In Message <20071011192120.GI3960@hairylemon.org> ,
   Andrew Doran <ad@NetBSD.org> wrote:

=>On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 01:29:01PM +0100, Matthias Scheler wrote:
=>
=>> On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 01:26:22PM +0100, Andrew Doran wrote:
=>> > >    It was fine with a new kernel, but the new userland seems to
=>> > > have broken it. Fallout from the new malloc, perhaps?
=>> > 
=>> > Thanks for all the info. I think it's likely this is due to the allocator
=>> > changing. I'll see if I can reproduce it.
=>> 
=>> XFree86 uses a nasty hack on NetBSD-amd64. Because the XFree86 module
=>> can't deal with addresses larger than 4GB it manually mmaps memory
=>> starting at 1GB(*) and loads modules in that area.
=>
=>Thanks for the tip, I went ahead and implemented something similar. However,
=>only now I notice that a similar change was made 3 years ago and appears to
=>have been lost from our repository!
=>
=>I have compiled a new Xserver with the change for those who don't fancy
=>doing it manually. If you do compile it, you need up to date src/x11 and
=>xsrc.
=>
=>	http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/XFree86.bz2
=>	MD5 (XFree86.bz2) = c3a338850e8275ac4379b66f792b365b

   Thanks, guys. I built from source and I'm running again.

					Gary Duzan