Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!titan!stephend
From: stephend@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Stephen Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: need help for X installation on SPARC
Message-ID: <615@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu>
Date: 15 Mar 90 19:59:56 GMT
Reply-To: stephend@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Stephen Davis)
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Organization: Applied Research Labs, University of Texas at Austin
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We are trying to install the X windows system on a SPARC station
with out much success.  All the files have been compiled, and installed,
but when xinit is executed we get the following messages:

   Getting interface configuration: Operation not supported on socket
   sunOpenFrameBuffer: Inappropriate ioctl for device
   sunOpenFrameBuffer: Inappropriate ioctl for device
   sunOpenFrameBuffer: Inappropriate ioctl for device

   Fatal server bug!
   no screens found
   XIO: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) on X server "(null)"
        after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
        The connection was probably broken by a server shutdown or KillClient.

As a second attempt, we tried to do 'xinit -- Xsun' and received a
screen full of help information which was generated by the Xsun server.
(the output you would get for Xsun -help)  Then there would be a delay,
followed by the message:

   giving up.
   xinit: Connection refused (errno 61): unnable to connect to X server

Has anyone else had similar problems?  If anyone has been able to get
X up and running on a SPARC, we would greatly appreciate any hints you
might be able to provide.

Thanks

Stephen

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Stephen Davis
Applied Research Laboratories, University of Texas at Austin
stephend@cs.utexas.edu