Re: Debian on ultra 1 (was: Re: Debian on qemu-system-sparc64)
On 02/13/2016 05:26 PM, Romain Dolbeau wrote:
> The SB100 is IDE; U1 is SCSI and uses the sun_esp module.
> Perhaps the problem is just the module is not loaded, since
> few systems (if any) would use it beyond the U1 and U2.
Did you try loading the module?
The sun_esp driver might just be broken the same way the esp driver
is broken on the Amiga for certain SCSI boards. I know that, in fact,
the ESP driver had a major rewrite some time ago and chances are that
this did not just cause regressions on the Amiga but also on your
old Ultra 1.
> X works fine in NetBSD, up to and including the Sun-unsupported
> 1920x1080@60Hz. You need a kernel hack to get that resolution
> though, but anything supported in the PROM is OotB.
Using which driver? It might just be using some generic FB driver.
> Also since the Ultra 1 is younger than me, it's not old :-)
That wasn't really my point. It's simply old in the sense that
currently no one is apparently bothering to fix X.Org and
the kernel.
> That was my first attempt and it failed with a black screen, as
> described in my first message. Going through Lenny/sparc was
> an attempt at circumventing the problem in the cdrom :-)
Did you try a serial console then? If your laptop doesn't have
a serial, try one of these USB-RS232 adapters, these work fine.
Adrian
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