Folks I have been trying unsuccessfully for about three weeks (on and off) to get the graphical User interface to work on my Sun UltraSparc 10 box. I presume it has an Elite 3D PCI card inside as the sticker is on the front of the box. My monitor is a Sun 19inch with a CM751U label on the back.
I have been running xf86config for weeks now trying all sorts of configurations. I don't really know what my horizontal and vertical refresh rates are for the monitor that I have. I also don't seem to see Elite 3D or CM751U listed in the video card and monitor lists that xf86config presents me with. I can enclose the full output if people like from the server log. The last lines however mention the following: (EE) SUNFFB: Failed to load module 'dri' ... (II) unloading /usr/x11r6/lib/modules.... (II) unloading /usr/x11r6/lib/modules.... ... .... Fatal server error No Screens found I guess that the last configuration that I choose must have been for the subffb card. I can't remember. I have tried so many. I have read elsewhere that I should try running the xserver-mach64. I don't actually know how to do that. It is a command line instruction? It says also after that line in the debian online sparc problems page that 'one should.. use this X server for ATI Rage framebuffers, such as found in many PCI-based UltraSPARC machines'. My question here is 'DOes the Ultrasparc 10 have an ATI rage framebuffer'? Everything else I can get working. I installed all the network settings manually but the X server has totally baffled. I have installed about 7 different versions of linux on over 20 PC's in the last 18 months and I have always managed to somehow get the X server to work but my ultrasparc has beaten me. Any help appreciated.