Re: Debian Testing (using d-i beta4) on Sun Fire 280R

2004-05-02 Thread James Morrison
Thanks for the report. Please send this report along with a filled out template, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/report-template, to debian-boot. Jim

Re: problem with bterm and frame-buffer ?

2004-04-24 Thread James Morrison
Blars Blarson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >some d-i testers report a lot of problem with bterm and framebuffer with > >some video cards. > > > >Can you, dear Debian Sparc User :), test bterm from unstable and report > >success or err

Re: Exim4 on Sparc?

2004-04-22 Thread James Morrison
Derek Zeanah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm installing woody on an Ultra 2 that's going to be a mailserver. > Ideally, every incoming message will be scanned for viruses before > delivery, but all the Exim directions I'm finding assume Exim4. > Apparently ametzler provides backports on his sit

Re: Sarge on a Sparc5

2004-04-22 Thread James Morrison
Meelis Roos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > umount: /initrd: Invalid argument > > > (and hangs here) > > And it hangs on sparc64 too (Ultra Enterprise 2 netbooted). > > > can you help us to debug this one ? > > After this umount, it should launch bterm and main-menu. > > > > Can you netboot w

GTK+ 2.4 on sparc

2004-04-07 Thread James Morrison
Hi, I've built a few of the experimental gtk+ 2.4 packages on sparc. They are available at: deb http://people.debian.org/~phython ./ These packages are compiled with -mcpu=ultrasparc -m32, so they should work just fine on any ultrasparc machine running Debian GNU/Linux. I'll probably keep

Re: no keyboard after recompiling debian sid 2.6.4 kernel

2004-04-06 Thread James Morrison
Richard Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ben Collins wrote > > I think for Ultra10, you need to enable the AT keyboard aswell. > > > # CONFIG_KEYBOARD_ATKBD is not set > > I have tried with this too and have the same problem. I have started to look > to see if the serial 8250 is the caus

Re: libgimp2.0 fails to install

2004-04-06 Thread James Morrison
Euan Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi there, > > I'm running Debian unstable on my Ultra 2 (2x300Mhz 768MB). > > I ran apt-get -u dist-upgrade this morning and got a failure on the > libgimp2.0 package. > > Bar uninstalling gimp, is there anyway to resolve this problem?? > > Thanks, >

Re: PCI USB Cards

2004-03-13 Thread James Morrison
"Mark T. Valites" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm looking to pick up a USB scanner this weekend & would love to throw it > in one of my U5s. Will the U5 play nice with a regular x86-linux supported > PCI USB card? > > -- > Mark T. Valites > Unix Systems Analyst > CIT - SUNY Geneseo > >--))> >

Re: Debian 64-bit binaries

2004-03-06 Thread James Morrison
Igmar Palsenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > > I've got Debian running on a 64 bit Sparc box. The userland is however > still 32 bits, and that restriction has been lifted in 2.4.25. Is there > any plan to recompile userland to 64 bits ? > > I'm willing to spends a few weekends re

Re: Ultra5 + Linux kernel 2.6.1 = hangs while booting

2004-01-26 Thread James Morrison
Alex Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The keyboard lights flash once and it locks. Booting with the SILO -p > option is pretty useless because it clears out too quickly a few times and > the reboots. Stop+A doesn't work during the sequence. Is there a way to slow > this down or something? >

Re: Trying to use ipmasqadm

2004-01-25 Thread James Morrison
"David Demland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to use port forwarding on my Sparc 5. It has a 2.2 kernel. When > I try to use the command: > > ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -R 10.0.0.253 1723 -L 192.168.1.5 1723 > > I get the message: > > portfw: setsockopt failed: Invalid argument >

Re: Ultra5 + Linux kernel 2.6.1 = hangs while booting

2004-01-25 Thread James Morrison
Alex Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > # > # Graphics support > # > CONFIG_FB=y > > CONFIG_FB_ATY=m I have _FB_ATY=y in my config for my ultra 5. > CONFIG_FB_ATY_CT=y > > CONFIG_FB_PCI=y > Jim

Re: cannot find sparc64.gz

2003-08-27 Thread James Morrison
> > I went looking through some mplayer lists not too > > long ago and it seemed that the mlib support has bit rotted a bit. Anyway, > > to the point I would like to see some of the vec_* functions from altivec.h > > available on sparc under vis.h or something. > Hopefully this isn't too far awa

Re: cannot find sparc64.gz

2003-08-26 Thread James Morrison
> Old-Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 09:09:24 -0400 > From: Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Antonello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-sparc@lists.debian.org > Content-Disposition: inline > Sender: Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-Spam-Level: > Resent-From: debian-s

Re: cannot find sparc64.gz

2003-08-26 Thread James Morrison
> 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. Would this be support for vector instructio

Re: PHP4

2003-07-20 Thread James Morrison
> Any sparc/debian users out there running PHP4 > 4.1.2? > I can't find .debs (cept for ipv6) and would _really_ like > to get to 4.3.X. I was using 4.2.3 up until 6 hours ago when I decided I wanted to play with subversion. As for 4.3.x, it I looked at the debian-apache list from last month

Re: Compiling a kernel that works

2003-06-29 Thread James Morrison
> Old-Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 15:57:38 +1000 > Content-Disposition: inline > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Craig Small) > X-Spam-Level: > Resent-From: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org > X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/12322 > X-Loop: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org > Resen

Re: Big change coming with compiler default

2003-06-09 Thread James Morrison
Old-Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 11:15:20 -0400 From: Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Disposition: inline X-Spam-Level: Resent-From: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/12153 X-Loop: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org