Hi Branden, Branden Robinson schrieb am Donnerstag, 29. April 2004 um 11:57:42 -0500: > On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 03:24:31PM +0200, Joerg Friedrich wrote: > > Branden Robinson schrieb am Mittwoch, 28. April 2004 um 02:49:07 -0500: > > > > > > Does the X server stay up if you give it no clients to run? > > > > > > One way to test this is simply to run "X" as root. > > > > definitly X, I tried to run 'X' as root, the result is the same. > > Okay, it looks like the sunffb driver is definitely busted in testing > and unstable. > > Debian SPARC porters:
I got it :-) At least the Elite3D graphics adaptor (I don't know the Creator) requires to be initialized by afbinit which need a microcode file from sun. after 'afbinit /dev/fd0' X starts without any problems! Sorry I am new to Linux/SPARC. Maybe you can raise a debconf warning when the sunffb driver is selected. -- Jörg Friedrich