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From: mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X11 on color Sun
Summary: trying to use the wrong framebuffer
Message-ID: <10469@jade.BBN.COM>
Date: 12 Jan 88 16:16:30 GMT
References: <8801121406.AA28950@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau)
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In comp.windows.x, Sean.Engelson@SPICE.CS.CMU.EDU writes:
>
>[running X11 on a color Sun 3], I get a root-window
>background, but no mouse cursor or xterm window.  Now, I know that X and
>xterm are running, via a ps from a terminal.  Has anyone else seen this
>problem before and have a fix?

I've seen this.  Look in /dev and see if you don't have a /dev/bwtwo0
(the monochrome framebuffer device).  It seems that X is trying to run
on this device instead of the color framebuffer.  I don't know if 
anything bad will happen as a result of rm'ing the monochrome device,
so instead we just run X with an explicit framebuffer device by invoking
is as "Xsun -dev /dev/cgtwo0" (or cgfour0 for machines with a prism
framebuffer) and everything works correctly.
--
 Matt Landau			Waiting for a flash of enlightenment
 mlandau@bbn.com			  in all this blood and thunder