schultz@mmm.UUCP (John C Schultz) (05/10/88)
I recently got X11R2 to work with GNU EMACS (18.50.1) on my SUN 3/60C
(4 MB RAM, SunOS 3.5) as a /dev/cgfour. (Thanks to everyone on the
net who answered my questions and provided patches.)
Now that I can use color displays I have noticed that the display rate
is much slower than for the B&W driver. For example repainting the
screen in an EMACS window looks to be at most 9600 baud whereas on a
B&W X window, the display basically "flashes" up.
Is this a problem with my installation of X/GNU EMACS and/or a problem
with X11R2?
BTW, my mouse does not slide off any side of the /dev/cgfour display to
toggle between B&W and color displays.
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St. Paul, MN 55144-1000jeff@polyslo.UUCP (Skippy The Wonder Hacker) (05/11/88)
The color X11 implementation provided by Sun to MIT is a real dog. This is probably due to the fact that Sun is expending effort on their X11/NeWS product, which they will charge for. The slowness you are seeing is entirely due to the poorly performing server. Jeff Weinstein Computer Systems Lab Cal Poly State Univ. jeff@polyslo.uucp ucbvax!voder!polyslo!jeff
ndd@duke.cs.duke.edu (Ned Danieley) (05/11/88)
In article <786@mmm.UUCP> schultz@mmm.UUCP (John C Schultz) writes: > >BTW, my mouse does not slide off any side of the /dev/cgfour display to >toggle between B&W and color displays. > >john c. schultz {umn-cs, ems, tundra}!mmm!schultz The only way that I've been able to do this is by running X on top of suntools, after using switcher(1) or adjacentscreens(1). Is this supposed to be doable directly from X? Ned Danieley (ndd@sunbar.mc.duke.edu) Basic Arrhythmia Laboratory Box 3140, Duke University Medical Center Durham, NC 27710 (919) 684-6807 or 684-6942