Re: Help Installing Lenny 5.0.0 on Ultra 5

[Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl.debian-sparc@telemetry.co.uk>]

Howard Eisenberger wrote:
> On 2011-03-14, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>
> > Collin Baillie wrote:
> >
> > > I also retrieved 6.0.0 sparc. Is the xorg problem fixed in this release. 
> > A very good question which I've not seen answered authoritatively.
> >
> > > I see that the cmd64x module isn't included, so I guess install will 
> > > fail anyhow. Or has this been fixed also? Basically, should I drop 5.0.0 
> > > and go for 6.0.0 on my Ultra 5? Is there a documented process to install 
> > > a newer 5.0.x release with a working Xorg?
>
> I'm no authority, but I have been successfully running this combination
> on my Ultra 5 for some time:
>
> X.Org X Server 1.7.7
> Release Date: 2010-05-04
> X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
> Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.32-bpo.5-sparc64-smp sparc Debian
> Current Operating System: Linux ultra5.localdomain 2.6.32-5-sparc64 #1 Thu
> Aug 12 15:23:02 UTC 2010 sparc64
> Kernel command line: root=UUID=681641d3-5316-4b76-aa30-284b541d47d0 ro
> Build Date: 15 July 2010  04:58:18PM
> xorg-server 2:1.7.7-3 (Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>) 
>
>
> Also, as I reported here last week:
> Subject: Re: Daily image builds restored
>
> "Installed wheezy using businesscard.iso today (7 Mar.) to Ultra 10
> with IDE Cd-Rom and hard drive, then upgraded to kernel 2.6.37
> without problem."
>
> I haven't installed X yet, but I'll try it and report back.

Thanks for that Howard, we await your results with bated breath.

I do find that editing xorg.conf to use the dummy driver and then 
setting up VNC generally works, except that my results with KDE4 have 
been mixed since it makes far more use of subtle colours.

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