re: xserver-xsun broken!
Dayton Turner writes: Hi, I just installed debian on my sparc the other day as well and I get pivo:~# startx (using VT number 7) PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file Roman_M sunMouseProc ioctl VUIDFORMAT: Invalid argument Fatal server error: failed to initialize core devices Now, I do have the xfonts-pex installed and the font exists in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX (Roman_M.phont) although running mkfontdir doesnt seem to find it. so that's one problem, but i also seem to be having the same problem you are with the core devices. Unfortunately, I dont have an old Xsun binary to fall back on, can you either tell me where i might find one or give me a little insight to if you have seen this problem fixed yet? So you have got the same problem as me. However, three days ago, I have installed sparc-debian on another Sun and it surprised me that xserver-xsun works without problem. And when I saw the message of Bolan Meek below, every thing become clear to me. In fact in the second installation I have taken care not to install gpm and I have actually get the message from the server that it didn't find /dev/gpmdata so it tries /dev/sunmouse. This is actually the behaviour of the new xserver-xsun: trying /dev/gpmdata first then /dev/sunmouse, but never looked at /dev/mouse. So I check my other Sun and I found that /dev/gpmdata is still there and that is why it crashed the server since I have purged gpm, but dpkg --purge gpm doesn't remove /dev/gpmdata ! So I make an experience: I reinstall the new xserver-xsun but have gpmdata removed or symlinked to sunmouse. it works except that in the first case the server complains about not finding gpmdata. Hope this help. P.S. Just an after thought, It might be possible that xserver-xsun and gpm can work together with gpm if the later is installed with option repeat. I have turn off systematically this option because it has caused problem in the past (also on an intel box with the ATI card) Bolan Meek writes: Greetings: God bless you. I got snagged by the default installation of gpm on one the two SS20s on which I installed potato/sparc today: X would not come up, as in http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-sparc-0004/msg00131.html , with a fix offered in http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-sparc-0004/msg00133.html . I did this, and it still would not work, until I deleted, by hand, since dselect purge did not, /dev/gpmdata and /etc/gpm.conf. Then, after exiting X, I saw: Cannot open /dev/gpmdata, error 2. Trying /dev/sunmouse. I suppose I could make it look directly for /dev/sunmouse, if I knew what configuration file it's using. I looked for it in /etc/X11/XF86Config, but that file doesn't exit, even though there is a link to it: # ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config - /etc/X11/XF86Config I'm considering filing a wishlist BR so that gpm is not selected by default during installation. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 972--729-5387 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home phone on request) http://www.koyote.com/users/bolan RE: xmailtool http://www.koyote.com/users/bolan/xmailtool/index.html I am the ILOVEGNU signature virus. Just copy me to your signature. This email was infected under the terms of the GNU General Public License. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, Yesterday, I have confidently convert a Sun sparc-solaris to sparc-debian. No particular problem, but when I launch startx I found that the xserver package isn't installed : in fact it has been dselected when I select gpm. No problem, I reinstall xserver-xsun which remove gpm. However, startx yields the following error message SunMouseProc ioctl VUIDGFORMAT: invalid argument Fatal server error Fail to initialize core devices Sound familiar, I remove the link /dev/mouse - gpmdata and reling to /dev/sunmouse then relaunch startx: same error ! I purge gpm: same error, purge xserver-xsun and reinstall xserver-xsun: same error, reboot retart: same error Panic, going back and reinstall solaris would be too much a hassle. Fortunately I remember having a Sun machine running sparc-debian. I copy the file Xsun on this machine to this one. It works ! I would like to point out that this other Sun have been upgradded several day ago and for some reason the xserver-xsun have been kept back (perhaps because of the presence of gpm ?). I also notice that adter upgrading my xserver crashed and I have to remove gpm. Apparently, this upgrade have nevertheless change the behaviour of the X server: it crash in the presence of gpm while before gpm get kill. That's no big deal. But I am very upset that at this advance stage (of freeze), one still tinkers with a critical and working
re: xserver-xsun broken!
If it's trying to open gpmdata, make sure XF86Config uses the correct mouse device. Look for something like: Section Mouse Device /dev/some device that device should be sunmouse, I suspect it may be set to /dev/mouse, which probably is symlinked to the supposed gpmdata socket. However the device in XF86Config should be explicit anyways, so you should change this line to /dev/sunmouse, and if you don't have gpm just remove /dev/mouse IF it's really a symlink. - Ben Roberts, Class of 2001 (1st of millenium), founding member of MBLUG /dev/null-- the inode of no return | C stands for Superior (until devfs came along; now no inode)
re: xserver-xsun broken!
