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Old 13th October 2010
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Default vesafb driver with machdep.allowaperture=0

Hello,

I am currently running Xorg on OpenBSD 4.7. It works fine, and it's fast enough.

I would like to get rid of the dependency on aperture. It seems that it's been possible for some time:

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=116483366219125&w=2

I tried several things:
1) I leave my xorg.conf unchanged, and set the variable machdep.allowaperture to 0. However, after reboot, X11 complains, so I suspect the current driver ("vesa" in xorg.conf) does need aperture

2) I left the variable machdep.allowaperture unchanged (at 2), and tried the driver "vesafb" but it doesn't work with the message: "module does not exist"

3) After a "man Xorg" it seems that there's a module called "wsfb" (which is also talked about in the link above). Still leaving machdep.allowaperture to 2, I changed the driver, but the message is still "module does not exist".

What am I doing wrong here?

Thanks,
Tony
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You are dependent upon the aperature being open. There is no frame buffer.

OpenBSD's implementation and packaging of Xorg is called Xenocara. You are looking in the archives at a patch for an older Xorg implementation, XF4.

See the post-installation instructions in /usr/X11R6/README, where the documentation uses the words "must have" to describe the aperture setting.

For more on Xenocara, see its source tree.

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Thanks and sorry about looking at outdated documentation.

So what is the most secure way to enable X on OpenBSD? Is it the default way?

I don't really care about speed.
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So what is the most secure way to enable X on OpenBSD?
If you're against machdep.allowaperture, you need something other than i386, amd64, alpha, cats, macppc, and sparc64.

(A bit dated, but still an excellent read, direct from Theo himself):
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=114233317926101

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Unfortunately, avoiding this aperture is difficult.. but once it's opened by a running X server no other process has direct access.

In the future when KMS is available for more vendors/chipsets, I believe the X aperture will no longer be required.. only drm(4).

If you're using a workstation, you can have xdm(1) run at boot to securely open the aperture device.. non-root users have no directly permissions to read/write to it either, if a user had root they could do more harm using a plethora of other methods.

For non-vesa, it's sometimes possible to set machdep.allowaperture to 1 instead of 2, this does work for some drivers/chipsets but not all, please read xf86(4) to appreciate complexity of the problem.

You have no choice other than to not use X.
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