Bug#367947: Ultra10 X Problems after dist-upgrade
begin quoting Brice Goglin as of Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 12:07:26AM +0100:
> 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?
Sorry, got a little busy.
I let the system choose the horizontal and vertical sync ranges;
however, it *used* to come up with the black-and-white stippled
background with the X cursor, which implies (to me) that the sync
values are okay, 'cuz that's what I expect to see when I type
"startx".
I'm not sure the XF86Config values will be any good, as I did full
purges of all things X and then reinstalled a few times.
Using control-alt-keypad-{+/-} should step through the resolutions,
so I should get to a much lower resolution that way, yes? It doesn't
work, but it beeps like mad when I hit the alt key anyway, and I
can't even alt-Fn or control-alt-Fn, so there's something screwy
about the input now.
The Wiki has a mention of someone using an Ultra10, but having to
disable some sort of card. I have not chased this down, as I
don't know if I have that card, nor what the card would look like, nor
am I sure my work would like my playing with the hardware like that.
That does seem to be the most promising line at the moment, however.
IIRC, I added the Option AIGLX false as recommended, and as you guessed,
no change.
I have not tried installing the 2.6 kernel (I'd like to hear of someone
running 2.6 on an Ultra10 first, as I had very bad luck with that from
before).
I have not tried the xserver-org-video-vesa yet (I had wanted to try
that before responding, and then Stuff Came Up, and it got pushed
off my plate for the moment).
I truly appreciate the efforts you've made in trying to chase this
down. I hope I can solve this before the whole issue is rendered
moot, as long-running problems are apt to be overcome by events.
Thanks again. I meant to find out if you were going to be at SCALE,
but I forgot to ask. Were you, by any chance?
-Stewart
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