I have been experiencing similar problems with NetBSD1.1
and a PCI Powergraph 64.  S3-Trio64 (generic)
The first complaints were it not getting correct ioctl on
the mouse df, so I tried a using a logitech bus mouse on /dev/lms0
and now it gets as far as the base "checkered" X screen and quits.

-ASC

 > You wrote (in your message from Wed 20)
 >  > I have had a problem with getting XFree 3.1.2 working with new
 >  > -current kernels.  When I invoke xinit from a shell by exec xinit.  It
 >  > looks like X is starting, the screen changes to blank , then it dies
 >  > an a login prompt returns.  Any ideas?  The last kernel that I
 >  > compiled that worked was on March 3, so it probably was a from a
 >  > -current of a couple of days earlier than that.  My system is a
 >  > 	i486/66 VL-BUS
 >  > 	16 Megs RAM
 >  > 	BusLogic 445 SCSI Controller
 >  > 	NE2000 clone
 >  > 	Mach 32 VL video card
 >  > 	a couple of SCSI disks, tape drive, cd-rom.
 >  > 
 > 
 > Can you send us the result of ``xinit >& result'' ? (Or look at it in
 > case there is some obvious problem).
 > 
 > 
 > 					Matthieu

Andrew S. Clapp                                                 Sedona Internet
Systems Administrator                                         andrew@sedona.net