On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Mihai Popescu B.S. <mihai...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry folks, > > I was to quick in posting. Here are the details: I've installed from > what is (was) today on snapshots on ftp server. Then I used the same > ftp snapshot mirror for packages. That's all, no CVS, no compile, just > plain install from what is (was) on snapshots - base & packages.
At least 'sysctl kern.version' will be fine > This was after a long pause of using OpenBSD as a desktop, I was using > it only as a router. I had to do this to give a try to Ubuntu, but I > was disappointed with it and came back to old and stable stuff. I did > the same install like in the old times, get the snapshot and go. > First, my ATI HD4350 refused to startx, effectively putting my display > in some unusable state: I had to remove power from display to get it > back online. I searched the archive and found out that Xorg became a > "joke" since Intel put some code in it. Too sad. OpenBSD has its own version of X based on Xorg called Xenocara. (www.xenocara.org) man radeon (because there is RV710 Radeon HD 4350/4550). So your card is supported, but you must send your dmesg, xorg.conf, Xorg.0.log and probably 'pcidump -v' (because there will be details about your card). > Then I got the messages about symbol size mismatch. I've installed > empathy but got some strange messages like Cannot execute the script > ... (not a manual?) and empathy refused to start being unable to load > some lib.so files. Now I replaced the ATI HD4350 with ATI X1650 and > managed to get X working. > Are there new things in snapshot which I don't know ? Should I wait > for another compile of packages, to have a date close to the base > compile time ? > If X is so crappy, is there another thing to use ? > > Many thanks.
