[SPARCbook] My Sparcbook3 adventure (Debian X config?) (long)

[David Cantrell]

On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 12:03:02PM -0600, Michael Schwarz wrote:
> What I'm really after here is once I install this 2.3.x kernel from 
> www.nj-onramp.com (and is that the best way to go?  Was this patch merged in 
> such that it is in 2.4.x kernels?  This seems unlikely since I saw this 
> particular patched kernel mentioned in the mailing list archive in October of 
> this year.), what do I have to do to set up the X server?  When I installed X 
> via atp-get, I "guessed" at the configuration, so I'm sure I'm all messed up.  
> Any tips on that?  Also, is that particular kernel from that particular place 
> what I want to use?  Or do I just want to install a 2.4.x kernel?  (This is 
> my first non-Intel Linux box, and I don't assume that just because 2.4.x is 
> out and stable for Intel that it is there for Sparc -- although I see Debain 
> does have 2.4.x kernel packages for Sparc, so you would think it works, but 
> if I do go with the Debian 2.4.x, does the framebuffer work on Sparcbooks?)
> 
> Sorry if I'm being over-paranoid, but it comes from the newness of the 
> environment (to me).  I know the hardware on my PC's right down to the I/O 
> controller reigsters.  I don't know diddly about my Sparcbook and that just 
> plain makes me nervous.  I know I can always re-install if I really mess up, 
> but even with my 256kbit link, this takes quite a bit of time!

Ah, I see what you mean.  Sorry, I can't help there - my Sparcbook is
serving duty as one of my servers right now and so I haven't gone messing
around with it.  Before I can do that, I need to finish moving everything
off of it and onto the nice shiny Ultra 5 that's sitting next to it :-)

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