Re: Sun Ultra 5 cgroup fail after clean install

2023-07-23 Thread Stan Johnson
Hello, On 7/23/23 3:27 AM, Joacim Nilsson wrote: > ... >>> >>> Loading Linux 6.3.0-2-sparc64 ... >>> Loading initial ramdisk ... >>> >>> Failed to get cgroup, ignoring: No medium found >>> /dev/sda2: recovering journal >>> /dev/sda2: clean, 32037/15204352 files, 1785366/60804430 blocks >>> [

Re: Sun Ultra 5 cgroup fail after clean install

2023-07-23 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
building the kernel natively on the Sun Ultra 5 will take forever. A cross-toolchain for building a sparc64 kernel can be found here: > https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/ Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `-GPG: 62FF 8A

Re: Sun Ultra 5 cgroup fail after clean install

2023-07-23 Thread Joacim Nilsson
On Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 11:29:43AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi! > > On Sun, 2023-07-23 at 11:27 +0200, Joacim Nilsson wrote: > > To get more information i booted the 6.1.0-9 kernel > > That one works! > > OK, so it seems we have found a kernel regression here. > > Do you know

Re: Sun Ultra 5 cgroup fail after clean install

2023-07-23 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! On Sun, 2023-07-23 at 11:27 +0200, Joacim Nilsson wrote: > To get more information i booted the 6.1.0-9 kernel > That one works! OK, so it seems we have found a kernel regression here. Do you know how to bisect a kernel? Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian

Re: Sun Ultra 5 cgroup fail after clean install

2023-07-23 Thread Joacim Nilsson
On Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 08:30:52AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Joacim! > > On Sat, 2023-07-22 at 22:53 +0200, Joacim Nilsson wrote: > > Hi! > > After installning debian-12.0.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso > > on my Sun Ultra 5 > > > > i get

Re: Sun Ultra 5 cgroup fail after clean install

2023-07-23 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Joacim! On Sat, 2023-07-22 at 22:53 +0200, Joacim Nilsson wrote: > Hi! > After installning debian-12.0.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso > on my Sun Ultra 5 > > i get > > Loading Linux 6.3.0-2-sparc64 ... > Loading initial ramdisk ... > > Failed to get cgroup, ignorin

Sun Ultra 5 cgroup fail after clean install

2023-07-22 Thread Joacim Nilsson
Hi! After installning debian-12.0.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso on my Sun Ultra 5 i get Loading Linux 6.3.0-2-sparc64 ... Loading initial ramdisk ... Failed to get cgroup, ignoring: No medium found /dev/sda2: recovering journal /dev/sda2: clean, 32037/15204352 files, 1785366/60804430 blocks

Re: Sun Ultra 5

2017-01-10 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 01/10/2017 08:31 PM, Larry Cashdollar wrote: > I've recently gotten Debian 9 partially installed on an ultra 5, but it > appears to be missing the package mirror list? it's asking me to add it > manually. Would > someone be able to paste me a copy of theirs? Try this one [1]: # binary

Re: Sun Ultra 5

2017-01-10 Thread Larry Cashdollar
com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Sun ultra 5 running Debian 7, is there an upgrade path to newer > versions of debian? or have the sun4u CPU support been mothballed? > > Thanks! > Larry >

Re: Sun Ultra 5

2016-10-11 Thread Larry Cashdollar
Hi Larry! > > On 10/10/2016 11:27 PM, Larry Cashdollar wrote: > > I have a Sun ultra 5 running Debian 7, is there an upgrade path to newer > versions of debian? > > Not directly, you'll have to reinstall it. > > Use this NETINST image which I created: > > > https://peo

Re: Sun Ultra 5

2016-10-10 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Larry! On 10/10/2016 11:27 PM, Larry Cashdollar wrote: > I have a Sun ultra 5 running Debian 7, is there an upgrade path to newer > versions of debian? Not directly, you'll have to reinstall it. Use this NETINST image which I created: > https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/debian-c

Sun Ultra 5

2016-10-10 Thread Larry Cashdollar
Hi, I have a Sun ultra 5 running Debian 7, is there an upgrade path to newer versions of debian? or have the sun4u CPU support been mothballed? Thanks! Larry

Sun Ultra 5 reboot

2013-05-22 Thread Gabriel VLASIU
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi! I have a problem with my Sun Ultra 5 computer. Maybe someone can help me. I'm unable to reboot my computer. poweroff works every time but not reboot. I can reboot just fine if I choose to enter in runlevel 1 at boot. But not if I switch

