Re: General beginners questions for debian sparc64

2020-06-17 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On 6/15/20 1:42 AM, CoNNoR McL wrote: > Initially i had a little installation trouble since apparently grub relies on > the /boot > partition to exist, together with a warning that my standard 40GB drive for > the machine > exceeds 65536 cylinders. It's not GRUB that needs the /boot

Re: General beginners questions for debian sparc64

2020-06-15 Thread Gregor Riepl
> At an X.org conference in Montreal last year I chatted with someone who > was fixing these sorts of problems for IBM. We might get better progress > by looking at the recent fixes in the PPC and ZOS trees (sorry, I have > that name incorrect). These architectures are big endian so the fixes >

Re: General beginners questions for debian sparc64

2020-06-15 Thread Rick Leir
Hi all, All this breakage seems to be due to many programmers ignoring the simple rules for endian compatibility. At an X.org conference in Montreal last year I chatted with someone who was fixing these sorts of problems for IBM. We might get better progress by looking at the recent fixes in

Re: General beginners questions for debian sparc64

2020-06-15 Thread Gregor Riepl
> I think i should have the PGX64 chipset in this machine, but i am not > sure if it uses the correct driver. glxinfo tells me everything is > fine with direct rendering using llvm. The Rage XL[1] is a fairly dated and limited GPU, but it has very good 2D driver support on Linux. I think it can

General beginners questions for debian sparc64

2020-06-14 Thread CoNNoR McL
Hi, back in the 2000s at university i used to work a lot on Sun workstations like Ultra 5 and 10, together with E450 and also some older sparcstations. To revive this a bit, i got myself a Sun Blade 100 and a Sun Blade 2000 to get me going with sparc again. Also i am thinking to get some of