Does anybody know which linux modules I need to load for getting sound to work in a Java Workstation W2100z?I installed Ubuntu 6.06 and everything works fine, except for sound. Ubuntu installer did not recognize the sound card. After the installation I have tried to install ALSA stuff, ...

Dear All Gurus,I got messages like these:...0,0>ERROR: TEST=NVRAM Devices,SUBTEST=NVRAM(Non-Destructive) ID=8.30,0>Component under test: Board 16 Firehose Bus0,0>RAM Pattern Test Erroraddress= 000001ff.f8908031expected data = 00observed data = 08xor= 08...0,0>ERROR: ...

As far as i investigated, this workstations are not running with Solaris 9/04.While trying to make a custom Jumpstart with Solaris 9, it was not possible to boot kernel/sparcv9.Does anybody know, if this workstations will be officially supporteted in the next future by Solaris 9 kernel ...

Hi all,I received a new sun ultra 20 workstation from a friend in US. After unpacking it and tried to boot it up but there is no display at all. i thought it is th problem with moniter and changed 17" TFT, CTR and some other also, but still no display. there is no beep sound from the ...

Hi All,Can the drivers and software for sun PCi II and III cards be downloaded?I searched in any possible way on sun.com, sunsolve, etc, it was hard to find even the documentation about them, but now I got that at least.What about the software? Can it be downloaded? Where ...

Hello allI want to know if these servers support hot swapping capabilities for the PCI buses, if i had Qlogic Single FC HBA's installed on these servers & they ( HBA's) died would the servers need to be powered down in order to replace the HBA or could i hot swap them out without ...

Hello, is the SUN part number 370-5707 compatible with the X2100? Thanks

I'm aware of the IDE controller issue in an Ultra 10, which limits the (practical) size to 120GB disks.Are there such limitations on SCSI disk sizes if I were to add an internal SCSI PCI card for external storage? I'm thinking NO, but I just wanted to make sure. I'd like to get an external ...

Dear Forum,Please excuse what are very basic questions - I'm very new to Sun and Unix and still feeling my way around :o) I would be very grateful if someone has the time to help me with this. I installed Solaris 10 on my inherited Blade 100 and all works fine except for I cannot mount the ...

Hello.I have a Blade 1000 with an Elite 3D card.The problem is: The PC monitor I use does not support "composite sync".When using "afbconfig" to switch from one resolution to another (must be a different resolution) the video output is changed to "separate sync" if the new resolution is a VESA ...

After fixing my "can't set locale" problem I am moving onto the "Server for display :0 can't be started" issue. Checking /etc/dtc/Xerrors yields:1) error (PID 380) : Server unexpectedly died2) error (PID 380) : Server for display :0 can't be startedI\ve tried running kdconfig and setting ...

I'm looking for an ISO image of the Sun Fire v65x diagnostics CD referred to in section 4.10 of the manual (817-2023-11.pdf). An ISO image is posted for the Sun Fire V20z / V40z. Will this work with the v65x even though it's an Intel vs. AMD system?

I'd like to migrate from an x4100 to a new x4200 due to a need for more PCI slots, but don't want to reload the OS (RedHat Enterprise V4) and applications.If I were to take two RAID'd disks from an x4100 and put them into an x4200, with an identical RAID setup, would they be accepted by the ...

I asked this question in on of the Administration forums, but I think this might be a more appropriate place.I have a SunFire V440 with an XVR-100 graphics card and LCD monitor. What I'd like is to use the either the serial management port or the other serial port as the system console (i.e. ...

I just got a sun blade 1000 without any OS installed. I connected its creator 3D adapter to a viewsonic vx2235wm monitor. Just got a black screen. Did I forgot something? pls advise

hiI own a sparc ultra 5 and would like to know if its possible to put in a pci video card in and use this instead of the onboard one?I understand the sparcs are not like other pcs sort of thing , - can anyone guide me on this?I am attempting to put in a 32mb pci nvidia card.so far i have a ...

Hi I have added one new channel named tcp_new_be in our messaging server but the channel is not visible while running the following cmd..# ./imsimta qm su tcp_submit00.00tcp_sms_mway00.00tcp_local3676134710.6123 Sep, ...

