Thank you for the reply Patrick. I forgot to say that, I did try that, and after that the laptop wouldn't give me a login when I booted anymore, I don't know why. But that made it impossible to do anything local on the laptop. And I don't care if it boots into X, in fact I prefer not to, but I do need to get X working.

On 7/5/2011 12:44 PM, patrick keshishian wrote:
have you read the bit in the README file under /usr/X11R6 (I believe)
that talks about changing status value of /dev/ttyC0 to 'off'?

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/xenocara/distrib/notes/README.macppc?rev=1.8


On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 8:58 AM, noman<no...@woodsdomain.org>  wrote:
I have OpenBSD 4.9 installed on a 2001 PowerBook G4 M7952LL/A.  So far so
good, but I can't get X to work.  If I simply run startx or xinit the screen
fades to white.  I tried using the xorg.conf files I found here:
http://mac.linux.be/content/xorgconf-powerbook-g4500-15-inch-ati-rage-128
But with them I get the following error:
xinit: giving up
xinit: unable to connect to X Server: Connection refused
xinit: server error

I did add my computer name to the localhost line in the host file.  I tested
turning pf off to make sure that wasn't blocking something.  At this point
I'm kind of stuck.

Any ideas what I should try next?  Thank you for your help!

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