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From: gw18@prism.gatech.EDU (Williams, Greg)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: VGA X11R4 server problems
Message-ID: <9856@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 28 May 90 13:06:18 GMT
References: <9692@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1990May24.123603.4257@cti-software.nl> 	<1990May24.225225.1771@jdyx.UUCP> <2507@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de>
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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In <2507@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> roell@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Thomas Roell) writes:

>But what for do you need switching to virtual terminals ??? I saw the 
>posibility for switch to another terminal from the beginning, but I cann't 
>guess who will need such a feature.

Here's a reason.  In case X hangs for some reason and you can't do anything
in it, it would be nice to be able to switch to a virtual terminal to kill
the process.  But, of course that will never happen because X is a perfect
piece of software that never breaks.  :-)

Some other tips to get the vga stuff running:

1) If you use the gdbm libraries you should either compile them with the 
   standard compiler or use gcc -fwriteable-strings.  I used cc instead of
   gcc and things worked fine.  I didn't try -fwriteable-strings, but someone
   told me it will work as well.  Otherwise the rgb files won't be built
   properly, and showrgb and the server will crash.

2) I was in error about the Arc drawing routines.  xeyes works fine, though a
   bit slow.  Having only 4Mb may be part of that.

3) If you do a make clean and want to recompile, be sure to do
   cd mit/lib
   cp Imakefile.old Imakefile
   cd ..
   before starting.  Otherwise things won't work right.


-- 
Greg Williams
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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