On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 10:34 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > The esteemed Joe Lannon has said: > > > > Blade 100, integrated graphics. Stable crashes when starting X, every > time. > > > > Testing and unstable work, but there are strange dotted lines all over > > the screen. I have messed with the various options for xorg.conf, > > none of them make it go away. > > > > Works perfectly in OpenBSD/FreeBSD, for some reason. > > > > If anyone can help, great. But I'm kind of assuming this isn't going > > to be easily solvable. I'm also looking for recommendations of SPARC > > system/video card combinations that do work with Xorg on Debian "out > > of the box". > > > I posted a similar question about getting X11 started on an Ultra 1 > Creator about a week ago but got no responses. After looking at the > log, the xorg.conf file, and an xorg.conf file on a Solaris 10 x86 box, > I added > Driver "sunffb" > To the "Device" section. I don't know if the Blade 100 on-board > graphics were FFB or PGX24 (like Ultra 5_10), so you'll have to pick the > right driver for your video. > > I've included, below, the xorg.conf file I have that runs OK on an Ultra > 1 200E with the Creator board and a GDM-20E20 monitor. Gnome is dog > slow on this machine, takes a couple of minutes to come up, but it does > come up. > > Hank > ===========complete xorg.conf file================= > # xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file) > # > # This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, > using > # values from the debconf database. > # > # Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page. > # (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.) > # > # This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades > *only* > # if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg > # package. > # > # If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically > updated > # again, run the following command: > # sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Generic Keyboard" > Driver "kbd" > Option "XkbRules" "xorg" > Option "XkbModel" "pc104" > Option "XkbLayout" "us" > EndSection > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Configured Mouse" > Driver "mouse" > EndSection > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Configured Video Device" > Driver "sunffb" > Option "UseFBDev" "true" > EndSection > > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "Configured Monitor" > EndSection > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Default Screen" > Monitor "Configured Monitor" > EndSection > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > > It uses the mach64 driver. The only real change to a default Xorg setup is to set the reference_clock.
I don't think there is any issue with the xorg.conf because the same one works perfectly on FreeBSD/OpenBSD. (Sorry for the duplicate Hank. Forgot to change the address to the list)
