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From: eap@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Eric Pearce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi,comp.windows.x,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: SGI licencing of X windows
Message-ID: <30571@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 2 May 89 18:45:56 GMT
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Reply-To: eap@bu-it.bu.edu (Eric Pearce)
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Organization: BD&HR (Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers)
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  I just installed the X source tape we got from SGI.  I don't know if
  we are paying for it or not.  It seems to have the same problems as
  the one I got off expo.lcs.mit.edu, but I can't verify that they are
  the same at the moment.  When compiling the server, it will complain
  about a missing "/usr/include/bitmap.h" when doing the "server/ddx/sgi/4d"
  directory.  I managed to get this file from someone who had an older
  release of IRIX (still 3.1 though) on their IRIS personal.   

  Some other things you need to fix are:

  server/ddx/sgi/4d/sgigl.c & sgiio.c change "WINSHUT" to "WINCLOSE"

  clients/xinit/xinit.c - It could not find "setpriority" 

  clients/xdm/daemon.c - use the bsd'ish "(void) ioctl (i, TIOCNOTTY,0)"
                              instead of "(void) ioctl(i, TIOCTTY, &zero)"
		         also was missing "sys/ptyio.h".

  I'll put these in a patch file when I get them all together, but
  that should be enough to get you going for the moment.

  It looks like I got farther than the person who made the sgi tape,
  as they still had these errors in their log file from when they
  installed it.

  I was rather disappointed in it once I got it running.   This is on
  an IRIS "power series" GT and it was slower than a Sun 3/50 for most
  of the clients and demos.  "ico" runs at a good clip, but that's
  about it.   The server seems to crap out often.  I also had problems
  with resizing the windows.  I found it useful to be able to xterm
  into it from my Sun though.  

  If anybody has a "fast" X11R3 running on their Sgi, I would like to
  hear about it.

  (In all fairness, I have not asked SGI about these problems yet).

  -e

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