[SPARCbook] No luck on X configuration

[Michael Schwarz]

On Sunday 17 November 2002 06:25 pm, Michael Schwarz wrote:
> On Sunday 17 November 2002 04:03 pm, troehr at nj-onramp.com wrote:
> > Michael,
> >
> > First of all, did the boot screen come up the same as before? If it
> > recognized the framebuffer, you should see Tux in the upper lefthand
> > corner while booting. Also, it will be a black background with white
> > text.
> >
> > These are the first clues that the framebuffer driver is working.
> >
> > Tom
>
> No tux.  Is there a parameter I need to pass to the kernel at startup to
> enable the framebuffer?

Let me elaborate a bit, just to be clear.  I downloaded the file 
linux-2.3.5-sparcbook.tar.gz from nj-onramp.com.  I untarred it as root from 
the root directory.  I created a link from /boot/vmlinux-2.3.5.gz to 
/vmlinux_fb and my slio.conf file now looks like this:

partition=1
root=/dev/sda1
timeout=100

image=1/vmlinuz
label=linux
read-only

image=1/vmlinux_fb
label=fb
read-only

When I boot using "fb," uname -a reports:

Linux host010 2.3.5 #100 Tue Sep 7 09:30:45 EDT 1999 sparc unknown

However, I do not see tux in the corner, no do I have a black background with 
white text.  It seems the framebuffer is not being used/detected/setup for 
some reason.  While I've read about framebuffer support before today, I've 
never had to worry about it until now, so I can't say I'm all that familiar 
with it.  I also haven't got the slightest idea what a Sparcbook3 uses for 
video hardware in any case!  Let me know if I can provide any more 
information that would help you to help me!

Thanks so much for all the help so far as well.

Oh, one detail:  I do indeed have framebuffer devices in /dev.  Here's the ls 
-l on them:

host010:/dev# ls -la fb*
crw--w----    1 root     video     29,   0 Mar 14  2002 fb0
crw--w----    1 root     video     29,   1 Mar 14  2002 fb0autodetect
crw--w----    1 root     video     29,   0 Mar 14  2002 fb0current
crw--w----    1 root     video     29,  32 Mar 14  2002 fb1
crw--w----    1 root     video     29,  33 Mar 14  2002 fb1autodetect
crw--w----    1 root     video     29,  32 Mar 14  2002 fb1current
crw--w----    1 root     video     29,  64 Mar 14  2002 fb2
crw--w----    1 root     video     29,  65 Mar 14  2002 fb2autodetect
crw--w----    1 root     video     29,  64 Mar 14  2002 fb2current
crw--w----    1 root     video     29,  96 Mar 14  2002 fb3
crw--w----    1 root     video     29,  97 Mar 14  2002 fb3autodetect
crw--w----    1 root     video     29,  96 Mar 14  2002 fb3current
crw--w----    1 root     video     29, 128 Mar 14  2002 fb4
crw--w----    1 root     video     29, 129 Mar 14  2002 fb4autodetect
crw--w----    1 root     video     29, 128 Mar 14  2002 fb4current
crw--w----    1 root     video     29, 160 Mar 14  2002 fb5
crw--w----    1 root     video     29, 161 Mar 14  2002 fb5autodetect
crw--w----    1 root     video     29, 160 Mar 14  2002 fb5current
crw--w----    1 root     video     29, 192 Mar 14  2002 fb6
crw--w----    1 root     video     29, 193 Mar 14  2002 fb6autodetect
crw--w----    1 root     video     29, 192 Mar 14  2002 fb6current
crw--w----    1 root     video     29, 224 Mar 14  2002 fb7
crw--w----    1 root     video     29, 225 Mar 14  2002 fb7autodetect
crw--w----    1 root     video     29, 224 Mar 14  2002 fb7current

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Michael Schwarz
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