Re: [gentoo-sparc] xorg device problems

[Jason Williams]

Thank you for taking interst and sorry for not responding sooner. I've
been really busy lately, so getting xinerama working dropped in
priority a bit.

The answer to the kernel issue is not really. Last year I was using
the development-sources kernel (at the time 2.6.6). Since then,
development-sources died, so I got someone to send me a 2.6.6 kernel
tree tarball from that time period. I've since compiled that and been
using it. It works alright except that it will only last a few weeks
at a time before locking up (I'm assuming there's a memory leak
somewhere); I didn't have that problem last year but oh well; it
doesn't hae anything to do with this.

as far as the interesting tests, I did all of those already, but I'll
try again to reveal the log output.
commenting out the SBUS lines gives:

(EE) Screen Screen1 doesn't exist: deleting placement
Using vt 7
(WW) SUNFFB: More than one matching Device section found: Card0
(WW) SUNFFB: More than one matching Device section found: Card0

giving both SBUS lines fb0 gives:

(EE) Screen Screen1 doesn't exist: deleting placement
Using vt 7
(WW) SUNFFB: More than one matching Device section for instance
(BusID: Card0) found: SBUS:fb0
(WW) SUNFFB: No matching Device section for instance (BusID
SBUS:/SUNW,ffb@1d,0) found

So yeah, neither worked. However, udev is seeing both of these devices
as it's generating them in /dev and /sys ... Therefore, I assume it
has to be something to do with xorg.

jbw

On 9/13/05, Ferris McCormick <fmccor@g.o> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 11:40 -0500, Jason Williams wrote:
> > Alright, I've posted this in the forum without response and I can't
> > seem to google anything useful. I have an U60 w/ two Creator3D cards;
> > I had these cards setup running xinerama just great about a year ago
> > when I had gentoo on this box the first time. However, now that I've
> > since reinstalled, xorg can't seem to differentiate the two cards. I'm
> > using the exact same configuration that worked a year ago. The
> > relevant part of my xorg.conf is:
> >
> > Section "Device"
> >     Identifier   "Card0"
> >     Driver   "sunffb"
> >     BusID   "SBUS:fb0"
> >     VendorName   "Sun Microsystems"
> >     BoardName   "Sun|FFB2+ Vertical Creator 3d (ffb)"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Device"
> >     Identifier   "Card1"
> >     Driver   "sunffb"
> >     BusID   "SBUS:fb1"
> >     VendorName   "Sun Microsystems"
> >     BoardName   "Sun|FFB2+ Vertical Creator 3d (ffb)"
> > EndSection
> >
> > This section of configuration generates the following errors in my log:
> >
> > (II) SUNFFB: driver for Creator, Creator 3D and Elite 3D
> > (WW) SUNFFB: More than one matching Device section for instance
> > (BusID: Card0) found: SBUS:fb0
> > (WW) SUNFFB: No matching Device section for instance (BusID
> > SBUS:/SUNW,ffb@1d,0) found
> >
> This is more of a question than an answer.  (1) Have you changed
> kernels?  (2) Have you tried making your BusID conform to what xorg's
> log reports finding?  It sees them both, but doesn't like how you are
> identifying them.
>
> Two simple experiments: (1) Comment out the BusID lines and see what
> xorg says; use SBUS:fb0 for both busid lines, since xorg is seeing two
> devices at fb0.
>
> I realize this is not much of a response, but it might give you a couple
> ideas until someone who knows more than I do answers, too.
>
> > A full listing of both of the latter files can be seen at
> > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-379687.html . Thanks in advance
> > to anyone who can shed any light onto what's going on here.
> >
> > - jbw
> >
> --
> Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o>
> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Devrel)
>
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