On Mon, 24 May 2004, Simon Egerton wrote: > I'm having problems getting XFree 4.4 up and running with Solaris 8 on my > ix86 base board using a Silicon Motion 722 graphics device. I've installed > the Solaris 8 binaries and configured the XF86config file, but when I launch > XFree I'm left with a blank screen. I've tried the same hardware set-up > under Linux, installing again from the 4.4 binaries, and everything works > fine. I've attached the respective log files, Solaris and Linux. From the > Solaris log file I can see that the video BIOS is not detected, and the > Silicon Motion driver is stuck in a loop issuing video reset commands. > Has anyone else experienced the same problem? Is there a fix or workaround to > get XFree working under Solaris with this SM graphics device? Here's something you can try on the Solaris side. Do everything as root. Install the aperture driver. Intructions for this are in README.Solaris. Ignore the part of it that says the aperture driver shouldn't be required in your situation. After the reconfiguration boot back into Solaris, but before starting the server, ensure that /dev/fbs/aperture exists and move (or rename) /dev/xsvc. Now start the server. I can't promise that this'll work, but if it does, you'll end up with a functional setup (and I have changes to make for the next release). If this doesn't work, it's likely Solaris clobbers the BIOS data the server needs, in which case changes to the int10 module will be needed to always re-initialise the adapter. Marc. +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: tsi@xxxxxxxxxxx | | University of Alberta +-----------------------------------+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ XFree86 developer and VP. ATI driver and X server internals. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
