Subject: Re: X Problem, but I'm an X newbie, console addicted ...
To: Xavier HUMBERT <xavier@xavhome.fr.eu.org>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: current-users
Date: 10/10/2001 20:11:27 
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Xavier HUMBERT wrote:

> (WW) checkDevMem: failed to open /dev/mem (Operation not permitted)
>         linear framebuffer access unavailable

There's the problem. Is your kernel built with "options INSECURE"?
You did read the FAQ?

  http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/i386/faq.html#x_needs_insecure_kernel

Frederick