> 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. >
Yah, I'm working through my collection checking it all out on the beta. The nvidia-based machine (nforce2 chipset, AMD 2500XP, circa 2003) is either not showing any video cards at all, or with apm turned off, not functioning ethernet-wise. > 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 > Re the other thread about netvista, I have gotten both vesa and intel drivers loaded and not crashing, and X applications and window managers running, but, somehow, nothing visible on the screen. Darkness, although I can see the LCD backlight is on. Mystery. --John
