Hi, Hopefully I am sending this to the proper list (I also sent it to  
the sparc64 list). I am running NetBSD 2.0.2 on a Sun Ultra 1 and  
have applied the firmware patch from Sun that (at least the way I  
understood it) Solaris to run in 64 Bit mode.

dmesg output is as follows (with info That is not relevant removed):

Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
     The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
     The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

NetBSD 2.0.2 (GENERIC) #0: Wed Mar 23 01:40:44 UTC 2005
         builds@works.netbsd.org:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-2-0-2-RELEASE/ 
sparc64/200503220140Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-2-0-2-RELEASE/src/sys/ 
arch/sparc64/compile/GENERIC
total memory = 128 MB
avail memory = 114 MB
bootpath: /sbus@1f,0/espdma@e,8400000/esp@e,8800000/sd@0,0
mainbus0 (root): SUNW,Ultra-1: hostid 808d6d69
cpu0 at mainbus0: SUNW,UltraSPARC @ 166.998 MHz, version 0 FPU
cpu0: 32K instruction (32 b/l), 16K data (32 b/l), 512K external (64  
b/l)
timer0 at mainbus0 addr 0xfffc7c00 irq vectors 7f0 and 7f1
sbus0 at mainbus0 addr 0xfffcc000: clock = 25 MHz
DVMA map: ff800000 to ffffe000
IOTSB: 3c6000 to 3c8000
audiocs0 at sbus0 slot 13 offset 0xc000000 vector 24 ipl 8: CS4231A
audio0 at audiocs0: full duplex
auxio0 at sbus0 slot 15 offset 0x1900000
flashprom at sbus0 slot 15 offset 0x0 not configured
SUNW,fdtwo at sbus0 slot 15 offset 0x1400000 vector 29 ipl 11 not  
configured
clock0 at sbus0 slot 15 offset 0x1200000: mk48t59
zs0 at sbus0 slot 15 offset 0x1100000 vector 28 ipl 12 softpri 6
zstty0 at zs0 channel 0
zstty1 at zs0 channel 1
zs1 at sbus0 slot 15 offset 0x1000000 vector 28 ipl 12 softpri 6
zstty2 at zs1 channel 0 (console input)
kbd0 at zstty2 (console input)
zstty3 at zs1 channel 1
ms0 at zstty3
sc at sbus0 slot 15 offset 0x1300000 not configured
SUNW,pll at sbus0 slot 15 offset 0x1304000 not configured
dma0 at sbus0 slot 14 offset 0x8400000: DMA rev 2
esp0 at dma0 slot 14 offset 0x8800000 vector 20 ipl 3: ESP200, 40MHz,  
SCSI ID 7
scsibus0 at esp0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
ledma0 at sbus0 slot 14 offset 0x8400010: DMA rev 2
le0 at ledma0 slot 14 offset 0x8c00000 vector 21 ipl 6: address  
08:00:20:8d:6d:69
le0: 8 receive buffers, 2 transmit buffers
bpp0 at sbus0 slot 14 offset 0xc800000 vector 22 ipl 2: DMA rev 2
cgsix0 at sbus0 slot 2 offset 0x0 vector 5 ipl 5: SUNW,501-2325, 1152  
x 900, rev 11 (console)
cgsix0: attached to /dev/fb
pcons at mainbus0 not configured
Kernelized RAIDframe activated

[drive info removed for brevity]

I just finished compiling the meta-package gnome and when I tried gdm  
from the command line I get this error message:

gdm[433]: Failed to start X server several times in a short time  
period; disabling display:0

and am returned to the shell prompt

startx works fine and gives me the expected results and from there if  
I type gnome-session a typical gnome desktop shows up window by  
window (which is kinda funny).

I would like to get gnome (gdm) running at boot time but being a  
newbie to netbsd/sparc I am not sure what I need to do. I thought I  
may need to run xf86config, but i read in the mailing list archives  
that it has no need to exist for Sparc machines.

Any help appreciated.

Greg Evans