kbdrate/pdksh/kernel?
I have been using Debian on 486's for several years -- love it! Being new to sparc and this list, sorry if my questions have been asked and answered before. I have loaded Debian 2.1, slink, kernel 2.0.35 on a Sun IPX sparc (sun4c) workstation; unbelievably flawless! Apt worked perfect and updated all the necessary packages and allowed me to add th ones I wanted. WOW, I am immpressed! Now a few problems I hope someone can help with: The keyboard rate (type 4 kbd) is way to fast. Kbdrate -d xxx; reports success but doesnt change the keyboard delay rate. (It does on the intel boxes) Next problem once the kernel starts to load the monitor (1663B) changes to very small letters, the screen dimensions are something like 140x64 instead of the standard 80x34. Both the screen size and keyboard rate are fine (perfect) during the open boot firmware stage but change after the kernel boots. Next problem, the (pd)ksh (my favorite shell) reports: ksh: Symbol 'sys_siglist' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking so.. I downloaded the pdksh source and compiled it anew; compiled without errors or warnings BUT the newly compiled ksh reports 'Memory Error'and obviously doen't run. Finally, when attempting to recompile the kernel (2.0.35); make menuconfig reports configuration errors and aborts. Doing 'make config' does work, BUT 'make zImage' or 'make linux' or 'make vmlinux' or 'make vmlinuz' all report no target. Any help, clues or referral to docs would be great!!! Thanx guys, if you prefer to email, reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Paul Chris Salva, DMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Who is like Thee among the gods, O Lord? Who is like Thee, majestic in holiness, awesome in praises, working wonders? Exodus 15:11
KSH error message
Hi, I am running 2.2.1 (slink) on a Sun IPX. Its great except for the following message from Ksh: ksh: Symbol `sys_siglist' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking Ksh runs fine. I did download the Ksh source from the slink tree, compiled it without error but the newly compiled Ksh dumps core and promptly exits; it really never starts. Suggests as what to what to do most welcome. Thanx Chris, aka Paul -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Paul Chris Salva, DMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. James 4:7
KSH -- help
Hi Please send me a 'handshake' so I know this gets to the list. I am not sure if this is the correct group; if not please advise. I am running the last stable release of slink, 2.0.35 kernel on a Sun IPX Sparc. It is wonderful As is apt which, BTW, works flawlessly and is a huge improvement over the original dselect of earlier releases. In fact the slink OS works so well on the Sparc it has been made the primary DNS (ala named) for my domain, and this email, via qmail 1.03, is from that very machine. Now, the one enigma. The (stock slink) KSH works fine but gives the following warning each time it is envoked: ksh: Symbol `sys_siglist' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking I downloaded the KSH (slink) source and recompiled KSH; no compile errors but the new KSH doesnt exexute at all, it dumps core. The KSH warning falls in to the 'anoying' bin rather than the 'bug' bin; but it would be great to resolve it. Please, please any suggestions or help would be most appreciated. Chris -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Paul Chris Salva, DMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited.Romans 12:16
2.2.1 kernel patch ???
Hi I downloaded the kernel source 2.2.1 and the kernel-patches-2.2.1. I can't seem to apply the patches with: patch diff_file being run from the top of the source tree. What is the directory vanilla??? Any help appreciated. Thanx in advance. Chris -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Paul Chris Salva, DMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Debian on SparcClassic
Hi, I'm trying to install Debian 2.2r3 on a old SparcClassic Station. I only get the following failuremessages: . . . ok boot cdrom Boot device: /iommu/sbus/[EMAIL PROTECTED],840/[EMAIL PROTECTED],880/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0:d File and args: SILO Welcome to Debian GNU/Linux 2.2! This is the Debian Install CD. Keep it once you have installed your system, as you can boot from it to repair the system on your hard disk if that ever becomes necessary. In order to proceed, you must tell the SILO bootloader the CDROM type. Press either 'I' (for IDE CDROM drives) or 'S' (for SCSI CDROM drives) below. If neither of these works, then you will need to type in the full name of the actual device. Pressing 'O' will give you more info on device naming. WARNING: You should completely back up all of your hard disks before proceeding. The installation procedure can completely and irreversibly erase them! If you haven't made backups yet, remove the rescue CD from the drive and press L1-A to get back to the OpenBoot prompt. Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicable law. [ S - SCSI ] [ I - IDE ] [ O - OTHER ] -- This CD uses Linux 2.2.15 boot: PROMLIB: obio_ranges 1 Booting Linux... PROMLIB: Sun Boot Prom Version 3 Revision 2 Linux version 2.2.19 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.2 2220 (Debian GNU/Linux)) #1 Mon Apr 2 13:29:46 EDT 2001 ARCH: SUN4M TYPE: SPARCclassic Ethernet address: 8:0:20:1f:3a:47 Boot time fixup v1.6. 4/Mar/98 Jakub Jelinek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Patching kernel for srmmu[TI Tsunami]/iommu [0]: v[f000,f47b3000](47b3000) p[] SRMMU: Compact physical memory. Using strightforward VA-PA translations. Found CPU 0 node=ffd3b790,mid=0 Found 1 CPU prom device tree node(s). Power off control detected. Calibrating delay loop... 49.86 BogoMIPS Memory: 70620k available (1336k kernel code, 1300k data, 164k init) [f000,f500] Dentry hash table entries: 16384 (order 5, 128k) Buffer cache hash table entries: 131072 (order 7, 512k) Page cache hash table entries: 32768 (order 5, 128k) POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX IOMMU: impl 4 vers 1 page table at f46c of size 262144 bytes sbus0: Clock 25.0 MHz dma0: Revision 2 dma1: Revision 2 Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 131072 bhash 65536) Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM Starting kswapd v 1.5 Sparc Zilog8530 serial driver version 1.41.2.7 tty00 at 0xffee9004 (irq = 44) is a Zilog8530 tty01 at 0xffee9000 (irq = 44) is a Zilog8530 tty02 at 0xffee4004 (irq = 44) is a Zilog8530 tty03 at 0xffee4000 (irq = 44) is a Zilog8530 keyboard: not present Console: ttyS0 (Zilog8530) pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Sun Mouse-Systems mouse driver version 1.00 RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size loop: registered device at major 7 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 esp0: IRQ 36 SCSI ID 7 Clk 40MHz CCF=8 TOut 167 NCR53C9XF(espfast) ESP: Total of 1 ESP hosts found, 1 actually in use. scsi0 : Sparc ESP100A-FAST scsi : 1 host. Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST31200N SUN1.05 Rev: 8722 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 Vendor: YAMAHAModel: CRW4260 Rev: 1.0q Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-ROM PX-32TSRev: 1.03 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 scsi : detected 2 SCSI cdroms 1 SCSI disk total. sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 6x/6x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11 esp0: target 6 asynchronous esp0: target 3 [period 100ns offset 15 10.00MHz FAST SCSI-II] sda: Spinning up disk..ready SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 2061108 [1006 MB] [1.0 GB] sunlance.c:v1.12 11/Mar/99 Miguel de Icaza ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) eth0: LANCE 08:00:20:1f:3a:47 eth0: using auto-carrier-detection. Partition check: sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. cdrom: open failed. Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. VFS: Cannot open root device 0b:00 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 0b:00 Press L1-A to return to the boot prom I have no idea what could help. It seems that nobody had any problems like me on the internet :-( My old RedHat boots on this System very well and installing it is no problem at all. But who needs / wants RedHat... ;-) ? Any suggestions? Thanx in advance, Chris
Wie gehts denn so ?
Lieber Peter und Mannu, nach dem blöden Hochwasser , uns hat es ja voll erwischt. Daher kann ich auch erst jetzt schreiben, musste mir einen neuen Computer kaufen. Ich war in Spanien auf Urlaub, nicht schlecht, Sonne ohne Ende. War auf Teneriffa, geil kann ich Euch nur sagen. Wisst Ihr mit wem? Mit Sandra, hab ich im Internet kennen gelernt. Tolles Mädchen , eigentlich hab ich nur so ein bisschen im Internet herumgesurft und kam dabei auf die Seite http://www.find-me.tv - sind viele Leute drinnen. Muss ziemlich neu sein haben auch einen Livechat. Hatten uns verabredet und sind 10 Tage später schon miteinander in Urlaub gefahren J. Sie kommt aus Berlin, sehr offenes und lustiges Persönchen (wie eigentlich alle die da drin sind). Ach ja, Manuela da sind auch viele hübsche Jungs und Männer für Dich dabei J. Wie gehts eigentlich Euren Eltern, mit Muttern wieder alles ok ? Also bis dann Chris PS: Hänge meistens ab 19.00 im Livechat herum, man sieht sich oder schreibt mal wieder.
