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PostPosted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 8:19 pm    Post subject: Xorg installation & configuration issue on Ultra 30 Reply with quote

I am in the process of getting a system running. This is an Ultra 30 that was given to me after other peopler were laid off.

Along the way I've been able to learn a lot about Gentoo and Linux but now I'm trying to improve that knowledge. To that end, I'm trying to get Xorg 6.7.0 installed from the GRP CD. It appears to have installed correctly, but when I try to follow the instructions provided in the X Server Configuration HOWTO, I run into an issue in step 3.

I've run the command listed in 3.2
Code:
Xorg -configure
and find an error message there:

Quote:

Release Date: 18 December 2003
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.7
Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.26 sparc64 [ELF]
Current Operating System: Linux aquarius 2.4.26-sparc-r2 #1 SMP Wed Sep 8 12:08:28 EDT 2004 sparc64
Build Date: 25 June 2004
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
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: Mon Sep 13 16:14:41 2004
Using vt 7
List of video drivers:
atimisc
r128
radeon
sunffb
sunleo
suncg6
suncg3
suncg14
suntcx
sunbw2
glint
mga
tdfx
ati
savage
vesa
vga
fbdev
fbdev
v4l
(EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (once-only module, 0)
(++) Using config file: "/root/xorg.conf.new"


Xorg is not able to detect your mouse.
Edit the file and correct the Device.

Your xorg.conf file is /root/xorg.conf.new

To test the server, run 'X -config /root/xorg.conf.new'



This leads me to two points.

1. What does this mean?
2. Where can I find information about what this means and how to solve it? I wasn't able to find anything on the forums and I couldn't find anything on the X.org.

-TIA-
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 12:48 am    Post subject: Not sure, but... Reply with quote

Sorry I've not used X org, but I know that XF86Free -configure will
not set up the mouse and possibly keyboard properly on my Ultra 60.
I expect it is the same problem with the newer X system.

In XF86Config I used this to get it working (the following is for
the 2.4 kernel):

Code:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option          "CorePointer"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/sunmouse"
        Option          "Protocol"              "BusMouse"
EndSection


So I imagine something like that hand configured into the X.org
config file should work...


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PostPosted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 1:02 am    Post subject: What video? Reply with quote

Is your video Creator 3D or Elite 3D or otherwise?

Elite 3D involves a bit of a trick...

You need to emerge a package called afbinit
This package requires a special file (/usr/lib/afb.ucode),
from Sun Solaris, to load the Elite 3D microcode.
The magic microcode file cannot be supplied from
Gentoo, so one must manually retreive it and install
from Sun or an existing Solaris machine.

Run this:
Code:

rc-update add afbinit default

to make it run this init script on boot up.

You can download a patch file from Sun which contains this file
afb.ucode, here:

http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-105363-12-1

That covers the Elite 3D case. If it is Creator 3D, this is supported
by the kernel without extra steps like this.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 2:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't know for sure what the video is (how can I find that out?) since this was just a box given to me and I have basically no information about it with the exception of the hard drives I've installed myself.

However, I did make the changes in the configuration file based on what I saw in your snippet about the mouse (the /dev/sunmouse and the BusMouse protocal were the two changes I made and X was launched.

Thank you very much! :D

Now I'm moving on with the rest of the configuration.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 4:10 pm    Post subject: Re: What video? Reply with quote

labrador wrote:
Is your video Creator 3D or Elite 3D or otherwise?


Well, I had thought I was well on my way, but I've encountered something I've seen others describing on the forums here. I've got the ugly gray screen and I can move the mouse, but I can't do anything beyond that. The keyboard doesn't switch terminals (the CTRL+ALT+# combination) and I have to STOP+A to reboot.

Based on something I saw in another post, I started looking through the Xorg.0.log file. It detected a Creator/Creator3D card.

Any advice?

-Thank you-

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 7:09 pm    Post subject: Do you have a window manager installed? Reply with quote

The symptoms sound like there is no window manager,
or it isn't configured.

Check the file /etc/rc.conf and have XSESSION
name one of the session scripts listed under
/etc/X11/Sessions

If you have nothing under Sessions, you probably need
to emerge one of the many window managers around,
such as fluxbox, KDE, etc.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 8:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks, Labrador. That's what it was. I had to change both XSESSION and DISPLAYMANAGER. By changing the first to Xsession and the second to TWM, I had a working GUI.

Now to starting reading up on different display managers.
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