xdm works fine, inclduing logging in?
	What happens if you login remotely from the mac, start X, then
	start an xterm?

		David/absolute

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On Sun, 21 Mar 1999, Stephen Eastman wrote:

> I am new to netbsd-sun3 and have a 3/80 with 12 megs of RAM running off of
> NFS on a mac netbsd box.
> Everything in command line mode runs great, but when trying to run X,  the
> root window comes up, and then I get the message: "waiting for X server to
> shut down" and then back to the command prompt.  Most of the time, no error
> messages, (Although maybe twice, I have seen something like 'no fpu
> support' but of course the fpu is detected upon boot up)  Other than that,
> nothing but the message stated above. (I did a 'startx >& startx.log and
> got nothing else).  I am wondering if X requires any tweaking: I noticed
> that there are no .Xresources or .Xmodmap files which are referenced in
> xinitrc. Do I need to create these and populate them?  I know it's xinit
> itself that's failing rather than any apps, because I created an empty
> ~/.xinitrc and it still bombed.  Running just the server brings up the root
> window fine with mouse support.  I can even run xdm without any problem.  
> 
> Any ideas?
> Stephen Eastman
> seastman@uswest.net
>