Re: Seems I have bad timing with Debian on SPARC.
On 2013-10-03, Hartwig Atrops <Hartwig.Atrops@arcor.de> wrote:
> I reinstalled my Ultra 60 some days ago - dual boot Wheezy / Jessie. I used
> the netinstall CDs. I'm running XFCE4, workes fine so far on both Wheezy and
> Jessie.
>
> Ok, Iceweasel is broken - that's an old problem. And installing Jessie with
> the XFCE CD ended up in a mixture of XFCE and Gnome - unusable. But starting
> with the netinstall CD, even Jessie is working without major problems so far.
I just fired up my Ultra 60 with Creator card running Wheezy.
No desktop manager, startx plus window manager.
Everything seems to work, except:
(1) No sound with SMP kernel. Non-SMP kernel O.K.
(2) "Bus error" with iceweasel and iceape. I believe it's been
like this for a couple of years now.
$ uname -a
Linux debu60 3.2.0-4-sparc64 #1 Debian 3.2.46-1 sparc64 GNU/Linux
$ Xorg -version
X.Org X Server 1.12.4
Release Date: 2012-08-27
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.32-5-sparc64-smp sparc Debian
Current Operating System: Linux debu60 3.2.0-4-sparc64 #1 Debian 3.2.46-1
sparc64
Kernel command line: root=/dev/sdc2 ro
Build Date: 17 April 2013 11:30:19AM
xorg-server 2:1.12.4-6 (Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>)
Current version of pixman: 0.26.0
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
$ grep -i sunffb /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[ 108.882] (==) Matched sunffb as autoconfigured driver 0
[ 108.882] (==) Matched sunffb as autoconfigured driver 1
[ 108.883] (II) LoadModule: "sunffb"
[ 108.924] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/sunffb_drv.so
[ 108.938] (II) Module sunffb: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 109.057] (II) SUNFFB: driver for Creator, Creator 3D and Elite 3D
[ 109.071] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for sunffb
[ 109.074] (WW) SUNFFB: More than one matching Device section found:
Autoconfigured Video Dev
[ 109.082] (II) SUNFFB(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen
section
[ 109.082] (==) SUNFFB(0): RGB weight 888
[ 109.082] (==) SUNFFB(0): Default visual is TrueColor
[ 109.083] (==) SUNFFB(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
[ 109.083] (==) SUNFFB(0): Using HW cursor
[ 109.167] (==) SUNFFB(0): DPI set to (96, 96)
[ 109.238] (II) SUNFFB(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)
[ 109.239] (==) SUNFFB(0): Backing store disabled
[ 109.239] (==) SUNFFB(0): Silken mouse enabled
[ 109.242] (==) SUNFFB(0): DPMS enabled
[ 109.242] (==) SUNFFB(0): DPMS enabled
Regards,
Howard E.
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