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From: news@brian386.uucp (News Administrator)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Roell's X11r4 server (success?)
Message-ID: <1990Oct23.030823.14432@brian386.uucp>
Date: 23 Oct 90 03:08:23 GMT
References: <48845@bigtex.cactus.org>
Organization: McCane Consulting
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In article <48845@bigtex.cactus.org> james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen) writes:
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>When I build without shared libraries, I can run Xibm.  I start it,
>the screen clears to the "grey" background pattern, and then nothing
>happens.  Occasionally the system beeps, but keys otherwise do
>nothing.  CapsLock and NumLock light their respective keys, but
>ScrollLock does not.  Ctrl-Alt-Del does cause the server to exit, and
>the screen blank function works, so the server is not hung.  Are the
>Alt-Sysreq-Fx keys supposed to switch between virtual consoles?
>
>xinit gives an error "Can't open display" when I try to run it.
>

Okay, I had the same problems at first (I now have my own server, no shared
libs yet though).  It has been a while, but here goes.
1) I never got the shared libraries working completely right, but don't
	forget you have to use 2 different Imakefile's in mit/lib.
2) Scroll Lock didn't change my light either.
3) I never had the system beep unless I tried to switch windows,
	this is not allowed in Roell's server.
4) I think the "Can't open display" is caused by 'xterm' having
	the suid set, when that was turned off, it ran fine. (One other
	program also had it set, but I don't remember which one.)
5) I could only get it to run from the super user account.

Hope I have helped in some way 8-).
	brian