ULTRA 10 xfree problem

[F. Schoenahl]

Hi everybody, 

I don't manage to get X working. I don't get any errors, just a black screen. 
Nothing on it, I can just break the connection with Ctrl-alt-BS.  My monitor is 
a large 19' (Ithink) sun screen with 2 video inputs (sun/pc standard) on a SUN 
ultra 10 with ATI 3D rage pro.

I have used 
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 
to configure xfree.

XF86Config-4: 
 
### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION
# XF86Config-4 (XFree86 server configuration file) generated by dexconf, the
# Debian X Configuration tool, using values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config-4 manual page.
# (Type "man XF86Config-4" at the shell prompt.)
#
# If you want your changes to this file preserved by dexconf, only make changes
# before the "### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION" line above, and/or after the
# "### END DEBCONF SECTION" line below.
#
# To change things within the debconf section, run the command:
#   dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
# as root.  Also see "How do I add custom sections to a dexconf-generated
# XF86Config or XF86Config-4 file?" in /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz.

Section "Files"
FontPath"unix/:7100"# local font server
# if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load"extmod"
Load"freetype"
Load"glx"
Load"type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Generic Keyboard"
Driver  "keyboard"
Option  "CoreKeyboard"
Option  "XkbRules"  "sun"
Option  "XkbModel"  "type5"
Option  "XkbLayout" "de"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Configured Mouse"
Driver  "mouse"
Option  "CorePointer"
Option  "Device""/dev/sunmouse"
Option  "Protocol"  "BusMouse"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Generic Mouse"
Driver  "mouse"
Option  "SendCoreEvents""true"
Option  "Device""/dev/input/mice"
Option  "Protocol"  "ImPS/2"
Option  "Baudrate"  "1200"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier  "Generic Video Card"
Driver  "ati"
BusID   "PCI:1:2:0"
Option  "UseFBDev"  "true"  # removing this one has 
no effect 
Option  "composite_sync""true" # note: removing this 
one does not change
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier  "Generic Monitor"
HorizSync   30-70
VertRefresh 50-110
#Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier  "Default Screen"
Device  "Generic Video Card"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth8
SubSection "Display"
Depth   1
Modes   "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" 
"800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth   4
Modes   "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" 
"800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth   8
Modes   "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" 
"800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth   15
Modes   "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" 
"800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth   16
Modes   "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" 
"800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth   24
Modes   "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" 
"800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier  "Default Layout"
Screen  "Default Screen"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
InputDevice "Generic Mouse"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode0666
EndSection

### END DEBCONF SECTION

Then XLOG:  LONG (sorry)

This is a pre-release version of XFree86, and is not supported in any
way.  Bugs may be reported to 

Re: Re: UltraSparc 10 - cannot boot

[F. Schoenahl]

>I'm not sure the nonUS CD was created properly. You can try the
>sparc-mini.iso at:
>http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/disks-sparc/current/

Hi Ben, 
this was true, the CD was a CDRW which could not be read from my CDROM driver, 
so I have just burnt the mini-iso image again on a pure CDR.

However it still does not work - stopping to 

 
 boot:  
 Loading initial ramdisk
 Illegal instruction

 ok _

I think a problem very close to the one mentioned by M- Moretto as I can see in 
a previous mail in the archive.
Is this coming from the image that contains something wrong? or from the system 
itself ?

Thansk again,
fred 

UltraSparc 10 - cannot boot

[F. Schoenahl]

Hi everybody,

I wanted to start a debian installation on an SUN UltraSparc 10, I have read 
that I may experience problems installing it, and indeed, I have problems.

I have burnt the sparc CD1 iso - nonUs to a cd rw, and tried to boot on it from 
openboot - 

ok boot cdrom

The "disk label" is not recognised, no "boot device" found etc. I found some 
message in the archive, but no solutions -- one was floppy - but I get the same 
error with both sun4u and sun4cm burnt images (dd if=root.img 
of=). 

The solaris CD boots perfectly. The floppy boots correctly on an old sparc 5. 

How could I force my ultra10 to boot from the floppy, tune openboot?? -
are there particular options to burn the CD?

thanks for your support,
fred