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From: gckaplan@sag4.ssl.berkeley.edu (George Kaplan)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X/Suntools on a sun 3/60
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Date: 12 Apr 89 05:04:11 GMT
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In article <11869@lanl.gov> dlc%vetch.c3@lanl.gov (Dale Carstensen) writes:
]  [postings from Dale Carstensen and Dan Heller about problems with Sun]
]  [cgfour displays and Xsun]
]  ...
] We are using a .xserverrc to get the -dev /dev/cgfour0 option set for Xsun.
] The only reason we are doing that is because Xsun fails to display anything
] on /dev/bwtwo0.  Xsun does not even display the gray stippled root window or
] the X cursor on /dev/bwtwo0.  However, if we do not restrict Xsun to 
] /dev/cgfour0 via the option, moving the mouse near the left and right edges
] of the screen causes the prior /dev/bwtwo0 display to flash on in place of
] the /dev/cgfour0 display, then the reverse when the mouse moves back to the
] screen from the edge.  That behavior goes beyond being useless, into the
] realm of the disconcerting.

We have exactly this problem on one of our Sun 3/60's.  On the other
3/60 we get *only* the color screen, no monochrome (the mouse pointer
stops at the left and right edges of the screen).  On this second 3/60,
in fact, the *color* screen, rather than the monochrome screen, is
:0.0.  On our two color 3/110's the server works the way it's supposed
to:  monochrome on :0.0, color on :0.1, the mouse "wraps" between the
two screens.

We're guessing that there's some Sun hardware version or configuration
quirk that we've never heard of.  Has anyone figured out what this is?



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