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Mandrake on Ultra Sparc?

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LuckyTaxi

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I have an old Ultra Sparc 10 box running openbsd but would like to give mandrake a try. latest ISO seems to be for 7.1
any experience with mandrake on this particular box?
 
Personally I wouldn't run Mandrake on x86, I'd be even more scared to run it on a less tested architecture.
 
would stick with openbsd but having problems getting xfree to run.

not sure of the graphics card and stuff.
and the mouse/keyboard combo is giving me problems
 
Those are the only problems you are having? hmmm, maybe it IS the memory on my system... Or the hard disk.

Search the sparc openbsd mailing list. There was a question or two about the mouse recently.
 
problems were the following ... the system booted up fine, bt i would like to get maybe xfce up and running or blackbox.

tried to configure the graphics but i keep getting a screen not found error! i hacked the xf86config file to death and still coldnt get it to work. then when i did, i had problems with the mouse. it couldnt find it.
 
Originally posted by: lilcam
problems were the following ... the system booted up fine, bt i would like to get maybe xfce up and running or blackbox.

tried to configure the graphics but i keep getting a screen not found error! i hacked the xf86config file to death and still coldnt get it to work. then when i did, i had problems with the mouse. it couldnt find it.
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Mouse issue: sparc thread.

Section "InputDevice"

# Identifier and driver

Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "SunMouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/tty00"


InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
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Maybe that will work.

What video card do you have in your system? (not trying to discourage the use of linux here, and I'll shut up about OpenBSD if you ask 😉).

I haven't had time to work on my Usparc 10, so I haven't figured out why it is crashing. That means I won't have a system to play with to help out 🙁
 
If the mouse is plugged into the keyboard I think it should be /dev/sysmouse, atleast on a BSD. I can't remember the values for X on Debian because it set most of it up for me.
 
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