It looks like this was a problem back in 2000:

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-hpcmips/2000/07/18/0001.html


was it solved? Should I just use a root account for X stuff?

I'd hate to do that......

-andy

--On Thursday, January 03, 2002 4:29 PM -0700 Chris Jones 
<chris@cjones.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 06:23:35PM -0500, Andrew Diller wrote:
>
>> Well, I thought maybe it was permissions on /dev/ttyE0, but changing
>> them  didn't help.
>>
>> Startx and xinit still just result in this 'no screens found' 'X
>> connection  to :0.0 broken'
>
> Try the following:
>
> $ script
> $ startx
> $ exit
> $ less typescript
>
> Chris
>
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