[26312] in Athena Bugs
sun4 9.3.18: display problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew S Mendelson)
Wed Jan 19 17:05:07 2005
Message-Id: <200501192204.j0JM4V5k018766@m1-142-5.mit.edu>
To: bugs@mit.edu
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:04:31 -0500
From: Andrew S Mendelson <asmendel@mit.edu>
Errors-To: bugs-bounces@mit.edu
System name: m1-142-5.mit.edu
Type and version: Sun-Blade-100 9.3.18
Display type: ifb
Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager: unknown
What were you trying to do?
Login using x-windows. The computer only displays a console
login, and complains when I try to start X as myself:
/dev/fb: Permission denied
Graphics Adapter device /dev/fb is of unknown type
Fatal server error:
InitOutput: Error loading module for /dev/fb
or as root:
ddxSUNWmouse: ioctl failed on /dev/mouse
VUIDGFORMAT: Invalid argument
Fatal server error:
failed to initialize core devices
What's wrong:
The X server won't start.
What should have happened:
The X server should start.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
This computer has a Expert3D-Lite board (message from dmesg):
Jan 19 04:58:21 m1-142-5.mit.edu pci_pci: [ID 370704
kern.info] PCI-device: SUNW,Expert3D-Lite@2, ifb0
Jan 19 04:58:21 m1-142-5.mit.edu genunix: [ID 936769
kern.info] ifb0 is /pci@1f,0/pci@5/SUNW,Expert3D-Lite@2
