Sean.Engelson@SPICE.CS.CMU.EDU (01/12/88)
I have a color Sun 3/260 running Sun Unix 3.3, as well as a version of X compiled for the Sun and running on similar (monochrome) machines. I am accessing it via an NFS-mounted disk, so it is the same copy that runs fine elsewhere, but when I run it (via xinit ...), I get a root-window background, but no mouse cursor or xterm window. Now, I know that X and xterm are running, via a ps from a terminal. Has anyone else seen this problem before and have a fix? Thanks, -Sean Engelson- Carnegie-Mellon University ARPA: Sean.Engelson@cs.cmu.edu
mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau) (01/13/88)
In comp.windows.x, Sean.Engelson@SPICE.CS.CMU.EDU writes: > >[running X11 on a color Sun 3], I get a root-window >background, but no mouse cursor or xterm window. Now, I know that X and >xterm are running, via a ps from a terminal. Has anyone else seen this >problem before and have a fix? I've seen this. Look in /dev and see if you don't have a /dev/bwtwo0 (the monochrome framebuffer device). It seems that X is trying to run on this device instead of the color framebuffer. I don't know if anything bad will happen as a result of rm'ing the monochrome device, so instead we just run X with an explicit framebuffer device by invoking is as "Xsun -dev /dev/cgtwo0" (or cgfour0 for machines with a prism framebuffer) and everything works correctly. -- Matt Landau Waiting for a flash of enlightenment mlandau@bbn.com in all this blood and thunder