Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 3857
IPX X problem: Sbus probe gives wrong resolution
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:50 EDT
I just upgraded an old RDI BriteLite IPX laptop from RedHat 5.2 to RedHat 6.0 (including all updates) and found that X stopped working altogether. Symptoms: when I enter "startx" I get _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno=61 waiting for X Server to begin accepting connections (using VT number 7) and then a blank screen. Switching back to VT 1, I can kill the server with no problem. The only clue I have is the following output from the "Sbus Probe" window of Xconfigurator: It detects the bwtwo framebuffer O.K., but then says that the resolution is "1152x900". The problem: I'm pretty sure the best I can do with the black-and-white LCD on this laptop is 1024x768. (That's the best I've been able to run in the past.) When Xconfigurator tries to start the X server, it eventually fails, saying 'There is a problem with your X configuration' or something similar.
have you run Xconfigurator and tried to manually adjust your settings?
closed due to lack of feedback.
oops, I did not know sparc Xconfigurator couldn't manually adjust values, we'll look into this.
Xconfigurator uses the resolution settings for the framebuffer as reported by OBP (OpenBoot Prom). I've never actually had my hands on a Sun laptop, so it's hard for me to explore where resolution settings are mismatched. The Prom shouldn't be reporting resolutions that the framebuffer isn't currently set to.