Re: to good home: sparc machines
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:11:12 -0700 Blars Blarson blar...@scd.debian.net wrote: I've got an ultra 60, two ultra 10's, an ultra 5, monitors, keybords, mice, various cards and accesories, and more possibly working machines (ultra 2, ultra 1e, etc). All located in Los Angeles, but I might be able to transport to California, Oregon, or nearby states. I doubt much is worth shipping. Priority given to Debian development, but other free software projects considered. Would like the 60? -- Best regards, Chris 1AB5FEF8 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100826165055.7546e...@makeworld.com
Meeting 2010-10-07.at.8.00pm Thursday October 7th to Discuss Fulltime or Contract Positions - Markham Rd Hwy7 Area
Hi Salahuddin, Are you looking for a new job/contract position at the moment? I am getting together with a few people in the Markham Rd Hwy7 area to talk about the process of applying for new positions. Would you be interested in getting together for a coffee with 2-3 others over the next few days? This meeting is relevant for any background, not just IT. The same principles apply to any industry. The next date is: 2010-10-07 8.00pm Thursday October 7th We are meeting at the Tim Horton's Coffee Shop on (6545 Hwy 7 Markham, ON East of Hwy48 and just a little East of Wootten Way) Please let me know if you are coming beacause I don't want it to get too full. If you are not free at this time let me know, I may be available later in the day. We will be discussing what techniques are available to promote yourself after preparing a resume. There is no charge for any of this. I think you will find it useful and interesting. I am a recruiter and I have your contact information from a previous job search. If you haven't already; link with me on LinkedIN: http://www.linkedin.com/inviteFromProfile?from=profilekey=513014firstName=ChrislastName=Sherret Let me know if you are interested and I will confirm. I can explain more when we talk, you can call or email me. Regards Chris Sherret Sherret Inc. Marketing / Consulting ch...@sherret.com (416) 423-0798 (416) 725-7618 (866) 640-0808 (fax) TO --Salahuddin Kazi-- Supplying People and Opportunities for Contracting and Full-Time Positions. Consultants Programmer/Analysts, Directors Managers Project ManagersSoftware/System Architects Systems AnalystsBusiness Analysts, Data Modelers Programmers DBAsTechnical Support Analysts Project/Team LeadersQA Analysts/Consultants Systems Administrators Technical Writers Our specialty is: J2EE and .NET based senior architects, team-leaders and developers. in business oriented development (financial, telecommunications, internet, and business support), but we are not limited to this. Because of our background in 'C/C++' software development we have a good base of contacts in system or engineering related software development. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/349529.17404...@smtp104.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com
Debian Sparc 7.10.0 Install Problems
I've been trying to get Debian Sparc 7.10.0 installed on a Sun V215 with an XVR300 graphics card with little success. Wanted to try 7.10.0, as it seemsto be the last supported Debian for Sparc. I installed Squeeze onto a V210 with XVR100 a few years ago and apart from a few config issues, it installed out of the box and is stable. 7.10.0 is different. To start, the system won't install at all if a graphics card is in the machine and just hangs during the boot process. No Linux expert, but fwics, the system switches from obp -> boot -> kernel and it looks like at the switch to kernel that the machine hangs with the following: 0.00] Console: colour dummy device 80x25 0.00] Console (tty0) enabled, bootconsole disabled Just not seeing the frame buffer ? Tried a pci XVR100 and a stock pcie ati 2250 with same results. Ok, take the graphics card out and run a text install, which works as expected. Can login, network working etc. Text install allows login with no issues afaics, but as soon as a graphics card is fitted, the sytems again hangs. For reference, reinstalled Squeeze on the same machine with framebuffer fitted, which works as expected. Are there any command line switches to force framebuffer use ?. Have looked at the Lilo page and tried: append "debain-installer/framebuffer=true", as per the Linux Sparc install docs with no success. Must be missing something here, or is it just broken and if so, what is the fix ?. No Linux expert, but the goal is to use Linux or FreeBSD Sparc for embedded development work. Already have a basic cross gcc tool chain built and working on Solaris 10 Sparc, but want to evaluate other OS options as well. As mentioned, no kernel hacker, but have a few older Sun machines that could be contributed to the project foc if that would be any help. Mainly V240 series, but maybe a couple of others as well. In Oxford, Uk... Regards, Chris
Re: Debian Sparc 7.10.0 Install Problems
Try our latest sparc64 build. It still has some rough edges, but you should be able to get the system installed. Has a much more recent kernel and userland: Adrian, Thanks for the reply. I would like to try later builds and get more involved with the dev process, but right now, I need to understand why 7.10.0 isn't working. I want to start with the last stable release for Sparc, to establish a baseline. I have Squeeze running on a V210, with gui which is stable. Problem is that none of the repositories for Squeeze work any more and it's not clear if they are available somewhere else, or have just been deleted ?. A bit of background: Have been using Sun since Sun 3, the first serious unix machine. Do electronics / embedded sw here, but have never done any Linux dev, submitted patches, done system builds etc. Have done kernel rebuilds on Sun 3 years ago and on Vax 730 BSD 4.3 which took over 3 days to complete :-). It would be interesting to get a build environment running, but are there any resources out there to get started ?. There must be an overall dev process involved which I need to understand before contributing anything. Apart from the usual 32 bit Sparcstation class machines, have an Ultra 1, several Ultra II and V240, V215/245, T2000 and T5220. Could set any of those up to provide ssh / ftp login, whatever, if that would be useful to the group... Regards, Chris
Re: Debian Sparc 7.10.0 Install Problems
On 06/09/16 09:20, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: I guess we could probably convince DSA to use T5 machines if someone were to donate these as long these particular machines have not seen too much usage yet. I actually don't think that even T5 machines that have seen some use already would be in anyway problematic. This kind of enterprise hardware is usually built like a tank. Adrian Adrian, With regard to that, how about M4000 class machines ?. There is a job lot of 3 for sale on fleabay uk for just ~300 ukp for the 3. They do seem more thick on the ground and at reasonable cost generally. As you say, that class of Sun h/w is built like a brick outhouse and far better quality than most X86 server kit. While I don't have the spare cash to buy them, nor the electricity bills to run them, could get them up and working here in the uk and provide some support if someone else can host them... Regards, Chris
Re: Debian Sparc 7.10.0 Install Problems
On 06/09/16 06:50, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello Chris! Debian Wheezy is already no longer supported, except for the LTS branch which deals with i386 and amd64 architectures only. Thus, any issues you may have that are related to bugs will never be fixed. Plus, since Debian Wheezy, we have fixed a large number of bugs which affect both sparc and sparc64. In particular, kernel development has been very active in the past 12 months since Oracle decided to release their own distribution called "Linux for SPARC". Warning, long reply, may need coffee :-)... I know Debian 7 is unsupported on Sparc and that bugs won't be fixed, but I don't care. Once the OS is installed and stable, I really don't need or expect support or patches. Apart from adding a few packages, nothing is likely to change. All i'm looking for is a stable OS to run on Sparc h/w, with a gui. I would be quite happy with Sol 10, but Oracle support licenses are too expensive. Old it may be, but even Squeeze is pretty stable. Just wanted to try out a later version and afaics, 7.10 was the last supported stable release. Also sans systemd. I know there are different priorities for developers and maybe this is the wrong place to ask, but 7.10.0 must have been tested at some stage and really would like to have it working for evaluation, without being sidetracked into other areas i'm probably not ready for at this stage. Ok, one reason for looking at older versions is that i'm not happy about the current Linux direction. As an engineer, efficiency is important and mainstream Linux becomes ever more complex and interdependent. Debian has been the favourite Linux for years, but the last straw was the systemd saga. If they wanted a good model for system service management, they could have done a lot worse than look at the Solaris svcadm, svcs etc, which in the main, coexists with the existing OS functionality, rather than making everything else, including non system stuff like gdm, subservient to it. It's what dec used to call "layered software". svcadm etc is also transparently easy to use and retains most of the underlying init and logging structure that we are all familiar with. Oracle do have a free Linux / Sparc, but it's still a reference level design and correct me if wrong, nothing seems to have happened for some time. Not clear if they are really serious about it. Really good if they are and it would be a valuable contribution to the rapidly diminishing Sparc OS gene pool. Hardware is useless without an OS and it's good to have choices. That depends on what you want to do. Whether it's kernel development, Debian packaging or improving other upstream projects such as GNOME or KDE. You need to be more specific. I guess package building might be the best place to start at newbie level. There seems to be a lot of infrastructure to become familiar with before getting into the deep end of kernel development, for example. 32-bit SPARC hardware is completely unsupported these days. I think support for that was even dropped in the Linux kernel. You are welcome to perform test installations on your hardware with the ISO I have provided and report back any feedback. But we don't need any additional old hardware. What we need to make "sparc64" an official supported port in Debian is actual new hardware. This is one of the requirements by the Debian System Administrators (DSA) as they don't want to deal with old hardware breaking apart when building packages for a release architecture. Adrian Debian may not need the older machines, but have just given a couple of V240's + configuration help to a FreeBSD developer. Afaics, they have no plans to drop support for any 64 bit Sparc. Understand that you have to concentrate efforts with limited resources, but if it doesn't run on generic 64 bit Sparc, what's the point, unless you are just aiming at commercial users ?. Heck, i'm still looking for a cheap M3000 on fleabay, but later machines (ie: supported by Oracle) are still very expensive. V series machines are more than adequate for things like software development and are economical or free for the average enthusiast / hacker. As for reliability, meh. I've had uptimes of years from U and V class h/w, many of which are still less than 10 years old. Sun built h/w from that period is very reliable, with properly designed ventilation and conservative component rating. They may or may not burn in the boards these days, but far better than you get from the average cheap pc. Anyway, thanks for putting up with the post. So how do I get the 7.10 issue resolved and replies to the list to thread properly ?. I see a mirror of this list on nntp.aioe.org, but seems read only. Is that correct ?... Regards & Thanks, Chris
