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From: Compiling R4 on 3/50 (SunOS 4.0.3ng R4 on 3/50 (SunOS 4.0.3))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: X11 server backing store bugs on HP-UX 6.5
Message-ID: <101950080@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>
Date: 15 Jan 90 23:30:38 GMT
References: <3774@icad.icad.com>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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> The X server that comes with HP-UX 6.5 claims to support backing store,
> and even appears to be using backing store when it is requested, but it
> also sends spurious Expose events to the backing-store window.  

> Is any solution available from HP?  Upgrading to 7.0 won't do, since this
> will need to be installed on 6.5 because of other constraints.  I need
> the HP server because it has the extensions to run StarBase on the TSRX,
> so using the MIT release is not possible either.
>	-- Larry Stone     lcs@icad.com  ..!bu.edu!icad.com!lcs

The only fully supported solution is to upgrade to 7.0.  A quick test
shows that the bug is indeed gone from the 7.0 server.  Although not
supported, many people around here were using the 7.0 server (and fonts)
on 6.5 systems.

Harry Phinney