Hi, I experienced a problem with X-server that got resolved. The reason for the occurrence is not known and am posting to know the same.
I got a sparc system that already had Solaris running. It was working fine with a dell keyboard(via usb) and monitor connected to it. I took the system to OBP, connected a sun keyboard (since the earlier used accessories had moved to different location) and did some maintenance activity (booting into single user mode, change of IP, mount points, etc) and rebooted the system. When the system cameup the X-server failed to start. The /var/dt/Xerrors file indicated errors related to keyboard. The system worked fine with the sun keyboard on command line(without X). On connecting the back earlier used keyboard and rebooting the system, the X-server came-up without any errors. My question: Why cannot X-server reconfigure (if necessary) based on the attached keyboard? The /var/dt/Xerrors file had content similar to the one at http://unix.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.unix.solaris/2004-07/0770.html (Reproduced below for convenience) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (EE) screenInfo.numScreens = 1 (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Mon Jul 12 15:03:11 2004 (EE) PreInit done KIOCTYPE: Invalid argument ddxSUNWkbd: Keyboard type ioctl KIOCTYPE failed on /dev/kbd Fatal server error: failed to initialize core devices XIO: fatal IO error 146 (Connection refused) on X server "unix:0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. XIO: fatal IO error 146 (Connection refused) on X server "unix:0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. Mon Jul 12 15:03:14 2004 error (pid 350): Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly 1 (EE) screenInfo.numScreens = 1 (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Mon Jul 12 15:03:14 2004 (EE) PreInit done KIOCTYPE: Invalid argument ddxSUNWkbd: Keyboard type ioctl KIOCTYPE failed on /dev/kbd Fatal server error: failed to initialize core devices ........................................ ........................................ (The OS present was Solaris_9 but am taking the liberty to post here since I believe it to be an issue of X-server on Solaris. I am not able to try it out on nevada build right now). best regards Shiv This message posted from opensolaris.org