Re: Debian Sparc 7.10.0 Install Problems
On 06/10/16 11:26, Hermann Lauer wrote: Hello Chris, On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 11:00:25AM +, Chris wrote: I know Debian 7 is unsupported on Sparc and that bugs won't be fixed, but I don't care. Once the OS is installed and stable, I really don't need or expect support or patches. Apart from adding a few packages, nothing is likely to change. All i'm looking for is a stable OS to run on Sparc h/w, with a gui. I would be quite happy with Sol 10, but Oracle support licenses are too expensive. Old it may be, but even Squeeze is pretty stable. Just wanted to try out a later version and afaics, 7.10 was the last supported stable release. if netbooting is an option for you, installation report https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=757787 may help you. Probably the mentioned netbooting stuff is already moved to an debian archive after the official end of wheezy support now. Good luck, greetings Hermann Herman, Thanks for the info. Have never used netboot, so will give that a try, We all get stuck in loops from time to time and I need to test 7.10 and gauge what state it's in to be able to move on. One of purposes of the exercise is to survey available operating systems for Sparc. It seems that many Linux distros have ended support while other OS, for example, FreeBSD is still being developed, but it's a tier 2 architecture and not as complete out of the box as 386 / amd64 versions. No problem for the experienced user, but steep learning curve for the less experienced and it's difficult to find the info to solve problems. More installs are needed to gain the critical mass to spawn more developers, but unless there are stable versions, how is that to be encouraged ?, Anyway, thanks for the help and hope Debian thrives. Don't have the knowledge base to contribute code at present, but will try to keep up to date with the list and may be able to contribute something from time to time... Regards, Chris
Sparc Netbooting
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have a main server system, Sparcserver 20 running debian testing, which I want to be the boot server for some other sparc boxen on the network. I have set up RARP and TFTP so that the nodes can collect a kernel and boot it but the problem comes when it tries to load the root filesystem. I want it to load it's root filesystem over NFS from the Sparcserver. When I was compiling the kernel I could not find the enable root fs over nfs option anywhere, either in menuconfig or Xconfig. In the end I manually found the option in .config and enabled it. This caused the compiling of the kernel to die with the following error:-. make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/linux-2.4.29/arch/sparc/boot' ld -m elf32_sparc -T arch/sparc/vmlinux.lds arch/sparc/kernel/head.o arch/sparc/kernel/init_task.o init/main.o init/version.o init/do_mounts.o \ --start-group \ arch/sparc/kernel/kernel.o arch/sparc/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel.o mm/mm.o fs/fs.o ipc/ipc.o arch/sparc/math-emu/math-emu.o arch/sparc/boot/btfix.o \ drivers/char/char.o drivers/block/block.o drivers/misc/misc.o drivers/net/net.o drivers/sbus/sbus_all.o drivers/video/video.o drivers/media/media.o \ net/network.o \ /home/linux-2.4.29/lib/lib.a /home/linux-2.4.29/lib/lib.a /home/linux-2.4.29/arch/sparc/prom/promlib.a /home/linux-2.4.29/arch/sparc/lib/lib.a \ --end-group \ -o vmlinux fs/fs.o(.text.init+0x121c): In function `root_nfs_name': : undefined reference to `root_server_path' fs/fs.o(.text.init+0x1224): In function `root_nfs_name': : undefined reference to `root_server_path' fs/fs.o(.text.init+0x12a8): In function `root_nfs_addr': : undefined reference to `root_server_addr' fs/fs.o(.text.init+0x12ac): In function `root_nfs_addr': : undefined reference to `root_server_addr' fs/fs.o(.text.init+0x13e8): In function `nfs_root_setup': : undefined reference to `root_nfs_parse_addr' fs/fs.o(.text.init+0x13f0): In function `nfs_root_setup': : undefined reference to `root_server_addr' fs/fs.o(.text.init+0x13f4): In function `nfs_root_setup': : undefined reference to `root_server_addr' fs/fs.o(.text.init+0x1454): In function `root_nfs_getport': : undefined reference to `rpc_getport_external' make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 Does this mean that It is not possible to enable root fs over nfs on the sparc platform or am I missing something simple. Thanks in advance - -- Chris Blackburn E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key: http://makeashorterlink.com/?C2AF31929 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iD8DBQFCKwJrxsNEmi5WofsRAgLsAKDfhL094y5sGGGqfqN0VukL6JSzHgCg/Q6a BYV9KljyBIXZnjizi92jgqI= =gddA -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: d-i problem on sparc32 with partitions
On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 09:47:31PM +0200, Meelis Roos wrote: Hi, I tried to install sarge on Sun Sparcstation 5/170 with the latest installer, Last I heard was that the 170 was not very well supported. What support there is only exists in recent kernels, and is probably not very well tested yet. You may well have an uphill battle trying to get this machine to work. let alone to work well. -- Chris Waters | Pneumonoultra-osis is too long [EMAIL PROTECTED] | microscopicsilico-to fit into a single or [EMAIL PROTECTED] | volcaniconi- standalone haiku -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Video card suggestions for Ultra 30
Hi, I have a Sun Ultra 30 with a Creator 3D card fitted. I would like to use a much more capable card, as X seems slow at the moment. Can anybody suggest a card that works well with the Ultra 30 hardware, and does not require proprietry drivers? Thanks, Chris. -- Whatever you Wanadoo: http://www.wanadoo.co.uk/time/ This email has been checked for most known viruses - find out more at: http://www.wanadoo.co.uk/help/id/7098.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sarge Release Notes - Architecture specific news?
Hendrik Sattler wrote: This also affects the install-manual where sun4cdm and sun4u is mentioned as supported (What's sun4d and is it really supported?) Sun4d is the Sparcserver 1000 and 2000 series, they are 32 bit SMP boxes. Very similar to Sun4m, they work fine in single processor mode with 2.4.27 and above, but SMP is still badly broken. More kernel work is required. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sarge Release Notes - Architecture specific news?
inkubus wrote: Sun4d is the Sparcserver 1000 and 2000 series, they are 32 bit SMP boxes. Very similar to Sun4m, they work fine in single processor mode with 2.4.27 and above, but SMP is still badly broken. More kernel work is required. Have you directly tested = 2.4.27 ? Last time I checked everything from about 2.4 onwards was kinda broken. There is a fix for the 2.2.20 kernel to get SMP working on machines with uniform clock speeds (IIRC each board must have consistant speed processors but it can vary between boards). In the past there has been quite a bit of interest on this list about resurrecting sun4d support, all that appears to be missing is someone to co-ordinate the effort. When I tested it woody did not run 'out of the box' on sun4d. I do not know of anyone trying sarge. All of my work was done in Splack, rather than Debian. Looking at my notes - Sun4d UP needs my patches which are in 2.4.29 Sun4d SMP is still broken, and fixing it is beyond my skills. There are 2 known issues, possibly related. 1) Serial console corruption 2) SMP instability seems to be IRQ related I will try Sarge in the next few days and report back, but I suspect that I will need to upgrade to 2.4.29 or later. AFAIK nobody has done any work on 2.6.x for Sun4d. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sarge Release Notes - Architecture specific news?
Chris Newport wrote: I will try Sarge in the next few days and report back, but I suspect that I will need to upgrade to 2.4.29 or later. AFAIK nobody has done any work on 2.6.x for Sun4d. Sarge does not boot on Sun4d - this looks like a SILO issue, but I could be wrong. My SS1000E has never booted from a SILO CD correctly, but it does boot from a TILO tftpboot image for Splack and it does boot a Solaris CD. Loaded kernel version 2.4.27 Data Access Exception Type help for more information #0 ok -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apache and CGI :segfault !
Lindo Nepi wrote: on my debian/sparc: i try to launch a simple CGI (write in bash) from apache... this CGI launch gradsc (a scientific application that generate gif images) ...but in my webpage i obtain an exit code 11 on my debian/x86 no problem with the same configfuration.. gradsc works fine. Did you recompile the GrADS programs for Linux-Sparc ?. I cannot see a supported version on their website. Forget about your webpages and get the GrADS suite working properly first. You will need to recompile from the sources. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sparcstation 5 - Debian installation
You should just be able to hit Stop-A and then type boot cdrom on most Sparc 5's. If your using a PC style keyboard and not a Sun, then I have no idea. :( --Chris On Mon, 23 May 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to start the installation CD on a Sun sparcstation. I forgot the key combination to default the boot search in the cdrom. If any body knows the same please let me knwo asap. regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sparc status? A cry for information, and an offer to help
I've had no problems with the boot disks on a Sparc 5. Just figured i'd let everyone know. ;) What I would like, and can't find, is a graphical Xclient. I tried just tossing in Redhats CG6 client, but it didn't seem to work too well, and I don't have the time right now to play with it. Any ideas? -- Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sparc status? A cry for information, and an offer to help
OK, I found where to get the Xserver. I figured i'd just repost it here again. ;) ftp.netg.se:/pub/Linux/sparc/X Has the deb packages for XSUN (CG3/6,etc) XSUN24 (zx, other 24bpp cards) and Mono. --Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New to the game
On Sat, 8 Aug 1998, Richard Miller wrote: We recently recieved 3 670MP and two 470 SparcServers as a donation. Since we are unable to run the current versions of Solaris on them and Umm, the 670 run under linux. The 470 dosen't yet The kernel mm routines need to be ported to the 470, and that should be all. I'm trying to get my hands on some docs/info/ or a machine to do this, but haven't yet. Anton is doing the same, I beleive. cd === | | Chris Davis | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Computer Engineering OTO+1 | | | University of Toronto | |-| | Developer, Linux port to the Sparc/Sun4 Architecture. | | Powered by Debian GNU/Linux.www.debian.org www.linux.org | |=| | PGP Key #B823A045 available from pgp keyservers | | fingerprint = 22 88 13 91 6B A7 34 14 76 56 0C 35 D8 E5 06 20 | |=| | Together we will rule the world, | |all by myself | ===
Where is Debian?
Ok, I know I got an entire copy of Debian-Sparc from ftp.debian.org a few months back... I even burned a CD. now, where did everything go?!? I've tried the usual mirrors, but I can't find the dist anywhere. Just the i386 and 68k ports. --chris
used sparcstations.
Hello, was wondering if anyone knew of a source where I can get a cheap used sparc. Preferably something in sun4m, but i'd go for a 1+ even. No need for monitor, memory or disk. (got SCA discs, and Ram for SS5's)... I basically have everything but the box. :) Usually I use my work machines for playing around, but I had to put my second sparc5 back to real work, leaving me with a 1+ to play with at work. (eck).. and i'd like something for home. thanks --chris
Re: used sparcstations.
