Re: Can't read my boot CD on Ultra 5.

2010-04-23 Thread Jim MacKenzie
l help you find the command) and scan to see what device address the CD-ROM has, but since it's IDE, I expect that the PROM would expect the CD to be the slave drive on the primary channel (assuming the Ultra 5 has only one channel, which I think is the case). Jim - Original Message

Re: Debian-Sparc on a Sun Ultra10

2010-03-31 Thread Jim MacKenzie
I first installed my machine, and I'm not sure when I updated to 2.6. Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/d40b725f54eb44679d17815498b73...@jimm

Re: sparc/debian/linux procedures

2009-05-07 Thread Jim MacKenzie
fig files. You can force the system to give a static ethx mapping to an Ethernet card via its MAC address. Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Xorg with ATI driver and Linux 2.6.25 (on Ultra 5)

2008-07-29 Thread Jim Watson
Ludovic Courtès wrote: Hi, The current Xorg and ATI driver appear to not work when used with `linux-image-2.6.25-2-sparc64' on an Ultra 5: X.Org X Server 1.4.2 ... Any hint? Could be this thread? http://marc.info/?l=linux-sparc&m=121727663529005&w=2 jim -- To UNSUB

Re: Can Etch be installed on an SS20?

2008-04-22 Thread Jim MacKenzie
to work. I can't tell you that it works from experience, though. (To placate the list, I do have Debian running on an UltraSparc 1/170E, but I am having some issues with 2.6 kernels recognizing the SCSI controller. It works fine with a 2.4 kernel though.) Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Blade 100 and 2.6.{22,23}

2007-12-20 Thread Jim Watson
. Some earlier versions I think had errors if a firewire device is plugged in. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux sun 2.6.23-rc4 #1 Sun Sep 2 09:33:06 EST 2007 sparc64 GNU/Linux jim PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 'OBP 4.0.45 2001/02/08 14:33' PROMLIB: Root node compatible: Linux version

Re: Etch on sunblade 150 : installer menus problem

2007-12-17 Thread Jim Watson
Another neat idea would be an auto- option for the installer to self-install, or is there already? jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Building SPARC32PLUS

2007-12-16 Thread Jim Watson
needed to get object files like SPARC32PLUS. Is that the correct behaviour? I suppose I am wondering why gcc doesn't produce SPARC32PLUS by default. thanks jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Messy screen with ATI Mach64 on UltraIIi

2007-09-28 Thread Jim Watson
) and use the command line fdisk. Some trial and error or good luck is involved. jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: linking SPARC applications

2007-07-21 Thread Jim Watson
Julien Cristau wrote: On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 22:38:05 +1000, Jim Watson wrote: Yes, but I like them to run on sparc (32) systems too. Previously they always linked to /lib/blah. Now something has changed so they now link to /lib/v9/blah But I didn't change my build system so I guess

Re: linking SPARC applications

2007-07-21 Thread Jim Watson
Martin wrote: On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 16:53 +1000, Jim Watson wrote: Hi, I have been building SPARC applications - I mean the shared libraries report SPARC in response to the file command. Now I noticed these are linked to various standard libs in /lib/v9 which report SPARC32PLUS

linking SPARC applications

2007-07-20 Thread Jim Watson
has to be configured when building or is it something happens when running ldd? (I only have sun4u here) thanks jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#403364: SunBlade 150 problems - can anyone confirm?

2007-07-02 Thread jim watson
s not > reproducible? But now I am facing the problem with 2.6.18-4-sparc64. I need to use video=atyfb:off to be able to boot. I am on a SunBlade150. regards, Nishant On my Sunblade100 this is fixed in debian unstable 2.6.21-1 but video=atyfb:off is still needed anyway to avoid those red d

Re: Builds disturbed by the usage of a 64bit kernel.

2007-05-18 Thread jim
=251149 jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installation prompt does not appear during netboot install

2007-05-13 Thread jim
2.6.20 but video=atyfb:off is still needed to avoid the red dots (search this list for "red dots" ;) thanks jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Etch installation on Sun Blade 100 - magic for /etc/silo.conf needed

2007-05-07 Thread jim
nux video=atyfb:off That's not needed to boot 2.6.20, but is still needed to avoid red dots anyway jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Aptitude asks for installation CD

2007-04-20 Thread Jim MacKenzie
your CD-ROM in /etc/apt/sources.list . Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sunblade 100 IDPROM not valid

2007-04-06 Thread Jim Watson
oned NVRAM FAQ explains the proper solution. thanks Jim

