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From: adrianho@barkley.berkeley.edu (Adrian J Ho)
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Subject: Re: Xsun (from MIT) on an IPC
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Date: 6 Apr 91 02:34:38 GMT
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In-Reply-To: gcardwel@okazaki.acs.uci.edu's message of 6 Apr 91 00:03:26 GMT

In article <27FD104E.5282@orion.oac.uci.edu> gcardwel@okazaki.acs.uci.edu (Guy Cardwell) writes:

>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.

Nope, that's the *default* (which causes the problem).  Use:

Xsun -zaphod   or   xinit -- :0 -zaphod

See the Xsun(1) man page for full details.