH/Ethernet Lockup

2003-04-16 Thread Francis Devereux
On Tue, 15 Apr 2003 17:33:11 -0400 Tom Vier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 06:50:24AM +0100, Francis Devereux wrote: ssh needs a source of randomness to operate (/dev/random), which in turn needs a pool of entropy which is fed from things like the keyboard interrupt

Re: Ultra 5 SSH/Ethernet Lockup

2003-04-15 Thread Francis Devereux
On Tue, 15 Apr 2003 00:46:37 + (UTC) Kristjan Onu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also for what it's worth, I haven't seen such problems into a U5, either with the Woody libssl or later 0.9.6 ones with v9 optimization. I'm glad to hear others are successfully using U5s. I'm leaning toward

v8 optimised openssl packages

2003-03-07 Thread Francis Devereux
I have compiled my own optimised openssl packages, from the latest stable sources (0.9.6c-2woody.2). They work great, but whenever I do an apt-get upgrade apt wants to replace them with the default versions. I can hold them to prevent this, but I don't really want to do that in case I miss

SPARCengine Ultra AXi - need to boot Solaris before Linux

2003-01-19 Thread Francis Devereux
Hi, I have a Sunray workstation based on the SPARCengine Ultra AXi motherboard, with a 440MHz processor, 512MB of RAM and a Raptor GFX PCI framebuffer. I have installed Solaris 9 and Debian 3.0 on it. If I switch it on, boot Solaris, shutdown Solaris, and then boot Debian then Debian boots OK,