Re: Ultra 60
Hi Daniel,
This problem is a classic...
You have two options:
- Buy on ebay two Creator3D cards (they are quite
cheap, no more than a few tens of $; without being
bad, they are significantly less performant than the
Elite3D), and install using the sunffb driver. I used
this option and Debian ran straight away without any
problem.
- Elite3D is using the afb driver. Download from Sun
the patch containing the afb microcode and install it
once you have installed debian. The procedure has been
described many times in the list archives. I
personnally found it a bit tricky, and preferred to
undust a couple of Creator3D cards...
Rgds,
Joseph Simantov
--- Daniel Siminiuk <dsiminiuk@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a pair of U60's fully decked out (dual 450MHz
> CPUs, 2GB memory and
> Elite3d video) and have installed Sarge and Etch at
> one time or another. At
> no time have I had any success getting them to start
> or run in graphical
> Xwindows mode. I have seen other threads here about
> installing a frame
> buffer package but the dependencies for that package
> conflict with existing
> packages already installed and replacing those is a
> far reaching effort. I
> gave up and installed Sol10 on one of them and left
> the other with Etch in
> text mode (it's a mail server now anyway so who
> cares).
>
> For more info than I have search the archived
> messages for subject "*X
> server fails to start after netinstall of Etch on
> Ultra 60"
>
> *If there is an easier way I would appreciate some
> insight.
>
> Thanks
>
> Daniel
>
> On 8/6/07, Joseph Simantov <jsimantov@yahoo.com >
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Joerg,
> >
> > I've encountered this message on a U60 and it is
> > almost always related to a CD writen 'too fast'.
> >
> > It disappeared when I re-recorded the CD at 4x.
> >
> > Also watch, when installing Debian 4.0, the
> graphic
> > card issue. If you have an Elite3D, the
> installation
> > can become a little tricky; the issue has been
> dealt
> > with a number of times in the past.
> >
> > Good luck,
> >
> > Joseph
> >
> >
> >
> > --- joersch@jstephan.org wrote:
> >
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > i`ve downloaded the debian 4.0 to install debian
> on
> > > my sun ultra 60.
> > >
> > > It was nice to see the ultra booting the cs, but
> > > after loading the
> > > ramdisk,
> > > or better i say during loading it, it fails with
> an
> > > error message
> > > telling
> > > "illegal instruction" so, someone know what
> happend?
> > >
> > > Grettz
> > > Joerg
> > >
> > >
> > >
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