Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!charon!frankk
From: frankk@cwi.nl (Frank Kuiper)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Framebuffer problem in OW2.0?
Keywords: openwindows
Message-ID: <2560@charon.cwi.nl>
Date: 19 Nov 90 15:03:34 GMT
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Organization: CWI, Kruislaan 413, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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I'm having a problem with OpenWindows 2.0, running on a Sun 4/110
with OS 4.0.3.

When I start OW 2.0, using the command (shell script) ``openwin''
and all default rc and init files (that is, no .Xdefaults, .xinitrc
and .openwin-init specified in the $HOME directory), I see an error
message printec "on the console" as there is no console window yet.

The message in this case is:
	Unable to open /etc/filetype
	Have you run install_filemgr?

My problem is not the above message itself, but the fact that in no
way I am able to clear the screen from that message!
I can do a ``refresh'' in the ``Utilities >'' sub-menu, to no avail.
If I do a /bin/clear-colormap, the *entire* screen becomes white.
But then I can't get my OW environment back (``refresh'' doesn't help).
Starting up a SunView Program (in OpenWindows) leaves the error
messages on the screen.

Now, my idea is that somewhere, somehow the framebuffer get's
written to, but can not be cleared again by either olwm or sunview.

The environment used *does* work on Sparcs running 4.1 or 4.0.3.
The error message(s) do get displayed, but a simple ``refresh'' will
get rid of them.
I know there's a difference in framebuffers between Sparcs
(/dev/cgthree) and the 4/110 (/dev/cgfour) and I've correctly set
the $FRAMEBUFFER variable in both cases.

I'm confused.

Please e-mail me, as I don't regularly read this list.

Thanks a bundle in advance.

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