On 2012-11-11 11:57, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
But I also have crest and kullervo (A3k and A4k) with SCSI drivers, thatprobably do not work anymore in current kernels.
Kullervo should work without any problems as it's an A3000 and Arrakis is the same, which runs happily on 3.2.0-3-amiga.
Upgrading, though, is a little more difficult in the meanwhile, compared to what I once blogged about in http://blog.windfluechter.net/content/blog/2011/07/26/1189-upgrading-m68k-etch-m68k-unstable - you'll need to work around many dependency problems and try hard with dpkg --force-depends and others. Maybe it's easier to use a newer boot image (Wouter was said to make some in Banja Luca Debconf) and install from scratch and restore /etc and such?
I should try to hook themup to my TV/monitor, it would indeed be nice to get rid of the flicker fixer. But does NMMN have a flatscreen TV in its datacenter? Small screens are not very expensive, if they also work, maybe they can get one, sincethey always offer to support Debian.
I got one from my employer. We have/ahd many old TV flat screens from our ships. I'll provide the panel to NMMN, because it has Scart as well as VGA/DVI inputs... it's a 4:3 19" or something like that from LG (LG L193ST).
It would be nice to collect info like this (hardware/driver status, usable monitors, installation hints...) in the wiki. I am not using m68k hardware often enough, so I always start from scratch. Next time I should add somenotes to the wiki.
Good idea. Usually I blog about those kind of things because I forget easily as well, but can remember that I blogged about an issue.
BTW: I'm right now in the progress of trying to setup a buildd chroot. Once done, I try to make a tarball out of it that can be used by the other machines as well. Next step would then be to check if buildd infrastructure is working properly (quinn-diff, wanna-build, sbuild, etc)...
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