mohrfeld@mohrfeld.cs.unc.edu (Katie Mohrfeld) (08/19/89)
I have several questions/problems about running X11 on our SPARCstation
4/60 which has a cgthree0 frame buffer and SPARCstation 4/330 which has
a cgsix0 frame buffer.
1. When I try to start up X11 on the 4/60 by using "xinit -- Xsun -dev
/dev/cgthree0" I get the following error:
Fatal server bug!
Can't find any displays
giving up.
/usr/local/bin/X11/xinit: Connection refused (errno 61):
unable to connect to X server
But when I use "xinit -- Xsun" without specifying which frame buffer
to use, X11 comes up fine - why is this ? I'm assuming that it uses
cgthree0 because that is the only cg* frame buffer in /dev - is this
correct ?
2. Should cgthree0 and cgsix0 support the two "virtual" X screens ?
3. The following was posted to the net:
Article 10769 of comp.windows.x:
...
I have posted a hacked version of the sun cg4 server to support the
cg6 as a dumb frame buffer. I have only used it on a 330.
It is available in contrib/cg6.tar of expo.lcs.mit.edu.
The regular Xsun server which we compiled for our Sun-4s works fine
with our 4/60. Do you have to use a special server with the 4/330 ?
(I haven't been able to test the regular Xsun server on the 4/330
yet because it has memory problems.)
4. After exiting X, the screen is left with a light green foreground
and a white background on our SPARCstations and some of our other
Suns. On all of them except the SPARC 4/60, issuing the command
"clear_colormap" will restore the screen to the "normal" black on
white. What causes this problem and is there any way to correct
the problem on the 4/60 without rebooting the machine ?
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