Bug#367947: Ultra10 X Problems after dist-upgrade

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Brice Goglin wrote:
>>> Let's see what you get with the ATI driver, the other warnings might be
>>> related to the VGA driver. Try without DRI first.
>>>     
>>>       
>> Okay. I now get a new and different behavior: an all black screen. I
>> commented out the 1600x1280 resolutions ('cuz it's an older CRT that
>> might not handle it, I guessed), and no change. Oh, and it beeps at
>> me -- I can't alt-Fn or control-alt-Fn to another virtual desktop.
>>   
>>     
>
> Are you sure that your vertical and horizontal sync ranges are ok? Or
> did you just choose them randomly? Do you by chance remember what you
> had in XF86Config when it worked? Looking at the /etc/X11/XF86Config*
> files that remains on your machine might help, we never know...
>
> Also, you could eventually try much lower resolutions. Once we'll have
> found a working setup, even very minimal, it might be better to fix the
> remaining problems.
>
> Just to be sure, could you look at http://wiki.debian.org/XorgOnSparc
> and see whether it talks of some hardware you have?
>
> There are still things about DRI in your Xorg.0.log, apparently caused
> by AIGLX being enabled by default. You could try add Option "AIGLX"
> "false" to the ServerLayout section and see what happens. But there are
> very few chances that it actually helps.
>
> I am running out of ideas here, apart from trying a 2.6 kernel.
> Eventually, you could install xserver-xorg-video-vesa and try the vesa
> driver instead of ati.
>   

Hi Stewart,

Is there anything new about this bug? Did you manage to look at what I
said above?

Thanks,
Brice