Subject: Re: x configuring...
To: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
From: Paul (NCC/CS). <pts@bom.gov.au>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 09/27/2005 16:35:04
Thks to all. X is working!
I'm doing pkgsrc now for accel.

And Joel, I do have the internal ATI and Elite 3d card, fyi.
Sticking to single head with Michael's config it's ok though.

chs,
P.




Michael wrote:

> Hello,
>
> > do you have both an internal ATI and the Elite 3D ?
> >
> > I'm having the same kinda issue with the internal ATI and a PCI PGX64.
> > ################################
> > (II) ATI:  Candidate "Device" section "Card0".
> > (II) ATI:  Candidate "Device" section "Card1".
> > (II) ATI:  Unshared PCI/AGP Mach64 in slot 1:2:0 detected.
> >
> > Fatal server error:
> > xf86MapVidMem: could not mmap screen [s=2000,a=12000000] (Invalid
> argument)
> > ################################
> >
> > Michael is investigating on my issue...
> > Perharps solving mine will solve yours ;)
>
> It's sort of related, but not the way you think ( sadly ).
>
> Paul - X -configure will have set up a dual-screen configuration which
> isn't going to work currently. Please remove all references to your
> onboard ATI Rage chip from /etc/X11/XF86Config and it should work ( if
> you're unsure about this just mail me, or just use the attached example
> ).
> Sorry for this but there isn't really anything we can do about this
> short of hacking the way XFree accesses PCI devices. But we'll probably
> have to do it some day. Anyway, the short version of the story is - only
> one PCI graphics controller will currently be usable and only if it is
> the console. XFree doesn't know how to access non-console PCI graphics
> chips but it finds them by scanning the bus.
>
> Don't forget - you'll need the afbinit utility from pkgsrc/sysutils/ and
> a copy of the AFB firmware ( /usr/lib/afb.ucode on any halfway recent
> Solaris box ) or acceleration in X won't work. For copyright reasons we
> can't ship these, the Linux folks have been pestering Sun to release an
> AFB firmware image they can distribute but without success it seems.
>
> have fun
> Michael
>
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Paul
Australian Bureau Of Meteorology
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