On Oct 7, 2006, at 8:15 AM, Glyn Astill wrote:

> Hi People,
>
> I recently re-installed my qube using the 3.99 CD, and then followed
> the  initial setup parameters here
> http://www.teraqube.co.uk/software/#s1.2
>
> I then did a shutdown -r and expected the qube to boot back up no
> problems, however it gets stuck at Starting Up >poffd on the qubes
> display.
>
> Does anyone know why this might be, I cant see what I have done wrong
> and it's driving me crazy.
>
> However it seems that I can still connect to the qube and everything
> however the qubes display just freezes at the "Starting up >poffd"
> bit.
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated, I don't know much at all about
> netbsd.

So, you're saying you can connect and everything just fine, it's just  
the display locks up (LCD isn't working).

There had been for ages a problem with NetBSD and the Qube's LCD; the  
LCD support broke at one point, I think for all of 2.0.   I thought  
that the patch had been built into the general 3.99 release but  
perhaps not.  If you search these list archives .. hey, I just did  
that, and you had the 3.99 going in Aug and had the IP address  
displaying fine, right?  I found a message on this list from April  
2006 that indicated the 3.99 CD on the NEtBSD site has a working  
paneld (the buttons) and by implication so should the LCD.

Shon's page has instructions for editing the banner.sh in 1.6.1, did  
you perform that edit with your 3.99 install?  If so, go back to the  
original banner and see if the IP address displays.   If it was doing  
this out of the box, it's likely the install CD you used didn't have  
the patch to get the display working properly.
In all honesty, most people turned it off in 1.6.1, it used up a lot  
of CPU time to maintain, then it broke for a long while, then a patch  
came out to make it work, but I don't recall about the CPU load being  
fixed.

You should be able to get it going though.

Brian