Hi Matthieu, thanks a lot for your message. After running memtest, I
installed 4.2 yesterday again just to make sure that the laptop does work
(someone suggested a memory problem), it does work fine with 4.2, so I am
in the process of re-installing 4.5. I will try your suggestions and post
the results.
Thanks again
Tenoch
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Matthieu Herrb wrote:
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 9:46 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello,
I just installed version 4.5 on a very old laptop (Texas Instruments Extensa
605CD), it was happily running 4.2 before. All the hardware seems to be
recognised correctly on both versions but I am having a strange problem when
trying to configure Xorg, the command "X -configure" reboots the machine, in
fact, running X with any parameter reboots the machine. I created a
xorg.conf file to test and trying to start X with it produces the same
result.
I haven't used OpenBSD for very long, I only started with version 4.2 so I
am thinking that I am probably missing something simple or something new on
4.5? (I have the machdep.allowaperture=2 in sysctl.conf).
I am attaching my sysctl params and my dmesg, I hope someone can give me a
hand with this.
Thanks very much in advance.
Please also include pcidump -vv output
Can you look if you get something in /var/log/Xorg.0.log after the reboot?
if not, can you set up a serial console, log in as root through it and
run "script Xorg -verbose 4"
and send the typescript here ?
Also, try using the "Vesa" driver xorg.conf. It should work, as I
suspect the breakage is in the xf86-video-chips driver.
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Matthieu Herrb
