> The CD installer should be able to upgrade your installation of you can
> get the tarballs and simply unpack them ( remember tar's p option to 
> get
> permissions right and either skip etc.tgz or backup your changes in 
> /etc
> )
Okay, but what exactly is the CD installer? I'm looking in 
ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-2.0.2/macppc/ and can only see 
two directories, installation and binary, and the installation 
directory only contains bootloaders. I'm not sure what I need from the 
binary one.

> but I don't see how this would help to get X11 going.
The comment that the problem was "most likely somewhere between the OS 
and
the Xserver" made me think it might, but maybe I was reading that 
wrongly. I don't know enough to know where to start on patching X and 
the kernel, so my strategy was change to another version of X, or 
another kernel, and hope one of them worked.

> Cards like yours can certainly be made to work, but this needs -current
> and some work, you'd have to patch the kernel source and either patch
> and recompile X or get binaries from me. Even then there's no guarantee
> of anything. Mach64-based videocontrollers shouldn't need PIO-access,
> all registers the driver needs are available via MMIO so the reason why
> it doesn't work for you may still be something completely different.