sas@calmasd.Prime.COM (Shirley Sloper) (06/11/89)
Does anyone know of any plans to implement an X server for any of the Silicon Graphics workstations? Thanks.
jim@kaos.Stanford.EDU (Jim Helman) (06/12/89)
The X server and some applications (X11R3, binaries and source) for the 4D machines are available on request from SGI. The server runs in conjunction with 4Sight, so GL, X and NeWS applications can share the screen. The version we have still has some bugs in it but is pretty usable. Unfortunately, the server only supports two display classes: STATIC-COLOR and monochrome, which means no RGB or modifiable colormaps. Perhaps these will be added in a future release. Does anyone from SGI know? Jim Helman Department of Applied Physics P.O. Box 10494 Stanford University Stanford, CA 94309 (jim@thrush.stanford.edu) (415) 723-4940
eap@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Eric Pearce) (06/15/89)
In article <347@calmasd.Prime.COM> sas@calmasd.UUCP (Shirley Sloper) says: >Does anyone know of any plans to implement an X server >for any of the Silicon Graphics workstations? >Thanks. I just installed the Alpha release of X11R3 from SGI on an Iris4D GTX. It looks like it has the same problems as the one I compiled from MIT source, mainly very poor interaction between 4sight and the X clients. I doubt if it's all SGI's fault, but I did find it rather crufty to use. -e -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Pearce eap@bu-it.bu.edu Boston University Information Technology 111 Cummington Street Boston MA 02215 617-353-2780 voice 617-353-6260 fax