Message-Id: <01Aug10.112028cest.31750@stargate.micronova.de> From: Joern Eckhoff <Joern.Eckhoff@micronova.de> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 11:18:24 +0200 Subject: AW: [suse-sparc] Sparc freezes while configuring grafic-card.
Huh? Configuration by _hand_? Oh, oh.
(Sigh) Well ... leastwise I hope it helps!
[Half an hour, several files and much perspiration later!]
Oookai. The virtual screen resolution seems to be fixed to 320x240 - although I've
changed it - but aside from that it works.
Thank you _very_ much, alex. :-)
> Select reasonable color depth and resolution for your card,
> 1024x768x16million colors should work fine with 8 mb of video RAM.
> DO NOT TEST X - click cancel and finish installation.
> Also DO NOT choose to boot into X automatically (to be safe). SUSE X test
> does not initialize Sun's framebuffers with ATI chipsets properly, X works
> fine, though. When successfully booted from the Hard disk you can edit
> XF86Config at your leisure and test X by typing startx at the command
> prompt. After making sure you have what is optimal for your systems, edit
> startup files to start X or use YaST to do so.
>
>
>
> alex
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joern Eckhoff [mailto:Joern.Eckhoff@micronova.de]
> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 10:06 AM
> To:
> Subject: [suse-sparc] Sparc freezes while configuring grafic-card.
>
> Hi all,
>
> we have a Sparc Enterprise 450 and I have a serious problem. Installing
> Linux 7.1 Enterprise Server for Sparc using Yast2 is completely
> unproblematic. After that I've tried to configure the X-Server using SAX.
> SAX uses the driver for Mach_64 and it works propperly. But at the section
> for the graphic-card the sparc freezes irregularily. Sometimes I'm able to
> switch to the test-screen, sometimes not.
> The graphic-card is a PGX+ (I've opened the sparc and examined the card
> itself and found it to be using an ATI 3D Rage Pro chipset; BIOS-Version
> RAGE PR - PQFP - 41901 - 104; 8MB RAM; no RAM-DAC (? At least I wasn't able
> to find one.)). Referring to the database provided by ATI at their homepage
> the card is a ALL-IN-WONDER PRO or an XPERT*. The drivers should support
> these card(s) but nevertheless the sparc freezes.
> Reading the FAQs at SuSE.de left me as helpless as before. The
> support-hotline of the sparcs' vendor couldn't help me as well.
> Is somebody familiar with these problem or did somebody know where to find
> help referring to this topic?
>
> TIA
> Joe
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