Hi, having just completed my installation of debian on a SparkStation2 that I acquired I was upset taht I couldnt' move my mouse (all the buttons work). I thought that it was stuffed but now realise that I don't have the pad for it. (its an optical mouse)
Where do I go from here? 1) I pressume its not worth buying a type4 pad. 2) What other types of mouse/keyboard are compatible with a SS2 ie. type 5/6 etc 3) Where could I buy a mechanical version? Currently looking on Ebay. 4) If I cut out the spacer in a PS2 plug, could I use it & what functionality would it lack. ie 6 pins instead of 8. Thanks, Damian Del Campo, B.Eng (Comp Sys - Hons) Software Engineer, SAGRN Project Phone 08 8401 7037 (Flinders St) Fax 08 8231 1385 E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: Andreas Behnert [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, 28 October 2001 5:03 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: CD Instalation / "not block device" > > > "Del Campo, Damian" wrote: > > > > Hi, I changed the CD drive in my SunSparc2 as I thought it may be the > cause > > of my installation woes. Funnily enough, I could boot to it and the base > > installation was a sinch and was all from the CD. > > However, after the base installation, when it rebooted and then came to > the > > package installation it couldn't use the CDRom, it wouldn't mount the > device > > saying that it was "not a block device". > > The SS2 (and AFAIK many other Sparcs) needs a CD drive that supports > a blocksize of 512 byte. I do not know what blocksize is used by the > Linux SCSI CD driver, may be 1024 oder 2048 or something like that, > but if you want to boot from CD the "Open Boot PROM" expects a > blocksize of 512 bytes. This is also the reason why bootdisks > created with "dd of=/dev/fd0 if=image.bin bs=512" work and disks > created with "... bs=1024" don't. > > I'm using a "Teac 532S" on my SS2 and I don't have any problems... > > > *The CDRom is actaully a burner, this shouldn't matter though should it? > > Hmm. If it's an old one or if it's a very cheap new one there could > be all sorts of problems. Better get something that is known to > work. I tested my "Teac 532S" with Open Boot PROM V2.4.1 and 2.9 ... > > > *Also, in the base installation, when it asks you do change the kernel > > modules, should I have tried to install generic SCSI support if it could > > already read my CDRom & hard drives. Well I did try but unsuccessfully. > > Should I not try and install modules at all? > > If it can read your HD and CD there is no need to install a driver > for it. And AFAIK every Sun box has a SCSI controller and the older > ones don't have anything else but SCSI so the kernel on the Debian > Sparc bootdisk should have SCSI support compiled in. > > > Greetings, > Andreas Behnert > > > -- > To err is human; effective mayhem requires the root password :-) > -- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
