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From: naughton@wind.Eng.Sun.COM (Patrick Naughton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: Hosed xnews menus under Open Windows
Message-ID: <1990Nov9.172649@wind.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 10 Nov 90 01:26:49 GMT
References: <1990Nov8.123120.20324@cs.utk.edu>
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Other followups to this message were referring to unrelated
problems...  It sounds like you are on a GX and you have run some other
program which directly accessed the framebuffer.  X11/NeWS is confused
about the state of the GX hardware registers since it assumes that it
will be the only one to leave state in the hardware.

This can happen by running SunView 1 applications when you do not have
the 4.1-GFX patch installed in your kernel.  It is this patch which
keeps the multiple hardware contexts of the xnews process and the
SunView/XGL/pixrect processes coherent.  Without this patch it is easy
to get the GX confused.  (This is fixed in 4.1.1).

If you are not using a GX with a non-4.1-GFX kernel... then my advice
is misguided.

-Patrick

In article <1990Nov8.123120.20324@cs.utk.edu>, de5@ornl.gov (Dave Sill) writes:
|> Has anyone seen xnews/openwin under SunOS 4.1 get into
|> a funky state wherein menus are no longer drawn correctly?
|> 
|> Clicking on the triangle-in-a-square menu do-hicky has no
|> visible effect until the mouse is moved down, then only
|> the rounded menu labels are drawn as the pointer reaches
|> them.
|> 
|> Regular openlook windows continue to work normally.
|> 
|> Any help would be appreciated.
|> 
|> -- 
|> Dave Sill (de5@ornl.gov)
|> Martin Marietta Energy Systems
|> Workstation Support

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