I want to set up a Blade 1000 as a workstation, but the machine won't find the graphics card. I installed Solaris 10 using the serial port.I've tried a Raptop GFX and some other generic PCI graphics card. I've updated the firmware for the machine. printenv lists the output-device as ...

Hi Allwe have SunFire 6800 domain with 1 system board.yesterday i found that one cpu in that board has failed.I am not sure when it has failed.can anybody please tell me how can i check when it has failedThanksRajesh

I've got this Netra kicking about. I've seen it work before because a Sun consultant came in and fired it up, but using the array of null modem cables for our other Sun kit and an RJ45 patch lead to the serial port I can't get any sense out of it. Does anyone know offhand the part numbers of ...

I am new to Sun hardware, and I received a 420R server with a graphics card (Sun, not any random card), 4xCPUs and max (4GB) of RAM. I plugged in a Sun 5c keyboard with mouse as well.When I turn on the machine, both green LEDs on each of the two power supplies turns on and no amber LEDs come ...

I get this message in mailx:-Message 1:From root Thu Sep 28 05:36:10 2006Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 05:36:10 -0800 (GMT)From: Super-User <root>To: rootSubject: raid EventAn array event has been detected on Controller 1T04359847 Device c3t5d1s0 at Host oracle - Time 09/28/2006 05:36:09Can ...

Hi1. Is there any othere command to check Fan Units and its Speed other thatprtdiag -v ?2. How i can check for the generation of proper alarms ?Any HelpThanks in Advance

Hi,couldn't find the needed info or searched from wrong places..Server has total 4x 512MB memory modules.2x 512MB per each CPU memory bank.Does the system support single module addings, as isadding 1x 1GB module to each CPU memory bank.So the both CPUs would have 2GB memory, as total of ...

My company is considering getting an Ultra 40 workstation, but we want to reuse some SATA drives we already have (two 3.5" 250GB drives). Is that possible?From the manual ( http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/html/819-3952-11/stor.htm l#pgfId-1000345 ) it seems that you need ...

Hi everybody,On an Enterprise 3500, 1 Gig RAM, 4 HD 18Gig Seagate Cheeta LP with solaris 9.We need to work with the four HD without mirroring or metadevices.The HDs are in slots: 0, 2, 4 and 6.The metadevices is not configured; and when we made a new partition of any HD, other one takes the ...

Dear allI'm getting the following error and i am able to "see" the system only from console.Sep 29 12:54:28 cohealths1 unix: WARNING: vxvm:vxio: Subdisk rootdisk-03 block 110672: Uncorrectable write errorSep 29 12:54:28 cohealths1 unix: WARNING: vxvm:vxio: Subdisk rootdisk-02 block 1039519: ...

Does anybody have the experience to configure your PC as a Sun Serial Console? What pinout will need for a DB25M/DB9F serial cable? What terminal software you recommend?Thanks!

hi all,I have installed a E4900 with ultrasparc 4+ processors which is dualcore according to sun. But in the lom or in os its showing only 4 processors. If it is a dualcore it should be 8..I think..considering other platforms. or sparc dualcore processors show only a single processor for a dual ...

Hi,I've got a Qube3 motherboard and I'm searching about a PSU Din8 wiring picture but I didn't found this information on the internet...amazing ^_^.Can U help me please by indicating what pin # do ? http://freespace.virgin.net/tom.baldwin/DIN8-pinout.gifPin 1 : ?Pin 2 : ?Pin 3 : ?Pin 4 : ?Pin ...

Hey i know this is a totall Noob question, but i have never worked with a Sun system before. I want to use one for a router in one of my classes at ECU, but i need to reload the os and i can not figure out how to get into the BIOS, or how to boot off of a CD. Any help the you all can give me ...

Hello folks, I have been asked to setup a couple of v40 and x4200 servers to use Windows 2003. Now I have gone through all the available documentation in regards to the OS installation, before I can get to this I need to how to configure RAID on these servers. I know the LSI supports Raid 1, ...

