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I've played with things more and now I think I understand more about
how the X-Server is supposed to work, though I haven't gotten any
farther than I was this morning. I'm hoping maybe if someone has a
working Genera 8.3 X Server installation that they could confirm that
this is how things work.

As far as I can guess, the Start X Server command without arguments is
supposed to start the background daemon, nothing more. If you wish to
use X applications on the Genera console, you then go to the X Server
activity via Select-Square, then use the Switch Mode command. If
things are working up to this point then the screen will quickly blank
and then switch to an X-style screen. You can exit this X-style screen
via the Network key.

If you specify yes to the :Hostile key, you will immediately go to the
X-style screen no matter where you invoked the command from.

If I specify yes to the :Hostile key, my screen blanks and I'm thrown
into the debugger with the same bzero message I posted earlier. The
herald says "X Server 424.0". Perhaps patching is needed.

To recap; the error is that function X-SERVER:|bzero| is undefined. I
decided to see if I could locate the definition and compile/load it
manually. I searched all files in CDROM0:>SYS>X11>**>*.*;NEWEST for
the string "bzero" and got a number of calls to it in C code but no
function definition. The last match returned was:

  CDROM0:>SYS>X11>SERVER>INCLUDE>MISC.H;500
  Line #62    #include <X11/Xfuncs.h> /* for bcopy, bzero, and bcmp */

I then searched for that file in the entire CDROM and there was no
match.

I then searched through every *.h and *.c file on the CDROM for bzero
and there was no definition, though many, many calls.

I'm not sure how to proceed. I tried Compile System X Server but there
were compile errors that begat compile errors and it looks like I'll
have to learn a good bit more about the environment and tools before I
can do compiles of large software systems. If it turns out that some
source needed to do a full compile was accidentally or otherwise
omitted from the CD; I suppose I could grab an archived copy of X11R4
from the MIT ftp and see what I could do....

But before I do all this and lose my hair, have any of you out there
ever successfully used the X Server included with the Genera 8.3
distribution? Drop me a mail or something if so. Just say, "yeah, I've
installed that. It works." It will give me a nice
psychological... bleah. Good night.

Christopher