Re: [sun]debian

2007-03-23 Thread Jim
ation you need with google, but this might get you started. http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/sparc/ In particular, section 4.4. Regards, Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [sun]debian

2007-03-23 Thread Jim
g list is no help - you need to find a Fedora mailing list instead. Good luck, Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: sparc32 etch status

2007-02-25 Thread Jim MacKenzie
al. I have an ss20 but because I thought (probably incorrectly) that Debian's sparc SMP support wasn't that good, I put NetBSD on it. Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Please test the new kernel (2.6.18.dfsg.1-9)

2007-02-08 Thread Jim Watson
On 08/02/2007, at 10:05 PM, Karl Goetz wrote: Jim Watson wrote: On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 22:28:12 -0800, Jurij Smakov wrote: Hi, A set of new kernel images has been uploaded to unstable a couple of days ago, including linux-image-2.6.18-4-sparc64_2.6.18.dfsg.1-9_sparc.deb Jurij

Re: Please test the new kernel (2.6.18.dfsg.1-9)

2007-01-29 Thread Jim Watson
) jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems booting Sun Blade 100: still unable to boot from CD

2006-12-30 Thread Jim Watson
is ATI card. My SunBlade 100 boots 2.6.18 OK from internal disk drive with video=atyfb:off. (This was not required with 2.6.16) As mentioned in the thread, net boot may be required - at least I have not seen any reports of success with CDROM. jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: SunBlade 150 problems - can anyone confirm?

2006-12-16 Thread Jim Watson
dots" issue, no problems I can see, only the alternative consoles have some unusable frame outside, about 20% of the screen area. Jim

Re: problems building amarok 1.4.4 on sparc

2006-11-02 Thread Jim Watson
tions, you must use the __asm__ keyword instead of the normal asm keyword." that fixes the test case. jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Unidentified subject!

2006-11-02 Thread Jim Watson
boot disks, what versions etc. My cdrom died years ago but a method that always works for me is net boot using tftp http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/sparc/ch04s04.html.en jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fixed kernels for SunBlade 100/150 - please test ASAP

2006-10-21 Thread Jim Watson
but only if atyfb off I attached the dmesg output, which shows some issues while scanning the of tree. I will attach mine too, for debian 2.16 (where atyfb works OK) and latest 2.18. Looking for things different ...BogoMIPS(?) 2.16 = 1001.47 2.18 = 11.12 jim PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom

Re: blade 150 and 2.6

2006-10-08 Thread Jim Watson
ernel sources... What if I'll comment those lines? Is it a dirty procedure or it's safe? With 2.6.18-1 I get the same error message on my sunblade 100, mailed http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2006/10/msg00032.html It is right after Booting Linux... jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

cannot boot 2.6.18-1 on sunblade 100

2006-10-07 Thread Jim Watson
;Kick start" The upgrade left Linux.OLD in place, which still boots fine and things work as usual. Linux sun 2.6.16-1-sparc64 #2 Thu May 4 12:36:43 PDT 2006 sparc64 GNU/ Linux thanks jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AW: One more

2006-09-25 Thread Jim Watson
/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/ bin:/usr/bin/X11" else PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games" fi ~/.profile invokes ~/.bashrc, neither has any PATH jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian on Ultrasparc 1/170E

2006-09-20 Thread Jim MacKenzie
- Original Message - From: "Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jim MacKenzie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Debian Sparc" Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 3:29 PM Subject: Re: Debian on Ultrasparc 1/170E Fast enought to be usable is always a b

Debian on Ultrasparc 1/170E

2006-09-20 Thread Jim MacKenzie
-400 with 384 MB and find it to be very usable.) (I have a really good laptop, so no need to take a collection for me.) Thanks in advance. Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Audio on Ultra 60

2006-07-23 Thread Jim Farrand
t track trying to fix /dev/audioctl or is that old news? Regards, Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: booting ultra 1

2006-06-19 Thread Jim Crilly
ess pain? Is it just uncool to use > anything but an i386? It should work fine, I had virtually no problems setting up Debian on my Ultra1, although I believe I installed woody and dist-upgraded to sarge. Jim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Possible fix for firefox's bus error

2006-05-20 Thread jim
ebian/firefox/ > > If you can test it, please do. If it works, I'll push the patch upstream. Hi Jurij, it [0] starts up and runs OK on my sunblade 100 [1], thanks jim [0] Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux sparc64; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060326 Firefox/1.5.0.3 (Debian-1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.3-

