Ben Collins wrote:
Okay; thanks for the info. I reckon I'll havta put a piece of tape over the STOP button or something ;-) (Actually, this seems like a pretty major thing, but I'm not a developer, so can't complain.)If from anywhere, I press Stop-A, the machine hangs. If' I'm at a VT, I see the message "Type 'go' to resume ok", but "go" doesn't do anything; the machine's totally hung. This happens even if I shut down kdm first.Hanging with Stop-A is only because sparc64-linux doesn't relinquish the USB keyboard back to the PROM correctly. I think I remember Dave saying this was a problem that wouldn't be fixed anytime soon, if at all.
I've tried changinr video depths from 24 to 16 (same behaviour), and tried changing the video driver from ati to fbdev (which locks the machine when X starts).The Alt+F8 thing seems weird.
Bummer; I had a whole university-level Computer Science department of kids just waiting to be impressed with Debian over Solaris. Yikes!
Thanks for the response! I appreciate it! -- Kent