mtoy@sgi.com (Michael Toy) (10/10/89)
I have a friend without NET access who is trying to get X stuff to build on a SPARCstation running 4.0.3 SunOS and he is failing. ANybody who has some clue and would like to share their knowledge as to how to do this, please E-Mail me. Michael Toy
tuula@gvlf6-j.gvl.unisys.com (Tuula Kunzman) (10/11/89)
I would like to also know if people have been successful in running X on a Sun Sparc machine....If so, are there any gotcha's to be concerned about? Thanks in advance.... Tuula
erc@pai.UUCP (Eric Johnson) (10/11/89)
In article <355@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM>, tuula@gvlf6-j.gvl.unisys.com (Tuula Kunzman) writes: > I would like to also know if people have been successful in running > X on a Sun Sparc machine....If so, are there any gotcha's to be > concerned about? > Tuula PAI installed X11 R3 on a Sun 386i, running Sun OS 4.0.x. Those very same sources compiled fine (except for one problem, below) and currently run fine on a spanking new SPARCStation-1. Performance on the SPARC far outstrips the 386i. The sources we used were on the release tape picked up by a colleague at the last USENIX meet. I believe this was X11 R3 from MIT with patches 1-10. The only problem appears to be a stack space issue. The file cfbbitblt.c in the server/ddx/cfb bombed out cc on the optimizer pass with an iropt error. In talking with Sun, I believe this is related to having too little swap space. (My SPARC came with the OS pre-installed--a nice friendly thing for Sun to do--but the default swap size is a little small for what X wants.) I merely "hand-compiled" the given file, using a lower optimization (-O1) and everything is now hunky-dory. I also believe that Sun's X11/NeWS is out (or will soon be out) and so you may want to get this from Sun (as the performance will probably be tuned to the Suns, and you can run those neat NeWS/Sunview programs, too). Hope this helps, -Eric -- Eric F. Johnson, Prime Automation, Inc. 415 W. Travelers Trail, Burnsville, MN 55337 USA. Phone: +1 612-894-0313. erc@pai.mn.org - or - bungia!pai!erc (We have a very dumb mailer, so please send a bang-!-style return address.)