Marcus Crafter wrote: > > Hi Howard! > > I have a Sun Ultra1/Creator3D sitting next to me right now with Debian > installed on it. My first install on it went fine (2.2r1 I > believe) - do you have an official Debian CD set ? > > > Thing is, I have installed this 3 times now, with reduced number of > > packages each time, and each time it gets to the video configuration > > during CD1 I get the message > > > > "Your video card was successfully identified. The (( Cannot open > > /proc/bus/pci/devices. You probably have an old kernel. Support for > > the old Linux PCI interface should be coming soon )) server will > > be installed" > > > > [ double (( )) speculatively added by me ] > > > > Linux installs correctly aside from the video config. I can't run X in > > any shape or form. Can anbody suggest what I am missing. I am > > a Solaris guy normally, please forgive my newbie question... :-) > > I vaguely remember something like this happening, but I ignored it and > X still worked fine. AFAIK X 3.3.6 doesn't use an XF86Config file, so > whatever is generated will be ignored - it uses the framebuffer device > instead. > > (X 4.0.1 in unstable does use an XF86Config file, which is what I > currently use, and I simply downloaded and used an XF86Config file > posted to this group a few months back).
Er, the XF86Config file is used regardless. > Which xserver package did you install ? I used xserver-xsun24, and > simply issued xinit and everything worked fine. > > What error messages are printed to the screen when you start X ?