razdan@chanakya.oakhill.uucp (Anshuman Razdan) (06/14/90)
This is regarding running X windows and Sunview together. I do not remember but some body posted a "kludge" to run X and Sun at the same time without having two physical cards. I have been succesfully running this on various Sun Systems and I am satisfied with it. However, I seem to be running into problem with Sun 3/260 with cgtwo0 device. When I run just X11 either from the Console or from Suntools, X11 seems to be fine and all the colors show up. But if I start suntools in /dev/fb and start X in cgtwo0, X starts but all the colors are gone. In effect it becomes a monochrome server. I can still move from one environment to another using adjacent screens and the Suntools is still in color. It is the X server that has problem eith colors. Suppose I have a xterm with -fg blue and -bg yellow then it shows up with white background and black foreground. Sometimes when I try to refresh this window, there are flashes of blue and yellow but they disappear. Even "xcolors" comes up with only black and white boxes. I am running MIT X11R4 with 1-11 patches applied and this problem only seems to occur on cgtwo devices. I would appreciate if somebody could suggest any pointers for solution to the problem. Anshuman Razdan -- Anshuman Razdan Motorola Sector CAD Internal: razdan@chanakya Austin Tx Internet: razdan@chanakya.sps.mot.com ****************************************************************** * * * PS: All opinions are my own and my employers have their own * * which of course, most probably, in all honesty, as far * * as I know, which sure is a guess, do not coincide with mine. * * * ******************************************************************
jim@ocsmd.ocs.com (Jim Muth) (06/15/90)
Speaking of SunView and X running on a single frame buffer machine.... Has anybody had any luck with the old adjacentscreens trick under SunOS 4.1? I used to be able to bring up SunView and X together and switch between them using adjacentscreens when I was running 4.0.3, but now under 4.1 the server complains that /dev/bwtwo0 is busy. I've tried recompiling the server, but didn't fare any better. Am I screwing up or did sun "fix" adjacentscreens in 4.1? I'm using X11R4 with all 11 patches, in case anybody's interested. ----- Jim Muth jim@ocsmd.ocs.com