Hello! On 6/15/20 1:42 AM, CoNNoR McL wrote: > Initially i had a little installation trouble since apparently grub relies on > the /boot > partition to exist, together with a warning that my standard 40GB drive for > the machine > exceeds 65536 cylinders.
It's not GRUB that needs the /boot partition, it's the old hardware which doesn't support the modern GPT partition tables and hence not relying on block lists (which are unreliable). > Once that was sorted, i had trouble getting a clear picture on my monitor > because the > framerate was to high. So i lowered the framerate from 75hz to 60hz by > creating config > files for X11 with the correct modeline. > > So far the desktop is running, albeit a bit slow and opengl is not working at > all. It's actually not something taken for granted that X11 works on that machine. > I think i should have the PGX64 chipset in this machine, but i am not sure if > it uses the correct driver. > glxinfo tells me everything is fine with direct rendering using llvm. > > When i try to run glxgears, i get a bus error. Please provide a backtrace using GDB. > When i try to run extremetuxracer, i don't get into the game, the errors > point to > unhandled calls in some asound library. Information is too unspecific to be able to help. I need a backtrace/error message. > Also i can't run any web browser. Midori and Epiphany crash or don't open a > website Again, too unspecific. > and the current Firefox or Firefox-esr are not installable due to missing > dependencies. See: https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2017/12/msg00060.html Also, if someone wants to help me making Firefox more portable again by addressing the NodeJS dependency, that would be great. I already have a rough concept for that. > Is any of this current normal behavior or is my configuration incorrect at > some point > and some of these thing are supposed to work, albeit slow on these old > machines? The information you provided is too unspecific (except for the Firefox problem), so it's not really possible to answer your question. > Finally before i install Solaris 8 on a second drive: is it possible to > create a dual boot > installation with debian and Solaris on one drive? If it is, how would i > achieve this with > grub? No idea, I never tried that. I recommend asking on the GRUB mailing list. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
