Re: Debian "wheezy" install on Netra X1 done

Regarding a gui, xorgxrdp and xrdp work well. They don’t require a graphics card on the s7-2. Also, it is easy to  disconnect and resume your gui session without interrupting any running applications. I also use remmina on Manjaro linux to connect to the s7 via rdp protocol. MS windows should also work to connect to the s7-2 via Remote Desktop. Really recommend you try it, it is not bad at all.

The new test kernel on the s7 helps regarding stability.

> On Sep 11, 2025, at 7:28 AM, Dennis Clarke <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 9/11/25 08:56, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2025-09-11 at 08:38 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>>> Just an update. The Netra X1 is no longer a reasonable test box.
>> It's still useful for testing on UltraSPARC II though which is needed
>> for kernel testing.
>> 
> 
> I think I have poured entirely too many hours into this museum piece.
> 
>> I suggest that you open the machine up and connect an old IDE CD-ROM
>> drive to be able to build the installer from CD-ROM instead of over
>> the network.
>> According to various discussion forums on the net, this should be possible.
> 
> The firmware does not recognize any CDROM or DVD that I connect to
> the IDE bus.
> 
> My only interest now is that the ORACLE S7-2 server works well enough to
> be a compute backend type machine. I don't need anything graphical other
> than a few X11 libs as dependencies for XTerm. The X11 passthrough via
> OpenSSH is reasonable if I want it to render something on a screen. The
> CPU's will likely have reasonable horsepower to compute stuff but really
> we already know that any NVidia Quadro GPU can run circles around the
> fastest cpu's anywhere when it comes to raw floating point stuff.
> 
> So this is all just an expensive experiment to see if the Linux kernel
> can *really* work on something made in the last eight to ten years.
> 
> If it does not work then I drop it on eBay dirt cheap and take a loss.
> 
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> Dennis Clarke
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