> I installed the 1st May binaries of X11R5, but startx won't 
> co-operate:
> 
> -----
> 
> /dev/grf1: No such file or directory
> xopen_view(): No such file or directory
> 
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
> XIO:  fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) on X server ":0.0"
>       after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
>       The connection was probably broken by a server shutdown or KillClient.

I think the problem is that you don't have any view devices configured.
Make a bunch:

for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5; do
	mknod /dev/view0$i c 16 $i; chmod 666 /dev/view0$i
done

and try it out again.

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