Hi. On Wednesday 02 October 2013 23:36:40 u60 spitfire wrote: > Just signed up for this mailing list; had spent a good amount of time > over the last week getting my Ultra 60 up and running again. It's > mostly OK...heh...execpt the part about having to reprogram the darn > NVRAM every time I turn it on. > > I got jessie installed (Didn't get far in the stable release; first > thing I did was try to open iceweasel and it hit a bus error -- > unaligned mem access maybe). Working on getting the framebuffer going > and whatnot now, went to the Debian forums and figured I'd try this > mailing list after no responses there. > > After checking the posts for the last few months (only a handful!), > they seem all about "Hello....anybody out there using/maintaining > this?" or "Hey if anyone's using driver X y'all need to maintain it > yourself 'cause you're the only one using it", heh. > > So, realistically*, what's the deal? Any point in trying to get this > to work or should I cut my losses now and move to some other > distribution or OS? I had thought that maybe there was some interest > in the architecture since OpenSPARC was published/available for some > time. Anyhow. > > Advice appreciated in advance. > > thanks > > > > *Yes, I'm not being terribly realistic running anything on this box to > begin with.
I reinstalled my Ultra 60 some days ago - dual boot Wheezy / Jessie. I used the netinstall CDs. I'm running XFCE4, workes fine so far on both Wheezy and Jessie. Ok, Iceweasel is broken - that's an old problem. And installing Jessie with the XFCE CD ended up in a mixture of XFCE and Gnome - unusable. But starting with the netinstall CD, even Jessie is working without major problems so far. Hm, I didn't use it in "real life" yet ... Regards, Hartwig -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
