On Tue, 9 Feb 2021 at 17:59, Mouse <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't know whether this is kernel or X11. There are things pointing > each way. > > At work, I've got 9.1 on an amd64 machine. When I boot it normally - > console on screen/keyboard - X works fine. > > But I'm having an issue. The machine is rebooting on me, sometimes, > and I don't know whether it's some kind of quasi-spontaneous hard-reset > or whether it's a panic. But, with X on the console, I can't tell > whether there's a panic or not. > > So, I booted it with serial console. But now, X doesn't seem to work. > There are a number of curious things involved.
I think NetBSD would really benefit from a way to reparent the console device at runtime (I appreciate this comment does not directly help in any way at this point :) AFAIK X requires a wsdisplay to run on - which you don't seem to get with a serial console. I wonder if it might be possible to run it on genfb? Those dmesg outputs are _so_ different, that something seems very much off - can you get dmesg.boot from both cases? David
