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RE: testing on Ultra 5



I just installed Debian on my Ultra5 and have been really fighting to
get X working correctly. It DID detect my Mach64 card ok. Fought with
the mouse being erratic until I set the protocol to Microsoft - and now
it works fine (so far) even though it's a Sun PS/2 mouse plugged into my
keyboard.

Not the real problem (other then some tweaking changes to the video mode
settings - suggestions welcome), is that the keyboard mapping is all
screwed up. I have in XF86Config:

Section "Keyboard"
	Protocol "Standard"
	XkbDisable
	XbkKeyMap "xfree86(en_US)"
EndSection

Suggestions? What's anyone else with Debian (potato) on an SPARC Ultra5
using?


Chris Stone, MCSE
High Mountain Software
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Collins [mailto:bcollins@debian.org] 
Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2002 6:00 PM
To: Sean Callanan
Cc: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: testing on Ultra 5


On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 07:47:40PM -0400, Sean Callanan wrote:
> Dear mailing list:
> 
> I have a Sun Ultra 5 and recently tried a complete upgrade to testing
> (using apt-get dist-upgrade). Aside from the normal problems (which I 
> took in stride, given that this is testing, after all) I discovered
that 
> X did not work. It said it could not detect the ATI video card, then 
> giving very specific PCI information.
> 
> I'm guessing the server gets the PCI info from the kernel, but then
> can't do anything with it.
> I have an ATI Mach64 PCI card, with which I know X 4.1.0 works (using 
> the Debian patch provided by DaveM, I recompiled the sucka and it 
> worked). I have since reinstalled stable, but I just wanted to give
you 
> folks a heads-up.

The log in /var/log/XFree86.log would have proven useful. I know that X
from testing works out-of-the-box on Ultra5 (I have one).

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