OpenBSD on Pinebook 1080p?
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One last comment for the night: bizarrely, `startx` fails with

Quote:xf86OpenConsole: No console driver found

However, following @elewarr's tracks, `rcctl -f start xenodm` or `rcctl enable xenodm; reboot` Just Works. What gives? What's that about?

EDIT: answered my own question: it's a perms thing. `doas startx` works but `startx` under my regular user account doesn't. xenodm is started as root. I ran

Code:
ktrace X # let it crash
kdump | less

and scrolled down until I saw that it was trying to open /dev/ttyC0.

I did
Code:
chown $USER:tty /dev/ttyC0

because that's what my amd64 machine has (at least while I'm logged in on that tty?). Then `startx` gave a new error: "/dev/ttyC1: Permission Denied", so I did

Code:
chown $USER /dev/ttyC1

too, and after that `startx` worked.

..weird. I don't understand why.

Oh but the mouse is broken. argh.


Messages In This Thread
OpenBSD on Pinebook 1080p? - by binholz - 01-17-2019, 10:10 AM
RE: OpenBSD on Pinebook 1080p? - by heywire - 01-17-2019, 02:57 PM
RE: OpenBSD on Pinebook 1080p? - by cambridgei - 05-24-2019, 07:45 AM
RE: OpenBSD on Pinebook 1080p? - by ninefathom - 05-30-2019, 06:01 PM
RE: OpenBSD on Pinebook 1080p? - by michaelj - 10-07-2019, 03:00 PM
RE: OpenBSD on Pinebook 1080p? - by elewarr - 10-20-2019, 01:05 PM
RE: OpenBSD on Pinebook 1080p? - by joancatala - 10-21-2019, 11:55 AM
RE: OpenBSD on Pinebook 1080p? - by elewarr - 11-04-2019, 06:17 PM
RE: OpenBSD on Pinebook 1080p? - by rogerroger - 12-20-2019, 06:19 AM
RE: OpenBSD on Pinebook 1080p? - by rogerroger - 12-20-2019, 07:51 AM
RE: OpenBSD on Pinebook 1080p? - by ab1jx - 02-18-2020, 11:45 AM
RE: OpenBSD on Pinebook 1080p? - by rogerroger - 02-18-2020, 02:20 PM
RE: OpenBSD on Pinebook 1080p? - by ab1jx - 02-18-2020, 05:53 PM
RE: OpenBSD on Pinebook 1080p? - by rogerroger - 02-18-2020, 09:18 PM
RE: OpenBSD on Pinebook 1080p? - by ab1jx - 02-18-2020, 09:00 PM
RE: OpenBSD on Pinebook 1080p? - by ab1jx - 02-18-2020, 09:47 PM
RE: OpenBSD on Pinebook 1080p? - by rogerroger - 02-18-2020, 10:01 PM
RE: OpenBSD on Pinebook 1080p? - by rogerroger - 02-19-2020, 12:18 AM
RE: OpenBSD on Pinebook 1080p? - by rogerroger - 02-19-2020, 01:34 AM
RE: OpenBSD on Pinebook 1080p? - by ab1jx - 02-19-2020, 09:50 AM
RE: OpenBSD on Pinebook 1080p? - by rogerroger - 02-20-2020, 10:02 AM
RE: OpenBSD on Pinebook 1080p? - by ab1jx - 02-22-2020, 05:54 PM
RE: OpenBSD on Pinebook 1080p? - by rogerroger - 02-22-2020, 08:06 PM
RE: OpenBSD on Pinebook 1080p? - by ab1jx - 02-22-2020, 09:25 PM
RE: OpenBSD on Pinebook 1080p? - by ab1jx - 03-15-2020, 05:16 PM
RE: OpenBSD on Pinebook 1080p? - by rogerroger - 03-16-2020, 12:59 AM
RE: OpenBSD on Pinebook 1080p? - by ab1jx - 03-16-2020, 11:54 AM
RE: OpenBSD on Pinebook 1080p? - by ab1jx - 03-16-2020, 10:01 PM
RE: OpenBSD on Pinebook 1080p? - by ab1jx - 03-17-2020, 07:59 AM
RE: OpenBSD on Pinebook 1080p? - by ab1jx - 03-18-2020, 06:42 AM

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