On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 08:30:08PM +0000, Ryan wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been trying for the past Month to get my SUN Blade 1000 with > UltraSparcIIITo run with Debian 5.0.7, Everything installs no problems at all > the system runs without any hiccups at all... except 1, I really need to > install > a GUI as my Business Partner has no experience with Linux at all but has > "worked" with Linux desktop and can manage with it I do have have some > experience with the command line but only the basics, i have tried 5 different > Linux distro's for SPARC, 2 of them don't even boot, 2 will only work if no > GUI > is installed, the last being Solaris loads fine, GUI works fine but the > commands > are confusing (used to Debian based Commands), and is a nightmare to set up as > WEB server, I want to re install Debian as i found it to be the most stable > but > nothing i have tried has helped, the only thing i have learnt from this > experience is how to Google more efficiently please can someone help me get a > GUI to work on my system.
Your machine most likely has the XVR-500 or XVR-600 graphics card. In Linux there is only a basic framebuffer driver for them, which, unfortunately, cannot be used to run X. There are some fairly recent discussions about it on sparc-linux mailing list (and they do not look very promising): http://marc.info/?t=128959505600005&r=1&w=4 http://marc.info/?t=128960437300001&r=1&w=4 In short, if you absolutely need to run X on this machine, your best bet is to pick some supported PCI graphics card and stick it in. > The most common fault i have come accross in Debian is after running the > command > apt-get install Gnome, it goes throught the whole download procedure then i > type > in : "startx", the screen flashes black a few times, then i get a blue screen > telling me that X has failed and has been disabled and that i must reconfigure > it, I tried that but absolutely nothing works I have come across this problem > many times in my Google searches but none with a helpful solution, If I have > to > i am willing to use a much older distro to get this thing working properly > with > a GUI, I don't even think it really needs to be updated, as long as its stable > and works with a GUI, all the machine has to really do is run as web server > and > mail server, as its going to be hosting my company's website and mail. > > Please please please can someone help me solve my problem > > PS i can't really give you any other information as to what graphics card the > thing is using as i haven't found the command yet that will allow me to view > the > graphics card details, all i can say is its the standard graphics card that > came > built into the machine, I don't have any documentation on the machine either > as > it was bought second hand. -- Jurij Smakov [email protected] Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
