Sounds like the X server isn't starting for one reason or another -
probably not happy with the config. I'm not an X hacker, so I'm going to
make a recommendation to simply your life....

Extract the latest pkgsrc, and install "XF86Setup", from the X11 set.  
It's a graphical configuration tool for XFree*.  It starts the server in
the most basic video mode and allows you to tweak everything in real time.

NOTE: Don't forget to run the vidtune application afterwards!

For instructions on how to get pgksrc, visit the website, or do it the
ghetto way:

mkdir /usr/src
cd /var/tmp
ftp ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-current/tar_files/pkgsrc.tar.gz
cd /usr/src
tar xzvf /var/tmp/pkgsrc.tar.gz

-lava


On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Bill Hudspeth wrote:

> After trying the xf86config program to set X-Windows, the server failed 
> and came back with: 
> 
> "X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown"
> 
> I have no idea what this means and what I should do to remedy the
> situation.
> 
> Anyone have real solutions, thoughts or prayers?
> 
> TIA  
> 
> Bill
>