Xorg on Sun Ultra 5

[billshewman]

I've got a fresh install of gentoo 2004.3 on a Sun Ultra 5. When configuring the kernel I just left all the defaults and made sure that I picked those options specirfically called for in the handbook.

I installed xorg from grp package. It's version 6.8.0-r1

If I run Xorg -configure I get the following results:

The screen blanks for a while and then comes back to the console. In the text on the screen there is a list of drivers (atimisc, r128, radeon, sunffb, sunleo, suncg6, ...) and in that list fbdev is listed twice. If I look at the log, I see it generates an error because it tries to load that module twice and its a once-only module.

However, that doesn't seem to be the real problem.

Later in the log it says: Xorg is not able to detect your mouse.

Do I need to load a specific module for mouse support?

If instead I run Xorgcfg, the X server starts up with the config screen and then the mouse and keyboard lockup. I can't even Ctrl-Alt-Backspace out of it. I need to power off and back on.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Michael

[billshewman]

I should have mentioned that I'm using the 2.4.27 kernel.

Michael

[5th_Horseman]

I had simular problems, I went to the following link and copy and paste the config in to my system.

http://dev.gentoo.org/~fmccor/docs/xorg/xorg.conf/xorg.conf.html


On a ultra2 my mouse had to be set to /dev/sunmouse not /dev/mouse

Hope this help u.

[billshewman]