RE: sunffb

[Nicolas WILL <nwill@houston.sns.slb.com>]

Hi,

I'm a bit new to Linux on Sparc, but my undurstanding is that to configure
your X under Debian, the following command works quite well:

dpkg -reconfigure xserver-xfree86

Nico
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Debian Woody Sparc Stable


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Huggett [mailto:thuggett@earthlink.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 17:15
> To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org
> Subject: FW: sunffb
> Importance: High
>
>
> Any ideas?
> ?Did I install or configure wrong?
> Any consultants available?
> Tom@Huggett.org
> 408-378-5564
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Huggett
> Hi:
> As a new debian developer/user, I am having some problems with X-win.
> The Solaris 8 drivers install & display correctly but
> my unix skills are a little old & memory fading.
> I did not execute mknod.
>
> I am trying to install x-win for woody on a Sun Ultra 5 with sunffb video.
> tasksel allows sunffb selection but not configuration.
> dselect did not show sunffb.
> Executing XFreeConfig did not show the drivers.
> XFree86  4.1.0, 4.2.0 & 4.2.1 'Xinstall.sh -check' returns
> "No Linux binaries available for this architecture...sparc64..."
> Forcing Xinstall.sh causes extract, extract.exe & extract.save to fail
> And be appended as .bad
> During boot
> xdm reports
> (EE) no devices found
> fatal server error
> no screen found
> after blinking two times & displaying character mode,
> I suspect I forgot something
> But I do not know what.
> My apologies if this is already documented.
>
> I am targeting this for a home controller gateway.
> Initially I wish to configure the rs-232c port to HVAC system
> And later specializing in devices for elder in-home care.