Re: printer on parport

2006-03-12 Thread Martin
On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 12:05 +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: Hi all, (I'm not subscribe this list, so please Cc me too) I've UltraSparc Ultra5, with memory 128Mb, UltraSPARC-IIi 270MHz with sarge (but kernel is 2.6.12-1-sparc64). I recently connect a canon printer on parport and try to use

Porting packages to sparc

2006-03-12 Thread Jurij Smakov
Hi, There is currently a number of packages which fail to build on sparc simply because sparc is not mentioned in the architecture list in debian/control. Usually it means that either the upstream does not support sparc arch, or maintainer decided that it's not worth supporting it. It is up

Re: Porting packages to sparc

2006-03-12 Thread Alexander Zangerl
On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 16:31:55 PST, Jurij Smakov writes: lcd4linux Fails with 'unknown opcode `rep'' during build. Has some arch-specific asm? Program to display info on *az looks at the code in question. a busy-waiting udelay?!? az shudders* the external LCD

Re: printer on parport

2006-03-12 Thread Chance Platt
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 00:19 +, Martin wrote: On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 12:05 +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: Hi all, (I'm not subscribe this list, so please Cc me too) I've UltraSparc Ultra5, with memory 128Mb, UltraSPARC-IIi 270MHz with sarge (but kernel is 2.6.12-1-sparc64). I

Re: printer on parport

2006-03-12 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, Chance Platt wrote: This may or may not be helpful; however in my case, on an Ultra 60, CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO causes printing to not work. Compiling this option out makes it work. It's a shame, really -- outside of this flaw, the shipped kernel works flawlessly (and for

Xine, Totem crashes

2006-03-12 Thread Chance Platt
Hi, When trying to run either xine or totem on my ultrasparc, I reach no success with either. In the case of xine, I run the binary. The Xine splashscreen pops up and disappears, and you see the usual xine GUI and window, followed quickly by them closing. It spits the following out on the

Re: printer on parport

2006-03-12 Thread Chance Platt
On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 17:35 -0800, Jurij Smakov wrote: On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, Chance Platt wrote: This may or may not be helpful; however in my case, on an Ultra 60, CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO causes printing to not work. Compiling this option out makes it work. It's a shame, really --

Re: printer on parport

2006-03-12 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, Chance Platt wrote: On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 17:35 -0800, Jurij Smakov wrote: The CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO option has been disabled in sparc kernel packages since 2.6.14-3. Any chance this fix might make it into Sarge? That's highly unlikely, sorry. Jurij Smakov

Re: Porting packages to sparc

2006-03-12 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Mon, 2006-03-13 11:18:07 +1000, Alexander Zangerl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 16:31:55 PST, Jurij Smakov writes: the external LCD display. Any sparc which needs it? as there is lcdproc which provides similar functionality without the silly all the world's an