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From: dcmartin@CS.WISC.EDU ("David C. Martin")
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Color Sun implementation
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Date: 21 Jan 89 00:38:13 GMT
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Someone should correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that you
can simply rename /dev/cgfour0 to /dev/fb (ie. change the major/minor
numbers for /dev/fb to match those in /dev/cgfour0) since the initialization
for the Sun monitor assumes that it is emulating a bw2 with the default
setup.  You can check this be opening the device and then determining
if the monitor is in emulation mode and what type of monitor it is
emulating.  Check the ioctls for fb in fbio(4S).

dcm
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Your message:

    
    regarding the problem of staring up Xsun on a cgfour0,
    jeff turner (voder!pyramid!decwrl!sgi!daisy!turner) writes
    > xinit -- Xsun -dev /dev/cgfour0

    we've had the same problem here, and have wrapped xinit in a script:

    	#!/bin/csh

    	stty -tostop
    	if ( -e /dev/cgfour0 )
    		setenv XDEVICE /dev/cgfour0

    	xinit ...

    where ... is the set of args you pass to xinit, excluding the -dev stuff
    in jeff's posting.  this script is useful from any machine; if you're on a
    sun with a color monitor, then you'll use it.  otherwise, the server will
    search for a display as normal.

    i don't remember why we put the stty in.  something in R2 didn't work
    without it.  i'm not brave enough to take it out, but you may not need it.

    					mike olson
    					britton lee, inc.
    					...!ucbvax!mtxinu!blia!mao
    					mao@blia.bli.com
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