Hi! I'd like to try to set up an X server on my 486, and I'd love to have
some advice.

(Note: I have the X stuff installed and running - it's just the server that's
giving me pause. I can run X stuff and display it on my MacOS machine, using
the freeware MI/X server, but what I really want is to make use of the nice
15" monitor that's on the i386 machine.)

Does NetBSD include the XF86Setup utility? The docs seem to recommend using
that to set the beast up. I'm not precisely sure what *any* of my hardware
is in detail, and I'm hoping that XF86Setup or something like it can probe
my stuff to try to find out.

Either way, is there a FAQ somewhere that covers setting up X on NetBSD/i386?
I've set it up and used it successfully on my SE/30, but X on the machine is
slightly too slow for it to really be usable. (My experience with setting
X up on the mac68k machine was pretty painless anyway.) There's a really
thorough set of FAQs for the Mac port, but I don't seem to see a similar set
of FAQs for the i386 port - do they exist?

Thanks in advance for information. Any advice or information given will no
doubt save me hours of random bumbling. :)

FWIW: I have a 15" monitor. I'm not sure what sort it is... My video card
says that it's a Western Digital Paradise, or something like that. I have
no mouse, but I might be able to find one, given a bit of time - I'm hoping
that there's a work-around for this, but either way, getting a server running
in some sort of acceptable way is the most important bit, and it'll prompt me
to figure out a mouse sooner. (If there's no way to run without a mouse, I'd
at least like to know that I can get everything else working.)

Again, thanks. :)

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