werner@nikhefk.UUCP (Werner Vogels) (09/15/88)
After extracting X11r2 from tape and building the core source tree, I made a Vax ( vaxstation 2000) and a Sun (4/110) version. No problems occured. After installing the binaries, libaries, include files etc. I started testing. On the sun everything works perfect. On the vaxstation we have some important problems: - starting xinit from a vt100 starts up the Xqvss server and the xterm application. problem is the cursor is just a blank white rectangle, that doesn't changes when you move over the xterm window (it should invert or change its appearance). This works perfect on the sun. - changing the ttyv0 entry in /etc/ttys to ttyv0 "/usr/local/bin/xterm -L -geometry 80x24+0+0 :0" xterm on window="/usr/local/bin/X :0" and sending a HUP to init starts up the X server on the screen but no xterm appears. after the 30 seconds the server starts to behave weird, it clears the screen and slowly builds up the back- ground again. It keeps repeating this action every 30, 40 seconds. Starting up an xterm from another terminal makes this application appear, but the screen is blanked after 30 seconds and the xterm terminates. Could someone give me some advice on how to solve these problems. Thanks, Werner Vogels (nikhefk@werner)
swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick) (09/16/88)
> - starting xinit from a vt100 starts up the Xqvss server and the > xterm application. problem is the cursor is just a blank white > rectangle, that doesn't changes when you move over the xterm >... > and sending a HUP to init starts up the X server on the screen > but no xterm appears. after the 30 seconds the server starts to > behave weird, it clears the screen and slowly builds up the back- > ground again. It keeps repeating this action every 30, 40 seconds. sure sounds like you don't have fonts installed correctly. (in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/, by default). Cursors come from fonts, and xterms die if they can't find fonts. Servers reset when their last client dies...