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

[Josh McCormack]

None of the helpful suggestions have worked so far. I was getting an 
error about the module fbdev not loading, and tried to resolve that by 
adding a libggi package. It uses a Trident Cyberblade. Anyone have any 
success with that?

Josh

pete wright wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11/13/05, *Okan Demirmen* <okan at demirmen.com 
> <mailto: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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