[SPARCbook] Powerlite170 and Solaris 9

[Borgen_Gary]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Borgen_Gary" <gary.borgen at verizon.net>
To: "gonufer" <gonufer at yahoo.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: [SPARCbook] Powerlite170 and Solaris 9


> Greg, thanks for the reply.
>
> I didn't see any audio* entries at all in the /platform/sun4m or /dev
> directories.  My guess is that since sun is dropping sun4m support, they
let
> that one slip by the wayside.  However, I'll still check out the audiocs
man
> page.
>
> I searched the Google Usenet on the audio, but not the DHCP.  I'll check
> that out.
>
> No bashing intended to Sun, but bottom line is that Aurora or
fvwm2/Solaris
> may be the way to go for low power systems.
>
> Gary
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "gonufer" <gonufer at yahoo.com>
> To: "Borgen_Gary" <gary.borgen at verizon.net>
> Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 12:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [SPARCbook] Powerlite170 and Solaris 9
>
>
> > On 02/22/04 12:03, Borgen_Gary wrote:
> > > I've run into several problems that I can't seem to find a solution
for:
> > > 1.  Audio support for the sun4m arch has disappeared.
> > >     I have done /reconfigure several times, yet no /dev/audio entry
ever
> > > occurs.  In addition, the audio entry is missing from the
> /platform/sun4m
> > > directory.
> >
> > The 'audio' driver was for the am79c30 audio device.  The only sun4m
> > platforms that used that device were the SPARCserver 690 and the
> > SPARCstation Classic.  It looks like your system may be a SPARCstation 5
> > derivative; those used the cs4231 chip, IIRC, with a driver named
> > audiocs.  See the audiocs(7D) man page for details on that device and
> > which platforms used it.
> >
> > > 2.   I am running DHCP and attaching to a D-Link router.  While I can
> get an
> > > IP address and surf the net, I can never set the hostname to anything
> that
> > > sticks.  I have run the hostname commad and set the hostname, set the
> > > hostname.le0 file to read a proper hostname, but the system always
> reboots
> > > to "hostname: unknown".  The D-Link does not have the ability to
assign
> a
> > > hostname.
> >
> > Search the Google Usenet archives, this is a FAQ.
> >
> > > 3.  The system is dog slow under gnome and hangs when I try to have
more
> > > than two windows open.
> > >     My Powerlite 170 has a 170 MHz processor, 128 MB of ram, and 6 GB
of
> > > hard drive space (512 MB swap).  I don't expect the system to be fast,
> but
> > > crashes aren't good.
> >
> > I wouldn't expect Gnome to be usable on an SS5 variant, it's only just
> > comfortable on my dual 1200MHz Sun Blade 1000.  It's probably not
> > hanging but paging to death.  128MB of main memory is not enough for
> > Gnome.  I stick with fvwm2 on my low-horsepower machines, FWIW.  It's
> > fairly memory- and cpu-efficient and does the job.
> >
> > > 4.  I takes about 8 hours to do an install from scratch.
> >
> > Yikes.
> >
> > > 5.  Sun is threatening to drop support for the sun4m arch in future
> > > releases.
> >
> > Sun has already dropped sun4m in Solaris 10, pre-release versions of
> > which are available as Solaris Express at www.sun.com.
> >
> > -greg