[Aurora-sparc-user] Sun Blade 150 - A few questions

[Owen Mann]

Jack L. Exley wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I currently have aurora Linux running on my Sun blade 150.  I love it, 
> works great.  I get all the flexibility with Linux with the reliability 
> of Sun hardware.  I have a few questions on some things that I would 
> love to get working though.  Here's my current kernel information:
> 
> jackinbox <--- exleyj1 @ ~ ---> uname -a
> Linux jackinbox 2.6.21-1.3149.al3.8 #1 Sat May 26 00:31:16 EDT 2007 
> sparc64 sparc64 sparc64 GNU/Linux
> jackinbox <--- exleyj1 @ ~ ---> cat /etc/redhat-release
> Aurora SPARC Linux release 2.99 (Angel)
> 
> Sound:
> 
> Has anyone been able to get the sound card working?  The system sees the 
> onboard card just fine, but can't seem to load any modules for it.  
> Output from lspci -v:
> 
> 00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link 
> Controller Audio Device (rev 01)
>         Subsystem: ALi Corporation HP Compaq nc4010 (DY885AA#ABN)
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 14
>         I/O ports at 1fe02000900 [size=256]
>         Memory at 1ff00424000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
>         Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
> 
> Second Serial Port:
> 
> The Sun blade 150 has a second serial port on the internal riser card.  
> The external serial port works just fine.  I use that with minicom to 
> connect to the console of Sun V440's.  I bought a ribbon cable to 
> connect to the riser card serial port, but cannot connect to the 
> V440's.  I verified the connector and cabling, so that's not the issue, 
> and I even put a Solaris 10 disk in and booted that to verify that the 
> OS was not the problem.  Same behavior.  Has anyone else been able to 
> use the second serial port?  Here's my output from cat /proc/ioports:
> 
> 1fe020002e8-1fe020002ef : serial
> 1fe020003f8-1fe020003ff : serial
> 
> Seems the OBP sets the ports to COM1, 0x3f8, and COM4, 0x2e8.  I have 
> the devices in /dev, but I never get any output when connecting to the 
> second serial port:
> 
> jackinbox <--- exleyj1 @ ~ ---> ls -l /dev | grep ttyS
> crw-rw---- 1 root    uucp   4,  64 Oct  6 02:54 ttyS0
> crw-rw---- 1 root    uucp   4,  65 Oct  5 14:48 ttyS1
> 
> I also connected a serial loopback plug on the second serial port, but 
> never got any output from that either.
> 
> Video:
> 
> I would love to be able to run this system with dual monitors.  I have 
> the onboard video card working just fine.  Here's my xorg.conf file:
> 
> # Xorg configuration created by pyxf86config
> 
> Section "ServerLayout"
>         Identifier     "Default Layout"
>         Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
>         InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>         Driver      "kbd"
>         Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
>         Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier  "Videocard0"
>         Driver      "ati"
>         Option      "ReferenceClock" "29.500MHz"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Monitor"
>         Identifier "Generic Monitor"
>         Option "DPMS"
>         HorizSync 30-81
>         VertRefresh 56-75
>         DisplaySize 376 301
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Screen"
>         Identifier "Screen0"
>         Monitor "Generic Monitor"
>         Device     "Videocard0"
>         DefaultDepth     24
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Viewport   0 0
>                 #Virtual 1280 1024
>                 Depth     24
>                 Modes "1280x1024"
>         EndSubSection
> EndSection
> 
> I've tried multiple dual head video cards, but cannot get anything to 
> work.  I was thinking of maybe trying one last type, a Maxtrox dual head 
> card.  Has anyone else got a dual head Sun Blade 100 or 150 running with 
> this version of aurora?  Any help with these issues is most appreciated.
> 
> Thank You!
> 
> Jack Exley
> 
> 
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For the serial port, have you tried /dev/ttyS3, since it's on COM4?