In message <35F27B87.A9725560@causality.com>
          "Neil A. Carson" <neil@causality.com> wrote:

> Adrian Ireland wrote:
> 
> > startx >job (does not work)
> 
> Try >& instead of > above.
>
Thanks for that, will help me prevent blisters ... and typos.

I have reinstalled the x sets again and fiddled^H^H^H^H^H^H^H
carefully alternated with and without
the symlink from /usr/X11R6.3 to /usr/X11R6 at differnent stages of
the unarchiving (always before unpacking xarm33.tar.gz at in the VERY
IMPORTANT note).

- I noticed that there was no X symlink in /usr/X11R6.3/bin
so I created one to point to the Xarm-33 file.

I am getting a flash of the start up 
banner (looks nice) and then errors and back to the console.

Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/X11R6.3/lib/X11/rgb'
Initial console: 0
RISCBSD X Server #33 (Acorn Show)
width = 1024, height = 768 depth = 8
mmap(0, c4000, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 3, 0) - 102b7000
8bpp palette
8bpp palette
Black = 1, White = 0
InitInput() not finishedAbout to mieqInit()
Mouse fd: 4
Mouse on.
failed to set default font path '/usr/X11R6.3/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6.3/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6.3/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6.3/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6.3/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/'
Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).

Now /usr/X11R6.3/lib/X11/rgb does not exist 
and as a matter of interest is not in xserver.tar either
I did find a rgb.txt file in /usr/X11R6.3/lib/X11/rgb.txt
and even if I make a link of that to rgb or copy it into rgb
I get the same crash.

The fonts are definitely there
ls -l /usr/X11R6.3/lib/X11/fonts
drwxr-xr-x  2 ireland  wheel  5120 Sep  5 17:56 100dpi
drwxr-xr-x  2 ireland  wheel  5120 Sep  5 17:56 75dpi
drwxr-xr-x  2 ireland  wheel   512 Sep  5 17:56 PEX
drwxr-xr-x  2 ireland  wheel   512 Sep  5 17:56 Speedo
drwxr-xr-x  2 ireland  wheel   512 Sep  5 17:57 Type1
drwxr-xr-x  2 ireland  wheel  2048 Jul  8 18:00 cyrillic
drwxr-xr-x  2 ireland  wheel  2048 Sep  5 17:57 misc

I have been looking at the man pages on xinit and the startup
script in /usr/X11R6.3/lib/xinit/xinitrc
It seems to be looking for some files from /usr/X11R6.3/lib/xinit/
that dont seem to be there, the only one in my set up is the xinitrc
file.

Thanks for all the help so far, I will be happy to post a summary
for reference to by any other dense types (like myself) who cannot get
it working.

Adrian
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Adrian Ireland mailto:aireland@indigo.ie http://indigo.ie/~aireland/
Computer: a device designed to speed and automate errors.