[nycbug-talk] X on OpenBSD & nycbug.org down

[pete wright]

On 11/13/05, Okan Demirmen <okan at demirmen.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri 2005.11.11 at 22:56 -0500, Josh McCormack wrote:
> >
> >
> > Okan Demirmen wrote:
> >
> > >On Fri 2005.11.11 at 00:31 -0500, Josh McCormack wrote:
> > >
> > >>Also, I'm having troubles getting X working on my new install of
> OpenBSD
> > >>3.8 on a Presario 1200. Any help would be appreciated.
> > >
> > >
> > >more info may help - dmesg? what's the issue exactly?
> >
> > Thanks for the help.
>
> did you try starting X without xorg.conf? remove (or move) it out of the
> way and just startx. the majority of my machines that run openbsd just
> auto-configure and work. of course, tweaking and such requires the conf
> file, but at least it may tell you something.



and if all else fails i find "sudo xorgcfg" works %90 of the time (or "sudo
XF86Cfg" for XF86)
-pete



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Pete Wright
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NYC's *BSD User Group
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