On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: If you happen to be near (or able to come to) the Boston Area... in Cambridge there is the MIT Flea market/ Hamm Swap-Fest Thats where I got all 3 of my SParcstations, and I guy I know has Ok, cool. I'll probably head upto the next one. Havn't been in about 2 years, but Cambridge is only like an hour away. (live in RI) there I can get a SUN IPC for $50 (no monitor, 24 MB ram)...but an old Mac II they want $150 forweirdos Sounds like the MIT flea. ;-) thanks --Chris
Mirror stuff...
ok, this isn't exactly on-topic here, but i'm trying to find a mirroring program that's like decent. i tried mirror, and fmirror, and both suck. it'll just create symlinks, and not get the darned files. I just want to get the Sparc stuff, I dont' want to have to transfer any of the 'binary-all' directories. (plus, i'd like to be able to make a CD, and having to deal with all those stupid links is gonan be a pain). does anyone know where I can get just a nice, simple program that will get me stuff? I hate updating this by hand. :) --chris
MIT Flea...
Howdie, just wondering who else was goign to the MIT flea tommrow. Perhaps we can meet up at some point. You can usually spot me out pretty good i'm the crazy fool driving the Ford Taurus with the Rhode Island Linux plates. :) --chris
Re: MIT Flea...
Also, if anyone wants, I can bring a few Debian-Sparc CD's with me. All I ask is either a blank in return, or a buck. --Chris
general sun question..
Just wondering, is a Sparc20 with say an SM61 or 71 cpu module much faster then a Sparc5-85? Also, are the Hypersparc modules a lot better then the regular supersparc ones? thanks --chris
2.1.130 kernel and XV
I have posted for anon ftp a compiled binary of the 2.1.130 kernel and it's modules, as well as the XV binary. Also in listed is the config file that I built the kernel on. I suggest checking that before installing the binary I have. For now, goto atlantia.macross.com. Its my Sparc5, on my ISDN line at home. I don't have anon ftp access setup on my gateway system at my ISP yet, so you'll have to live with my 112k line. :) Ill try to get something liek ProFTPd running up there tonight so things will flow a bit smoother. Enjoy. --Chris
2.1.130 XV binaries
Ok, got ProFTPD installed on my well connected machine now. It's also where I keep a mirror of ftp1.us.debian.org. You can anon ftp into gatekeeper.macross.com. It supports a max of 10 anon connections for now. If anyone needs any other config options compiled into the kernel image i'll be happy to recompile it. The image I posted on my ftp site was made for my SS5. --Chris
Re: Can I update the sparc glibc?
Blah, how can someone like me get that glibc package up on master? (ie, someone who dosn't have an account there). If there is no place to put it for public consumption, send it to me and i'll put it up on my ftp server. thanks --Chris
Re: Can I update the sparc glibc?
Hmm, weird. got some gzip errors while trying to unpack glibc-pre2.1-doc_2.0.105-1.deb. --Chris --- atlantia:/macross/home/christr/Debian# dpkg -i *.deb (Reading database ... 27308 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace glibc-pre2.1-doc 2.0.105-1 (using glibc-pre2.1-doc_2.0.105-1.1_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement glibc-pre2.1-doc ... dpkg-deb (subprocess): unexpected end of file in member data in glibc-pre2.1-doc_2.0.105-1.1_all.deb gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1 dpkg: error processing glibc-pre2.1-doc_2.0.105-1.1_all.deb (--install): subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile (EOF) returned error exit status 2
Re: Can I update the sparc glibc?
hmmm, this is weird. Since I upgraded to your set of glibc, I can't seem to run Dselect anymore. :) (and dpkg gives me a bunch of errors too). I can't get into the 'select' section of Dselect, and 'update' generates errors, but seems to chug along. here they are: -- while running dpkg -- atlantia:/gatekeeper/home/ftp/Debian/dists/potato/main/binary-sparc/base# dpkg -i dpkg_1.4.0.31.deb (Reading database ... 27744 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace dpkg 1.4.0.31 (using dpkg_1.4.0.31.deb) ... error un-catching signal Quit: Success error un-catching signal Interrupt: Success error un-catching signal Quit: Success error un-catching signal Interrupt: Success Unpacking replacement dpkg ... Setting up dpkg (1.4.0.31) ... error un-catching signal Quit: Success error un-catching signal Interrupt: Success Processing was halted because there were too many errors. --- -- after selecting 'UPdate' from dselect -- error un-catching signal 3: Success error un-catching signal 2: Success Getting Packages files...(stop with ^C) Connecting to gatekeeper.macross.com... Login as christr... Setting transfer mode to binary... Cd to `../ftp/Debian'... Checking for Packages file... dists/potato/main/binary-sparc/Packages.gz Already up-to-date; skipping. Checking for Packages file... dists/potato/contrib/binary-sparc/Packages.gz Already up-to-date; skipping. Checking for Packages file... dists/potato/non-free/binary-sparc/Packages.gz Already up-to-date; skipping. No Packages files was updated. error un-catching signal 3: Success error un-catching signal 2: Success --- -- After running 'select' from Dselect -- dselect: failed to set new SIGWINCH sigact: Success dselect: error while cleaning up: failed to restore old SIGWINCH sigact: Success atlantia:~# dies here --- Anyway, any help would be appriciated. :) So far, I havn't found anything else broken and Netscape runs pretty nicely. But I think I need a faster Sparc... my little 85Mhz SS5 is a bit overworked while running netscape. :) thanks --Chris
Enlightenment
Woo! Just got Enlightenment compiled on my Sparc5 finally. Gonna do up Eterm and the likes. Has anyone else gotten it to comple yet? How about the Esound drivers? If I can figure out how to make a debian package i'll try to do it if it's not already on someone elses playlist. Merry Christmas --Chris
2.1.132 compile errors.
I'm getting errors trying to compile 2.1.132 on my SS5-85 and was wondering if anyone else had any trouble, or ideas on how to fix. thanks --Chris kernel 2.1.132 atlantia:~/Kernel/linux# make vmlinux gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/root/Kernel/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mno-fpu -fcall-used-g5 -fcall-used-g7 -c -o init/main.o init/main.c gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/root/Kernel/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mno-fpu -fcall-used-g5 -fcall-used-g7 -DUTS_MACHINE='sparc' -c -o init/version.o init/version.c make -C kernel make[1]: Entering directory `/root/Kernel/linux/kernel' make all_targets make[2]: Entering directory `/root/Kernel/linux/kernel' gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/root/Kernel/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mno-fpu -fcall-used-g5 -fcall-used-g7 -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c signal.c gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/root/Kernel/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mno-fpu -fcall-used-g5 -fcall-used-g7 -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c ksyms.c /root/Kernel/linux/include/asm/softirq.h: In function `disable_bh': In file included from /root/Kernel/linux/include/linux/interrupt.h:51, from ksyms.c:21: /root/Kernel/linux/include/asm/softirq.h:136: wrong type argument to increment /root/Kernel/linux/include/asm/softirq.h: In function `enable_bh': /root/Kernel/linux/include/asm/softirq.h:142: wrong type argument to decrement /root/Kernel/linux/include/asm/softirq.h: In function `init_bh': /root/Kernel/linux/include/asm/softirq.h:149: incompatible types in assignment make[2]: *** [ksyms.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/Kernel/linux/kernel' make[1]: *** [first_rule] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/Kernel/linux/kernel' make: *** [_dir_kernel] Error 2 atlantia:~/Kernel/linux#
Re: 2.1.132 compile errors.
Ahhh, ok. Wasn't sure what was up. the .125, .130 and .131 kernels compile fine for me from tsx-11. Oh well, i'll have to stick with .131. and play with .132 on my Pentiumpro box. :) --chris On Sun, 27 Dec 1998, Anton Blanchard wrote: I'm getting errors trying to compile 2.1.132 on my SS5-85 and was wondering if anyone else had any trouble, or ideas on how to fix. Hi Chris, The mainstream kernel is out of sync for sparc. For the moment use the vger kernel (see ftp://vger.rutgers.edu/pub/linux/README.CVS) or else wait a while for davem and linus to sync up. Cheers, Anton
Good sparc system?
I'd like to get a sparc based sun system to fiddle with, and was wondering what a good beginner system would be. Preferably, I'd like to stay at or under $100 US. I've seen several SLC's, IPX's, and some SparcStations for sale at ebay.com in my range. Is one of these better than the rest, or should I look for something better. Also, if spending a little more money would dramatically increase the speed / upgradablility / over all value of the system, I'd consider it. Also, what would be a good price for the system? Coming from the ix86 realm, I don't know much about telling a good deal from a bad one. Thanks, Chris
Re: Good sparc system? - Cont
How about the ELC? There are a couple on the ebay.com auction block. One is $30.00 with 0mem and 0hd. It appears that it should be supported in s/linux. And if I understand the specs I read, it takes standard 72pin simms (like those in my pc), correct. Also, they come with a built in monitor - right? Anyway, how does it function, and is it worth messing with. TIA, Chris
Re: Slink release - what's left?