Re: Xorg 7 on sparc64

2006-05-01 Thread jim
eing the "end of block range" messages? i saw something vaguely similar on my sunblade100, when it needed libxau... jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: version of openoffice packages in testing/unstable

2006-03-20 Thread jim
On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 09:01:09AM -0500, Steve Pacenka wrote: Steve...thanks > Going one step upstream, Jim Watson's .tar.bz2 multi-RPM packages are > quite usable with Debian (at least as single-user installs). These are > available from Openoffice.org mirrors, in the cont

Re: RAID config option missing

2006-03-08 Thread Jim Farrand
igger harddisks for that box soon, in which case I'll be going through the process again. If so I'll try and do English translation of Sebastien's instructions. Regards, Jim -- Jim Farrand -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#306476: quick question about Bug#306476

2006-02-24 Thread Jim Watson
l was for the sunblade 100, the other would fail half-way through. Anyway the cdrom stopped working when it was just after warranty, and since then it has installed debian by net boot several times with no problems. jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

RAID config option missing

2006-02-20 Thread Jim Farrand
tion is missing (ie RAID won't work on this setup)? Or do I need to do something different on sparc systems? Thanks in advance, Jim -- Jim Farrand -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2.6.16-rc2 sparc32 (and sparc64) kernel images available

2006-02-11 Thread Jim Buttafuoco
if any one gets a sparc32 - smp 2.6.16+ kernel compilied and get make it available for download as a deb, I can test on some dual and quad processor systems. Let me know. Jim -- Original Message --- From: Jurij Smakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [UTF-8?]To: Ludovic Courtès &

Re: sparc developer machines

2006-02-02 Thread Jim Watson
such as warning message, relevant code or something? thanks jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sun Blade 150 install - fails on reboot, fails to configure X?

2005-12-12 Thread Jim Watson
y timeout=100 image=/vmlinuz label=Linux initrd=/initrd.img jim XF86Config-4.works Description: Binary data silo.conf Description: Binary data

Re: Installing on a Sun Blade 100: CD Mounting issue

2005-12-06 Thread Jim Watson
he debian main page go to Installation Manual and choose the sparc version. It explains the procedure and provides links to images. I did a minimal installation then upgrade to unstable. jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Please test pre-release 2.6.14-3 packages

2005-11-10 Thread jim
s. The mouse and everything is OK now but there are still some red dots on the blue background, and can be seen for example on the desktop when hitting "enter" in a terminal window or moving the window, flickering red dots in vertical rows across the screen, and a few isolated red dots

Re: sound on blade 100

2005-11-10 Thread jim
Quoting Dave Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > control. (I'm surprised the blade is up to running GNOME!) Gnome is running much better than a couple of years ago! Right now using mozilla while building openoffice.org. It runs openoffice.org 2.0 at an acceptable speed jim [EMAIL PRO

Re: sound on blade 100

2005-11-09 Thread jim
ffects (wav) from the desktop. But I could not get the Java Media Framework fully operating with gij and havent tried any different sounds such as mp3 yet. anything with xine will just crash. jim [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/ooo680/sal$ lsmod Module Size Used by ipv6

Re: STOP-A on serial line

2005-10-09 Thread Jim Mintha
A. > > How can I send STOP-A from my serial terminal? The machine tries to boot from > network. That's not what I want. You need to send a break. Most serial terminal programs (or real serial terminals) will have a way to send a break. Jim -- Jim Mintha

Re: PostgreSQL on testing

2005-09-28 Thread Jim Buttafuoco
what does table/view hijo look like -- Original Message --- From: Martín Marqués To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Sent: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:47:27 -0300 Subject: Re: PostgreSQL on testing > El Mié 28 Sep 2005 09:41, Jim Buttafuoco escribió: > > w

Re: PostgreSQL on testing

2005-09-28 Thread Jim Buttafuoco
works fine here, can you provide the commands you are executing and the error message -- Original Message --- From: Martín Marqués To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Sent: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:20:21 -0300 Subject: PostgreSQL on testing > Is someone using the latest PostgreSQL dow

Re: Net-booting a linux kernel on an Ultra 5

2005-08-31 Thread Jim MacBaine
On 8/31/05, Jim MacBaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to resume the installation at the point where > debootstrap failed when it tried to chroot into the sparc file system? I'm sure this is not the best way, but I got a fairly good-working system by - booting wi

