[SPARCbook] 3XP Linux/XFree86

[Rodolfo Segleau]

Just a quick note, if anyone here needs the image to the Solaris 2.5.1 CD from 
Tadpole (for some odd reason of wanting the NCE), let me know. i have a burned 
image on the ftp here at mechanus, would just have to put it in a world 
readable folder. 



Cheers, 

Rodolfo

--
The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to 
discover new truths; the next is to shake off old prejudices. - Frederick the 
Great

> ----- Message from brendan at polylith.com ---------
>     Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 13:02:50 -0500
>     From: "Brendan D. Donahe" <brendan at polylith.com>
> Reply-To: sparcbook at sunhelp.org
>  Subject: [SPARCbook] 3XP Linux/XFree86
>       To: sparcbook at sunhelp.org
> 
> All,
> 
> I was recently given a SparcBook 3XP (64MB RAM, 800MB disk) and have
> mostly successfully installed Debian Linux 3.0r0 (Woody) through the
> simultaneous use of a crowbar and shoehorn.  (I would have considered
> Solaris or NetBSD, but I only have Solaris 2.3 from Tadpole w/NCE and am
> not already familiar with NetBSD.  Anybody have a larger disk for sale
> cheap?)
> 
> Thanks to a recent posting here (I found in the archives), I was able to
> get a 2.3.5 kernel that boots (thanks, Tom!) and includes framebuffer
> support.  I had attempted a 2.4.19 build but the image won't boot, I get
> an "Instruction Access Exception" and drop into the boot prompt after
> decompressing the image.  Does anyone have any ideas or a kernel build
> config file?  I hacked sunlance.c so I could compile.  Are there other
> patches I need?
> 
> Perhaps my most important question follows - does anyone have any
> experience getting XFree86 up and running?  I've had the best luck (in
> other words, least errors) with using the suncg3 driver with framebuffer
> (don't seem to have p9100 support, do I need to go back to XFree86 3.3.6
> from 4.1?) but still can't seem to figure out the mouse.  I've heard that
> it should be /dev/sunmouse with protocol busmouse or mousesystems, but
> startx errors out on "cannot open input device".  I've also tried
> variations on PS/2 and /dev/input/mice.
> 
> Any input would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks much,
> Brendan Donahe
> brendan at polylith.com
> 
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