Bug#404718: Installation Report [sparc64] [daily-20061227] [Failure] Sun Ultra-10 Creator3D
On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 09:37:06PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 December 2006 20:56, Karsten Merker wrote:
> > Comments/Problems:
> > The machine loads the image via netboot, console output is
> >
> > Remapping the kernel... done
> > Booting Linux...
> >
> > Afterwards the system hangs. The system is running with the
> > console on the Creator3D. First thought was that the d-i console
> > might show up on the onboard video controller instead of on
> > the Creator3D, but there is no video signal on the onboard
> > video connector (checked with a second monitor).
>
> This still looks like a known problem with dual video cards.
> Please try booting the installer with parameter "video=atyfb:off"
> (assuming the onboard is an ATI card).
Thanks, passing the boot parameter "video=atyfb:off" helps - d-i
then boots using the Creator3D.
Just for the record in case somebody finds this using
a search engine:
1) After the system is installed, one has to manually add this
option to /etc/silo.conf.
2) Even with the boot parameter to change the console device, the
graphics card autodetection for X configures X.Org via debconf to
use the the onboard ATI videocontroller (which is logical as it
checks for an appropriate PCI device and does not care for the
current console device), so the X.Org driver has to be changed to
sunffb afterwards as well.
General issues (not related to d-i):
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- When using X.Org with the sunffb driver, the screen refresh rate
seems to be fixed to 66Hz, even though xorg.conf allows higher
refresh rates. A google search indicates that this is a general
limitation of the sunffb driver and that the refresh rate can possibly
be changed using some OBP setting.
- When starting GNOME, a window telling "Internal error: failed to
initialize HAL" gets displayed.
- Sound does not work by default, one has to add snd_sun_cs4231
to /etc/modules.
Regards,
Karsten
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