Re: X on Ultra 10 (afbinit, XFre86)

[Vincent Vandeweijer <v.p.vandeweijer@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I too have a U10 with Elite3D. I am running 2.6.12 with xorg 6.8 on it (runs 
at 1280x1024). I specified my resolution in my xorg conf and haven't tried 
any other resolutions. "It just always worked".
My guess is that if changing your xorg.conf doesn't work you will need to find 
a way to change it "directly" on the framebuffer with fbset or the likes. And 
if that doesn't work, eh, maybe you will be able to set it in openboot with 
setenv or something? I'm guessing here,sorry...

Further...
A little of topic but i otherwise I would need to start a new tread on this... 
You mention you run kde. What version? Everyting after 3.3 (various 3.4 
versions) just crashes on my U10... And the thing is I like kde :( ...

Thanks,

Vincent



On Friday 06 January 2006 04:40 am, Tomo Popovic wrote:
> This is what I did and it enabled X to work (both Gnome and KDE). I
> still have a problem that it sticks with 1152x900 resolution although I
> configured it for 1024x768 using:
> dpkg-reconfigure XF...
>
> Steps to make X working on my Ultra 10 with Elite 3D:
>
> 1a) Download afbinit package from:
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/contrib/a/afbinit/afbinit_1.0-1_sparc.deb
>
> 1b) Install it with follwoing command:
> dpkg -i afbinit_1.0-1_sparc.deb
>
> 2a) Download 106144-28.zip patch file from Sun's website and extract only
> "abf.ucode" file from it.
>
> 2b) Place the abf.ucode file into /usr/lib folder. The /etc/init.d/afbinit
> file installed from the package worked without any modifications (great!).
>
> I still need help with how to make it 1024x768. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Tomo