Thank you. I checked and I found this error in the mix of a ton of stuff:
[drm] failed to load kernel module "r128"
Since a Rage 128 card is what I have, that doesn't sound good. That was
in a .old file, so I think that was when I tried with an xorg.conf file
that called r128 specifically and it hung. The current file is without
the xorg.conf file and the screen just turns to white, and that file has
nothing at all in it.
On 7/5/2011 3:29 PM, Matthieu Herrb wrote:
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That file is for Linux and quite out of date.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!
