On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 13:17:52 -0400, Justin Newcomer
<liquidice5@gmail.com> wrote:
> hello
> 
> I recently, (about 2 weeks ago) finally made the move from the cobalt
> linux distro to the much better netBSD, and i love it
> 
> the only problem i am having is paneld doesnt work
> 
> i can echo whatever i want to the lcd
> with "echo 'lovely message here' > /dev/lcd
> 
> but if i try to start paneld
> 
> i get
> "[13:13:36@caspar ~]$ paneld
> Abort trap
> [13:15:10@caspar ~]$
> "
> 
> when i boot the qube, it does display the stuff it is starting, like
> the sshd, dhcp, etc, and the last job it displays is cron, but it
> never changes from that, it just stays " [Starting] cron" or whatever
> it says
> 
> right now, the buttons on the qube do nothing,
> its not a big deal, but i would really like to know how to make it work
> 
> any help/ideas would be greatly appreciated
> 
> Justin
> 

Make sure /etc/rc.conf includes the line:

paneld=YES

Note that a lot of users seem to disable it due to cpu use.  With
paneld running load average never drops below 1, at least on my raq1