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 Here are the pcidump outputs (first device only) # cat pcidump-v_min_45beta.lis Domain /dev/pci0: 0:0:0: NVIDIA nForce2 PCI 0x0000: Vendor ID: 10de Product ID: 01e0 0x0004: Command: 0006 Status ID: 00b0 0x0008: Class: 06 Subclass: 00 Interface: 00 Revision: a2 0x000c: BIST: 00 Header Type: 80 Latency Timer: 00 Cache Line Size: 00 0x0010: BAR mem prefetchable 32bit addr: 0xd0000000 0x0014: BAR empty (00000000) 0x0018: BAR empty (00000000) 0x001c: BAR empty (00000000) 0x0020: BAR empty (00000000) 0x0024: BAR empty (00000000) 0x0028: Cardbus CIS: 00000000 0x002c: Subsystem Vendor ID: 0000 Product ID: 0000 0x0030: Expansion ROM Base Address: 00000000 0x0038: 00000000 0x003c: Interrupt Pin: 00 Line: 00 Min Gnt: 00 Max Lat: 00 0x0040: Capability 0x02: AGP 0x0060: Capability 0x08: AMD LDT/HT (snip) and # cat pcidump-xx_min_45beta.lis Domain /dev/pci0: 0:0:0: NVIDIA nForce2 PCI 0x0000: 01e010de 00b00006 060000a2 00800000 0x0010: d0000008 00000000 00000000 00000000 0x0020: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0x0030: 00000000 00000040 00000000 00000000 0x0040: 00206002 1f000217 00000001 ffffffff 0x0050: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff 0x0060: 20010008 80880020 00000010 1f0fff01 0x0070: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff 0x0080: 0000010e 3dffffff 00000000 01408001 0x0090: 01408014 01408014 00000000 00000000 0x00a0: 00000000 006e8514 00000001 00000000 0x00b0: 0007ffcc 0000000b 00000000 02ba1755 0x00c0: 00033333 00033333 00000000 00000000 0x00d0: 00000001 00000001 07f0ffff 00000000 0x00e0: 004701b6 00003097 00000000 00000000 0x00f0: 0000001e 00000000 00000000 00000000 (snip) and dmesg OpenBSD 4.5-beta (GENERIC) #1735: Sun Feb 22 20:14:48 MST 2009 dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+ ("AuthenticAMD" 686-class, 512KB L2 cache) 1.84 GHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE real mem = 1038651392 (990MB) avail mem = 995995648 (949MB) mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 10/03/03, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfb580, SMBIOS rev. 2.2 @ 0xf0000 (35 entries) bios0: vendor Phoenix Technologies, LTD version "6.00 PG" date 10/03/2003 bios0: Shuttle Inc MN31 apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2 (slowidle) apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown acpi at bios0 function 0x0 not configured pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0xdf84 pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xfdef0/144 (7 entries) pcibios0: PCI Exclusive IRQs: 5 11 pcibios0: no compatible PCI ICU found pcibios0: Warning, unable to fix up PCI interrupt routing pcibios0: PCI bus #3 is the last bus bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0xdc00 0xd0000/0x4000! 0xd4000/0x1800 cpu0 at mainbus0: (uniprocessor) pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "NVIDIA nForce2 PCI" rev 0xa2 agp at pchb0 not configured "NVIDIA nForce2" rev 0xa2 at pci0 dev 0 function 1 not configured "NVIDIA nForce2" rev 0xa2 at pci0 dev 0 function 2 not configured "NVIDIA nForce2" rev 0xa2 at pci0 dev 0 function 3 not configured "NVIDIA nForce2" rev 0xa2 at pci0 dev 0 function 4 not configured "NVIDIA nForce2" rev 0xa2 at pci0 dev 0 function 5 not configured pcib0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "NVIDIA nForce2 ISA" rev 0xa3 nviic0 at pci0 dev 1 function 1 "NVIDIA nForce2 SMBus" rev 0xa2 iic0 at nviic0 spdmem0 at iic0 addr 0x50: 512MB DDR SDRAM non-parity PC2700CL2.5 spdmem1 at iic0 addr 0x51: 512MB DDR SDRAM non-parity PC2700CL2.5 iic1 at nviic0 ohci0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "NVIDIA nForce2 USB" rev 0xa3: irq 11, version 1.0, legacy support ohci1 at pci0 dev 2 function 1 "NVIDIA nForce2 USB" rev 0xa3: irq 5, version 1.0, legacy support ehci0 at pci0 dev 2 function 2 "NVIDIA nForce2 USB" rev 0xa3: irq 11 usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub0 at usb0 "NVIDIA EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1 nfe0 at pci0 dev 4 function 0 "NVIDIA nForce2 LAN" rev 0xa1: irq 11, address 00:30:1b:38:df:56 rlphy0 at nfe0 phy 1: RTL8201L 10/100 PHY, rev. 1 "NVIDIA nForce2 Audio" rev 0xa2 at pci0 dev 5 function 0 not configured auich0 at pci0 dev 6 function 0 "NVIDIA nForce2 AC97" rev 0xa1: irq 5, nForce2 AC97 ac97: codec id 0x414c4720 (Avance Logic ALC650) ac97: codec features 20 bit DAC, 18 bit ADC, Realtek 3D audio0 at auich0 ppb0 at pci0 dev 8 function 0 "NVIDIA nForce2 PCI-PCI" rev 0xa3 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 ral0 at pci1 dev 8 function 0 "Ralink RT2561S" rev 0x00: irq 5, address 00:1e:e5:23:18:81 ral0: MAC/BBP RT2561C, RF RT2527 pciide0 at pci0 dev 9 function 0 "NVIDIA nForce2 IDE" rev 0xa2: DMA, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <ST380011A> wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 76319MB, 156301488 sectors wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5 atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0 scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <JLMS, XJ-HD166S, DS14> ATAPI 5/cdrom removable cd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 "NVIDIA nForce2 FireWire" rev 0xa3 at pci0 dev 13 function 0 not configured ppb1 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 "NVIDIA nForce2 AGP" rev 0xa2 pci2 at ppb1 bus 3 vga1 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "NVIDIA GeForce4 MX nForce GPU" rev 0xa3 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) isa0 at pcib0 isadma0 at isa0 com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pmsi0 at pckbc0 (aux slot) pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot wsmouse0 at pmsi0 mux 0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker> spkr0 at pcppi0 lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7 it0 at isa0 port 0x2e/2: IT8712F rev 5, EC port 0x290 npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16 fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2 fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec usb1 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub1 at usb1 "NVIDIA OHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb2 at ohci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub2 at usb2 "NVIDIA OHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 biomask ef65 netmask ef65 ttymask ffff mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support softraid0 at root PXE boot MAC address 00:30:1b:38:df:56, interface nfe0 nfs_boot: using interface nfe0, with revarp & bootparams nfs_boot: client_addr=192.168.1.101 nfs_boot: server_addr=192.168.1.45 hostname=s1 root on 192.168.1.45:/export/diskless/4.5/s1 nfs_boot: bootparam get swap: 60 WARNING: no swap swapmount: no device