ATI driver for Sun UltraSPARC IIIi

[Verdin]

I'm unable to enable the restricted modules through the terminal and I can't find any ATI drive for UltraSPARC on AMDs website. All they have is x86 and x86-64 drivers for linux. I have a 32 bit PCI graphics card with Radeon RV100 QZ [Radeon 7000/VE] chipset. I guess fglrx won't work with it anyway.

Anyone have any ideas about how I could get this graphics card to work? I can't get any GUI at all!

Thanks..

[howlingmadhowie]

i think getting the card to work under linux will be pretty impossible, unless ati has produced a driver (which is extremely unlikely). the card however should also support vesa, so try using the standard vesa driver in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and seeing what /var/log/Xorg.0.log has to say about it. that's all i can suggest, unfortunately.

[Verdin]

I've tried reconfiguring:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

and just get the error:
FATAL: Module battery not found

I have no idea what this means.

I ran the /var/log/Xorg.0.log but don't know what to look for.

[howlingmadhowie]

I've tried reconfiguring:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

and just get the error:
FATAL: Module battery not found

I have no idea what this means.

I ran the /var/log/Xorg.0.log but don't know what to look for.


the /var/log/Xorg.0.log will contain the messages from the xserver when it last tried to start. probably at the end of the file there will be some error messages.

i don't see why a missing battery module should stop the xserver-xorg package from being reconfigured. i suspect a problem elsewhere.

[balkor]

I think I am having the same issue with my SPARC
SunFire 280R
(2) UltraSPARC III+ (cheetah+)
ATI Technologies Radeon 7000/ve RV100qy


/etc/gdm/failsafeXServer: line 47: [: too many arguments
Warning: Could not retrieve EDID because get-edid is not installed (1)
Warning: Could not retreive PCI IDs because discover is not installed (1)
FATAL: Module battery not found.
: error: this program does not know how to configure the "10
shared/default-x-server doesn't exist" X server
Warning: Could not generate /etc/X11/xorg.conf.failsafe for vesa driver
/var/log/gdm/:0.log (END)