On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 07:06:04PM -0400, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: > Hey, all. I'm trying to broaden my horizons, so I've taken one of my infra- > structure machines that was running NetBSD and I've installed Woody on it. > > One thing I notice right off the bat is that things are a good bit more > sluggish in terms of user interaction. I don't yet know why this is, but > I notice things like my cursor in X freezing under what should be fairly > moderate load. But, since the box mostly serves NFS and only rarely gets > used as an X console, I can live with that.
Did you run X under netbsd? That machine is quite slow when running any relatively modern XFree86 release which aren't optimized for very old, slow architectures with small memory footprints. I wouldn't even run X on it myself if I didn't have to; just run it as a plain text console. > Another thing I note is that I don't see my sound hardware showing up. This > isn't a huge issue for the reasons stated above, but I'm curious about it. > Is there no support for SUN4M sound hardware? Or, must I install something > that didn't get added by default? I have no idea. Have you tried googling? > The only thing that strikes me as potentially worrisome is this: Why do I > get a bunch of "Unimplemented SPARC system call" errors at startup, and > what does this indicate? > > An excerpt from my dmesg: > > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. > init[1]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 69 > Adding Swap: 196600k swap-space (priority -1) > eth0: Carrier Lost, trying TPE > portmap[109]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 87 > cp[135]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 69 > mv[159]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 69 > inetd[225]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 53 > lpd[229]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 69 > sunmouse: Successfully adjusted to 1200 baud. > Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED]) I forget what causes this, but it's harmless. > My box is a plain-vanilla SPARCstation 5 with a cgsix in it. Here's some of > what /proc/cpuinfo says about my processor: > > cpu : Fujitsu MB86904 > fpu : Lsi Logic/Meiko L64804 or compatible > promlib : Version 3 Revision 2 > prom : 2.15 > type : sun4m > > Everything seems to be working as expected, but I am curious nonetheless. I'd definitely blow off X. You can still have X clients on it that display on other servers if you want to do graphical monitoring and the like. a
