XServer no-go on Sun 3/60 running 4.1.1, frame buffer /dev/bwtwo1?!

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2 total messages Started by Marco Nicosia Wed, 16 Jun 1993 02:45

#38158

Author: Marco Nicosia
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1993 02:45

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Hi there all... I've asked this question once before, but I didn't get much 
in the way of any answers, but then, I was only posting to comp.sys.sun.admin,
hopefully I'll get more response this time.

I recently bought a Sun 3/60, used. It's framebuffer seems to be configured
(When it boots, it SAYS it...) to be bwtwo1. MOST Sun 3/60s that I know of
are configured to be bwtwo0... but, I've installed straight from tape, so
my guess is that the sun media knows best.

Here's the problem: Whenever I try to run Xsun, I get the following error:

Fatal server error:
no screens found

Argh! SunView runs just fine. I've JUST compiled this thing from X11R5p25
source last night (took in the area of 14 hours)! I don't know what's 
causing the problem.

After the last diskwipe/install, I'd been running SunView for a WHILE before 
I realized that there IS NO /dev/bwtwo1 device even created! (When I got
the machine, it did have one, so now I am getting really confused.)

/dev/fb and /dev/bwtwo0 exist, but Xsun gives the same messages when told
to use those. I fooled around with mknod'ing my own bwtwo1, but with little
success. 
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marco@remarque.berkeley.edu  University of California @ Berkeley

Re: XServer no-go on Sun 3/60 running 4.1.1, frame buffer /dev/bwtwo1?!

#38159

Author: Anthony A. Datri
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1993 19:05

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>I recently bought a Sun 3/60, used. It's framebuffer seems to be configured
>(When it boots, it SAYS it...) to be bwtwo1. MOST Sun 3/60s that I know of
>are configured to be bwtwo0

Easy:  You have a motherboard that was sold from the factory as a color (cg4)
system.  Such boards save a couple of bucks by omitting the on-board bwtwo1.
Someone later must have switched the cg4 with a P4-bus bwtwo1.

Orrrrrrrrrr, you *do* have an on-board bwtwo0, but also have a cgfour that
you're not telling us about.


>Here's the problem: Whenever I try to run Xsun, I get the following error:

>Fatal server error:
>no screens found

>/dev/fb and /dev/bwtwo0 exist, but Xsun gives the same messages when told
>to use those. I fooled around with mknod'ing my own bwtwo1, but with little
>success. 

Try removing /dev/bwtwo0 and any other /dev entries for fb's that you don't
have.

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