On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:17:27PM +0200, Dusty wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've recently installed OpenBSD 4.7 Release on my laptop, an Acer Aspire
> One with SSD. Enjoying the improved performance I decided I wanted to
> follow current. I was hoping for webcam and ath0 support. (Apparently
> I'm SOL when it comes to the ath0, its one of 'those' chipsets that
> doesn't work)
> The major problem I have is that on current (snapshot or compiled latest
> source) X stops working.
> In release everything works fine, run gnome, got nice visual effects,
> everything seems fine.
> In current (snapshot June 7th) when X tries to start the LCD panel turns
> off completely (not just goes dark) actually goes black like it does
> when the computer powers down.
> I'm happy to substitute the ath0 with my ural or rum but I can't live
> without X working.
> Attached is -release and -current dmesg along with pcidump -v
Can you provide Xorg.log from both?
also can you confirm that the X snap was also the latest?
So far there isn't much informatino to go on.
can you ssh to the machine after the screen goes black and get
logs/dmesg from the machine then?
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