fritzz@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu (fritz zaucker) (01/18/91)
I got the following response to my message about collecting money for a PVGA card to send to Thomas Roell to enable him to fix problems with this chip set. As I didn't see this as posting, I follow Phillip Smith's request to post it for him. By the way, I am a bit disappointed by the response to my request. Up to now I got offers worth 15$ (fifteen). May be, just nobody is really interested in using Thomas's server on PVGA1 boards? Anyway, at least Phillip's suggestion to offer his old PVGA1 board will be able to solve it. Fritz ---- Phillip's message follows------ From uunet!lance.tis.llnl.gov!asmith@lll-winken.llnl.gov Thu Jan 17 12:57:11 1991 Return-Path: <asmith@lance.tis.llnl.gov> Date: Tue, 8 Jan 91 22:45:52 PST From: uunet!lance.tis.llnl.gov!asmith@lll-winken.llnl.gov (A. Phillip Smith) To: sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!lamont!fritzz@ncis.tis.llnl.gov Subject: Re: Roell's X11R4 server and PVGA1A Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 In-Reply-To: <3067@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu> Organization: University of California, Berkeley Cc: Well, I think it might be better if Herr Roell could receive mail. There have been one or two good comments on the new about PVGA problems, but Thomas seems to not have read them. I sent my own results, but I got no reply in several days... X386: The beta version has the same PVGA problems: multiple diagonal "ghost" images as did the first release. There seems to be a sync problem. It was cheaper for me to buy a $125 ET4000 clone-board. I've tried it with several ET3000 boards with no problems. If he really needs it, I'd donate my PVGA clone, since I now have no use for it. There is a problem using the binary distribution with TCP. It appears to be a STREAMS-only release. Otherwise, there's an authintication problem for remote clients. Clients: Xclock does not work in the binary distribution. Nor does it work after compiling from source. This implies a library problem. Xpr needs a fix to use memcpy instead of bcopy. The options (printer config, etc), are ignored. A couple of macros were needed. BTW: I built many more clients, and have the + HP Widgets + hpwm (Motif-like window manager) + xgif (GIF previewer -- nice) Also, if anyone is interested in the 386 GNU stuff, I have; gcc-1.38 GNU C Compiler alloca GNU malloc substitute bison GNU Yacc susbstitute gdbm GNU database stuff -- (libgdbm.a, ndbm.h) The above is, I believe, a *complete* inventory of what you need to build, test, etc. Others should be encouraged to port more clients, and attempt to debug the server. This is in the true spirit of the net. Thomas Roell *should* control changes to the package, but its up to us to feed him bug-fixes and enhancements, not shopping lists. I hope that doesn't seem too harsh, I'd just be glad to see others build on what Thomas has started. You really - Phil Smith -- Fritz Zaucker Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University New York Palisades, NY 10964 (914) 359-2900 x 703 E-MAIL: fritzz@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu
jtsillas@bubba.ma30.bull.com (James Tsillas) (01/24/91)
I wish to port Roell's server to work with a WYSE 700 display on ISC 2.2. THis display is a 1280x800 monochrome 15 inch. I have the technical manual for it. What exactly do I need as far as source. I don't have much disk space (only about fifty meg left) so please try to be conservative. ANY help on this is greatly appreciated. I will make everything available to everyone if I am successful. james.