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From: pim@cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: X11R4 VGA server problems
Message-ID: <1990Jun12.185207.3038@cti-software.nl>
Date: 12 Jun 90 18:52:07 GMT
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atula@cs.keele.ac.uk (Atula Herath) writes:

>> When i type xinit I get the grey screen and a few minutes later
>> i give up and stop the server and the following is displayed on
>> my screen.  

>I had the same problem. Later I realized my problem was with the 
>libdbm.a, I used gdbm1-3 and first compiled that with GCC. 

>Compile this with Interactive's cc and make sure that it uses 
>interactive's alloca ( You have to include -lPw.)

You can compile gdbm with gcc too, just make sure you use -fpcc-struct-return !
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