Hi, I just installed debian on my sparc the other day as well and I get pivo:~# startx (using VT number 7)
PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file Roman_M sunMouseProc ioctl VUIDFORMAT: Invalid argument Fatal server error: failed to initialize core devices Now, I do have the xfonts-pex installed and the font exists in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX (Roman_M.phont) although running mkfontdir doesnt seem to find it. so that's one problem, but i also seem to be having the same problem you are with the core devices. Unfortunately, I dont have an old Xsun binary to fall back on, can you either tell me where i might find one or give me a little insight to if you have seen this problem fixed yet? Thanks alot Dayton > Hi, > Yesterday, I have confidently convert a Sun sparc-solaris to > sparc-debian. No particular problem, but when I launch startx I found > that the xserver package isn't installed : in fact it has been > dselected when I select gpm. No problem, I reinstall xserver-xsun > which remove gpm. However, startx yields the following error message > > SunMouseProc ioctl VUIDGFORMAT: invalid argument > Fatal server error > Fail to initialize core devices > > Sound familiar, I remove the link /dev/mouse -> gpmdata and reling to > /dev/sunmouse then relaunch startx: same error ! I purge gpm: same > error, purge xserver-xsun and reinstall xserver-xsun: same error, > reboot retart: same error > > Panic, going back and reinstall solaris would be too much a hassle. > Fortunately I remember having a Sun machine running sparc-debian. I > copy the file Xsun on this machine to this one. It works ! > > I would like to point out that this other Sun have been upgradded > several day ago and for some reason the xserver-xsun have been kept > back (perhaps because of the presence of gpm ?). I also notice that > adter upgrading my xserver crashed and I have to remove gpm. > Apparently, this upgrade have nevertheless change the behaviour of the > X server: it crash in the presence of gpm while before gpm get kill. > That's no big deal. But I am very upset that at this advance stage (of > freeze), one still tinkers with a critical and working package like X > and introduce new bug. Just two days ago? I have reported a bug in the > new file /etc/Xsession (it no longer loads the Xresources) > > Please go back to the xserver-xsun which works > > -- > PHAM Dinh Tuan | e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Laboratoire de Modelisation et Calcul | Tel: +33 4 76 51 44 23 > BP 53, 38041 Grenoble cedex 9 (France) | Fax: +33 4 76 63 12 63 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- `~ ~' O.O ---------------------------UUU-V-UUU--------------------------------- Dayton Turner UNIX Systems and Network Administrator E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: (604) 809-7742 WWW: http://www.turnerd.com Richmond, BC, Canada