That stinks. Yeah, this thing is a dinosaur. I will try that. Thanks for your help!
On Thu, Apr 15, 2021, 2:27 PM Matthieu Herrb <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 09:05:51AM -0400, Thomas Vetere wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I am currently running OpenBSD 6.8 on an IBM ThinkPad 600e. I am using > > the GENERIC kernel and the only modifications that I have to the system > > is to disable > > > > ACPI in rc.shutdown in order to circumvent KARL (this machine fails to > > boot in ACPI mode so I have to use APM). > > > > The other day I setup X11 with xenodm and when I tried to launch cwm I > > kept getting the error message “Unable to open display 0.0”. > > > > I read the manual pages for X11 and found where the logs were. After > > reading through the logs, I can see that I have the message “Screens > > found but none have a usable configuration”. Also within the logs, I > > can see that it is not loading the proper module for my Graphics > > processor. I made sure that my graphics processor is supported by OpenBSD > > and you can see that it is here: > > > > https://man.openbsd.org/neo.4 > > This driver is for neomagic *audio* chipsets not graphics. > > > > In the log it says this module “neomagic” does not exist and it falls > > back on the vesa module it seems. If this module is loaded into the > > kernel at the installation time of OpenBSD, could this be a hardware > > detection issue? If so, is there a way that I can enable this module in > > order to see if that will fix the issue in configuring the screen? > > > > Here is the output of various log files: > > Hi, > > The neomagic(4) X.Org driver was removed during the OpenBSD 6.6 > release cycle because it's not supported by X.Org upstreams > anymore. In particular the driver only supported XAA 2D acceleration, > and recent X servers have dropped support for that acceleration code > (only EXA and glamor are supported nowadays). > > You may be able to get X working using the (unaccelerated) > xf86-video-vesa driver (see vesa(4)). Create an /etc/X11/xorg.conf > file containing just > > Section "Device" > Identifier "mycard" > Driver "vesa" > EndSection > > The drawback with this approach is that if the Video BIOS of your > machine doesn't include support for the pannel of your laptop, the > vesa driver may not be able to drive it at its native resolution. > > -- > Matthieu Herrb >
