I'm not sure about your problem with wscons, but you might check and see if
you are executing anything in your .xinitrc. I'm not sure, but I believe if
you don't exec anything, X will hang (sort of) with the gray screen.
Add in a line at the end like "exec xterm" or whatever other program you
like (preferably your window manager). When the first program you 'exec'
terminates, so will X.

As for killing X once it starts and hangs at the gray screen, I haven't
found a way other than telneting in (or connecting via a serial console) and
terminating the process. You may be able to hit the debugging button and
kill the process, but I haven't had a great deal of luck with that method.
Anyone want to clear up how to kill processes using the debugger?

Seth Henry
jshenry@net-noise.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rémi Zara" <remi_zara@mac.com>
To: <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 2:19 AM
Subject: Problems with NetBSD 1.4.2 and a Mac IIci


> Hi,
>
> I just installed NetBSD 1.4.2 on my Mac IIci.
> All went fine, and I was able to boot very easyly.
> I installed all the sets (X also).
> The problem came when I wanted to change my keyboard layout to a french
one.
> As I read in FAQs, I tried the wscons thing.
> But
>  - there were no ttyE{1-3} to turn on in my ttys file
>  - the wsconsctl binary is there but fails because wskbd isn't.
>
> Besides that, when I started X, it came with the gray background and the
> black cross, and that's all ! I read that, by default, I should have ha at
> least an xterm.... (by the way, how do you get out of that without a force
> restart ?)
>
> So, can someone tell me what I did wrong ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Remi Zara
>
> ps:my config
> MacIIci with 32MB of ram
> 77 MB of disk left after install
> 48 MB of swap
> An apple Ethernet card and an apple 24 bit video card (not used) when
> installing.
> Installer vers 1.1g (came with the distrib)
> Booter 1.11.3
> System 7.0.1US
> --
> Remi Zara
> web: http://www-ensimag.imag.fr/eleves/Remi.Zara/
>      http://remi.zara.free.fr/mac/mactv/
> mail: remi_zara@mac.com