Re: Ultra 10 boot issues

2006-03-24 Thread koda80
your silo.conf may reflect using a single initrd instead of using the version you are trying to boot, doing dist-upgrades have nearly always broken something for me, almost easier to just re-install with the newer version of debian. BTW going from 2.4.x to 2.6.x kernels will break your keyboard

aha2940uw in an ultra10 problem

2006-03-23 Thread koda80
I am having an issue with my aha2940uw, it finds my external hdd at id4 assigns it to sda then also assigns it to sg0 with id4 also(i have a scanner on id6 which is sg1), I was getting parity error s and it wouldn't find the drive at all until I disabled the Detect Parity in the cards bios (which

Ultra10 and aic7xxx 2.6.8

2006-03-17 Thread koda80
For some reason, my aic788u wont load disks(sd_mod is running), it will load my (sg)scanner fine, I get data overrun errors with disks (externally, haven't tried internal) I've checked the setup with my ss10 and all my devices work fine with the ESP in the ss10. I appear to get a memory range o

Creator3d modes

2006-02-20 Thread koda80 (sent by Nabble.com)
My creator3d will run 1280x1024 fine, the only higher resolutions i've found that work are 1600x1000x60 and 1440x900x70; great if I had a 16:9, but my gdm20e20 is capable of much more, why can't I run a 4:3 mode higher than the 5:4 1280 mode? BTW sun ultra10 440mhz running dual head in x at 1280x1

Re: Creator3d and better resolution

2006-02-14 Thread koda80 (sent by Nabble.com)
my output-device was simply "screen", so I set it to 1600x1200x76, reset, booted linux, did dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86, it remembered all my settings, but didn't seem to write them to file, x still starts in 1280x1024 -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Creator3d-and-bett

Creator3d and better resolution

2006-02-14 Thread koda80 (sent by Nabble.com)
I got Sarge running on my U10 with a creator3d, but I cannot get it above 1280x1024 on my GDM-20e20, which is capable of at least 1600x1200, the creator3d will go to 1920x14something, I just want 1600x1200 is there a tool like sax I can use, I've tried setting it in xf86config, but it automagicly

Re: sparc ss20/debian

2006-02-03 Thread koda80 (sent by Nabble.com)
when the ss20 posts and starts to initialize the memory press 'Stop' and the 'A' key at the same time it will get you to a prompt you need to use 'printenv' and 'setenv' to set the default boot from NET to DISK or DISK0 (as in my case).      The sun is simply trying to boot from the network, it wi

Re: Crazy mouse in KDE (woody)

2006-02-03 Thread koda80 (sent by Nabble.com)
Thats what I thought...  I did try the new user idea, new user has same problem as root and my other normal user...   Guess it's back to Gnome for now. Any other ideas would be appreciated. View this message in context: Re: Crazy mouse in KDE (woody) Sent from the debian-sparc forum at Nabble.co

Crazy mouse in KDE (woody)

2006-02-03 Thread koda80 (sent by Nabble.com)
I am having problems with my sunmouse (old 3 button with type5 sun keyboard) after I log in to kde it sometimes (allways does, just randomly timed) goes nuts and clicks and jumps around, I dont have GPM installed, so it's not that, I've tried changing baud rates and driver types (in XF86Config fil