Subject: Re: stumped: can't startx on SS1,NetBSD 1.5
To: Toby Thain <toby@telegraphics.com.au>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/22/2001 15:44:13
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Toby Thain wrote:

> I've just done a clean install of NetBSD 1.5 on a SPARCstation 1.
>
> I want to run X on it but there are two problems:
> 1. If I boot with keyboard attached, the PROM monitor gets stuck in an
> apparently infinite loop of its 'Type a command' prompt line.

	Did you enter new mode before booting?
	(If your PROM prompt is '>', type 'n')

> 2. If booted with keyboard detached (and reattached) - see boot.log - I
> can't start X, receiving the attached diagnostics (x.log)


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