jim@dandelion.CI.COM (Jim Fulton) (11/03/87)
Is there anyone out there who is running X10 and/or X11 on color vs2000's
under Ultrix 2.0? If so, I'd very much like to talk with you.
We have some color vs2000's on which we'd like to run X (ideally X10 on some
machines and X11 on others) and was wondering if they are indeed qdss
compatible and whether or not stock Ultrix 2.0 will support them. I tried
making a /dev/qd0 that matched the /dev/sg0 (since it is an sg device after
all) as well as a couple of other combinations of major,minor device numbers.
None of them worked. The X10 server dumps core in QILreset() and the X11
server in qdScreenInit() with a tlInit error. We have Ultrix 2.0 sources but
not QIL sources, but I haven't had enough time to plow through the kernel
drivers and disassemble the servers to figure out exactly what is wrong
(although I suspect that some shared data structure isn't getting mapped by the
driver so the server ends up dereferencing trash).
We've heard "wait until the December release of Ultrix 32w" (DEC's X.V10R4
release that has been a non-product several times) but would really like to
use the tubes before then. Again, we do have an Ultrix 2.0 source license so
getting a new device driver is both legal and doable. Any help for either X10
or X11 would be greatly appreciated.
Jim Fulton
Cognition Inc.
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