Barry Brown wrote:
> Hello!

hi!
 
> I am a new NetBSD/mac68k user, but an experienced SunOS and Solaris user.
> Installation of NetBSD went well and I am up and running.  However,
> I cannot get X to work.  When I run startx, I get a one-line message about
> my monitor (memory address, resolution, and such), then nothing.  I never
> get the hatched gray background.  The FAQ says that on slower machines, I
> could have to wait a bit for the gray screen to appear.  I have waited up to
> half an hour and never got a graphics screen.

could you try:

startx >& x.log

and then mail us the contents of that file?  it sounds like you may be
missing the real error message....

> Telnetting in from another machine, I can see that the right processes are
> running: X (Xmac68k), twm, and so forth.  No errors are ever produced.
> If I kill -TERM the X client with the highest PID (ie, the last one launched
> by xinit), I get my shell prompt back and everything is back to normal.
> 
> It seems that X is running OK.  The only problem is I never get a graphics
> screen.
> 
> I am running NetBSD 1.3.2 on a Quadra 650, 48MB RAM, 100MB swap, internal
> video in 1-bit mode, 832x624 resolution on an Apple 17" monitor.  I have
> installed all the X tarballs and configured the ld.so.conf file.
> /usr/X11R6/bin is in my path.
> 
> Any ideas?

you might also try a different resolution if you can.  we've had some
difficulties with DAFB video (which i believe your machine has) at and its
interactions with X at certain resolutions and bit depths.  i believe
these problems will be fixed in -current rather soon, but 1.3.x still
exhibits weird behavior at times...

btw, have you tried 'dt', and if so, does it work for you?  (it's the only
other program i know of that uses the grf driver at the moment...)

later.

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