In message <200201270054.ALA67482@vivi.cc.vt.edu>, "Sung N. Cho" writes:
>The hardware is a generic laptop with 500Mhz Celeron, 128M RAM, 4.7G udma33, 
>ATI RagePro LT 8M RAM, 15.2" TFT XGA display.

>Regarding the X, I am running Xfree86 4.2 (the latest!).  Maybe I need to get 
>a videocard that's better supported under NetBSD version of Xfree86.

It's the same XF86, which makes this pretty weird.  What I might do is try to
compare notes - look at what version of X is on the redhat distribution you
tried, stuff like that - and, if no one here has any good ideas, try
port-i386; this could be a kernel tuning issue, maybe.

-s