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000 08:25:11 -0400 (EDT), Ben Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it's trying to open gpmdata, make sure XF86Config uses the correct mouse device. Look for something like: Section Mouse Device /dev/some device that device should be sunmouse, I suspect it may be set to /dev/mouse, which probably is symlinked to the supposed gpmdata socket. However the device in XF86Config should be explicit anyways, so you should change this line to /dev/sunmouse, and if you don't have gpm just remove /dev/mouse IF it's really a symlink. Huh?? xserver-xsun doesn't use XF86Config. --Paul Vojta, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
re: xserver-xsun broken!
Huh?? xserver-xsun doesn't use XF86Config. Oops, haven't quite gotten to setting up X on my SPARC yet * :-) * anyway, it could still be /dev/mouse is a symlink to /dev/gpmdata, I guess. It may do something like check for /dev/mouse, if it doesn't find it fall back on /dev/sunmouse, if that doens't work fall back on something else, etc. That's how the kernel starts init: /sbin/init, /bin/init, /bin/sh, PANIC. - Ben Roberts, Class of 2001 (1st of millenium), founding member of MBLUG /dev/null-- the inode of no return | C stands for Superior (until devfs came along; now no inode)
re: xserver-xsun broken!
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 15:37:18 -0700 From: Dayton Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Subject: re: xserver-xsun broken! Unfortunately, I dont have an old Xsun binary to fall back on, can you either tell me where i might find one or give me a little insight to if you have seen this problem fixed yet? I have an old Xsun binary (from 12 July 1999) that I'm still using. I can mail it to you if you don't have a better copy yet. IIRC it's version 3.3.3.1. --Paul Vojta, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
re: xserver-xsun broken!
Hi, I just installed debian on my sparc the other day as well and I get pivo:~# startx (using VT number 7) PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file Roman_M sunMouseProc ioctl VUIDFORMAT: Invalid argument Fatal server error: failed to initialize core devices Now, I do have the xfonts-pex installed and the font exists in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX (Roman_M.phont) although running mkfontdir doesnt seem to find it. so that's one problem, but i also seem to be having the same problem you are with the core devices. Unfortunately, I dont have an old Xsun binary to fall back on, can you either tell me where i might find one or give me a little insight to if you have seen this problem fixed yet? Thanks alot Dayton Hi, Yesterday, I have confidently convert a Sun sparc-solaris to sparc-debian. No particular problem, but when I launch startx I found that the xserver package isn't installed : in fact it has been dselected when I select gpm. No problem, I reinstall xserver-xsun which remove gpm. However, startx yields the following error message SunMouseProc ioctl VUIDGFORMAT: invalid argument Fatal server error Fail to initialize core devices Sound familiar, I remove the link /dev/mouse - gpmdata and reling to /dev/sunmouse then relaunch startx: same error ! I purge gpm: same error, purge xserver-xsun and reinstall xserver-xsun: same error, reboot retart: same error Panic, going back and reinstall solaris would be too much a hassle. Fortunately I remember having a Sun machine running sparc-debian. I copy the file Xsun on this machine to this one. It works ! I would like to point out that this other Sun have been upgradded several day ago and for some reason the xserver-xsun have been kept back (perhaps because of the presence of gpm ?). I also notice that adter upgrading my xserver crashed and I have to remove gpm. Apparently, this upgrade have nevertheless change the behaviour of the X server: it crash in the presence of gpm while before gpm get kill. That's no big deal. But I am very upset that at this advance stage (of freeze), one still tinkers with a critical and working package like X and introduce new bug. Just two days ago? I have reported a bug in the new file /etc/Xsession (it no longer loads the Xresources) Please go back to the xserver-xsun which works -- PHAM Dinh Tuan | e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Laboratoire de Modelisation et Calcul | Tel: +33 4 76 51 44 23 BP 53, 38041 Grenoble cedex 9 (France) | Fax: +33 4 76 63 12 63 --- -- `~ ~' O.O ---UUU-V-UUU- Dayton Turner UNIX Systems and Network Administrator E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: (604) 809-7742 WWW: http://www.turnerd.com Richmond, BC, Canada
re: xserver-xsun broken!
Hi, I just installed debian on my sparc the other day as well and I get pivo:~# startx (using VT number 7) PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file Roman_M sunMouseProc ioctl VUIDFORMAT: Invalid argument Fatal server error: failed to initialize core devices Now, I do have the xfonts-pex installed and the font exists in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX (Roman_M.phont) although running mkfontdir doesnt seem to find it. so that's one problem, but i also seem to be having the same problem you are with the core devices. Hi there, I've had this font problem since slink (iirc) and it persists as of Xsun version 3.3.6-9. I don't know of a cure. However I usually don't get a fatal server error just Cannot open /dev/gpmdata, error 2. Trying /dev/sunmouse. I thought the default was sunmouse ?!? I don't even have gpm installed.. Not much of a help -- Ragga
