Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu!math-cs.kent.edu!news From: doleh@math-cs.kent.edu (Yaser Doleh) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Any known problems with X11R4 on BSD4.3? Message-ID: <1990Apr14.044335.24183@math-cs.kent.edu> Date: 14 Apr 90 04:43:35 GMT References: <9004122225.AA00458@adiron.adiron> Sender: news@math-cs.kent.edu (News) Reply-To: doleh@math-cs.kent.edu (Yaser Doleh) Organization: Department of Computer Science, Kent State University Lines: 30 In article <9004122225.AA00458@adiron.adiron>, tro@adiron.UUCP (Tom Olin) writes: > We have built X11R4 on a VAX-11/780 (you remember those, don't you?) running > BSD4.3. At least some of the clients are failing to talk to remote servers. > For example, "xterm -d sunrise:0" xpires with > > xterm: Error 15, errno 25: Inappropriate ioctl for device > Did you compile X11R4 using gcc ? If yes then did you run fixincludes script that comes with gcc source ? We had something similar on our SUN machines. If that is not the case then I don't know what is the problem. > applied fixes 1-9 (except the Apollo- and IBM-specific ones). Also, the R4 > clients run fine directly on and between the workstations. > > Before somebody here dives into the debugger with this, does anybody out there > know anything about this problem? At the least, does anybody have R4 clients > (xterm, in particular) running on BSD4.3 and displaying on other machines? We had X11R4 running on our VAX/BSD4.3 for about since it was released in Jan. Hope this will help --------------------------------------------------- Yaser Doleh Department Of Mathematics & Computer Science Kent State University Kent - OH 44242