On Feb 16, Michael Schmitz wrote: Adam Di Carlo wrote: Even after we release, officially, I think it's important to keep working on the boot floppies, on the documentation, and on the CD. Adam, just a general comment from my side (I realize that you are not responsible for this, but you asked): Personally, I'm screaming mad that I find new updates to base packages almost every day on master even though we're in a pretty prolonged freeze now. Meaning I can't just rebuild part of the boot-floppies but have to go through the full cycle again which takes around 4-5 hours each time on the machine I use. It still requires manually adding the Mac magic, and general babysitting the build process, can only be done after office hours etc. I think Adam was speaking in general terms (i.e. so we're ready for making potato stuff without suddenly running around like headless chickens a month before release). As far as boot-floppies for m68k (and other platforms, for that matter) goes, I don't see any need to keep them in daily sync with the installed packages on master. IMHO as long as the base system is functioning, the user's first dselect run should take care of anything that has been superseded. People installing from frozen can deal with it until it becomes Really Frozen (tm) at the end of the week; then we can build new disk images from the archives and make sure they work with a week to spare until we're Really Really Frozen And We *Really* Mean It This Time (tm). Chris -- = |Chris Lawrence| The Linux/m68k FAQ | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.linux-m68k.org/faq/faq.html | | || | Amiga A4000/060 with | Visit the Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5: | | Linux/m68k 2.1.127 | * http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/ * | =
Re: ssh for sparc-debian
ftp.lh.umu.se /pub/linux/debian-non-US --Chris On Tue, 9 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, can someone tell me where i can get ssh for debian sparc? Shashi Kanbur [EMAIL PROTECTED] Five College Astronomy Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 USA (413) 577 0470 (413) 545 4223 (Fax) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: netscape
Try going to ftp.mozilla.org there should be a netscape sparc version there... hmm, also, I thought there was a package avaiable. Unfortunally I can't get to my sparcbox right now to check. --Chris
Re: netscape
You gotta do the mozilla.org site also, in non-free there should be a DebianSparc package. --Chris On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Daniel Urbach wrote: Chris Trainor wrote: Try going to ftp.mozilla.org there should be a netscape sparc version there... hmm, also, I thought there was a package avaiable. Unfortunally I can't get to my sparcbox right now to check. --Chris I used ftp.netscape.com, you have to go several levels deep to find a sparc version, it is unsuported BTW and I have found it only runs on the 2.0.35 kernel the 2.1 and 2.2 kernels give me a lot of rumbling and grumbling on the hard drive like it is going to start...then it comes back with bus error Best of luck with your new Sparc install Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 24bits and colors
I always wanted 24bit color for my sparc, till I found out the cheapest I could get a ZX framebuffer (or the one of the SS-5) was going to cost as much as my Sparc5 did... so, needles to say, I live with the ekky colors in X. :) --Chris
Re: 24bits and colors
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Joshua Uziel wrote: Heh... reminds me... don't even ask what this TurboGX cost me. :) Oh well... at least X is usable now... Sun hardware is expensive, but you get what you pay for... True, it's very nice even if ti dosnt' do 24bit color. Eventually (like in the next 6 months) I want to get a Sparc20 and use the onboard SX video.. however most places that have 20's up for grabs adon't have the VSIMMs... :( --Chris
Re: 24bits and colors
Blah, that stinks. What about the APx or whatever it is for the Sparc5? --Chris On 31 Mar 1999, Steve Dunham wrote: Chris Trainor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I always wanted 24bit color for my sparc, till I found out the cheapest I could get a ZX framebuffer (or the one of the SS-5) was going to cost as much as my Sparc5 did... so, needles to say, I live with the ekky colors in X. :) The ZX is very slow in Linux. Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Odd X problem with fonts...
Hello, today I decided to scratch my disc on my SS5 and install from the CD image just to see how well it goes... :) Right now i've got a bit of a snag (other then the normal 'why didn't we link /dev/mouse to /dev/sunmouse' ) when I try to start X, I get the error: PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file Roman_M Any ideas? this worked before. :) And yes, I installed the PEX fonts, etc. thanks --Chris
GX Framebuffer support
I'm about to buy a SS2 which has a gx framebuffer, which I didn't see listed at several sites as being a supported card, and was wondering if they are currently supported. thanks, -- Chris - Visit Me At http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/chris/ - -- Public PGP Key: Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject retrieve pgpkey or visit http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/chris/about/pgp_key.phtml pgp0ralCRj7ap.pgp Description: PGP signature
Kernel compilation, why no fpu
I'm compiling 2.2.9 on a spacstation 2 and the CFLAGS entry in the arch makefile specify the -mno-fpu flag, why is this? thanks, -- Chris - Visit Me At http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/chris/ - -- Public PGP Key: Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject retrieve pgpkey or visit http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/chris/about/pgp_key.phtml pgpfT9yWHpPMR.pgp Description: PGP signature
Storing devalias's into nvram
How do you reset a devalias, and store it into nvram? I'd like to change the device disk0 to point to a different value and then store it in nvram reason being. thanks in advance, -- Chris - Visit Me At http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/chris/ - -- Public PGP Key: Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject retrieve pgpkey or visit http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/chris/about/pgp_key.phtml pgptzeFFfFgtC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Net Booting
I'm trying to netboot an install, and am almost there, but can't quite get it. Here's what I'm doing: I have a SS 2 that I am trying to install debian on and would like to net boot from the tftpboot image (to avoid floppies, and I don't have a cdrom). I have another debian (i386 fwiw) box with rarp setup and an entry for the sparc I am trying to boot. On the rarp server I also have tftp setup with the boot image in /boot, along with a hard link to C0.A8.1.6.SUN4C (the sparc's ip address in hex, with it's arch affixed). When I do a boot net on the SS it shows the device and sits there, everyonce in a while sending out a packet to the network. Before I had entered a rarp entry the SS would complain about not getting a arp/rarp answer, so I'd guess this is working now. I can tftp files from the sparc (running an almost-dead hack of debian that came with it), including the files I need, so that's working as well. What am I doing wrong? (Maybe I need th change the name of the file?) thanks! -- Chris - Visit Me At http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/chris/ - -- Public PGP Key: Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject retrieve pgpkey or visit http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/chris/about/pgp_key.phtml pgpgmZvHVolVg.pgp Description: PGP signature
SILO won't load images
I'm trying to get silo to load kernels which I've made for my sparc (sun4c, a ss2) but silo seems to simply not do it, though it does load debian's kernel just fine. I make a kernel on the sparc and did a make vmlinux, then gzip'd it, put it in /boot, and entered it into /etc/silo. Upon booting and silo's prompt when I enter the image's name silo dies. I have two kernels I'm trying (one of arund 700k gzip'd and one around 900k gzip'd). The 700k kernel say's Uncompressing... for a bit, slows down (the little spinner that is), the says Fatal error: Cannont find a loadable segmet in your ELF image Program terminated leaving me at an ok prompt. The larger kernel shows that it is uncompressing, the spinner slows down, the says: Decompression error: uncompressed image too long - woudln't fin into destination. What does this really mean? (It should have to do with disk space or ram, as I have several hundred megs of hard drive free and 64 megs ram.) Oh yes, I'm trying to build a 2.2.9 kernel and the machine in question is running slink (r0). Any ideas what I might be doing wrong? thanks! -- Chris - Visit Me At http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/chris/ - -- Public PGP Key: Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject retrieve pgpkey or visit http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/chris/about/pgp_key.phtml pgpsYWV50C5fl.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: SILO won't load images
On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 10:13:39AM +0200, Davide Barbieri wrote: You don't have to compress the kernel image. Right, but they can be compressed. Anyway, I gunzip'd the kernel images just to check again and the 700K kernel (with many things as modules) became 2.2MB and gives the same error message. The 900K kernel (now 2.6MB) spins for a bit, the says twice, Fatal error: Image to large to fit in destination followed by Image not found try again puzzled, -- Chris - Visit Me At http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/chris/ - -- Public PGP Key: Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject retrieve pgpkey or visit http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/chris/about/pgp_key.phtml pgpnyMXyolEy3.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: SILO won't load images
On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 05:01:18PM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: If the kernel is dynamically linked, that certainly sounds like a problem! cd /usr/src/linux rm vmlinux make vmlinux /usr/src/linux/vmlinux? That's it! I'm used to kernels being in arch/arch/boot, so I've been using vmlinux.o from there (I was wondering why it left the .o there, but didn't think much else of it). (It's always little things like this that troubles me...) to do the final linking again and see what command is being run for the final link (something like ld ... -o vmlinux). yes, it doesn't an ld -m ... Aweseome, thanks so much! Running 2.2.9 now, -- Chris - Visit Me At http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/chris/ - -- Public PGP Key: Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject retrieve pgpkey or visit http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/chris/about/pgp_key.phtml pgpf6YEnLq2uS.pgp Description: PGP signature
sparc power light goes out upon 2.2 boot
I just compiled a 2.2.9 kernel for a sparcstation 2 ahd upon booting the kernel the keyboard lights flash and the power light on the sparc goes out (thought the computer is still running). This doesn't happen under debian's kernel (2.0.35, this machine is running slink). What be causing this? Another oddity of the 2.2.9 kernel is that netscape (4.51, glibc-sparc-linux) dies while loading with a bus error, it worked just fine under 2.0.35. What might be causing this? thanks again! -- Chris - Visit Me At http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/chris/ - -- Public PGP Key: Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject retrieve pgpkey or visit http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/chris/about/pgp_key.phtml pgpj6dJxVXlTF.pgp Description: PGP signature
JDK for Debian Linux/Sparc
Heya, is there a JDK that works for Debian Sparclinux? I got 1.1.6 from Blackdown.org for Sparclinux, but it keeps segfaulting on me. :( I know it works under RedHat, so I was wondering if anyone else out there has gotten it to work. thanks --Chris (FYI: Sparc5, 2.2.9 kernel, Debian potato
Re: Netscape and 2.2.5
Try using kernel 2.2.9. I use that on my Sparc 5 with netscape 4.5 and have no troubles. --chris On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, sleep wrote: I upgraded my kernel from 2.0.35 to 2.2.5, now i seem to be getting a bus error everytime i try to load netscape 4.5. Is there a better version or a way to get it to load using this kernel? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xfree on sparc
The TX1 is part of the CG6 chipset (just faster) and only supports 8bit color depth. This is a limitation of the card, not of X. --Chris On Mon, 18 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to change color depth on sparc-debian? I have SS5 with TX1 gphx with 20 monitor. I don't know what a TX1 is. Check the frame buffer FAQ at: http://bul.eecs.umich.edu/~crowej/sunfaq/FrameBuffer.html Many (most?) Sun frame buffers support only 8-bit color and cannot be changed. Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: audio?
