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Re: Problems with X11 on Ultra10



On Sun, 4 May 2014 08:25:16 +0100
Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky@googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 03 May 2014 17:20:33 -0600
> Hayden Kroepfl <perlpowers@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 03/05/14 03:39 PM, Sad Clouds wrote:
> > > Hello, I'm new to Debian and trying it out on Ultra10 which has 
> > > Creator3D framebuffer.
> > > 
> > > I installed Debian stable and seem to be having some issues with
> > > X11 or display manager. The system boots OK and I can see boot
> > > messages, but when it goes to start display manager the screen
> > > goes black and nothing happens. No windows, no mouse cursor,
> > > nothing.
> > > 
> > > Any ideas?
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > Might as well ask about the obvious right away, do you have your
> > monitor hooked up to the onboard video in the bottom left corner
> > (facing the back), or to the 13W3 video connector on the Creator3D?
> > What could be happening is X11 picked the wrong card by default and
> > is only showing it on the opposite connector. If you have a second
> > monitor try hooking one up to the 13W3 and one to the VGA connector.
> > 
> > Hayden K.
> 
> Hello, that was the first thing I tried however there is no VGA signal
> on machfb. I managed to get IP address assigned to this machine from
> DHCP server, logged in via ssh and looked at the logs. Looks like X
> server has problems configuring framebuffer device.
> 
> So I generated xorg.conf manually with 'X -configure' and it thinks I
> have 3 cards:
> 
>         Identifier  "Card0"
>         Driver      "mach64"
>         BusID       "PCI:1:2:0"
> 
>         Identifier  "Card1"
>         Driver      "fbdev"
>         BusID       "PCI:1:2:0"
> 
>         Identifier  "Card2"
>         Driver      "vesa"
>         BusID       "PCI:1:2:0"
> 
> 
> This looks wrong to me, one of them should be using sunffb driver. And
> why all three drivers refer to the same BusID?
> 
> I tried copying this file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and leaving only 
> 
>         Identifier  "Card1"
>         Driver      "sunffb"
>         BusID       "PCI:1:2:0"
> 
> But still can't get X11 running
> 
> Any ideas?

OK changed that to 

BusID "SBUS:/SUNW,ffb@1e,0"

and X11 works now.


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