Re: Re: Ultra 5 can't start KDE
This might not be it at all, but if you have either Sun's Elite3D or Creator3D, the system might be pointing to the wrong device. On my Ultra10, I was having a bear of a time getting X to start up at all. The linux hardware detection put the Elite3D device on fb0 and the ATI Mach64 at fb1. X -config and every other method of configuration wanted to use the ATI card, but XFree wanted whatever was in the fb0 slot. Pointing X at the Elite3D did the trick. Like I said, this might not be your problem at all, but if you want to look at my config file, I'd be happy to send it to you. Regards, Ed From: Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2004/06/15 Tue AM 09:02:18 EDT To: Brandon Gilliam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: "debian-sparc@lists.debian.org" Subject: Re: Ultra 5 can't start KDE > > I made it through the install, and everything seemed to work fine until I > attempted to start KDE via startx. My screen begins to flash and won't stop. > I can see the full KDE desktop when it flashes, but I can't do anything with > it. I have attempted to reconfigure xfree86 with dpkg-reconfigure > xserver-xfree86, but nothing I do seems to help the problem. I am using the > ATI drivers and have an old 15 inch IBM monitor (2235-00N). I looked up the > horz. and vert. freq. and configured xfree with them. I think everything is > up to date package-wise, unless I missed something in dselect. > > Anybody have any ideas? I'm not completely clueless with things Linux, but > not all that advanced either, so please give detailed instructions if you > can. Did you install x-window-system and x-window-system-core packages? I had a similar problem once and installing these packages solved the problem for me if I remember correctly. What videocard do you have? you can check with lspci. My machine lists the card as :01:02.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro 215GP (rev 5c) If you have a similar card I can send you a working XFree86Config-4 for Debian Sarge on a 17" monitor. Good luck, Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ultra 5 can't start KDE
> > I made it through the install, and everything seemed to work fine until I > attempted to start KDE via startx. My screen begins to flash and won't stop. > I can see the full KDE desktop when it flashes, but I can't do anything with > it. I have attempted to reconfigure xfree86 with dpkg-reconfigure > xserver-xfree86, but nothing I do seems to help the problem. I am using the > ATI drivers and have an old 15 inch IBM monitor (2235-00N). I looked up the > horz. and vert. freq. and configured xfree with them. I think everything is > up to date package-wise, unless I missed something in dselect. > > Anybody have any ideas? I'm not completely clueless with things Linux, but > not all that advanced either, so please give detailed instructions if you > can. Did you install x-window-system and x-window-system-core packages? I had a similar problem once and installing these packages solved the problem for me if I remember correctly. What videocard do you have? you can check with lspci. My machine lists the card as :01:02.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro 215GP (rev 5c) If you have a similar card I can send you a working XFree86Config-4 for Debian Sarge on a 17" monitor. Good luck, Peter
Ultra 5 can't start KDE
I've recently purchased a Sun Ultra 5 and have attempted to install Debian. I've never used Debian before (I have played around with installing and using Fedora, Red Hat, Mandrake, Corel, and Caldera on a spare x86 before though--and I have some experience with dpkg/dselect because of Fink on OSX). I made it through the install, and everything seemed to work fine until I attempted to start KDE via startx. My screen begins to flash and won't stop. I can see the full KDE desktop when it flashes, but I can't do anything with it. I have attempted to reconfigure xfree86 with dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86, but nothing I do seems to help the problem. I am using the ATI drivers and have an old 15 inch IBM monitor (2235-00N). I looked up the horz. and vert. freq. and configured xfree with them. I think everything is up to date package-wise, unless I missed something in dselect. Anybody have any ideas? I'm not completely clueless with things Linux, but not all that advanced either, so please give detailed instructions if you can. Thanks in advance.