Re: configure ati chipset for Sun ultra 5

2010-05-30 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 11:51:37AM +0200, philo wrote: i do your recommandations, but i don't find Busid to xorg.conf. BusID PCI:1:2:0 in the Device section, but I don't have it in my xorg.conf anymore. usrv-raptor:/# lspci -v 01:02.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies

Re: configure ati chipset for Sun ultra 5

2010-05-30 Thread philo
hi, i try with your xorg.conf minimal ! i have only one error into Xorg.0.log : (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. i have an hitachi CM769ET screen ! resolution max 1600*1200 pixels. how i can parametre my screen into xorg.conf attached files : xorg.conf and

Re: configure ati chipset for Sun ultra 5

2010-05-30 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On 2010-05-30, philo wrote: i try with your xorg.conf minimal ! i have only one error into Xorg.0.log : (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. i have an hitachi CM769ET screen ! resolution max 1600*1200 pixels. how i can parametre my screen into xorg.conf

Re: configure ati chipset for Sun ultra 5

2010-05-29 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On 2010-05-28, philo wrote: i have installed debian R5 on ultra 5, HDD 40Go, 360 Mhz, 512 ram and ATI pro rage video chipset. i try to install fglrx ati driver but i don't know if it's run under sparc64! some one can give me a link about X-windows configuration for sparc64 with ati

Re: configure ati chipset for Sun ultra 5

2010-05-29 Thread philo
Hi Howard, i do your recommandations, but i don't find Busid to xorg.conf. -- usrv-raptor:/# uname -a Linux usrv-raptor 2.6.26-2-sparc64 #1 Tue Jan 12 22:16:05

configure ati chipset for Sun ultra 5

2010-05-28 Thread philo
Hi, i have installed debian R5 on ultra 5, HDD 40Go, 360 Mhz, 512 ram and ATI pro rage video chipset. i try to install fglrx ati driver but i don't know if it's run under sparc64! some one can give me a link about X-windows configuration for sparc64 with ati chipset. in attachement

Re: configure ati chipset for Sun ultra 5

2010-05-28 Thread Ivan Jager
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 05:29:35PM +0200, philo scribbled thusly: Hi, i have installed debian R5 on ultra 5, HDD 40Go, 360 Mhz, 512 ram and ATI pro rage video chipset. i try to install fglrx ati driver but i don't know if it's run under sparc64! Isn't fglrx ATI/AMD's proprietary closed

Re: Problems with interfaces on Sun Ultra 5

2010-02-04 Thread Vladimir R
Hello all, I managed to create two interfaces on Sun Ultra 5 with different MAC addresses. I created file /etc/modprobe.d/sunhme.local and inserted into two lines: options sunhme macaddr=0x08,0x00,0x20,0x9c,0x62,0x77 options sunhme macaddr=0x08,0x00,0x20,0x9c,0x62,0x78 I removed /etc/udev/rules.d

Re: Lenny boot hangs on Sun Ultra 5

2010-02-03 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On 2010-02-01, Vladimir R wrote: On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:22:58 +0300 Gavin Duley wrote: I've had some trouble getting Xorg to work on my Ultra 5 under Debian in the past, but I have managed to get it to work. I've found what version of the kernel you have matters. I am running 2.6.22-3-sparc64.

RE: Problems with interfaces on Sun Ultra 5

2010-02-03 Thread Vladimir R
On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:41:51 +0300 Ross Halliday wrote: What kind of NIC are you using as eth1? If this is a Sun HME I believe they always clone the base system MAC as tested on an Ultra 10 with two SunSwift cards (FastEthernet/UltraSCSI combo). I ran into similar issues on a Sun E440R with

Problems with interfaces on Sun Ultra 5

2010-02-02 Thread Vladimir R
Hello all, after install Lenny on Sun Ultra 5, I succesfully setup network on first interface, eth0, with local network address, and it works well. Then I want to setup eth1 to external addresses, but found, that I have no eth1, but have eth1_rename, with same MAC address as eth0. I want

Re: Problems with interfaces on Sun Ultra 5

2010-02-02 Thread antonio manuel ciampi
(indirizzo, getway, wpa_supplicant). Ora ho soltanto il compito all'avvio di dover scrivere 2 volte la password, tutto OK. On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:02:27 +0300 Vladimir R vl...@mail.ru wrote: Hello all, after install Lenny on Sun Ultra 5, I succesfully setup network on first interface, eth0

