Yeah ultimately that may also be wortha try - for now I'll try the X11 route. Mucking around with X11R6 is something new and interesting for me

Hi Paul,
It'll be really cool if you can port X11R6, we really need a new xserver. The XFree86 version that we have is really old.
Initially I'll be using the X11R6 port from
http://ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/xfree86/X.org/This doesn't include the xserver currently - from Dave's readme:
"The Xserver does not compile, same with XDM and Xload."
My initial testing will be using Hoblink. Some of the gtk+ test apps are displaying, others don't work yet due to problems with glib and/or pango.
Once all/most of gtk+ test apps work, I'll try build gimp