Display problem

[Jeremy Baker]

On Thursday 28 September 2006 09:17, Jose wrote:
> Hi there
>
> I just installed Suse 10.0 64 on a Sun V40z attached to a HP TFT 5600
> console (video, keyboard, mouse), everything was going ok, until I went
> for the initial reboot after the installation of the packages (by then
> Inknew I had to switch to 1024x764 from the initial gui with F3), and it
> wouldn't give me a gui afterwards, the display would go blank, thinking
> it was a driver problem I switch to text installation and everything
> went fine, but after first reboot post installation, same thing not gui
> at all, I switch to not gui and text logon and I can get to the server
> now and logon but it wont startup startx, only does it if I run the
> server as failsafe mode, it tells me there is a trident card in it and
> display wonderfully using failsafe, but if I go back to normal mode, it
> would go blank.
>
> I upgraded anything I could on failsafe mode and everything went ok
> hoping it would update the display drivers, but nothing still wont
> display anything on normal mode, I am attaching below the actual
> xorg.conf file
>
> I looked for trident drivers as it declares there ias one on that sun
> server, but nothing on the net, or if somebody has
> any other ideas, all would be welcome
>
> Thanks in advance for your help
>
> Jose
>
> --------------------------------------------
>
> # /.../
> # SaX generated X11 config file
> # Created on: 2006-09-27T11:35:52-0400.
> #
> # Version: 7.1
> # Contact: Marcus Schaefer <sax-l3A5Bk7waGM at public.gmane.org>, 2002
> #
> # Automatically generated by [ISaX] (7.1)
> # PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!
> #
> Section "Files"
> FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
> FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local"
> FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
> FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
> FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
> FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW"
> FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
> FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX"
> FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
> FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/misc:unscaled"
> FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi:unscaled"
> FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi:unscaled"
> FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1"
> FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin7/75dpi:unscaled"
> FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/baekmuk:unscaled"
> FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/japanese:unscaled"
> FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/kwintv"
> FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype"
> FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/uni:unscaled"
> FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
> FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/misc:unscaled"
> FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/75dpi:unscaled"
> FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/100dpi:unscaled"
> FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/misc:unscaled"
> FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/75dpi:unscaled"
> FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/100dpi:unscaled"
> FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/Type1"
> FontPath  "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/sgi:unscaled"
> FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/xtest"
> FontPath     "/opt/kde3/share/fonts"
> EndSection
>
> Section "ServerFlags"
> Option       "AllowMouseOpenFail"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Module"
> Load         "freetype"
> Load         "type1"
> Load         "dbe"
> Load         "glx"
> Load         "extmod"
> Load         "v4l"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Driver       "kbd"
> Identifier   "Keyboard[0]"
> Option       "Protocol" "Standard"
> Option       "XkbLayout" "us"
> Option       "XkbModel" "pc104"
> Option       "XkbRules" "xfree86"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Driver       "mouse"
> Identifier   "Mouse[1]"
> Option       "Buttons" "7"
> Option       "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> Option       "Name" "ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer
> Mouse"
> Option       "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
> Option       "Vendor" "Sysp"
> Option       "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
> DisplaySize  340 270
> HorizSync    28-60
> Identifier   "Monitor[0]"
> ModelName    "1024X768 at 60HZ"
> Option       "DPMS"
> VendorName   "--> LCD"
> VertRefresh  50-60
> UseModes     "Modes[0]"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Modes"
> Identifier   "Modes[0]"
> Modeline     "1024x768" 61.89 1024 1080 1184 1344 768
> 769 772 794
> Modeline     "800x600" 36.88 800 832 912 1024 600 601
> 604 621
> Modeline     "768x576" 33.74 768 792 872 976 576 577
> 580 596
> Modeline     "640x480" 23.06 640 656 720 800 480 481
> 484 497
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
> DefaultDepth 24
> SubSection "Display"
>   Depth      15
>   Modes      "1024x768" "800x600" "768x576"
> "640x480"
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
>   Depth      16
>   Modes      "1024x768" "800x600" "768x576"
> "640x480"
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
>   Depth      24
>   Modes      "1024x768" "800x600" "768x576"
> "640x480"
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
>   Depth      32
>   Modes      "1024x768" "800x600" "768x576"
> "640x480"
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
>   Depth      8
>   Modes      "1024x768" "800x600" "768x576"
> "640x480"
> EndSubSection
> Device       "Device[0]"
> Identifier   "Screen[0]"
> Monitor      "Monitor[0]"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
> BoardName    "9880"
> BusID        "1:5:0"
> Driver       "trident"
> Identifier   "Device[0]"
> Screen       0
> VendorName   "Trident"
> EndSection
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier   "Layout[all]"
> InputDevice  "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
> InputDevice  "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
> Option       "Clone" "off"
> Option       "Xinerama" "off"
> Screen       "Screen[0]"
> EndSection
>
> Section "DRI"
>   Group      "video"
>   Mode       0660
> EndSection
>
> Section "Extensions"
> EndSection
>
>
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You might want to post this question to SLE <suse-linux-e-IBi9RG/b67k at public.gmane.org>
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