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Request for help with X11R4 or X11R5 under 3.0

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From: Dan Judd
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 23:17
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I need a hand getting X11 running on my NeXT. Any help would be
appreciated. The situation as it stands.

I recently purchased a NeXT, which came with 3.0 installed. I have 
been trying without much success to get X11 (pref R5, but R4 is ok)
up and running but to little avail. I have copied from various
archive sites mouseX, XNeXT, and X11R5 for NeXT. MouseX and XNeXT fill
the screen with gray lines but the cursor is just a white line and 
other windows are equally distorted beyond recognition. 

X11R5 for NeXT looks better in that I can recognize some of the icons
(the cursor, xbiff etc) but they are all bit patterns with the dots
spread way out. Things seem to work, but with so much space between 
pixels the screen is wrapped over itself multiple times, making it
unusable.

I have some source to an X server for the NeXT but have as yet been
unable to compile it, as some include files seem to be incomplete,
or missing in 3.0. 

I have installed and used both XNeXT and mouseX on machines running
2.0 in the past so I believe my installation methods have been correct.
They installations for all of them are fairly easy, in any case.

I presume that it is either the OS 3.0 causing the problem (all 
version I have found of X were compiled on 2.1 or earlier) or 
the fact my machine is a Turbo-monochrome, or both.

If anyone out there knows some place I can look for binaries, 
has helpful hints on getting an X server compiled, please let me know.

Send me mail and I will post summeries, or just follow up.

Thanks

Dan Judd
danjudd@cps.msu.edu
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From: danjudd@cps.msu.edu (Dan Judd)
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Subject: Request for help with X11R4 or X11R5 under 3.0
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Date: 11 Nov 92 23:17:48 GMT
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