Hi Yuri,

>>>That's what I get trying to start OSFA server:
>>>  [... snip ...]
>>>X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
>>Upgrading to the latest releases, NetBSD 1.3 (including the stock kernel),
>>and booter 1.11.1 (IIRC), should solve the above problem. I'm using Ken's
>>color X server here on the same type of machine that you have and it works
>>great. With mlvwm, it even looks like a Mac :-)
>>I also get the ld.so warning and the "non fatal error", but it is harmless.
>
>But do you get the "/dev/grf0: Couldn't get video mode information via ROM
>driver" error?

Yes, that just tells us that Michael Zucca's code is not yet in place :-)
The server has no way to figure out what kind of video hardware it will
work with.

>I tried it all, short of wiping my system off the hard disk and replacing
>it with the 1.3 (I have 1.3ALPHA), nothing works. Right now I updated my
>booter to 1.11.1, kernel is stock 1.3 (not 1.3ALPHA), OSFA color server
>still get "X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)"

Don't "wipe", just follow the upgrade instructions that Colin Wood and
Mark Andres made available. I can't guarantee that it will work, but it
does for me and for others.

Good luck!

         Nico

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