On e93f 23/07/10, at 1:05, noman wrote:
Well it seems sending those files didn't help that much. So one last question before I give up. The error is about the device /dev/ drm0 which I don't have and isn't in the dmesg. Based on my dmesg what is the proper display device? It seems like if I could get it using the right device it may work. This is too bad too, I really wanted to use this on a road trip later this month.
It seems like I should have some memory of how this went, but the machine I was working on has some sort of heat-related intermittent connection on the circuit board (most likely around the video chip that is famous for cold solder joints) and I haven't talked myself into getting a .5 or .3 mm soldering iron/tip and a jeweler's glass to try to get in there and so on) so the machine I was working on is not being used right now. xorg.conf and its variants can reside many places, and the documentation for X11 is in seriously mixed progress on several fronts. What worked on Debian x86 four years ago is likely to cause problems on openBSD PPC now. I'm thinking that if I were in your shoes, I'd try a fresh install from scratch and see what happens when you don't try any initial configuration at all before you run xinit from a terminal session for the first time. Also, you might try the tool that sets up a best- guess configuration file, again, before you try adding any configuration files. I was getting somewhere with that when the video chip just went awol on me. (I left a partial record of my adventures several months back, you can problem find that in the list archives if you want an idea of what blind alleys I went down.) Joel Rees
