Bug#367947: Ultra10 X Problems after dist-upgrade
Stewart Stremler wrote:
>>> It changes, in that it but it's not better. It complains about the
>>> DRI module not being loaded instead of complaining about screen 0
>>> not being DRI capable.
>>>
>> Right, AIGLX won't be enabled, but it is not important.
>> The possibly bad warnings that remain are:
>>
>> ****INVALID IO ALLOCATION**** b: 0x2c00400 e: 0x2c004ff correcting
>> (WW) VGA(0): Cannot read colourmap from VGA. Will restore with default
>>
>
> Well, the Invalid IO Allocation warning is still there. :-/
>
I see various reports containing this error in Google, but nobody really
says whether it is bad or not.
>> But there is something strange, you have lots of line like:
>> (II) VGA(0): Not using default mode "640x350" (insufficient memory
>> for mode)
>> followed in the end by:
>> (WW) VGA(0): Mode pool is empty
>> All this could be caused by:
>> (==) VGA(0): videoRam: 64 kBytes.
>> Your ATI board probably has much more memory than that (maybe 8MB). The
>> ATI driver should detect it fine. If not, we could even hardcode it in
>> xorg.conf.
>>
>
> Hm. The dmesg output says it has "4M SGRAM", if I read the output
> correctly. ( http://www.stremler.net/temp/Debian/03/save-dmesg )
>
And your latest Xorg.0.log says that Xorg detects this memory fine,
thanks to the ATI driver.
>> Let's see what you get with the ATI driver, the other warnings might be
>> related to the VGA driver. Try without DRI first.
>>
>
> Okay. I now get a new and different behavior: an all black screen. I
> commented out the 1600x1280 resolutions ('cuz it's an older CRT that
> might not handle it, I guessed), and no change. Oh, and it beeps at
> me -- I can't alt-Fn or control-alt-Fn to another virtual desktop.
>
Are you sure that your vertical and horizontal sync ranges are ok? Or
did you just choose them randomly? Do you by chance remember what you
had in XF86Config when it worked? Looking at the /etc/X11/XF86Config*
files that remains on your machine might help, we never know...
Also, you could eventually try much lower resolutions. Once we'll have
found a working setup, even very minimal, it might be better to fix the
remaining problems.
Just to be sure, could you look at http://wiki.debian.org/XorgOnSparc
and see whether it talks of some hardware you have?
There are still things about DRI in your Xorg.0.log, apparently caused
by AIGLX being enabled by default. You could try add Option "AIGLX"
"false" to the ServerLayout section and see what happens. But there are
very few chances that it actually helps.
I am running out of ideas here, apart from trying a 2.6 kernel.
Eventually, you could install xserver-xorg-video-vesa and try the vesa
driver instead of ati.
Brice
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