Hi. I just wanted to weigh in and say that I've tried Max's fix on my Ultra 5 and I can confirm that it works with the X server from lenny.
Before trying Max's kernel patch I also verified that X.org is *broken* and unusable using the default kernel. This is true of the X.org server included in Lenny as well as the 1.5.3 server in experimental. Looking at the patch it's clear that the original intention of the kernel change was to clean out some seemingly crufty and dodgy old code, but seeing that 1) the change is localized to SPARC machines; 2) it renders X.org unusable with Ultra 5s, and highly probably Ultra 10s as they're virtually the same, as well as an unknown set of other machines; 3) Ultra 5s and Ultra 10s seem to remain the most popular SPARC machines for the desktop (and therefore the set of SPARC machines likely to have X.org installed) it doesn't seem reasonable to release stable Debian system with this problem in it on the academic grounds that "it's X.org's fault." This is a serious problem with Debian on SPARC. Assuming that Debian really cares about SPARC, (particularly on the desktop) and I think the project should do what needs to be done to make sure that this bug doesn't make it into the released version of Lenny. Someone mentioned not wanting to build their own kernel so I uploaded the one I built to my web server. I tried to build it from the source of linux-image-2.6.26, so that it would be identical to the Debian kernel -- with the patch applied -- but I ran into problems running dpkg-buildpackage. So instead I went with the usual linux-source/make-kpkg route. I enabled just about everything though so it should be pretty similar to a Debian kernel with respect to features. It is also built using initrd. <http://hafd.org/~jordanb/linux-image-2.6.26murat-custom_murat001_sparc.deb> Sorry about the name. I got a bit carried away. Thanks, -- Jordan Bettis -- Chicago Il. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]