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From: jc@heart-of-goldmitre.org (John M Chambers)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: zs3: silo overflow
Message-ID: <189@heart-of-goldmitre.org>
Date: 9 Feb 89 17:34:04 GMT
Organization: Mitre Corp, Bedford, MA, USA
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Well, my last question here got a pretty good response, so I'll ask another.
Thanks to the flock of folks who responded to my last one; I generally failed
to get mail back to them (due to the usual fun & games with intelligent mail
routers - I can feel the flames already ;-), so I have to thank y'all here.

Anyhow, on to the next question.  This is a Sun 3/260, with SunOS 3.4, and
that's probably quite relevant.  When I run xinit, while it is coming up I
get lots & lots of "zs3: silo overflow" messages.  If I touch the mouse, I
get even more of them.  Actually, it doesn't always happen, and sometimes
it only happens when I touch the mouse.

Something that's probably related:  Occasionally, after running for a few
hours, X seems to hang, and any attempts to use the mouse or keyboard get
lots of "zs3: silo overflow" messages.  When this happens, there seems to
be nothing anyone can do except rebood.  Logging in from another place and
typing "kbd_mode -a" has no effect at all; nor does anything else I've thought
of trying.  This is a bit annoying, because this machine is a server for a
couple of others, so I don't like to boot it unnecessarily.

Anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong?


While I'm at it, there's another minor annoyance.  The xterm window is
generally like a vt100, but it doesn't seem to know how to move the text
down.  When I give vi a 'o' or 'O' command, no blank line appears, and the
bottom part of the screen stays unmoved.  Vi thinks it has inserted a blank
line, of course, , with results that are sometimes quite confusing.  A ^L 
clears it up, but it'd be better if it worked correctly.  Any idea of what 
to do to make it work?

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From:	John Chambers <heart-of-gold.mitre.org!jc>
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