I have a Sparcstation 5 with sunvideo card. The card does not seem to run
on solaris 8 but will run on solaris 7. There is a warning about obsolete
graphics libraries on the solaris 8.

If I run a system as old as Solaris 7, will it be difficult to secure? My
intention would be to stop most services under inetd and use the old
pizzabox as a video remote with some image processing abilities.
Joe Weissman

It seems that there is an issue in California with computer systems
employees of Sun Microsystems not receiving overtime wage compensation.
Apparently it is not uncommon for long coding hours to be overlooked for
overtime pay and in California there are specific laws in regards to this
that could effect lots of these employees. If you go to
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I've been having a lot of trouble getting my (old) Ultra 5 to boot.

I've connected a terminal emulator to serial port a on my Sun and run
the Power On Self Test (POST) several times and it never fails, even
with dial-level max.

The trouble seems to happen after the reset or power-on

Clearing I/D TLBs Done
Probing Memory Done
MEM BASE = 0000.0000.1000.0000
MEM SIZE = 0000.0000.1000.0000
11-Column Mode Enabled
MMUs... [Read More]

FS or Trade:

Sun Sparcstation SLC Workstation.
8MB ram (expandable to 64MB).
Monochrome graphics display.
ethernet connection built-in.

Sunos 4.1 (two sets of tapes, one set known to work)

Bernoulli Transportable Mega 150 Multidisk
4 spare disks

External 1/4" tape and Hard-drive in Sigma enclosure.
10 spare 150MB tapes

Very complete set of original Sun manuals.

This machine is... [Read More]

So, I download the latest "stable" tar for perl (5.8.7) and try to compile
it on the Solaris 8 (SPARC) box that I administrate. I try all sorts of
different switches, but I can't get it to compile. I need it to be
compiled with threads.

Anyone have any wisdom on how best to do this?

Here's a transcript of my latest attempt. It's long; you might want to
skip to the bottom, where I try "make" and the fatal errors start[Read More]

So I just got around to installing Solaris 10 on my Ultra 5 workstation.
I was running Solaris 8 before. I'm finding Solaris 10 a big disappointment.

Anyway, after playing around with it for a while I decide I want to
power down my system. I look around in the login screen: nope no way to
power down. I hit the power key on my keyboard: nope that doesn't work
either. I press the power button on the front of my Ultra 5 pizza box:
nope that doesn't work... [Read More]

Hi, I am a complete newbie when it comes to Sparcs and have a question
about an Ultra 5 I have just aquired.

Within the Openboot white screen the number of screen columns is set to
the default 80, however the 17" SVGA monitor is only displaying around
40 or so, with text wrapping to the next line. The screen looks very
large and I would like to have a higher resolution. I have not yet
installed an OS on the system, so I am just in Openboot Forth... [Read More]

I wrote a perl script that connects to a db2 database and does some
select statements then disconnects...in essence it does something like
this:

$db2Out = `db2 connect to sample`;
$db2Out = `db2 select tabschema, tabname from syscat.tables`;
$db2Out = `db2 connect reset`;

This script runs fine on Windows, and AIX, but when I try to
run it on Sun, it does not maintain the session information
between calls - so the first statement... [Read More]

Hi,

I've just bought a W1100z equipped with NVIDIA Quadro NVS280
with Solaris 9 pre-installed. Soon after I finished the initial setup,
I found the graphics is extremely slow. xengine shows only 530rpm!

I've installed Solaris 10 x86 3/05. But, no speed improvement can be seen.
Linux with nvidia driver is about 36 times faster on the
same machine. (nv driver was also very slow under Linux.
I've had the same experience on another Opteron... [Read More]

Hello,

I'm looking for a Sun / Solaris powered audio mixer to use in live concert
performances? I have google seached the world over and haven't found one
but I know they're out there. I was at a show in San Diego last year and
the mixing station that was being used as front of house and master control
was running on two Sun U10's powered by Solaris and using a small rack mount
patch bay.

From were I was setting I could see the whole... [Read More]