Howard Eisenberger wrote:
On 2014-05-05, Howard Eisenberger wrote:On 2014-05-03, Sad Clouds wrote:Hello, I'm new to Debian and trying it out on Ultra10 which has Creator3D framebuffer. I installed Debian stable and seem to be having some issues with X11 or display manager. The system boots OK and I can see boot messages, but when it goes to start display manager the screen goes black and nothing happens. No windows, no mouse cursor, nothing.I don't have a Creator on my Ultra 10 (onboard ATI), but X works with Creator on my Ultra60 using Jan 10 jessie version of Debian.I installed a Creator card in my Ultra 10 and the problem seems to be that Debian tries to use the onboard ATI. You can search for this on the Web.I got a console by appending "video=atyfb:off" to the silo boot, but X is still not working. I created a xorg.conf, but I don't know how to ID the Creator card, which isn't PCI.
I've certainly had it working in the past, probably with Lenny. This is from a colleague's old U10, but it's running Etch headless so I can't be sure that it's good
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Section "Device"
Identifier "Creator 3D"
VendorName "Sun Microsystems"
Driver "sunffb"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Generic Monitor"
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 28-96
VertRefresh 43-60
EndSection
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Obviously, any attached monitor has to be capable of sync-on-green. In
practice this means something like an NEC MultiSync.
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