In dstc.mail.netbsd.port-mac68k you write:

> > At fisrt it appeared that X just hung upon start up.  Then Michael told
> > me to just let it sit for a while because sometimes X can take a while
> > to come up.  Well, he was right.  It takes QUITE a while.  Like about
> > 4 minutes.  But IT WORKS!  Amazing.

> Good. However, I'm wondering why it took *so* long for X to come up.
> It should come up faster than that. Are you running in only 4 megs of
> RAM?

if you start using xdm, you may want to fiddle with the timeout values
then. 

add to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config

  ! Xmac68k is a little slow... swaps a fair bit
  DisplayManager._0.openTimeout:  50

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