George Sollish wrote:

> 
> Apologies for not being on top of things this morning, but IIRC the
> Xserver needs to run on ttyE0 and that's not activated by default on the
> 780 install.  There was a post in the archives that contained this tip --
> try searching for Xhpc.

bingo!

  export XDEVICE=/dev/ttyE0

did the trick! thanks!

question for the port maintainers - shouldn't we enable this somewhere
by default?

cheers,
Adam
--
Adam Laurie                   Tel: +44 (20) 8742 0755
A.L. Digital Ltd.             Fax: +44 (20) 8742 5995
Voysey House                  http://www.thebunker.net
Barley Mow Passage            http://www.aldigital.co.uk
London W4 4GB                 mailto:adam@algroup.co.uk
UNITED KINGDOM                PGP key on keyservers