RE: Problems with interfaces on Sun Ultra 5

2010-02-02 Thread Ross Halliday
-Original Message- From: Vladimir R [mailto:vl...@mail.ru] Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 2:25 PM To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Problems with interfaces on Sun Ultra 5 On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:41:50 +0300 Eric Brower wrote: I'm not sure there's enough information

Re: Lenny boot hangs on Sun Ultra 5

2010-02-01 Thread Vladimir R
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:16:07 +0300 Jurij Smakov wrote: Try entering Linux init=/bin/sh at the SILO prompt, that should drop you into a root shell after the initialization done by initrd is done. You can also do it from the installer CD, just perform all steps until partitioning (to ensure that

Re: Lenny boot hangs on Sun Ultra 5

2010-02-01 Thread gavin duley
Vladimir R wrote: After this I could successfully boot Lenny without desktop and begin to work with it. I've had some trouble getting Xorg to work on my Ultra 5 under Debian in the past, but I have managed to get it to work. I've found what version of the kernel you have matters. I am

Re: Lenny boot hangs on Sun Ultra 5

2010-02-01 Thread Vladimir R
On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:22:58 +0300 Gavin Duley wrote: I've had some trouble getting Xorg to work on my Ultra 5 under Debian in the past, but I have managed to get it to work. I've found what version of the kernel you have matters. I am running 2.6.22-3-sparc64. I've found newer versions (such

Re: Lenny boot hangs on Sun Ultra 5

2010-01-31 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Jurij Smakov wrote: On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 02:44:55PM +0300, Vladimir R wrote: Hello all, I did install on my Sun Ultra 5 Debian Lenny, using installation image from http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.3/sparc/iso-cd/debian-503-sparc-CD-1.iso Installation finished OK, but when I tried

Re: Lenny boot hangs on Sun Ultra 5

2010-01-30 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 02:44:55PM +0300, Vladimir R wrote: Hello all, I did install on my Sun Ultra 5 Debian Lenny, using installation image from http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.3/sparc/iso-cd/debian-503-sparc-CD-1.iso Installation finished OK, but when I tried to boot new linux

Re: Lenny boot hangs on Sun Ultra 5

2010-01-30 Thread Vladimir R
On Saturday, January 30, 2010 5:55 PM Jurij Smakov wrote: The easiest is probably to not select the 'Desktop system' at the package selection screen during installation. If you only select 'Standard system' and uncheck everything else, it should not install the graphical environment. Is there

Re: Lenny boot hangs on Sun Ultra 5

2010-01-30 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 07:49:42PM +0300, Vladimir R wrote: On Saturday, January 30, 2010 5:55 PM Jurij Smakov wrote: The easiest is probably to not select the 'Desktop system' at the package selection screen during installation. If you only select 'Standard system' and uncheck everything

Lenny boot hangs on Sun Ultra 5

2010-01-29 Thread Vladimir R
Hello all, I did install on my Sun Ultra 5 Debian Lenny, using installation image from http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.3/sparc/iso-cd/debian-503-sparc-CD-1.iso Installation finished OK, but when I tried to boot new linux, the system hangs trying launch desktop. I have black screen

Re: sun Ultra 5 (no screen at boot)

2006-03-31 Thread Admar Schoonen
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 11:29:03PM +0200, Xavier Oswald wrote: VGA connector is ok for Ultra5/10. Monitor frequency problem? I only tried high end monitors (Eizo, Sun), they work well. My monitor support 1024x768 85Hz IIRC, open boot (the BIOS of a SPARC system) is default at 1152 x 864

sun Ultra 5 (no screen at boot)

2006-03-30 Thread Xavier Oswald
Hi, I just get some Sun ultra 5. When I turn on the computer, everything seems to work well but nothing appears at screen and it stays black. I tried to change the keyboard, the computer, and my monitor works well with my intel32 computer. (I use a VGA monitor) More infos about this sun

Re: sun Ultra 5 (no screen at boot)

2006-03-30 Thread Marc Zyngier
Xavier == Xavier Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Xavier When I turn on the computer, everything seems to work well but Xavier nothing appears at screen and it stays black. Try plugging a terminal to Serial-A. Provided that the machine is otherwise OK, you'll probably find some output there...

