I have been running Debian on a Ultra1 Creator for awhile now using WindowMaker for my desktop. I quite like it. It seems more stable than either Redhat or Mandrake and it actually has active development going on!
I have tried in the past to upgrade to Woody so that I could get access to some of the new features but had to go back to Potato. I have some problems with X when I do this as I don't know the correct settings for the mouse or the keyboard. I can't get the info from my existing Xfree86Config file because the "xserver-xsun24" server doesn't use one. The machine is not a PC style Sun (it has the sbus architechture) so I 'm skeptical about using settings given in the mailing list for that style of machine. My keyboard is a sun "Type 5c" and the mouse plugs into the keyboard. I've gotten as far as getting the new X server up and running with the ffb driver and the display seems to look good, but there's no mouse and the only key I could find on keyboard that worked was the control key - it would pop up a menu on the desktop but I couldn't scroll on it as no other keys seemed to work. As another potential upgrade issue, I currently have the soundcard working on the machine. It uses a CS4231 chipset. All I had to do under Potato was install the CS4231 module and things worked. Will this be the same in Woody? What info I should gather off the current setup to make sure I have what I need to set things up under Woody just in case? I was also thinking of trying the alsa setup and for this I think I'll need the hardware settings info. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I'm looking forward to running Woody. Regards Tom Korte
