brsmith@uunet.uu.net (Brian R. Smith) (06/05/91)
I first noticed this running the X11R4 server (compiled under 4.0.3)
with a cgfour (now running 4.1.1). On the cgfour, the default setup
of Xsun is for two screens - one an 8bit color, and the other a
monochrome screen, switched by the overlay plane.
The problem is this:
/dev/bwtwo0 is *supposed* to be the B&W screen of the cgfour (as I
understand it), and it *IS* what Xsun is writing to. (Verified by
screendumping it and viewing the image - clients running on screen 1
appear in the image, as does the cursor.)
/dev/bwtwo1 is the screen that the console driver is writing to, and
the screen that appears when I slide the pointer off of Xsun's color
screen. (Verified also by screendump.)
My first thought was that the kernel was somehow massively
misconfigured. But the problem remains even with a generic kernel.
(And the bwtwo{0,1} configuration lines are the same as in 4.0.3.)
My next idea was that somehow the devices in /dev had gotten their
minor numbers messed up. But they *DO* match what /dev/MAKEDEV
created them to be.
So, my questions:
Is it supposed to work this way? (Nah.)
What the heck is wrong? ("Must be hardware.")
Confused,
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Brian
brsmith@cs.umn.edu