sdoyle@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Scott A Doyle) (06/14/89)
I recently received operating system 6.5 for my 9000/350 SRX.
This is also the first time that I have run X-windows on this machine.
My problem is that my DOS coprocessor will not run when I am in X-windows.
I have tried reinstalling and configuring the DOS coprocessor software
but to no avail. The message I receive when trying to run dos.x is
" Cannot open X display; this version of DOS runs only under X.
Video initialization failed."
This problem is exclusive to X-windows, when I run DOS from either
HP 9000 windows or from the ksh (no windows) it works fine. My DOS
coprocessor software version is 2.0.
Has anyone had a similar problem or know of a fix? My local HP office
has shown some hostility toward helping me because I am one of those in
that dreaded category of "material support only".
Scott Doyle
U. of Penn.
shankar@hpclscu.HP.COM (Shankar Unni) (06/16/89)
> This is also the first time that I have run X-windows on this machine. > My problem is that my DOS coprocessor will not run when I am in X-windows. > I have tried reinstalling and configuring the DOS coprocessor software > but to no avail. The message I receive when trying to run dos.x is > " Cannot open X display; this version of DOS runs only under X. > Video initialization failed." I trust that you are running X11. If you are running X10, then you are out of luck: dos.x runs only under X11. If you started your X session using "x11start", then you are running X11. ---- Shankar.
jack@hpindda.HP.COM (Jack Repenning) (07/23/89)
Assuming you're running X11 and dos.x (which is the right combination), you'll probably find that your $DISPLAY is now being set to "local:0.0", when you always used to see "unix:0.0". Make it be "unix:0.0", at least for dos.x, and it should work. Jack Repenning (HP-UX: jack@hpda, (Telnet and PacTel:) 447-3380, 43LN) TCL Productivity Consultant (HPDesk: Jack REPENNING - no one else comes close!)