Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 10:02:39 +0300 From: Yousef Raffah <yraffah@sadeem.net> To: sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: getty or X problem on Ultra 10 Message-ID: <562D44D4-A834-43AA-AC2D-3A13D1B366FB@sadeem.net>
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Hello Everyone, This is the first time for me to play with FreeBSD on a SPARC64 machine. I have Ultra 10 box sitting next to me doing nothing so I figured why not make use of that machine. The installation of 7- RELEASE went fine and everything seems to be normal on the Sun monitor connected to it through that "strange" cable. However, I want to hook it up to a bigger screen through the VGA card available on the same box and here starts my problem. When I connect the cable to any monitor from that VGA card (ATI Rage 3D) it shows nothing (white screen). I thought maybe I need to change some parameters with vidcontrol but I couldn't figure out how. Later on I decided to install X and give it a shot but that still didn't help. I tried different X configurations (Dual monitors as well as a simple single vga screen) but without any luck. However, there is one thing I noticed, whenever the machine boots, I get some getty messages on the console complaining as: open /dev/screen: No such file or directory open /dev/ttya: No such file or directory open /dev/ttyu2: No such file or directory When I start X it spits out: xf86MapVidMem: could not mmap screen [s=2000, a=e2000000] (Invalid argument). Unfortunately googling that statement does bring out much of helpful threads, therefore, I thought of joining the team here to check if there is anything I can try or if any of you had such a problem and how it was solved, if it ever was :)
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