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From: Gernot Fuchs <gfuchs@pasteur.med.unc.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: X-Windows on SUN 3/60
Date: 12 Sep 1995 02:38:20 GMT
Organization: Medical School / UNC-CH
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Hello,

I was recently looking around how to convert 2 SUN 3/60 into X-terminals and
stumbled across the NetBSD FTP-Servers. I found this binary snapshot for
replacing SunOS with NetBSD and installed it. Up to this point everything was
fine. Now I was unpacking the 3 tarfiles containing the X-stuff and got them
installed in place. But when I try to start the Xserver either with xinit,
startx I get the following error message:

Fatal server error:
no screens found

Now I've realized, that there's no XConfig file provided with the package and I
also lack of the devices bwtwo etc.

If i try to start the X-server directly, it simply core dumps with a bus error.

Any help on this problem would be appreciated a lot.

-Gernot