Re: sun Ultra 5 (no screen at boot)

2006-03-30 Thread Xavier Oswald
On 21:56 Thu 30 Mar , Hartwig Atrops wrote: Hi I just get some Sun ultra 5. When I turn on the computer, everything seems to work well but nothing appears at screen and it stays black. I tried to change the keyboard, the computer, and my monitor works well with my intel32

Re: sun Ultra 5 (no screen at boot)

2006-03-30 Thread Hamish Greig
On Friday 31 March 2006 08:29, Xavier Oswald wrote: Oh, I just solve the problem :) I don't know why but on my 17CRT monitor, it show a black screen I just try on my 19 flat screen and it works ! Someone knows what is the frequency required ? Thanks ! Friendly, I forget the exact

Re: Debian on a Sun Ultra 5

2006-03-22 Thread Pete Clarke
I was using it as simply a second workstation while my main workstation was down, and one that my girlfriend could use while I had my laptop and tablet with me. However, I wouldn't mind putting it to more well-deserved uses, like an LDAP server, backup server, db server, etc. So, I was

Re: Debian on a Sun Ultra 5

2006-03-22 Thread Joseph Simantov
I'd like to add my own good experience using Debian 3.1 on Ultra5s; both 333 and 400 Mhz models perform wonderfully well as web servers using PHP/Mysql and/or Postgresql. One negative point though: I found switching to a non-English keyboard to be somewhat tricky and leading to an unpredictable

Re: Debian on a Sun Ultra 5

2006-03-22 Thread Pete Clarke
Please reply to the list rather than to me personally - I do read the posts and it allows others to benefit from your wisdom. The IDE limitation is 120GB (ish) - however, this does not mean it wouldn't be a useful backup box - stick a USB card in, very cheap these days, and attach an external

AW: Debian on a Sun Ultra 5

2006-03-22 Thread Jurzitza, Dieter
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 22. März 2006 11:59 An: Dr. Zimmermann Cc: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Betreff: Re: Debian on a Sun Ultra 5 * That would probably be cheaper, and fairly quick - does OBP recognise the SATA controllers as bootable devices? I haven't played

Re: AW: Debian on a Sun Ultra 5

2006-03-22 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi Pete, hi Mr. Zimmermann, I am quite sure that the OBP will not recognize the SATA disk controller. We use an AHA29160 SCSI controller within an U60; the method of choice for booting is either a CD or a netboot (here). One could alternatively insert a small SCSI / PATA disk to boot from and

Fwd: Re: Debian on a Sun Ultra 5

2006-03-22 Thread Joseph M. Gaffney
Whoops! Seems my reply-to in kmail is going to the poster and not the list... -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Debian on a Sun Ultra 5 Date: Wednesday 22 March 2006 08:10 am From: Joseph M. Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wednesday 22 March 2006 05:58 am

Debian on a Sun Ultra 5

2006-03-21 Thread Joseph M. Gaffney
Hey everyone, new to the Debian lists in general, so if theres a good archived reference to anything that I may have overlooked, please let me know :) I have a Sun Ultra 5, which I can't remember what size drive I put in it, currently running Sarge. However, its off pretty much all the time

Problem installing Debian on SUN Ultra 5

2005-12-06 Thread Danijel Mijic
Hello all,I'm trying to install Debian 3.0 on SUN Ultra 5. It has UltraSPARC IIi 360MHz CPU, one IDE hard drive 8.4 GB, and two SCSI drives 9.1 GB. I used installation from Debian CDs. All installation went fine, but when it was finished and machine rebooted, Debian cann't start

Installing Debian on Sun Ultra 5

2005-07-19 Thread Manlio Frizzi
Hi all, I'm having trouble installing latest debian (downloaded yesterday) on my Sun Ultra 5. I boot from CDROM then at the Silo boot i enter linux It seems to go but after a few seconds during boot up i got cramfs wrong magic Kernel panic.. Any ideas? thanks in advance manlio

Re: Installing Debian on Sun Ultra 5

2005-07-19 Thread Dave Love
It doesn't work with the stock CDs. There is a specially-built one -- see URL:http://wiki.debian.net/?SparcInstallationNotes -- but it's easiest to do a net boot if you can set up a rarp and tftp server. You can also install from the Woody CD and upgrade from that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

