On Sat, 27 Nov 2004, ASIF IQBAL wrote:
If /dev/fbs/aperture still does not exist on your system, then either you did not do a reconfigure boot (a simple reboot won't
suffice), or it failed for some reason.
After installing the aperture driver I performed "touch /reconfigure" followed by a "init 6" as specified in README. And also after reboot I confirmed the existence of /dev/fbs/aperture in the system. Then I issued the command to configure XFree86 using "XFree86 -configure" which resulted in a system hang. I power-cycled the system and checked the /var/log/messages, couldn't see any messages. How can I confirm that my aperture driver is working fine ? And I am not getting the reason for system hang when I ran XFree86 -configure. Am I missing any other configuration ?...
Also, if you used gcc to generate the aperture driver, ensure its version is 3.2 or later. Earlier gcc's simply won't work.
My gcc version is 3.4.2 and version details are bash-2.03# gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/3.4.2/specs Configured with: ../configure --with-as=/usr/ccs/bin/as --with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld --disable-nls Thread model: posix gcc version 3.4.2
My system configuration is $uname -a
SunOS testhost 5.8 Generic_108528-13 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-100
The only possible explanation for this behaviour that I can think of right now is that this system contains one or more SBUS or UPA display adapter(s). Only PCI display adapters are known to work in the UltraSPARC/SunOS port. Although I'm working to correct that, that code just isn't ready yet.
Move /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/sun*_drv.o elsewhere, and retry `XFree86 -configure`
Marc.
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