Re: Net-booting a linux kernel on an Ultra 5

2005-08-31 Thread Jim MacBaine
On 8/31/05, Jim MacBaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > an x86 Debian system. Can someone give me a clue, how to create the > correct device files for a sparc /dev? Ok, solved that one, too. Copied a /dev from a x86 system, created /dev/sunmouse manually according the devices.txt fro

Re: Net-booting a linux kernel on an Ultra 5

2005-08-31 Thread Jim MacBaine
wrote that mail I looked into the /dev folder of the exported file system and saw it was empty. The server is an x86 Debian system. Can someone give me a clue, how to create the correct device files for a sparc /dev? Regards, Jim

Net-booting a linux kernel on an Ultra 5

2005-08-31 Thread Jim MacBaine
oot=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.17.1:/vol/nfsroot/sunny ip=rarp Thanks in advance, Jim

Re: OT: Set OpenBoot input device

2005-08-30 Thread Jim MacBaine
c world. I think I need to buy an adaptor. Regards, Jim

Re: OT: Set OpenBoot input device

2005-08-30 Thread Jim MacBaine
he box came with NetBSD installed, and that installation stalls when it tries to mount the root fs. Will the Ultra 5 boot from cdrom if I disconnect the hard disk? Or is there a jumper on the motherboard to reset all OpenBoot/BIOS settings to defaults like on many PC boards? Thank you very much, Jim

OT: Set OpenBoot input device

2005-08-30 Thread Jim MacBaine
ow do I get the control over OpenBoot back to the keyboard without a working serial connection? Pressing Stop-A on the keyboard has no effect and I'm basically stuck now. Regards, Jim

Re: tg3 driver fails

2005-07-06 Thread Jim Crilly
how nVidia does their driver. Even barring that, you could easily throw it in an initrd or initramfs image to make it available for early initialization. > > What if I want to use NFS root over the tg3 device? > > See above. > > I find it strange that there are network car

near death experience sunblade 100

2005-07-04 Thread jim
desktop settings, but retained mozilla settings. thanks jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question on apt-settings

2005-06-16 Thread Jim Crilly
n't updated anything since then it won't hurt to do it now. And if you leave it set to testing you'll upgrade to etch, not sid. sid will always be unstable and will never become testing. > > Dieter Jurzitza Jim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Low latency sparc64 kernels ?

2005-06-13 Thread Jim Crilly
it must have matured and give reiserfs a try it bites me in the ass. IMO XFS is much more mature and the userland tools are much, much better. > > Cheers, > - Martin Jim. > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "u

Re: question about kernel

2005-06-07 Thread Jim Crilly
a woody system in a while so I don't remember seeing that, but I really doubt you need those particular modules and the rest of the kernel should work just fine so don't abort the install. And as long as you keep your current kernel installed, you'll be able to fall back to it if 2.4.19

Re: question about kernel

2005-06-07 Thread Jim Crilly
ve your bootloader setup you might have to update /etc/silo.conf. Jim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug #251149: gcc wrapper for sparc is chronically broken

2005-05-24 Thread Jim Crilly
On 05/24/05 05:38:58PM -0700, David S.Miller wrote: > From: "Jim Crilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 14:42:27 -0400 > > > True, but building kernels on sparc64 wasn't terribly fun for me the last > > time I tried it either so I deci

Re: Bug #251149: gcc wrapper for sparc is chronically broken

2005-05-24 Thread Jim Crilly
On 05/24/05 02:29:16PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 01:32:54AM -0400, Jim Crilly wrote: > > > > > > > > Make the login environment be sparc32 by default. Doesn't that > > > > solve the problem? And for die-hard 64-bit people

Re: Bug #251149: gcc wrapper for sparc is chronically broken

2005-05-23 Thread Jim Crilly
too ugly for some ppl. Then we'll have to answer the > question of "why does my sparc64 uname report sparc?". > I would be willing to bet that most people will never look and those that do will be competent enough to change whatever option is added to default them back to a 64-bit

Re: question about linking errors

2005-05-17 Thread Jim Watson
3.4 with visibility patches such as mentioned at http://www.nedprod.com/programs/gccvisibility.html thanks jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

question about linking errors

2005-05-17 Thread Jim Watson
h embedded somewhere. thanks jim [0] -L/usr/lib/../lib /usr/local/lib/../lib/libstdc++.so -lm -lc -lgcc_s_32 /usr/local/lib/gcc/sparc64-unknown-linux-gnu/3.4.3/32/crtendS.o / usr/lib/../lib/crtn.o -m32 -o .libs/libdb_cxx-4.2.so /usr/lib/../lib/crti.o(.init+0x0): In function init': /build/bui

Re: small dns daemon / forwarder ?

