On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 10:58:54AM -0500, noman 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
That file is for Linux and quite out of date. > 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. Look in /var/log/Xorg.0.log for obvious errors. The most frequent problem with macppc laptops it the failure to set the display panel correctly because there is no DDC information available. Setting Options "PanelWidth" and "PanelHeight" or manually adding a modeline that matches your hardware may help. > > Any ideas what I should try next? Thank you for your help! > -- Matthieu Herrb
