I had the same problem on my A7000 running 1.42, 
changing to 1.4Z and the RiscBSD xserver seemed to 
cure the problem, thats just left the problem of the 
mouse not working (at all)... so i've given up on NetBSD 
on  ARM for the moment. (The fact that I can't  seem to 
get a reliable 115200 or 57600 bps null  modem ppp 
link to my Linux or Irix boxes doesnt help either)

Sorry,

-John

>Hi Dave,
>
>On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Dave Daniels wrote:
>> I tried starting X on my A7000+ but all it did was 
cause NetBSD to
>> die horribly. When I typed 'xinit' the screen became 
corrupt.
>> Pressing the return key gave me the 'db>' prompt. 
There was no
>> kernel panic message. However, typing the 
command 'show pool'
>> produced the following output:
>
>Ouch ....
>
>> POOL[u]vm_fault (0xf35065e0, e3720000, 1, 0) -> 1
>> Unhandled trap (frame = 0xf35f9c0c)
>> Data abort: 'Translation fault (section)'
>>     status=005 address=e372037e PC=f017947c
>> Stopped in Xarm32VIDC at 0xf017947c: ldrb r3,
[r2,#0x0000]
>
>Section ... hmm... sounds like video memory indeed... 
hmm... was this with
>the new bootloader and a -current kernel or with the 
1.5 distribution
>kernel ? Can you please try the new bootloader + 
kernel?
>
>> I am quite happy to believe that this happened as a 
result of
>> something I did. I ran xf86config beforehand to 
create XF86Config
>> and changed the symbolic link 'X' to point at 
Xarm32VIDC. Is this
>> correct?
>
>AFAIK, Xarm32 doesn't use XF86config at all.... so that 
should be OK! ...
>in what screenmode were you trying to run X in ? If you 
dont have VRAM its
>limited to 1 Mb DRAM ...
>
>Cheers,
>Reinoud
>
>
>
>
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