> 
>    Second thing, I had mem problems back in May, and the fix was to su; 
>    sleep 60 < /dev/mem; ^d back to your user, and then "startx".  Your
>    "checkDevMem" reminded me of that, but I'm not sure if this is the
>    same cause of your problems.
> 
> That was due to a short-lived bug in /dev/mem.  It's been fixed for a
> long time.


Actually, I think that you need to run the lkm that comes with
XFree86-3.1 in order to get direct memory access under NetBSD.

I'm not sure if this user is attempting to run 2.1 or 3.1.