Re: Problems with X11 on Ultra10
On 2014-05-05, Howard Eisenberger wrote:
> On 2014-05-03, 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.
>
>
> I don't have a Creator on my Ultra 10 (onboard ATI), but X works
> with Creator on my Ultra60 using Jan 10 jessie version of Debian.
I installed a Creator card in my Ultra 10 and the problem seems
to be that Debian tries to use the onboard ATI. You can search
for this on the Web.
I got a console by appending "video=atyfb:off" to the silo boot,
but X is still not working. I created a xorg.conf, but I don't
know how to ID the Creator card, which isn't PCI.
It might be simpler to just pull the Creator and try the onboard
ATI. The ATI on my Ultra 10 only has 2MB ram and is really fussy
about which monitor I use. My Ultra 5 has 4MB video ram and is
not so fussy.
I use these as servers and/or music boxes, not graphical
"Desktops". For the former they work fine with Debian or
OpenBSD.
Regards,
Howard E.
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