Re: Which Sparc is best?

Hello On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Joshua Uziel wrote: > The U5 and U10 are decent machines... moreso on the systems with the > 2MB ecache (most of the U10s, and some of the U5s). One problem > with those systems is that they have a CMD646U for an EIDE > controller... a buggy chipset that Linux deals wit

Re: newbie X configuration

Hello > Blackbox is fine but, if I remember well when I last tried it, uses > too many colors of the 256-color palette of the CGsix graphics card. Dunno about how BB runs in 8bpp mode, but there is a 'session.colorsPerChannel' run-time option you can set and also a '--enable-ordered-pseudo' compi

Re: newbie X configuration

Hello > IceWM runs quite nicely on my 32 MB IPX. Even if it is somewhat > Windows-looking, which I was trying to avoid ;p Give 'blackbox' a try, then. It's smaller and faster than icewm. cheers -- TS

Re: unstability of woody ...

Hello > > hi, i'm using potato on a ultra5 and i'd like to try woody ... > > There may not be any problems now (there might be, but I don't know > all of the details), but sooner or later shit will hit the fan. E.g. if your Ultra 5 contains atyfb (ATY 3D RAGE PRO) you probably would not be able

Re: latest update from woody

Hello > I forgot to mention that netscape 4.51 (from Redhat) developed > bus error too after my last update: > > HOST: ~ >> netscape > Bus error There was a thread "netscape and others" on this issue a month ago. Segfaults seem to come from siglongjmp() in newer versions of libc6. FWIW I'm us

Re: sparc vs apollo

Hello > Does anyone here know how a HP Apollo Model 715 compares with a > Sparc. For instance is a Apollo 715 similar in terms of cpu > horsepower to a sparc lx, sparc 4, sparc 5, etc? SPEC http://www.spec.org/> is your friend, e.g: model SPECint95 SPECfp95

Re: netscape and others ...

Hello > I run libc6 2.1.94-3, but I'm of course not completely sure it's > glibc that's causeing the bus error, might be one of the other > libraries. FWIW I was running an older version of libc6 with woody. As soon as I upgraded to libc6 2.1.95-1 the bus error appeared... )-: cheers -- TS

Re: netscape and others ...

Hello > When I upgraded my SS5 to latest woody, which means a new glibc, this > version of netscape stopped working. I'm using `navigator-smotif-45_4.5-1_sparc.deb' which works well with woody; if I'm not wrong you can get it at

Re: Mozilla (was: Re: getty oops and netscape)

Hello > > "PH" == Peter Haworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > PH> I don't find that. I get this error: > > PH> Could not obtain CmdLine processing service > > Likewise, followed by gobs of Javascript errors. I filed a bug > report. Does anyone have any suggestions for things to try t

Re: Keyboard map under X

Hello > the keys seemed to be mis-mapped. Can anyone help me fix this? apt-get install xkeycaps cheers -- TS

Re: test this ! (hard lockups)

Sergey V Kovalyov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > strace -ff -p `pidof ident` > and telnet from another machine to e.g. port 113 Assuming you meant "inetd" here. My Ultra-5 box (synced with current potato) survives without problems. cheers -- TS

Re: new Ultra 5 "reproducible" XF86_Mach64 lockups

Hein Roehrig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a problem with XF86_Mach64 crashing and/or locking up the > system when the "jigsaw" screen saver has run for a few minutes. I was able to reproduce the XF86_Mach64 crash by running xscreensaver overnight. (No lockup, but the screen gets into an

Re: Ultra 5 "reproducible" XF86_Mach64 lockups

Hein Roehrig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just FYI, I can reproduce the problem here as well (almost same > setup, but stock 2.2.15). A good news to share: all my lockup problems are apparently gone after upgrading to the latest potato! (namely, xserver-mach64 to 3.3.6-7 and kernel-image-2.2.15

Re: Ultra 5 "reproducible" XF86_Mach64 lockups

Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Interesting. That source is working fine here on a U5 and a U10 class > system. What all are you running under X? What, if anything, are you > running on the system besides X related programs? The system was basically idle (nothing special apart from X se

Re: Ultra 5 "reproducible" XF86_Mach64 lockups

Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are you using the 2.2.15 kernel from potato, or one you compiled > yourself from stock 2.2.15 source? The native potato one (2.2.15-0.19.4, from kernel-image-2.2.15-sun4u). cheers -- TS

Ultra 5 "reproducible" XF86_Mach64 lockups

Hello I obtain repetitive lockups of Ultra 5 under X11, Sun Type 5 keyboard; kernel 2.2.15, synced with current potato. The lockup typically occurs within 1 minute of intensive X input. To "reproduce" it I use xdvi and emacs and rapidly click with mouse here and there, change scales, skip throug