Re: Not Loading any X

On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 09:31:21AM BST, Mohammad BadieZadegan wrote:

> Hi everybody,

Hi Mohammad,

> I have installed OpenBSD on my USB flash memstick and when I inserted
> to my PC USB port its X loaded without any errors.

If you're not using USB 3.0, the performance might be quite poor but I'm
sure you already know that.

> But when I'm going to reboot my notebook (DELL E6410) by my USB memstick
> its X did not load and the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log contain these below log:
> 
> ==========================================================
> 
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> 
> 
> [    50.440] (WW) checkDevMem: failed to open /dev/xf86 and /dev/mem
> (Operation not permitted)
> Check that you have set 'machdep.allowaperture=1'
> in /etc/sysctl.conf and reboot your machine
> refer to xf86(4) for details

There's an advice at the top of the log file - try following it.

Since it's an Nvidia GPU, I wouldn't expect anything better than VESA.

Regards,

Raf