Solved: Re: trouble installing to sun blade 1500

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 09:07:30PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 06:20:04PM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 01:56:14PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote:
> > > On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 01:36:34PM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 04:57:13PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > If I can get nowhere with this card, any advice for
> > > > > > a card I could buy for Sun Blade 1500 (red or silver)?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Sun PGX64 would be a good choice as they even allow to
> > > > > use accelerated X with decent resolution (which is
> > > > > unlikely to ever work with most of the XVR cards as
> > > > > Sun didn't open source their drivers nor release the
> > > > > necessary documentation).
> > > > 
> > > > Marius, thank you. I bought on of those (15 pounds, ebay)
> > > > and it seems to work ok in the text mode.
> > > > I haven't yet built X successfully, still some errors
> > > > in devel/gobject-intospection
> > > 
> > > You'll likely want to use a more lightweight window manager 
> > > than GNOME like for example windowmaker on a Blade 1500
> > > anyway.
> > 
> > sure. I don't use gnome anyway. But gobject-introspection is
> > required by hal, which, in turn, is necessary for X.
> 
> Ah, ok, I missed that gobject-introspection now also is a
> dependency of hal. You should avoid using hal by building
> xorg-server with WITHOUT_HAL defined anyway though; last
> time I looked at its code it didn't seem like it would
> work on sparc64 and given that it doesn't exactly work on
> amd64/i386 either I didn't bother trying to fix it.

I've built X without hal, but get this error on X -configure:

Please advise

many thanks as always
anton

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X.Org X Server 1.6.1
Release Date: 2009-4-14
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT sparc64 
Current Operating System: FreeBSD mech-anton242.men.bris.ac.uk 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #0: Sat Dec 19 18:28:08 GMT 2009     mexas at mech-anton242.men.bris.ac.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HAMOR sparc64
Build Date: 19 December 2009  08:28:07PM
 
	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
	to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
	(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat Dec 19 21:39:16 2009
(II) Loader magic: 0x1508
(II) Module ABI versions:
	X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
	X.Org Video Driver: 5.0
	X.Org XInput driver : 4.0
	X.Org Server Extension : 2.0
(II) Loader running on freebsd
(--) Using syscons driver with X support (version 8589944945.226)
(--) using VT number 9

(--) PCI: (0 at 0:6:0) ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU] rev 0
(--) PCI: (1 at 0:3:0) ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL rev 39, Mem @ 0x01000000/16777216, 0x00100000/4096, I/O @ 0x00000300/256, BIOS @ 0x????????/65536
List of video drivers:
	mach64
(II) LoadModule: "mach64"
(II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//mach64_drv.so
(II) Module mach64: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
	compiled for 1.6.1, module version = 6.8.1
	Module class: X.Org Video Driver
	ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 5.0
(II) System resource ranges:
	[0] -1	0	0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B]
	[1] -1	0	0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B]
	[2] -1	0	0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B]
	[3] -1	0	0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B]
	[4] -1	0	0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B]
(II) MACH64: Driver for ATI Mach64 chipsets
(++) Using config file: "/root/xorg.conf.new"
(==) ServerLayout "X.org Configured"
(**) |-->Screen "Screen0" (0)
(**) |   |-->Monitor "Monitor0"
(**) |   |-->Device "Card0"
(**) |-->Input Device "Mouse0"
(**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard0"
(==) Not automatically adding devices
(==) Not automatically enabling devices
(**) FontPath set to:
	/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,
	/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/,
	/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF,
	/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,
	/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,
	/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,
	/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,
	/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/,
	/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF,
	/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,
	/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,
	/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,
	built-ins
(**) ModulePath set to "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules"
Number of created screens does not match number of detected devices.
  Configuration failed.

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