On Tuesday 18 July 2006 04:26, Robert Lemmen wrote: > hi folks, > > 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. > > has anybody seen this before? any pointers? hints where i could lokk? > what i could try?
I've almost never had an X lockup on an Ultra 5 or 10 in a couple of years of use with kernels 2.4 and 2.6. A U10 I have working 24/7 has exactly the same PCI report as yours. Most of my Debian on this box is Etch, with a sprinkling of Sid. I have had problems with earlier 2.6 kernels on other Ultras, and recently had a problem with Etch and 2.6.16 (probably unrelated to Xorg) that was solved by upgrading to Debian's kernel 2.6.17-1-sparc64 in Sid. The following things in your xorg.conf are suboptimal or nonworking (when used with recent 2.6 kernels), though I doubt if any would cause a hard lockup. 1. With a 2.6 kernel and a Sun type 5 serial keyboard the keyboard rules and model should be xorg and pc105, not sun and type5. 2. With a 2.6 kernel the Sun serial mouse device should be /dev/psaux not /dev/sunmouse. 3. I use a 15 bit depth rather than 16. As far as I know the graphic chipset supports 8, 15, 16, and 24. 4. I do use the dri module (in Xorg 6.9). -- good luck, SP > > thanks robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
