jec@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (James E. Conley) (12/09/88)
Does anyone have a working version of X V11R3 for the Apollos? We have been
running the version from MIT (V11R3) with fixes 1 and 2 applied and the patches
from casey@ucla applied (thanks casey!). The problems we are having involve
xterms failing to come up at all, freezing being executing the command on the
"-e" line, or failing after running for a while. I suspect that Apollo has
some bugs in their tty/pty code which doesn't help things, but I thought I'd
ask and see if there is a way to work around those problems.
We also get an occassional screwup with the bordering and scroll regions of
X windows on the Apollos (color nodes). The colors usually have white
horizontal glitches in them. In addition I've seen several times when the
rubber-band cursor is malformed.
This is in addition to the problems with speed (a DN3000 is painfully slow)
but I can live with that since the server is not supposed to be tuned.
By the way, when we bought our Apollos about a year and a half ago Apollo
said that they would be puting out an X port as an official product. They
even have faked up "X" icons in some of their screen shots. I don't suppose
anyone knows when they are planning to release this? (Just as soon as they
translate the MIT code into Pascal? :-))
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