stephend@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Stephen Davis) (03/16/90)
We are trying to install the X windows system on a SPARC station with out much success. All the files have been compiled, and installed, but when xinit is executed we get the following messages: Getting interface configuration: Operation not supported on socket sunOpenFrameBuffer: Inappropriate ioctl for device sunOpenFrameBuffer: Inappropriate ioctl for device sunOpenFrameBuffer: Inappropriate ioctl for device Fatal server bug! no screens found XIO: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) on X server "(null)" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. The connection was probably broken by a server shutdown or KillClient. As a second attempt, we tried to do 'xinit -- Xsun' and received a screen full of help information which was generated by the Xsun server. (the output you would get for Xsun -help) Then there would be a delay, followed by the message: giving up. xinit: Connection refused (errno 61): unnable to connect to X server Has anyone else had similar problems? If anyone has been able to get X up and running on a SPARC, we would greatly appreciate any hints you might be able to provide. Thanks Stephen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen Davis Applied Research Laboratories, University of Texas at Austin stephend@cs.utexas.edu