On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 10:57:35AM -0300, Antonio Luiz Pacifico wrote: > On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 10:09, Ben Collins wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 08:16:14AM -0400, Eduardo Mendes wrote: > > > Hello > > > > > > Debian is now the sole OS on my sparc 10. The installation process went > > > fine > > > despite a slow internet connection (thanks to all on the list again and > > > again). > > > > > > Although the installation process went through all the settings for X, > > > the > > > only thing that came out was a blank screen (I didn't see the mouse > > > pointer > > > at all so I assume that X settings are completely wrong). I tried to > > > find a > > > xsetup, xconfigurator and etc. but the only thing that came out was > > > xf86config (which didn't help at all!). Ok, how can I sucessfully > > > configure X > > > for a sparc 10 with Creator 3D and Sony monitor, model GDM 501PT? > > > > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 > > > > If you get a black screen, wait, and wait some more. It's possible that > > you are using swap space to start X, and it could take time under those > > circumstances. > > > This is interesting. I'm using Debian GNU/Linux on one Ultra 30. My > video card is creator 3D (according to the command "dmesg"). However, > until today, I couldn't make my Xserver start using the binary > /usr/X11R6/bin/X. But, I got xserver-xsun24 (3.3.6), extracted the > binary Xsun24, deleted the /usr/X11R6/bin/X and changed Xsun24 into > /usr/X11R6/bin/X. After that I gave the following commands: > chown root.root /usr/X11R6/bin/X > chmod 4755 /usr/X11R6/bin/X > startx... and now it works!!! > That is, I'd like to know: Why my system works with an antiquade binary? > I really don't know, but it works! > Is there a reason for this? > > Thank's in advance!
Likely there is a good reason for it, but unless you email /var/log/XFree86.log, we wont know the answer. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/
