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From: Erik.Hardy@SEI.CMU.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: x11 startup on microvax 2
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Date: 13 Sep 88 23:23:59 GMT
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anyone out there experienced this problem?

i am running x11r2 on a microvax 2 with a color gpx (8 bit planes). when i
log out, just as x is about to start up again, the screen goes black and
remains unresponsive to any input. it doesn't appear to fully halt; it just
makes the machine apparently dead. we have tried switching out all of the
hardware, including a new back plane. when we put the gpx on a microvax 3, the
same thing happened, but reducing the number of bit planes to 4 seemed to
solve it. the dec engineer can't think of anything else to try in hardware, so
she thinks it must be the software. she says, in fact, that there is a known
bug in x10, in that, when it starts up, it can trash the screen. btw, this
problem occurs intermittently, i.e. there seems to be no pattern as to when
it crashes or not.

has anyone experienced a similar problem?

is it true about the "known bug" with x10? if so, could it be that this bug
wasn't fixed in x11?

thanks in advance,

erik@sei.cmu.edu

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