Re: Setting up Ultra Sparc 10 Creator 3D

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 12:54:54AM +0200, Karsten Heymann wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 12:29:56PM -0400 or thereabouts, Ben Collins wrote:
> > Yes, the Ultra10 has builtin atimach64. If you want to use the Creator
> > and the Mach64 at the same time, you'll need to upgrade to woody, and
> > add this to /etc/apt/sources.list:
> > 
> > deb http://people.debian.org/~branden/ woody/sparc/
> > 
> > Run apt-get update, and then "apt-get install xserver-xfree86". Read the
> > docs, it will explain how to setup a multi-head system. Would be quite
> > easy to run X on the second graphics card, and keep the console on the
> > first.
> 
> Ok, I did so and tried to use the sunffb-module at 24 bit. Both video
> cards are recognized on X-Server startup but then the following happens:
> 
> # xfree86-startup output
> [...]
> (==) SUNFFB(0): DPI set to (75, 75)
> (--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
> (II) /dev/fb0: Detected FFB2+/vertical, Z-buffer, Double-buffered.
> (II) /dev/fb0: BT498 (PAC2) ramdac detected
> (II) /dev/fb0: Detected Creator/Creator3D
> (II) SUNFFB(0): [drm] created "ffb" driver at busid "SBUS:/dev/fb0"
> (II) SUNFFB(0): [drm] added 8192 byte SAREA at 0x0778a000
> 
> Fatal server error:
> Caught signal 10.  Server aborting

Which version of xserver-xfree86 do you have installed (dpkg -l
xserver-xfree86)?

Also, please fix your mail headers. Your return address is fubar'd.

Ben

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