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After being successful installing OpenBSD 4.1 on my AlphaStation 255, I
decided to see if I could get `X' to work. The last time that `X'
started on this guy, it was running VMS. I saw that there was a config
file that contained the 'tga' device and the instructions said that a
'startx' command would be all that it should take.

The messages:

X: libio is only available on bwx capable machines giving up.
/usr/X11R6/bin/xinit: Connection refused (errno 61): unable to connect to X server
/usr/X11R6/bin/xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
$

I tried starting X as root with the same results.

Is there some other configuration file that I may need to edit to allow
the X server to start? I also noticed that I only have one console when
the AlphaStation is booted. I had 8 consoles on FreeBSD and VMS. There
was a note in the README about TGA boards being a little wierd but there
wasn't much detail about the cause.

The vitals:

New OpenBSD 4.1 Generic running on an AlphaStation 255 with 128M of
memory. The graphics board is a PBXGB-AA which gets identified as a TGA
graphics adapter in /var/log/messages.

Thanks again for a very functional OS. I am sure a lot of work goes
into keeping the Alpha updated with the latest and greatest.

Tom


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> Is there some other configuration file that I may need to edit to allow
> the X server to start? I also noticed that I only have one console when
> the AlphaStation is booted. I had 8 consoles on FreeBSD and VMS. There
> was a note in the README about TGA boards being a little wierd but there
> wasn't much detail about the cause.

Did you read /usr/X11R6/README?

Multiple virtual consoles are currently not supported on tga(4) cards.

> Thanks again for a very functional OS. I am sure a lot of work goes
> into keeping the Alpha updated with the latest and greatest.

I can't say there is much work happening in alpha land those days in
OpenBSD, although a panifully annoying stability problem has been fixed
semi recently.