Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:48:03 +0000 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Solved: Re: trouble installing to sun blade 1500 Message-ID: <20091219214803.GA10306@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20091219200730.GW74529@alchemy.franken.de> References: <20091202125915.GA20276@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091202192134.GA6562@alchemy.franken.de> <20091203131609.GA86854@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091203141711.GA43641@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091206161815.GA70140@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091207155713.GF6562@alchemy.franken.de> <20091218133634.GA89155@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091219125614.GV74529@alchemy.franken.de> <20091219182004.GA80336@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091219200730.GW74529@alchemy.franken.de>
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On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 09:07:30PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote: > On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 06:20:04PM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 01:56:14PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 01:36:34PM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > > > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 04:57:13PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > If I can get nowhere with this card, any advice for > > > > > > a card I could buy for Sun Blade 1500 (red or silver)? > > > > > > > > > > Sun PGX64 would be a good choice as they even allow to > > > > > use accelerated X with decent resolution (which is > > > > > unlikely to ever work with most of the XVR cards as > > > > > Sun didn't open source their drivers nor release the > > > > > necessary documentation). > > > > > > > > Marius, thank you. I bought on of those (15 pounds, ebay) > > > > and it seems to work ok in the text mode. > > > > I haven't yet built X successfully, still some errors > > > > in devel/gobject-intospection > > > > > > You'll likely want to use a more lightweight window manager > > > than GNOME like for example windowmaker on a Blade 1500 > > > anyway. > > > > sure. I don't use gnome anyway. But gobject-introspection is > > required by hal, which, in turn, is necessary for X. > > Ah, ok, I missed that gobject-introspection now also is a > dependency of hal. You should avoid using hal by building > xorg-server with WITHOUT_HAL defined anyway though; last > time I looked at its code it didn't seem like it would > work on sparc64 and given that it doesn't exactly work on > amd64/i386 either I didn't bother trying to fix it. I've built X without hal, but get this error on X -configure: Please advise many thanks as always anton ########################## X.Org X Server 1.6.1 Release Date: 2009-4-14 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT sparc64 Current Operating System: FreeBSD mech-anton242.men.bris.ac.uk 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #0: Sat Dec 19 18:28:08 GMT 2009 mexas@mech-anton242.men.bris.ac.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HAMOR sparc64 Build Date: 19 December 2009 08:28:07PM Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat Dec 19 21:39:16 2009 (II) Loader magic: 0x1508 (II) Module ABI versions: X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4 X.Org Video Driver: 5.0 X.Org XInput driver : 4.0 X.Org Server Extension : 2.0 (II) Loader running on freebsd (--) Using syscons driver with X support (version 8589944945.226) (--) using VT number 9 (--) PCI: (0@0:6:0) ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU] rev 0 (--) PCI: (1@0:3:0) ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL rev 39, Mem @ 0x01000000/16777216, 0x00100000/4096, I/O @ 0x00000300/256, BIOS @ 0x????????/65536 List of video drivers: mach64 (II) LoadModule: "mach64" (II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//mach64_drv.so (II) Module mach64: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.6.1, module version = 6.8.1 Module class: X.Org Video Driver ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 5.0 (II) System resource ranges: [0] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [1] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B] [2] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [4] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B] (II) MACH64: Driver for ATI Mach64 chipsets (++) Using config file: "/root/xorg.conf.new" (==) ServerLayout "X.org Configured" (**) |-->Screen "Screen0" (0) (**) | |-->Monitor "Monitor0" (**) | |-->Device "Card0" (**) |-->Input Device "Mouse0" (**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard0" (==) Not automatically adding devices (==) Not automatically enabling devices (**) FontPath set to: /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/, /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/, /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF, /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/, /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/, /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/, /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/, /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/, /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF, /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/, /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/, /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/, built-ins (**) ModulePath set to "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules" Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices. Configuration failed. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423
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