Some stuff works. Like ICQ Java for example, you can hear the noises correctly. Also, freeamp if you compile it yourself shoudl work. (at least on my ss5). --Chris On Mon, 18 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have audio working on a Debian Sparc box? I compiled a kernel with cs4231 support, but all it produces when I try to play anything is noise. (Endian problem?) I noticed that audio is not included with the default kernels. Is there some reason for this? Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: audio?
I think most of the stuff was just quick ports, if they were ported at all. A lot of the packages seem to come out of the binary-all directory, not from the binary-sparc direcories. --Chris On Mon, 18 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some stuff works. Like ICQ Java for example, you can hear the noises correctly. Also, freeamp if you compile it yourself shoudl work. (at least on my ss5). Do you know why nearly all audio apps fail to produce reasonable sound? Should bug reports be filed? Eric
Re: audio?
Wow, dude, take another pill or something. :) I thought I was being helpful, I didn't expect to be hammered. Anyway, if you need something to work and it's critical for you, port it yourself. Or feel free to take on the role of package manager. You could file bug reports if you like. Here is a good place, the debian ports website could be better. Put in the package name as well as what your problem is. There is also an audio faq. Most of the issues are big endian / little endian issues. Freeamp for example works because it can deal with that. Freeamp however fails on crap MP3's where others do a better job. If an audio file was made on a sparc, it'll work fine by catting it to /dev/dsp. It also might be helpful to know what kind of sparc you have. If you got something really cheesy dosn't expect much. I personally won't recomned audio on anything lower then a ss5. But i'm sure there are others here who think it's fine on older machines. --Chris On Mon, 18 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think most of the stuff was just quick ports, if they were ported at all. A lot of the packages seem to come out of the binary-all directory, not from the binary-sparc direcories. Forgive me, I'm new to Debian Sparc. If a package exists for Debian Sparc, and it fails to perform its desired function, should a bug report be filed? I don't care if it's a quick port or coming out of binary-all, if there's a problem with a sparc package, do we file bug reports in the same bug tracking system as the i386 crowd? What's the proper procedure? Secondly, do you know what the actual problem is here? Most stuff seems to work without many problems on Sparc, but audio is a 100% flop so far as I have been able to determine. I mean, even cat file /dev/dsp fails to produce anything but white noise. Is cat a quick port, too? Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: audio?
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry. I didn't really mean to be that aggressive. It's getting late in this corner of the world, and I've had a little too much caffeine, I think... No problem... I just woke up so my tolerence level is a bit low. :) Or feel free to take on the role of package manager. I thought Debian had closed the new developer application process? Well, I think anyone who wants to work is welcome. Also, I just remembered that I think RedHat's audio stuff is a bit better off on Sparc then Debian. Debian only just released the Sparc version less then a year ago, while RedHat's Sparc has been around a while. They have a few extra things hammered out. Audio just dosn't seem to be a high priority. It would be nice to have nice streamlined audio, it is a bit discouraging that TIK is the only thing that works really well. :) But if you have an 8-bit wav file, how does endianness matter? I would think that it would be the same either way. Maybe I'm just naive about audio True, it shouldn't. I've also had some interesting issues. Sometimes some wav files play fine from a Windows machine, other wav files just give me noise. There could still actually be some driver issues. I guess it's time to look at the code and start filing bug reports with patches. Those are the most likely to actually get fixed. That generally gets quick attention. :) 143 MHz Ultra 1, with CS4231 audio chip. (At least, that's the one I'm working on at the moment. I've got a few older ones, too.) Heh, nope, your all set. :) I'm here with a measly little SS5-85. :) --Chris
Re: audio?
On Tue, 19 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using Debian more or less exclusively since 0.93R6. I did my first Debian installation over four years ago. I've been very happy with Debian, and I'm not eager to switch to RH. That was on i386, of course. My first Sparc installation was last week. Cool. I've been using Debian on i386 for a while as well. I had used RedHat on a sparc originally, but I just couldn't stand Redhat. :) So I just put up with Debian's pre-release quirks. I've been toying with the idea of porting ALSA, but that's a big job. It runs on i386 and Alpha now, but it won't compile under sparc. The DMA code is all different. It might be more than I have time to handle right Heh, that would be cool. :) --Chris
Re: hardware question: power supply rating for sparc 5
150W is correct. The reason why most PC's have bigger supplies is because you can put a lot more stuff in them generally. Also, many of the 200W PC power supplies i've run into wont' run at 200W for too long. :) --Chris On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, John Davis wrote: Hello I thought someone here might know this question. What is the standard power supply rating for a sparc 5. I recently purchased a sparc 5 for use with Debian and I was surprised that it only had a 150W power supply. Is that normal? Most PC's come with a 200W or 250W power supply. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Fwd: info on sparc10]
I have checked suns web site and all of the Sparstations and Ultra Series have been Y2K compliant since there inception. As far as using a PC Screen with the 10, my expierence has shown that only a few 17 and most 19 monitors can synch up to the boot screen for diagnostics. If I remeber right the freq is 83 Hz but I could be off on that. I know that NEC A900 and Compaq MV900 all synch up just fine. Another option is to check eBay they have some decent buys on 16 which run $50-$100 for the sun system.Hope I could help :-) ---BeginMessage--- On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, christophe plasschaert wrote: hi everybody and happy christmas for all New on this list, i've the possibility to buy a sparcstation 10 and i would like to know a few things before: Will the hardware go through y2k ? As far as I know, there is nothing explicitly date-dependent in Sparc hardware architecture. Is it interesting to use this hardware ? The Sparc 10 was midway between the Sparc 5 and the Sparc 20 in the SparcStation/SparcServer line, and supported dual processors. I have a Sparc 5 that runs at around 70Mhz, with roughly the computing power of a 486-DX100; the Sparc 10 should perform around the same as a Pentium 60, at a guess. can i use a pc screen with this station ( with adaptator ) ? Yes, provided that the Sparc comes with a framebuffer (Sun-flavor video card). The Sparc 20 generally requires a Sun monitor, since the PC ones don't support the resolution the 20 wants to put out, but the 10 should be fine. any information which can help a newbie with this kind of hardware. Building a boot floppy for a Sparc is more involved than for a PC. I tried copying a Sparc boot image to a floppy with dd, and got an error message from my 5, saying that it didn't find a Sun label on the boot disk. OTOH, you can get a Debian Linux CD set from Linuxcentral.com for a reasonable amount of money, which will boot a Sparc with no problem. I have my Sparc 5 (which came with two NICs) running as a network server/firewall/NAT box, and it performs its function admirably. OTOH, trying to do any kind of large-scale data moving/computation with it (copying CDs to hard disk, installing Solaris, building Linux kernels, etc.) is pretty slow. thanks a lot for your answer and sorry for my bad english. Your English looks fine to me! Hope mine is equally comprehensible to you. :-) All the best, --Walter Keeler [EMAIL PROTECTED]*** Walter Keeler * If my words did glow...* San Francisco, CA *** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---End Message---
Audio?
Hey everyone... I *finally* got audio working on my Ultra10 here at school. The 2.2.14 kernel seems to have done the trick. However, I am unable to do anymore then play basic audio via sox/play. When I try to use freeamp or xmms the audio is all static. Anyone have any ideas? chris -- ^^ chris mckillop - [EMAIL PROTECTED]The faster I go, the behinder I get. Debian GNU/Linux -- Lewis Carroll http://www.debian.org/ Waterloo Aerial Robotics Group - http://ece.uwaterloo.ca/~warg/ pgpLJGsowSt6w.pgp Description: PGP signature
SPARC iso image wanted
Hi, Does anybody know where I could ftp an ISO image of slink or potato for SPARC from? pseudo-image-kit is a great idea, unfortunately cannot use it at at the moment. Regards, Chris
Raptor GFX
Hi, Has anybody of you managed to use Raptor GFX graphic card with SPARC-Linux? Thanks for your time. Regards, Chris
Re: Booting Debian from floppies on UltraSparc.
