Re: X11R6.3 on new Ultra 5 w/ Solaris 2.5.1

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From: Kaleb S. KEITHLEY
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 00:00

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In <3516AE51.C27F107@alaska.net> "Thomas D. Simes" <simestd@alaska.net>
writes:

>I have been trying to get X11R6.3 up and working on one of the new Sun
>Ultra 5's (new PCI "bargain" Suns).   The source code I am using has
>been patched with both fix-01 and fix-02

>It seems to be just the X server executable which is the problem.  My
>current thoughts are that
>X11R6.3 doesn't know what to make of the PCI frame buffer on this
>machine.

The Xsun man page in the X Consortium's R6.3 says that only the
following frame buffers are supported:

  Xsunmono: BW2
  Xsun: BW2, CG2, CG3, CG4, CG6/GX, TCX
  Ssun24: BW2, CG2, CG3, CG4, CG6/GX, TCX, CG8

Whatever's in an Ultra 5 is obviously not one of those frame buffers.

You've got the source -- make it work.

It's perfectly legitimate to use Sun's server with R6.3. Just make a
symlink, $ProjectRoot/bin/Xsun that points to /usr/openwin/bin/Xsun. You
just won't be able to use any of extensions that were new in R6.1 and
R6.3.

--

Kaleb S. KEITHLEY
X Architect, The Open Group X Project Team

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From: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <k.#nojunk#keithley@opengroup.org>
Subject: Re: X11R6.3 on new Ultra 5 w/ Solaris 2.5.1
Date: 1998/03/24
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