On 2018/11/16 03:01, Ian Sutton wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 6:46 PM Guillaume Simon
> <guillaume.si...@mailoo.org> wrote:
> > I've recently seen there is now a display driver for BBB, but after
> > having installed OpenBSD 6.4 on my BBB, I don't succeed to make it work.
> >
> > I plugged the screen before booting (as written in amdisplay's man
> > page), but it remains black on boot.
> 
> amdisplay(4) does not yet attach the system console, however, I am
> going to revisit this and see what it would involve to do that. I'll
> ping this thread back in a few days with my results.
> 
> You should know that because the USB host controller is not supported
> on the BBB (it is some non EHCI compliant OTG thing) amdisplay(4) is a
> bit useless since you cannot attach a keyboard/mouse, and without
> those, Xenocara will not easily start due to the lack of a input
> device.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=149563712516455&w=2


> > amdisplay/nxphdmi drivers don't appear in the "supported hardware"
> > sections of armv7 docs :
> >
> > Are they not stable enough to be listed ?
> >
> > Or are they supposed to work flawlessly ? (In this case, I would be very
> > happy if someone gives me some pointers to make my display work)
> 
> amdisplay(4) is stable and working. With e.g. a remote X session you
> can use amdisplay. I use x2x for this purpose:
> 
> https://ce.gl/hooraydisplay.png
> 

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