Re: Creator 3D Series 3 FFB2+ question

From: Jeff Wieland (wieland_at_nospampurdue.edu)
Date: 03/25/05 

Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 02:04:55 +0000 (UTC)

In article <3ag94iF67gn5hU1@individual.net> Phil Macphail <philip.macphail@ntlworld.com> writes:
>Jeff Wieland wrote:
>> In article <Pine.SOL.4.58.0503231531280.9194@zen.rite-group.com> Rich Teer <rich.teer@rite-group.com> writes:
>>
>>>On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Jeff Wieland wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I'm looking for a framebuffer for a 440 MHz Ultra 10, and it appears
>>>>that the best general use framebuffer would be the Creator 3D Series 3
>>>>FFB2+. There appear to be two version of this, the 501-4788/X3663A
>>>>and the 501-5690/X3670A, with the difference being that the latter is
>>>>Energy Star compliant. Any thoughts on which one would be better?
>>>
>>>The latter I guess has the edge, but only if you care about Energy Star
>>>compliance. FWFI, I have two of the '5960s in my Ultra 60.
>>>
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>>>
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>>
>>
>> I should have expanded on why I'm asking about framebuffers. My wife's
>> Ultra 10 has an Elite 3D-M3. Once in a while, while running Mozilla,
>> it will just lock up completely. A Stop-A does nothing and it does not
>> respond to pings. We have to power-cycle(!) it to get it back
>> running. Nothing gets logged anywhere that I can find when this
>> happens.
>>
>> There is nothing peculiar about Mozilla that I'm aware of, and I'm
>> using the same build on my Ultra 5 at home, and my Sun Blade 1500 at
>> work. It might just be a coincidence that it has locked up in
>> Mozilla.
>>
>> I've redirected the console to ttya, and I've left an xterm running
>> tip'ped in from my Ultra 5. Maybe if it happens again I'll be able
>> to use a break to get it down to firmware and take a crash dump, or
>> maybe it'll display something on a serial console that it can't on
>> the display when things go wrong. Of course, since I've set this
>> up, the system hasn't locked up...
>>
>> It has never locked up when running Mozilla and displaying on my
>> Ultra 5, so I'm suspicious of things like the framebuffer.
>>
>> After I posted the original message, I found out that a buddy of
>> mine has a spare X3670A that he'd let me have for $20, so I might
>> go that route to try to debug the problem.
>>
>> BTW Rich -- great book!
>> --
>> Jeff Wieland
>
>I have the same problem with an Ultra 10 and Elite frame buffer. Very
>occasionally the desktop hangs with Mozilla, but not with any other
>application. This started when I moved from Soalris 9 to 10 (beta).
>When this happens I can open a remote terminal on another machine to
>shut-down in an orderly manner, so the problem is likely to be with X or
>the Elite driver.
>Mozilla also gets the colour map confused too,which is another annoyance!

I've got the Creator 3D Series 3 installed now. We'll need what
happens. I haven't seen the color map problem you mentioned. I do
have a custom /etc/dt/config/Xservers file with the line:

   :0 Local local_uid@none root /usr/openwin/bin/Xsun :0 -nobanner -dev /dev/fbs/ffb0 defdepth 24 defclass TrueColor

This forces the default visual to be 24 bit, and Mozilla is happy.
Things that want an 8 bit visual run OK too. 

--
Jeff Wieland
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