Bug#245246: SOLVED: sunffb needs afbinit Re: Bug#245246: xserver-xfree86: xserver starts but suddenly dies before and windowmanager or similar starts
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
Bug#245246: xserver-xfree86: xserver starts but suddenly dies before and windowmanager or similar starts
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. -- Jörg Friedrich
Bug#245246: xserver-xfree86: xserver starts but suddenly dies before and windowmanager or similar starts
Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.3.0-7 Severity: important Tags: sid As I stated in the subject, the xserver starts I can see the gray screen for a moment, but then it dies. After reading Branden's mail abount sunffb and dri problems I disabled all modules. No change. Apparently there are some symbols missing. btw. this is a sparc64-arch. I also tried to 'startx' in a 32-bit environment by 'sparc32 /bin/bash' but nothing changed. Regards, Joerg -- Package-specific info: Contents of /var/lib/xfree86/X.roster: xserver-xfree86 X server symlink status: lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 20 Apr 18 16:35 /etc/X11/X - /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 1780680 Mar 18 19:06 /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 /etc/X11/X target unchanged from checksum in /var/lib/xfree86/X.md5sum. Contents of /var/lib/xfree86/XF86Config-4.roster: xserver-xfree86 VGA-compatible devices on PCI bus: XFree86 X server configuration file status: -rw-r--r--1 root root 2819 Apr 21 17:29 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Contents of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4: # XF86Config-4 (XFree86 X Window System server configuration file) # # This file was 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.) # # This file is automatically updated on xserver-xfree86 package upgrades *only* # if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xfree86 # package. # # If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated # again, run the following commands as root: # # cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.custom # md5sum /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /var/lib/xfree86/XF86Config-4.md5sum # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 Section Files FontPathunix/: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/CID FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Generic Keyboard Driver keyboard Option CoreKeyboard Option XkbRules sun Option XkbModel type5 Option XkbLayout us 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 SendCoreEventstrue Option Device/dev/input/mice Option Protocol ImPS/2 EndSection Section Device Identifier Elite3D Driver sunffb EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Generic Monitor HorizSync 30-60 VertRefresh 50-75 Option DPMS EndSection Section Screen Identifier Default Screen Device Elite3D Monitor Generic Monitor DefaultDepth24 SubSection Display Depth 1 Modes 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 4 Modes 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 8 Modes 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 15 Modes 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 16 Modes 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 24 Modes 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection EndSection Section ServerLayout Identifier Default Layout Screen Default Screen InputDevice Generic Keyboard InputDevice Configured Mouse InputDevice Generic Mouse EndSection /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 unchanged from checksum in /var/lib/xfree86/XF86Config-4.md5sum. Contents of most recent XFree86 X server log file /var/log/XFree86.0.log: This is a pre-release version of XFree86, and is not supported in any way. Bugs may
Re: XFree86 X server: does loading the dri module still hose sunffb users?
Hi, sorry, deleted the original mail. Steve King schrieb am Mittwoch, 21. April 2004 um 15:47:42 +0100: Hi folks, I have the following in xserver-xfree86.config: # server modules to load # XXX: damnit, explicitly loading the dri module is broken for sunffb users :-P db_get xserver-xfree86/config/device/driver if [ $ARCH = sparc ] [ $RET = sunffb ]; then MODULE_LIST=GLcore, bitmap, dbe, ddc, extmod, freetype, glx, int10, record, speedo, type1, v4l, vbe, xtt else MODULE_LIST=GLcore, bitmap, dbe, ddc, dri, extmod, freetype, glx, int10, record, speedo, type1, v4l, vbe, xtt fi This dates back to XFree86 4.1.0: xfree86 (4.1.0-17) unstable; urgency=low [...] * debian/xserver-xfree86.config: [...] - do not explicitly load the dri module on the sparc architecture if the sunffb driver is being used, because of an apparent upstream bug in the module loader (thanks, Ben Collins) -- Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri, 24 May 2002 01:26:13 -0500 Can someone who uses the sunffb driver tell me if this is still necessary with XFree86 4.3.0? I'd like to take that kludge out. first, this restriction seems not to work, I get dri as an option. second, I try to get the xserver run with my Ultra60/Elite3D (sunffb) but X starts and then suddenly stops before any (x|g|k)dm or a simple windowmanager starts. I attach my config and the log, I hope you can see something there. -- Jörg Friedrich # XF86Config-4 (XFree86 X Window System server configuration file) # # This file was 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.) # # This file is automatically updated on xserver-xfree86 package upgrades *only* # if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xfree86 # package. # # If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated # again, run the following commands as root: # # cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.custom # md5sum /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /var/lib/xfree86/XF86Config-4.md5sum # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 Section Files FontPathunix/: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/CID FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Generic Keyboard Driver keyboard Option CoreKeyboard Option XkbRules sun Option XkbModel type5 Option XkbLayout us 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 SendCoreEventstrue Option Device/dev/input/mice Option Protocol ImPS/2 EndSection Section Device Identifier Elite3D Driver sunffb EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Generic Monitor HorizSync 30-60 VertRefresh 50-75 Option DPMS EndSection Section Screen Identifier Default Screen Device Elite3D Monitor Generic Monitor DefaultDepth24 SubSection Display Depth 1 Modes 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 4 Modes 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 8 Modes 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 15 Modes 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 16 Modes 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 24 Modes 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection EndSection Section ServerLayout Identifier
