Subject: Re: xserver on tga - powerstorm 4d20
To: Brad Beck <bradbeck@sdf1.org>
From: Michael L. Hitch <mhitch@lightning.msu.montana.edu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 03/16/2005 12:45:39
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Brad Beck wrote:

> I'm trying to get an Xserver working on PWS 600au with tga PowerStorm
> 4d20.  XdecNetBSD and XalphaNetBSD both die with:
>
> ~/$ startx
>
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit server kill or server shutdown)
>
> I've searched the archives and seen this issue has been brought up
> before, but I haven't yet come across a solution.
>
> Can anyone provide insight or a link to some documentation on getting
> Xserver running with this card?  (ie: required kernel options and/or
> specific wscons config)

  Have you tried starting X as root?

  I seem to recall that XdecNetBSD had problems, even when it was suid
root.  I wasn't able to track down where it was failing, but I think it
would work when I was running as root.

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Michael L. Hitch			mhitch@montana.edu
Computer Consultant
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Montana State University	Bozeman, MT	USA