... a continuation of around a year ago
('Warning: Possible Bug in BIOS DELL Latitude D400_A06 !')
It is still valid for 3.7.
In the meantime, the problem has turned out to be really a problem of
crappy DELL BIOSes; now at A08 it still does the same:
Any activation of X freezes the machine completely with a yellowish screen.855wrap on http://www.chzsoft.com.ar/855patch.html solves this. On Linux. There you compile a binary and run it before starting X. On any machine. Now I tried to do the same on OpenBSD with the expected result:'Abort trap'. Not quite so expected was, that the source didn't want to compile on OpenBSD 3.7: make: don't know how to make %.c. Stop in ...... I bet quite a few newer DELL notebooks are affected; and I appreciate any suggestion how to make it work on OpenBSD. I read the archives here and googled. No result. Uwe
