Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!amdahl!pyramid!octopus!vsi1!altnet!uunet!mcvax!ukc!acorn!steve From: steve@acorn.UUCP (Steve "daffy" Hunt) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: brokenness in window display (FIX OFFER) Summary: cfb tiling fixes available Keywords: X11 tiling cfb Sun Message-ID: <516@acorn.UUCP> Date: 14 Oct 88 22:24:51 GMT References: <25254@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Reply-To: steve@acorn.co.uk Organization: Acorn Computers Ltd, Cambridge, England Lines: 26 In article dana@dino.bellcore.com (Dana A. Chee) writes: >In article <25254@bu-cs.BU.EDU> jsol@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jon Solomon) writes: > > We have several problems running X11R2 on Sun color workstations. > [ ... ] >Sounds like the Sun color server Pixmap problem. There is a bug >somewhere in the cfb code and if you try to use a pixmap as a tile, it >[ ... ] I have locally modified versions of cfbfillsp.c and cfbgc.c that fix this problem. The tiling code is unsubtly wrong and although it's not particularly difficult to fix, it requires a lot of mental bit-juggling to get everything right. The fix makes the non-blanking screen-saver work, too. If you would like the patches, mail me. I'll post them if demand warrants. -- Dignity of the individual? No; he doubted that he believed in it. Individuals were pretty funny and always making mistakes. Back home you got along much better if you didn't go in for such a haughty austere notion and took it for granted that there'd be a lot of bungling by you and everybody you ran into. -- C. M. Kornbluth, "The Syndic". ++ Steve Hunt ++ Acorn Computers, Ltd ++ daffy@acorn.uucp ++ daffy@acorn.co.uk