I got a Sun Blade 150 recently. It has a ATI Rage XL PCI built into it. The Box was originally used with Solaris-9 and there were no Problems running higher resolutions with reasonable refresh-rates on my TFT (LG Flatron L1910B). That TFT itself also was used with a Sun Ultra-5 and there also without any problems. However I can't seem to get xorg running on that box. I chose "ati" as the display driver, tried to set the additional ChipSet and Options for that driver, tried to specify modelines (and commented them out again), tried ddc, tried witout specifying any display-mode -- the result is always the same: "Out of Sync, waiting 20 seconds...19...18...". I provided my xorg.conf and the log-output of xorg online on my devspace: dev.gentoo.org/~beejay/Xorg.0.log dev.gentoo.org/~beejay/xorg.conf Please note that the xorg.conf now is kinda messed up (because I was trying to solve that problem the whole afternoon). Using Xorg -configure also resulted in no usable configuration (problem persists) Another note: I also tried fbdev as display-driver, but then the box freezes directly after xorg came up. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Configure Xorg (see the xorg.conf) on a Blade 150 with a Rage XL PCI 2. startx 3. Actual Results: Monitor reports "Out of sync" Expected Results: Show at least a movable mouse-cursor sirius benni # emerge --info Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/sparc/sparc64/2004.3, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r2, 2.4.28-sparc-r1 sparc64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.28-sparc-r1 sparc64 sun4u Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1 Headers: sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.23 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="sparc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=ultrasparc" CHOST="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=ultrasparc" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp6.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://192.168.115.102/portage" USE="sparc X arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups encode esd f77 fam fbcon foomaticdb fortran gcc64 gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib jpeg kde libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt readline sdl slang spell ssl tcpd tiff truetype unicode xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib" sirius benni # lspci 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Ultra IIe 0000:00:03.0 Non-VGA unclassified device: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU] 0000:00:05.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 21152 PCI-to-PCI Bridge 0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV] 0000:00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 01) 0000:00:0c.0 Bridge: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. RIO EBUS (rev 01) 0000:00:0c.1 Ethernet controller: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. RIO GEM (rev 01) 0000:00:0c.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. RIO 1394 (rev 01) 0000:00:0c.3 USB Controller: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. RIO USB (rev 01) 0000:00:0d.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c3) 0000:00:13.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27) sirius benni # Xorg -scanpci Probing for PCI devices (Bus:Device:Function) (0:0:0) Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Ultra IIe (0:3:0) ALi Corporation M7101 PMU (0:5:0) Intel Corp. 21152 PCI-to-PCI Bridge (0:7:0) unknown card (0x10b9/0x1533) using a ALi Corporation M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV] (0:8:0) unknown card (0x10b9/0x5451) using a ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (0:12:0) Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. RIO EBUS (0:12:1) Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. RIO GEM (0:12:2) Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. RIO 1394 (0:12:3) Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. RIO USB (0:13:0) ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (0:19:0) ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL
Created attachment 45687 [details] xorg.conf
Created attachment 45688 [details] Xorg.0.log
Ok, Weeve pushed me into the right direction. I needed to set reference_clock to "29.5 MHz" in the device-section in xorg.conf. It's also mentioned in the Sparc-FAQ on http://www.gentoo.org. Everything is fine now.
