Re: Getting X to work in version 3.7

Gregory Garrison wrote:
> Forgive me; I am some what of a newbie.

Forgiven, but read forward...

>  I have successfully installed OpenBSD. However I would like to use a GUI (Gnome or KDE) and am have a very hard time getting my Xserver to work. I do not believe it is a hardware problem because xorgcfg works in its graphical mode. startx and xinit and kdm all return a message which more or less says "fatal error no screens" or "no server"

What does /var/log/Xorg.0.log say ?

> before the program hangs it tries to access "/dev/mem" whereupon a message "insufficient privileges" appears. Does the problem lie in the fact that I am not configuring/editing the right files, perhaps do to the confusing situation engendered by OpenBSD's recent migration from XF86 or is it something else. Do I have to modify my kernel security level? If some one could clearly enumerate the specific steps I need to to take to get X running that would very much help me for now I am quite at a loss as to what to do. The internal man pages do not seem to illuminate the situation much

What did you do to install X on you OpenBSD machine ? Did you answer 
'yes' when the install program asked you if you intended to run X on 
your machine ?

> Tired of spam?

No, spamd removes spam for me just well.

>  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around 
> http://mail.yahoo.com 

No way. The ugly way you message is formatted (see 
<http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html>) show that the above statement is false.
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Matthieu Herrb