Have you tried collecting the errors as in:
	http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/x/index.html#startx_fails

		David/absolute

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On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Juha Sievi-Korte wrote:

> 	So i installed X and can't get it working.. If someone could tell
> what possibly can cause following problem.
> 	I have run xf86config several times and checked all is ok. Path is
> ok, ld.so.conf has X-libraries in it. And when i try to start the server,
> screen just flashes and it falls back to the terminal. No error message is
> displayed. 
> 	Machine is AMD K6/2, 64Megabytes SDRAM, S3Virge/DX 4Megabytes in
> PCI slot. If this helps...
> 
> Regards,
>  /--Juha Sievi-Korte -- davy@titesrv1.seaol.fi -- davy@sci.fi --/
> /-- Running NetBSD / i386 on AMD K6/2 @ 300Mhz -- -- --- -- --/
> 
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