Hi, Today, 11 hours, 12 minutes, 27 seconds ago, Robert Lemmen wrote: > i got an ultra 5 that i recently upgraded from stable to testing, now X > doesn't work anmore. i followed the instructions on the XorgOnSparc page > of the wiki, everything went fine so far. if i do a startx, the screen > goes blank, the machine emits a continuous beep and locks up hard. no > keypressing makes it switch to console or kill the xserver. i can't say > for sure how hard it actually locks up as i have no other computer > around to check over the network, but if i redirect stdout and stderr to > a file, i find nothing on the disc after the reboot (btw: the beeping > doesn't happen if i redirect the oputput). the graphics card is an > "ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro 215GP (rev 5c)" (lspci), xorg is at > version 7.0.22 and the kernel (if that is of any interest) is a 2.6.7 > (self-compiled from upstream sources). the xorg.conf is attached, the > bits that are commented out are stuff i tried, the problem also appears > with them in.
Other people (including myself) have seen this before. The relevant thread is available at [0] (and it spans over several months). Unfortunately, I'm pretty much clueless as to how to debug the thing. I have not had any idea better than using `strace' but this didn't lead to any useful result [1]. Thanks, Ludovic. [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2006/05/msg00008.html [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2006/06/msg00112.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