I give up. Sun Ultra 40 Workstation Tools & Drivers 1.4 ISO Image is out and no mention of 1.3 is made. It goes from 1.1 to 1.2 to 1.4. I have 1.3 on an Ultra 40. What's wrong with 1.3 that they would remove it from the download list?

Hello !I have a Sun Enterprise 420R, and I want to know if I can add a gigabit ethernet card to this machine, and if you have a positive answer please provide me a model name or some specs. Thanks.

I have a Sun Fire V240 with four disks attached onto one controller, i want to separate 2 disks & place them onto another controller, do i need to buy a pci card to separate them or is there a separate internal controller i can connect them to?

I have a number of X4100 running Solaris 10. Two of them have had their DIMMS failed (CPU0 DIMM1). I replaced al dimms and apparently one of boxes works fine now and one of them has failed again for the third time. Every time it is the very same slot that reports faulty dimm.Is it known issue ...

Hi.I'm using a Sun (sony) gdm-20e20 on a sparcstation 20 and ultra2.On both the monitor and server turns on, the orange led on the monitor flashes for a bit and then the green led turns on but nothing comes up on the screen.Does the same thing on my normal pc monitor that ive been using on ...

Is it possible to install Solaris 8 on a V215 server?I know it's not supported, but could it be done for test purposes?Can't try to install since I don't have the server right now./F

I've got 2 Windows 2000 SP 4 servers that are running interface applications that utilize Java 1.3.1_05. I have to get it uninstalled and upgrade to 1.4 before October 24th for them to keep working. When I try to uninstall 1.3.1_05 in Add/Remove programs, I get what looks like an Installshield ...

I don't see any bios options to enable the onboard video if I have a video card installed in the PCI-Express 16 slot. Is this possible? I'd like to run the workstation dual-head.

I have a v880, after powerfailure, it came back with Corrected ECC Error. Can't boot up anymore, can't type anything in the console thru RSC. I ran full diag but didn't help. Any ideas? Please let me know.Steve

Hi, I have a V240 that I setup RAID 0+1 (4 disks) and then realized that there's only one controller. No wonder it's running my Oracle DB slowly. I'd like to buy a machine comperable in price to the V240 with 4 internal disks but I want two controllers so I can have disks 0 & 1 use C1 ...

hello, how do you remove the hdd from the hdd carrier on the x2100? Any particular screwdriver that is needed? I tried the ones that i have but it doesn't match. ThanksMessage was edited by: Najib

Hi,I have recently configured sun netra t105 using solaris 10. I can connect to it via a serial console and get a LOM. The issue is I cannot see any output or system console, not even OK prompt. I have tried using hyperterminal, tera term and send break signal several times but nothing ...

I have a Qube 3 with a 450mhz processor. I am wanting to upgrade it to something a little faster. Is there a proper way of doing this? And what would you recommend for a faster processor?

We've been dabbling with options for external storage and just for the hell of it, decided to try out a couple of external (LaCie BigDisk Extreme Triple Interface) Firewire drives. The drives are connected to separate PCI-e FireWire 400 cards and were originally partitioned using fdisk and ...

Hi all Gurus,How to enable the clock board. ThanksAndryreset-allResetting... Software Power ON@(#) Ultra Enterprise 3.2 Version 25 created 2000/03/29 14:52CPU = 0000.0000.0000.0000Probing keyboard Done0,0>0,0>@(#) POST 3.9.25 2000/03/29 14:560,1>0,0>Copyright 2000 Sun Microsystems, ...

Hello,Are there any plans to add support for Adaptec 2400a (IDE RAID Controller) to Solaris 10 x86?Thank you,Jakob

My ultra 5 is in dire need of a Hard Drive replacement.I am currently running 2.6 solaris (I have to because of proprietary software that is no longer supported that only runs on 2.6 to my knowledge.)I bought a used drive (mistake) that lasted 5 weeks. Thankfully I had kept the other one around ...

Hello,I was trying to see where I could geta driver for Solaris 8 Sparc - 3Com 3c905Bfor SunBladeor what ethernet 100 mb network card is suppported in Solaris?Thanks