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Re: potato bugs



On Wed, 19 Jul 2000 01:24:07 -0500,
Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> wrote:
>
> If any Xsun users would like to try to help tracking down this extremely
> aggravating problem, please make sure you are upgraded to 3.3.6-9, and then
> replace the /usr/X11R6/bin/Xsun binary on your system with the file from
> the following URL:
> 
> <http://www.debian.org/~branden/Xsun>
> 
> There seems to be a problem at the Xsun/kernel-framebuffer layer.  I've
> added a whole bunch of debugging messages ("ErrorF"'s in X server jargon)
> to a couple of functions in xc/programs/Xserver/hw/sun/sunInit.c that seem
> to be at the heart of the problem.

OK.  Here's the output on my machine (Sun Sparc 5, cg6 fb).
Note that Xsun runs fine as root for me (see bug #67096), so this output
may not be helpful to you.

==============================

Cannot open /dev/gpmdata, error 2. Trying /dev/sunmouse.
InitOutput: entering
(using VT number 7)

InputOutput: populating pScreenInfo
pScreenInfo->imageByteOrder = 1
pScreenInfo->bitmapScanlineUnit = 32
pScreenInfo->bitmapScanlinePad = 32
pScreenInfo->bitmapBitOrder = 1
pScreenInfo->numPixmapFormats = 2
XKB is defined
InitOutput: sunDevsInited is FALSE
devList = GetDeviceList (argc, argv)
Successful OpenFrameBuffer (devList[0] not null and scr = 0 (< 3)
Successful OpenFrameBuffer (devList[1] not null and scr = 0 (< 3)
Successful OpenFrameBuffer (devList[2] not null and scr = 0 (< 3)
Successful OpenFrameBuffer (devList[3] not null and scr = 0 (< 3)
Successful OpenFrameBuffer (devList[4] not null and scr = 0 (< 3)
Successful OpenFrameBuffer (devList[5] not null and scr = 0 (< 3)
Successful OpenFrameBuffer (devList[6] not null and scr = 0 (< 3)
Successful OpenFrameBuffer (devList[7] not null and scr = 0 (< 3)
Successful OpenFrameBuffer (devList[8] not null and scr = 0 (< 3)
Successful OpenFrameBuffer (devList[9] not null and scr = 0 (< 3)
Successful OpenFrameBuffer (devList[10] not null and scr = 0 (< 3)
Successful OpenFrameBuffer (devList[11] not null and scr = 0 (< 3)
Successful OpenFrameBuffer (devList[12] not null and scr = 0 (< 3)
Successful OpenFrameBuffer (devList[13] not null and scr = 0 (< 3)
sunFbs[0].fd was -1, not stat()ing or doing linuxSetConsoleFb (scr = 0)
sunFbs[1].fd was -1, not stat()ing or doing linuxSetConsoleFb (scr = 1)
sunFbs[2].fd was -1, not stat()ing or doing linuxSetConsoleFb (scr = 2)
InputOutput: leaving

Fatal server error:
no screens found
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).

====================================

> Please email the results to the debian-x list so we do not clutter the
> other lists.  Be sure that the /dev/fb symlink exists before trying this
> server binary.

Check.

% ls -l /dev/fb /dev/fb0
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            3 Jul 10 17:18 /dev/fb -> fb0
crw--w--w-    1 root     tty       29,   0 Feb 26  1998 /dev/fb0


--Paul Vojta, vojta@math.berkeley.edu



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