2.4.7, motorola powerstack, NCR825, SCSI timeouts...
hi, I can't seem to get 2.4 kernels to run reliably on my PReP moto powerstack/riscPC box with an NCR825 wide controller. it boots up, goes thru the init scripts, but gets into SCSI timeouts before it even manages to bring up a login prompt -- SCSI timeouts on all three disks (all wide), for read and write commands. has anybody seen this, or been successful with a similiar setup? ciao, cm. -- Hat irgendwer schlechte Schwingungen in seiner globalen Eierkuchen-Aura bekommen weil man ihm gesagt hat er soll bitte nicht andauernd mit Vollquotes in 10 Gruppen gleichzeitig crossposten? Albert Koellner in at.usenet pgpL0GuQei1oc.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 2.4.7, motorola powerstack, NCR825, SCSI timeouts...
> Also anyone know what should be the correct steps to be taken > to install the kernel on this beast? The initial install handled it > fine but no other kernel-image-* builds have do so on it's own... What I do is first, dd the zImage.prep to a floppy and boot from that one (PBOOT 1 0 in the ROM monitor) to test it, and if it's OK, it goes to the boot partition via dd. (but I sure would like to see something lilo-like for PReP boxen) ciao, cm. -- ** christian mock in vienna, austria -- http://www.tahina.priv.at/~cm/ Vielleicht ist es aber auch nur einfach Zeit, dem Wolfi wieder den root-Account wegzunehmen. Er ist noch zu klein dafuer. Ferdinand Goldmann in at.gesellschaft.politik pgpZwStn0bcHO.pgp Description: PGP signature
in.rshd vanished, and sound on powerstack
hi, I noticed that in.rshd vanished from the last update of whatever package it's supposed to be in... (well, switching to ssh now). and another thing: is anyone using sound on a motorola powerstack/riscpc machine (CS4231A) with 2.2.12? I'm seeing the effect that /dev/dsp takes 32bit per sample instead of 16, so sound plays at 2x the speed... ciao, cm. -- christian mock in vienna, austria -- http://www.tahina.priv.at/~cm/ VIBE!AT http://www.vibe.at/ ** wir sind nicht zum spass hier. kein urlaub in kaernten!
Re: debconf 0.1.71 broken
--- Begin Message --- > I get the same error with the latest version now (0.2.5?). It seems that > some script that is sourced by debconf.postinst exits. I chased that one down in my setup, it was debconf deciding to use whiptail, which didn't run (some library problem, IIRC). Setting the environment variable DEBIAN_FRONTEND to text did help... HTH, cm. -- christian mock in vienna, austria -- http://www.tahina.priv.at/~cm/ VIBE!AT http://www.vibe.at/ ** wir sind nicht zum spass hier. --- End Message --- pgpJ7IdKF0uAA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: mpg123 endianness
> > From time to time (every few months) I play MP3 files. As you can probably > guess, it no longer works (again). It looks like every few months, someone > changes the code, because sometimes the mpg123 deb works fine, and sometimes > it > doesn't. > > Even --8bit gives the same noise, so it must be mpg123 that treats the low and > high byte incorrectly. are you sure that the problem isn't in the kernel? I tried playing sound on my riscpc (CS4231), and finally found out that the sound driver seems to consume 32bit instead of 16bit per step of data -- doubling up the data made the sound play at the right speed, and sound vaguely useable. I think it was on 2.2.12, and my mail from back then must be in the archives of this list. no solution, sorry. ciao, cm. -- christian mock in vienna, austria -- http://www.tahina.priv.at/~cm/ VIBE!AT http://www.vibe.at/ ** wir sind nicht zum spass hier. pgpXtWkxTf2kq.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How to keep gcc and such up to date?
> 2.95.2 is actually fairly stable on powerpc. There will be 2.96 Well, it recently failed to compile postgresql-7.0.2 with -O2 -- the regression tests failed; using -O0 did help. I didn't file a bugreport because I didn't have the time to dig any deeper... ciao, cm. -- christian mock in vienna, austria -- http://www.tahina.priv.at/~cm/ VIBE!AT http://www.vibe.at/ ** wir sind nicht zum spass hier. pgpoMZzLCAadv.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: PReP hackers wanted
> On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 14:15, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > Well, the only reason I could see is if it either needs a kernel > > config option enabled, not provided by the kernel-image-*-prep > > package, or else if it needs a file from the kernel build not normally > > provided by the package. It should be pretty easy to read bootprep.sh > > Probably. But I have basically zero knowledge of the PReP architecture, > and no way to test the resulting kernel image. > > So, I'd like to take this opportunity to call for anyone with a working > knowledge of the PReP architecture, shell script, and preferably C to > help work on the Debian boot-floppies for PReP. Right now it doesn't > even build because the root disk is too large. by 1954 bytes, yes. are we sure we need /sbin/macfdisk on the _PReP_ root image? removing it allows the root disk to build (and even leaves 10 kB free!). well, so far for today, I gotta get me a floppy drive to test this tomorrow... ciao, cm. -- ** christian mock in vienna, austria -- http://www.tahina.priv.at/~cm/ Vielleicht ist es aber auch nur einfach Zeit, dem Wolfi wieder den root-Account wegzunehmen. Er ist noch zu klein dafuer. Ferdinand Goldmann in at.gesellschaft.politik pgpyoAOzEd4mi.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Antw: Re: Install a Debian in an E/30
> Alas, I have lost most of the RS/6000 kernel files in a hard disk crash, > so I do not have the config file for this kernel. The driver that fails is > the one under CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_2. The other 53C8XX drivers > available also hang. Has anyone got an idea what could be wrong? just a data point: on my motorola blackhawk boxen (which are also PReP), the SYM53C8XX driver panics the kernel at boot time when there are more than 32 (or was it 64?) megs of RAM in the machine; this was with 2_4_ppc_devel from the bitkeeper repository. Generally, I've been unable to get SCSI going reliably with all the 2.4 series -- at the best, it's hanging after some 10 minutes of uptime with SCSI timeouts. OTOH, a co-worker had success with a stock 2.4.17 on his blackhawk box. HTH, cm. -- Actually, I found New Zealanders to be the most akin to Canadians. They also feel the looming presense of a next door neighbour country full of loud, excessively happy and somewhat simple people, and are a little intimidated by it. -- Paul Tomblin pgphxaqnd3Eov.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: IMPORTANT : latest bash intall fails and bash is no more usable!!!
--- Begin Message --- hi, > Anyway, since you have a shell open, I suggest you do the following. > Manually install the readline debs [...] didn't help. what helped was dpkg -x /path/to/bash-2.02*deb /path/to/tmpdir mv /bin/bash /bin/bash.borken cp /path/to/tmpdir/bin/bash /bin HTH, cm. -- christian mock @ home in vienna, austria sind fremdcancels strafbar? -> http://www.tahina.priv.at/bincancel/ kein urlaub in kaernten! --- End Message --- pgpFKRbnbUFAA.pgp Description: PGP signature
