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From: gcardwel@okazaki.acs.uci.edu (Guy Cardwell)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Xsun (from MIT) on an IPC
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Date: 6 Apr 91 00:03:26 GMT
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In article <7945@idunno.Princeton.EDU>, rhl@grendel.Princeton.EDU (Robert Lupton (the Good)) writes:
|> I have been having trouble running the MIT Xserver on our IPC's. When
|> you try to move the mouse off the edge of the screen the server hangs
|> (or at least, you get no further response). 
chuckle chuckle....
The IPC has *two* framebuffers, a cgfour (or cgsix) in the s-bus slot
and a monochrome frame buffer on the motherboard.  When you move the mouse
of off the edge of the color screen, it moves to the monochrome screen, which
you can't see because you dont have a mono monitor plugged it there!

Try specifying the frame buffer when you start the server..

Xsun -dev /dev/cgfour0

or something along those lines.


Enjoy,... and no, I dont know of a cheap source for sun mono monitors to
have a two headed systems... I wish I did!!1

Guy