Re: Debian Sparc 3.0r2 on Ultra60

2004-09-25 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 16:18:48 +0200, Dieter Jurzitza wrote: > Dear Listmembers, > dear Joshua, > ok, this is something very reasonable. Two further inputs on this. > 1.) is there any email-address at sun one could write to and ask for a > freeing > of this piece of firmware? I do not really think

Re: Debian Sparc 3.0r2 on Ultra60

2004-09-25 Thread Dieter Jurzitza
Dear Listmembers, dear Joshua, ok, this is something very reasonable. Two further inputs on this. 1.) is there any email-address at sun one could write to and ask for a freeing of this piece of firmware? I do not really think sun is making big money from it. And basically everybody can download i

RE: Debian Sparc 3.0r2 on Ultra60

2004-09-24 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 17:36:57 +0200, Jurzitza, Dieter wrote: > seing this pop up every other time: is there a real good reason (apart > from saving some kilobytes of harddisk-space) to not include afbinit in > the sparc-distribution and to not automatically install it? The good reason is that it's

Re: Debian Sparc 3.0r2 on Ultra60

2004-09-23 Thread Andrew Sharp
I think he needs to comment out the loading of the dri module in the XF86Config file. This one is covered pretty extensively in past threads, perhaps searching the archives would help. a On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 02:18:11PM +0200, Daniel van Eeden wrote: > Have you tried afbinit? > > Daniel van E

RE: Debian Sparc 3.0r2 on Ultra60

2004-09-23 Thread Jurzitza, Dieter
sparc/problems). Take care Dieter Jurzitza -Original Message- From: Daniel van Eeden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 2:18 PM To: Clifton Yuen Cc: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Debian Sparc 3.0r2 on Ultra60 Have you tried afbinit? Daniel van

Re: Debian Sparc 3.0r2 on Ultra60

2004-09-23 Thread Daniel van Eeden
Have you tried afbinit? Daniel van Eeden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 20:26 -0700, Clifton Yuen wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a newbie to Debian linux. I got a Ultra60 w/Creator 3D frame > buffer accelerator. I've been trying to install Debian 3.0r2 onto it. > I managed to install the basic

Re: Debian Sparc 3.0r2 on Ultra60

2004-09-23 Thread Tony Noble
Hi, I've probably missed something obvious here, so please don't be *too* offensive, but any help would be much appreciated. The problem: Booting a sparc classic from a 2.6 kernel is causing me grief. The details: The machine is a sparc classic, with 80 meg of memory and a 4 gig disk. Initial

Debian Sparc 3.0r2 on Ultra60

2004-09-22 Thread Clifton Yuen
Title: Debian Sparc 3.0r2 on Ultra60 Hi, I'm a newbie to Debian linux. I got a Ultra60 w/Creator 3D frame buffer accelerator. I've been trying to install Debian 3.0r2 onto it. I managed to install the basic stuff, but can't get X-windows to come up. From "dpkg -l&quo