re: xserver-xsun broken!
Dayton Turner writes:
> Hi, I just installed debian on my sparc the other day as well and I get
>
> pivo:~# startx
> (using VT number 7)
>
> PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file Roman_M
> sunMouseProc ioctl VUIDFORMAT: Invalid argument
>
> Fatal server error:
> failed to initialize core devices
>
>
> Now, I do have the xfonts-pex installed and the font exists in
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX (Roman_M.phont) although running mkfontdir
> doesnt seem to find it. so that's one problem, but i also seem to be
> having the same problem you are with the core devices.
>
> Unfortunately, I dont have an old Xsun binary to fall back on, can you
> either tell me where i might find one or give me a little insight to if
> you have seen this problem fixed yet?
So you have got the same problem as me. However, three days ago, I have
installed sparc-debian on another Sun and it surprised me that
xserver-xsun works without problem. And when I saw the message of
Bolan Meek below, every thing become clear to me. In fact in the
second installation I have taken care not to install gpm and I have
actually get the message from the server that it didn't find
/dev/gpmdata so it tries /dev/sunmouse. This is actually the behaviour
of the new xserver-xsun: trying /dev/gpmdata first then /dev/sunmouse,
but never looked at /dev/mouse. So I check my other Sun and I found
that /dev/gpmdata is still there and that is why it crashed the server
since I have purged gpm, but "dpkg --purge gpm" doesn't remove
/dev/gpmdata ! So I make an experience: I reinstall the new
xserver-xsun but have gpmdata removed or symlinked to sunmouse. it
works except that in the first case the server complains about not
finding gpmdata.
Hope this help.
P.S. Just an after thought, It might be possible that xserver-xsun and
gpm can work together with gpm if the later is installed with option
"repeat". I have turn off systematically this option because it has
caused problem in the past (also on an intel box with the ATI card)
Bolan Meek writes:
> Greetings: God bless you.
>
> I got snagged by the default installation of gpm on one the two
> SS20s on which I installed potato/sparc today: X would not
> come up, as in
> http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-sparc-0004/msg00131.html ,
> with a fix offered in
> http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-sparc-0004/msg00133.html .
>
> I did this, and it still would not work, until I deleted, by hand,
> since dselect purge did not, /dev/gpmdata and /etc/gpm.conf.
> Then, after exiting X, I saw:
> "Cannot open /dev/gpmdata, error 2. Trying /dev/sunmouse".
>
> I suppose I could make it look directly for /dev/sunmouse,
> if I knew what configuration file it's using. I looked
> for it in /etc/X11/XF86Config, but that file doesn't exit,
> even though there is a link to it:
> # ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config
> .... /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config -> /etc/X11/XF86Config
>
> I'm considering filing a wishlist BR so that gpm is not
> selected by default during installation.
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> > Hi,
> > Yesterday, I have confidently convert a Sun sparc-solaris to
> > sparc-debian. No particular problem, but when I launch startx I found
> > that the xserver package isn't installed : in fact it has been
> > dselected when I select gpm. No problem, I reinstall xserver-xsun
> > which remove gpm. However, startx yields the following error message
> >
> > SunMouseProc ioctl VUIDGFORMAT: invalid argument
> > Fatal server error
> > Fail to initialize core devices
> >
> > Sound familiar, I remove the link /dev/mouse -> gpmdata and reling to
> > /dev/sunmouse then relaunch startx: same error ! I purge gpm: same
> > error, purge xserver-xsun and reinstall xserver-xsun: same error,
> > reboot retart: same error
> >
> > Panic, going back and reinstall solaris would be too much a hassle.
> > Fortunately I remember having a Sun machine running sparc-debian. I
> > copy the file Xsun on this machine to this one. It works !
> >
> > I would like to point out that this other Sun have been upgradded
> > several day ago and for some reason the xserver-xsun have been kept
> > back (perhaps because of the presence of gpm ?). I also notice that
> > adter upgrading my xserver crashed and I have to remove gpm.
> > Apparently, this upgrade have nevertheless change the behaviour of the
> > X server: it crash in the presence of gpm while before gpm get kill.
> > That's no big deal. But I am very upset that at this advance stage (of
> > freeze), one still tinkers with a critical and working package like X
> > and introduce new bug. Just two days ago? I have reported a bug in the
> > new file /etc/Xsession (it no longer loads the Xresources)
> >
> > Please go back to the xserver-xsun which works
> >
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