Re: Linux on SPARC


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On Aug 10, 12:26 pm, "philo" <ph...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARCstation_5 <====== Yep this is the
one

110mhz cpu , 224 megs of RAM and two, 2 gig HD's

Did you get X working with NetBSD? It may be possible to have fiddle
with the Xorg config file by hand to point to the "fbdev", or frame
buffer device. I'd say Debian would be a good distro. Gentoo would
require some disk space to compile everything.

With a Sparcstation 5, you're probably looking at 8-bit color
anyways. I think it was a pretty nice machine, though.

DMM


Yes, I did get the X server working with NetBSD
as soon as I installed it, I simply typed " startx" and the GUI came right
up.

On the Slackware drive, though I did get the Sun video card installed,
I did try the "frame buffer" option and tried 8-bit, 4-bit and even 1-bit
with negative results.


Prior to installing Slackware, I had tried Debian...
but halfway through the installation it could no longer find the cd from
which I was installing it.
The helpful message was "check to see if a cd is in the device" LOL

Because the CDROM is rather old, I tried several newer ones but had the same
negative
results. Of course, even my newer drivers are rather old :)


I'm going to have a look at it again in a minute to see if I missed
something

thanks


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