You wrote (in your message from Thu  5)
 > Ianyone out there have XFree86 2.1 up and running on a 30Apr94 tar ball
 > source build?  If so, did you get bianries or self build?  If you did a build,
 > did you need patches?  If so, can I have a copy ? :-)

You can run X without rebuilding it with the following incantations:

su
sleep 60 < /dev/mem
^D
xinit

I made a patch for that it will be in XFree86 2.1.1 that is coming out
within a few days. 

Here is the patch if you want to rebuild:

*** mit/server/ddx/x386/os-support/bsd/bsd_video.c~	Sat Jan 15 13:57:26 1994
--- mit/server/ddx/x386/os-support/bsd/bsd_video.c	Sat Apr 30 09:05:43 1994
***************
*** 53,58 ****
--- 53,61 ----
  
  static Bool devMemChecked = FALSE;
  static Bool useDevMem = FALSE;
+ #ifdef __NetBSD__
+ static int devMemFd = -1;
+ #endif
  
  /*
   * Check if /dev/mem can be mmap'd.  If it can't print a warning when
***************
*** 79,85 ****
--- 82,92 ----
  	/* Try to map a page at the VGA address */
  	base = (pointer)mmap((caddr_t)0, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
  			     MAP_FILE, fd, (off_t)0xA0000);
+ #ifdef __NetBSD__
+ 	devMemFd = fd;
+ #else
  	close(fd);
+ #endif
  	if (base == (pointer)-1)
  	{
  	    if (warn)
***************
*** 112,125 ****
--- 119,138 ----
  	{
  	    int memFd;
  
+ #ifdef __NetBSD__
+ 	    if ((memFd = devMemFd) < 0)
+ #else
  	    if ((memFd = open("/dev/mem", O_RDWR)) < 0)
+ #endif
  	    {
  		FatalError("xf86MapVidMem: failed to open /dev/mem (%s)\n",
  			   strerror(errno));
  	    }
  	    base = (pointer)mmap((caddr_t)0, Size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
  				 MAP_FILE, memFd, (off_t)Base);
+ #ifndef __NetBSD
  	    close(memFd);
+ #endif
  	    if (base == (pointer)-1)
  	    {
  		FatalError("%s: could not mmap /dev/mem [s=%x,a=%x] (%s)\n",

					Matthieu

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