Hi,

> [ I haven't seen any answers, so I thought I might, from my
> meager knowledge]

Sorry to not post it to the list as well. I answered that question back then
because I also own this old gem.

> Benjamin Albrecht writes:
> - i got a RDI Britelite IPX 40MHz 32MB RAM and want so use X. i choosed a
> - full installation of netbsd 1.5. but when i startx or startx blackbox or
> - startx twm. my system hangs after heavy hdd activity and will not answer
> - on any keyboard commands.
> - 
> - dmesg:
> - .
> - .
> - .
> - cgsix0 at sbus0 slot 1 offset 0x0 level 7:SUNW, 501-1672, 1152x900 ,rev
> - 7
> - cgsix0: attached to /dev/fb
> - cgRDI at sbus0 slot1 offset 0x0 level 7 not configured
> - .
> - .
> - .
> 
> 	I would suspect your X server is happily running on the
> cg6 attached to /dev/fb.  You'll have to have an external
> monitor attached to see it though.. cgRDI isn't (currently)
> supported by NetBSD (fortunately, RDI changed to a cg3 type
> critter for the internal display on the Powerlite's, so I've
> never had a worry..)

The cgRDI is a variant of the cg3. OpenBSD does support it, so Benjamin as
well a me use that for now. Maybe one day I will come around to port the
driver to NetBSD.

Cheers,
Oliver.