I use OpenBSD 3.8 on a Fujitsu Siemens (FSC) AMILO Pro V2055 Notebook. Problem occurred right after installing from the CD set.
After starting X the virtual consoles are no longer accessible. Some "trying to switch screens" happens but then the X screen is back and then the mouse cursor hangs. While I have installed X on some workstations before (OpenBSD 3.5 and OpenBSD 3.7) I am quite the opposite of an X guru - but had lots of time to read X related man pages during last 4 weeks (time to read seems to be the silver lining of having to stay in bed all day after surgery). Unfortunately, I could not find anything that explains this behaviour (even worse - I still do not get the big picture so book recommendations regarding general understanding of X are highly appreciated *g*). I did not find anything in Google. In addition it might be worth mentioning that video memory is NOT cleared between X sessions. This means that the next user can see your last screen content for a second or so. Being that practical paranoid I consider this being a security issue. Please note that screen content survives a reboot and even 15 min of power off (notebook ...). Compared to that it is just a minor issue that ttyC0 will always be visible for a second or so when starting X from other virtual consoles. Be sure to blank it before calling startx in front of your customer. ;-) I tried FreeBSD, too (first time in my life, FreeBSD 6.1). Problem does not occur. dmesg.boot follows, problem also occurred before using wsmouse and the external Cherry mouse. OpenBSD 3.8 (GENERIC) #138: Sat Sep 10 15:41:37 MDT 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: Intel(R) Celeron(R) M CPU 410 @ 1.46GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 1.47 GHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CFLU SH,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,TM2 real mem = 199393280 (194720K) avail mem = 175067136 (170964K) using 2459 buffers containing 10072064 bytes (9836K) of memory mainbus0 (root) bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(e8) BIOS, date 07/21/06, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfddc4 pcibios0: pcibios_get_status - function not supported pcibios at bios0 function 0x1a not configured bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0xf800 cpu0 at mainbus0 pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 vendor "VIA", unknown product 0x0314 rev 0x00 pchb1 at pci0 dev 0 function 1 vendor "VIA", unknown product 0x1314 rev 0x00 pchb2 at pci0 dev 0 function 2 vendor "VIA", unknown product 0x2314 rev 0x00 pchb3 at pci0 dev 0 function 3 vendor "VIA", unknown product 0x3208 rev 0x00 pchb4 at pci0 dev 0 function 4 vendor "VIA", unknown product 0x4314 rev 0x00 pchb5 at pci0 dev 0 function 7 vendor "VIA", unknown product 0x7314 rev 0x00 ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "VIA VT8377 PCI-PCI" rev 0x00 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 vendor "VIA", unknown product 0x3344 rev 0x01: aperture at 0xf0000000, size 0x10000000 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) vendor "Broadcom", unknown product 0x4318 (class network subclass miscellaneous, rev 0x02) at pci0 dev 6 function 0 not configured cbb0 at pci0 dev 12 function 0 "ENE CB-1410 CardBus" rev 0x01pci_intr_map: no mapping for pin A : couldn't map interrupt pciide0 at pci0 dev 15 function 0 "VIA VT8237 SATA" rev 0x80: DMA pciide0: using irq 10 for native-PCI interrupt wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <ST94813AS> wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 38154MB, 78140160 sectors wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5 pciide1 at pci0 dev 15 function 1 "VIA VT82C571 IDE" rev 0x06: ATA133, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility pciide1: channel 0 disabled (no drives) atapiscsi0 at pciide1 channel 1 drive 0 scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <PHILIPS, DVD+-RW SDVD8820, AJ10> SCSI0 5/cdrom removable cd0(pciide1:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 uhci0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x81: irq 9 usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0 at usb0 uhub0: VIA UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci1 at pci0 dev 16 function 1 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x81: irq 9 usb1 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1 at usb1 uhub1: VIA UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered ehci0 at pci0 dev 16 function 4 "VIA VT6202 USB" rev 0x86: irq 7 ehci0: timed out waiting for BIOS usb2 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub2 at usb2 uhub2: VIA EHCI root hub, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub2: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered pcib0 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 "VIA VT8237 ISA" rev 0x00 auvia0 at pci0 dev 17 function 5 "VIA VT8233 AC97" rev 0x60pci_intr_map: no mapping for pin C : couldn't map interrupt "VIA VT82C686 Modem" rev 0x80 at pci0 dev 17 function 6 not configured vr0 at pci0 dev 18 function 0 "VIA RhineII-2" rev 0x78: irq 10 address 00:14:0b:01:2a:ad ukphy0 at vr0 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface ukphy0: OUI 0x004063, model 0x0032, rev. 10 isa0 at pcib0 isadma0 at isa0 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 pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot) pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker> spkr0 at pcppi0 sysbeep0 at pcppi0 npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16 pcic0 at isa0 port 0x3e0/2 iomem 0xd0000/65536 pcic0 controller 0: <Intel 82365SL rev 2> has socket A only pcmcia0 at pcic0 controller 0 socket 0 pcic0: irq 3, polling enabled biomask eff5 netmask eff5 ttymask ffff pctr: 686-class user-level performance counters enabled mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support dkcsum: wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80 root on wd0a rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302 uhidev0 at uhub0 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0 uhidev0: Cherry Mikroschalter product 0x000c, rev 1.10/8.10, addr 2, iclass 3/1 ums0 at uhidev0: 3 buttons and Z dir. wsmouse1 at ums0 mux 0 -- GMX DSL-Flatrate 0,- Euro* - \berall, wo DSL verf|gbar ist! 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