2005-05-07 Thread Jim Crilly
; > I can't imagine I'm the first guy in the history of the world to have > run across this problem. Does anyone know of a good lightweight dns > daemon that can do what I'm looking for? I've seen a few bind alternatives, but haven't really had a reason to investiga

testing openoffice.org

2005-05-04 Thread Jim Watson
home directory by non-root user. thanks jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

SABRE0: Uncorrectable Error

2004-09-23 Thread Jim Watson
)[RAW(00c6f800)error(Invalid Error)wr(0)sz(8K)vpg(df00)] SABRE0: IOMMU DATA(2)[RAW(6fe0)valid(1)used(1)cache(0)ppg() Adding 831080k swap on /dev/hda3. Priority:-1 extents:1 everything seems to be working OK, so i am not sure if i need report anything? jim

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2004-05-19 Thread Wadell, Jim S (SAIC)

Re: 2.6.x kernel for Sparc?

2004-04-27 Thread Jim Watson
arc64 GNU/Linux jim On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 09:55:14AM +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > Joshua Kwan wrote: > >sparc32 support is EXTREMELY dodgy at the moment for 2.6.x, > > And how about sparc64 (those with ultraproc) ?

Re: Problems with Kernel 2.6.5 and xserver, sorry wrong subject [was: serial-console]

2004-04-19 Thread Jim Watson
works for me ;) http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2004/debian-sparc-200402/msg00013.html

Re: U5 - woody (2.4.24) - 3com 3crdag675 - pci wifi adapter - madwifi driver

2004-04-18 Thread Jim Watson
Hi, i got the source from kernel.org and build on debian/unstable, out of the box, just removed from config anything that broke the build on my sunblade100 dmesg Linux version 2.6.5 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.3 (Debian 20040401)) #13 Sun Apr 18 14:59:35 EST 2004 ARCH: SUN4U thanks to

Re: problems with SunBlade100 and Xfree 4.3

2004-04-14 Thread Jim Watson
i see this too. i dont think it solves the problem, but what happens if you can downgrade one package xserver-xfree86? On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 01:32:43PM -0500, Nicolás Velásquez O. wrote: > > Any suggestions are welcome.

RE: 2.6 for SS20 SMP?

2004-04-13 Thread Wadell, Jim S (SAIC)
I have gotten 2.4.24 kernels to boot, but not with SMP. The magic numbers seems to be just a bit over 1mb. I am trying to carve the kernel down to get it to boot. Does anyone have information on the exact max size for a kernel on the old Sparcs? Is this a prom or SILO function? Thanks Jim

Re: help with getting sarge cds to boot

2004-04-11 Thread Jim Watson
sorry i dont know if this is right or wrong, it is just information. my silo.conf has lines like image=1/vmlinuz there are no subdirectories in /boot sun4u sunblade100 2.4.24 jim On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 06:54:05PM +0200, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: > > This is the silo.conf we are

RE: Fix for bridge-utils for Sparc64

2004-04-08 Thread Small, Jim
s those of us with an UltraSPARC and a qfe card do bridging. <> Jim

Fix for bridge-utils for Sparc64

2004-04-08 Thread Small, Jim
fname, IFNAMSIZ); ((unsigned long long *)(&ifr.ifr_data))[0] = (unsigned long long)(unsigned long)args; - return ioctl(br_socket_fd, SIOCDEVPRIVATE, &ifr); + return ioctl(br_socket_fd, SIOCDEVPRIVATE + 3, &ifr); } #endif Thanks again Santi, <> Jim

Lab manual for SPARC

2004-04-08 Thread Jim Watson
foo.s:7 .text: start foo.s:17 .text:002c end thanks jim

RE: Custom Kernel doesn't recognize 2nd CPU

2004-03-08 Thread Small, Jim
Yep, That did it--Thanks. Does CONFIG_NR_CPUS have to be 2 times the number of physical CPUs? <> Jim > -Original Message- > From: David S. Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 2:56 PM > To: Small, Jim > Cc: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org

RE: Custom Kernel doesn't recognize 2nd CPU

2004-03-08 Thread Small, Jim
it_init_idle (map = 0x0) All processors have done init_idle And finally: debian# cat /proc/cpuinfo cpu : TI UltraSparc II (BlackBird) fpu : UltraSparc II integrated FPU promlib : Version 3 Revision 17 prom : 3.17.0 type: sun4u ncpus probed:

