Unfortunately in the end this only delayed the crash. I could leave the laptop idling or under a low workload for a day or two and it worked fine. When I tried to install packages such as chromium and firefox it would then hang.
On Wed, 13 Jan 2021 09:50:55 -0500 Jon Fineman <[email protected]> wrote: > I see what you are referring to now. I installed OpenBSD 6.8 current. > When I started xenodm it sent me to a blank page. on tty5. I hadn't > gotten to that point yet, when I emailed you. > > Because of that and the ports site having issues, I tried installing > OpenBSD 6.8 release. After starting xenodm it took me to the login > page. > > So something else is going on. > > > On Mon, 11 Jan 2021 14:47:06 -0500 > Jon Fineman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I don't remember all of the details and the symptoms, since the last > > time I installed it was 6.6. > > > > I believe the login screen appeared. I had violent flickering after > > logging in. > > > > I added this to /etc/X11/xorg.conf > > Section "Device" > > Identifier "graphicsdriver" > > Driver "AMDGPU" > > Option "TearFree" "true" > > EndSection > > > > With xfce I had a lot of trouble with compositor and had to turn it > > off. > > > > > > On Mon, 11 Jan 2021 12:10:07 +0100 > > Alex Raschi <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Jan 09, 2021 at 10:40:27AM -0500, Jon Fineman wrote: > > > > Oh thank you. That works! > > > > > > Good! > > > > > > Another thing i noticed on this laptop is that when i start X11 i > > > always get a black screen and the laptop become unresponsive, > > > sometimes even ssh does not work anymore. I tried with few ddx > > > both with and without acceleration enabled without luck. > > > > > > I wanted to ask if you have the same issue, i have installed a > > > recent snapshot and i haven't configured anything on it yet. > > > Anyway i will do a bug report for this since i haven't found a > > > similar issue reported. > > > > > > Thanks in advance! > > >
