Paul Bickford <bickford@jimmy.harvard.edu> writes:

>What do people recommend that I use for 'X' on my machine (DS3100) running
>NetBSD? I looked at getting XFree86, but there wasn't a distribition of
>3.3.1 for NetBSD/PMAX.


I think the short answer is ``upgrade to the 1.3_ALPHA snapshot''.

Sean Davidson built dyamically-linked X11R6.3 clients. Those are on
ftp.netbsd.org under ~ftp/pub/NetBSD/arch/pmax/.  This binary
distribution includes Statically-linked X11R5 server binaries that
work with the NetBSD framebuffer drivers.  The servers are harder to
set up than they need be; they're compiled to prefix `normal'
paths with  "/store/".

The 1.3_ALPHA snapshot also includes xbase, xfont, xserver, xcontrib,
and xcomp tarballs based on a tree derived from current XF86 code.
These are dynamically linked, and include Xservers compiled from X11R5
that are statically linked against R5 X libraries and dynamically
linked against libc.

Since  X11R5 and X11R6 use different formats for the font-directory
files,  you need to start an X font server (xfs) and do

	xset -fp  localhost/tcp:7100

Or start your Xserver with that font path from xdm or xinit.
(see the man page for xfs, too.)