Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!spool.mu.edu!munnari.oz.au!metro!news
From: dawes@suphys.physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: xfig with X386
Message-ID: <1991Apr14.140430.23712@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU>
Date: 14 Apr 91 14:04:30 GMT
Sender: news@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU
Reply-To: dawes@suphys.physics.su.OZ.AU (David Dawes)
Organization: School of Physics, Uni of Sydney, Australia.
Lines: 21
Nntp-Posting-Host: suphys.physics.su.oz.au

I've had a problem with xfig causing the X386 server to crash.  This happens
when I use Roell's binaries on an ESIX Rev D system (with ET4000 VGA).  xfig
runs fine when the line thickness is set to zero, but drawing something
with the line thickness greater than zero causes the server to crash.  When it
crashes, the display gets stuck in graphics mode.  Its possible to switch
to another vt, but you can't see what you type.

I've tried using xfig compiled under Esix, and the same thing happens, but when
using xfig with a version of the X386 server compiled under Esix everything
is fine.

Has anyone else had any experience with this?  Do Roell's xfig/X386 binaries
work together on ISC, or does the problem only show up when using these binaries
with Esix?

David
--
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 David Dawes (dawes@suphys.physics.su.oz.au) DoD#210  | Phone: +61 2 692 2639
 School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia   | Fax:   +61 2 660 2903
------------------------------------------------------------------------------