Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!stc!datlog!torch!paul
From: paul@torch.UUCP (Paul Andrews)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X-11.2 on a Sun
Message-ID: <68@torch.UUCP>
Date: 14 Mar 88 12:28:52 GMT
Reply-To: paul@torch.UUCP (Paul Andrews)
Organization: TORCH Computers Ltd., Cambridge, United Kingdom
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We are having some trouble running X11.2 on our Sun (a Sun3/160)
We modified the font Makefile to use the -p4 flag and compiled and installed
everything. When run from Suntools using 'xinit&', it initialised the screen
drew the cursor and crashed. The problem turned out to be in
mfbChangeWindowAttributes(). It was calling mfbPadPixmap with an argument of
3. Investigation of hp/mfb indicated that there were quite a few missing
case statements in mfbChangeWindowAttributes(). As a first bash at fixing
the problem I copied the hp source for mfbwindow.c across to the ddx/mfb
directory, compiled and installed the Sun server. Of course it was too easy.
It still didn't work, though it got farther. Xterm came up in a window
with a black background and a white 'xterm' prompt. If the cursor was
moved over it, it stayed like an 'X'. It was impossible to type into 
the xterm window and it wasn't possible to ctrl-C out of it.

I tried a few other programs - ico and puzzle - these opened white windows
with nothing visible in them. The ico program was drawing, however, but
presumably in white.

I hope this makes sense to somebody. Getting any further on my own would
be difficult as the server now no longer core dumps so I have no idea where
to start looking. Any help would be gratefully received.

Thanks - Paul