Hello,

I'll try upgrading, then. (As I'm not sure what else to try, other than 
using something other than X.) This is a very simple question, but what 
exactly needs to be downloaded to upgrade NetBSD 2.0 to 2.0.2; do I 
need to download the new kernel and sets and reinstall, or is there 
some designated 'upgrade' package?


>> Is the problem exclusively with the video card, such that upgrading
>> the OS or something wouldn't help (the changes list doesn't mention
>> anything about video cards or X)?
>
> Good question, but I think it's most likely somewhere between the OS 
> and
> the Xserver. On macppc XFree86 can't access PCI IO space but lots of
> drivers depend on it, that's one reason why so many fail on many non-PC
> platforms. I have a workaround which allows some of these (
> voodoo3- and matrox-based cards for instance ) to work properly but it
> might still be something different because very similar 
> videocontrollers
> work without any hackery on sparc64. The replacement drivers were just
> compiled with the same (non-CPU-specific) options as on sparc64.
>
> have fun
> Michael