>I can't seem to get X working again on my IBM z50.
>
>When I try to [startx] even as root I get:
>
>    /dev/ttyE0: 648x480 (1280bytes/line) 16bit offset=0
>    use RAW XT keyboard, /dev/ttyE0
>    X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
>
>It also clobbers my console and I cant type anything; My only choice is 
>pull the battery and reboot.
>When I get back theres a nice little [Xhcp.core] file sitting in my home.
>
>if I type "startx > ~/x.log 2>&1" the only thing in [x.log] is:
>
>    X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
>
>It still hoses the console.
>
>The most frustrating part about this is I had X working beautifully before 
>I decided to re-install everything (I had used the entire 256 CF card as 
>NetBsd and I got tired of WinCE asking me if I wanted to format it every 
>time I powered up. I wanted to put a small partition on the CF to make CE 
>happy and to hold the bootstrap)
>
>Even after reverting back to the same setup (using the entire CF card as 
>NetBSD and same versions of the same sets) I still had the above symptoms.
>
>Another thing of note is before I decided to start over I tried to get Xdm 
>running (I discovered later that it a known issue that it doesnt work).  I 
>cant remember if I tried to fire X up after trying Xdm but before starting 
>with a clean reinstall.  Is it possible that this clobbered something that 
>survives reboots and reinstalls?
>
>Now im at the point where I've grabbed and installed all the 1.6 sets 
>(except that I leave out man.tgz, games.tgz, comp.tgz, xcomp.tgz and 
>xfont.tgz for space reasons, but this I had also done when I had X working)
>
>Sorry I tend to over elaborate, but I feel too much info is better than not 
>enough.
>
>    John

I went back and added comp.tgz so I could backtrace Xhcp.core.  Heres what I
got:

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    welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain
conditions.
    Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
    There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for
details.
    This GDB was configured as "mipsel--netbsd"...(no debugging symbols
found)...
    Core was generated by `Xhpc'.
    Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
    Reading symbols from /usr/libexec/ld.elf_so...done.
    Loaded symbols for /usr/libexec/ld.elf_so
    Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libz.so.0...done.
    Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libz.so.0
    Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libm.so.0...done.
    Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libm.so.0
    Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libc.so.12...done.
    Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libc.so.12
    #0  0x41cc18 in hpcSetDisplayMode ()
    (gdb) bt
    #0  0x41cc18 in hpcSetDisplayMode ()
    #1  0x41cc18 in hpcSetDisplayMode ()
    #2  0x41cc18 in hpcSetDisplayMode ()
    #3  0x41cc18 in hpcSetDisplayMode ()
    #4  0x41cc18 in hpcSetDisplayMode ()
    #5  0x41cc18 in hpcSetDisplayMode ()
    .
    .
    .

John

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