Also see: http://www.openbsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?p=3D193415#post193415
openbsd 3.8 First: is it not possible to catch the startx output? /bin/ksh Then; as far as I can tell (from the output after killing X) everything (video, resolutions monitor) agrees and works. If I Ctrl-Alt-F2, and ps -x I'll get fvwm, xterm and the likes. But as you might guess, I don't get any video/picture/image! All I get is blinking cursor (at first attempt) and an extra "=E7" sign (at succeeding attempts). No mouse cursor (/dev/tty00) visible either. According to startx tty00 seems ok (no errors). /dev/wsmouse0 gives errors. Also PCI card is not detected correctly (after lots of research; old 1MB PCI card; startx needs and uses SVGA_Server), but it runs correct according to the output (and internet info) on this different chipset. xdm will not start either - I have to manually shut the PC down! Ctrl-Alt-Backspace won't work! According to xdm-system, my mouse is on /dev/wsmouse0, tty00 gives errors. I configured X with xf86config3 (which is more detailed and all I need). Just to be sure, also used xorgconfig and placed the configuration file in /etc/. Also tuned /etc/XF86Config and added (to no avail) Option "no_bitblt" Option "noaccel" machdep.allowaperature =3D 2 Xorg -configure does not work (unrecognised option -configure). The script command I received for getting the startx-log was a real genius tip X-version: 3.3.6a Strange log remark after reading startx output: xf86ReadBios. Failed to open /dev/mem Permission denied. What can I do?=20 Thanx : )