Re: Could someone help with XFree86 on an Ultra 10.

[AJ MacLeod]

On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 10:42:33 +1100
John Telek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 My problem is I cant get a working XF86Config-4
 I wanto to just use teh Elite 3D for now with a view to go dual screens
 later on.
 Doesn't matter what config I try, I get the following error.

 Fatal server error:
 Caught signal 10. Server aborting

Sounds pretty much identical to an U10 I have running Woody.  Could you maybe
post your XF86Config for us?  I can compare it to mine tomorrow (unfortunately
the machine in question is running Solaris at this second and it's six miles
away so I can't easily boot it into linux).  Assuming nobody solves your problem
before then!

AJ

Re: kernel panic on boot

[AJ MacLeod]

On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 09:33:40 +0100
John P. Looney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  However, on first boot, base-config was run, and immediately caused a
 (reproducable) kernel-panic.
 
  I'm not quite sure what to do - this is a bog-standard Ultra10, that was
 happily running solaris until yesterday. It's crashing in install-keymap
 somewhere.

I had this one the other week, too.  Nobody else on #sparc seemed to have heard
of it which I found surprising.  I got round it (eventually) by booting into
single user mode and installing with apt, and then persuading base-config that
it had already run.

I'm not certain it's related to the keyboard though - I could log in on the
second VC and work away happily (aside from base-config having a lock on the
config database.) However, killing any part of the base-config process tree
locked the machine solid instantly.

The only error message I was getting on boot was about the RTC - I'd not
selected the rtc.o module to be loaded at boot and so it couldn't set the
hardware clock.

I thought that I did have a type5 keyboard - it's set up as type5 at the moment
and it works perfectly.  Did any Ultra10s come with type5 keyboards? The machine
in question is one of our oldest U10s.

Perhaps there's a deeper bug that base-config triggers?  The box has been
working flat out for about a week now on an intensive CFD problem and not shown
the slightest instability at all.

Regards,

AJ MacLeod