[comp.windows.x] Can't run clients under

fangchin@elaine30.stanford.edu (Chin Fang) (01/12/91)

In article <278E6093.15392@orion.oac.uci.edu> drector@orion.oac.uci.edu (David Rector) writes:
>In <130@chansw.UUCP> chan@chansw.UUCP (Jerry H. Chan) writes:
>
>>Anybody experience problems running Roell's X11R4 binary distribution (local
>>connections) with the following clients?
>
>>* No clients from ISC's X11R3 distribution (R1.1)
>>  (Same X11R3 clients work with NCD X-terminal running prom-based server)
>>* X11R4 xclock -- quits by itself; oclock works properly
>
According to the latest FAQ of comp.windows.x, the xclock has bug which
prevents it from function properly in X11R4 environment (but you can run
it in X11R3).  It has been fixed and a new src has been posted laterly.
Check that FAQ for more details. 

I found out this in the hard way.  I tried to use Thomas Roell's X386  
ported to ESIX by Mike Knister of U.Michigan.  When I started xclock,
it core-dumped right away.  Later when I read the FAQ for X, I learned
the existance of the bug. 

Regards,

Chin Fang
Mechanical Engineering Department
Stanford University
fangchin@portia.stanford.edu

mschedlb@hawk.ulowell.edu (Martin J. Schedlbauer) (01/13/91)

>
>>Anybody experience problems running Roell's X11R4 binary distribution (local
>>connections) with the following clients?
>
>>* No clients from ISC's X11R3 distribution (R1.1)
>>  (Same X11R3 clients work with NCD X-terminal running prom-based server)
>
>

X11R3 clients don't work due to shared library differences in R3 and R4.

xclock doesn't work because of a bug in the shared version of libXaw.
You can get a working xclock by recompiling the standard MIT
distribution xclock and linking with non-shared libaries.

	...Martin


Martin Schedlbauer				(mschedlb@ulowell.edu)
Institute for Visualization and Perception Research
Department of Computer Science
University of Lowell, Lowell, MA 01854		(Tel: (508) 934-3612)

mark@zok.UUCP (Mark W. Snitily) (01/14/91)

In article <1991Jan12.061432.27366@portia.Stanford.EDU> fangchin@elaine30.stanford.edu (Chin Fang) writes:
>According to the latest FAQ of comp.windows.x, the xclock has bug which
>prevents it from function properly in X11R4 environment (but you can run
>it in X11R3).  It has been fixed and a new src has been posted laterly.
>Check that FAQ for more details. 

Did you mean "xlock" or "xclock" ?  The FAQ mentions the problem and
recent reposting of "xlock", but I found no reference to "xclock" in the
FAQ posted on 31-Dec-90.  Is there a newer FAQ, or did we accidentally
drop/insert a character?

-- Mark

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For an interesting symmetry, compare the 1661 and 1991 calendars.

dow@presto.ig.com (Christopher Dow) (01/14/91)

	In one of the files in the distribution, it states fairly
clearly that the old clients will have to be recompiled.  Roell uses
Streams, X likes to use socketts.....


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tmh@keks.FOKUS.GMD.DBP.DE (Thomas Hoberg) (01/30/91)

In article <278E6093.15392@orion.oac.uci.edu>, drector@orion.oac.uci.edu
(David Rector) writes:
|> In <130@chansw.UUCP> chan@chansw.UUCP (Jerry H. Chan) writes:
|> 
|> >Anybody experience problems running Roell's X11R4 binary
distribution (local
|> >connections) with the following clients?
|> 
|> >* No clients from ISC's X11R3 distribution (R1.1)
|> >  (Same X11R3 clients work with NCD X-terminal running prom-based server)
|> >* X11R4 xclock -- quits by itself; oclock works properly
|> 
|> >* u386mon (under xterm) -- first screen appears, but no statistics
|> >  updates occur during update intervals
|> 
|> >I am running ISC 2.2.1 w/the Orchid Prodesigner II card.
|> 
|> I'm having the same problems on 2.0.2 with STB.
|> 
|> -- 
|> David L. Rector				drector@orion.oac.uci.edu
|> Dept. of Math.				U. C. Irvine, Irvine CA 92717
According to Thomas Roell the next release of the server (any day now) will
support ISC clients and include a binary distribution for network connections.
As to xclock, go to the MIT :->. Now really, he did the server, not the 
clients. Get the distribution and hack it yourself.
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