Re: [suse-sparc] install Suse 7.3 on SunBlade 100

olivier.hochreutiner_at_epfl.ch
Date: Mon Jun 17 2002 - 13:58:33 CEST

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    Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 13:58:33 +0200
    From: olivier.hochreutiner@epfl.ch
    Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] install Suse 7.3 on SunBlade 100
    

    Hi,

    > > > I installed SuSE 7.3 on my Blade 100 at work a few weeks ago.
    > Everything
    > > > went fine except for a small video problem.
    >
    > what kind of video problem ?
    > i couldn't get X to run on my Blade 100, seems to be a timing/sync
    > problem... the generated video signal seems to not exactly match the
    > configuration, so my cheap TFT can't sync...Solaris works fine on the
    > same box with the same screen...

    The display is like "scrambled". Lines and dots appear everywhere on the
    screen. This is because the core/memory? (I don't remember) of the integrated
    graphic card is clocked too high (120 Mhz instead of 100 Mhz) in kernels
    before 2.4.17. About your problem did you try with another monitor ?

    >
    > > I have the same problem: to fix it you should update the kernel to
    > 2.4.18pre4
    > > (Warning : the 2.4.18 does not boot on a Blade 100. You have to use the
    > > 2.4.18pre4). This should also fix some sound problems, but I have not
    > been
    > > able to boot once the kernel is compiled. This is probably because of the
    > > initrd (I used the one from the 2.4.14 kernel). If anybody managed to
    > boot
    > > with the 2.4.18pre4 kernel please let me now !
    >
    > i run without any problem a 2.4.19-pre10, and previously a pre8. as far
    > as i remember the pre8 was the first one where reiserfs worked again on
    > sparc... so i couldn't test the other ones.
    > i didn't change anything to initrd... still use the default one... i
    > just copied the kernel and the System-map (called vmlinuz-2.4.19-pre10
    > and System.map-2.4.19-pre10) to /boot and configured /boot/silo.conf

    I will try with 2.4.19pre10.

    Olivier Hochreutiner

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