R: Installing Debian on Sun Ultra 5

2005-07-19 Thread Manlio Frizzi
Title: Re: Installing Debian on Sun Ultra 5 I've downloaded the SparcCDs why do you say that is not good?? What are those 13 CD for?? thanks -.¸¸.·´¯) o (¯'·.¸¸.-.¸¸.·´¯) o (¯'·.¸¸.- Cordiali Saluti. Best Regards. Manlio Frizzi ( http://mfrizzi.interfree.it/site

Re: Installing Debian on Sun Ultra 5

2005-07-19 Thread Dave Love
I wrote: It doesn't work with the stock CDs. Sorry, ignore that. The problem is with Blades, not Ultras. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Sarge on SUN Ultra 5

2005-06-06 Thread mag
Hi! I doubt it is a sparc related question, it seems like it is just a beginner one. Answering anyway. Window maker is a window manager, not a desktop system like gnome or KDE. I bet you can use all your gnome and kde applications under it (all you have installed that is). If you don't like

Debian Sarge on SUN Ultra 5

2005-06-03 Thread Matthias Reinhardt
Hi everybody, got a problem using X on a Sun Ultra 5 ... Installed packages: gdm,kdm,xdm gnome, kde, wmaker The problem is: Choosing kde or gnome on the debian-X-login screen it will login to windowmaker and this hurts me a little bit. Does anybody how I can fix

Re: Debian Sarge on SUN Ultra 5

2005-06-03 Thread Steffan Baron
Choosing kde or gnome on the debian-X-login screen it will login to windowmaker and this hurts me a little bit. Do you have an .xinitrc or .xsession laying around in your home? Gruss Steffan pgpLbRZalRp6J.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: USB keyboard mouse on Sun Ultra 5 w/PCI USB card

2004-12-28 Thread Daniel E. Jonsen
After many attempts at trying to disable Sun KB mouse support in the Debian-supplied 2.4.27 source, nothing worked. First of all, with kernel 2.4.27, there are no options for Sun KB mouse support listed in xconfig. One has to manually edit .config to change these settings. Even after

Re: USB keyboard mouse on Sun Ultra 5 w/PCI USB card

2004-12-27 Thread Martin
I have it connected to a 4-port USB KVM switch, and I bought and installed a Belkin F5U219 3-port (2 external, 1 internal) USB 2.0 PCI card so that I can use the USB keyboard mouse instead of the Sun keyboard and mouse, which I would really like to get off of my desk. For the life of

Re: USB keyboard mouse on Sun Ultra 5 w/PCI USB card

2004-12-17 Thread Blars Blarson
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: In response to Blars' message, I find the serial console concept intriguing. Could you point me to a website or two that explain how to set it up, the necessary cabling required (straight-through vs. crossover, DB9-DB9 or DB9-DB25, pinouts would be

Re: USB keyboard mouse on Sun Ultra 5 w/PCI USB card

2004-12-16 Thread Daniel E. Jonsen
Sorry, all, about the long pause before responding. I really would like to kick this problem. In the last few days, I have had a chance to look at things a bit more closely. One thing I should say is that I am a total newbie to Sun hardware and OpenBoot, so please keep this in mind. In

Re: USB keyboard mouse on Sun Ultra 5 w/PCI USB card

2004-12-16 Thread Jeremy Huddleston
BTW, Jeremy, did you do your recompiles on a 2.4 kernel or a 2.6 kernel? I've been trying to avoid 2.6 kernels for several reasons, but if it is NECESSARY for this to work, I might reconsider... It's not neccessary... If you don't use SMP, 2.6 is good for you. Some SCSI systems have

Re: USB keyboard mouse on Sun Ultra 5 w/PCI USB card

2004-12-10 Thread Blars Blarson
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have it connected to a 4-port USB KVM switch, and I bought and installed a Belkin F5U219 3-port (2 external, 1 internal) USB 2.0 PCI card so that I can use the USB keyboard mouse instead of the Sun keyboard and mouse, which I would

Re: USB keyboard mouse on Sun Ultra 5 w/PCI USB card

2004-12-10 Thread Jeremy Huddleston
On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 00:09 -0800, Blars Blarson wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have it connected to a 4-port USB KVM switch, and I bought and installed a Belkin F5U219 3-port (2 external, 1 internal) USB 2.0 PCI card so that I can use the USB keyboard

USB keyboard mouse on Sun Ultra 5 w/PCI USB card

2004-12-09 Thread Daniel E. Jonsen
I recently inherited a Sun Ultra 5 from my company which I would like to use as a LAMP server. I downloaded the 13-CD sarge testing distribution (official snapshot 11/07/04) and got the system up and running normally with the Sun keyboard and mouse. I have it connected to a 4-port USB KVM

