X on Sun Blade 100

[w.hill]

Hi. This is my second post. I've installed Gentoo on a Sun Blade 100. I have emerged the latest version of X & am trying to get it to work.

I ran X -configure. Testing the configuration revealed quite a few errors which I'm trying to "push" my way through. Does anyone have X running on A SB100 with its onboard ATI video card? I've got a standard(?) 17" Sun monitor with it.

Thus far I've managed to get a low-res window with a moving mouse pointer. Pressing mouse buttons has no effect - absence of Window Manager?

Ta.

[hasues]

I have been successful on getting X to run on my SunBlade 100 with Linux 2.6.10 and the x.org X Server. The main thing of importance is to put the "reference clock" entry in there. Note that I am not using frame buffer either, as I was tired of dealing with the timing issues of the ATI card (I know there is obviously a way to work around this, as the Boot CD has the correct timings, but I'm not sure of all the arguments I would have to pass to the driver at boot time from the boot loader). Here is my config if you are interested:



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 "GLcore"
Load "bitmap"
Load "dbe"
Load "ddc"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
# Load "glx"
Load "int10"
# Load "pex5"
Load "record"
# Load "speedo"
Load "type1"
Load "vbe"
# Load "xie"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Generic Video Card"
Driver "ati"
Option "UseFBDev" "false"
Option "reference_clock" "28.636 Mhz"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Generic Monitor"
HorizSync 30-68
VertRefresh 50-85
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Generic Video Card"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1152x864"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1152x864"
EndSubSection
EndSection

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

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection



Now, as far as sound goes, my only option is using ALSA. I noticed a warning for something pertaining to a 32 bit emulation call, etc, but I don't see a way to get sound working.

I shut off support for 32 bit emulated sound (as it was mentioned in Gentoo's warning in the ebuild for alsa-1.0.8, but now I get:

* Loading ALSA modules ...
* Loading: snd-card-0 ... [ ok ]
* Loading: snd-seq-oss ... [ ok ]
* Loading: snd-pcm-oss ... [ ok ]
* Restoring Mixer Levels ...
* No mixer config in /etc/asound.state, you have to unmute your card! [ !! ]
ah0319001lk001 linux # alsamixer

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: Invalid argument

Any takers?
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