Are you using wscons?  I seem to recall that after I got wscons (virtual
consoles) working, I had a similar problem. The only way I was able to get
around it, and still have wscons working correctly was to replace the
kernel.  I can't remember if I went from a snapshot kernel back to the
kernel in the 2.4 mips distro or vise-versa. But it did clear up my problem.
If you haven't implemented wscons though, please ignore.

Bart

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Diller [mailto:dillera@sudanacid.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 4:40 PM
To: port-hpcmips@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: Regular user starting X


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
>
> --
> ---------------------------------------------------- chris@cjones.org
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