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From: ehrlich@shire.cs.psu.edu (Dan Ehrlich)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: R3 fixes for RTs
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Date: 11 Jan 89 18:14:36 GMT
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In-reply-to: Richard.Draves@o.gp.cs.cmu.EDU

In article <8812280441.AA15432@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>, Richard.Draves@o.gp writes:
>I have it working with APA-16, AED, and Megapel displays on RTs running Mach.
>I still see display glitches, especially on my Megapel display,
>but the server doesn't die very often.
>

IBM has admitted that the megapel code 'sometimes uses the wrong value for the Y
coordinate when drawing'.  Try to get a copy of the Dec 22, 1988 distribution of
X11 R2 which has the corrected megapel code in it.  IBM has supposedly sent the
fixed code to the X consortium also.
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