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Re: Problems with X11 on Ultra10, BusID value



Op 2014-05-04 om 13:38 schreef David Gosselin:
> From: Sad Clouds
> Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2014 3:57 AM
> > On Sun, 4 May 2014 08:25:16 +0100 Sad Clouds wrote:
> > >On Sat, 03 May 2014 17:20:33 -0600 Hayden Kroepfl wrote:
> > >> On 03/05/14 03:39 PM, Sad Clouds wrote:
> > >> > Hello, I'm new to Debian and trying it out on Ultra10 which has
> > >> > Creator3D framebuffer.
> > >> >
> > >> > I installed Debian stable and seem to be having some issues with
> > >> > X11 or display manager. The system boots OK and I can see boot
> > >> > messages, but when it goes to start display manager the screen
> > >> > goes black and nothing happens. No windows, no mouse cursor,
> > >> > nothing.
> > >> >
> > >> > Any ideas?
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >> Might as well ask about the obvious right away, do you have your
> > >> monitor hooked up to the onboard video in the bottom left corner
> > >> (facing the back), or to the 13W3 video connector on the Creator3D?
> > >> What could be happening is X11 picked the wrong card by default and
> > >> is only showing it on the opposite connector. If you have a second
> > >> monitor try hooking one up to the 13W3 and one to the VGA connector.
> > >>
> > >> Hayden K.
> > >
> > >Hello, that was the first thing I tried however there is no VGA signal
> > >on machfb. I managed to get IP address assigned to this machine from
> > >DHCP server, logged in via ssh and looked at the logs. Looks like X
> > >server has problems configuring framebuffer device.
> > >
> > >So I generated xorg.conf manually with 'X -configure' and it thinks I
> > >have 3 cards:
> > >
> > >        Identifier  "Card0"
> > >        Driver      "mach64"
> > >        BusID       "PCI:1:2:0"
> > >
> > >        Identifier  "Card1"
> > >        Driver      "fbdev"
> > >        BusID       "PCI:1:2:0"
> > >
> > >        Identifier  "Card2"
> > >        Driver      "vesa"
> > >        BusID       "PCI:1:2:0"
> > >
> > >
> > >This looks wrong to me, one of them should be using sunffb driver. And
> > >why all three drivers refer to the same BusID?
> > >
> > >I tried copying this file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and leaving only
> > >
> > >        Identifier  "Card1"
> > >        Driver      "sunffb"
> > >        BusID       "PCI:1:2:0"
> > >
> > >But still can't get X11 running
> > >
> > >Any ideas?
> > 
> > OK changed that to
> > 
> > BusID "SBUS:/SUNW,ffb@1e,0"
> > 
> > and X11 works now.
> > 
> 
> Hi,
> I was curious as to what prompted you to try "SBUS:/SUNW,ffb@1e,0"
> for the BusID value?

Me too

> Thanks,
> Dave

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