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From: evgabb@sdrc.UUCP (Rob Gabbard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Instant Ignition problems
Keywords: instant ignition hp x
Message-ID: <1568@sdrc.UUCP>
Date: 30 Aug 90 13:49:40 GMT
Organization: SDRC, Cincinnati
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I'm having the following problems with Instant Ignition on HP. Anyone else run
across these and find a workaround ?

	- On a device such as a Turbo SRX/VRX, you cannot modify
	  SB_DISPLAY_ADDR before running X Windows.  Normally we 
	  set this in /etc/profile or the user's .profile which were
	  run before typing .x11start. But now, with xlogin/xsession
	  the X server runs continoussly and there isn't a way to set
	  this variable. I tried setting in /etc/rc to no avail.

	  The one workaround I know of is to use the "No Windows" login
	  option. However, you lose all of the Instant Ignition functionality.

	- On a Turbo SRX running in combined mode with the color map full,
	  xhelp crashes when it cannot allocate its own colors in the default
	  colormap on an XQueryColors call.  My guess is that it is assuming you
	  have a 16-entry colormap since you have a 4 bit root, which is not 
	  true on the Trubo SRX.

	  I could probably tell it to use colors I have in my colormap but its
	  still a bug.


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Rob Gabbard (uunet!sdrc!evgabb)  
Technical Development Engineer   
Structural Dynamics Research Corp