From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 8 07:23:47 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4D0B106567C for ; Sat, 8 Nov 2008 07:23:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yraffah@sadeem.net) Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com (fk-out-0910.google.com [209.85.128.189]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7451C8FC16 for ; Sat, 8 Nov 2008 07:23:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yraffah@sadeem.net) Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k31so2003820fkk.11 for ; Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:23:46 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.103.240.15 with SMTP id s15mr2281312mur.82.1226127765253; Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:02:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?84.235.4.42? ([84.235.4.42]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j9sm17561736mue.3.2008.11.07.23.02.43 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:02:44 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <562D44D4-A834-43AA-AC2D-3A13D1B366FB@sadeem.net> From: Yousef Raffah To: sparc64@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v929.2) Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 10:02:39 +0300 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.929.2) Cc: Subject: getty or X problem on Ultra 10 X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2008 07:23:47 -0000 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 :)