Subject: Re: netbsd and X
To: None <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: Chris Tribo <t1345@hopi.dtcc.edu>
List: port-macppc
Date: 04/13/2000 15:15:18
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, fission wrote:

> First, what kind of Macintosh are you using, and what kind of video card
> do you have?  Are you booting from a serial console?
> 
> This is the exact same messgae I get when I run startx.  I am running
> NetBSD on a Performa 6400/200 with Valkyrie video - so I can't use X on it
> right now.  Perhaps if I buy a new video card...
> 
> --fission

	It could also be that X is not grabbing your keyboard/mouse
properly, I've seen weird things on NetBSD/pmax with no mouse/kb and X.

	Out of curiosity, is Valkrye (or whatever chip it is) a Brooktree
(Bt) video chip? 

	Chris