eap@bu-pub.bu.edu (Eric Pearce) (10/04/90)
I installed the "convert your 6152 into an X-terminal" software without too much effort, but... when I type "x" in DOS, it starts booting and craps out durring the autoconfig (as far as I can tell - it flashed off the screen pretty quickly) panic: startup buffers Any ideas? -e -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Pearce eap@bu-pub.bu.edu Boston University Information Technology 111 Cummington Street
jgreco@archimedes.math.uwm.edu (Joe Greco) (10/04/90)
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt article <65492@bu.edu.bu.edu>, eap@bu-pub.bu.edu (Eric Pearce) wrote: : I installed the "convert your 6152 into an X-terminal" software : without too much effort, but... This is as good a time as any to bring it up... has anyone else brought up X11R4 on the 6152? I ftp'd the distribution from expo and built it on our RT 125, setting appropriate options and specifying a build for apa16 and vga displays. It works, pretty much. However, there are times when it misbehaves. For example, I may be using xeyes and it will leave trailing eyeball bits. This is using the X11R4 distributed xeyes and server. This isn't a serious problem and I haven't personally noticed any readily reproducible bugs. However, our department has talked to a couple of other sites, and I've heard complaints that the server WILL lock when using Andrew on a fairly regular basis. One systems person mentioned that he had traced it to the server, and that there was a fairly large loop through several major server routines in which the server would get locked. Is anyone running Andrew on the 6152 under X11R4? Any horror stories? I'm hesitant to recommend installing something which is known to be crashable. On the positive side, the 6152 Xserver is a hell of a lot more reliable than the piece of trash that IBM supplied with our RS/6000. ;-) Any comments appreciated. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee - Department of Mathematics jgreco@archimedes.math.uwm.edu USnail: Joe Greco Voice: 414/321-6184 9905 W. Montana Ave. Data: 414/321-9287 (Happy Hacker's BBS) West Allis, WI 53227-3329 ICBM: 43 05 20 N 87 53 10 W #include <witty_and_humorous_saying.h> Disclaimer: I don't speak for the Math Department, the University, or myself.
brunner@bullhead.uucp (10/06/90)
I've had a couple of problem reports with the 6152 X-server package, which may be display related, or 3rd-party related (e.g. AFS 3-or-later), or with the kernel build. For everyone's information, I was asked to not include the kernel binary in the kit - this to avoid potential binary redistribution concerns by AT&T - so you had to build some crucial part yourself. In spite of the "X11.r2-only support", we do want you to use later versions if you choose to (after all, in quality terms, r2 << r3 < r4), and so the 6152 X-server kit was intended to allow you to make your own selection. This may be a contributing factor. I'd like to get this resolved so send me your problems, with as much detail as you can. Thanks in advance to Joe Greco (Wisconsin at Milwaukee), Lowell Schulmen (IBM at CUNY), and of course, Bill Webb (IBM at Palo Alto), who created the package. #include <std/disclaimer.h> Eric Brunner, Consultant, IBM AWD Palo Alto (415) 855-4486 inet: brunner@monet.berkeley.edu uucp: uunet!ibmsupt!brunner trying to understand multiprocessing is like having bees live inside your head.