Hi,

My powerbook 540c with 36 meg takes 10 secs or so.  I'd be suprised
if you took more than 2x that.

cheers

bruce

On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 12:07:35PM -0400, William Duke wrote:
> 
> > At 22:51 Uhr -0400 9.10.2005, William Duke wrote:
> >> Okay, here's what I get when I type startx from the twal# prompt:
> >> 
> >> xauth: (argv):1:  bad display name "twal:0" in "list" command
> >> xauth: (stdin):1:  bad display name "twal:0" in "add" command
> >> 
> >> Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb'
> > 
> > Hm - the latter smells like problems with your installation.
> > 
> > The former...  I'd expect ':0' for DISPLAY on localhost. Do you set the
> > DISPLAY environment variable manually? What is in your .xinitrc and
> > .xserverrc?
> > 
> > hauke
> > 
> > --
> > "It's never straight up and down"     (DEVO)
> > 
> 
> Okay, I did a re-install of NetBSD on my Q700 and everything now seems to be
> in order.   I typed startx at the command prompt and X began to boot - more
> than an hour ago - it's still booting.   So my question now, is, how long
> does it take for a 25MHz Quadra 700 to boot into the X environment?
> 
> I'm currently looking at a grey screen with a black "X" on the screen.   Oh
> wait, a little white window just appeared in the upper right hand corner.
> I think I'm getting close!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> William
> 
> 
> PS.  I don't think I'll be using the X environment in NetBSD.   At least, I
> won't be using it on my Quadra 700; boot time is ridiculous.
> 

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