james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen) (10/21/90)
From scanning this newsgroup going back to May, I don't see many success stories with Roell's X11r4 server. I haven't had success yet either, but I think I'm close. I'm running Dell unix, which is similar to ISC 2.0.2. 1. The posted patches have space/tab mismatches with the MIT X11r4 source. I retrieved a copy of the patch from unido, but it too was munged. Berklib.c in the X library was missing the line long (* _libX11_times)() = 0; which I assume is needed. Also, throughout the libraries constructs like "extern foo = 0" existed. It's not clear what was desired - I removed the "extern" keyword. 2. Shared libraries don't work. I get an error from ld(1) when I try to link programs with the shared libraries: ld fatal: cannot combine NOLOAD input sections with other input sections; possibly caused by shared library address space overlap I see no overlap in the shared library addresses. 3. The toplevel Makefile doesn't ensure that TOP always has the right value. I had to hack GNU make to ignore the "Makefile" dependency to get it to work. 4. I got a patch from RMS to work around a bug in the MIT source: something like foo(\"abc\") was used, and the X sources expected the leading quote to be somehow magically quoted, or the trailing quote to be unqouted. 5. If I say "Xibm -dev /dev/mouse", the pointer doesn't move. The mouse device is OK: "od -x < /dev/mouse" does what is expected. The output looks like PS/2-style mouse data packets (three bytes). Is this that different from what a serial mouse uses (I've got a Microsoft bus mouse)? When I build without shared libraries, I can run Xibm. I start it, the screen clears to the "grey" background pattern, and then nothing happens. Occasionally the system beeps, but keys otherwise do nothing. CapsLock and NumLock light their respective keys, but ScrollLock does not. Ctrl-Alt-Del does cause the server to exit, and the screen blank function works, so the server is not hung. Are the Alt-Sysreq-Fx keys supposed to switch between virtual consoles? xinit gives an error "Can't open display" when I try to run it. Any comments or suggestions? How much of the trouble in the non-shared library is due to lack of a serial mouse? How much trouble is it to convert to a bus mouse? -- James R. Van Artsdalen james@bigtex.cactus.org "Live Free or Die" Dell Computer Co 9505 Arboretum Blvd Austin TX 78759 512-338-8789
news@brian386.uucp (News Administrator) (10/23/90)
In article <48845@bigtex.cactus.org> james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen) writes: [ ... stuff deleted ... ] >When I build without shared libraries, I can run Xibm. I start it, >the screen clears to the "grey" background pattern, and then nothing >happens. Occasionally the system beeps, but keys otherwise do >nothing. CapsLock and NumLock light their respective keys, but >ScrollLock does not. Ctrl-Alt-Del does cause the server to exit, and >the screen blank function works, so the server is not hung. Are the >Alt-Sysreq-Fx keys supposed to switch between virtual consoles? > >xinit gives an error "Can't open display" when I try to run it. > Okay, I had the same problems at first (I now have my own server, no shared libs yet though). It has been a while, but here goes. 1) I never got the shared libraries working completely right, but don't forget you have to use 2 different Imakefile's in mit/lib. 2) Scroll Lock didn't change my light either. 3) I never had the system beep unless I tried to switch windows, this is not allowed in Roell's server. 4) I think the "Can't open display" is caused by 'xterm' having the suid set, when that was turned off, it ran fine. (One other program also had it set, but I don't remember which one.) 5) I could only get it to run from the super user account. Hope I have helped in some way 8-). brian
karp-brad@CS.YALE.EDU (Brad Karp) (12/01/90)
Has anyone out there hacked Roell's X11R4 X386 server to work properly with a Logitech bus mouse? The documentation for the server doesn't mention support for the Logitech bus mouse, so I just assumed that it was absent. Is there a simple workaround for this? Also, the documentation for the server claims that the PVGA1A (Paradise 1024 VGA board) support is "broken." This is the graphics board that I have in my machine. Has anyone out there gotten the server to work in 640x480x256 with this video board? Any other comments or advice on bringing up this server will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. -- Brad Karp, (203) 436-3060 (voice) | The views expressed in the text my 386: karp%softshop.uucp@cs.yale.edu | you have just perused are not my via Yale CS Dept: karp-brad@cs.yale.edu | own; rather, they are those of the Box 2443 Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520 | heavenly muse who sings in me. -JM