On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:30:01 -0700 (MST) [email protected] wrote: > After getting almost there (thanks JC Roberts) on Intel 845G, I tried > the other computer, an old nforce2-based machine. It works on > 4.3-stable, and on 4.5beta Xorg -configure says > > No devices to configure. Configuration failed. > > although nv is in the driver list. So this is a regression; used to > work, now doesn't. > > Evidently I'm clueless about Xorg and/or entirely without luck this > week. All I need is vga-like operation, nothing fancy. Is there > anyway to fake it out as a VESA or something? > > --John
>From the dmesg, it's obviously not the IBM Netvista box you mentioned previously. There's one strange thing about the IBM Netvista boxes that is highly annoying; some of them have an AGP slot, but the chips/bios needed to make the AGP usable are completely missing. As for forcing simple "vga-like operation" in pre-7.0 I remember using a simple driver called "vesa" in my xorg.conf "Device" section. http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vesa&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html -- J.C. Roberts
