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From: bass@cs.utk.edu (Vance Bass)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: Evaluation of R6000 and AIX
Message-ID: <1990Oct9.023711.9552@cs.utk.edu>
Date: 9 Oct 90 02:37:11 GMT
References: <1731.27028f1f@zeus.unomaha.edu> <6654@uwm.edu>
Sender: Vance Bass
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In article <6654@uwm.edu> jgreco@archimedes.math.uwm.edu (Joe Greco) writes:
>In comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt article <1731.27028f1f@zeus.unomaha.edu>, svehla@zeus.unomaha.edu wrote:
>xinit sometimes exhibits that behavior as well, and the X server crashes
>from time to time.  When it does crash, we haven't figured out how to reset
>the display!  It doesn't go down automatically to text mode like the RT
>does.  It just sits there, dead bitmap display.  You can bring xinit back
>up and bring X down, but it's still locked in bitmap mode.  The crashes
>happen more often when you're running X11R4 clients from another host.  

It appears that the fix tape which is newly available corrects this problem.
If you have not received this tape (or diskettes or whatever), call the IBM
software support number and request it.
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