Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!archimedes.math.uwm.edu!jgreco From: jgreco@archimedes.math.uwm.edu (Joe Greco) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt Subject: Re: Problems with 6152 X-terminal software Message-ID: <6752@uwm.edu> Date: 3 Oct 90 23:00:36 GMT References: <65492@bu.edu.bu.edu> Sender: news@uwm.edu Distribution: na Organization: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee - Department of Mathematics Lines: 34 In comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt article <65492@bu.edu.bu.edu>, eap@bu-pub.bu.edu (Eric Pearce) wrote: : I installed the "convert your 6152 into an X-terminal" software : without too much effort, but... This is as good a time as any to bring it up... has anyone else brought up X11R4 on the 6152? I ftp'd the distribution from expo and built it on our RT 125, setting appropriate options and specifying a build for apa16 and vga displays. It works, pretty much. However, there are times when it misbehaves. For example, I may be using xeyes and it will leave trailing eyeball bits. This is using the X11R4 distributed xeyes and server. This isn't a serious problem and I haven't personally noticed any readily reproducible bugs. However, our department has talked to a couple of other sites, and I've heard complaints that the server WILL lock when using Andrew on a fairly regular basis. One systems person mentioned that he had traced it to the server, and that there was a fairly large loop through several major server routines in which the server would get locked. Is anyone running Andrew on the 6152 under X11R4? Any horror stories? I'm hesitant to recommend installing something which is known to be crashable. On the positive side, the 6152 Xserver is a hell of a lot more reliable than the piece of trash that IBM supplied with our RS/6000. ;-) Any comments appreciated. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee - Department of Mathematics jgreco@archimedes.math.uwm.edu USnail: Joe Greco Voice: 414/321-6184 9905 W. Montana Ave. Data: 414/321-9287 (Happy Hacker's BBS) West Allis, WI 53227-3329 ICBM: 43 05 20 N 87 53 10 W #include Disclaimer: I don't speak for the Math Department, the University, or myself.