Custom Kernel doesn't recognize 2nd CPU

2004-03-08 Thread Small, Jim
hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 1048576 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 2097152 bytes) POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX Entering UltraSMPenguin Mode... Error: only one processor found. Waiting on wait_init_idle (map = 0x0) All processors have done init_idle Thanks, <> Jim

Bridging

2004-03-08 Thread Small, Jim
Using Kernel 2.4.25 and bridge-utils64, I still can not get bridging working on the Sparc64 platform. Is anyone interested in helping me figure out what's wrong? If so, what can I do? Would I have better luck using 2.6.X? Any comments would be greatly appreciated. <> Jim

RE: Booting custom kernel

2004-03-08 Thread Small, Jim
would dive into the kernel code and fix it! <> Jim > -Original Message- > From: Igmar Palsenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 12:34 PM > To: Small, Jim > Cc: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Booting custom kernel > > &g

Booting custom kernel

2004-03-08 Thread Small, Jim
). /boot is an ext3 partition, and I have compiled in ext3 support (in kernel, not module). Ideas? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, <> Jim

Re: Reccomendations for Sun Linux

2004-03-05 Thread Jim Watson
Hi, i am just wondering what do you mean by problem? as my sunblade runs OK with kernel 2.4.18 for 12 months and 2.4.24 since yesterday, using debian stable and testing and unstable at different times, so if you can say what is the problem it can surely be easy to fix, as there are many who wil

Re: Reccomendations for Sun Linux

2004-03-05 Thread Jim Watson
elaborate the problem? this is sunblade 100, as we speak, running mail, web, testing, unstable, openoffice, potato man, etc ;) On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 02:16:30PM +0200, D Lambrou wrote: > Hi there. > We are planning to buy some new machines (Sun) to run services such as > mail ,web etc.. > > Noth

openoffice linux sparc

2004-03-05 Thread Jim Watson
somecode, help interpret error messages, suggest fixes etc, as SUN people are always very helpful but it would be nice to get some other support. jim

Re: Building custom kernel

2004-03-05 Thread Jim Watson
I have tried burning frankincence and threw snillocneb three times over my shoulder but still it is not working :( jim On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 10:52:39AM +0100, Igmar Palsenberg wrote: > > I've just been here myself. The following works for me :

How to build custom sparc64 kernel?

2004-03-04 Thread Small, Jim
all packages (unstable) except for SILO. The latest version of SILO won't load the vmlinuz kernel on my machine. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, <> Jim

RE: noob with a few questions

2004-03-04 Thread Small, Jim
run level for it. But, perhaps that's my UNIX background intransigence... ;-) <> Jim > -Original Message- > I do kind of wish that Debian would define the run levels. Only using run > level 2 as running everything has confused some people from other UNIX > worlds

RE: bridging ethernet problem

2004-03-04 Thread Small, Jim
Just to save Ben the trouble, one thing I can tell is that you can't use bridge-utils, you must use bridge-utils64 from: http://www.phunnypharm.org/pub/for/sparc-folks/ How does it work with that? <> Jim > sorry guys for my english, I need help for configuring ethernet bridging

RE: Building custom kernel

2004-03-04 Thread Small, Jim
Ben, I'd be interested in your input on this. I thought the latest direction was to use gcc 3.3.3+ for kernel compilation versus egcs64. Please correct me if I'm wrong... <> Jim > If you want to build custom kernel, I suggest that you should download the > source from f

Re: Building custom kernel

2004-03-04 Thread Jim Watson
ssing? any suggestions appreciated... another jim On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 06:23:10PM -0600, Mustafa Hussein wrote: > > Are you running this from a "sparc32 bash"? > If not, you need to switch to it: > sparc32 bash > make ARCH=sparc64 menuconfig > or just from your

Building custom kernel

2004-03-03 Thread Small, Jim
nctions, parsing...done. (Where /usr/src/linux is a symlink to /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.25) I don't understand why it hangs at the end. make -d menuconfig didn't seem to reveal anything useful either. Ideas? <> Jim

RE: noob with a few questions

2004-03-03 Thread Small, Jim
some UNIX/Linux distros let you reboot with run-level 5, but I can see why some dislike it too. <> Jim > > 1. How do I add something to the default run level? I need afbinit to > > run before X starts so I can have a fast(er) X experience. > > Put it in /etc/rc2.d/. A

openoffice.org680

2004-03-02 Thread Jim Watson
appreciated. jim

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