Re: USB keyboard mouse on Sun Ultra 5 w/PCI USB card

2004-12-09 Thread Martin
appears to be functioning in general. On bootup, I also get plenty of messages indicating that the kernel found a USB keyboard and mouse. Under the double lines below is an excerpt from 'dmesg' that looks relevant to me. Does anyone out there know how to get a Sun Ultra 5 to accept input

Re: PCI USB card Sun Ultra 5 = hangs on boot

2004-04-18 Thread Richard Jones
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 05:53:43PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 10:21:57 +0100 Richard Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Inspired by some of the earlier messages on this list I bought a | cheapo PCI USB card (VIAUSB20 VIA VT6212) and plugged it into my Sun | Ultra 5

PCI USB card Sun Ultra 5 = hangs on boot

2004-04-17 Thread Richard Jones
Hi: Inspired by some of the earlier messages on this list I bought a cheapo PCI USB card (VIAUSB20 VIA VT6212) and plugged it into my Sun Ultra 5. Unfortunately this causes the machine to completely hang with a blank screen on boot. Does anyone know how to even go about diagnosing this? I

Re: PCI USB card Sun Ultra 5 = hangs on boot

2004-04-17 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 10:21:57 +0100 Richard Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Inspired by some of the earlier messages on this list I bought a | cheapo PCI USB card (VIAUSB20 VIA VT6212) and plugged it into my Sun | Ultra 5. | | Unfortunately this causes the machine to completely hang with a blank

Raptor GFX with Sun Ultra 5

2004-03-02 Thread Adam Henson
All, Problem solved! For those of you who might run into this in future - It was the adapter converting the Monitors Sun video connector to a standard VGA connection. If you use a normal vga cable to the monitors other input it works fine. Must have been some weird timing issue.

Re: Want to have sparc-mini.iso working on my Sun Ultra 5 Blade 100

2003-11-15 Thread Olivier Bornet
Hi, I'm getting illegal instruction when booting from the mini iso on a Sun Blade 100 Ultra 5, shortly after hitting enter on intial splash screen at it trying to set up RAM disks the like. Looks like is a SILO prob..?! see my last message to the list. I have corrected this problem on my

RE: Want to have sparc-mini.iso working on my Sun Ultra 5 Blade 100

2003-11-11 Thread Dan Beach
I'm getting illegal instruction when booting from the mini iso on a Sun Blade 100 Ultra 5, shortly after hitting enter on intial splash screen at it trying to set up RAM disks the like. Looks like is a SILO prob..?! -Original Message- From: Ben Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03

Re: Problem installing Debian 3.0r0 on Sun Ultra 5

2002-12-10 Thread Peter Mathiasson
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 10:00:07PM -0500, John Rumball wrote: I have an Ultra 5 on which I am trying to install Debian 3.0r0 (woody) from a bootable CD, which I downloaded last week using the jigdo method. After I press, enter at the boot: prompt, I get an error saying: Cannot find

RE: Problem installing Debian 3.0r0 on Sun Ultra 5

2002-12-10 Thread Jonathan
I have an Ultra 5 on which I am trying to install Debian 3.0r0 (woody) from a bootable CD, which I downloaded last week using the jigdo method. After I press, enter at the boot: prompt, I get an error saying: Cannot find /boot/sparc64.gz (Unknown isofs error). John, I'm not sure why this

RE: Problem installing Debian 3.0r0 on Sun Ultra 5

2002-12-10 Thread John Rumball
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X on a Sun Ultra 5

2001-01-04 Thread Markus Kinzler
hello i have a problem starting X on my ultra5. i make the /etc/X11/XF86Config with anXious but when i try to start x i see my twm welcome screen but i can't move my sunmouse and can't press my keyboard. the server hangs. i can't make anything else than turn the power off. what is the problem ?

Re: X on a Sun Ultra 5

2001-01-04 Thread Madhu Muchalambkar
I had the same problems on my Ultra 2. I ended up creating /dev/sunmouse and making /dev/mouse symlink to it. The /sbin/MAKEDEV is supposed to create the device...Here is what I did: rm sunmouse mknod sunmouse c 10 6 #(or was it 6 10? check MAKEDEV to be sure) chown root:root sunmouse chmod