davel@hfserver.hfnet.bt.co.uk (Dave Linton) (02/26/90)
I've just successfully built and installed the R4 core distribution on a Sun 4/110. Upon starting it up all works well except that the color display is now unix:0.0 and the mono display is unix:0.1, a reversal of the situation under R3. It's no more than an inconvenience, but can sombody tell me why it's happened please? -- Dave Linton British Telecom Research Labs Martlesham Heath Ipswich IP5 7RE Phone: +44 473 644127 UK Fax: +44 473 637557
keith@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Keith Packard) (02/27/90)
> Upon starting it up all works well except that the color display is now > unix:0.0 and the mono display is unix:0.1, a reversal of the situation > under R3. > > It's no more than an inconvenience, but can sombody tell me why it's > happened please? Using release 3, the performance of the color side of the sample server was embarassingly slow, slow enough to prohibit its use by all but the most brave, so the monochrome portion was made the default. With release 4, the color support is no longer unusably slow, so we reversed the order to reflect what we hoped would be the default mode of use -- color. One of the major reasons was to get people used to using color on Suns again. To get the old behaviour, you can pass the '-mono' option to the server. Keith Packard MIT X Consortium