Last I knew, when I tried to install the first time on my Ultra 1 about 6 mos ago, and from what I have heard, you cannot install from a floppy. There is a problem booting Ultra machines off of a floppy. I would recomend waiting for the ISO's and doing it that way. It is a much easier way than the alternatives I know of (tftpboot :( )Chris B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install the current frozen distribution, but I wouldn't mind even older one (assuming dselect and apt-get would work after that). Just to start. I am downloading ISO images right now, but tomorrow morning PDT, I would like to start installation. If I could make it from floppies, I would be happier, though. I know that Red Hat is bootable there, but it was from a CD (that's why am I downloading ISO images - I wouldn't otherwise). When I press Stop-A and after I get ok prompt, I can test floppy which shows it's there and successfuly readable. boot floppy doesn't work, though. The error message says Can't open disk label package and something about bad magic number. I tried to find help on http://www.debian.org/releases/frozen/sparc/install.en.txt, but that document isn't very useful. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Peter. P.S.: I even tried today version of bootfloppies. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sparc5 install woes
Well, It sounds like the same problem I had, with my system it was the fact the Linux kernel module cannot drop it's SCSI bus synch rate low enough. I ended up having to use an external hard drive. You can check this by watching the boot messages, it should give you an idea. If the system sorta hangs when initializing the 2.1GB. Also another way to check would be if when it is formating if the drive or SCSI bus is reset often. drop to either VT3 or VT4 and watch for SCSI bus resets or errors. Chris B Christopher Proctor wrote: I've been trying to get linux on my Sparc 5 for a week now. I've tried both RedHat 6.2 and Debian 2.1 with the following errors Red Hat- Always ends up in a signal 11 termination when it starts to format the drive Debian- After doing bad block check- install seems to hang at writing superblocks and filesystem auditing The system is a 70mghz SS5 with 64mb RAM, 2.1GB Seagate Barracudda drive, no floppy and using a DEC RRD43 for the boot cdrom. Any advice you can give is appreciated- I am starting to wonder if maybe the Seagate is bad. -ShirKahn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Is Video Capture Supported
Dear All, I have a question, I just recently laid my hands on a SBUS Video Capture card for my Ultra 1. It has a phillips chip on it, now my question, is it supported in any shape or form under Linux? Chris B www.inventivecomm.com
Q: Slink packages
Hi, Does anybody know of a FTP-server still having Slink for Sparc? Before somebody asks 'why?' I failed to install Potato on an Ultra1 from CD-ROM and installed quite old Slink on it. Now I have to update few packages to be able to upgrade. It's a hard work to get rid of those RedHat installs ;-) Thanks for your time. Regards, Chris
Re: Q: Slink packages
Thanks. I love those works for me answers ;-) Regards, Chris On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 02:52:16PM +0200, Chris Osicki wrote: Hi, Heyaaa!!! Does anybody know of a FTP-server still having Slink for Sparc? Before somebody asks 'why?' I failed to install Potato on an Ultra1 from CD-ROM and installed quite old Slink on it. Now I have to update few packages to be able to upgrade. which few packages? i have slink CD-ROM and archived slink ftp files ... 5o - Ing. Peter Manne-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UVT - TU KosiceICQ # : 12491471 - KLFMANiK PM2185-RIPE
Re: Q: Slink packages
Thanks Sebastian. Regards, Chris On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Sebastian Ritter wrote: On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Peter Mann wrote: On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 02:52:16PM +0200, Chris Osicki wrote: Hi, Heyaaa!!! Does anybody know of a FTP-server still having Slink for Sparc? Before somebody asks 'why?' I failed to install Potato on an Ultra1 from CD-ROM and installed quite old Slink on it. Now I have to update few packages to be able to upgrade. which few packages? i have slink CD-ROM and archived slink ftp files ... I believe Peter would prefer this one: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian-archive/slink/ # ;-) That URL is apt-getable. Just my $0.02 Sebastian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gpg: 0A17B8EC icq: 86831140 Key fingerprint = C693 9161 F596 6333 C22D 1BCC F385 A303 0A17 B8EC
Re: potato on Ultra1
Ben, you were almost right ;-) I have the correct image but my CD is broken. And this is the bit I cannot understand. The ISO image is OK, I setup a tftp server loop-mounted it and used it for a NFS install which went fine. I burnt two CD's, different brands on the same drive, third one on a different drive is going on. The files on the CD has the _same_ sizes as the ones on the mounted ISO-image but are just garbage. Weird. Regards, Chris On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 09:35:55 EDT Ben Collins wrote: On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 12:28:58PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I tried to boot potato from CD-ROM on a Ultra1 and as result I got: Unknown image /boot/sun4u/linux format Any ideas what could be wrong? You've gotten a copy of the bad ISO. You need the new 2.2_rev0_CDa images, or use one of the other boot methods (netboot, tftp). The CD is fine for other than booting. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Where can I find a 2.2 ROM for a SS20?
Any ideas on where I could get a v2.2 PROM for a SS20? thanks --Chris
RE: Sparc 20 Quad 100 with 24Bit
Anybody tried debian on a Sparcstation 20 with Quad 100MHz CPU's and the 24Bit upgrade for the onboard FB? Does it work, and does it run 24Bit Color, or 32Bit Color? Chris Brandstetter Inventive Communications
Re: Floppy from sparc on x86
Has anyone figured out how to get the floppy out of a sparc to fully work on an x86, if so is there anything special I need to do to get it to work and eject. The extra one I have doesn't seem to work correctly. Chris B
Ultra5 Raptor GFX
Hi, Is there anybody out there being successful with the following configuration: Potato, Ultra5 Raptor GFX Xsun and Xsun24 crash the system. Any help would be much appreciated. Regards, Chris
Install Boot Problem
Hello, I'm trying to install Debian 2.2rev2 on an Ultra 5 workstation. I already have Redhat 6.2 working on it, but wanted to try Debian. When booting from the cdrom after I choose s, it starts to boot up, but then runs into the following error: request_module[block-major-11]: Root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device 0b:00 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 0b:00 Press L1-A to return to the boot prom Does anyone know what may be going wrong and what is block-major-11? Thanks. chris.
Netscape as usual... :(
Ok, does anyone know what is required these days to get Netscape to actually run on woody? I downloaded and installed from source for netscape 4.5, but I keep getting 'bus errors'. :( Anyone know of a fix for this? hmmm, i'm thinking I should write a 'how-to' if I ever get this working again. :) thanks --Chris
sun e250, network
I am unable to get the eth0 interface to get an ip via dhcp if i use ifconfig and bring up the eth0 interface manually my specifing an ip, i have connectivity (ping, etc) but I am unable to get the interface to get an address via dhcp the module is sunhme
libgtk-dev and libglib-dev problems
Hello Everyone, I have just installed Potato release on a sparc-5. I'm trying to install libgtk-dev and libglib-dev. It seems that I cannot install both. I get the error below. thewave3:/usr/local# apt-get install libglib-dev Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Note, selecting libglib1.2-dev instead of libglib-dev You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: xchat: Depends: libc6 (= 2.2.2-2) but 2.1.3-13 is to be installed Depends: libgtk1.2 (= 1.2.10-1) but 1.2.7-1 is to be installed Depends: libperl5.6 (= 5.6.0-21) but it is not installable Depends: xlibs (= 4.0.1-11) but it is not installable Depends: xchat-common (= 1.6.4-3) but it is not going to be installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). thewave3:/usr/local# apt-get -f install libglib-dev Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Note, selecting libglib1.2-dev instead of libglib-dev You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: xchat: Depends: libc6 (= 2.2.2-2) but 2.1.3-13 is to be installed Depends: libgtk1.2 (= 1.2.10-1) but 1.2.7-1 is to be installed Depends: libperl5.6 (= 5.6.0-21) but it is not installable Depends: xlibs (= 4.0.1-11) but it is not installable Depends: xchat-common (= 1.6.4-3) but it is not going to be installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). I don't understand this. I just want libglib-dev and libgtk-dev installed so I can either compile the xchat-1.6.4 source or 'dpkg' the xchat-1.6.4 deb package. -Chris
RE: SunPCI II x86 Card
Dear All, I am getting an Ultra 10 Worstation for my home use, and I was wondering if the PCI x86 Card, I am looking at getting either the 300 or 400MHz AMD K6-2, would run linux? Also another question I am going to Dual Boot Solaris and Linux on the Machine, is the x86 PCI card supported under Linux? Chris Brandstetter
Re: Mozilla on sparc
That version dosn't seem to be usable on the current unstable release it used to work, and used to work wonderfully (fast, stable, etc), but as far as I can tell it's toast on 'unstable' and I havn't been able to get it working. :( --Chris On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Andy Dougherty wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Eduardo Trapani wrote: I just found that Netscape has a 4.5 version for LinuxSparc! And it is usable. ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/english/4.5/unix/unsupported/linux20_sparc_glibc2/complete_install/ I'd recommend reading the security advisory about netscape 4.77, however, before deciding to use 4.5. Debian Security Advisory DSA 051-1 http://www.debian.org/security/ (If the main page hasn't been updated yet, you can also use the list archives to find the announcement.) -- Andy Dougherty[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Physics Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mozilla on sparc
None here, that's what has always been killing it on me... i've spent hours trying to figure out a way around it, but all I get is a 'buss error' :-( (i've even tried rebuilding from source, and it still pukes) --Chris On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, William F. Gannon wrote: thanks for the advice now the problem is I get a bus error when I start it any ideas? On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Eduardo Trapani wrote: I tried to install this (netscape) and got the following, after installing and tryig to execute /usr/local/netscape/netscape wrroe in loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.2.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory apt-get install libstdc++2.8 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mozilla on sparc
Sparc 20. And yes, Mozilla is slow and sucky for me too... i've got a pair of SM81's and 160meg of RAM and typing is slow in Mozilla, which is why i'm rather interested in finding a way to get Netscape working again. --Chris On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, William F. Gannon wrote: damn what system do you have. Ultra 5 here any one else get around this? On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Chris Trainor wrote: None here, that's what has always been killing it on me... i've spent hours trying to figure out a way around it, but all I get is a 'buss error' :-( (i've even tried rebuilding from source, and it still pukes) --Chris On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, William F. Gannon wrote: thanks for the advice now the problem is I get a bus error when I start it any ideas? On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Eduardo Trapani wrote: I tried to install this (netscape) and got the following, after installing and tryig to execute /usr/local/netscape/netscape wrroe in loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.2.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory apt-get install libstdc++2.8 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mozilla on sparc
I'm using the local console. I've tried CG6 video, SX and ZX video, with different Xservers... no luck, bus errors all around. --Chris On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Eduardo Trapani wrote: Sparc 20. And yes, Mozilla is slow and sucky for me too... i've got a Are you working at the console or at a remote display? I am trying to see if the problem with Mozilla is related to TCP/IP network as it seems to be in my case. Eduardo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installation on SS5/110
Hi, Ok, I've got myself a nice SS5/110 and have had some trouble with various `other OS's' with it (OpenBSD and NetBSD) so I've decided to try Debian. ;) Got a couple of questions before I go and do it though:- a) This is running as a web/ftp server at home. I assume the thing will work out of the box with a serial console (vt100 emulation on laptop ;). It *does* have a framebuffer in it btw! It'll have a monitor+keyb plugged into it at a later date and be used as a secondary workstation (when I find somewhere to set it up ;) b) How `reliable' is it compared to the i386 port? c) Has anyone had trouble with ftp installs lagging in any way (aka *BSD)? The ftp transfer drops to about 2k/sec and then the installer crashes on *BSD. (This could be due to me using IIS as an ftp server though :p). d) Are there any known gotchas that arent listed in the installation guide? Any answers appreciated, Cheers, - Chris.
