ultra-60
elite3d graphics card
384M RAM
# fdisk /dev/sda
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda (Sun disk label): 134 heads, 62 sectors, 1017 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8308 * 512 bytes
Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 0 9 37386 1 Boot
/dev/sda2 9 40 128774 83 Linux native
/dev/sda3 0 1017 4224618 5 Whole disk
/dev/sda4 u 40 71 128774 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda5 71 1017 3929684 83 Linux native
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Notes
1. Despite fdisk's warning and notes I've seen on cooker, the machine
did not boot UNLESS I used block 0 when partitioning the drive.
(I had same experience with beta1).
2. Installation of packages seemed quit about 71% of the way through.
Unlike beta1, beta2 did not ask whether I wanted to run yp.
2. Xsun24 needs the ``-noFFB'' flag to run on the elite3d card (thanks
go to http://www.ultralinux.org/ for documenting this). The server
is okay in this mode, although I'd really like one with
acceleration---screen redraws and scrolls are slow (I realize this
is an XFree86 issue, but if anyone has a workaround for the elite3d,
please let me know).
4. /dev/cdrom is unusable until I run
insmod cdrom
insmod sr_mod
5. Audio, e.g., `playwave', etc., does not work.
# lsmod
Module Size Used by
isofs 20368 1 (autoclean)
nfs 32640 1 (autoclean)
sr_mod 21216 1
cdrom 29188 0 [sr_mod]
vfat 11872 0 (autoclean) (unused)
fat 37376 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
autofs 11240 4 (autoclean)
lockd 39008 1 (autoclean) [nfs]
sunrpc 66668 1 (autoclean) [nfs lockd]
sunhme 128944 1 (autoclean)
cs4231 22736 0
audio 18344 1 [cs4231]
sym53c8xx 58696 4
# strace -o /tmp/strout waveplay /usr/share/sounds/waah.wav
Couldn't open audio: Couldn't get audio format list
# tail /tmp/strout
[...]
open("/dev/dsp", O_WRONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 4
ioctl(4, SNDCTL_DSP_GETFMTS, 0xeffff63c) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
close(4) = 0
brk(0x28000) = 0x28000
write(2, "Couldn\'t open audio: Couldn\'t ge"..., 52) = 52
exit(2) = ?
6. It would be nice if the sparc64 binutils & gcc required to build
a kernel were included (or at least a pointer). I ended up using
google to hunt them down.
7. Overall a very fine installation.
michael
