On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Michael wrote:

I'm not sure if we have a similar problem or not.

But i just got my new power book as well and want to install netbsd on a
seperate partition. First, however, I tried to just install X on OS X from
the Darwin-ppc-7.x distro and ran into a very similar problem.  X doesn't
seem to work properly. If I use twm as a wm and launch X on top of quartz
it starts ups just like yours. It will crash if I try and use another wm
or if I try and run X from the >console and not on top of X. So I think
there might be a problem with X on the new hardware, since the drivers for
the new hardware came out in dec (i think).

 > Hello,
>
> > Well, that was a start.  Now it looks like a garbled twm starts up with
> > the three xterms I would expect.  It's not quite usable though :-)
> >
> > Does someone hava working XF86config file?  Thanks!
>
> It would help greatly if you were a /little/ more specific about your problems. What do you mean - 'garbled twm' ? Does the Xserver produce a stable picture or not? Does it get resolution and colour depth right? If both answers are yes then you're done with XF86Config.
>
> Sorry, but if you don't describe your problem nobody will be able to help you.
>
> have fun
> Michael
>