Re: Supported framebuffers (esp TGX)
Dear Sir, It depends on what system you have. Pre-Ultra's the only 24 bit frame-buffer is the ZX which is a Dual slot Frame Buffer. For early Ultra's there is the Creator Series , unfortuneatly Ultra's do not accept the ZX Frame Buffer otherwise I'd use one in my Ultra 1 (Which has the 4MB Turbo GX) and later Ultra's have gone to PCI and Creator(PGX32, and Creator, and one other but I can't think of it's name). As far as TurboGX VS GX I have not had any problems (Other than the 76 Colors issue) with it. It is a very good card for 8 bit, I have not had a lick of problems with it, and it refreshes really fast. :-) Overall a very good 8 bit card. Chris Brandstetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Not totally Debian but I shall ask anyway. What are TGX framebuffers like compared to GX ones??? My GX is getting to be dog slow so it's time for an upgrade! Alternatively are there any decent 24-bit ones that are supported by the X servers? Cheers, - Chris. -- -Begin Geek Code GCS d+ s++:++ a- C U+++ L+++ P+++ E--- W+++ o K- w O M V PS PE Y+ PGP++ t++ 5+++ X++ R+ tv b++ DI+ D+ G e+ h++ r-- z? --End Geek Code--- To Decode: http://www.ebb.org/ungeek/
Re: Mark Montague: success report with sparc and hppa cd images (with minor issues)
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 05:45:41PM -0700, Mark Montague wrote: I also thought a little more about the mime-support issue below, and realize that it's an extra-weird situation, in that, e.g. lynx Recommends: mime-support, and certainly shouldn't Depends: mime-support, but it would need the equivalent of Pre-Depends, e.g. Pre-Recommends: mime-support or some such, but no such category seems to exist. I'm not sure where I should bug report this... - -- a number of base packages complain that mime-support needs to be set up; the ones I had problems with were lynx, less, and lpr: Setting up less (358-9) ... Warning: could not read '/etc/mailcap' (update stopped) -- No such file or directory restore from backup or delete and re-install mime-support package I filed a bug on tasksel for this, but that was the wrong place. It's actually a message from update-mime. The problem is that these packages are not supposed to depend on mime-support, and just call update-mime if it exists. apt-get does all the installations, then goes back and does all the postinst's. So the deal is, the update-mime script has been installed, but the mime-support postinst hasn't been run yet, which is where /etc/mailcap gets created. And apparently update-mime isn't smart enough to create a new /etc/mailcap when it's missing, and complains instead. I was going to try to figure out a patch to send in with a bug report, but if you beat me to it, so much the better... -- ** | .''`. | Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org | | : :' : | debian-imac: http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net | | `. `'` | Chris Tillman[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `-|May the Source be with you| ** - End forwarded message - -- ** | .''`. | Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org | | : :' : | debian-imac: http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net | | `. `'` | Chris Tillman[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `-|May the Source be with you| **
SPARCStation 10 Diskless install problems.
Greetings, I'm trying to set up a SPARCStaion10 as a diskless client with the nfs/tftp/bootp/rarp server being a RedHat7.1 server. I was able to go and tftp the tftpboot.img file, go through the install process where it figured out that I wanted to do a diskless install, it downloaded the drivers, rescue and base installed all of that into the root directory on the nfs server. It then came time to reboot the system. When the system rebooted it came back starting the install script from the beginning. In reading up on the install process for a diskless client, I've read that one needs to then remove the tftpboot.img file, replace it with the linux-a.out file. I have done this... now when the SS10 boots up, it comes up saying that it can't mount the nfs partition... I know that the partition is being exported properly... one interesting thing to point out is that the workstation (with the linux-a.out tftp'd kernel) is not setting up it's ethernet port... I see no entries from my dhcp server or rarp server for an allocation of an IP address to the workstation (other than the initial rarp entry from when it got the tftp kernel). What am I missing that will allow the linux-a.out kernel to get the IP address it so desparately needs to be able to finally mount nfs-root? I'm assuming that my linux-a.out is missing kernel level IP autoconfiguration via dhcp/bootp ― and that's what's causing the inability to get to the nfs server. I'd love to go and compile another kernel for this box, but I don't have a box on which I could compile such kernel. I've had several people tell me that there are parameters that I should be passing to the linux-a.out kernel which should jump-start it into getting an ethernet address, however, I'm unable to find anything documented about what those may be. I've also read where people say to use mknbi-linux. I've installed it, and when trying to follow through the manpages for it, I keep getting that linux-a.out is not a Linux kernel image. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! Chris
SunBlade 100 install problems
Hi, I unsuccessfully tried to network install Debian on a SunBlade 100. The machine gets the tftpboot.img fine, then I see on the screen: - 288400 TILO Selecting sun4u kernel... - Remapping the kernel... done. Booting Linux... - and it locks. Hard. I use image from: http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/disks-sparc/current/sun4u/ Any idea? Thanks for your time. Regards, Chris
Video Help
I have a Ultra5 running Debian 2.2r4, using the onboard video adapter. I am trying to add a PCI adapter to help improve my viewing. Here is what I have done so far. Powered down and added the card and moved the cable to the new card. Upon reboot I get nothing on the monitor. I then moved the cable back to the working motherboard adapter and rebooted again. It locked up at loading SILO. I then removed the new card and I am back to square one. I know that card works because I did plug it into a Windoze machine. I am stumped. Please help. Chris. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
RE: [Video Help]
I am installing an ATI with the Rage128 chipset. This is common card for me that use in intel based Linux systems. If there is an easier way to go, I am all ears. I just want to improve my video quality. thanks. Chris. -Original Message- From: Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 12:44 PM To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: [Video Help] Unless the card has an FCode PROM (meaning it was designed for use in Sun systems) it will not be activated by the OBP and you will see nothing until the OS is able to configure and use it. If it does have FCode, you still may have to modify OBP settings to have it be used by default (see the Sun Framebuffer FAQ at sunhelp.org). Either way, I have no idea about what 3rd party cards are supported on Linux/SPARC64 but I am fairly certain nobody will be able to help you without knowing exactly what card you are attempting to use. E Chris Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Ultra5 running Debian 2.2r4, using the onboard video adapter. I am trying to add a PCI adapter to help improve my viewing. Here is what I have done so far. Powered down and added the card and moved the cable to the new card. Upon reboot I get nothing on the monitor. I then moved the cable back to the working motherboard adapter and rebooted again. It locked up at loading SILO. I then removed the new card and I am back to square one. I know that card works because I did plug it into a Windoze machine. I am stumped. Please help. Chris. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
SPARCstation 5 (sun4m) and 2.4.17 on Debian 2.2r4
Hi, I know I have seen this discussed before on various mailing lists, but it was generally regarding the 2.4.0-test kernels. I am attempting to use 2.4.17 on a SPARCstation 5 (85MHz) (sun4m) with 192MB of RAM. On attempting to boot the kernel I get the following message; SILO boot: PROMLIB: obio_ranges 1 bootmem_init: Scan sp_banks, init_bootmem(spfn[41ad],bpfn[4a1d],mlpfn[c000]) It then pauses for a period of about 3 mins then I get the following (as expected), Watchdog Reset, Rebooting. Resetting ... I have attempted to pass it mem=16M as some earlier posts suggested to do on 2.4.0-test kernels with no luck. On enable PROM_DEBUG_CONSOLE in /usr/src/linux/arch/sparc/kernel/setup.c I see that the kernel does oops, however as the screen moves up very quickly I cannot read what it is saying. Thanks in advance, Chris
Re: IPX net boot freezes at Booting Linux...
From: Dave Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 08:45:49PM -0700, Mark Zimmerman wrote: Greetings: I'm trying to boot a sparc IPX off of the network. The stuff on the server side seems to be OK since the RARP works and the kernel gets downloaded. Then, it freezes. Here is how it looks on a serial console: (Tried actual console too, no difference) I had the same problem recently with a SS2. My workaround was this: 1) set up /etc/ethers /etc/hosts and /etc/bootparams as if I were to do a normal network boot. This is a little off topic. I like the debian style network boot better than the sun normal network boot (need bootparams and nfs for a root directory). NetBSD can't even do the the Ben Collins/Debian style single rarp/tftpboot boot. 2) copy the linux-a.out into /tftpboot/XXX.SUN4C 3) untar the root.tar.gz into a NFS exported directory 4) get to the ok prompt, and adjust this command to your environment .51 is the address for the IPX, .50 is the address of the NFS server ok boot net ip=192.168.1.51 root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.1.50:/exports/debian-sparc-root What are other options for boot net options? How can I find out? Chris
2.5.3-pre5 io-unit.c compile error on sparc32
Hi, When attempting to compile 2.5.3-pre5 I got the following error: io-unit.c: In function `iounit_get_scsi_sgl': io-unit.c:134: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type io-unit.c: In function `iounit_map_dma_area': io-unit.c:193: `mem_map' undeclared (first use in this function) io-unit.c:193: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once io-unit.c:193: for each function it appears in.) make[2]: *** [io-unit.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/sparc/mm' make[1]: *** [first_rule] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/sparc/mm' make: *** [_dir_arch/sparc/mm] Error 2 To resolve this I added #include linux/mm.h into the top of arch/sparc/mm/io-unit.c In future should this be posted as a patch file and is this the correct place to post it to. I downloaded the latest CVS version from vger.samba.org about 2 hours ago, so it is up to date. Chris
