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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: bugs in X term? and andrew
Message-ID: <111@cvbnet2.UUCP>
Date: 31 Mar 88 02:22:40 GMT
Organization: Computervision Co., Bedford, Mass.
Lines: 44
Keywords: andrew, xterm, segmentation fault

As was mentioned by someone else here, I too find that the 
X implementation running on suns os 3.2 has problems.  If anyone
out there understands the following detailed description of the
problem and has a solution by all means get in touch with me.

The problems as far as I've been able to track it is this.  The sun
X server (Xsun) runs fine.  It can communicate with all of its clients
that I've tested EXCEPT xterm.  Xterm causes the server to try to pad
a pixmap (I think) which is referenced in routine mfbPadPixmap() at
line 147, ddx/mfbpixmap.c.  I don't understand why this illegal value
only crops up for xterm.  Anyone out there understand this code?  

The other clients I've checked the server against are xload, uwm, and
perhaps a few others.
If anyone has any suggestions...

Another question I have is this.  After about a week of recompiling,
editing makefiles, editing header files, editing...(jeez, what haven't
I edited :-)  I finally got andrew to run on both 68010 and 68020 based
suns.   It blew my socks off!!  What a great idea!

I do have some problems with it, unfortunately.  One is - I cannot for the
life of me get help to work.  It dies a gory death by a segmentation fault.
No pretty pictures come up, nothing.  Just a dirty, old core file.  Any ideas
before I attack it whole- (well, maybe only half) heartedly?

Finally, I notice that in the typescript window, sometimes it runs full-duplex,
i.e. it echoes what I type, and other times it doesn't.  If I wait a little
bit the chances of it echoing my input improves quite a bit.  And, as if to
razz me a bit, it seems to echo newlines as 'X'.  Very destracting.  Anyone
have any ideas on this?

Thanx for reading my ramblings!

This is a general purpose account, so please, if you reply directly to me
send your responses to..

aperez@cvbnet

Arturo Perez
Prime nee Computervision
MS 5-1
14 Crosby Drive
Bedford, MA
(617) 275-1800 x4388