On Wed, 3 May 2006, Magnus Svantesson wrote:

> I have for quite some time now been trying to revive a  3X 90 MHz
> Hypersparc-equipped Sparc 20.
> CG6, 512 Mb and a whooping external 36 GB HD.
>
> My delight for this machine is only comparable with my inability to have
> NetBSD run properly on it.
>
> I have successfully (I think) managed to install the base-NetBSD 3.0 system
> onboard.
> The /etc/ifconfig.le0 is at place. Resolv.conf shows me 3 DNS servers from
> my ISP DHCP.
> I can ping with both URL- and TCP/IP, but when I try to FTP it tells me,
> well...rude things I think (ok, I am a Mac-man originally in case you havent
> noticed :-).
> Consequently I can not install anything from the net.
>
> I have CSH and have checked the .cshrc so that it looks ok (SET PATH seems
> ok).
> After running X -probeonly, it spews out massive amounts of lines, but when
> I run startx I get 3 hardly readable windows & everything on the screen
> tells
> me I really dont know what I am doing (I do however get a swedish keyboard,
> which is nice).
>
> I believe .xinitrc is a file which I modify so that the OS knows something
> about the graphical environment in which it is supposed to work.
> I have tried to locate the .xinitrc without success.
> Is it in fact a empty file that I create with Vi, fill with stuff  & place
> in the users root catalog?
>
> Almost all tips, hints and suggestions I can find on the net relates to a
> PC-installation.
> The fact tthat I can not find the xinitrc, this holy grail of TVM, where it
> was suppposed to be (/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc), makes me assume that
> the installation of NetBSD on a Sparc is quite different than that of a PC?
>
> I would be most gratefull if anyone who have set up a similar machine could
> give me any hints (apart from the obvious RTFM (which I have done)).
>
>
>        Cheers/Magnus
>        Stockholm
>

Hello Magnus,
              I have a Sparc 20 here in the UK, on my machine there is a 
default xinitrc in /etc/X11/xinit. What I have done is copied this across 
to my home directory as .xinitrc and edited as required.

Have a look at the script /usr/X11R6/bin/start which should help to get X 
running ok and see what is going on.
There is almost no config to be done on sparc, I have a TGX video card.

Hope this helps...

Best regards John.