RE: testing on Ultra 5
On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 10:44, Chris Stone wrote:
> 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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FWIW...
I had a similar problem on my ultra5 initially
The last install of XFree required that I compile a 2.4 version of the
kernel and for good measure I also changed the screen environment in the
sparc nvram using the setenv command at the ok prompt.
It seems to me that Xanxious (or whatever) successfully detects the ATI
chip but something at a kernel level renders it invisible to Xfree.
No amount of jigging the XFree config settings made X work until I
recompiled the kernel. I have previously replied to the list on this
subject with log outputs etc (about 2 months ago).
david
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