SOLVED: sunffb needs afbinit Re: Bug#245246: xserver-xfree86: xserver starts but suddenly dies before and windowmanager or similar starts
Hi Branden,
Branden Robinson schrieb am Donnerstag, 29. April 2004 um 11:57:42 -0500:
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 03:24:31PM +0200, Joerg Friedrich wrote:
> > Branden Robinson schrieb am Mittwoch, 28. April 2004 um 02:49:07 -0500:
> > >
> > > Does the X server stay up if you give it no clients to run?
> > >
> > > One way to test this is simply to run "X" as root.
> >
> > definitly X, I tried to run 'X' as root, the result is the same.
>
> Okay, it looks like the sunffb driver is definitely busted in testing
> and unstable.
>
> Debian SPARC porters:
I got it :-)
At least the Elite3D graphics adaptor (I don't know the Creator)
requires to be initialized by afbinit which need a microcode file from
sun.
after 'afbinit /dev/fd0' X starts without any problems!
Sorry I am new to Linux/SPARC.
Maybe you can raise a debconf warning when the sunffb driver is
selected.
--
Jörg Friedrich
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