Hi Vincent, "VV" == Vincent Vandeweijer writes:
VV> I don't know if it's of any help. A while ago I emailed this to VV> somebody who posted it on the list. May sound silly but I just VV> don't know how to post... if I send a mail to VV> [email protected] it never shows up in the VV> list... must be some silly thing I don't know about :( your posts are perfectly visible in the newsgroup... thanks for your suggestions, they are very helpful. i didn't finish with switching to 2.6 kernel yet. i first upgraded to sid (was running sarge); then i faced with a nasty problem with "Xorg + sparc + type5 keyboard + kernel 2.4" (you may have faced it too - it is discussed in e.g. http://blog.drinky.org.uk/?p=43) i left from the office today with this unsolved yet - but hope to solve it tomorrow based on suggestions there. one of solutions is to use 2.6 kernel, but i've got a problem installing the kernel package: # apt-get install linux-image-2.6-sparc64 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: linux-image-2.6.14-2-sparc64 Suggested packages: linux-doc-2.6.14 linux-source-2.6.14 The following NEW packages will be installed: linux-image-2.6-sparc64 linux-image-2.6.14-2-sparc64 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/9218kB of archives. After unpacking 29.5MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 103486 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking linux-image-2.6.14-2-sparc64 (from .../linux-image-2.6.14-2-sparc64_2.6.14-5_sparc.deb) ... Could not find mkinitrd.yaird mkinitramfs. at /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst line 236, <STDIN> line 9. Selecting previously deselected package linux-image-2.6-sparc64. Unpacking linux-image-2.6-sparc64 (from .../linux-image-2.6-sparc64_2.6.14-5_sparc.deb) ... Setting up linux-image-2.6.14-2-sparc64 (2.6.14-5) ... Running depmod. Finding valid ramdisk creators. Failed to find suitable ramdisk generation tool for kernel version 2.6.14-2-sparc64 on running kernel 2.4.27-2-sparc64 in mkinitrd.yaird mkinitramfs dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.14-2-sparc64 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-2.6-sparc64: linux-image-2.6-sparc64 depends on linux-image-2.6.14-2-sparc64; however: Package linux-image-2.6.14-2-sparc64 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6-sparc64 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: linux-image-2.6.14-2-sparc64 linux-image-2.6-sparc64 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) (and i do have yaird installed...) VV> btw. getting an accellerated Elite3d config running isn't what it VV> used to be either... :( I had to modify /etc/init.d/afbinit to VV> get /usr/sbin/afbinit executed since dmesg doen't mention the VV> string "Elite 3D" anymore... this type of detection is used by VV> the /etc/init.d/afbinit script. But I guess that's not an issue VV> for you. uh, to start with i had no idea that afbinit even existed... ok, i installed the package, and downloaded afb.ucode from SUN. i found several different versions of this file - what is the md5sum of your afb.ucode file? then i changed "Elite" to "Creator" in /etc/init.d/afbinit to make it run, but when i run "/etc/init.d/afbinit start" (in text console, running linux 2.4), the screen blanks and nothing shows up - is it normal? (i didn't try yet with linux 2.6). are you saying that with afbinit it is possible to get accelerated X? BTW, i have Creator 3D card: 0000:01:02.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage I/II 215GT [Mach64 GT] (rev 9a) shall i still use afbinit with it? could you please send me your /etc/X11/xorg.conf? Best, v. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
